New Congress needs to fund the fucking post office like the public service it is and stop this stupid charade where it's supposed to be a business.
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · yesterdayThe head of the US Postal Service warned on Tuesday the agency will be forced to make significant cuts in retail post office locations and other reductions without action from Congress as it faces wider losses and an ongoing cash crisis.
Paul Dans, who led the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, on post-midterms steps for the GOP: “We have to let young white men take the wheel again of the American economy. ... This is their birthright, their country.” Matt Gaetz, of all people, pushes back! www.mediamatters.org/matt-gaetz/f...
Former Project 2025 Director Paul Dans: "We have to let young white men take the wheel again of the American economy...this is their birthright, their country"
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Incredibly well done and damning. Making this shit legal was like putting lead back in gasoline.
Aaron W. Gordon@agordon.me · 2d agoIn 2023, Massachusetts legalized online sports betting. We used 3+ years of transaction-level debit card data to follow 2,441 people who placed a bet the week of legalization. Most rarely bet again. But they're not the ones sportsbooks get revenue from. This story is about the ones they do.
This is not going to be news to anyone on here but Ellison lying for months about Gunn and Safran being safe in their jobs and then abruptly firing them should indicate how much trust you can put in any of the other promises he made to get the WB-Paramount merger done
Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · yesterdaySkydance was courting Latcham since some time in the fall, but they didn't tell Gunn and Safran about any of this until David Ellison surprised them at their office this past Friday and fired them. Also, despite what the press release implies, Gunn and Latcham haven't talked yet. Great. Very cool.
The Attorney General continually going onto television to threaten legislators with federal investigations if they say something the President doesn’t should be an untenable situation.
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · yesterdayAG says he will be monitoring the opposition's speech and trying to jail those he deems go too far. "There's been so much vile rhetoric coming out the incoming congressmen and senators... You cannot threaten... We cannot let the rhetoric turn from just honest debate to actual criminal conduct."
Sort of baffling how Ross Douthat landed a Jonathan Swan level interview by asking frighteningly basic stuff and following up
AG says he will be monitoring the opposition's speech and trying to jail those he deems go too far. "There's been so much vile rhetoric coming out the incoming congressmen and senators... You cannot threaten... We cannot let the rhetoric turn from just honest debate to actual criminal conduct."
Yeah, she's a fucking spy mate, that's kind of their whole deal.
CNN@cnn.com · yesterdayFor someone suddenly generating international headlines, she remains something of a mystery. https://cnn.it/3WypjPM
Mississippi used unverified data from Experian to inactivate voters in state rolls. Votebeat senior national reporter Dion Nissenbaum says election officials in Mississippi "were pressured by the Secretary of State's office to use this data to remove people."
I will never stop being angry that 19 Democrats voted to confirm Brooke Rollins.
Marcia Brown@marciabrown.bsky.social · 2d agoNEWS: USDA is proposing to further tighten eligibility for the nation's largest anti-hunger program, a change that could remove 6M+ people currently receiving benefits from SNAP. USDA says the change will ensure benefits only go to "the truly needy." www.politico.com/news/2026/11...
Sec. Hegseth's speech to our students and faculty this morning youtu.be/IHJ7qAhPPJc?...
Full Hegseth speech: Naval War College staff who think they can wait out Trump policy 'dead wrong'
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It’s only a honey pot if you get caught wearing nothing but a red t shirt with your hand stuck in a jar, otherwise it’s just sparkling Oh, Bother
New at Can We Still Govern?: More than 5.5 million have lost SNAP coverage since the One Big Beautiful Bill was passed, mostly because of the weaponization of an obscure govt metric: the SNAP error rate. @pamherd.bsky.social explains how Dems can fix it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-ne...
How the new Democratic Congress can ensure Americans have enough to eat
Deweaponize an obscure government metric
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this racist and bigoted piece of shit destroyed a lot of careers because he was too rotten and stupid to hack it when he had the chance
Adam Weinstein@adamweinstein.bsky.social · 2d agoPete Hegseth had his inner circle google promotable officers and create paper-only files assessing their wokeness. www.ms.now/news/pete-he...
To understand the midterms, we talked to a handful of decaying men at a Christian Nationalist meeting in the middle of nowhere. None could articulate what their problem is beyond a general objection to taxes they don't pay. All of them are on Medicare and receive Social Security.
Are bands from where they're named after: Boston: Yes Chicago: Yes Phoenix: No Berlin: No Beirut: No Alabama: Yes Kansas: Yes Texas: No America: Yes Japan: No Europe: Yes Asia: No
NYT: “Muscular” policies USA Today: An “anti-immigration champion”!! France:
Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 4d agoStephen Miller, reactionary ideologue and white supremacist, promoted head of Trump administration
Weird that cable news hosts aren't constantly asking republicans if they condemn stephen miller
Even this article soft-peddles it. It's not an "anti-immigration" crusade. If it were, it would not import white South Africans, and it would leave Black, Hispanic, and Indian US citizens alone. It is by their own words an ethnic cleansing campaign. It seeks to turn the US into a white ethnostate.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4d agoAbout a dozen years ago, Stephen Miller tried to recruit our @davidcorn.bsky.social for an anti-immigration crusade. “Little did I know what he would become,” David wrote.
The point is not that Stephen Miller will have any more power or influence as formal Chief of Staff; it's that his elevation sends an unambiguous message to Democrats that conciliation ain't happening—sparing them from what otherwise could've devolved into a messy split over how to approach 2027–29.
Thousands of ICE agents have just been fired or had to resign. It turns out that the department wasn't running background checks and they had been hiring convicted felons and domestic abusers. They have been ordered to pay back the $50,000 sign on bonuses.
One way to understand how huge a shift Scott Colom becoming Senator for Mississippi is in US politics is to take a look at the educational background of his Republican opponent
I realized that there's a version of this that I think can be even funnier: Red hot chili peppers sorry for the flaming lips Bad religion sorry for faith no more The arcade fire sorry for panic at the disco The mamas and the papas sorry for the offspring
Adam Sharp@adamcsharp.bsky.social · 2w agoJimmy Carr sorry for killing joke Will Smith sorry for smash mouth Louis CK sorry for the strokes Defective peroxide sorry for 4 non blondes Daylight savings sorry for taking back sunday Misogynists sorry for everything but the girl UK beef industry sorry for madness US government sorry for megadeth
RFK Jr. gets another baby. All the measles deaths have been people who are unvaccinated—but some may be because they couldn’t get vaxxed for medical reasons or were too young. Normally the rest of us carry these folks by getting vaccinated on time ourselves
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 6d agoAn infant in Wisconsin has died of measles, the state health department says — the third measles-related death reported in the U.S. this week.
Democrats had a historic night, with many “firsts,” but a hard lesson of Obama’s win in 2008 is that an unpopular war, economic crises and political malfeasance are insufficient to forge a durable multiethnic, pro-democracy coalition. The challenge of building a truly pluralistic democracy remains.
Reminder... Black people attend church more frequently than any other race in the US. Yes more than Hispanic people. Many Black politicians are not only religious, but are actual ordained ministers. From Senator Warnock today, back to the first Black congressman, Minister Hiram Rhodes Revels.
Joe Ragazzo@jragazzo.bsky.social · last wk.really interesting from @kateriga.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog-up...
