Penn State will pay James Franklin nearly $50 million not to work. Meanwhile, the university shut down WPSU, which had an annual operating cost of $7 million, half of which was paid by the university.

Dan Pfeiffer For the life of me, I cannot figure out what the hell the Senate Democrats are doing in Maine — the most important Senate race in the country. Their decision to back Janet Mills suggests they have learned no lessons from our loss in 2024. messagebox.substack.com/p/are-democr...

@upenn.edu caved to a bully and the bully came back for more. There’s nothing shocking about this. share.inquirer.com/BzARFT

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration on behalf of four D.C. residents for its practice of illegal arrests of immigrants in the District. Since August, federal agents in D.C. have arrested hundreds of immigrants with no warrants and no legal justification. 1/ 🧵

This is what a governor should be saying to unequivocally oppose the deployment of National Guard troops in their state. This is no time to be mealy mouthed.

Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income. It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions. If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.

National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A lot of Elite Dems need to get familiar with the playbook for toppling an authoritarian. Mockery is one of the tactics. Tim Walz was onto it by calling them weird, until Beltway strategists talked him out of it. @danpfeiffer.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/messageb...

Democrats can overcome "soft-on-crime" attacks—not by tacking to the right or dodging the issue altogether—but by proudly owning safety and justice by focusing on what is working in places like Baltimore, Chicago, and Detroit to make communities safer.

I received texts today from a former Navy pilot and a former prosecutor running for Congress as Democrats. They just can’t quit this candidate profile, can they? 😑

We need DC statehood NOW.

Important lessons from Poland for Democrats in the US: running the same tired establishment candidates doesn’t work. And simply being “not the other guy” isn’t an inspiring enough message to defeat right wing populism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We were at the same town hall

From Janelle Stelson’s website. Can’t even muster a throwaway line like, “We’re a nation of immigrants.” If this is how Ds are going to run in 2026, we’re screwed

Another audience member during the open mic said, The status quo is not working. We need something new.

Heard at a town hall tonight in Harrisburg: Democrats, “stop this moderate nonsense.” The crowd is also clearly not happy with the party getting behind Janelle Stelson in PA-10

Elite Democrats like Josh Shapiro and Hakeem Jefferies just won’t quit the failed pro-corporate, pro-war strategy that has taken the Democratic party to its lowest approval rating in three decades. Unbelievable

One PA West Southwest Rising had a press conference to celebrate our victories in getting repairs to 12 vacant homes. What’s next: 1) repair 5 more abandoned homes 2) create a program to make repairs to unsafe buildings 3) create policies so vacant property can = affordable housing & green space.

The DA of Washington County PA is illegally pursuing death in most homicide cases. That's why Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, one of my clients, has asked the state Supreme Court to intervene. triblive.com/local/region...

Elite Democrats still don't get that we are in an era in which voters want candidates to stand for something. They're not interested in poll-tested, inauthentic candidates. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Live look at Elite Washington Democrats

The way to fight ICE - the secret police, wannabe Gestapo - is through nonviolent confrontation. Because they are cowards... substack.com/home/post/p-...

I ran into a Migrant Justice protest two days ago outside the post office (Burlington’s post office shares the federal building with the courthouse) and last night was at a sporting event where the crowd cheered resisting ICE. I don’t think ICE and Trump are prepared for how unpopular they now are.

Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.

As a neutral, you have to love the pure joy of Guatemala pulling off one of the all-time CONCACAF upsets. An absolute stunner #GoldCup #CONCACAF

"expanding the court is too radical" - establishment dems "fuck off" - everyone with a brain

It’s hard to overstate how angry rank and file Dems are at the Dem establishment right now. And if I were a self-preservationist incumbent I would take note.

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

JUST NOW: Bernie tells the crowd about Trump attacking Iran, the crowd erupts into “NO MORE WAR!” chants Bernie calls the attack “grossly unconstitutional”

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.

This is a distraction [dies in nuclear war].

Shai has 31 and I’ve barely noticed with the J-Will show

Did Mike Breen really just say you need a “supersonic” whistle to hear? At OKC? Ummm… #NBAFinals

“it's disturbing the extent to which even smart and good pro-democracy politicians and pundits still aren't seeing this.” Politics is too important right now to be left to the politicians.

Everything was fine until Trump decided to unleash violent raids w/o grounds in elementary schools, shopping areas, & peaceful public spaces. ICE then illegally blocked Members of Congress entry into the facilities they are disappearing people into, escalating the situation. Let’s start there.

The congresswoman is 100% correct. Too many Democrats don’t understand how to stay out of right wing framing. They get suckered into it every…single…time.

We need Congress to stop ICE from terrorizing America. Republicans are causing the chaos and violence that they lied about immigrants committing.

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That was a HELL of a game. Let’s go. More of this please. Even if it takes three hours.

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

The Brunson head snap = the Euro flop @nbaontnt.bsky.social

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Can confirm. I spent the late 2000s and 2010s lobbying the PA legislature. I heard immigration referred to as an invasion and conspiracy theories about students bussing in from out of state to vote. Trump is not an aberration; he’s the fulfillment of Republicanism.

The death penalty is a failed public policy. Pennsylvania's legal system spends a lot of time and taxpayer resources for this folly. Get rid of it. lancasteronline.com/news/local/n...

You can't make this up. ICE left a 12-year-old completely abandoned on the street after abducting the adult he was with. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

“Now that mayors are being arrested, where is the call to abolish ICE?” Why is ICE still around despite the illegality with which it has been operating @franifio.bsky.social breaks it down in her latest video for Zeteo. Subscribe to Zeteo.com to support independent journalism: zeteo.com/subscribe

If there’s one thing I’m looking for, it’s less of films like Anatomy of a Fall, Another Round, Parasite, and The Handmaiden. 🙄

Dang, @nbaontnt.bsky.social’s crowd mic is loud enough to startle the neighbors