Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

The Dem leadership is all going to vote no because they are trying to "keep their hands clean." We told you how ridiculous this was yesterday. prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...

Senate Democrats are about to sell us out. Remember that when they text you for money.

🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.” That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now. Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...

Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

The fascists are in the room. Maybe @nytimes.com has decided to stop helping them. We'll see. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It's astonishing -- almost every single sentence uttered by Mettler in this pod made me want to scream. This is every bit of reheated reactionary-centrist conventional wisdom, distilled to its essence, delivered under the guise of "political science." So utterly, disastrously wrong, all of it.

Read this gift article: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

“Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t doing politics right.” —Ezra Klein

“‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ will be preempted indefinitely,” an ABC spokeswoman said Wednesday, as Disney leans into an authoritarian future.  www.wsj.com/business/med...

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Watch: they're going to develop & execute a plan to steal the election right in front of us, in public, because they know courts won't stop them, they know Dems won't fight, and they know media will never call it what it is. At this point why would they think anything else?

"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better." I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Meet the Press is explicitly being used to amplify lies and mislead the public, which some say is contrary to the point of journalism.

"Unlike January 2021 — when the Big Lie scheme failed — by 2029 Trump and his cohorts will have new tools to carry out a coup, including a massive federal police force with a proven willingness to engage in systemic illegality at Trump's behest."

New in PN: The worst chief justice of all time "American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion."

“So what’s neat is that you can just do command-shift-E and rank every single resident from whitest to least,” said the billionaire libertarian theonion.com/peter-t...

4 obviously true facts that mainstream media refuse to say in a direct manner: / MAGA is a fascist movement assaulting democracy. / RFK Jr.’s downgrading of public health will cause people to die. / Trump is a white supremacist. / Trump lies every day. He’s not deluded or mistaken – he’s lying.

The best part of the Mamdani win is that a bunch of octogenarian Democratic officials might finally be realizing that it's long past time they pass the torch.

Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

A right-winger -- a registered Republican, a Trump voter, an evangelical anti-abortion activist -- assassinates a Democratic official. Republicans respond by blaming the left. Democrats respond by blaming ... no one.

To those who still somehow say you’re overreacting to say we are far past the point of historic crisis, go back to summer 2024 and say that in less than a year the president of the United States would be deploying the literal Marines on American soil to deal with and intimidate his political enemies

A reminder to reporters, when historians look back on this moment with the president throwing himself a military parade and the people throwing No Kings rallies across America, the media sources raving about the former and sneering at the latter are going to be quoted by name. This is your legacy!

We've just updated the @wired.com guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Alex Padilla is an American citizen of Mexican descent. The video of a Mexican-American being manhandled by thugs will play extremely well with the sort of trash who support Trump. Decent people are outraged. Shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture are thrilled.

The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now.

"Bothsidesism is 'suicide for democracy.' In becoming stenographers rather than reporters, journalists effectively legitimize MAGA lies, hate, and fascism as just one reasonable side of a debate in which all partisans are equally credible."

If you're a NYC voter, I'd like to ask you to picture Mayor Andrew Cuomo's response to this. ... Right? Do not rank him.

New in PN: ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller "Miller and Trump are hateful bigots. Independent journalists can still say that. Journalists at ABC can’t, because the president gets a veto over their coverage. That’s not democracy and it’s not a free press. It’s fascism."

Trump has wanted a police state with himself sitting at the top as its undisputed boss since his first administration. The standoff in L.A. shows how truly eager he is to turn America’s vast warmaking powers inward on his domestic foes and critics. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

The fascists/executive branch are trying to bait protesters into violent confrontations. Keep it peaceful and read this. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The administration gets closer to using the military to crush civilian dissent. Expect deaths, disappearances, and lawless detentions.

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

if it takes years, has to be consequences for all these people, and even more for those who gave the orders.

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

trump and musk are trying to destroy my former employers @mmfa.bsky.social because they told the truth about musk helping nazis. please follow and share media matters' work. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/t...

Opinion | Sorry, liberals, but the Founding Fathers believed United States should be a fascist Christian ethnostate.

SCOOP! We have secret Project 2025 documents laying out plans to drastically restructure domestic law enforcement -- from the feds on down -- under Trump's command. It's ostensibly about deporting immigrants. It could be used for more. At @phoenixnewtimes.com, from Beau Hodai:

The House GOP tax/budget bill shreds the safety net to pay for regressive tax cuts. It may well be the largest transfer of wealth from poor to rich in a single bill, ever. Sounds pretty bad, no? Now consider what else is happening in the US economy right now www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...