This was a fun conversation. Fighting comes in many flavors, and while progressive insurgents are better overall than most incumbent Dems, some are still squeamish about straying far from the comfort zones of health care and cost of living.

Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 4h ago

Premiering now! My interview with @brianbeutler.bsky.social about Abdul El-Sayed. Is Abdul the fighter Democrats need? Yes and no, Brian argues. El-Sayed is a good start, but Democrats need to do even more to fight Trumpism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=whNS...

At some point soon, this won’t even be a controversial view. The government’s relationship with SpaceX as it stands right now is untenable. www.thebulwark.com/p/nationaliz...

Nationalize SpaceX

Live by the government, get regulated by the government.

thebulwark.com

this man is a gotdamned patriot

You don’t hate ICE enough.

HARTFORD VISIBILITY BRIGADE hitting the mark this morning with our 3rd pop-up! VOTE EARLY! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @briantylercohen.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social @aaronparnas.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social

The utterly sociopathic entitlement of these tech freaks. Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco has given the UK government a 12 month deadline to quash public outrage over data centres, or they will... flounce off with their debt? Go on, then. Off you fuck. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

AI firms say UK has a year to head off datacentre protests before construction is threatened

Exclusive: Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco taskforce urges ministers to offer areas greater benefits from tech infrastructure amid fears of US-style opposition

theguardian.com

NEW: Omar Muñoz, a 72-year-old LA grandfather, was dragged out of his home by DHS agents and paraded in front of cameras for Trump's "voter fraud" crackdown. The DOJ used footage of his arrest for a promotional video. Omar is a green card holder in the US for 50+ yrs W @samrlevine.bsky.social

‘They wanted to make a scene’: the 72-year-old paraded in dramatic arrest for ‘voter fraud’

Omar Muñoz, one of 28 people charged in California, speaks out about being dragged from his home in front of cameras as DoJ accused of ‘disgusting’ PR campaign

theguardian.com

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 19h ago

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

"A Genocide Was Committed in Sudan’s El Fasher. A Year Later, Survivors Recount the Horrors" The RSF killed, raped, & disappeared thousands as they overran North Darfur’s capital in Oct 2025. No one has been held accountable in the year since, writes Eisa Dafallah. zeteo.com/p/a-genocide...

A Genocide Was Committed in Sudan’s El Fasher. A Year Later, Survivors Recount the Horrors

The RSF killed, raped, and disappeared thousands as they overran North Darfur’s capital in October 2025. No one has been held accountable in the year since, writes Sudanese journalist Eisa Dafallah.

zeteo.com

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter

A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...

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27 October 1918 | Norwegian Jewish woman, Tonny Segal, was born in Kristiania (today Oslo). She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. --- Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

FLASHBACK — Republican Paul Weyrich (co-founder of the Heritage Foundation & ALEC): “I don’t want everybody to vote… our leverage in elections goes up as the voting populace goes down.” They’ve been saying it out loud for years. Please vote. 🗳️ 🇺🇸

NEW: For over a year, staff at Oklahoma’s regulatory agency built a case against the oil company with the state’s highest number of oil field pollution incidents and violations. Instead of punishing the company, officials let it restart operations. with @readfrontier.bsky.social

This Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never Punished It.

Staff at an Oklahoma regulatory agency spent over a year building a case against Citation Oil & Gas, a company notorious for oil field pollution. Instead of disciplining the company, agency leaders ch...

propublica.org

All the legal news in one place. 🦋💙🦋

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h ago

Alaska. The Comeys. California. East Potomac Golf Course. All of today's key court developments in one place. Catch up here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-day-ev...

Trump’s presidency is a wealth transfer from the bottom to the top

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

House Democrats Call for Special Counsel to Scrutinize Trump’s Ties to Epstein

The request comes as Democrats are working to paint Republicans as corrupt and highlight their plans to investigate Trump should they win the midterm elections.

nytimes.com

CBS deleted this post and reposted it admitting that their original one was misleading. And the misleading post from CBS was intentionally misleading, not an innocent mistake. CBS continues to lose credibility.

A party of performative morons disinterested in policy.

Protester to Trump: “Shove that ballroom up your fat ass!”

AI will transform how wars are fought - but AI is not what its promotors are saying. And Elon Musk is doing whatever he can to destroy democracy, create more damage and serve himself.

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11h ago

Latest piece. If the Dems take control of Congress, the first investigation (after corruption) has to be about the use of AI in US warfare. American tech executives have placed themselves in a pernicious situation and we need to understand what happened. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-first-...

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

Plain Dealer/cleveland.com endorses Amy Acton for Ohio governor

The Plain Dealer editorial board endorses Democrat Amy Acton for Ohio governor, citing her preparedness and community engagement, while condemning opponent Vivek Ramaswamy's weaponizing of Acton's chi...

cleveland.com

Elon Musk has spent more money on politics in the last 2 years than George Soros has spent in his entire lifetime.

At some point, this decaying, peodophile rapist will be held accountable. How many is that now? 30+ woman have accused this monster. Convicted once. people.com/former-miss-...

Former Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul Alleges Donald Trump Raped Her at the Plaza Hotel in 1993

Former Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul alleges Donald Trump raped her at a 1993 pageant at New York City’s Plaza Hotel, according to a new report from House Democrats.

people.com

Using Black people’s likenesses for AI-generated ads where you cast them as stereotypes isn’t just incredibly unethical, it should be illegal www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/hou...

Fort Bend judge candidate uses AI to create Black 'supporters' in political ad

Fort Bend County Judge Daniel Wong is facing heat for posting a campaign video generated by artificial intelligence that depicts Black people voicing support for his campaign.

houstonchronicle.com

Trump always wants to be in TIME. So, TIME printed a story about him raping a model from Switzerland.

New Details of Rape Allegation Against Trump Revealed in House Democrats’ Epstein Report

A woman who had accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her told congressional staff it was rape, according to a new report

time.com

"There are many who will claim that the reason the community is *divided* is not because of Nazis, but because some people make Nazism a hardline purity test, which makes it hard to build a coalition...with Nazis, I guess. So shame dies by atrophy." www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

The Death of Shame

Modern Nazis, careless people, and the offensive necessity of caring in a shameful age.

the-reframe.com

(Reuters) - Americans have paid more for their gasoline and diesel at the pump on average during President Donald Trump's second term than they did under his Democratic predecessor, Joe ​Biden, according to the AAA. ⛽️ @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Beyond a new rape allegation, the @democrats-judiciary.house.gov report implicates current Attorney General Todd Blanche, stating he "may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while acting on a mission to protect Trump," referring to an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. Seems like news!

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.