growing problem for the dems is that their voters want progressive candidates but the party leadership generally doesn't. so there's no structure to identify and vet good progressive candidates until it's too late.

Thanks for validating me, governor

This is the UK Labour Party, the left-liberal party who took power in a wave election after the fascist-adjacent conservs melted down. We MUST prevent the US Democratic Party from turning into this. It is an essential priority. If they come to power and do this it will destroy America forever.

I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss. We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money

this is really grim

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

A worldview that divides people into givers and takes will prevent people from supporting redistribution, inclusion, sustainability and other progressive values. It will prevent people from voting Labour in elections. Labour is shaping public opinion against progressive politics.

What an interesting coincidence.

I've been saying this for a year now: the Democrats have missed a gigantic political opportunity--and, at this point, have failed in an ethical obligation--to create a shadow-government health department that dispenses medically accurate information, guidance, and advice.

As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.

They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.

RI should just make this our main style of architecture.

Relatable king.

again: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

Terror, literal terror

the answer to so many questions is Unionize Your Workplace

I do not understand what Magaziner is doing here.

I think the word I’m looking for is “evil.”

This could probably be done with simple legislation. Article 3 says almost nothing about how the Supreme Court operates. It mentions that a chief justice will exist, but that’s about it. There are essentially no constitutional rules about how they hear or decide cases.

THE BOAT WAS HEADED TO SURINAME, NOT THE US, BECAUSE OF COURSE IT WAS.

Have to admit it. "Alcoholic Fox News host uses US Navy to kill people at random on boats in the Caribbean because an extremist podcast producer asked him to, while Trump pardons drug dealer kingpins because a tech guy asked" is rather a lot darker than anything I imagined when he was reelected.

in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company

the elevation of “separation of powers” as the paramount value of the constitution is just rhetorical justification for presidential dictatorship, since that is what you have when the legislative branch cannot constrain the exercise of executive power through law.

Castling from the prime ministry to the presidency: it can work, but works a lot better if you retain control of the government

I’m interested in this show, but I’m not sure that’s really the right summation of Walter White and Tony Soprano. reactormag.com/nick-tarabay...

JUST IN: A 2-1 panel of the D.C. Circuit rules that Trump may remove members of the NLRB or MSPB regardless of laws meant to shield them from removal without cause. Majority: Rao (Trump), Katsas (Trump) Dissent: Pan (Biden) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Nine RI senators plan to introduce two bills in the upcoming Legislative Session to criminalize protesters who "loiter" on roadways or delay traffic. There are *already* criminal penalties for obstructing roads in RI law. We'll strongly oppose bills like this that erode our First Amendment rights!

More information: www.roadandtrack.com/news/a696328...

Thank you Mr President

You all aren’t buying enough stamps.

When Roberts said in Shelby County that the country had ended race discrimination in elections what he really meant was he was ending protections against race discrimination in elections

This turn can't come fast enough. This is such a deeply embarrassing time for educational leadership. Their priorities have no been student learning or wellbeing. The lack of due diligence is on them. Outsourcing decision-making to consultants, tech, & the MBA crowd was bad decision making.

Yep. Murder.

Kagan's dissent is all scorchers, but this is really frying me. As long as state legislatures wait until the last possible minute, according to the SCOTUS majority, they can *always* get away with rigging the lines—no matter how flagrantly—because it'll be the "eve of an election."

I thought this was a joke. It’s real.

More and more people are wondering "has capitalism gone too far?"

it's not the most important issue right now but I would *really* like to see Democrats who want to be president announcing in no uncertain terms that anything this goober manages to carve his name on, it comes off. anything he builds, it gets torn down.

Also, most importantly: It was an attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of the United States.

Good post by @tsgouros.bsky.social on how RI walked itself into municipal fiscal disaster.

Come work with me!

That last point. Cassidy really has enormous leverage if he wants to use it. He would win this fight. Worst case is he winds up losing a primary and spends his 70s (he's 68 now) as a hero to millions. He'll likely never have as much influence over anything again as he has over this right now.

Speaker Johnson shut the House down for 54 days — and he could do it again, ceding yet more power to an out-of-control president. With a party revolt brewing & tough calls looming on appropriations, war crimes, and more, we interviewed Max Spitzer, a former House parliamentarian, on what to do.

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

GOP Rep. Mike Turner: "This activity that's happening in the Caribbean where they are hitting these boats -- these individuals if they were captured and tried and convicted, they would be guilty of criminal activity for which they're not subject to capital punishment. These people are being killed."

I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

does anyone else notice the giant lady doesnt cut up your hot dogs anymore!?

I'm beginning to regret posting about (someone else) speeding in school zones.

it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.