Ben Muse

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

We can do it too.

Come on. This is completely insane. The John Roberts Supreme Court paved the way for oligarchs to try to destroy democracy. Obscene.

And Alaska Senator Sullivan is just fine with it.

One of the things Teddy Roosevelt understood is that if any private citizen holds more power than the government, the republic is in deep trouble.

we're going to need a long-term plan, with broad political appeal, for ending impunity & holding the trump administration accountable for its crimes, malfeasance & cruelties. not 'tit-for-tat' but an american version of transitional justice. my take in @slate.com 👇

Hey Bluesky: I know y’all love _West Wing_ but the idea that Lisa Murkowski will leave the Republican caucus for love of country is absolute West Wing fantasy toddler stuff. Here she is headlining a fundraiser for her Republican colleague and Trump sycophant Dan S. Sullivan. She is a fraud.

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

Dems, time to focus on fighting fascism. If you're a centrist and you have an issue with progressives, a progressive who has an issue with centrists, a pro-Israel Dem who has an issue with critics, or anyone else inclined to slow our pace to a big victory in November, have a seat, save it for later.

The war in Ukraine is the greatest fight for sovereignty and freedom in the 21st century so far. The tragedy of Trump changing sides and backing autocratic Russia instead of democratic Ukraine will go down in history as one of America's biggest foreign policy mistakes ever.

Ossoff: "In my view, based upon the evidence I've seen thus far, the president's misconduct, abuse of power, and corruption, already exceed any prior standard for impeachment."

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

Imagine being too corrupt for Donald Trump, Jr

Trump is telling Americans that Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil facilities is the reason diesel prices are high. THAT IS A LIE. Ukraine's attacks had no perceptible impact on diesel prices; Trump's Iran war is the cause of the spike. Here's the data, straight from the Trump Administration itself.

This is absolutely sick.

Most people are incentivized towards competence as a means of improving their material conditions, but the wealthy aren't. Their incentives are entirely emotional: status preservation, positional dominance, alleviating boredom, etc. It's no surprise they typically regress into spoiled children.

The ads don't "brag about America", however useless that sounds to me. They brag about the President and warn against his political critics and opponents.

We’re about to sleepwalk into a gravely dangerous nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, and not enough people are talking about this. Here’s what’s happening (thread)

We murdered four more people in a boat today

Remember that Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan thought it was a good idea for Trump to withdraw from Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran.

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

The disheartening part is that if gas was $2, for whatever reason, they'd all be fine with fascism.

When you come across Alaska Senator Sullivan on the ballot, see Trump’s face.

By changing what we find acceptable he’s changing us.

This is cruelty. Undocumented immigrants are spending months in detention facilities awaiting resolution of deportation cases. Before Trump 2, they could get a bond hearing to show they aren’t a danger or flight risk. (1/2) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

We should not let it slip by unnoted that Trump's effort to change "artificial intelligence" to "super intelligence" is profoundly dumb on so many levels it almost defies description. He is an arrogant nitwit.

It Will Take Decades To Fix This Mess!

I haven’t heard Alaska Senator Murkowski speak up. Be nice to be wrong. How hard would it be for her to use her senator’s privilege to simply make some surprise spot checks on ICE holding facilities?

STEM is of limited value ***even if you're ruthlessly focused on careerism*** STEM will help you invent the product but you need humanities/social science to know how to market it, who to market it to, what stores & which locations to sell at, what the price point is, how people will use it...

Now and forever, never forget: Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan is and has been a Trump enthusiast. Make sure everyone knows. He’s all for DOGE, MAGA, Hegseth.

Senator Murkowski voted to confirm Vought as well.

The Trump administration's lawless killing spree at sea continues with a lethal strike on four more supposed "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean. Very real killing in a make-believe war. Outside of war the general term for premeditated killing is murder.

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

We’d better.

“These are images 🇺🇸 servicembers want you to see…” ABC News reporter Rachel Scott (who Trump recently snapped at) shares images of destruction on 🇺🇸 military bases

This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.

This is really important to remember. He could die tomorrow, but our friends and enemies are still going to have to take account of what we did. And, frankly, what we continue to do, and appear to be.

Trump thinks that it's a hostile act against the US if other countries trade with the US, and also if other countries trade with each other without the US.

Don't forget: Intuit also gave $1M to Trump's inauguration. This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must end this vicious cycle.

Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."

Ossoff: "Look, we already know that Donald Trump is a dangerously corrupt and incompetent man. The question is what we're going to do about it."