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Only in jazz do you find an 84 year old sharing the stage with a 19 year old peer. @jazzmusic.bsky.social @sfn.org

In 30 days we pick the Congress that decides whether Pete Hegseth keeps his job. Mike Johnson already ducked the vote. Tell your rep where you stand before they ask for your vote: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... #BlueWaveIn30Days

Trump says tariffs will pay for the $5,000 checks. But tariffs have brought in about $140 billion extra so far, against a $1.2 trillion promise. That covers roughly eleven cents per dollar. The rest just gets borrowed. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/i-promise-...

Canada's retaliatory tariffs are clever. They're aimed at aluminum, machinery, and daily, hitting the Midwest swing states. This will be an exciting midterm election cycle. https://youtu.be/4FIEVDfD2JE

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Hillary Clinton: "Xi is thinking, 'They they can't defend anybody anymore bc they don't have capacity. Maybe we can coerce Taiwan into giving up bc there's not going to be support.' If you look at the world map, it's not favorable to the US largely bc of wrongheaded decisions by this administration"

BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC due to threats from Trump’s FCC. The interview will instead be posted to YouTube.

Elon Musk offered his ex, Ashley St. Clair, $40,000,000 not to tell the truth about him in Alex Gibney’s new, scathing documentary. She told Musk to take a hike. Apparently, Elon is *furious* that the four-hour film is unflattering. But, in fairness, how could it not be—unless it were fiction?

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "I feel like Jon Ossoff has already liquefied and imbibed this book…He understands what offense looks like and how to get under their skin, but more importantly, how to raise the public's awareness about all the corrupt and strange things Trump is doing."

I feel like this tweet doesn't get talked about enough.

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "We have a generational opportunity to take MAGA and bury it in the ash heap of history where it belongs, but it's going to require Democrats figuring out how to go on offense."

These are my latest one-of-a-kind raku pieces. No one’s buying right now, and I understand - art isn’t always the priority in difficult times. But I’m still making, and sharing a little beauty feels worthwhile. A like or share might help these pieces find their people. 🙏

Newsom: "He's not screwing around. He wasn't screwing around when he called Greg Abbott for 5 seats, said he was entitled to 5 seats. Why does he do that? Because he knows he's going to lose the election unless he rigs the election before one vote is cast. That is what we're up against."

He signed one sentence and a court order stopping Trump's ballroom disappeared. No hearing. No briefing. Not even the other justices. 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

The president has NO authority to make lists of voters & tell the Postal Service who gets a ballot That power belongs to Congress & to the states, which have passed no such law. @campaignlegal.org & @democracydefendersfund.org are in court to put and end to these shenanigans @ms.now👇 -TN

Yes, it does sound familiar.

Don’t believe it? Read it for yourself. It’s been available for years to read.

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Russia is on the *Board of Peace.* So it's ok, right!?!? 🙄

Need another NO KINGS march before the midterms! Saturday, October 24th or a Halloween March on Saturday, October 31st??

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

Trump declared war on Iran with NO plan, Now the Pentagon is panicking we’re running out of air defense supplies “more than a few days” in. 4 soldiers dead. 165 kids killed at a girls’ school. FOR WHAT?! #EpsteinWar #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/207205/... via @newrepublic.com

GOP lawmakers not willing to bail Trump out on tariffs: report

All states should do the same!

NEW: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker sent Trump a letter and an invoice demanding the return of $8.6 billion taken from Illinois families after the Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs are illegal.

New from us: Public opinion on nearly every aspect of President Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House is negative, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...

Barbara, we want a sequel of this book.

Given that Trump’s agenda is so unpopular, you have to seriously question what the Republicans in Congress are doing Because no amount of gerrymandering will overcome millions of people losing SNAP and healthcare insurance while they get fired as costs continue to rise

The parallel is almost too neat: a demolition of something sacred carried out under the auspices of improvement. In both cases, the act is cloaked in the language of renewal but animated by ego, sustained by spectacle, and shadowed by the pursuit of personal gain.

6/context from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social

Silence Is Complicity Straighten your spine Speak & live your truth

For some reason, I was just thinking about how Trump’s former chief of staff tried to warn us right before the election that Trump was a fascist who wanted to rule us like a dictator … and the New York Times put that story on page A12

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

The constitutional crisis is here. The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador. youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...

“The chief justice is right. Trump’s attack on Judge Boasberg is juvenile, civically illiterate, and perilous to the rule of law.” It also jeopardizes the safety and even the survival of judges who apply the law without fear or favor. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

That silence is deafening. You can’t just assume that you will be able to make this right again in 4 years. 4 months might be too late. These power hungry people are not going to relinquish anything when completely entrenched.

“Any casual observer of the Supreme Court can see what many prestigious constitutional lawyers can’t, which is that the conservative justices are frequently accomplices to Trump’s assault on democracy,” writes Adam Serwer.

Democrats Can’t Just Play Dead: The public is frustrated with Trump and Elon’s DOGE-ification of government. It’s time for party leaders to stand up.

US intelligence indicates that Russia and China are attempting to recruit federal employees fired by the Trump administration, sources say

I’m glad this happened. Now the entire world knows once and for all that Trump & Vance stand with Putin.

“This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States,” the president of the White House correspondents’ association wrote. “In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...

"What Senator Tillis said publicly is what almost every Republican senator is saying privately."

Trumpists will continue to be furious at any dissent no matter how much power they steal. That’s because the administration is premised on pathological insecurity. They’re shitty people, they know it, and they will never stop resenting being seen as shitty people.

Brazil shows that it can be done. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Putin has something on Trump. He’s always had something on Trump.