This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated. Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...

Also, many of us didn't "smell" the fascism; we painstakingly researched & reported on the infrastructure of the growing anti-democratic movement, starting well before 2015 & with relative restraint. Some Very Serious Editors called us "shrill" and "resistance-y." newrepublic.com/article/2042...

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

For the evening crowd: don't rule out the possibility of impeachment and removal. Even as soon as 2027. www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...

Yes. What this thread says is so obvious to me and I kind of feel like the only way it's not obvious to you is if you were extremely keen to take part in the whole moral panic, and realizing the true nature of it made it less fun to indulge.

It was transparent what was happening. Just not to you.

Big thanks to @seriouspod.bsky.social for having me on to talk about Trump's threats to nonprofits — and a bunch of other, uh, fun stuff.

at a certain point, after years of this, it is a choice, not a mistake, if someone brings their First Amendment fantasies to a Christian nationalist fight

well we aren't going to do better than this

you should support liberal currents!

CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

It's well known that road to fascism littered with people saying "you're over reacting." Less widely recognized is that road started with allowing billionaires to purchase themselves what ought to be our government. We have been under reacting for generations.

has anyone responded to this point yet? ie, that the reactionary centrist strategy has chaterstrophocally failed in the UK i've made it, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social , @jamellebouie.net & others have www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/appeasement

Ok @hankgreen.bsky.social is my anger translator regarding stupid controversies about Jimmy Wales and @wikipedia.org. I was going to say something, but Hank says everything I would have said here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0...

Here I’ll save you: mistaken mess of pseudo-profundities ending w/: “Eventually Americans, restless as any people on earth, will want to replace threat with hope and resume our national pilgrimage. When that cultural and spiritual shift occurs, a lot will change in our religious and political life.”

Deborah Ann Will on @dimension20.bsky.social when?

We've had nonstop op-eds declaring that "Americans have spoken" and demanding Democratic capitulation to the right despite the right's agenda being wildly unpopular.

“Jerry Seinfeld has become the saint of the upper-middle class — disciplined, apolitical, a lover of comfort, a man for whom the world’s chaos is just material to be gently mocked and filed away in another notebook.”

“Understanding the Covid-19 pandemic as a catalyst for right-wing backlash is misleading because it’s too passive” www.liberalcurrents.com/propaganda-r...

Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing. All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009. Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

It's important that everyone understand that Ross Douthat has never done anything *except* write slimy op-eds trying to smuggle far-right ideas into the mainstream. From college on. He's never had a real job. He has no skills, no expertise, nothing that would justify his position at the NYT.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

real sense in which last night was fairly predictable. real question is why our pundits and the elites who listen to them couldn’t see it. (gift link)

"Should we get the chance...we must institute a multiparty democracy (via proportional representation like most democracies) and an executive more like a prime minister than the imperial president we seem doomed to endure under our current constitution." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

The reality of the Democratic Party -- what its elected officials actually do with the power they are given -- is almost entirely immaterial to US political discourse. Happens off-stage, basically. Discourse is dominated by a kind of collective hallucination, a bogieman invented by its opponents.

It is time to admit that Republicans won the 2024 election by running to the center. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Atheist content creators are some of the most effective advocates for secular values, but they rarely get institutional support. That’s about to change—and the American Humanist Association (@americanhumanist.bsky.social) is leading the charge. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/how-the-am...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Such a characteristic dynamic, righties saying the protests were "funded by Soros" and lefties responding with fact checks & empirical observations. Ships passing in the night. What the righties want to say is: the left is fundamentally illegitimate. That, to them, is the core truth.

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Congrats @jamellebouie.net for the Clarence Darrow award from @ffrf.org

No Kings rally in Raleigh today! North Carolinians are speaking up for our democracy and speaking out against politicians gerrymandering OUR voting maps! No Kings Means No Gerrymanders! Add your voice: CCNC.me/NoKings 📣 #NoKings #Raleigh #NorthCarolina #EndGerrymandering

Murphy: "If we want to win the argument nationally on the economy, then we've got to break our addiction to incremental economic change. And we've got to talk about big, bold ideas that reorder power in this country."

i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:

i want a "resistance ranking" for dems that grades them on how seriously they're taking this something like support for: 1. prosecuting gop criminality 2. court reform 3. procedural agressiveness 4. end ICE 5. trans rights 6. calling this fascism + points for having taken personal risks

The entire fascist project is based on bad faith arguments that the press interprets and processes as good faith arguments badfaithtimes.com/when-bad-fai...

Here is some material Bari Weiss published regarding Covid. So when anyone defends her in any way, what they are saying is that real world victims of medical disinformation don’t matter. It’s all just a game to these pundits.

"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian. Unless an institution is explicitly designed to counter authoritarianism, it will end up aiding the authoritarians."

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’ Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE. A rogue fascist agency.

Here it is, my answer for every time I get asked "why don't (most) Dems just...[message better, be bolder, sound authentic...etc]" www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

A quick note about money and comedy and power. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...