The goal of the anti-DEI crusade wasn't to ensure merit-based hiring, it was to ensure that any institution anywhere in America would know that if they hired a anyone but a white man for any competitive position, they could well face the full wrath of the federal government.

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

Remember how right after the election, Ryan Grim said that Chris Rufo did the left a favor by eliminating DEI because it would allow for a united working class? Fun times

For those wanting an update on the Los Angeles K line: Horvath wins, Bass loses, K Line will be built along staff recommendations, Horvath is nice enough to let Bass pretend she was part of the team all along.

Mutual aid would require the campaign to treat aid donations as in-kind, true, but they would only need to be itemized by contributor if donations exceed a $200 value On the expenditure end, the donations must be open to anyone regardless of district or ability to vote. So it can be done.

How is he always so good at this

Official statement re: Dan Bongino

You can keep on telling yourself that MAGA will become socialists if Dems just cross a magic threshold into being socialist enough, but that's not borne out by any evidence except existing priors

Graham, rural hospitals are closing because Trump gutted Medicaid and if you're too afraid to say that because you might piss off the MAHA-curious that's a really bad sign about where your campaign is headed

And yes: L.A. County Supervisor @lindseyphorvath.bsky.social wants you 🫵 to get to Metro's board meeting this Thursday, Mar. 24, if you can, to speak up against attempts to block the K Line. Full details below. ↘️

"For both West Hollywood and [Los Angeles] County to move forward with their … financing, there must be a definitive route": yep. This is the truth Bass wants to pettifog around with her 'full steam ahead' twaddle. Bass wants to delay the project while she pretends to support it. It's that simple.

I just talked to Supervisor Horvath's office and here are their concerns with this language if it is indeed accurate: 1) to finance the project, the County will need to set up an EIFD (special financing district) Without a specific route chosen, there's no way to know how much it will cost... 1/x

It's not a war, it's a special military operation You know, just like Putin.

Villaraigosa, Yee, Becerra, Mahan and Thurmond need to drop out of #CAGov and they need to drop out now. I'm this close to starting to bully specific individuals I know affiliated with these politicians.

This possible solution by Robert is exactly the type of thing I'm talking about about how to reform the California Democratic Party. As currently constructed, the endorsement process requires an affirmative 60%, which means that the incentives are for the lesser candidates to do a denial strategy.

I really enjoyed this story by @ddayen.bsky.social about the CA Governor's race and Tom Steyer specifically. You should absolutely read it, but I wanted to offer some commentary on the bigger problems the state party faces as well as the problem of running statewide. prospect.org/2026/03/24/t...

Villaraigosa, Yee, Becerra, and Thurmond are not going to happen in #CAGov and I think it's kind of embarrassing that California legislators are spending more time trying to make them happen than to push them out of the race. www.latimes.com/california/s...

A lot of baby boomers are still working, so younger people are having a hard time finding jobs. The percentage of houses occupied by people who paid off their mortgages--also likely older people--has increased by five percent in five years. This isn't the fault of boomers, it's the fault of society

They could always pass the bills and make Trump veto them, but they'd rather grouse to Fox News than actually put Trump on the spot

If your response to an attack on a Jewish ambulance network in London is to post "well look at what Israel did" (which is every other reply on this thread pretty much) you are part of the antisemitism problem on the left

Abuser mentality is what pervades and defines the entire Republican Party

Right after Matt Stoller is done posting a few more things about the power of Jews on Elon Musk's nazi platform, he can talk about Trump's antitrust revolution on his progressive podcast

There is a big movement among some leftist types that says we don't need to tackle supply issues to improve housing prices, we can just get rid of billionaires. @resnikoff.bsky.social tackles a few of these, but there are a lot more left-NIMBY arguments out there. 1/x

What the hell does this guy think immigration and customs officials at airports are doing all day long? That's literally why they're there! Literally the place that has no "illegals" problem at all is the goddamn international airport! This man knows nothing about anything at any time.

These guys have completely forgotten that their job is to govern. Their entire purpose in life has become being real-life 4chan trolls to half the country.

Trump says a lot of random shit, often contradicting himself repeatedly in the span of five minutes, and nothing he says can actually be believed, which means that when he says something, it shouldn't be reported as news simply that he said it.

I subscribed to Zeteo because of how much I thought Mehdi Hasan aligned with me on pushing progressive foreign and domestic policy without any hint of excusing or aligning with fascists or theocrats anywhere. Praising Tucker as the only one getting it right on Israel is a huge breach of trust.

This violent campaign by rampaging West Bank settlers against Palestinian communities is nothing short of criminal. The Israeli government is empowering these rampages. It’s vile & designed to make the creation of a Palestinian state impossible. Accountability for these attacks is essential.

Ok so if one assumes that Lenin believed that failure to do a global communist revolution would result in existing communist counties being totalitarian revanchist pariah states, then Lenin's choice represents a lottery played with the lives of hundreds of millions of people

Mehdi might be entirely right that "progressive except for Palestine" people (which, I guess means that full statehood for Palestine isn't enough) might be ceding a lane for "leftists" go to full Nazi. But if so, we must examine why Israel has become more important than all other issues combined.

Also the whole thing about challenging "Israel's right to exist" is so fucking stupid. Israel is a member of the UN and recognized by the vast majority of UN countries. It has obligations it is violating but it also has rights, just like any other member state. It's such a dumb line of inquiry!

Like, I feel like we're on the verge of working ourselves up to a red-brown alliance on X about how nuclear weapons are bad unless one gets dropped on Tel Aviv. What people are giving themselves permission to say and do is getting worse every day

Tucker Carlson does not think Jews are a part of Western Civilization as he defines it. What he is trying to do is split off the Judeo from the evangelical Judeo-Christian trope. If you're willing to promote outright fascists because you like their anti-Israel messaging, try again.

Mehdi Hasan says he talks to a lot of leftists who would proudly vote for Tucker because he challenges "Israel's right to exist" and I feel like if you would vote for an outright fascist like Tucker just to see Israel maybe destroyed you're not really a leftist, and maybe Mehdi should discuss that

The decision to sabotage the future of LA transit and millions of tourists and residents on behalf of two dozen NIMBYs is unconscionable, just a shameful moral and political choice

Jesus fuckin Christ Norman you decided that what really needed to happen today was you taking a sexual assault survivor who hid two pregnancies and children with her abuser for the sake of the movement she led and attacking her over the 2016 primary. Jumpin Jehosaphat on a pogo stick my guy

HEY MATT STOLLER HOW'S THAT ANTITRUST REVOLUTION WORKING OUT FOR YOU BUD WHEN THE PRESIDENT PERSONALLY DEMANDS HUGE PRO-MONOPOLY SETTLEMENTS MY DUDE? CARE TO TALK ABOUT THIS ON YOUR ANTI-MONOPOLY PODCAST MY GUY?

This won't be a popular opinion but the focus on AIPAC compared to, say, crypto or other huge spenders bothers me in the same way that the relentless focus on Israel bothers me compared to other significant world stage bad actors. It feels like the intensity is a byproduct of latent antisemitism.

Bosses would tell you that this is a result of fornicating during work hours, but that is, in my view, almost certainly not it. Instead, it's not having to commute, being able to take care of random home tasks during the workday, and feeling like you have a stable environment to raise kids.

When Trump can't run roughshod over something he pretends he didn't really try. That's where TACO comes from. But there's no meaning to chickening out on this, because now Iran is the one who gets to take everyone else hostage.

The funny part here is not just that working your way up through lower offices is the most frequent path to higher office, the funny part is the utter disrespect mister R7 has for the power of local offices and local organizing. There's a reason that RFS and other orgs promote local candidacies!

Witkoff and Trump took Putin at his word that it wasn't happening. And of course, everything Trump has done in Iran has handed multiple and repeated points of leverage to Putin.

I have a deep discomfort with how I've seen discourse around Israel evolve since I've become politically aware. When I was younger, it was that Israel was bad because of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, which could be solved through the establishment of Palestine through the original plan

QUESTION: No Democrat should vote for another dime for this war, right? REP ADAM SMITH: Absolutely. They should not.

For those looking for a reason, taking Kharg Island wouldn't open the Strait at all by itself. It's specifically designed to be a hostage-taking situation given how their economy is dependent on the oil infrastructure there. It's a ploy designed to force Iran's capitulation. It won't succeed.

"Assisted"

Angry Adam Smith is angry

I am pro-Palestine and anti-slur, this isn't fuckin hard

The amount of easy casual antisemitism we are seeing here is honestly frightening and you're either telling people like this to fuck off or you're part of the problem

What is seeping over here from X demonstrates that it has turned into a gigantic toxic ourobouros cesspit that is gradually radicalizing extremists on the left and right into targeting Jews and brigading people who don't think that's okay. We're already in dark times and they are going to get darker