That’s what our Constitution states. Cowardly Republicans in Congress are betraying their oath to defend it.

I’m alarmed

This is racist and dangerous. Last I checked, Somalians are Black and Rep. Omar is a colleague. Where are the @housedemocrats.bsky.social? The @blackcaucus.bsky.social ? Do not allow these insults to go unanswered.

While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.

I'm so tired of measles. I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this. Show what measles looks like.

1) It's a lie that the Nat Guard is here to fight crime 2) It's a lie that DC was hell on earth before their arrival 3) It's a lie that military occupation makes a city safer. It actually just amps up the specter of violence 4) Truth? They want to occupy our cities. That's it. tinyurl.com/2456cc46

If inflation comes up at the dinner table, don’t forget to draw attention to a deeper structural driver of high prices: corporate power. Much of the food industry is dominated by a few corporate giants with the power to keep prices high because they face little competition.

can’t help but notice it’s ‘they’ when a single mother might manage to use SNAP benefits for food that actually tastes good but it’s ‘we’ when a handful of ketamine addicts wanna ruin the economy

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages. Medicare for all, paid family leave, universal childcare... This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

The 2008 crisis was the most deeply scarring event ever to befall housing, people keep trying to find some other explanation and there isn't one, thanks @deanbaker13.bsky.social cepr.net/publications...

The Nation's Jeet Heer (X: @HeerJeet, @jeetheer.bsky.social) writes: “It seems that Epstein was not a CIA or Mossad asset—not because he didn’t have it in him, but because that was too lowly a role. Rather, he was a power broker, an American oligarch, who played... www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Chris Murphy should be in Chuck Schumers leadership position. He is one of the few who is fighting back in the Senate.

Powerful argument that Ezra Klein gets this wrong. Pro-choice position helps Democrats in most red states.

Old enough to remember when raping children was a dealbreaker in politics.

On day 1. Fix inflation and lower prices, end war in Ukraine, release the Epstein files. We all knew he was a lying SOS.

HOLY SH*T this ad doesn’t pull any punches! And we're here for it. Because if you are protecting pedophiles, you’ve got it coming. Share. This. Everywhere. And follow the ad's creator, @_joejacobson_! #ReleaseTheFiles

NYT owes us a front-page apology. Biden may have been tone-deaf in his comments on the economy. That is HUGELY different from Trump telling outright lies cepr.net/publications...

The under-reaction to the lawless activities of ICE/Border Patrol in Chicago is truly alarming. EVERY elected official who believes in the Constitution and rule of law should be protesting ICE loudly.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Trump says no more freedom of religion in America blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

The entire scene looks like Norman Rockwell painted The Death of Empathy, directed by Jeffrey Dahmer and executive produced by Satan. Hang this next to The Scream and the painting would lean over and whisper, Is that guy okay. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

While we do not agree on all issues, I want to publicly thank UNC-CH Chancellor Lee Roberts for clearly stating today in Faculty Council that UNC cannot and will not sign Trump's Compact, because it raises irresolvable issues of academic freedom. That was important for faculty & students to hear.

“Plans for a wealth tax have gotten popular around the world as inequality has widened and government debt has risen.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...

Good tweet-length summary from a conservative talk show host.

“.. I don’t want to hear about the affordability.” - 11/06/25

Remember back when Biden was president and people weren't being dragged off the street by masked federal agents, airplanes were flying, and we weren't threatening to go to war on four continents?

Prices since Trump took office: -Groceries: ⬆️ 2.7% -Utilities: ⬆️ 11% -ACA premiums: ⬆️ 26% -Overall consumer prices: ⬆️ 3% Trump: “I don't want to hear about the affordability.”

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Yes. More like this. More fight. Polarize everything. newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Dick Cheney, the worst politician of the past century, died today. One of the most polarizing figures in politics, Cheney was a manipulator who personified militarism, corporate corruption, Government secrecy and environmental degradation. 1/3

Irony? A key quote from Atlas Shrugged is a damning indictment of the Trump Administration: Francisco d’Anconia says "When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — …” 1/2

do i think the institutional democratic party would do better with a more populist economic message? yes. but there is the problem of getting voters to *hear* it and to *believe* it and that is where i think attention should go.

“Trump fans may be intrigued to know while Jesus never once condemned abortions, immigrants, or gay ppl, he was seriously not a fan of adultery, & spoke out against the divorce laws of Moses bc he thought it should be harder for men to dump their wives.” www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...

I recognize that this issue is beyond the scope of this episode but I am struck more generally by how much focus there has been on how Democratic Party has supposedly moved “sharply left” as Ezra says, and how little discussion there has been about how extremist the GOP has become.

This interview between @pkrugman.bsky.social and @chenoweth.bsky.social is absolutely fantastic. A great introduction to Chenowith's work. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Sen Chris Murphy just wrote to Kristi Noem demanding that she correct DHS's public falsehoods about the shooting. It's an unusual move: He is calling her to account for government propaganda about the shooting. More should be done like this. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2019...

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

On NYT Home Page there's a Douthat column w/the headline "Trump's Foreign Policy is Succeeding. He Should Apply It's Lessons at Home." On what planet? Betraying our allies. Blowing up the global trading system. Embracing autocrats. Pulling back support for Ukraine. Helping to support Gaza slaughter.

Yes, one of the many ways the mainstream media is failing to do its job.

America First my ass. Soldiers? Air Traffic Controllers? Law Enforcement? Nope. Trump gives billions away to some ass kissing Argentinian. Fuck Trump.

child sex predators so often turn out to be Republicans.

We can fund health care and keep the government running, or we can shut everything down to raise prices on people. To me, that’s a pretty easy choice.

Partisan gerrymanders may be legal, but only because SCOTUS said so. They are anti-democratic measures used by a party that fears losing power to hold onto control, a mechanism that lets parties choose their voters instead of letting voters choose who will represent them.

@jamellebouie.net is my current favorite pundit! He says: Democratic Party leadership was selected for consensus, in a time that demands political creativity. They’re not selected for articulating a set of principles, standing firm, and picking fights around them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

A very noticeably old, feeble, frail, tired, demented and dying inside Trump especially stands out in that room.