El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

btw if you’re ticked at AIPAC for whatever reason them spending a maximum amount of money to barely lose is ideal, 10/10, just as a pure matter of don’t-know-ball and forward outcome for them as an organization. this cycle has been catastrophic for them purely in terms of inputs and outputs

Time for the party to unite. We can’t allow Rogers to take this seat. Good statement by Stevens.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 8h ago

A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

Considering how badly Republican ballot measures targeting abortion rights, public education, independence of judiciary- are getting curb stomped in - checks notes - deep red states … there are gonna be relentless think pieces in DC media bubble about toxicity of MAGA/Trump Republican brand. Right?

Natalie Portman Says 'Right?'

ALT: Natalie Portman Says 'Right?'

static.klipy.com

There was a literal freezer truck on my corner filled with bodies. I learned what time to avoid going outside so I wouldn’t have to see the body bags carried out. Don’t let them deny what happened. Don’t let them deny how they failed all of us.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Let’s not forget, this could have been done already if Tom Kean Jr. hadn’t stopped the ARC tunnel project: wrnjradio.com/kean-tours-w...

you know what I should have honestly expected that the "I don't know how many people I've killed" governor candidate would get worse

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

This unilateral disarmament by NJ Dems is pathetic. In a world where every single House vote counts and the GOP is continuing to gerrymander, NJ Dems are choosing to allow NJ’s tax dollars to be redirected to other states while NJ keeps getting denied federal funds it is entitled too.

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · yesterday

Politico says New Jersey Dems appear disinclined to put a redistricting measure on the ballot in 2027 after missing the 2026 deadline. A new 11-1 map could target two GOP House seats and protect Dem seats, but some Dems seem uninterested because they’re likely to flip one of the two in 2026 anyway

"We have no alternative but to believe the promises of a man who has brazenly lied to us time and time again. You see, I am but a simple United States senator, bereft of any power and beholden to the whims of the pedophile president's consigliere."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "As to the idea it could be revived in the future, I think it's highly unlikely that could happen without the cooperation of the DOJ. And I think Mr Blanche gave us the assurances that it was dead and would not be revived and in this case we have no alternative but to take his word" 🙃

Why is it that every day I need to wake up early, I can’t sleep at all? Just because I need to get up 30 minutes early doesn’t mean I need to get zero sleep…

NEWS: Former Trump press secretary and Rep. Max Miller's ex-girlfriend, Stephanie Grisham, has now filed a temporary restraining order against him

He cites users' ability to mute & block folks as a positive, which is good. It's also why right wing chuds thankfully can't get a foothold here - b/c they violate community norms & get nuclear blocked out of normal people's timelines. Bluesky isn't a *liberal* bubble - it's a *decency* bubble.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

Trump is still getting his slush fund and IRS immunity. What changed their minds? Check what cushy gig they get when they leave office. This reeks of corruption.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d ago

John Cornyn & Thom Tillis issue a joint statement announcing they will support Todd Blanche for AG. He's now in good position to clear the Judiciary Committee tomorrow and head to the full Senate.

"This story presents a moment when the president of the United States is lying so transparently that any adult would be humiliated by failing to point it out. Unless that person was, say, an editor at The New York Times."

Truth Melt: Stop Leading With the Lie in Headlines

When the headline is all most people read, leading with a lie spreads it. The Truth Melt: lead with the truth, name the lie only to correct it.

theframelab.org

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

BREAKING: Capital One bank closed Trump’s accounts in 2021 over money laundering, per a new court filing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Capital One Cites Money Laundering Review in Trump-Related Suit

Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an inter...

bloomberg.com

Vanilla as number 1 is perfectly British, but any country that has "Rum and raisin" in its top 6 ice cream flavors loses its right to exist under international law.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 5d ago

YouGov's latest scoop: vanilla is Britain's favourite ice cream flavour Vanilla: 18% Mint choc chip: 14% Chocolate: 13% Strawberry: 5% Salted caramel: 5% Rum and raisin: 5% Pistachio: 4% Coffee: 3% Raspberry ripple: 3% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

It’s almost as if Google wants to help spread disinformation in the run up to the midterms.

QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social · 5d ago

google has added generative ai capability to Google Earth and i cannot conceive of any positive, good-faith use of this

I don’t agree with everything Stancil says, but I think this is a solid thread. Criticism of AIPAC is warranted and we can say it’s doing bad things. But how we need to be careful about how we talk about AIPAC to ensure that our criticism does not inadvertently spread antisemitic tropes. 1/4

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6d ago

Once again I'll reiterate that the way AIPAC has been transformed into this creeping villain behind every unwanted election result is feeding a resurgence of antisemitism, and that goes triple if the winner is Jewish and was opposed by AIPAC. Please please think about your words here!

Last time I questioned Pete Hegseth, he confirmed that the president was briefed on all possible outcomes before deciding to strike Iran. Now, the president seems unprepared and blindsided by the consequences. Was Pete lying? Either way, he is mismanaging this conflict. Pete needs to go.

This sort of sums it up: DOGE fired the employee of the year from the National Endowment of the Humanities. Then the government tried to hire her back. But their pitch was so unattractive that she said now. You can't treat people like shit and expect them to crawl back. www.notus.org/agencies/dog...

DOGE Is Officially Ending. Agencies Are Hiring Again.

The government is even encouraging agencies to bring more services in-house.

notus.org

Remember when the CFAA was used to drive a young man to suicide for downloading academic articles? Guess that law doesn’t apply to corps turning off safeguards & releasing a rogue AI. Imagine the damage if the AI hacked banks or the gov instead of Hugging Face. The lack of consequences here is wild.

WIRED@wired.com · 6d ago

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies. www.wired.com/story/openai...

This stolen money needs to be returned to blue states by the next administration with interest.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

This is all a crazy effort to rewrite the past, yes. But what's really terrifying is hearing these people tell us how badly they're going to fuck up the *next* pandemic they're now creating without that nerd Fauci holding them back.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."

"The Israeli government does not listen to American Jews. It speaks over us, in real time, in the wake of real violence against us." hell yeah brother @joelhs.bsky.social

Israel's government doesn't want to protect American Jews. It wants to use us.

Leaders’ silence when the Tree of Life massacre followed Trump’s anti-immigration tirades speaks volumes about the current campaign to tie Mamdani to a violent attack.

forward.com

He'd probably let a safe Democratic seat sit empty rather than it being filled by someone who can vote?

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last wk.

Mitch McConnell stole two Supreme Court seats. Now ask yourself this: If McConnell were still Leader and a Democratic senator had been missing from public view for more than six weeks, what would he be doing right now? 1/2

A large banana the size of a small banana. Banana for scale.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm sorry this is one of the funniest pictures I've ever seen

“imagine if you will, a banana. in fact, you don’t have to imagine it,”

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm sorry this is one of the funniest pictures I've ever seen

new "is this ______" meme just dropped

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · last wk.

I'm sorry this is one of the funniest pictures I've ever seen