How dare this dilettante come for our pediatricians? How f'n humiliating for this country, again. wapo.st/48U8yB2

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

"Emboli argues that we’re moving into a new age of strongmen or predators...who are chewing up, plowing through the old system by ignoring the rules and resorting to brute force, moving fast and breaking things & dealing with the breakage once they’ve been granted the diwani or taken Tenochtitlan. "

Every word true.

Here's who has come out against the Netflix/Warner Bros. deal: -Writers Guild -Directors Guild -SAG-AFTRA -documentary filmmakers -theater owners So all of Hollywood. They aren't opposing this because they secretly want a Paramount merger, it's because the deal will harm their livelihoods.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Every dot on this map is a New Yorker who chipped in for the Transition to make sure we can hit the ground running on Day 1. $3 million raised from all five boroughs. $1 million to go. Thank you for powering this transition. Let's cross that finish line together.

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

Every Democrat going on air should take the first question and then say something like “Before I answer that I need to express my outrage and disgust at the president’s bigoted and vulgar insults about the Somali people. There is something seriously wrong with him. He is a sick man.”

Terrifying read, actually, but I enjoyed this bit so much: "Nvidia’s “We are not Enron” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt. A slap fight between a tech company and some short sellers would be less interesting if we all weren’t so reliant on the outcome."

Up next in our series on drivers of the affordability crisis: technology. I wrote about AI bots are colluding with one another, anticipating consumer choices, and transferring wealth to the businesses that employ them. "That's why we're building all these data centers." 🧵

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

If you’re out shopping for Black Friday deals today, remember: it’s a time of great stress and pressure for workers who don’t get to spend the day with their family and friends, and often work long shifts. Be kind, and take a moment to thank a retail worker.

BREAKING: A new wave of union baristas are joining the longest ULP strike in Starbucks history! 2,500 union baristas across 120+ stores in 85 cities are now on an open-ended ULP strike. We're SIXTEEN DAYS in and only getting stronger ✊

New Yorkers are tired of being asked to believe in a system that has delivered little for them. They want a politics that can see the scale of the crisis, and actually start to tackle it.

Just keeps getting better

It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika

The Fed is gutting its ability to monitor warning signs of bank failures and slashing rules put in place after 2008 to prevent another financial crisis. Now, big banks are ramping up the same risky behaviors that led to the last economic crash–setting the stage for another one.

The #BraveOfUS show up for our families and perfect strangers. The #BraveOfUS make a way out of none at all. The #BraveOfUS speak truth and take on power. Thank you Charlotte.

I understand the reasoning behind zeroing in on ICE & DHS abducting citizens. But when you lead with what's perceived as your most sympathetic cases, you cede the moral high ground & make arguing for others harder. It is wrong for armed, masked gestapo to grab people - doesn't matter their status.

Oh my. James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists. Get this man in the Senate.

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Trump administration robs students of educational opportunity with announcement to dismantle Department of Education www.nea.org/about-nea/me...

During the election season I started doing short videos to try and reach the normies to push back against attacks on Katie Wilson. Seemed to have worked, so I kept at it. This one from yesterday on rail to West Seattle and Ballard has done huge numbers so far.

If you ever wondered what you would do in 1930s Germany, you have your answer. This is a spiritual emergency and we have to summon all our courage. We know what happens inside #Broadview is torture. For me it’s simple - I wouldn’t stay silent if they locked Jesus up there, and I won’t be silent now

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“Attempting to organize a union ...forced me to spend ...time genuinely listening to the positions of people who disagreed with me and pissed me off — not for the purpose of crushing them, but for ...understanding them.” Organizing unions.. “can force you to become a better person.”

Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike 🪶

In retrospect, maybe when he said "grab 'em by the pussy," he meant "grab 'em by the pussy." But who could have known, really?

The year is 2010/2016/2025/2030. Republicans are about to unveil their alternative to Obamacare.

Must read: how 'page 12, and section 120 of the continuing resolution' shows that if we mean it, we can exercise power. We have to get these useless cave caucus Senators out.

When CA launched Prop 50, it was polling at 38%. And so, we did it anyway. Winning campaigns requires that your GOALS define your actions, recognizing opinion - including who agrees to vote - is malleable. In other words, be a thermostat, not a thermometer. contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...

"Democratic voters need to keep demanding more, keep up the pressure and keep purging the Senate caucus of senators who are not up to the new reality." @joshtpm.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/with-...

Josh Marshall at TPM: "We’re in a battle for at least the rest of this decade that will require a very different kind of Democratic Party — not one that is more right or left but one that is both comfortable using power and knows how to do it." So, steps taken, more to go.

Hey Dick, even if Thune keeps his word that doesn't get you anywhere

"...what California did on redistricting, and how other Democrats are following suit, shows that preemptive surrender is not some law of the party universe."

Over on Xitter, Pam Bondi is OUTRAGED that before indicting Donald Trump for almost getting Mike Pence killed, Jack Smith first checked the murder weapon.

Today Sandwich Guy Sean Dunn goes on trial for throwing a Subway sandwich.

Good reads.

Soyinka sees us clearly, finds Trump similar to Idi Amin, and therefore has no interest visiting the US rn.

Not enough vulgarity or profanity in any language to describe how very fucked this is, but I invite anyone to try after reading this succinct account of the bribes, or 'ongoing maintenance."

My contribution to TPM's 25th Anniversary edition: One reason we bloggers don't have the oomph we used to is bc of Trump's trolls. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/witho...

Tressie cooked here: "Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."

There will come a day when this asshole is hauled straight to prison.