Last night's political earthquake in Michigan should make one thing very clear: it's time for Democrats to grow a spine and stop bending the knee to corporate donors.

The Failures of “Centrism”

By moving to the so-called “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening ine

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SpaceX is spending gobs of money to refashion itself as an AI company

Investors are having doubts about Elon Musk’s grandiose ambitions

SpaceX is spending gobs of money to refashion itself as an AI company

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Under President Donald Trump, the Civil Rights Division has filed multiple lawsuits to strike down state, local, and territorial gun laws. The latest: The DOJ is suing Montgomery County, Maryland, over a ban on carrying guns in some public spaces.

Trump’s Justice Department Is Suing Cities and States to Dismantle Gun Laws

Trump’s Justice Department is suing cities and states to dismantle gun restrictions.

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I’m glad the President has his priorities straight.

Apparently, Badenoch believes that everyone deserves another chance to make things Reich.

Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · 4h ago

Amazing.

We’ve just updated our Government Tracker with the latest on Labour’s pledge to recruit 8,500 more mental health staff. Between June 2024 and May 2026 the number of FTE staff rose by 8,240, so we’re currently rating this pledge as ‘appears on track’. fullfact.org/government-t...

Is the government on track to recruit 8,500 more mental health staff? – Full Fact

Full Fact looks at Labour’s pledge to recruit an additional 8,500 mental health workers.

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Trump’s OSHA is rolling back rules that mandate rest breaks and access to water and shade to protect workers from extreme heat on the job. Remember: Trump doesn’t care about workers. He never has and never will.

How Trump’s Agenda Could Kill You

After an abysmal jobs report, Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.And Trump’s Labor Department just a

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“The Reflecting Pool mess is different from other Trump obsessions because it reveals just how immune to evidence and logic his beliefs have become, even when a trusted lieutenant wheels an entire box of supporting evidence into the Oval Office.”

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Trump’s outburst over the Reflecting Pool is a sign of dangerous dysfunction in the Oval Office, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/OMivBxpl

The chaos being created by Reform in local government is almost as scandalous as the issues around its funding at national level.

Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 10h ago

Reform UK Warwickshire under George Finch’s toxic leadership have haemorrhaged councillors. They have now just 17/57. He wouldn’t survive a vote of no confidence.

Donald Trump is racing to stop the BBC from getting his financial records. After the network demanded access to his records to determine whether he actually suffered the billions in damages he claims, Trump’s lawyers are now trying to block that evidence from being turned over.

President Donald Trump’s administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families, an AP investigation has found.

AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents

An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.

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Trump has disgraced both the Office of the President and our Country as a whole. The greatest tragedy is that the Media and Republicans in Congress are alright with this, in fact, take great pains to normalize (sane-wash) his behavior. Your thoughts?

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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, an opponent of Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda, won the Democratic nomination Tuesday to be the state’s next governor. She’ll face off against a Republican who opposes virtually everything she stands for. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Michigan election chief Jocelyn Benson to face prominent election denier in governor’s race

Benson has been a frequent target of election deniers and anti-voting activists, who falsely accused her of perpetuating voter fraud during subsequent elections in the Great Lakes State.

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⛔ #TedCruz lies that Democrats support getting rid of #Thanksgiving and #Christmas while implementing Sharia Law. Democrats do not support these things. Ted Cruz knows this. He’s a pathological liar trying to scare people into voting Republican.

Welcome to NatC America. We thought we were better than this. Then women and brown people got some rights and white men lost their minds. The L-phabet people could live publicly for a hot minute. And white men decided democracy and freedom were too difficult for thier cowardly bigoted hearts.

Olivia 💙 4thTransformer@olivia4t.bsky.social · 9h ago

🚨 #BREAKING (CHICAGO SUBURBS) ÏCE agents pulled a GUN, and a TASER, on unarmed U.S. citizens for recording them from a public sidewalk… while threatening, “you aren’t going to like the outcome.”

I think we need to brace ourselves for a new and more extreme outbreak of racism and Islamophobic slurs from Trump and the GOP as they head into a Fall election in which their prospects are deservedly grim. Hate is their stock-in-trade and they'll be slinging it big time.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h ago

Republicans didn’t take long to get the open bigotry going

Andy Burnham has claimed only 500 prison places were added between 2010 and 2024, but Kemi Badenoch says the Conservatives created 14,000 new places. Can these two claims add up? We’ve had a look at the figures 👇 fullfact.org/crime/how-ma...

How many prison places did the Conservatives create? – Full Fact

Andy Burnham and Kemi Badenoch have made seemingly contradictory claims about the previous government’s record on prison places.

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Establishment media didn't get the big election repudiation of progressives they were hoping for. (They're especially upset with the losses of those who are committed to getting money...and thus ad revenues and fees for their friends in the consulting club...out of politics.)

Politico@politico.com · 14h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

Fox Propaganda wanted President Obama in jail for ObamaCare and called President Biden a dictator for trying to erase student debt, but haven’t said one word about the orange felon trying to fund Jan 6 terrorists, protecting pedos or committing money laundering. Funny how that works.

Why stop at the Royal Navy? Why not the SBS? Unemployed fishermen who can't sell fish because of Brexit? Off-duty lifeguards at the Serpentine Lido?

Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · yesterday

"Hands up if you're a prancing prick who's been spouting complete bollocks about using the Royal Navy to send migrants back to France in a desperate bid to distract attention from the sleaze your party is mired in"

Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.

According to the White House, I am a "far-left loser who clearly suffers from a severe and debilitating disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain." C'mon everybody, I think it's more like a Brazil nut. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-dro...

Trump Is Drowning in Failure as Crises Mount: Political Guru

The president is having trouble cleaning up his own messes, according to political analyst David Rothkopf.

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Request to fellow Dems of all stripes: Let's keep our analyses of primary results positive, recognizing that we're all in this together. I've heard some poisonous stuff behind the scenes recently. It helps no one. A diverse party energized by new ideas, voters & candidates is what we need now.

Damn. This is so disheartening. Judge Mehta has dismissed the Seditious Conspiracy charges against the Oath Keepers.

Adam Klasfeld@klasfeldreports.com · 24h ago

"Reluctantly," a federal judge dismisses the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy cases. Trump DOJ "excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy—the peaceful transfer of presidential power—to buckle." "The court cannot write a different ending," he adds. buff.ly/NvVKnaW

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

If you aren't angry then you aren't paying attention.