“Limiting density makes America poorer by preventing workers from making the best use of their talents. One recent study estimated that reducing land-use restrictions in a few major cities would add 3.7% to US GDP — that is, almost $900 billion a year.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/o...

"Turn it up to 11" is so much a part of our culture and language that no one thinks about it. But Rob Reiner did when he made This Is Spinal Tap. He introduced an expression that will never die.

Please help if you can 💔

To make it a promise that lasts, that can't be gobbled up by reactionaries, and translates to our entire lives, we can pair it with "fairness." Affordability and fairness. That activates a world of progressive frames about how the world can work.

Interesting… www.nytimes.com/1994/11/10/u...

The public is worried about AI. Regulating AI is winning issue for Democrats but their own party leaders are too complicit with Silicon Valley to use it. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

for instance: its been an hour since the treasury secretary said "nothing bad is happening" two weeks before a holiday when families will have higher costs, less to spend, and have probably been laid off. the democrats should be all over it. tweets denouncing it. releases mocking it. etc.

I rediscovered this post I wrote in May, about how Trump has shifted the money the US used to spend on curing cancer into snatching your neighbors. I think I'll keep harping on this point. www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...

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:

Donald Trump promised almost a year ago that he'd "take care" of rebuilding after the Los Angeles firestorms, but survivors are still waiting for him to officially ask Congress for relief. It's long past time for Trump to wake up and do his job.

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

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.

If Jeffries is on TV spreading pro-Trump falsehoods about the border because he thinks that pivots away from Trump’s strength—or something along those lines—it’s not only wrong on principle, it’s bad political strategy. GOP-friendly polling aggregator RCP currently has Trump at -6.5 on immigration.

Primary him.

Heard of digital gerrymandering? Read the guest post w @feelgoodaction.bsky.social on how invisible algorithms are redrawing our reality and weakening democracy When feeds show only 1 viewpoint, we lose perspective, fall for bias, and drift further from those we still share common ground with

if you had to design a guy in a lab to be bad at every aspect of 21st century politics you'd come back out with this dude

in 2006 Democrats swept into majorities in both the House and the Senate by tenaciously and relentlessly targeting the Tom DeLay Republicans w a narrative of "Republican culture of corruption." This won't help.

if republicans had the economic record of democrats they would never shut up about it. democrats barely mention their job creation record, its like theyre embarrassed by it.

This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10 (TT: therealpaworotti)

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

Let me translate from Fox Male Small Dick to English: Pete Hegseth admitted to blowing human beings into pieces who posed no threat. Yes, that’s what our cut-rate, frat-rat, dumb-bro Christian Nationalist masquerading as a serious person did.

Gavin's latest troll

Sometimes it's simply programmatic, a set of institutional reforms, as in @andycraig.bsky.social's recommended amendments www.liberalcurrents.com/we-must-save...

AI, ‘Populism’ and the Centibillionaire Shangri-La talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ai-po...

If Rs tackle affordability, they would have to abandon their donor base. Simple, really.

A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.

Trump's secretary of transportation Sean Duffy is scolding Americans to "dress professionally" for holiday travel at airports and such. Democratic lawmakers, this is said in love: if you're not mocking these assholes relentlessly over this, then what are we even doing here?

A President Who Wants Political Enemies Dead www.blueamp.co/p/impeach-co... Superb, by Shuster: "Since the beginning of the great American experiment..cynics described democracy as pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. By that measure, Trump’s rise/power are a grim joke"

I think it should be a mandatory job requirement that the chair of the DNC be social media savvy with a strong presence on camera. Ken Martin doesn’t have those skills and doesn’t seem to want to invest in fixing that. EVERY special election should be all over social media. It is a massive

NYACC strikes again. Look at this guy’s earnest & pleading face. He’s 8 & wants so much to live! SO much #DailyZiggy energy! An adult who finally gets it…but now humans are about to kill him before he can live out his hard-earned wisdom. Please: if you want your own #DailyZiggy, give Jager a try.

Please please! He could be your own #DailyZiggy!

Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging. Here’s my response:

talkin' about the AI bubble

Nothing in American democracy will get fixed unless when anti-authoritarians get back in charge of Congress and the White House - moves to rebalance the reform the MAGA #SCOTUS.

Okay.

"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."

Trump retreats on Epstein files. Three lessons: 1. It can be easier to fracture the MAGA coalition than get "responsible" Republicans to step up. 2. Democrats should fight rather than find reasons not to fight. 3. Dems need to be anti-elitist not just anti-GOP. www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...

“What we’ve already seen of the Epstein emails offers a remarkable window into the bipartisan decadence and depravity of many of our elites. Democrats should run against not just Trump and the GOP, but against elites in general in 2026, and I dare say in 2028.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...

The Democratic sweep earlier this month weakened Trump. Help Democrats flip the House and we will cut Trump’s radical, harmful agenda in half. I have a Leadership PAC that helps federal candidates flip seats from red to blue. You can donate here: secure.actblue.com/donate/lieu-...

The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...

I just finished up the commitments for my day job (an employer for whom I do not speak for or represent ), so I finally have the time to weight in a Question of the Day about UVa governance: how can we keep this kind of mess from happening ever again?

We stopped teaching students that intellectual curiousity is the most exciting and important part of college, stopped asking them to not just do the reading but seek extra books, music, films, shows, plays, art for context, stopped demanding not just looking for rubrics to check boxes but seek more.

The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

When you’ve lost Ro…

On Veterans Day, we honor those who served and commit to serving them in return — not just in words, but in actions. Affordability and a real commitment to mental health are essential to ensure that every veteran can build a future here in New York City.

Psst: @pelosi.house.gov : you helped sideline Biden to save the party from a 2024 wipeout. Might you chat with Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin? Asking for 7M friends...

Chuck Schumer must go as Senate Democratic leader. Period. My new article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/chuck-schu...