This is an essential read, and really calls for some deep thinking among liberals about the normative work that analytical terms like 'polarization' are doing in American and comparative politics

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

We have no idea where Yglesias got his numbers but they’re wrong. This debate has for so long been plagued by numbers basically pulled out of thin air Right pic is from my and @adambonica.bsky.social’s response essay: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...

Out here with @troublemakers.bsky.social @mlklabor.bsky.social and a few hundred of our friends in solidarity with Minnesota and immigrant communities everywhere to tell Target "ICE OUT NOW!"

"In 2023, the “Minnesota Miracle” secured one of the strongest social safety nets in the country...None of it would have been possible without years of organizing that built a multiracial constituency prepared to stand together" - @hahrie.bsky.social for @hammerandhope.bsky.social, 2024

New post: The brutal invasion of Minnesota is the most recent maneuver in the MAGA military "reconstruction" of the North—a coordinated assault on not just the idea of liberal democracy, but on those living in states who still strive for it.

We are thrilled to announce Dr. @dorianwarren.bsky.social, Co-President of Community Change & Co-Founder of @economicsecurityproject.org, as our Winter Meeting Keynote speaker! Mayors, you won't want to miss it! Make your plan to join us in DC today: bit.ly/MIPW26

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

Latosha Brown: “ This Thanksgiving, I’m taking power back…I invite all Americans who are fed up to do the same.” I don’t know about you, but “I’m Not Buyin’ It!” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio... @blackvotersmatterfund.org

Still wondering what you can do? Here’s your answer for Black Friday Week: don’t support companies that don’t support you. Stop financing your own oppression. We ain’t buying it.

NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level. The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion. thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...

Ok but GUYS MY BOOK IS ACTUALLY OUT TODAY YOU CAN GO AND GET A COPY AND READ IT AND EVERYTHING www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vanes...

I spoke with Community Change co-president @dorianwarren.bsky.social last week about current political perils and how to create the world we want. www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/events/democ...

Why is labor power essential to democracy? For week 2 of our @npquarterly.bsky.social Third Reconstruction series, @darrickhamilton.bsky.social & @dorianwarren.bsky.social look at U.S. history. Read why the path out of authoritarianism runs through a multiracial labor movement: demos.nyc/43lmRwx

DC FRIENDS: I'll be at Politics and Prose on Nov. 17th to talk about my new book, The Price of Democracy! Thrilled to be joined by @dorianwarren.bsky.social for the conversation. 5015 Conn Ave Monday, Nov 17th 7pm politics-prose.com/vanessa-will... Come talk 😍taxation and democracy😍!

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

The harm is real: Black workers pushed out of jobs, HBCUs stripped of resources, Black mothers and fathers denied healthcare, and neighborhoods left without protection from floods, asthma, or poisoned water. 📖 Read the full Blackout Report now. #BlackoutReport #OnyxImpact

The Role of Race in Trump’s Authoritarianism: 'Black people have a rich tradition of collective organizing and action. We’re good at this. I wish we didn’t have to be.' Read the Op-Ed by @dorianwarren.bsky.social on The Progressive. progressive.org/op-eds/the-r... #authoritarianism #resistance

DC — Press Conference & Rally TODAY The Trump regime has escalated their occupation of DC—Federal agents are now violently profiling, harassing, and arresting Black and Brown DC community members. Join DC community leaders to demand FEDERAL FORCES OUT NOW: 📍 14th St NW & U St NW ⏰ 3 PM FREE DC.

As he unleashes troops to combat "crime," Trump is simultaneously gutting the cops on the beat that stop corporations from harming us — the EPA, IRS, SEC, Labor Department, FTC, CFPB, Consumer Product Safety Commission, FDA, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Hello?

Sure, narrative control is side benefit, but seems wrong to claim Trump's motive in taking over DC is to distract from his failures & crimes. That's the calculus of a politician trying to win elections. His agenda is to seize ultimate power so he need not have to bother with courting votes.

My MSNBC debut, on the rising ACA premiums. The Trump Admin is letting the Biden Admin's enhanced subsidies expire, making marketplace ins prohibitively expensive (so younger/healthier people will drop out, leaving the rest costlier to insure), & tariffs aren't helping. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This point — in a very insightful post by @adambonica.bsky.social — is so obvious that only bad faith actors can deny or ignore it.

Parents and providers know what they need in a childcare system: something simple & safe where all kids have a high quality spot. We worked with Community Change on a new paper w/ research rooted in conversations with stakeholders about these simple demands.

Trouble with having focused on Medicaid alone, instead of naming horror show #MAGAMurderBill, attacking it as financing fascist assault to abduct our neighbors, steal our healthcare, seize more power, is that Medicaid provisions go into effect AFTER midterms.

Black leaders are on through the night to rally our community. You can join. www.youtube.com/live/uax8jmJ...

Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill

A word on the sanctity of birthright citizenship: Rights that Black Americans created for our liberation—also benefitting countless others—are routinely undermined by opponents of our freedom who try to convince us it is in our interest to adopt their narrowest construction. 1/4

Will the Dem leaders and frontline members be “popularist” (join the large majority in opposition to war) or will they fold in the face of Republican bluster (which would tell us a lot about the role popularism actually plays in Dem politics)? www.offmessage.net/p/18-thought...

I am looking for congressional leaders to come out quickly and forcefully against this. We need unequivocal opposition. We need theatric demonstrations of defiance. We need to see leadership. Trump will steamroll us all if we display weakness. Where are our leaders?

🚨 NEW REPORT: We’re exposing 6 billionaires behind Trump’s cruel agenda. In order to appease their billionaire donors, Republicans are pushing tax cuts for the ultra-rich and making us pay for it by slashing our survival programs. Unlock the findings: popdemoc.org/trumps-oligarchs

administration should just put up a “no niggers” sign and save themselves the trouble of writing out each country

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

Who was MN Rep. Melissa Hortman in the MN Legislature? READ about her consequential leadership in this THREAD by @taniel.bsky.social. Take the time.

Join us on May 6 for the closing lecture of the 2025 #HCLS to explore the critical role of the labor movement in rebalancing power and achieving economic justice. RSVP: event.newschool.edu/stronglaborm...

One week from today! @c-hughes.bsky.social, Stone Center Associate Director Leslie McCall, and @dorianwarren.bsky.social will discuss today's shifting economic landscape and the possibilities for change. Moderated by @feliciawong.bsky.social. Register for the in-person event or livestream!

Today is launch day for the book Marketcrafters! I went on CNBC's SquawkBox to explain what it's all about -- and take on the skeptics www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...

Ditto.

“They were not guaranteed to win, but they did choose not to fight.”

Remember when Biden's inner circle swore up down left right he would not step down? Made battleground state Dem leaders put out a letter supporting him staying the DAY BEFORE he stepped down? Do not give up. This is not over & saying it is gives them cover. #NoOnMAGAMurderBudget

It gets worse! Many, many Democrats have opposed filibuster abolition on the grounds that they’d miss it when Republicans gained a trifecta and it wasn’t available to them anymore.

As another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)

Trump backed GOP into a big corner with his “balanced budget” point. The ONLY way House GOP could even think about upholding their “no cuts to Medicaid” swing seat promises and their spending cut mandates is deficit spending and bad math. Now they have to gut Medicaid & hand it to Elon in public.