The inner battle between perception and reality waged inside Trump’s brain

National Dems are completely hampered by the people nominally leading the party. If they don't act soon they will be completely destroyed by them

One area that could be looked at is the support for Dem policies/candidates where they are the only alternative to MAGA fascism. After Trump 1, dem leadership treated politics as usual and were on the defensive the entire time.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

Still very relevant by @brianbeutler.bsky.social www.offmessage.net/p/out-with-t...

I would like to sincerely thank this episode of the Watch -- in particular, Jason Mantzoukas and Mallory Rubin -- for finally pushing me to watch Shoresy. 🧵

fell for it again award

that top DOD officials spent the entire day feuding with a tech company and the boy scouts before launching a war in the middle of the night should probably inform your opinion about how well planned and executed this will be

Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance www.theverge.com/news/885773/... I think this is the right thing to do. #safety

This set of transactions will be complete after Tkachuk, captain of the Ottawa Senators, gets loudly booed in his own arena for a few games. Pleasure doing business with everyone etc.

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” And “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Fascist police state.

The originalists on the Supreme Court sold their souls to see this play out.

In a country not unstrung by John Roberts and his sick rogue scotus even members of an actual royal family remain beholden to the law www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Projection king

The FBI hasn’t answered the core question about the sting on Homan: where is the tape? He allegedly took $50K in a CAVA bag from undercover agents & then Trump admin killed the investigation! We @democracydefendersfund.org are in court to force answers 👇

For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...

💯 And also tell your reps to bring in psychology and sociology experts (NOT data quants - Polls and Focus Groups don't understand) to educate the Dem reps on responsive messaging.

Massie has the courage dems are lacking

They love to keep the MAGA army engage.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

this is the part in the political story where the cornerback just committed a very stupid taunting penalty and you need to throw over the top of that cornerback for a touchdown

Defeating fascism with the tactics of the average Europa League supporters group.

Fascinating. Big, if true. 🧐🤔

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

A more corrupt League of Nations?

Traitors are running our government.

He is dangerous in the same way that a cornered, rabid raccoon is dangerous. He is looking for points of weakness where he can escape. Stay focused on the reasons why the walls are closing in. Don't flinch when he froths at the mouth.

Democrats are still busy trying to figure out how strongly to word a letter

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

Reminded of this for some reason.

From 2016 "And he cannot be stopped in part because, over many years, conservative media trained its audience to respond to tribal signaling more than rigorous debate; to reflexively dismiss any complaints about speaking disrespectfully about others as bogus “political correctness;"

will be potentially millions in the MAGA base who would watch this video and would be affected by many of her points. So I am encouraging folks to share the video with their MAGA relative to simply ask them, if they have seen it yet? And ask the follow up, I am

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it reminds viewers that the quest for a more perfect union is far from over.

Trump's wannabe dictator playbook: 1) Create fake emergency 2) Bypass Congress and public debate 3) Grab emergency powers 4) Repeat (from June) www.theframelab.org/trumps-fake-...

Trump's Epstein Betrayal Triggers MAGA 'Hero Frame' Collapse With his flip-flop on the Epstein Files, Trump is reframing himself. The hero frame is collapsing into what we might call a Betrayer frame. www.theframelab.org/trumps-epste...

although most media still doesn't dig deeper than using the term "cult of trump." Undue influence, which includes brainwashing, thought reform, and mind control, is the #1 issue facing humanity in this digital age. There is no freedom or democracy without explaining it

Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity. Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social. blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Propaganda does not rely entirely on unassailable evidence and impeccable logic to discipline its targets. Neither can the response, writes Calum Matheson, an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh.

Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.

Schumers 9 years of control and suppression ended last night. Regardless of views/policy, this is the path to defeating fascism.

#gaslighting as always. 1) SNAP was funded during the last shutdown when Trump was POTUS. 2) He refused to do it this time. 3) Dem AGs sued to make him do it this time. 4) He lost in court. Twice in one day. 5) The way to do it is OBEY THE COURT!

Pathetic fool claims he is setting aside his crown in phony try to show respect for rule of law

“The Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion, with help from scholars who have studied this phenomenon. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...