Among other things, the latest turn in the Platner story is a good example of why journalists need to get off X for professional and personal reasons, not just ethical ones. The writers who gassed his campaign up and now need to walk it back are mostly people who cooked their brains on X.

One of the core contentions of this article is about how Chuck Schumer is specifically inept at finding candidates for senate races, leaving wide open the lane for insurgents to build momentum without party support and vetting. That's a party-institutional failure www.notus.org/democrats/ch...

He's not capable of pretending it's anything other than what it is.

I'm not really a USMNT fan, so I don't say this out of a desire to help the team. The person who did wrong here isn't Balogun or the USMNT as a whole. It's Trump. The goal shouldn't be for Balogun to sit, but for us to get Congress to impeach and convict Trump. Shine the spotlight where it belongs.

Donald Trump bulldozed a third of the White House, destroyed the lawn, choked the Reflecting Pool in slime, and wrapped the Kennedy Center like a corpse in the morgue for America's 250th which flopped because of climate change.

It’s been several days since democratic socialists won primaries in multiple states. We haven’t had diner profiles of their voters the way we got profiles of tea party and maga supporters shoved down our throats for the last 15+ years. The mainstream media is in the tank.

Republicans may be running out the clock on disclosing whether McConnell is even alive, purely so a filing deadline slides past and Thomas Massie can't grab the seat. A man's actual mortality reduced to a procedural loophole for gatekeeping power.

The end of consensus reality, baby

We should make it a thing to burn Confederate flags on July 4

I published a book on American democracy almost a year ago now. This is the conclusion.

lol Threads banned the new Infowars. Silenced for TRUTH. Everybody go yell at them.

It’s not easy to recognize you’re in a revolutionary moment in the middle of one. The Founders certainly didn’t all at first. Neither did many at the outset of the Civil War. But we’re in one. We have to be willing to embrace big historical change Happy 4th www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

Looks like Mayor Z's pied a terre tax is not collapsing the real estate market or causing the wealthy to flee Manhattan after all. Indeed, the opposite. Who could have possibly imagined this scenario? www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

approximately 80% to 86% of Americans live in urban or metropolitan areas. Again, would you know this based on the discourse of US politics?

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

they are not afraid of him being a bad mayor, they are afraid of him being a good mayor

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

100 years ago.

It is so perfect for these guys to fuck up the concept of “bread and circuses” so badly, there are now official circus casualty counts.

would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

Man I missed the "faith and family" banners, echoing the replacement of "liberte egalite fraternite" with "Travail, famille, patrie" under Vichy France

Spending the 4th of July weekend digging into these. We need people thinking big, bold thoughts about how to rebuild the country!

A remake of The Americans, but it's two Chinese agents that just see what the Republicans did in the morning and then play video games for the rest of the day or go to the beach.

Being formally thrown out of the Catholic Church doesn't seem like it's a crisis for the guy doing the throwing out. Odd framing choice!

I like my chances against Mike Rogers😊

The conversation should be about forcing Trump to disgorge all of his money to the American people, under the terms of the emoluments clause. Why aren’t there 100 op-eds about this? Seize all the profits from the grifts and use them to fund the prosecution of everyone in this administration.

Not only is it a skill issue but "You need to work within the system and within the Party" is what the people freaking out about this have explicitly been telling critics to do for decades. I guess they didn't mean it, didn't think anyone would try, or were confident it couldn't work.

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

Here's what the NRSC is telling Republican Senate candidates they can do after today's SCOTUS decision. I'm flagging the key parts. And whatever they can do, so can the DSCC and DCCC—though this memo argues that the GOP is in a better position to capitalize in 2026. www.nrsc.org/wp-content/u...

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

Consider what Haitians and Syrians now face: their US born children are citizens and they are awaiting who knows what. Go underground to keep kids here & stay together? Leave kids with shot for better life & no parents? Return to dire prospects together?

The Reconstruction Papers is our answer to the necessities of the moment. The PDF is now free to the public. Read it now: www.liberalcurrents.com/content/file...

One thing I genuinely thought would cause more pushback/resistance to the Trump administration was their repeatedly demonstrated efforts to get every American spy killed.

The most important divide in the Democratic Party today is between those who think Trump is a temporary aberration within the GOP and those who understand that Trump is the best version of what the GOP will be for the rest of our lives and into the foreseeable future.

Here's a quick reminder to anyone who thinks that just because SCOTUS upheld birthright citizenship, that doesn't mean it's truly protected or that the issue is settled.

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

Justice Jackson: "Justice Thomas's telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."

Can’t wait until the kiddies who grew up watching The West Wing discover the Convention of States and similar. This isn’t hyperbole! There really are people working to remake the Constitution and they are dangerously close to getting what they want.

The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

Any Democrat who votes to confirm another Trump SCOTUS nominee gets seriously primaried. That's the litmus test from here on out.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

5–4 on a constitutional question that is older, more settled, and just as clear on the text and purpose as "can women vote?" They're coming for that one too, it's currently in the "right-wing extremists on social media" stage, same place where "there's no birthright citizenship" arose.

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

This is a really clever answer on the filibuster:

when it zoomed out I gasped