Democrats: Read this. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Twenty years before MAGA came into existence, Umberto Eco captured it perfectly. He was able to do so because he had a deep understanding of so many elements of fascism. Draw the conclusion you want from that.

The horror, the horror….

If a full accounting of Epstein’s crimes - and his accomplices - is ever made public, people on the left and the right are going to feel really dumb that we’ve been arguing with each other while the elites of both parties pal around and do abhorrent shit.

Okay that tweet is getting a lot of responses, so if you want more along these lines, this new piece tries to spell out the key distinction between where it's easier for Trump to consolidate authoritarian power and where it's harder for him: bsky.app/profile/greg...

Yeah, the idea that campuses don't have enough "debate" is a red herring. Good thread here from Joe:

@npr.org bringing on Matt Schlapp is the straw that broke camels back for me. Say, no longer listen. Jonah Goldberg? Bill Kristol? Many honest conservatives but Schlapp? NPR is no longer serious.

Dems should Polarize The F--- out of the national debate over RFK, vaccines, and public health

Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.

Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.

Gonna be absolutely incredible when Joe Biden outlives Donald Trump

Been on trail w Andy Beshear, thought this riff on why inclusive language can be unhelpful was interesting

He’s good. He’s very good. This is the basic “speak like a normal human being” stuff more Dems need to do. It doesn’t mean being vulgar or crude, it just means being clear and to the point.

Jeffries, still going strong 8 hours in: "Extraordinary to me, Mr. Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."

the interesting thing about the Diddy verdict is that House Republicans are about to vote to take away healthcare from tens of millions of Americas

We live in an America governed by Trump. But we do not have to accept that we live in Trump’s America. My latest for @theatlantic.com Daily: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

We don’t live in a neutral marketplace of ideas. We live in an attention economy shaped by algorithms, tribal identity, outrage incentives, and profit models that reward engagement over accuracy.

“very briefly?” They were there for hours, as documented by video and still photos. Just lie after lie.

True

Peace be upon us.

this is one of the most insane home run robberies i've seen

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Fantastic thread:

Growing up in the '70s I'd read about strongman rulers in far-off places like Asia or Africa who had billion-dollar Swiss bank accounts and mansions in the French Riviera while their citizens were mired in poverty, and wondered how that could be allowed to happen Now I know

“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you” —Oscar Wilde

Hogg could soon be forced to pick whether to continue his primary project or hang on to his seat as vice chair. NOTUS reported this week that Martin planned to propose an update to the DNC’s rules mandating that DNC officers stay neutral in all primaries.

Donald Trump has made himself—and by extension, us—the laughing stock of the world.

Unless Leonard Leo and Harlan Crowe order their employees on the Supreme Court to do something, there's not much hope.

Thanks to Tim Walz for leading the way on this.

When you are so afraid of Trump calling you Shutdown Schumer that you willingly accept Surrender Schumer as your legacy.

Yes please.

Weird, shitty, disorganized response. How are they still this bad at this? It's been four months since Election Day.

Brilliant show of statesmanship and solidarity. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer comes out to greet President Zelenskyy on the street. Starmer posted a clip of this moment on his X account. He stated: "Action, not just words. Britain stands with Ukraine, today and always 🇬🇧🇺🇦"

"All politics is local"

My idea of an FBI director is Judge Webster (who will turn 101 next week). That's the America I was raised in, I suppose. Kash Patel, Dan Bongino -- I'm sorry, but this looks like decline to me. And their slogan is "Make America Great Again."

EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

Political liberalism has a lot of flaws but one of the cool things about it is how it's constructed around the insight that monarchy is a fundamental affront to human dignity 👍

Here's a script for calling about virtually any Trump nominee: "This person seems like a complete fuckup, and when they inevitably fuck up so bad that lots of people die, we're going to hold the people who put them in power responsible for that fuck up."

Great thread.

This is how it starts.

Destroying the government because thin skinned narcissists can’t admit they don’t know everything. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

🎶Allons enfants de la Patrie,🎵 🎶 Le jour de gloire est arrivé! 🎶