Some people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]
Well, my fellow Maine voters. Here is Susan Collins today paying tribute to her boss while holding her MAGA hat.
Bravo. There's a lot of leverage out there if you look for it.
The Epstein rot goes deep
[FREE TO READ] America must now ask itself if it can restore a culture of shame
"In a self-valuing democracy, the only defensible stance is to call for release of all remaining files." My column on why the latest Epstein dump gives America the opposite of closure.
as.ft.com/r/9553eceb-2...The Epstein rot goes deep
[FREE TO READ] America must now ask itself if it can restore a culture of shame
This
@bostonreview.bsky.social piece by
@adambonica.bsky.social and
@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it.
Spread this one far and wide.
How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
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I do not regret to inform you we are going to win.
Heroes come in many forms and this is one of them
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the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
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I want to say this too: this victory was won because we had observers EVERYWHERE. ICE and CBP couldn't set foot in our city without cameras rolling. Much of the nation seemed determined to ignore our plight for weeks, but the avalanche of documentation we produced dragged the nation to us.
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Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
A nurse. A researcher. A helper.
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Here. I couldn't think of anything better to say.
othermeans.io/p/on-being-a...
On Being American
DHS and The Soul of the United States
Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
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in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
Minnesota is the best of us.
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ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
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You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
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We are now 32 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
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Four GOP Senators.
At most four Repubs in the House.
Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
I can't repeat this enough.
