Instead of folding like cheap chairs, Democrats should have forced the GOP to end the shutdown by killing the filibuster. Holding onto the archaic, antidemocratic tradition doesn't help them stop fascism, it makes them complicit to it. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

@shaheen.senate.gov Fuck you, you massive disappointment. -a former supporter

There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely. *If all goes by the regular schedule

@schiff.senate.gov & @padilla.senate.gov : Your words of disappointment in your fellow Senators regarding yesterday's betrayal are meaningless until you call for new leadership. Demand Schumer resign now!

I'm off to see the Wizard! #Vegas #Birthday #Sphere

As a Dodgers fan, I literally feel like Sarah Connor at the end of the first Terminator. That’s how good the Blue Jays were. Like we won but I’m so traumatized I’m going to lose custody of my son because I trained him to shoot weapons in Nicaragua and I’ll end up in a max cell at Pescadero

💙💙 DODGERS 💙💙 Let's hear it for baseball ⚾️ (Great series, Toronto - you were exceptional.)

wait wait I can make this stat stupider: there have only been 2 World Series games this long. They were both game 3, both dodgers, both at home, both won by a walk off home run from a white guy whose name is an alliteration

It's official. The fosters are Dodger fans.

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

"It's racist against white people to not let white people be racist!" - The John Roberts SCOTUS

What I find so curious is why white men have such a bottomless font of forgiveness for other white men. And why pundits consistently tell us we are being too rigid to expect the BARE MINIMUM. If you think this guy is the future of the Democratic Party you have no imagination.

The last head of state to do this was (checks notes) George the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, who was famously mentally unwell and even more famously the guy whose ass we previously kicked in the War of Independence.

Whoever is officiating Thorns v. ACFC needs to be fired #NWSL

I want Christen Press to go out like a legend... by punching this godawful ref in the face.

@indivisible.org Too sick to protest today, so broke out the at home #NoKings kit!

NO KINGS... ONLY DODGERS! 💙 #LA 💙

When you’re making your #NoKings posters, remember… Donald Trump LOVES a good nickname.

He hit the fucking GRAVITY out of that ball

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

We are changing our antifa secret handshake to slap-slap-fistbump-fistbump. Then you snap your fingers once, eat everyone's pets, and make everyone within 50' instantly become trans. Pass it along.

Republicans in Congress could end the Trump shutdown today by passing a budget deal that protects your health care and takes away Trump’s blank checks. Let your legislators hear from you.

The Roberts Court’s many rulings on executive power are obviously wrong as a matter of law. But even more than that, the constitutional order they imagine is deeply repugnant to everything the United States stands for. Not a republic, but at best an elective monarchy.

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

@sagaftra.org - You think ABC/Disney would find their spine if SAG-AFTRA members all strike against them? It's time for our industry to use its power!

@wgawest.bsky.social You think ABC/Disney would find their spine if WGA members all strike against them? It's time for our industry to use its power!

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise. That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump. My latest

Phil Williams sharing some data…

Question for the white liberals who have written columns praising Charlie Kirk in the name of "free speech." Where are you columns actually DEFENDING THE FREE SPEECH of people who are being fired for [checks notes] quoting Charlie Kirk? (Which most of you white praisers didn't have the guts to do)

/4 The other thing is this: I don't particularly buy the notion that being willing to go anywhere and say shitty things to anyone makes you a hero. Does it make you better than someone willing to go anywhere to beat anyone up? Yeah I guess.

Guys, I know you all still cling to conspiracy theories about Merrick Garland bc ... well, you watch too many TV lawyers who knew fuckall about the investigation. But this is a fact. A trial was scheduled to happen 3 years after Jan6, just like Bolsonaro got. Who killed it? John Roberts.

Terrible people can die in terrible ways. It doesn't make either of them acceptable.

I don't think setting out to ruin people's careers or their lives over either their political opinions on Twitter, or their scholarship, or their methodological choices in the classroom, is "doing politics the right way," but that's just my view. What it certainly isn't is defending "free speech."

@msnbc.com Matt Dowd did not say anything untrue or insensitive. To fire him is disgraceful. Please show better judgment (and a spine).

Mostly, I'm just shocked that one of the major fomenters of political (& gun) violence actually suffered a consequence from that exact evil.

I hate these fuckers on the Supreme Court so much I'm almost consumed by it.

Much like John the Baptist, Rudy is being called to prepare the way for Trump...in hell.

My HS friend's excellent Pride sermon. She's being attacked by libsoftiktok and other trash for it. I think she's amazing! "There is no wrong way to have a body." youtu.be/gtmS_qJnfy0?...

Thank goodness. Still proud.

NYT pantsed by the Crimson A+

We need widescale blowback against Columbia and Brown. Not just because they deserve it, but because we need to send a message to other universities about what reputational risk comes with caving to authoritarians.

Harvard scientists paved the way for a pioneering cancer immunotherapy that has added years to patients' lives. Now their work is under an all-out assault, after the Trump administration cut nearly $3 billion in research funding to Harvard.

Harvard hasn't been "totally antisemitic." But ADL, AIPAC, Democratic/GOP members of Congress, and much of the media let Trump get away w/ this crap. Kanye West is "totally antisemitic." Trump had dinner w/ him & Hitler fanboy Nick Fuentes. The reporter who asked this should have challenged Trump.

I hope this administration refuses to approve the Paramount merger anyway. They deserve it.

So when do Blue states start banning firearms? And then start making every gun owner file an individual lawsuit seeking an individual injunction? Or they can go through the class certification process which, let me tell you having done it myself in litigation, takes forever. Let’s do this.