Senator's Cornyn and Tillis will put a bow on their Senate service by enabling the confirmation of the least qualified nominee for Attorney General in U.S. history. No matter what they might claim about their commitment to the country and its citizens, this vote will tell the real story!

Liz Oyer@lawyeroyer.com · 2d ago

Despite the show John Cornyn and Thom Tillis have put on over the last two weeks, they caved today on their demands that DOJ kill the corrupt settlement with Donald Trump, and it looks like Blanche will be confirmed after all. A very disappointing development. youtube.com/shorts/h1FWi...

Most of the corruption perpetrated by the Trump admin would not be possible without the complicit enabling of the Republican majorities in the House and Senate. The only way to put any check and balance on this out of control regime is to vote them out in November.

How is this not illegal?

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 4d ago

Welp guess we know what we're talking about in tomorrow's Sunday Morning Outbreak News Livestream! (Plus Salmonelleggs, & ANOTHER botulism outbreak in baby formula that's somehow going under the radar. So obvs we gotta talk about… all that.) youtube.com/live/_mjPVY1...

The rhetoric and whatever conviction is behind it is fundamentally evil. Every member of Congress who does not stand up and resist is complicit.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago

Trump again backs down, claiming Iran (and others) are begging for a deal so he can cancel the attack. Same old story: “locked and loaded” threats, then pause for talks on Hormuz and nukes. Get it DONE… until the next time.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Can I beseech everyone to never get used to Trump’s corrupt, criminal, cruel and indecent behavior nor ever imagine that any of this is acceptable from someone occupying our White House?

This is my plan. I'm fortunate that a drop box is just a few blocks away.

Indivisible Whidbey ❌👑@indivisiblewhidbey.org · 2w ago

We STRONGLY recommend you use the ballot drop boxes instead of returning your ballot by mail. See locations statewide:

Am I wrong to understand that the U.S. military does not fight battles on U.S. soil against U.S. residents?

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mike Johnson says that the Pentagon is requesting an additional $350,000,000,000 for things like "fighting Communism on our own shores"

Supporting the nomination of Todd Blanche will make a Senator responsible for what will inevitably follow -- the further politicization of the DOJ. How can anyone take seriously what these people promise? Look at past behavior, not empty promises

Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · 3w ago

Durbin came to talk to us after meeting w Todd Blanche - said Blanche said "I made a mistake" about the weaponization fund. Durbin asked for assurances that the admin won't interfere in the midterms — says Blanche said "we won't." Also seemed pretty sure that there aren't many swayable Republicans

And, Congress does nothing

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3w ago

The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.

ICE cannot be reformed. It must be dismantled and those connected to ICE and guilty of crimes must be prosecuted.

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 3w ago

This is Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the 26-year-old Colombian father and husband murdered by ICE fascists in broad daylight in front of his 3-year-old daughter. He was NOT the target of the ICE warrant. He was documented. He did everything right. ICE murdered him anyway. And yet… 1/2

ICE must be abolished

Peggy Flanagan@peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 4w ago

My heart aches for the family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should be alive today. There is no reforming an agency that kills repeatedly with impunity. Enough.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

@msnowreports.bsky.social For the love of God, there is no "deep state," except in the warped minds of conspiracy nuts. What they think is a "deep state" is called civil service and deep experience. Please correct this EVERY SINGLE TIME rather than repeating it as reporters so often do.

Today is a good day to be honest about where the country stands. America reached 250 years, but shared public life has collapsed. Ordinary places feel tense. People expect conflict. Donald Trump didn’t originate the divide, but he made it a constant feature of daily experience.

My view!

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last mo.

Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich — not the poor or immigrants or any other group of people vilified as scapegoats. The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has yacht and private jet tax deductions. Hello?

It’s simply un-American to close our doors to people fleeing violence and natural disasters. This Supreme Court decision to allow DHS to end temporary protected status and turn away and deport asylum seekers is a disaster.

WATCH: Stephen Miller says 'America's doors are closed fully to asylum seekers' after Supreme Court rulings

The Supreme Court voted 6-3 on Thursday to allow the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands...

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here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last mo.

you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport

MGP is my Congressional Representative. While I don't always agree with her politically, she is an upstanding person who works hard for her constituents. Attacks such as these on elected officials of either party are vile and should be rejected by every decent person.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last mo.

Sadly this attempt to smear her (by mostly making her seem cooler) mostly fails when the actual allegations boils down to “she sold shitty weed” and “inexpertly killed a chicken”

Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

AOC: The Republican Party’s brand is fear. They constantly want Americans in fear of somebody because, if you are not afraid of someone who is your neighbor, you’re going to realize who’s actually pickpocketing you.

How about male journalists standing with them!

Michael J. Stern@michaeljstern.bsky.social · last mo.

I wish the women journalists that Trump trashes to their faces would push back as strongly as Italy's prime minister.

Baloney!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Comer: "If we have inspectors going in there and that strait is open for business and oil is flowing, then I think it's very clear the United States will have won this conflict"

6.2 billion dollars in one quarter. To hit that number, a senior recovering from a hospital stay had a better than even chance of being told no. They did not lose that money. They built it, one denial at a time, out of people too sick to fight back.

Too often, DSA and Bernie Sanders frame inequality as primarily economic. For many Black Americans, race and racism are inseparable from that conversation. We also notice how often the focus shifts to the “white working class,” while our experiences are treated as secondary. 🧵

Whether it is 200 or 250 remember this: for Native peoples, those 250 years mark stolen land, broken treaties, and massacres carried out in the name of “freedom.” This anniversary may be a party for the nation, but it’s also a reminder of the lives and cultures the nation tried to erase.

Michelle Obama: "That's where the truth of this country lies. Not in grabbing as much as we can get for ourselves. Or knocking folks down to prop ourselves up. But in the overwhelming goodness, the relentless striving, the quiet dignity, that is inside all of us."

Should be reposted every month....Speak Truth....

🔥 @sherylcrow on Trump’s UFC circus: “This administration is corrupt and does not care about the 🇺🇸 people. Let’s be better, America.”

Today, Congressman Al Green joined @sylviagarcia.house.gov to mark 14 years of DACA. Dreamers strengthen our economy and help sustain Social Security by paying into the system. As fertility rates and immigration decline, their contributions are vital for our nation’s future.

The more things change... #slavery