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"Why is everyone SO OBSESSED with the Epstein Files," whined the guy who is in the Epstein Files. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is our operational definition of political strength: making decisions based on core values and principles, explaining choices with clear and persuasive arguments, drawing a contrast with one’s opponents, and making it clear why your approach is the better one. Dems could choose this.

The right and Republicans understand this. The broader left, center, and Democrats could. Today we are releasing Towards Strength, a summary of a year of research into the losses of 2024, chronic Democratic underperformance, and what voters are thinking as we head into 2026.

The politics we have as Americans ultimately is up to us. We can choose for our democracy to be a dreary march to the drab center or running over groups of people with a metaphorical bus. Or we can choose an imagination battle that realigns the center so we can fight and build on favorable terrain.

As part of her series on women, wealth & power, Tricia Raikes spoke with our Pres & CEO Leena Barakat about how women are reshaping philanthropy. Leena’s story is an invitation: follow what moves you & don’t wait until everything feels figured out. #philanthropy www.linkedin.com/pulse/redefi...

JUST POSTED: some thoughts about the arguments of the past few weeks, Tuesday's election results, and where we are headed from here.

One major takeaway: Winsome Earle-Sears tried relentlessly to attack Abigail Spanberger with the same transphobic messaging Trump used against Kamala Harris.... and people just didn't care. It shows anti-trans messaging isn't an inflection point. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Interesting to think that this is the kind of polling that James Carville was looking at the last time he won an election 🤷‍♂️

AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”

This is the energy we need from leaders - thank you, @govpritzker.illinois.gov !

🔥 WATCH: Bernie sweeps aside Senator Slotkin saying Dems should stop talking about fighting the oligarchy because people don’t understand. Of course people get it. And if they don’t, you don’t stop saying it. You say it until they do. #FightTheOligarchy 🇺🇸

A headline from Hell. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Happening now on @haymarketbooks.org ' YouTube page (and available to watch afterward as well)! ⬇️ www.youtube.com/live/9vP5p_o...

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social elegantly summinng up the appeal of the podcast Manosphere. pca.st/episode/e185...

ICYMI — here’s the lesson Schumer and the other Dems just taught them 👇🏽

Important 🧵 from @anatosaurus.bsky.social ⬇️

Now we have no choice but to accept what we have long known: We cannot vote our way to a democracy. The only way forward is for us to take direct action.

AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.

Putting a lot of chips on thermostatic public opinion here. Not sure “we’re fighting Trump by voting to let him do what he wants” is gonna motivate a lot of people to vote, donate and organize for the midterms. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.

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Apropos of nothing in particular, here is a photo of young Chuck Schumer at a birthday party for Donald Trump’s mentor, Roy Cohn:

absolutely

Five years ago, Breonna Taylor was murdered. She should still be alive. We will not forget. #SayHerName

Three years ago, three other reporters and I ID'd and called any school accused of having litter boxes for furries. We found one (1) in the entire country: Columbine's school district. Cat litter was for a "go bucket," in case kids were locked in during a shooting. www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...

Good morning Washington. Today's the last day both the state House and Senate are able to pass (non-budget) bills off their floors, with a 5pm deadline where they can keep working on one individual bill. The Senate has 68 bills ready to move, and the House has 71. Many of them will die today.

Some people think getting your books banned is a badge of honor, but it’s not. As I told Ms. Mag: “It’s not a badge of honor to have my creative work denigrated as obscene, especially when that work is about queer people and people of color. It’s offensive to have my work mischaracterized this way.”

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

Elon Musk's involvement in Wisconsin has turned what could've been a sleepy off-year election at a time when Democrats are still reeling from Trump’s second win into a race with major significance. “We’ll find out whether Musk’s millions are more powerful than the fury [he] provokes among voters.”

Trans Americans experience poor physical and mental health more than other LGBTQ+ people, in part due to higher rates of discrimination, while intersex Americans struggle to find or afford health care at all. These disparities may only get worse under the Trump administration.

trump came to power both times arguing that america was in the dump — that nothing could be worse than it currently is. and both times what he meant is that *he* would make it that way

Care without transaction babeyyyy

Our April issue features Eamon Whalen on Richard Reeves and his solutions to men in crisis, @elienyc.bsky.social on airline deregulation, @davidklion.bsky.social on the cruel world of Stephen Miller, Jorge Cotte on the new season of “Severance” and so much more.

This is helpful because it really cuts through the bullshit. Vance is essentially telling congress: "this is a blank check for Musk and Trump." Should be an easy "no" vote for any House or Senate Dem. If the GOP wants Dem votes, negotiate for them.

This is the association I will make now and forever, beware the Gavins.

This should scare everyone. The Trump admin revoked Mahmoud’s legal status, kidnapped him, and is now holding him in an ICE detention facility without any due process. Trump is an authoritarian, testing the limits to see how much he can get away with. He won’t stop here.

This is a chilling attack on free speech. Criminalizing dissent is straight out of the tyrant's playbook.

some helpful reminders: -not all jews support israel -criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic -being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas -arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment -violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad

This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.

Mahmoud Khalil did everything MAGAs claim they care about: He followed the law, got his green card legally, got married & started a family, had no criminal record—but because the party of free speech didn't like HIS free speech, he's abducted & set for deportation www.qasimrashid.com/p/ice-abduct...

1/ John Roberts killed the Voting Rights Act in 2013 because he thought racism was over. Adorable. Now, we’re knee-deep in voter suppression, racial gerrymandering, and resegregation, @angryblacklady.bsky.social writes. Hell of a legacy, Johnny. rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/03/10/a...

In 1942, the American President opposed censorship because books were weapons in the fight against tyranny.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

“Trying to appeal to a voter who will congratulate you for scolding a member of your own party for peacefully protesting fascism is a losing game because that voter does not exist.”

“You know how they say that when a child is in danger, a mom could lift a bus off them, from the force of adrenaline?” she tells @them.us .“I feel like right now I’m tasked with lifting the entire White House and everyone in it off of my daughter.” www.them.us/story/trans-...

Meanwhile on Twitter, they are having a serious argument over whether or not Hitler should be rehabilitated, with most replying saying yes.

Raskin: "This is what Viktor Orban has done in Hungary -- to clear out the civil service with real expert professionals and people devoted to the public interest and replace them with a bunch of party hacks and sycophants to the dear leader."

One thing I don't understand from this finger-wagging is how women are supposed to forgive these young men for their immediate recourse to misogyny.

"The only men in the women's restroom were the cops." Wow, male cops in women's restrooms - I FEEL SO SAFE NOW GREAT JOB EVERYONE. 🤬😭