I have absolutely no idea what Trump is trying to accomplish in Iran, or how he plans to accomplish it, and the fun thing is that neither does he! That's why the constitution does not give the President the authority to launch wars without Congressional approval.

Radiohead just randomly started streaming live performances and random songs from their catalogue yesterday, and it's still going..................... 👀👀👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6ga...

Having Jim Messina at your event is basically admitting your event is about selling out to conservatives, corporations, and billionaires. How can we trust he cares about our future? His history suggests he cares about himself, he'l do almost anything to make money. Here's a list... 1/

Its one thing to read the histories and realize that fascism is an ideology by and for weird losers who suck at everything, and another to live through it

i am sort of morbidly fascinated by how being bad at fucking everything — posting, joking, movies, fashion, design, etc., etc. — has become such an in-group signal amongst the worst people on the planet

Jon Cowan & his Third Way group — ugh — what an arrogant person w some quite out of touch ideas about voter concerns & preferences — but guess if you spend your time seeking the views of “50 top Democratic donors” those are the folks whose views you’re aware of (in rw: to NYT article)

If I were a head of state, I would think setting a precedent that assassination is a legitimate tool of state competition would be unwise

More specifically I don’t care about blame I care about CHANGE. At this point the only ones who can make quick change are Republicans and we should direct our focus on them.

Yes in this particular moment the blame is 99.9% on Republicans. A dozen R’s in Congress could together end this presidency now

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

This is what happens when you don't lock war criminals up, Netanyahu and Trump should be behind bars, the only thing they should be able to order is their lawyer.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

There are all sorts of structural things that need to get fixed, but the most obvious and essential requires no structural change, but a cultural one: An end to elite impunity. Real costs for flagrant misbehavior. We have all the tools. We just never use them.

You know what DID age well?

Sorry, @peterbakernyt.bsky.social, I’ve run completely out of fucks. You’re incompetent! Give me your job. I wrote this in 2024. theracket.news/p/donald-the...

People ask what it is exactly we expect of Dems in this situation, and for me it's this. Make these assholes fucking scared. Make it clear that they are on borrowed time, that consequences WILL arrive, and that they will be harsh.

the US and israel are doing Russian things now this is horiffic

The pileup of blatantly unlawful conduct by the government in this case is astonishing, as is the fact that the Supreme Court allowed the govt to go forward with this program in a shadow docket ruling

Kamala Harris: When this guy is talking about the economy is roaring… Who’s it roaring for when you put a $1 trillion cut to Medicaid? You know what Medicaid funds? Families with children, pregnant women, seniors, people with disabilities. Meanwhile, a $1 trillion tax cut for the richest people

"The president had DOJ illegally cover up documents about allegations he sexually assaulted a child after Congress specifically passed a law requiring they be disclosed" is, in and of itself, enough to merit rapid removal from office regardless of how true or credible the underlying allegation is.

The disappearance of Larry Summers from public life cannot happen fast enough.

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

This is both an act of war *and* a war crime, as it is similar to cutting off water or destroying power plants. It's designed to kill civilians.

Jail them now

One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.

Remember, john roberts' logic for weakening the medicaid expansion was that it was "too coercive" to give the states money to pay for medicaid. bsky.app/profile/apne...

In Rep. Tony Gonzales, Republicans have a sexual predator in their midst who relentlessly pursued a married staffer which ultimately resulted in her suicide, and they refuse to do anything about it because they need his vote. That is the 2026 Republican Party.

some YouTube asshole lied about Somalians stealing daycare subsides. so Trump is stealing healthcare from the entire state

I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS. The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.

Definitely the first State of the Union where the president talked about the military killing unarmed fishermen as a laugh line

So SOTU = mostly a bunch of old white guys getting medals plus brief slasher movie type crime descriptions — dude still mad that he couldn’t host the Oscars

In our extensive research on activation - who is activated (beyond voting), activatable, repulsed by regime but won't do direct action - a critical dimension is NOT mere disapproval but whether they view regime as break in normalcy vs just a bad regular right wing gov't in a democracy.

Trump is bragging about working to eliminate fraud. Most of his presidential pardons have been for people convicted of money laundering and fraud to the tune of over $1 billion.

Trump and the GOP cut $1 trillion from Medicaid and handed $1 trillion in tax cuts to the top 1%. Dollar for dollar. That's what Donald Trump calls “winning.”

If I had been described as a close personal friend by a child sex trafficker and I had no involvement at all in his dealings, I'd want a full release of all the files that could prove my innocence. But for some strange reason, Trump doesn't. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

So are we all in agreement that any members of the men’s hockey team who attend the State of the Union address tonight are huge assholes who should be showered with boos for the rest of their career?

This is why you do stunts. This is why you do stunts. This is why you do stunts.

Not Howard Lutnick (Epstein files) sitting next to Lori Chavez DeRemer (husband banned from the Department of Labor building for sexually assaulting people)

excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants

Trump just said if we could get rid of fraud, we would balance the budget. Guess he’s taken more bribes than we thought.

The challenges we now face must be met by a bold progressive populist movement that strengthens democracy and shakes up the system. We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump. We cannot accept the status quo of billionaires and Big Money dominating our politics and economy.

Lol

Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.

You still have the right to go into the post office and get a same-day postmark at the counter. If you have any doubts at all about whether you'll make the deadline, add some extra time to go into the Post Office, go to the counter, and get your voter registration or ballot hand-stamped!

After Trump denigrated the American women's hockey team's gold medal performance at the Winter Olympics, Flavor Flav invitee the team, along with other star athletes, to a huge party that he's putting together for them in Las Vegas. Party in Vegas, or listen to Trump whine: which would you choose?

just an an addendum to this, last storm he offered $19/hour with a possible increase to $28/hour after a certain amount of time worked, but i imagine that number wasn’t attractive enough so this time he was just like, $30 for everyone. adaptability!

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

I've got a new survey out today (part of private polling consulting work I do) that finds Trump's deportation agenda is eroding support for the GOP, and voters want the president to prioritize economics over deportations. W/ direct data on Trump defectors: morrispredictive.com/assets/surve...

The Brits are showing us how it’s done. Every day they shame our corrupt government more.