Kamala Harris: I know this is going to be controversial coming from me in particular, we need to revisit the electoral college. We need to revisit the point of expanding the court. We need to revisit, if they so want, statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.
I mean this is fundamentally one of the big reasons why data centers have no local constituency: they don’t actually create a lot of jobs they’ll employ some folks during construction but the actual day to day operation of a data center really doesn’t need many people, especially given its size
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
Scott Pelley has been fired by '60 Minutes.' From earlier today, here's some admiration for his willingness to speak truth to power. www.thebulwark.com/p/scott-pell...
Scott Pelley Is the Hero We Need
What we can learn from the ‘60 Minutes’ reporter who went to the mattresses.
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Imagine if any Republican Senator had the courage of Scott Pelley.
Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Pelley told 60 Minutes colleagues that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss said Pelley had created a “hostile work environment” & that Weiss asked him to write an apology letter. Evidently, this is not a request Pelley will comply with” perhaps as it’s not hostile to object to a fascist takeover
"We can refuse to allow Trump’s desecration of our 250th to be our desecration. All we have to do is celebrate the Fourth as we usually do. July 4 has never been about a big presidential spectacle in D.C. It’s always been about family, local, and community events." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Don’t Let Trump Hijack Our July 4th
What does the president have to do with national independence, anyway?
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Beginning in 1934, the Reich Minister for Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, never denied the existence of concentration camps, instead he defended them as necessary to defend the blood and honor of the German people from murderers, rapists, pedophiles and drug dealers.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoMarkwayne Mullin: "This isn't a Holiday Inn. We're not providing luxury housing. What we're doing is providing a sanitary place for them to be detained. We're detaining murderers, rapists, pedophiles, drug dealers. We're meeting the calorie standard."
A mother’s hope. A little boy’s eagerness. A president’s tenderness. A photographer’s eye. A photo that captured more than a moment.
Florida resident on Trump's ballroom: "He should be focusing on lowering these prices that he jacked up, because it wasn't this high before he became president…He don't need to be talking about ballrooms, man. You need to be trying to fix the economy."
Republicans control the Presidency, the House, the Senate and the Courts. But they whine about voter fraud, and can’t fund the government.
I'm nobody's editor but every story about the SAVE act should include the fact that it's a solution in search of a problem.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoQ: Can you give one example of fraud in a previous election that the SAVE America Act would stop? MIKE JOHNSON: Look, we're not gonna litigate all that
It can be hard to keep up with EVERYTHING that the Trump admins is doing—and planning to do—right now with ICE and Border Patrol around the US So @wired.com created the ICE Tracker newsletter to ensure you know exactly what's happening....and it's FREE Sign up here: www.wired.com/newsletter/I...
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 6mo agoDefinitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Trump keeps taking credit for lowering drug costs, but the real work was done under Biden, whose laws & negotiations made those reductions possible. Trump's regime is destroying Medicaid & inflating healthcare costs so many people cannot afford to pay.
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In an interview in October, Howard Lutnick said after he met Epstein in 2005, he vowed to “never be in a room with that disgusting person ever again.” Documents released today by Trump's DOJ say otherwise.
THEY DID IT. EVERY SENATE DEMOCRAT just voted on an amendment to DEFUND ICE (rescind the BBB slush fund that keeps ICE open during a shutdown.) This amendment failed, but it shows broad support! KEEP CALLING and make it a demand to vote for the DHS funding bill!!
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 6mo ago👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now. #AccountabilityIsComing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoKristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.
I made a promise to Alex’s parents to continue to tell his story. An ICU nurse at the VA, an outdoorsman, a deeply generous, compassionate friend and family member, and a true son of Minnesota. Rest in peace, Alex.
The writing and editing of allegedly inaccurate talking points used to discuss the Benghazi attack on the Sunday shows were the subject of YEARS of congressional hearings. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" agents
The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser
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Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 6mo ago"The president was kept apprised of [DHS] statement by Miller and Noem's top adviser, Corey Lewandowski" Well well well, the boyars are saying they kept the tsar in the loop the whole time. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
