I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period. I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt. But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

There is no case for Kash Patel. Every Republican senator who votes for Patel is abdicating his or her constitutional responsibility. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

Canada is considering 100% tariffs on Teslas. 🔗: www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...

My mood…

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

This is Rupert Murdoch's Wallstreet Journal… Headline: “The Dumbest Trade War in History”

Dear Canada and Mexico, We’re so, so sorry. — Sane America

We can only hope our Canadian and Mexican friends understand most of America opposes this idiocy.

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Perfectly captured.

I'm with them.

Today is January 6th and no one is watching the Capitol be plundered, feces being smeared on the walls, and police officers being stabbed with American flags. Why? Because one side believes in democracy no matter what, and the other side only believes in it only when they win.

The Specter of Jan. 6 Hangs Over Us. Pardons Would Whitewash Those Crimes. www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

Trump is a convicted felon. That will never not be true.

ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY 💯

Because, as Rand Paul makes clear, destruction and owning the libs is all they care about. Not actually governing.

He has posted about coming here. I've never seen him post about wanting to harass anybody. If I saw him post that, I would think a lot less of him. "I'm not actually sure" you say. It seems you're just saying stuff other people told you. I'd read his tweets myself if I were you.

💯. Thoroughly agree. The terms of the settlement were incommensurate with the merits of the case.

The ABC News settlement makes zero sense from a legal standpoint. It assumes there is a moral or reputational difference between forcibly penetrating a woman’s vagina with fingers and doing so with a penis. It also assumes that Trump has a reputation that could suffer damage.

Nobody elected Elon Musk.

The Trump storm is coming. And suddenly it’s very, very important that we’ve elected people who believe in democracy, freedom, and the plight of working people at the state level. 🧵

It was always bullshit.

If we weren't at such a weird moment in history, the collapse of Assad's regime would be widely understood as a huge success for the Biden administration, which pursued sanctions on Russia and Iran as well as Syria, armed Ukraine and thus weakened Russia, and supported Syrian democrats and activists

No Democrats should even be remotely close to supporting Pete Hegseth for SecDef. Beyond his many moral failings, he is completely unqualified for the job. You have to be out of your damn mind to think he has any place leading our troops.

Christopher Wray's decision to resign as FBI director isn't normal administrative turnover—it's a scandal, Jonathan Chait argues.

Fact. Dunning-Kruger effect.

So far from what I can tell from this site is that 90% of all interactions are just bots. The other 10% are lunatics just blocking anyone not agreeing with 100% of their posts. No way this site is sustainable other that being propped up by wealthy donors.

The cool thing is that you don't get to decide who this platform is for.

What you're referring to is neither lifesaving nor healthcare.

Dear God, that article is a worthless piece of garbage. Removing language so that reality can only be defined by trans activists is not a "trans right." Stick to voting, housing, employment, marriage - you know, what "rights" are to all other humans.

Hamas's 10/7 attack -- in addition to being purely evil -- is also one of the most consequential strategic blunders of modern times. With the fall of Assad, the defeat of Hezbollah, and the demolition of most of Hamas, the Iranian terror alliance is crumbling right before our eyes.

"Democrats were out of power, out of ideas, and out of touch. To change that, in 1985, I joined with a group of governors, senators, and representatives to form the Democratic Leadership Council." Al From on fixing the Democratic brand, then and now:

“Musk & Trump have fortunes to expand & egos to feed, unimpeded by…old traditions like avoiding conflicts of interest or respecting the will of the people. For them, oligarchy—rule by a rich few serving their own corrupt, selfish purposes—is the new black.“ www.americaamerica.news/p/what-elon-...

"Watching Assad’s fall, one thought perhaps the arc of the moral universe does sometimes bend toward justice. But it’s the Ukrainians and Israelis who bent that arc." What we do matters. Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/stay-on-th...

"Attempting to protect children against the lifelong consequences of medical treatments administered before they’re old enough to fully understand the risks isn’t malicious. It’s a traditional function of American government." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...

I can't help but read this, the lack of immediate media outrage, and wonder if legacy media has given up or simply never cared. This is why I am expanding Democracy Docket as fearlessly independent and unapologetically pro-democracy voice. Sign-up for free. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

President-elect Trump, in his first sit-down broadcast interview since his re-election, repeated several false and inaccurate claims on a range of topics that were staples of his 2024 campaign. Here’s a fact-check.

A friend points out that dictatorships, nowadays, also fail because they run out of money. They can't steal enough from the state to pay loyalists, wind up relying on narcotics trade or international crime (true of both Syria and Venezuela, for example) and then their soldiers stop fighting

Assad is now in Moscow, so Tulsi can visit all her friends in one place.

Markwayne Mullin on Hegseth’s drinking: TAPPER: Drinking at 10 in the morning, that’s a drinking problem. MULLIN: Yeah & there’s probably a lot of media that has a drinking problem too. TAPPER: A drunk reporter who is drinking at 10 AM…is not in charge of the 3 million person defense department.💥

Daily Reminder: 1.47% is NOT a mandate!

Trump said that rioters on January 6 had "no choice" but to assault police officers If any Democrat in the country publicly justified the assault of a police officer it is all you would ever hear about for years www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Assad was propped up by Putin. But Putin couldn’t help him — because Russia’s military has been devastated by Ukraine. Make no mistake: our Ukraine policy is working — it weakens Putin EVERYWHERE.

Convicted felon, insurrectionist, and digital rapist Donald Trump wants to make it a crime to say that he is a criminal. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

What I find creepy is that Ben insists on calling this man “she.” Like the Democratic Party generally, Ben needs to realize that performative adoption of radical trans views like self-ID are why we got here in the first place. Time to listen to reason, @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social

The percentage of Trump followers that are suckers that he abuses may actually exceed the percentage that are kleptocrat wannabes and bigots.