They aren’t your friends. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

This puts Mamdani in good company. Back in 2012 I covered a conspiracy conference in DC about Obama called “Lenin and Sharia” that argued Obama was simultaneously a devout Muslim agent of sharia AND a godless communist.

Art of the Peace Deal

i have a column coming out this weekend about how the red baiting just doesnt work anymore. if you insist for decades that figures ranging from al gore to hillary clinton to zohran mamdani are gonna do a communism then literally nothing happens -- people stop listening.

Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.

i was a little worried the questions would end up w me being more conservative than id like (i share elie's pov on hate speech, for instance)

people do not understand how govt works. they dont know how the day to day wrangling affects them. its on our leaders to do this job. in an ideal world the media would do this. they won't. so its on elected leaders. so fucking do it.

speaker johnson, youre no bob deniro

Oh so the Republicans are just like formally the mob now.

fill the reflecting pool with Nickelodeon Slime

This is the future liberals want

pure uncut Starmerism from NJ congressman Malinowski

this dude doesnt miss

im seeing more house dems just grab a camera and make content. this is the way.

he "died"

donald trump ruined america's birthday

bari weiss is the elizabeth holmes of media

hanging out w my friends' baby has been wild. he went from a cute potato 10 months ago who just kind of sat there (in the most adorable way possible) to this very reactive young fella who now stands up and is on the verge of walking and has his own distinct personality.

the right are constantly the weirdest people in the room

Oliver continues to be right here. Folks blow my mind with "why do good things when it'll get blocked?" mentality. Do good things, esp when popular, sell it hard, let them block the good things, and sell that narrative hard. dont negotiate yourself to failure w/bad faith actors

Amazing how when Democrats held majorities in both chambers of Congress the Republican minority was able to block 95% of bills but when the roles are reversed, a Democratic minority has blocked less than 5% of bills that Trump wants passed.

they would be, if you spoke about them instead of assuming the public would just get it. even the graphic below from the biden wh is an example of how not to communicate.

better to do it week one, get the court on record opposing it, and run on that than spend weeks wanking in public over it, building opposition and losing the argument. which is what biden did. bidens proposal was good. delaying it was dumb. they both did good things and refused to take the "w"

The funny thing is now that there have been some high profile progressive victories, Cletus Safaris to understand why Democratic primary voters made the choices they did actually would be useful! Instead, they’re talking to professional Democrats who are on the losing side.

speaking of incrementalism, can we bring back "buzzards guts" as an expression of surprise and anger like in this speech from lincoln? youtu.be/1qjtugr2618

I think there's actually a useful difference we can draw here. Namely: there is incrementalism that comes from pushing wherever possible (and with whatever levels possible) to make progress toward a maximalist demand, versus incrementalism that's positioned as an excuse for setting minor goals

...and then you tell her she can never see her parents again and send her back to the cartel

CNN sister network Headline News platformed Glenn Beck with a nightly show as recently as 2008. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that the media is liberal.

Fetterman unleashed on the DSA

“We do a Watergate twice a day” is a crazy way to confess your own corruption…

I know donors would love to see him defend himself against the tax on the debate stage as everyone piles on him. And he'd probably love that, too. Given his embrace of Biden, I think he's decided to take Joe's path to the nomination. The difference is Joe would never have blown a gimme like this.

1. obama and biden both had congressional majorities 2. biden spent months vacillating on student loans instead of just fucking doing it (obama did same with dadt) 3. if biden and obama did popular things there would be no serious move to impeach but that's a convenient excuse for not trying

those of us at the tail end of gen x saw the promise of "get a job in your twenties and work there until retirement and get a big fat pension at the end" evaporate and it affected how we view economics. things have gotten way worse since and we dont think povs will change?

we had the dotcom collapse, the great recession and covid. somehow people are very surprised that the 80s/90s church of "trust the market" is losing followers, especially among the people who went through those things in their teens and twenties.

one key difference between left and right is liberals are mostly fine with being nerds. the aspiration to be cool is just not there the same way it is with the right. thats why they do the most cringeworthy things to try and be cool -- which ends up as the most uncool move of all.

"it’s ridiculous to suggest that DOGE’s program cancellations won’t cause any deaths. The range of numbers here seems to be between a few million and tens of millions, and neither end of that spectrum absolves Musk." www.theargumentmag.com/p/elon-musks...

you know sometimes i don't like having an active imagination

U.S. TRADE DEFICIT WIDENS SHARPLY The U.S. goods trade deficit widened to $105.8B in May, far worse than the $85B expected. Imports jumped 3.6% while exports fell 5.4%. Wholesale inventories rose 0.3%, below forecasts, while retail inventories increased 0.6%, slightly above expectations.

Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D) released Tina Peters, saying she was remorseful despite obvious evidence to the contrary. “I do show remorse,” Peters said today. “The remorse is that people that should be in prison are not. That's my remorse.”

Again, it’s so insulting because obviously Jaime Harrison doesn’t actually think this. He just thinks so little of you that you will accept this unprecedented level of rhetorical hypocrisy instead of doing the one thing Democrats are paid to do: blame everyone else for their failures.

It’s both. The media environment sucks (and Dems do nothing about it) AND Dems are passive when they need to be active. It’s both.

Every time somebody like Obama or Biden wins, they take their own victory as proof enough that The Country Has Turned A Corner, that The Fever Has Passed, and it's Time To Work Together With Our Republican Friends In Unity again, and it's a goddamn disaster b/c no, none of that has happened.

This seems correct. I’ve covered many many dem campaigns and what voters seem to want isn’t so much about ideology as about saying things with your whole chest.

Imagine if Obama and Biden had come in like Trump and project 2025. Just a blizzard of progressive stuff and orders undoing all the gop rot. Instead they both pursued way too much unity and bipartisanship. Voters gave them both a mandate and they made milquetoast.

Meh. Internal fights are good. Bland unity makes you weak. Fighting toughens you up.