NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

When Schumer gave Trump everything he wanted back in March, the logic was that Republicans would be so unpopular by now, they'd be willing to stand up to Trump.

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

good lord, dick durbin wants democrats to give up their only remaining leverage this year for an *informal commitment* from republicans. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

Raise Taxes

also, he's a liar! he says that he's never heard about things as a reflex because you don't have to answer about something you're first hearing since you "haven't considered it". he's a doddering, evil, lying idiot! all of the reasons are always simultaneuously true!

James Pindell is awful and more people need to say it. The readers of the Globe deserve better political coverage. He's the same guy who wrote the article claiming Seth Moulton is owed an apology by people criticizing his dumb comments on trans children in sports.

"Democrats in 2025 ... clamber to address small vulnerabilities without stopping to ask if anything can be done to fix the existential one.)

"An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground outside an immigration court in New York City has been returned to duty..."

If the President is oblivious idk maybe you should remove them.

bro we are so cooked

Sounds like Republicans should really restore Constitutional governance then.

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LMAO - Senate Dem leaders already looking for exit ramp for surrender.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Republicans attack Democrats for things Democrats largely didn't say or argue. Democrats demur and refuse to fight back with a vigorous defense of their actual beliefs. Adam Jentleson: Democrats need to abandon the positions which Republicans caricatured.

Defunding will obviously and unavoidably come with pain, but also pain is the only promise the Trump administration has been able to deliver on, and funded the government can target that pain as Trump and Miller and Vought et all see fit. Unfunded, it all crumbles. Let the government shut down.

Defund Trump's government at every opportunity

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"This will not be a fun exercise. We should do it anyway." Why we're in a worse place than last year's worst-case scenario, and how to think about getting out of it, in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

just a *central casting* MAGA chud, even used a giant flag-bedecked pickup truck as part of the attack www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Every major Democrat has millions in their campaign account. The threat to democracy is big enough that we need to be funding mobilization and messaging right now - not just banking money for the next election. If we don't build right now, there might not be another election.

coming back to this, what are we even doing with this funding bill negotiation or indeed any budget at all?

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

the idea that you could just pass specific bills on specific areas with simple majorities is just beyond the ability and comprehension of most lawmakers in congress it seems

Sorry I fell asleep, what did he say?

Filling classrooms with computers didn't have the huge and positive impact on learning that was promised. Filling them with tablets hasn't done it either. I know this might sound absurd to many (especially politicians) but what if we filled them with highly skilled and properly supported educators?

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A few years ago, I had a brief exchange with Klein that seems revealing now. As I remember it, he was arguing that vegetarians needed to just admit that meat tastes good and adapt their desired outcomes to account for that. 1/

The American SS is basically slowly taking shape and we're mostly living normal lives.

Time for another Saturn glamour shot

So here's the thing: what is Pritzker going to do about this incursion?

agree; the don't-fight-numbers-fuckstein types like ezra [probably] know that they're about to get jettisoned in the blue tea party and are desperately trying to negotiate away their pending irrelevance

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

In 2021, national Democratic elites tried to paint Eric Adams as the future of the Democratic Party and largely ignored Michelle Wu. What a difference four years makes.

Our “opposition leaders” …

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

one way you could describe lincoln's approach is of never getting ahead of the public on its attitudes, but holding an immovable set of principles on where the country ought to be and where he hopes to lead it

Ugh, AP now saying more victims are likely to be found..which means they were still in the burning Church.

JUST IN: A judge concludes the Trump administration sent a man to Mexico to sidestep protections against torture. He has no criminal history and had legal protection from being sent to his native El Salvador — where it appears Mexico is sending him. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

“The Netanyahu government is committing a genocide on the Palestinian people. This is not a matter of opinion. This is a matter of fact that has been established by the global leaders who study genocide." - Michigan's lieutenant governor, Garlin Gilchrist at the Arab Convention hosted by the ADC.

Every time I see a tweet from Jeffries or Schumer these days it really sends me to a dark place mentally. If elected Democrats can’t meet this moment, I despair in a way that makes me worry electoral politics is essentially useless in a post Trump world.

My immediate thought, on first reading Jeffries’ post: lose the “un-” prefix, it sounds weak as hell. Don’t negate the adjective, just use a strong and apt one: “lawless.”

Simple fact is that if we can't win on the grounds of preserving democracy, we don't deserve it. And a win on any other basis leaves us under threat.

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

Merkley has been sending emails about workouts. His last post here is about working out. He has a big staff and it should be on his team to take his dumb email going to hundreds of thousands if not millions off the timer. He like other Dems is checked out and not matching urgency of the moment.

And it actually doesn't matter if they show up and end up just mostly standing around. We are on a fascist ratchet that needs to be opposed with as much force as if it was already here in its final form.