Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Imperative reading. "[M]ost Republicans [in Congress] know exactly what’s happening... but fear of Trump’s wrath silences them more effectively than their conservative ideology ever unified them." 000
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Call your congresscritters every day. Demand they impeach and convict him. 011
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 19/01/2026It should be, but I've thought that about other transgressions, and Congress is still fast asleep. Call your Congresscritters! Daily! 020
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 19/01/2026BREAKING: Senior White House official placed in straitjacket, hustled into van by men in white coats. (snark, if anyone actually wondered) 110
Reposted by Steve DiamondKrassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 19/01/2026HARTFORD VISIBILITY BRIGADE today. Honoring MLK. 212476744
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Definitely don't call the phone numbers or bother the nazis or share their information or hack them. 000
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 16/07/2025references: abc3340.com/news/nation-... www.politico.com/news/magazin... snyder.substack.com/p/shadow-cab... hartmannreport.com/p/democracys...abc3340.comTim Walz calls for 'shadow government' to give 'alternate press conference' to AmericansMinnesota Gov. Tim Walz last week called for the creation of a 'shadow government' which he claimed would provide Americans with the truth about cu 000
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 16/07/2025@kenmartin.bsky.social The DNC should appoint a Shadow Cabinet whose members give frequent statements and press conferences to counteract Republican lies and lawlessness. Several prominent figures have called for this, including Tim Walz, Elissa Slotkin, Timothy Snyder, and Thom Hartmann. 110
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 20/05/2025If you live in a Republican district (as I do), call your representative today and demand that they oppose this bill, which cuts Medicaid & essential services in order to let the wealthy avoid paying their fair share. Then call them again tomorrow! 010
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Reporters should be challenging her loudly, disrupting the presser when she continues to lie. I get that there are concerns about losing access, but surely there are some who would take one for the team. 2160
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Latest idiocy from the infantile orange clown. 192
Reposted by Steve Diamond#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Republicans Block Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Because It Doesn't Take Healthcare Away From Enough People twp.ai/4innmytwp.aiwww.thedailypoliticususa.comRepublicans Block Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Because It Doesn't Take Healthcare Away From Enough People 23516
Reposted by Steve DiamondThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16/05/2025Reminder: the Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen posts are just to distract from the Qatari "gift" or the fact that he's trying to rip Medicare and Medicaid from millions of Americans right now. 880236117488
Reposted by Steve DiamondMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/05/2025When shooting your dog in the face isn’t the worst thing you ever did. 166299312728
Reposted by Steve DiamondMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... 24072701921
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Starts in one hour. "In this one-hour zoom, we will discuss Truth Bombs – a simple new, non-confrontational, social-media-based weapon to add to our arsenal." www.mobilize.us/civicsundays...mobilize.usCIVIC SUNDAYS -TRUTH BOMB BRIEFING WITH JOHANNA SIEGMANN · Civic SundaysCivic Sundays LA is having a Truth Bomb Briefing, led by Johanna Siegmann, previewing a new way of communicating that meets the moment. This is a virtual event and will be held over Zoom on alternati... 010
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 16/05/2025"For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a 'minimal quality of life' is out of reach." This explains so much about our current political divisions. The right wing has championed this situation, but Democrats have been complicit and complacent. www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...cbsnews.comMost Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis findsThe bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis. 000
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 16/05/2025"For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a 'minimal quality of life' is out of reach." This explains so much about our current political divisions. The right wing has championed this situation, but Democrats have been complicit and complacent. www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...cbsnews.comMost Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis findsThe bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis. 000
Reposted by Steve DiamondJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Next week's cover of @newyorker.com, out this morning. 16362831902
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 20/04/2025I'm tempted to be snarky and say wow, so the rich have discovered that money doesn't buy happiness? But no, the point here is that they've failed to discover it. They think they're unhappy because they don't have enough. Maybe some grounding in Buddhism is indicated, or even Christianity. 000
Reposted by Steve DiamondPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.wired.comThe CFPB Has Been GuttedThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency. 8863686014833
Reposted by Steve DiamondThomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 19/04/2025🧵 Case in point… they create a narrative out of thin air… and it’s easy to do. If you do an image search for “ms13 knuckle tattoos”, this is what you’ll see. Kilmar’s tattoo has no connection to gang affiliation, it’s just symbols meaningful to him, and it’s a very common trend at the moment. 1010944
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Yes, because if they can assert Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a gang member and ship him to a concentration camp without having to prove anything in court, they can do it to you and me too. The (lack of due) process is exactly the same. 000
Reposted by Steve DiamondGod @thegodshow.com · 19/04/2025Thou shalt march on Washington by the millions and not leave until the Mad King is deposed. 574243134753
Reposted by Steve DiamondACLU @aclu.org · 18/04/2025BREAKING: A court ruled that our case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there. Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed. 181132973450
Reposted by Steve DiamondStephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 19/04/2025•••••BREAKING••••• The Supreme Court has blocked any new deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. SCOTUS is acting in response to an emergency appeal by lawyers from the ACLU. The Court has directed the Trump regime not to remove Venezuelan immigrants held in the Bluebonnet Detention… 732911702
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 19/04/2025On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five... "And once in a great while, someone will light a lantern—or even two—that will shine forth for democratic principles that are under siege, and set the world ablaze." 010
Reposted by Steve DiamondJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 19/04/2025“We’re headed towards…” is a phrase that is no longer acceptable as it relates to authoritarianism. We arrived weeks ago. apple.news/Afn5usfmGRcq...apple.newsThe State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights — NPRThe agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses. 501484446
Reposted by Steve DiamondEnd Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 18/04/2025In case you needed proof that the disastrous Citizens United decision put a for sale sign on our democracy. 👇 341046441
Reposted by Steve DiamondCongresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 18/04/2025The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today. This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk. 1051284879936
Reposted by Steve Diamond#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Trump goes to war with the Fed twp.ai/4ilfoPtwp.aiwww.rawstory.comTrump goes to war with the Fed 2159
Reposted by Steve DiamondAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 18/04/2025There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you. Senator Van Hollen lives this attitude – and planted hope in hopelessness. (I’m not crying, you’re crying.) 9864651321
Reposted by Steve DiamondKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/04/2025DISMANTLING CFPB: Judge Amy Berman Jackson has called a 10am hearing on whether the Trump administration violated her order against large-scale dismantling of the agency. She is seeking details of a purported reduction in force and the order to implement it. 4389123
Reposted by Steve DiamondBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17/04/2025"Every step he takes is aimed at concentrating the power of government in his own hands as he seeks to intimidate opponents and move aggressively to eliminate alternative sources of public influence in the legal system, the universities, and the media." newrepublic.com/article/1940...newrepublic.comTrump’s Tariff Madness Is About One Thing: His Thirst for One-Man RuleThe tariffs, the treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the DOGE moves—they’re all fundamentally about the same thing. 2538692
Reposted by Steve DiamondSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return. 805312263825533
Reposted by Steve DiamondTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/04/2025This is good news. But reporters, please stop just repeating that this task force has anything to do with stopping antisemitism. It is about closing universities and about fomenting antisemitism. www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comObama backs Harvard as Yale faculty members support standing up to TrumpHarvard faces funding freeze as Yale faculty asks leadership ‘to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands’ 441980469
Reposted by Steve DiamondJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/04/2025“The government is not a car company.” 36575412357
Reposted by Steve DiamondMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/04/2025People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 664378438804
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 18/04/2025In 2000, the indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic fought to hold power. His opponents, led by a student movement called Otpor! (‘resistance’), attacked the regime with ridicule, rock music, and a willingness to be arrested. Their courage inspired others to join the fight. 021
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Exactly this. They should be laughing instead of cowering. The emperor has no clothes! 000
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 18/04/2025It's horrific, and I think one big reason is exactly that he hosted The Apprentice. Many folks first encountered him playing the role of a successful businessman on TV, and they haven't altered their first impression. Real info about his failures and stupidity doesn't penetrate. 060
Steve Diamond @stevediamond.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I'd like to see Steve Kerr go into politics. He's smart, articulate, and popular. And he's already accomplished just about all anyone could hope to accomplish in basketball: 5 NBA championships as a player, 4 as a coach; Olympic gold medal. C'mon, Steve. I've been a fan since your Arizona days. 000