Far right election deniers lobbying Trump to declare national emergency so he can:
-seize voting machines
-outlaw mail voting for most Americans
-force every American to re-register before midterms & every subsequent election
Insane wannabe dictator fever dream www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
i think @theguardian.com is your best bet at this time (WSJ news section is good but the opinion section is extremely Murdoch-y)
random throwback show, but does anyone want 2 extremely cheap tix to Eric Hutchinson @ LPR tonight? i was able to get comps so getting rid of the ones i bought, selling for 10 bucks or less each!
The constitution's design does not grant the president a kinglike ability to take the country to war by himself, lest he do so for self-serving reasons. That is the entire purpose of dividing that authority between POTUS and Congress. Guess what just happened? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Wrote about the difficult task of sorting through legitimate criticism of Israel versus antisemitism, at a time when both of those seem to be on the rise: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Prosecute Noem. Don’t forget about her.
just needed to say something as a fan, i realize the algorithm works in certain ways but i don't think the quality of the content needs to be so diluted and dumbed-down. (cc @danpfeiffer.bsky.social @jonfavs.bsky.social @jonlovett.bsky.social in case this breaks through to anyone!
it's even sadder because the conversations packaged on this feed are generally actually pretty substantive and thoughtful, but you wouldn't know it from this design
i don't know where to direct this feedback, as it seems like the @crooked.com @podsaveamerica.crooked.com folks mostly aren't here on bluesky, but i just want to say that the way the "breaking news" feed is packaged makes me feel embarrassed to be a fan/supporter and makes me less likely to listen
Yeah, this clip will certainly be shown as evidence at the trials.
Bari Weiss reposing a CBS News stories that says the current war with Iran stretches back to 1979
Story at the The Free Press: Our 50 Year War with Iran
Bari Weiss is pushing the “50 year war” narrative at both the Free Press and CBS. The erases both American culpability for the current war (since Iran started in 1979!) and the reasons why a theocratic anti-American regime took power in the first place.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-reason...
No one better to capture this fairly historic moment in country history!
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Roosevelt Institute President and CEO Elizabeth Wilkins.
On Thursday, CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social met with @mayor.nyc.gov to talk about what it takes to govern—investing in public capacity and building the talent pipeline to deliver for working people. That’s the Roosevelt tradition: pairing big ideas with the capacity to deliver lasting results.
@mayor.nyc.gov is an inspiration of progressive governance: Big ideas that truly reshape economic power in favor of people, and government that delivers. Can't wait to see what NYC builds next.
We've been tracking nearly 200 lawsuits against the Trump administration over its attempts to leverage federal funding to impose the president's agenda.
The most startling pattern: The administration seems entirely undeterred when it loses in court.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Donald Trump’s foreign policy vision is imperialism,” Peter Beinart writes. “It’s a global outlook that closely resembles Mr. Trump’s governing style at home — both feature spectacular violence and contempt for the restraints of law.”
“Donald Trump’s foreign policy vision is imperialism,” Peter Beinart writes. “It’s a global outlook that closely resembles Mr. Trump’s governing style at home — both feature spectacular violence and contempt for the restraints of law.”
We got y'all somethin' good for De La Soul Day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVY...
this is extremely exciting and encouraging! congratulations!
Personal news update: I'm delighted to announce that as of today, I am an actual Bluesky employee! I'll be working to welcome indie media and local govt to Bsky—and supporting those already here.
I'll always want to hear your thoughts on how we can make Bsky the sort of social media we all want!
For those looking for additional data points about what's happening with immigration enforcement in Minnesota and other states, our habeas case tracker has just been updated. TLDR new cases have dropped: projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...
Hey, cool. @lastweektonight.com just did a segment using reporting I did w/ @farooqumar.bsky.social
Oliver was talking about body cams--and how law enforcement agencies have often undermined their potential
The same body-cams Dems are centering that ICE reforms on
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4_...
tough to come up with a better story about the ignorance and hubris of mankind than “b-list tv news host becomes Secretary of Defense,” but then we get the story “b-list tv news host becomes Secy. of Defense, plugs AI system directly into military systems, has it select targets”
Like the neocons, Trump’s neo-neocons repeatedly invoke the West’s complacency and unwillingness to defend its own values, a frailty that can be rectified only through the ritual use of military force against weaker targets. The conservative writer Jonah Goldberg once articulated what he called the “Ledeen Doctrine,” after the neoconservative Michael Ledeen, which was: “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.” Despite Trump’s rejection of George W. Bush, MAGA bears many similarities to the right-wing politics of that era—a fetishization of violence and torture, the treatment of opposition as treasonous, a disdain for due process, and an anti-Muslim bigotry at odds with fundamental American principles.
Pundits loved telling you about Trump's "anti-interventionism" because it seemed contrarian and interesting, but he always represented neoconservatism's worst impulses shorn of any moral pretense or concern www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
New: Bernie Sanders to unveil $4.4 trillion tax on America's ~1,000 billionaires, saying it would pay for:
— Medicare to cover dental/vision/hearing
— Teacher pay at $60K/yr min.
— $3K/person checks (under $150K/yr)
— Universal childcare
— Housing expansion
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
once again, Buddy Guy saving us from utter despondency with his still-magnetic presence www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Xx...
The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017-25 and the number of US billionaires jumped 50% to more than 900. Overall, the top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the GDP of the US and China combined. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
Gift post, no paywall.
The playlist was SO fun to make, brought me back to my NYC days in the '70s / '80s. Willie was a mixed bag for sure, like a lot of family. But goddamn his jams are hot.
This is what happens when you effectively have no ethical rules at the top of government — virtually limitless opportunities for insider profiteering.
It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
