How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

Immigrants make America great

Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night. Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim. Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen. Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

Retail politics lives!Just met a DA candidate at the SJ maker fair #PoliSky

Good chat with @brownphdgirl.bsky.social about our new book goodauthority.org/news/how-joy... @sldemora.bsky.social Sarah Hayes

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist? Mamdani: I've spoken about -- Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.

Come work for me! #Psychology menlo.edu/employment-o...

I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.

OMG this kicker in the Harvard Crimson article!! College journalism kicks ass, again

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

This is the silver lining I’m hoping for

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

omg

Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

Just listened to your @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social pod about the book! Thanks for writing this book & I look forward to reading it podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Cameran Drew, 19, defeated his former high school government teacher by 10 votes in a race for a county supervisor seat in southeastern Virginia this week.

Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.

The Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats are “blatantly unlawful as a matter of U.S. domestic law—and a quickly spreading stain on whatever is left of the executive branch’s commitment to the rule of law.” Me on “extrajudicial killings” in the latest issue of “One First”:

Many of us were saying the same thing last year. Many D and Indy voters didn't show up for Harris, and R's did, in these same places. It makes "swings" look huge, but it's not because most of these folks are changing their votes. Some are. Mostly it's just the composition of the electorate changing.

Breaking News: Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the only female House speaker, said she would retire in 2027, ending a run as one of the most powerful women in U.S. politics. nyti.ms/3XkTV49

Mamdani announces transition team: All-female team led by Elana Leopold, a known Dem strategist; also Melanie Hartzog, who once led the NYC’s health and human services and budget offices; former dep mayor Maria Torres-Springer, and Lina Khan, the former FTC commissioner who campaigned with Mamdani

Generally, when a party is trying to appeal to a new cohort of voters, they don’t send masked men to publicly kidnap and disappear thousands of members of that cohort.

Off to a good start!

Trump declares that Republicans have lost the shutdown. Absolutely zero reason for Dems to cave at this point

Democrats are currently ahead in 63 (!!!) races in the Virginia House of Delegates. If this holds, it would be one of the largest state legislature swings in the last 4 years. Its an absolute bloodbath for anti-trans Republicans.

Dem women governors in NJ, NY, VA, MA. 🔥🔥

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

It’s the economy, stupid

This account will be equal parts hopeful and gloating for the rest of the evening. To that end: Pour one out for the pile of NYC billionaire money that was utterly incinerated tonight!

Voters want to hear about the cost of living, not about transgender rights. They want to hear about affordable housing, not about attacks on DEI #DemocratsInArray

57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.

this is objectively hilarious

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries may not have gotten behind Zohran Mamdani—but the people of New York City emphatically did.

Republicans who think your seat is safe: no it's not

Turns out diversity, equity, and inclusion are good things and something Americans mostly want. We want the sharpest people with good values. We don't want mediocre white dudes. Not now anyway.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

“Too young” Madani is the same age Dick Cheney was when he became White House Chief of Staff

looks like democrats are about to flip two statewide elections with >20-point margins... in georgia

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.