The benefits don't stop at bringing a five year old to the Oval Office …
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/trump-is-forcing-states-to-funnel-grant-money-to-starlink-senate-democrats-say/
It’s exhilarating to hear Bernie Sanders speak to a crowd:
his zeal is reflected back in their faces,
his moral clarity is such a relief,
set against the cynicism and resignation of most of the Democratic party’s opposition to Trump and his administration.
Class war is as old as time, but it’s a peculiarity of this age that you rarely hear a politician name it.
“I do,” he tells me. “There is a class war going on. The people on top are waging that war.”
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Former Senator Claire McCaskill just made a HUGE prediction:
Nathan Sage,
the Democrat running for U.S. Senate against Republican Joni Ernst,
has a real chance of flipping Iowa’s Senate seat blue!
Nathan Sage is exactly the kind of Democrat who can win Iowa.
Nathan grew up in a trailer park, served 3 tours in Iraq,
is president of his local chamber of commerce, and a working class Democrat who can take on Ernst and actually win.
Democrats MUST take…
"The immigration detention system has become a testing ground for authoritarianism." - @silkys13.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/democracynow.org/post/3lqpltpcg522i
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is threatening to remove Democratic lawmakers from office
for fleeing the state
and claiming they could be charged with crimes,
-- escalating tensions overnight
in a showdown over redrawing congressional lines
ahead of the midterm elections.
Most of the Democrats in the Texas state House exited the state Sunday
— many of whom arrived in Chicago in the evening
— to prevent Republicans from overhauling the state’s map t…
America’s democratic collapse has been coming for years, always just over the horizon.
But when everything that happened during Trump’s first three months in office happened and
(here’s the important part)
shockingly little was done by the few groups
(Congress, the Supreme Court, the Democratic Party, American corporations & other large institutions, media companies)
who had the power to counter it,
I knew it was over.
And over in a way that is…