The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

The maga divide summarized: does the gutter racism that is the mortar of our coalition apply to Jews or not? And if it doesn’t do we mean that or are we just pretending for the moment?

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.

Billionaires and special interests don’t get to keep Colorado’s rivers for themselves.

They sent JD Vance to Indiana and they were like never do that to us again

The war in the GOP is between those who can do math and those who keep bragging about how many dementia tests they've passed.

Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

He shouldn’t just be pushed out as the House Democrats’ leader; he needs to be primaried out of his seat entirely. Just a complete waste of a deep blue seat.

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

Get the lowdown on Colorado’s special session from this video featuring the Bell’s @jmantell.bsky.social and friends from @cohealthaccess.bsky.social , @coloradofiscal.bsky.social and @coloradofiscal.bsky.social #copolitics #coleg youtu.be/Z59-cACl3nI?...

The only thing you need to know about Colorado’s $1b budget hole is that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill gave the top 1% of Coloradans a collective $2.26b tax cut. Recapture that $, fix the budget hole. Math, as they say, is real.

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

hassett wrote "Dow 36,000" 25 years ago, probably the most insane investment advice ever published. he went on to be a top economic adviser to bush, mccain, romney, and now trump. good example of how conservatives were hardly any less nuts pre-trump.

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

The Bell's @jmantell.bsky.social was among those who spoke to the pain Coloradans will suffer as a result of the federal bill that cut services in order to give a tax break to the wealthy. #coleg #copolicy

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

This put-upon small business owner just wants to ogle female athletes, shill crypto, and do some slurs on Fox News. What can Democrats do to win his vote?

The @bellpolicy.bsky.social's @jmantell.bsky.social (second from right) testifies Monday, urging #coleg to challenge the constitutionality of TABOR and its arbitrary spending formula. TABOR prevents lawmakers from adequately funding healthcare, childcare, education and much more. #coleg #copolitics

There are no words that adequately describe the disgrace of this man that American voters chose to lead this country. And it is no accident that Trump’s prime directive is always first to project the mediocrity, incompetence, cowardice & immorality of he & his cohorts onto Black & Latino ppl.

"Trump appointed a road rules cast member to be in charge of airline safety and this is the result" that's all true and a one-sentence narrative that is completely damning to the ears of someone who isn't paying much attention to politics. Take the layup.

these people are segregationists and their position is that no one who isn’t a white man is qualified to do skilled work of any kind

man if you're not doing anything with your job let a human use it

A billionaire “prefer[red] to tithe than pay than pay marginally higher corporate or personal income taxes.” That, reader, is an argument for enacting a wealth tax high enough to keep billionaires from facing that dilemma ever again.

If it looks like a payday loan and acts like a payday loan, we should regulate them like payday loans. HB25-1020, which goes to committee tomorrow, should be amended to protect consumers against high fees and APRs. Read our latest In The Know on earned wage access loans. #coleg bit.ly/42AJuNQ

There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent. The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.

You know, I’ve seen Democrats flail before, but I genuinely can’t recall the last time the leadership and many of their senior membership was this completely rudderless

The Bell Policy Center is 25 years old this year and we're celebrating all year as we share 25 facts about the Bell! For our first fact, we're shining a light of appreciation on Linda Shoemaker, one of the Bell's three founding mothers. She was our first chairperson, serving from 2000-2005.

Given that Braxton Bragg was an incompetent racist traitor who was utterly despised by his officers and soldiers, it makes sense that a bottom-scraper like Hegseth would adore him.

The architects of the DEI purge -- Rufo and Hanania in particular -- are straight-up white nationalists who are engaged in a systemic project to dismantle as much of the Civil Rights Act as possible without having to explicitly admit what they're doing.

You want a prognosis for why liberal institutions are no longer dominant? Because too many occupants of those institutions found it easier to join anti-liberal voices attacking the institutions whose decline they now ponder.

This right here really captures the unique flavor of our moment: the total triumph of huge losers.

We should be talking about making wealthy Coloradans pay their fair share, not about which children or families we should kick to the curb in pursuit of "belt-tightening." Read more in @chris-dg-kennedy.bsky.social's op-ed in @denverpost.com. bit.ly/4g4E7tr #copolitics #coleg

Founded in Colorado, CSI is expanding- now in AZ, IA & OR. CSI calls itself a "non-partisan research organization focused on the facts," but it **outsourced research to CO's largest GOP consulting firm**. It had to disclose this to the IRS because its president is the wife of firm owner Josh Penry.

💰WATCH: Trump’s treasury nominee says extending Trump’s tax cuts for the rich are “the single most important economic issue” and warns of “economic calamity” if we don’t let them keep more of their money🤔 Reminder: Gilded age levels of inequality. Trickle down = geyser up.

This piece that we did on CCCAP shows that only a sliver of people who are eligible are getting support as it is. www.bellpolicy.org/2023/10/10/c...

i had multiple "savvy" people tell me after eric adams was indicted that "all politicians do this." they really don't in the us! and when they do, they get indicted! incredible corrosive attitude, and reflective of a broader failure to communicate how government really works

Gotta hand it to Aaron Sorkin for this one

not the only thing but prob can't be understated how much 2020-2021 pissed off these guys. remote work, a substantial, popular racial justice movement that led to ppl talking about/bringing politics to work. employees having just a hint of a sliver of market power. feels like retribution for that.

the two things I believe most strongly in this world are that public services should be wholly replaced by the private sector and that the government should intervene instantly the second I personally feel a little bit scared

It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.

Something like 70% of the Jewish vote went to Harris. When the right claims to want to do some authoritarian shit in the name of “fighting anti-semitism,” I promise you their interests are not in trying to protect the majority of American Jews.

This represents the total failure of institutions to repel an internal adversary from the nation's highest office.

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