This needs too be normalized at conventions.

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

Democrats have served and died for this country. Imagine a commander in chief disrespecting these heroes. Well, you don’t have to.

“No one will stop him. The only people who can stop Trump are Republicans. They’re not going to stop him. They’re going to let him keep crashing and killing and destroying.” —Stuart Stevens trib.al/zermG9D

The civil rights movement built power not by capturing the state but by building institutions that formed citizens capable of acting on and with the state when the moment came. The Voting Rights Act ratified that capacity. It did not create it. That capacity is what needs rebuilding now.

The thing about “Bluesky is a bubble” takes is that they start with the false assumption that social media is our job or some sort of responsibility. This isn’t my job. It’s probably not yours, either. It’s not our responsibility to ruin our days on a Nazi hellsite or to talk to dummies here.

Khanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats are threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that's rolling back civil rights"

Canada as a state. Greenland as a state. Iran as a state. The Western hemisphere as a state. Stuff like this should immediately end a presidency, seeing as it wildly violates the UN Charter & massively endangers US national security. But alas, he is One Special Boy & nothing seems to matter anymore.

I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years.

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

Why not just write a bill dissolving the slush fund?

recently watched some Hinchcliffe and it is wild to me that he has a career. profoundly unfunny dude with an intolerable voice to boot.

Trump absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll of registered voters: 33-64 on economy 66% oppose $1 billion for ballroom And Trump is underwater among independents on economy by a staggering 43 points, 27-70 (!!) On the pod, we dig deep into all these numbers: newrepublic.com/article/2107...

"They leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him." If revealing your official tax returns -- something every single president and VP for forty years before Trump did voluntarily -- could possibly "destroy" you, that is the scandal.

i think it is a solid sign of how fundamentally checked out bezos is from the actual state of american politics that he is mouthing the cliches of 20 years ago as if they are novel insights

I love this for them.

If the courts don't let Donald Trump redistribute taxpayer money to pro-regime felons, I’m going to become an even bigger libertarian.

So what? The Presidency isn’t a game of capture the flag. He doesn’t get to stay President if he stays on White House property. On January 20, 2029 at Noon HIS AUTHORITY ENDS. PERIOD. FULL STOP. THAT’S ALL, THERE AIN’T NO MORE. GD.

when liberals make bad arguments like this it literally makes the world we live in worse. it gives fascists a green light. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Somehow Trump's blatant, breathtakingly over-the-top, corruption is underappreciated. It is unreal to think this goes on before our very eyes. There has never been anything like it in American history. He is looting the country in plain sight.

When a democratic president is underwater on approval the media interviews republican voters and when a republican president is underwater the media interviews republican voters

1. Egg potato and cheese tacos are incredible 2. The evidence for it being a “debate” is that a Republican said something about it hoping an article like this would get written bsky.app/profile/anam...

Ken Paxton is historically corrupt, John Cornyn is a MAGA traffic cone, and Talarico might be a SECRET VEGETARIAN WITH MID TACO ORDERS. Which one has the best case to be elected to the Senate? WHO CAN SAY?

He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t!

again, this is literally black-letter constitutional text in virginia. this is an inalienable power that supercedes any formal amendment process. the court went beyond its jurisdiction when it attempted to overturn the referendum.

Virginians, scream this into the ear of your state reps until they restore the districts you voted for.

Imposing real, criminal consequences for the Hegseth/Miller/Trump drug boat murders must be a top priority for the next administration. It would be a catastrophic moral failing to let them go unanswered.

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They think that you’ll just move on after they dodged your question once or twice cause you have limited time. I’m more than happy to spend my entire time getting the answer to my damn question.

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

Fuck do I care? Don't publish this shit.

Enten: "It's not just one poll. The five worst polls ever for any president on inflation, they all belong to Donald Trump and they have all occurred in the last month. What we're talking about here is the worst numbers ever. Joe Biden isn't in there. Jimmy Carter isn't in there."

When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized?

Intelligence assessments say that Iran retains most of its missile sites, launchers, and uranium. A racist, alcoholic, woman-beating former Fox News host says that all of these were obliterated by kinetic lethality. For presidents busy designing ballrooms, it can be hard to know who to trust.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Under his eye.

very much of the view that a democratic congress should wield the guarantee clause against ad hoc, mid-decade redistricting, a practice which is an end run against representative government itself

That ~every news outlet participated in the Democrats Must Tone Down The Rhetoric charade, while this won’t even make the news tomorrow, tells you all you need to know about how <all together now> neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party

Ruben Gallego is the latest Senator to come out in support of structural reform of the Roberts #SCOTUS. Sens. Warren, Smith, Markey has come out for expansion. Booker supports term limits. Where are Sens. Whitehouse, Sanders, Merkley, Murphy, Schatz, Murray and so on? Time is now to speak out.

This excellent analysis lays bare that they realize they're wildly unpopular (popular agendas can achieve success through democratic means). And of course the more of this they do the more unpopular they become, so it's a treadmill and feedback loop.

The rule appears to be that redistricting is always legal when it benefits Republicans and never legal when it benefits Democrats.

Those who know, those who don’t know etc bsky.app/profile/anne...

"Leading by example" works to shame the other side into doing the right thing, but I think we all know by now that Republicans do not feel shame. They just think Democrats are dupes for giving up power levers voluntarily

this looks quite bad but i'll believe it when they stop putting people like him in office bsky.app/profile/left...

Crucial point from @ariberman.bsky.social on the pod: Dems have already tried leading by example as a way to try to entice Rs to deescalate the hardball. It failed. Time to try something else: Dems must now engage in redistricting Total War. Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

"So what needs to happen now - and it needs to happen now - is that Democrat-led states need to set aside procedure and redraw the maps. New York, New Jersey, Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Maryland, and Colorado need to get it done. Do it in 2026 if possible. By 2028 is non-negotiable."

Virginia is "a wakeup call to Democrats across the country - in NJ, NY, MD, IL, OR, WA, CO - this is the time to start fighting back... Republicans don't believe that Democrats have the right to exist. If we don't start fighting back, we're going to good government ourselves into obscurity."