Nothing about our current moment is comprehensible without understanding that: 1. Until 1965, white men decided who was president. 2. for the next four decades, every president elected was either a Republican or a white male Southerner. 3. Barack Obama was the first exception to the above.

I loathe the "only the left have agency" trope with a burning passion. It's cowardly and false.

Have yet to encounter a single person freaking out over the 2028 nomination who’s doing anything remotely serious to protect the needs of the vulnerable in 2026

Look, all I'm saying is that if you just spent the last six years being frustrated with Durbin and you think there's a chance he's about to be replaced with a guy who thanks ICE for their service and takes AIPAC and crypto money, you should treat it like a very serious emergency

Republicans never forgave the LSE for making Jed Bartlet head of its economics department.

The NYT appears to have edited their incorrect paragraphs on public opinion toward Trump’s immigration policies, completely changing the meaning of the paragraph and not offering a note on the piece. Cmon…

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

everyone’s saying “people are NIMBYs about concentration camps” and yeah, I don’t want a concentration camp in my neighborhood, or anywhere you know who I don’t mind in my neighborhood? free immigrants, undocumented or otherwise

FDRbros…we’re so back

"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

if AOC is too right-wing for you to support, you do not believe in electoral politics and should just be honest about that

This is so much worse than what took down Nixon, difference was that then the media did not like Nixon and wasn't trying to help him and today the media is controlled by the Epstein-Oligarch class and so is part of the same conspiracy that Trump is and buries it

Here is a real agenda to start

When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism. A few suggestions...

now would be a good time to go after your city and county councils about this

Not the point of her important thread but I just want to note: It is immoral and uncivilized how people *indefinitely detained by the government without even any charges filed* are not provided legal assistance, the burden falls on public interest nonprofits and private lawyers working pro bono.

Only 12 percent of Democrats think the party is too liberal on social issues, per new New Republic survey. In contrast, 34 percent think the party is too conservative on economic issues. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The El Paso story is a perfect little slice of Trumpism. You take the combined incompetence of our Dep'ts of Transportation, Defense & Homeland Security and create a major public safety risk, shut down a major airport, alarm our neighbors that we are about attack them & shoot down a party balloon.

Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.

so wait el paso airspace got shut down in a turf war over DOD letting the worst racists in the government drunk drive a laser cannon

i would say one of my few observations from teaching from 2007 to 2026 is that students don’t have perseverance. there is a culture of giving up.

“We must abolish ICE and the entire DHS. We must proclaim a general amnesty to all undocumented immigrants currently residing in America. We must decriminalize unauthorized immigration. And we must enshrine freedom of movement in the constitution.” www.liberalcurrents.com/abolition-am...

Hard to take national security lectures seriously from an administration that confused a party balloon for a foreign drone and erroneously shut down airspace over a major metropolitan area for a week.

A fact that sounds like bullshit but is actually true: There is more square footage of parking *per car* in the US than there is square footage of housing *per person.*

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I now am left genuinely wondering who would come out looking worse in a scenario in which a Democratic Member of Congress, rather than posing a question to Pam Bondi, just says, "I have no questions for you. Go fuck yourself, dumbass."

political malpractice that this chart hasnt been seared into the brains of every single american through advertising and social media

This has a lot of implications well beyond this case. Many people put these devices in/outside their homes to see who is at the door or watch their pets becuase they think it’s livestream only and not recorded. If companies like Google and Ring have magic backend data, we need to know about it.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

He was pardoned for serious crimes - facilitating the financing of terrorists and sex predators. Because he agreed to put millions into Trump’s pocket. Naked corruption. Out in the open for all to see.

Democrats should really ne making loud connections between "the Epstein class is in charge and covering up mass sex crimes" and "they are separating teen girls from their family to hold them alone" in the public eye

"The Epstein class has built and is expanding a giant apparatus to disappear whoever they want, including children, without any way of knowing what's happening to them, and they're all also taking bribes from Epstein co-conspirators to engage in the cover-up" writes itself! bsky.app/profile/robe...

gork is this bad

The mood I would like from anyone running for office is "angel with a flaming sword."

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

I hope Dems understand that the flip side of the "affordability" message is corruption. Trump is not bringing down costs, he's stealing your tax money to enrich himself & his family. You're forced to save & cut back; he's living like fucking Caligula.

This is true, and even if we get rid of Trump, we still have to reckon with the fact that a substantial proportion of US economic and political elites were *eager* to jump on the fascism train. They will still be the same people when Trump is gone.

Circle back to this one. It’s still a crime for an agency head to lie to Congress, last I checked.

“…Their children will have nightmares for years to come. There are people who have not worked for weeks, and now they’re trying to figure out whether they’re going to get evicted.” … “I want to see reparations for the communities most impacted by the campaign of terror we’ve experienced.” …\2

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Michael Hobbes is dunking on carbrainers again

Lemme tell ya right now, if you've been looking for a lil publication that puts out best-in-class Magic writing with the same level of reverence as good sports or pop culture outlets, you are going to have a very exciting late February and March.

the only people surprised that trump's monstrous agenda is actually super unpopular are the 173 people that make up the trump administration and most of the editors of our elite East Coast periodicals. that's right folks, we're looking at a Rich Guys Can't Be Trusted With Groupchats situation again.

Yes. Miller knows those people can't all be deported. He knows they will be in camps. We need to understand: many, many people in Trump's circle read about the Nazis, openly admire Hitler, and want to emulate what Hitler did. We have to accept how serious this is - we cannot hide from it.