"Virtually all the business of the Senate is arranged by unanimous consent. … The introduction of the two-track system in the 1970s to keep Senate business moving during filibusters created an entire parallel system of legislating that circumvents the civics-textbook version of how law is made."

The Reconstruction Papers

The Reconstruction Papers is ready to order in the US. Global readers can order a print-on-demand version. US Readers Order Here For nearly a century, the conservative movement's white w...

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@eleanalittle.bsky.social The link that @jerseycitynj.bsky.social page posted about community solar on FB doesn't work. Someone should fix that if you're trying to convince people it's legit.

aww did someone get addicted to corruption and graft!!!!

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 23h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Please stay safe. To report an ICE sighting, call the DIRE hotline at (888) 347-3767. Some of the vehicles ICE is known to be using include: Red Jeep, plates U34SZY Grey Dodge, plates W31KCJ Black Nissan Pathfinder, plates W51UWS

My office was sent this video of masked ICE agents grabbing someone off the street on 2nd St between Erie St. & Jersey Ave. in Ward E. We have also been made aware of additional ICE sightings and abductions in Jersey City today, and have alerted Public Safety. ICE may be targeting delivery cyclists.

Thanks. Yes, that's what I was trying to say, but took too long to get there. Our politics community is strong, and I'd love for us to expand into new communities. Science and sports have already taken off. Birding, gardening, K-pop, we're open to all (except nazis and jerks).

RFK Jr. likes to claim that he is “restoring trust” in public health, so let’s gaze at the glory of what he’s achieved. In March of 2025, 77% of adults trusted CDC recommendations. In March of 2026, it’s only 50%. Trust in public health in the U.S. has cratered since he took office.

Truth & Retribution. The Trump/MAGA movement & their fellow travelers murdered reconciliation long ago. So it has to be Truth & Retribution. Lots of examples must be publicly made.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 5d ago

Chaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”

It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates

Scientists and sky gazers will watch intently as rocket’s upper stage slams into lunar surface on Wednesday

Drifting SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon

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I can't believe this is real (it is.). I tried it. I picked a coastal area and generated an image of a house collapsing into the ocean. It even labeled it "collapsed house." This is "digital asbestos" that is polluting our information environment - and could get people killed.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 6d ago

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026

Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.

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man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Miniature birds Day 12 - The common raven

My baby girl's memorial portrait is now on the wall 💔

No one is lying about the Hadestown proshot, folks. It is incredible and, yes, quite possibly the best proshot I’ve seen. Do not miss it. It’s only out for a week, and I don’t know that we know yet if and where it will have a life after this.

If you want to do this too, I have invite codes to join Comingle, which is what inspired it. DM me for an invite if 7% of your monthly take-home pay is > $200. That amount makes you a net donor, and joining will enable 1-3 net recipients to join and have a basic income floor of around $50 a week.

Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 2w ago

This Baltimore club created its own universal basic income

NEWS: The tarp is STILL covering the restored Kennedy Center name as the legal fight heads back to court next week. @macfarlanenews.bsky.social reports.

This feels grimly accurate. I think for most people, engagement with the party feels like getting on Temu’s mailing list: Just a neverending stream of spam asking for cash and no other meaningful call to be part of anything that might generate any sense of identity or community.

Feild@feild.work · 2w ago

There's nothing to "join" in the Democratic Party. It's a brand with products I spend my vote on once a year at the democracy store. Most people's experience of it is an endless stream of texts that read like scams, their reward for donating or signing a petition. No wonder DSA is growing

Everything really is interracial cuck porn.

Joshua Erlich@joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2w ago

this post is the entire intellectual framework of the American right

This text isn’t from the No Kings Coalition. Shayna Jaskolka & @gneinstein.bsky.social’s PAC sent out a spam text to fundraise off a recent “low turnout No Kings” protest (there wasn’t one). Tl;dr: don’t give $ to @newdigitalnow.bsky.social, unless you like their Kat Abu hate posts on the Nazi Site

@eleanalittle.bsky.social So what was the outcome of the public safety budget hearing?

once again I am asking for a democratic party that actually does what republicans claim they will do

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "The Democrats are gonna terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance and then they're gonna approve DC and Puerto Rico as states. They get 4 more senators, 12 more congressmen, like 40 electoral votes ... you don't want to see me cry."

I did so good at Smush today! 2 pangrams!

We did it lads

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump’s net approval among men is -22, the lowest in either of his terms. (via YouGov)

Budget hearings start tomorrow and here’s what you need to know. Have a question you think we should ask a department? Email us at ELittle@JCNJ.org and DBisordi@JCNJ.org.

"AI advice suppressed judgment suspension from 44% to 3%, accuracy from 27% to 9%, while confidence rose from 30% to 76%. People trusted wrong AI answers." Meanwhile, people's attention spans are dropping because of less book-reading and more short video watching. Cool. Everything is cool.

“Look what you made me do.” It’s abuser culture all the way up and down.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Homan on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."

@katiebrennan.bsky.social @newjerseyoag.bsky.social Since they're pulling this scam in NJ, any chance the NJ AG could perhaps prosecute the scammers?

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Freedom Fuel stations were put together by a pair of serial grifters who stole $667,000 worth of gas from a distributor five years ago, a private credit sponsor, and an energy trader tied up in multiple Trump schemes and profiting heavily off the war in Iran. prospect.org/2026/07/20/k...