Ludovic blain

Reagan?

Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China (Gift Article) Giving Elon Musk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to President Trump and highlights his conflicts of interest.

Musk will then immediately share it with China, of course, where half of all Teslas are made and a third of all Teslas are sold, the single most important market to his company's success, and likely the only country in which Tesla sales have a possibility of growing this year.

I really wish Dem strategists would just once go on TV and acknowledge that Trump only won by 1.5% and didn't even get a majority before they start with the tiresome "Democrats have completely lost touch with average Americans etc, etc." That's how you think after a landslide loss not a squeaker.

This Paul Weiss capitulation is the most disgraceful action by a major law firm in my lifetime, so appalling that I couldn’t believe it at first.

Any lawyers at that firm—partners or associates—who don’t promptly resign will defile their moral and professional reputations beyond repair.

A screenshot reads: "The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty as the appropriate punishment for heinous crimes against humanity, including those who kill law enforcement officers and illegal migrants who maim and murder Americans."

I may have missed this during his inaugural remarks but President Trump is instructing the Department of Justice to seek the death penalty against undocumented immigrants who seriously injure U.S. citizens:

'It's finally over': President Biden Grants Leonard Peltier Clemency - NDN COLLECTIVE In his final moments in office, President Biden grants executive clemency to Leonard Peltier, the longest-incarcerated Native American political prisoner in American history.

There is no real justice after losing 50 years of freedom, but today, our hearts burst with joy and gratitude for our uncle Leonard.

To learn more about Leonard’s release, read NDN Collective’s press release here: ndnco.cc/PeltierCleme...

Tell us where to piss

Places to donate for disaster relief:

This page of resources is from my friend and colleague Ludovic Blain, executive director of the California Donor Table.

More to come. 1/

www.philanthropyca.org/2025-califor...

Just like women, Donald Trump is going to stand as the protector of Canada, Greenland and Panama whether they want it or not.

Jimmy Carter Deserved Better. So Do We. An underreported chapter from Carter’s career.

Reminder: Reagan‘s campaign stole Jimmy Carter’s 1980 debate prep book, which is why Reagan was ready to use his practiced, “There you go again“ zinger at the right time. Early example of GOP’s unethical politics! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

summed up:
unrestricted funding
minimal reporting
no donor driven agenda
and I’d add: let the group decide how many years they’ll spend it over

A flag depicting Abraham Lincoln using laser beams that shoot out of his eyeballs to burn a confederate flag

One of the proposed new Illinois flag designs, out of thousands submitted

Good

My tweet saying, “If Asian Americans talked about white Americans the way whites talk about black folks, they'd bring back the Exclusion Act.”

This was, uh… ten years ago now

Too tired to read right now, but I've trusted @eff over decades as a reliable source (not to mention a consistent media justice advocacy org), so I'm comfortable recommending this thread full of their resources:

This "plan" is both absurd and dangerous.

When I lecture about New Deal banking reforms, I note that some of the key measures — like Glass Steagall — were repealed by the right with disastrous results like the 2008 financial meltdown, but ha ha, no one will ever be stupid enough to kill FDIC and bring back the old bank runs.

you can tell that Trump is authentically extremely xenophobic and pushes that stuff down into the staffer class to get it done but isn't authentically transphobic in the same way and the staffer class pushes that stuff up into him instead

Trumpists Don’t Seem to Mind Claims of Sexual Assault Anything is forgivable as long as it comes from people they like.

Trump’s cabinet nominees illustrate how Trumpists ignore allegations of sexual assault unless they can be weaponized to justify discrimination against groups of people they want to demonize www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Free Leonard Peltier.

I’m in London as a panelist for a London Funders conference. Brought my son. We’ve had a good time, but I think we are ready to go home

That's why there's an aggressive effort now to blame "identity politics," it's a retcon because Harris ran exactly the campaign centrists wanted, catering to conservatives, never criticizing Netanyahu, never blaming billionaires or big corporations, the works—just to lose to Old Man Yells at Cloud.

finally a reasonable take

It’s just frustrating that the right wing never has to do shit, even when they lose. Never have to reach out, to welcome, to understand, to moderate their positions. They get to be who they are & never apologize for it and people will blame progressives for not putting up with that shit

Very interesting

White masculinity is an identity, and playing up the defense of it — via the state, via norms, via violence — is identity politics.

Not a mandate at all.

Yeah baby