I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.

Neera is still my hero

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The new NBC national survey shows the Democratic advantage in the generic congressional trial heat growing since March from +1 to +8. The Republican advantage on the economy has essentially disappeared - dropping from 21 points in September 2023 to just 1 point now.

Donald Trump had no problem finding $40 BILLION for Argentina—but for federal workers and families who depend on SNAP benefits? Nothing. More from @neeratanden.bsky.social:

While Mike Johnson keeps the House out of town, people across the country are seeing their health bills shoot up thanks to Donald Trump. www.wsj.com/politics/ame...

Utility costs are a really big deal for lower-income households

Millions of people will go hungry thanks to Trump's $186 billion cut to SNAP—and where will that money go? Straight to funding billionaires' tax cuts. Hear from @neeratanden.bsky.social:

Seeing this film in theaters was a highlight of the year for me. Seriously, do not miss it.

Ahh yes. The impossible standard of “don’t be a nazi.”

Vote 11/4 and then adopt a candidate for 2026!

Alaska Survey Research October 10-15, 2025 2026 Alaska US Senate (LV) 🔵Mary Peltola (D) 48% 🔴Dan Sullivan (R) 46% Undecided 6%

New Gallup Party ID tracker is out. Dems +7 now. Was +6 GOP in q4 2024. This is a 13 pt swing.

The “No Kings” rallies were “dignified, irreverent, driven by old-fashioned love of country,” George Packer argues. “If anything can rouse the stupefied mainstream in time to stop the collapse of everything good about America, it’s a spectacle like this.”

New w/ @bencasselman.bsky.social: Wealthy Americans, buoyed by a booming stock market, are spending freely. Lower-income households, stung by inflation and a slowing labor market, are pulling back www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b... @nytimes.com

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

Want to keep the momentum of No Kings going? Each of us should adopt a House or Senate race where we work to reach voters and persuade, send financial support, talk up the candidate online - find someone you believe in and support them over the next year.

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hell yeah, we're doing hopepunk, we're making star wars references, we're cringemaxxing caring about stuff is so uncool that it's cool again, get ready www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Yesterday, No Kings protestors showed out in record numbers and demanded an end to Trump's authoritarian overreach. @neeratanden.bsky.social explains what our elected leaders should take away from this moment:

Thank you @neeratanden.bsky.social and @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social for this interesting and informative discussion! youtu.be/EFhq8OcyIz4?...

The Trump White House isn't mad at the young Republicans who shared racist texts in the group chat. They're mad at the young Republican who leaked the racist group chat to Politico. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Time is up. I gave Speaker Mike Johnson two days to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Arizona's 7th congressional district 813,000 Arizonans are now being taxed without representation. I have lawyers downstairs right now drafting litigation. youtu.be/9OBdjsGntQI?...

On Saturday, protestors across the country are expected to turn out in historic numbers to push back against the Trump administration's authoritarian power grab. @neeratanden.bsky.social explains how protesting for free speech is true patriotism.

It doesn't have to be this way: Neera Tanden on the harms caused by the lasting shutdown... @neeratanden.bsky.social on healthcare and NO Kings open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

They are seemingly everywhere.

The right has declared that although Trump’s political prosecutions are regrettable, the “Democrats brought it on themselves,” @jonathanbchait.bsky.social writes. But “Trump was no victim of the legal system. If anything, he received preferential treatment”:

We must restore the power to the people over corporations. @neeratanden.bsky.social speaks about plan to end Citizens United: www.americanprogress.org/article/intr...

Bari Weiss’s time running “The Free Press” was paved with excuses for right-wing illiberalism, Jonathan Chait argues. In her new role leading CBS News, she must “prove that her defense of liberal values is not so easily bargained away”:

We should mandate a work requirement for House Republicans to get their health care. How about they have to work at least one week a month to keep their government health insurance?

After Pritzker and Newsom threatened to leave the NGA, the Republican Chair breaks with Trump. Pressure works. Keep it up!

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law. Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois. And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

Much as I'm still pissed at Ezra Klein for rushing to defend Charlie Kirk, he and @neeratanden.bsky.social make some excellent points on the stakes of the shutdown www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFhq...

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that? MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

OK y'all. Democrats are holding strong and now IT'S OUR JOB TO HAVE THEIR BACKS and demand Republicans stop the Trump shutdown. Start here: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

Me and @Eleanor_Mueller on how little the shutdown threat is mattering to voters - as seen most vividly in the NJGov/VAGov races. CW is that Dems will be hurt by a shutdown, and might want to avoid it to protect Spanberger/Sherill. Not so! www.semafor.com/article/09/3...

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"

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Trump just threatened to sue ABC again for allowing Jimmy Kimmel back on the air, which is SUPER weird, because all of these Republicans said that the decision to pull Kimmel’s show was a “business decision.”

Jimmy Kimmel: "Most of all, I want to thank the people who don’t support my show and what I believe, but support my right to share those beliefs anyway."

Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.

Tonight @jimmykimmel.com and Disney stood up for free speech and our constitution. They are going toe to toe with an authoritarian president who is threatening all of our freedoms. Kimmel and Disney deserve our full support going forward. Let’s show them they have it and win this for freedom.

Breaking News: The Secret Service said it had discovered a cache of devices — more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers — that could have disrupted the cellular network ahead of the UN General Assembly.

… so treat people the way you want them to treat you. Model the behavior you’d like to see from them. Yes, this has been said a million times before. But only because it’s true and it works. And goodness knows we could use some more love and kindness in the world right now. /fin

…Reagan got democrats to vote for him because “morning in America” sounded like a place they wanted to be. John Lewis inspires us all because his Beloved Community was big enough to accommodate Bull Connor. Hate is easy, but if you commit to it, love has the numbers…

…we’re better than that. YOU’RE better than that. I know that because every politician whose rhetoric you admire told a story about an American ideal that made room for all of us, and made us all proud to be on the same team. From Thomas Paine to Obama: “our great title is Americans”…