Please check out my appearance Wednesday on 13 WHAM ABC's Political Pulse. We discussed Trump's remarks, mostly on Gaza/Israel and Ukraine. 13wham.com/news/good-da...

Yesterday I was again on Political Pulse in Rochester. We discussed freedom of speech, Attorney General Bondi’s remarks about prosecuting “hate speech” and the broader question of inflammatory rhetoric in the political arena, for which I drew on my research. Enjoy! foxrochester.com/news/good-da...

Exclusive interview with author Ian Reifowitz! @ianreifowitz.bsky.social Only on today's Kagro in the Morning www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... with David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social

NYC area folks: Come to my book event at Barnes & Noble on September 30! www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

🚨WE HAVE A FLIP TO REPORT🚨 Democrat Catelin Drey has FLIPPED Iowa State Senate Seat 1 tonight! And in doing so, Democrats have ended the GOP Supermajority in the Iowa State Legislature! This was a Trump +11 district, and the Democrat is ahead by 9 points! A 20 point swing!

Please check out my new book on Trump and stereotypes, published today. Also, this Weds at 6:30 my co-author Anastacia Kurylo and I will be at Barnes & Noble at the SmithHaven Mall talking about the book. www.amazon.com/Riling-Base-...

Democrats have drifted from Obama’s unifying vision of America—and paid the price. I argue in this piece for the Progressive Policy Institute that they must reclaim Obama’s inclusive, aspirational message that built a multiracial coalition and won twice. www.progressivepolicy.org/how-democrat...

Please join me and co-author Anastacia Kurylo at 6:30pm, August 6 at @barnesandnoble.com at the SmithHaven Mall in Lake Grove, NY to discuss my book Riling Up the Base: Examining Trump’s Use of Stereotypes through an Interdisciplinary Lens. @jenmercieca.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Riling-Base-...

"What’s really at issue here is whether Trump can simply pull 'emergencies' out of his rear to assume dictatorial powers for himself. The court is saying, 'No, you can’t.' Trump’s rant basically says: 'Yes, I can.'"

I’m so glad we’re relitigating Biden’s competency while an amphibian-brained degenerate releases a steady ooze of vile slime out of the White House.

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

This is a classic “wedge issue,” uniting one party and dividing the other. If Dems press hard enough and people understand the horror of what Republicans are attempting, they can be beaten. The more attention it gets, the better the chances of stopping it: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-republ...

Casar: "The party of 'very fine people on both sides' or 'Jewish space lasers' does not give a damn about stopping antisemitism. If my Republican colleagues want to stop the spread of antisemitism, maybe they should stop apologizing for and promoting antisemites."

Trumpism is actually not about restoring good manufacturing jobs. Bringing mass scale toy manufacturing to the US (brutal factory jobs) while gutting unions/regulations (also core ideological commitments of Trumpism) is a recipe for drudgery and subjugation. newrepublic.com/article/1949...

Don't overlook this: Trump is leaving Abrego Garcia to rot in a foreign gulag even though the admin can always bring him back and *retry him for deportation in a lawful way.* That they won't do this shows their case against him is nonsense. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1939...

This was a choice. Fine won by 8 pts in the district Mike Waltz won by 30 pts just 5 months ago. That the NYT frames it as “easily won” is a leading reason we are where we are. Headlines matter. Framing matters.

If Elon Musk really is a Nazi, then how come he sent national security secrets to a Jewish journalist?

The motto for this administration: “You may think we look dumb, but we’re even dumber than that.”

As usual, spot on.

Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.

🚨 BREAKING: A judge has ruled that thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately after being wrongfully terminated! This is what we mean when we say protect workers' rights. Checks and balances exist for a reason—so we don’t live under an authoritarian government.

I just believe in the crazy idea that the director of Health and Human Services should be able to pass a 6th grade biology class. Is that too much to ask?

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

Dow is down another 600 points so far today. Dropped 900 yesterday. S&P has shed 9 percent since February.

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.

Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET! with David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social Listen Live & Worldwide on the @netrootsradio.com Live Player www.netrootsradio.com www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

unreal -- Fox News brought in a journalist from Russia as part of a panel, but he's being too hard on Putin and Trump, so host Will Cain has to step in and toe the Kremlin/MAGA line

For those old enough to remember the term, stagflation could well be on the way thanks to Tariff Man. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/b...

And it behooves us to treat it as a chance to grow the opposition, right now.

Yes, this is exactly the question that we all need to be asking right now. One of the IGs that Trump fired was the one at the Defense Department, and he was examining Musk's breach of national security reporting protocol for Pentagon contractors. Now Dems tell me they fear this probe is dead:

“The cruelty is the point”. —@adamserwer.bsky.social

Old enough to remember being told by pro-Palestinian protesters that there was no difference between Harris and Trump

Can’t wait for the NYT pieces on befuddled Midwestern factory workers and farmers fretting over the price of groceries, cars and gas and worrying about their credit card bills and mortgages when the Fed either halts rate cuts or even raises them again. How could they have known? No one warned them!

Could the big media not do their usual bothsiderism "balancing" act since the choice right now is between democracy and fascism? (Rhetorical question)

I'll be on Channel 5 New York News today as part of the Inauguration Day coverage from 4-7pm. I don't know when I'll be on camera, but please keep your eye out for me on Channel 5 in New York! Or watch online at www.fox5ny.com (Note: this is not the cable news channel Fox News).

New in PN: Joe Biden's tragic presidency "Had you been told in January 2021 that Biden would wind down the pandemic, preside over great jobs & stock markets, guide the economy into a 'soft landing,' & sign an array of bold bills into law, you would’ve thought he cruised to a second term. And yet."

Check out Episode 773 of the Tim Corrimal Show "Greenland, Canada, and Panama, Oh My" with @marnus3.bsky.social @cathylarkin.bsky.social @ianreifowitz.bsky.social and @abluedotintexas.bsky.social at timcorrimal.com/2025/01/epis...

Please tune into @france24.com Thursday at 3pm Eastern, to watch me talk about the late President Jimmy Carter ahead of his funeral. I might not come on right at 3pm, but I shouldn't be too long after the start of the hour. Thanks! www.france24.com/en/

A thriving disinformation network is one of the most vital guardrails of dystopia.

On today's Kagro in the Morning #KITM: When it comes to employing stereotypes in political rhetoric, they say orange people are the WORST! And @ianreifowitz.bsky.social has a new book coming that proves it! The new Congress convened & did its thing. Why's Elon at war with Wikipedia?

@kagrox.bsky.social great to be on with you! I’m on Bluesky now too! Looking forward to doing the show again soon.

Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET! with David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social Listen Live & Worldwide on the @netrootsradio.com Live Player www.netrootsradio.com www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

"These MAGA farmers could be ruined if Trump follows through with mass deportations," reports Politico: www.politico.com/news/2024/12... Yet another data point hinting at a scenario along these lines:

Here's a stupid question: How did Trudeau not solve this problem before the election? Now Trump gets to take credit, thus rewarding his threatening behavior. And yes, Biden should have been tougher. Why leave this for Trump? Unbelievable. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/w...

Wrote about what’s behind conservatives watching movies and shows warning about the dangers of fascism and somehow coming away thinking the fascists are the good guys, and they should follow their example www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Israeli intelligence identifies drastic collapse of Syrian army in last 24 hours - report

Republicans turn on Hegseth for having such a woke mom.

Happy Thanksgiving? Here's my annual (slightly updated) Thanksgiving post. Enjoy! www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...

For an incisive study of how fundamental the free flow of reliable information is to the functioning of a capitalist (as distinct from crony-capitalist) economy, see The Information Nexus—the vastly under-appreciated book by @stevemarks.bsky.social. 🗃️ books.google.com/books/about/...