My favorite sign today:

Fight the urge to go dunk on trollish USG accounts; it's like mud wrestling with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it. Instead, focus on picking Bluesky fights like Alf intended: by willfully misunderstanding skeets from people who actually agree with you entirely

Rs getting rid of the filibuster would be a HUGE win for Dems.

If GOP wants to abolish the filibuster over this, awesome. It helps Rs way more than Ds. It’s also a central reason for loss of faith in government over the last 25 yrs. Rs can reopen the govt tonight if they want. If they want to do it to make sure 15 million lose their health care that’s on them.

They shouldn’t!

Look at this Nazi asshole. He’d put on a grey uniform and goose-step down Pennsylvania Avenue if he thought he’d get away with it.

And this is why no Democrats should vote for ANY budget deal with Trump. He'll just illegally violate it anyway. So screw 'em. Republicans have a trifecta, figure it out.

This is good! More like this. Now they need to stick to their guns.

National Dem leaders will be making excellent, data-driven arguments about how Trump will continue to increase healthcare costs as his goons drag them to prison after the show trials. The degree to which the national leadership is disconnected from the actual state of the country is astonishing.

Yes, “go big” is the play here. “We’re not helping you fund your illegal activities. Stop, all of it, immediately, or figure out how to fund it on your own.” That’s the only good play for Democrats.

I think people should be alarmed now because waiting until they consolidate enough power to carry out the desires he’s voicing now is a bad idea.

"When the administration has no regard for the law, taking away their money is the only way to stop their crime wave. We're not providing a single vote for government funding without an end to kidnappings by masked thugs and the military occupation of cities Trump doesn't like" Not that hard!

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

If a shooter’s politics are hard to pin down, he’s a leftist If a shooter’s politics are right wing, he’s hard to pin down

the first admin certainly had some of this, but this time around, it’s just this fucking whiny crybaby bitch shit from every member of the cabinet all goddamned day long. fucking loser ass presidency.

We're angry bc the D leadership sucks. They suck at strategy. They suck at communication. They regularly cave on values the party they claim to lead stands for. They go after a democratic socialist mayoral candidate harder than a fascist president.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Do 2024 Trump voters and non-voters see what he’s wrought—what they’ve wrought—in the last 8 months? He still gets too much benefit of the doubt. What will it take? More inflation, job loss, disease and death? Maybe a government shutdown? It's all coming. My latest open.substack.com/pub/jilllawr...

This is the energy that we need from every elected Dem and Dem candidate. Oh, you're worried about backlash? Maybe there wouldn't be anti-trans backlash if you didn't buy into the transphobic framing from rightwingers! Make the damn argument and you'll convince people!

Big funding fight coming up. The correct play for Senate Ds is to make big demands, non-negotiable, and let a shutdown happen. A shutdown is preferable to current status quo. Make Rs cave by either agreeing to demands or nuking filibuster so they don’t need D votes. Both are wins.

No one has been more vindicated than normie resistance Dems, women’s marchers and never-Trump Republicans. They were right all along about the threat. The anti-anti-Trump Republicans and reactionary centrists, and the far left “it’s always been this bad” folks have been proved wrong over and over.

I am 100% team "kill all the mosquitos I don't really care how just kill ALL the mosquitos"

Whether you call it an internet culture desk, a social media desk, a digital investigations desk, etc, today’s newsrooms lacking them operate as their own peril and risk obsolescence in the modern reporting environment, no longer informing the public with the necessary expertise.

Congratulations to Brazil, joining South Korea among the countries who successfully did what the United States could not 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

The Post and Matt Viser are suggesting that 22 yrs ago someone impersonated Donald Trump in response to a request from Ghislaine Maxwell to Trump and created a fake card to embarrass him 22 yrs later when he would be President. I'm not going to dignify this nonsense with anything but laughter

A reminder that simply not posting is always an option.

As stated earlier by others, it does not matter what you post or do not post here. The right wing has their narrative they’re going to push, because they understand they are at war with democracy and that propaganda *works.*

This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"

Hi we're living in an authoritarian state. We aren't "sliding towards" or "in danger of" or whatever. We're there.

Establishment democrats will almost certainly under react.

The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.

One of the things I hate about the Dems who are going anti-trans is that it leans in to the models built by the conservatives about how to win voters, and we are fools if we play by their game.

If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.

cosign. And when REPUBLICAN STRATEGISTS are talking like this, Dems have no excuses. Primary everyone who won't act.

average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything

Wow this is bad news for Joe Biden.

Absolutely. If he's gonna go bare knuckles, I'm in.

I am extremely prepared because it's fucking awesome.

Exactly. Red states are already gerrymandered to hell. But you can eliminate a LOT of R seats in CA, CO, IL, MN, NJ, and NY.

And the Party Insiders interpret this dislike as voters thinking they're too liberal, when in reality the favorability would shoot up if they took more progressive positions and defended them. Whether that's a good faith mistake or working backwards from a desired outcome...take a guess.

Everyone needs to stop pretending people care about inflation or healthcare or whatever. Just constantly point out that Republicans are nazis and pedophiles. Every question you get. What do you think of Donald Trump's latest tariffs? He is a nazi and a pedophile and leads a party of the same. Etc.

They will be (politely) asked. They will refuse. And everyone will move on.

“But Karl you can’t call the republicans Nazis” The republican candidate for California governor :

You know what would be awesome? If elected officials had half the spine of regular people standing up to these fascists.

Come on @cnn.com, stop pulling punches. There's no "blending" involved here. It's corruption. Trump is abusing the office of the presidency to make personal business deals. www.cnn.com/2025/07/27/b...

my friends if you think "May the light guide us to freedom, justice, and equality for all" is a progressive slogan, you are telling on yourself, and the crime you’re admitting is fascism

NJ should redistrict to be 11D-1R.

Apparently unpopular opinion: More Democrats should yell at Republican Senators on the Senate floor. It should be a daily occurrence. These Republican Senators are bad people with bad values.