🧵The Whole World is Getting Dumber (And the Smartphone Did It) How’s this for a gut punch? The entire developed world is getting dumber. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

Plz read this imp public service 🧵 Nuremberg is out, and I am making a special request you go see it. Go see Nuremberg: not only will it teach you about the Nazis’ many, many crimes, including the Holocaust which is (rightly) the one thing people know about the Third Reich.

🧵Reality Bites: Trump’s Voters Have Just Found Out They’re on the Menu Ds didn’t lose the shutdown fight, they won the long game and gave the ACA its only chance of survival. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

My statement on the proposed Senate deal

Start calling him the Squeaker of the House

It's a Bird! It's a Plane! Nope, its a good ole fashioned GOP ass whoopin'! In Sep, in a piece titled A Blue Tsunami Is Headed for VA & NJ. The premise was simple: w Trump back in power and Ds back in the opposition, the midterm effect had flipped. Read more 👇 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

This is a direct link to No Kings rallies next Saturday the 18th across America. Use it to find the one you are going to. We need everyone to show up AND RT the link and post it in non political digital spaces. It’s now our never, folks!!! nokings.org

🚨🚨🚨 What Russ Vought Is Doing Right Now: Project 2025 Architect is Spending his Shutdown Destroying Your Government With half of Project 2025 implemented, what is its architect turned Director of OMB coming for over the shutdown? Find out (free) and then RP! open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

If you live in California, now’s your chance to fight back against Trump’s attack on free and fair elections. Vote YES on Proposition 50. Early voting starts today. Let’s make sure Republicans know that we won’t let them rig our elections.

This statement should make your blood run cold 👇

🧵🔥Democrats Want to Run on Affordability: Here’s How to Do It Right Everywhere you look, Democrats are talking about affordability. People are right to be pissed off but they also deserve to know who they should be pissed at. MUST READ & RP No firewall open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

I am so damn proud to be a California Democrat today. Who’s with me? Vote YES on Prop 50. Let’s win this 🔥

🧵🧵🧵 In this thread, I lay out more than a dozen facts about Trump and his child-molester friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. I challenge you to read the whole thread and then decide what the odds are that Trump did not abuse girls or tolerate his pals Epstein and Maxwell doing so.

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk Announces a New Party. Democrats Should Throw Him a Parade. Elon Musk has decided America needs a new political party. Find out why that’s great news for Democrats and the fight to save democracy 👇 (RP please?) open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

🧵🚨🚨🚨The Cycle's Monday Memo: Yes the Senate just passed the Big Ugly Bill but actually, Republicans have a Really Big Problem Want to know more? This 🧵is for you!! (please RP) open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

Chris Murphy: "Trump & the Republicans are trying to engineer the most massive transfer of wealth from the poor & middle class to the wealthy in history of the country...that's super unpopular. So how do you pass it? You can only pass it if you also destroy democracy & the means of accountability"

Confirmation they did not destroy the uranium stockpiles. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.

SEN. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social : “Trump is sending in the National Guard to create conflict — to enflame the situation and increase the chances of violence… he wants to make the situation worse, not better.”

Amazing. Respect the lede.

🚨🚨🚨The MAGA Civil War Is Here!! What it means for the pro-democracy effort The honeymoon is over folks! open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

Thanks to drastic policy changes in the US and Big Tech’s embrace of the second Trump administration, many people are moving their digital lives abroad. Here are a few options for browsers, search engines, and email providers to get you started.

Margaret Brennan totally exposes FDA Commissioner Makary for making it up as he goes and making conflicting recommendations in order to cast doubt on covid vaccines. He's so terrible during this interview that Brennan is left shaking her head as she wraps it up.

The Democrat’s top line ad theme for the midterms…

This exchange is so very telling. Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this: "I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"

When a tyrant starts to stutter and sends signals that his outlandish demands were sent without his authority, you know he’s a paper tiger. That’s when you’ve gotta double down on your resistance! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

National rates for four major vaccines, which had held steady before the COVID-19 pandemic, have fallen significantly since, according to our analysis of federal kindergarten vaccination data. In fact, measles vaccination rates were below herd immunity in most states in 2023: propub.li/3YxYNnw

Kristi Noem preparing to break down the door of your local pet shelter:

There will be nonstop subpoenas. And you’re getting the first one.

If only we had elected representatives who, when our democracy is at risk, didn’t ruminate about when the public might “rise up” but stepped forward to lead.

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

None of these Democrats should enjoy a moment's peace. Cortez Masto (NV) Durbin (IL) Fetterman (PA) Gillibrand (NY) Hassan (NH) Peters (MI) Schatz (HI) Schumer (NY) Shaheen (NH) They've effectively just voted for Donald Trump's agenda without putting up a fight. Never let them hear the end of it.

Scoop: Frustration is bubbling among Democrats on Capitol Hill over Gavin Newsom's podcast, in which the California governor has hosted right-wing extremists for chummy conversations. A senior House Dem told me many are asking, "WTF is this?" Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/gavin-news...

Speaker Johnson has rolled out a slush fund continuing resolution that would give Donald Trump and Elon Musk more power over federal spending—and more power to pick winners and losers, which threatens families in blue and red states alike. Read my full statement ⬇️

"It is clear now that Tesla’s sales woes are dragging the stock price down, too. And it’s not clear what, if anything, could lift Tesla sales going forward." www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/b...

HOUSE REPUBLICANS ARE PULLING THE VOTE ON THE BUDGET RESOLUTION. THEY DON'T HAVE THE VOTES!

Elon’s evil munchkins sent this ridiculous email out to all 2 million or so Federal employees demanding they reply by midnight Monday. If you want to let them know what you did last week I’m bet they’d love to hear from you at [email protected]! I can’t wait to tell them about my norovirus symptoms!

Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

🚨BREAKING: In response to emergency litigation by @democracyforward.org, Trump backs down and agrees to keep hands off CFPB funding until case can be heard. Visit Democracy Docket for breaking news involving democracy and the courts. www.democracydocket.com

Democrats are standing with federal workers and using every tool at our disposal to fight back. We won’t stop until Elon Musk and his DOGE cronies are kicked out of every federal agency!

What Donald Trump is allowing Elon Musk and his DOGE team to do is not an audit. It is a coup. This an incredibly dangerous moment—and it is all the more dangerous if people don’t understand what is happening. https://youtu.be/jrE0DOEcbRE

NEW: DOGE is behind the abrupt cancellation of $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, a Department of Education division responsible for much of what we know about the state of U.S. schools. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

👋🏽 Here’s what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social have been doing. AND the @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social stomped the Chiefs which is also relevant.

As a former staffer, I answered hundreds of constituent calls. These calls do shape how Reps vote and make decisions. I made a list of all the Senators by state with contact info for each of their many state offices. Let's flood the zone with our outrage. quartzevelyn.substack.com/p/senate-con...

Starting tomorrow, get vaccinated. Everything you can. The CDC took down their list. Use this. www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...

Might be a good idea to order some of these www.etsy.com/listing/1824...