This is why I left the DNC

AOC continues to act as the moral center and near-only example of leadership in the party. God I hope she runs so bad

I actually don’t think the Dem spin on who did the shutdown is necessary because it is probably a good idea to try to limit government functions if you think the ruling party is doing accelerated fascism

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

Republican chuds who have spent years calling every school shooting a “false flag psyop” are now swallowing every word the FBI says about political violence.

yeah i dunno dude incrementalism starts to look real fuckin dumb when an opposition party can completely wipe away 50-75 years of progress in just a few months

My beautiful wife bought me Tylenol so I can get farther on the spectrum before they take it from us

congrats to joe brandon and all the purported defenders of democracy who normalized cracking heads on student protestors in order to cover for israeli genocide. you really greased the skids for ol donnie trump to formally submarine the first amendment

charlie kirk was a bigoted sack of shit and he thought random gun deaths were an acceptable consequence of having the second amendment, i wonder if he revised that opinion in the brief time between getting shot and dying. didn't think your number would come up, didya charlie

in the US conservative mindset cishet conservative white men are top of the hierarchy and thus it is bad to shoot them, but also they are allowed to shoot people, so if one kills another it's just a wash. cancels out. thoughts and prayers, nothing to see here

Political violence is radical

There's a great argument against Vote Blue No Matter Who: Eric Adams. Oh, and Joe Manchin. And Kyrsten Sinema. And Joe Lieberman. And John Fetterman. And Debbie Wasserman Schultz. And Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. And Elissa Slotkin. And Henry Cuellar. And Josh Gottheimer. And...

“Centrists”: We support enriching the police state because it’s necessary to suppress the left. Nazis: We’re grabbing that police state and ramping it up 4000% with a lawless paramilitary coup, concentration camps, and an apocalyptic bloodbath. “Centrists”: Oh. Well see that’s the leftists’ fault.

I am in the blog chair for the last Defector Sunday Shift of the summer, and treated myself by writing about Mark Teixeira's greasy new congressional campaign and Pondering The Void: defector.com/mark-teixeir...

genuinely saw a liberal talking about newsom as doing some things wrong (anti-homeless policies) but some things right (trolling trump on the internet) and i really wonder about the worth of that second thing, there. is that doing anything at all

Turns out when you treat teachers well, invest in students, and focus on improving schools, you get real results. Illinois now ranks third in the nation for our education system for a reason.

Dem electeds want influencers in media to say stuff like "I sure do approve of the job our wonderful Dem electeds are doing" when the thing Dems need influencers to actually say is like "the shitty economy is really shit right now huh"

Gavin proponents are like, yeah, he’s got a terrible voting record, but at least he’s extremely unpopular with voters in both parties

i don't think you guys understand. when the dem politicians and strategists say something is a distraction what they mean is anything they could do about it would be hard work and bum them out so they're simply going to choose not to

pointless to say this but the democrat leaders should be out there banging the drum that they're going to tear these agencies apart & prosecute every single masked fash who ever did some shit while refusing to identify themselves

There’s a reason why progressives pushed for: - campaign finance reform - expanding the Supreme Court - voter protection laws - DC statehood …because we knew moments like these were inevitable. …and we were told these democracy protections were “too radical.”

If Jerry Seinfeld was president in 2001, he woulda armed Bin Laden

We’re seeing clear evidence that Dems cannot continue to sit back in silence as fascists take control of our society. Dems have to start deliberately calling out and campaigning on revitalizing education, supporting working people, and dismantling the police state that this admin has built.

Nothing better than cracking open an ice cold beer and seeing what's inside

Malort tastes like asphalt and bug spray

i disgust and dismay my wife

The cool thing about a leftist getting close to winning an election is that you finally get to hear from people like Obama and Clinton when they invariably show up to denounce them

Nobody plays the victim better than the one who caused the damage.

Tonight, I introduced legislation to stop Trump from from leading us into an illegal war with Iran. Another war in the Middle East could cost countless lives, waste trillions more dollars, and lead to even more deaths, more conflict, and more displacement.

Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla theonion.com/democra...

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started theonion.com/netanyahu-ca...

Okay, we’ve got the strongly worded letter, we’ve got the strongly worded speech. Now Newsom will follow through with defending the people of his state from a military incursion, right?

People talk about how some treat politics like a team sport but it's actually worse than that because fans of sports teams at least allow each other to say their team sucks. There are no Rockies fans rn who are like "Mentioning the record is what Giants fans want us to do, this is a distraction."

The pretend surprise that oligarchs aren’t fighting an oligarch president is only topped by the genuinely deranged assertion that “business leaders used to stand up to power.” Just absolutely crazy stuff right here — completely beyond parody

After an immensely destructive fire, and immediately preceding civil rights demonstrations, Mayor Bass has decided to cut Firefighters funding and and give millions more to the LAPD. Astounding lack of awareness. www.foxla.com/news/bass-pr...

You would think "American children should work in mines and factories and rich people need another multi trillion dollar tax cut" would be a pretty easy political platform to defeat or at least message against but nope that ball is still just right there sitting on the tee

When people said “abolish ICE,” this is why. The politicians from both parties who called that “radical,” blindly funded them and called it “immigration reform,” because they were getting campaign donations from the corporations getting ICE contracts. And now we’re here.

Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.

I threw up through my nasal passage And now everything smells like vomit

when i know how late it is in your timezone

Meanwhile Hogg’s ousted from a Dem leadership position for calling attention to Slotkin’s garbage policy

The current budget bill is an atrocity and out-of-touch leaders like Chuck Schumer laid the groundwork by voting for the CR. Appeasement and complicity do not work. When you bend the knee, they’ll break your leg.

@davidhogg.bsky.social was so accurate in his diagnosis of the failures of the DNC that they’re trying to excommunicate him from the party. In doing so, they’re highlighting the current leadership’s commitment to oligarchy and gerontocracy.

Great to see Democrats getting an early start on losing the 2028 election