The US two-party system is irreparably broken. One party is obviously better than the other, but still not good enough to save our nation. We desperately need a multi-party system. Ranked choice voting and multi-member districts are how we get there. Not easy. But not impossible.

Dems created COVID to steal the 2020 election, says raving lunatic, citing highly reliable source. A choice nugget from Trump's unhinged Christmas tweet-fest. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Well said. It's so incredibly painful for the family when dementia sets in. If only we'd elected Kamala, Trump could go peacefully, supported by his family. Instead, we're trashing 250 years of democracy, the greatest government ever. All because we elected a demented dictator.

"We want to make sure that he’s not infiltrated, that we’re not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa.... Oklahoma was very good to me in the election. So I love Oklahoma. Don’t ever leave Oklahoma" So incredibly weird. www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/p...

For a country whose leadership values wealth accumulation above all else, the US is remarkably bad at it. The median American has less wealth than the median Australian, Canadian, Italian, Spaniard, New Zealander, Dane, Norwegian, Belgian, ... And the list goes on.

"President Trump is attacking Colorado because we refuse to bend to his corrupt administration. His reckless decision to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research will have lasting, devastating impacts across the country." Colorado's senators call out the corruption. More of this pls!

Colorado Governor Polis: "No Coloradan should be wondering if they will or will not have power, and when it may be turned on again". Irresponsible scapegoating of Xcel Energy and a frankly just a dumb statement. They can't turn the power on until they find and fix all the breaks in the lines.

A truly great honor that Trump's handpicked cronies prepended his name onto the Kennedy Center.

Best starter pack ever. If you, like me, are here at least in part to keep your thumb on the pulse of expanding US authoritarianism, and get inspired to do something about it, this is the starter pack for you.

Any high school civics students out there? Remind me again... Which branch of government is it that enforces federal laws?

Russia has enslaved hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians in the occupied territories, forcing them into military service against Ukraine. And they're hard at work indoctrinating the 1.6 million children in the occupied territories in preparation for their forced military service at 18.

Massive lawsuit against the regime to get illegal tariffs refunded. Seems fair as businesses absorbed some of the cost. But what about consumers, who have also paid a share of the illegal tariffs? Everyone in the US who buys tariffed goods anywhere in the supply chain should sue.

Assassinate fisherman making a few hundred dollars for an alleged drug run. Pardon wealthy and powerful friends convicted for making millions off drug trafficking. Trump's "war on drugs," like the rest of his presidency, is made-for-TV propaganda, not real policy.

Marjorie Taylor Green is hard to pin down. But it appears she may be on the right side of oligarchy, health care, and pedophilia. No place for a radical lunatic like that in the GOP.

@adamkinzinger.substack.com: "she could see the tea leaves ... Trump is going away, if I want to run for president or governor or whatever – I can be the former crazy that now is normal. It’s not a bad tactic ... you’ll maintain credit with the crazies" "Credit with the crazies" could win in '28 😂

Wow, Trump is really on one this morning. 17 posts in 4 minutes!! Rollcall tracks all his posts if, like me, you don't want to patronize Trump's personal grift platform: rollcall.com/factbase/tru...

Congrats @jimmykimmel.com on yet another shout-out from the president! More free publicity for Kimmel! If Kimmel has "VERY POOR TELEVISION RATINGS," then why are you so fixated, Mr. President? POTUS just can't help tripping over his own...

Trump has lied and cheated his way through life. Trump's DOJ fabricates charges against peaceful protesters and Venezuelan immigrants. Why would we expect a complete release of the Epstein files? They'll be carefully curated to blame Trump's enemies and exonerate his friends.

"The latest TACO comes after voters, worried about affordability, gave Republicans a resounding defeat" Well done, CNN!

Facing intense pressure from his billionaire donor benefactors, Tricky Dick Durbin led 7 other Dem Senators to sell out the American people, almost certainly with the blessing of Chump Chuck Schumer. Billionaire wealth skyrocketed with today's stock market gains. Millions will lose health care.

Footlong and fancy free

600,000 people killed already by the Trump/Musk aid cuts. 2/3 of them children. Millions more to come. The scale of the cruelty is unimaginable. This short documentary personalizes it. Excellent. Heartbreaking. Devastating. Don't look away. youtu.be/Oj0PsaP2ZqQ

The Colorado Rockies are hiring one of the main guys from Moneyball to head up baseball operations! Finally, recognition that analytics beats nepotism! Moneyball was published 22 years ago.

"The Trump administration expanded its campaign of summarily killing people aboard boats suspected of smuggling drugs to a new geographic theater" "Summarily killing" accurately describes it. Way to go, NYT.

Gotta love the zaniness of prediction markets. Most likely to be elected president in 2028: 1. JD Vance 2. Gavin Newsom 3. AOC 4. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson?! polymarket.com/event/presid...

This should be interesting. If they turn out to be just Venezuelan fisherman, the regime will have to accuse them of made-up crimes, like they did Abrego-Garcia. Lies upon lies, upon human rights violations, upon murders. We'll see.

One of the funniest things I've seen recently: Kermit leads the frog resistance!

The Colorado Rockies are bad. So bad that they're using the Savannah Bananas to try to sell season tickets. 😂

"The companies might be getting a handout, but the miners ain’t getting none" The Trump administration in a nutshell. Pretend to support workers to get their votes. Then let them die of preventable diseases to juice corporate profits.

"The practice uses a range of techniques in an attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. It surged in popularity among evangelical Christian communities in the 1980s and 1990s." I'm so confused. So evangelical Christian support = automatically good? Sounds really "woke".

"American democracy needs ... grand experiments like those of a century ago" "MAGA’s America First ethic bids, fitfully, to establish a cross-ethnicity and cross-race nationalist solidarity" Project 2025 "matches in scale and insurgent energy the ambitions of its left-wing predecessors" Huh?

This is what a police state looks like. @govpritzker.illinois.gov, where are you? You should be on the scene, at this protest. Either calling off your ISP and Cook County cops, or explaining to your citizens and the world why what they're doing is lawful and somehow pro-democracy.

Chris Murphy nails it right here: "we’ll never be able to raise the minimum wage by $10 if our democracy disappears" Voters care about the basics of a decent life: healthcare, housing, a job with a living wage. In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, we should all have these things. 1/

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: What is happening? Illinois State Police collaborating with ICE to quash a peaceful protest? Illinois, and you in particular, were a shining beacon for the rest of us around the country, showing how we can resist tyranny. Please explain this action against protestors.

WSJ's top story: Regime concerned about fallout from doubling millions' of Americans' premiums. Preparing to negotiate. Dems winning shutdown. Look at that! When you stand up to a paper tyrant, you often win! When you appease, you always lose.

OpenAI becomes the world's most valuable private company, ahead of SpaceX, ByteDance (TikTok), and Anthropic. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Rape, assault, kidnapping by ICE impersonators skyrocketing. Feds not prosecuting. "Among the two dozen incidents identified by CNN, criminal charges have been filed in 10. Only one case has resulted in federal charges for imitating an officer" Great detailed reporting www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/u...

This is really bad. Kudos to CNN for rising to the moment. Meanwhile, NYT? Nothing. www.cnn.com/2025/09/27/p...

Thinking more about this graph from the Atlantic showing right-wing extremist violence is way down this year. The obvious reaction is, duh, their guy's in charge now. But it's more than that. Far-right terror has skyrocketed. It's just not being counted. 1/

"Trump has complained that prosecutors were willing to bring numerous criminal cases against him... repeatedly said that the Justice Department should bring the best case it can when it comes to his political opponents and let the court decide" Criminal just assumes criming is what everyone does.

Trump's UN speech was all lies, all the time.

Best NYT homepage in a while. Dare I say, finally meeting the moment. Took 'em long enough.

I stand with @jimmykimmel.com

"Many in MAGA land are trying to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk." Obviously. But @jimmykimmel.com is now cancelled. In recognition of Charlie Kirk, the great champion of free speech and debate.

J6 insurrectionists would have never gone to jail if they'd "filmed themselves having gay sex" in the Capitol. You can't make this stuff up.

Outstanding explanation of the right-wing oligarchy disinformation machine. Read the 🧵 before and after. But this is the money post. They fund right-wing influencers to rant about culture war BS and keep the majority lined up behind Trump. While the oligarchs continue to gain wealth and power.

WSJ does it again. "'It’s very clear to us and to the investigators that this was a person who was deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology,' [Utah governor Spencer] Cox said in an interview with the Journal." No evidence. No explanation of what "leftist ideology" even means. Reckless reporting

As we fly our flags at half staff to commemorate this man's life: "What needs to be said ... is that Charlie Kirk mightily helped foment the rage and division that seems to engulf and define our nation today. Kirk helped create this toxic, poisonous stew we are drowning in—he fed it and profited"

Shamefully, Colorado flies its flags at half staff today, through Sunday, in celebration of the life of notorious racist Charlie Kirk. Re: Michelle Obama: "You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person's slot." - Charlie Kirk