My new one @slate.com: "Gavin Newsom Just Proved It: Voters Want Democrats to Fight Fire With Fire" slate.com/news-and-pol...

Finally we are doing iRobot from the hit movie “don’t do iRobot”

I gotta say, I’m seeing the most Live Laugh Love women I went to all girls high school with in Ohio posting anti-ICE Instagram reels and demanding people pay attention to the threat of fascism

Elon Musk and Marco Rubio killed 400,000 children in half a year

when a newspaper is trying to sell print subscriptions, the goal is to be “the paper most worth buying to get a good idea of the news”. This model shifts the goal to “the most sensational articles where people get annoyed enough hitting paywalls to hit subscribe”

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Normal brain: DC and Puerto Rico statehood Expanded brain: NYC statehood Galaxy brain: each borough of NYC should be a state.

If you ever wonder how un-democratic the Senate is, remember: more people voted for the mayor of New York than 49 sitting senators

There’s a lot to unpack here but 30 Rock absolutely did not portray Liz Lemon, played by show creator and head writer Tina Fey, as an “obvious villain”

if Joe Biden said this during a speech Hannity would immediately start anchoring special coverage and the New York Times would fire up a live blog breaking down every syllable

Powerful reflections from the Pope and this messaging - in English - against the Trump regime is going to reverberate in the Catholic communities all across America and around the world.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Effective politics requires relationships & community. Today’s parties only think about harvesting individual votes, not recognizing that the social investment will actually get them more votes & build long-term support. Good parties go even further by integrating into community life year round.

New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani confronts Border Czar Tom Homan today in Albany 👇🏻

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Looking forward to the op-eds calling on Republicans to moderate their policies, or profiles of anti-Trump voters.

Suicidal for centrists to be begging for moderation when now would be a great time to pass some big, ambitious policies and remind people why Democrats are better than Republicans.

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

We all have to stop worrying about legacy media and create/fund new sources. It’s not 1998 anymore, the emperor has no clothes.

Our police, who do have resources to provide security for ICE, claim that they are understaffed and can't give tickets.

Cops stopped giving out traffic tickets is what happened lbwatchdog.com/content/file...

If local media can produce halfway decent tik tok / IG content with consistency you hit both ends at the same time

“In fact, that sandwich hasn’t exploded at all”

SNAP ended hunger in America. That’s a thing we did as a society - we ended hunger. We decided that nobody should starve, and created a system to all but ensure that was true.

if we were a serious country with serious politics we would have some kind of bipartisan compromise where we judge-maxed the immigration court system and made rapid in-or-out 90 day max decisions on people. it wold be more restrictive in some ways and more permissive in others. unfortunately,

we have a dysfunctional immigration politics because there's this large population that are sorta-kinda are allowed to be here, maybe, if they keep their heads down, and we debate about how nice we should treat them based on a constantly shifting set of nebulous criteria. it's calvinball from hell.

I'm very concerned about my party's popularity. that's why I constantly highlight internal divisions, stir up intrafactional strife, and loudly broadcast and complain about anything allegedly unpopular any party member has done, at any level of government

But who will monitor the monitor-monitoring monitors

i do think Dems should moderate on immigration in the sense that Dems should redesign our immigration policy to work like people think it works: you wait for a while (but not forever) to get into the country and then you wait for a while (but not forever) to become a citizen.

Matty uses his huge platform to consistently drag down progressives because “moderates do better” without ever once thinking about how his influence on public opinion affects electoral prospects of non-moderates

Jake as the leading reporter on the "is the president old" beat I think there might be an "is the president old" story here

Cool new working paper on why and how cable news threw gasoline on the culture war fire. The culture war isn't optimal for electoral candidates, but it's optimal for cable news companies. ungated: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/27v4x...

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Dear @chicagotribune.com : she didn't "collide with ICE." ICE collided with her.

one of the most insane thing about partisan politics is that Republicans are allowed to say "these four million American citizens shouldn't get the representation they are entitled because it would be politically inconvenient for us" and nobody bats an eye

We've got you 👍

All the evidence on Alzheimer’s is converging on: live in a walkable city and have friends that you talk to and do activities with.

LBJ was the last president this concerned with "ball room".

“Stuff keeps happening while we’re talking to these managers” YEAH SO STOP IT INTERVIEWING THEM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GAME !!!

im tired of repeating this but - trump is an addicted fox news watcher - on fox, the "average" snap recipient is a poor black person. the kind of person the network mocks as a loud, fat, mooch screaming for their "obama phone" - thats why trump and the other gopers say its a dem (BLACK) issue

Quick reminder to check your kids' Halloween candy tonight. We found Los Angeles' R1-1 zoning standards in there last year. Spooky!

California has some of the most lenient drunk driving laws in the nation. You can still get a license after receiving 6(!!) DUIs!

Behind every “the economy is terrible these days” guy is a mountain of gambling debt, lost cryptocurrency value, and pummeling meme stock dives

Tim Walz should’ve never stopped calling them weird

Yes. One of the most powerful drivers of elite political discourse right now is wishful thinking: We don't want what's happening to be happening, so we make up a story in which it in less bad and more fixable than it is. All very understandable but it is false and not helping!

We've gotten so many of these pieces where a liberal engages in a good-faith effort to understand Trump voters. Every time, they discover that there's no deeper sympathetic reason they hold their views. They're just misinformed and hateful. My own efforts have found this too.