Will never get over that those of us who do academic work at the center of supposed “woke” (🙄) tried to warn EVERYONE else in academia this would come for them, that this would be a mass democratic crisis, that people would die, and well…really wish we’d been wrong…but there is still time to fight

one kind of striking thing about the 250 birthday fiasco is aren't there usually just regular people visiting the capital every day did this event actually repel visitors

looks good to me 👍

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

I think i just made ~180 things visible!

Seeing the Great American State Fair makes me feel a bit better about most of my book signing events.

when it zoomed out I gasped

The bicentennial made such a tremendous impact on American *pop* culture--I remember the Barney Miller episode about it!--there were tricorner hats everywhere, hit songs, a movie, and the logo and local parades all year long. This year it feels as empty as the mall.

This laughable attempt by Doocy to gaslight us aside, it's poignantly sad that the attendance is so poor. America's 250th birthday should be a time for all of us to celebrate our nation's birthday-together-just like the bicentennial Instead, it's just one more thing Trump has taken from us

If the real one gets built, I'm sure it will be this same stunning level of quality.

The response to this tiny video for a city council race we have no connection to is proof — even more than the national fascination with New York elections — of how hungry the people are to believe that ANY elected official anywhere is truly fighting to make people’s lives materially better.

It would have been epic

So, I think it's important to say: Other Democrats DO do this. I had a local city Councilmember back in 2013 who was exactly like this. Where I think national leaders are getting lost in their ability to replicate this, is the fact the more they start running for higher office -

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

“restoring faith that better is possible” is maybe the most important thing in politics right now outside of imposing consequences on the bad people (and imposing consequences would help restore faith) we have seen what cynical, “lol nothing matters” politics leads to and it leads to Donald Trump

Idk, maybe it's just me slowly pupating into a beautiful old man butterfly, but when people say things feel "off" now, this is kinda what i'm talking about. this is just really shocking stuff, and if you said it even during the Bush II admin, you would be out of politics, out of a job, etc.

Mamdani's revolutionary idea that has entrenched power scared is that he wants to a.) listen to people and b.) help them.

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Why would the pipes need fixing if the only problem was vandals and their giant box cutters and their buckets of algae?

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After a lifetime of hearing why things can't be done, it's remarkable to see how much he's been able to get done in just six months.

Crazy idea but instead of their asinine fight against Mamdani and progressives, those centrist Dems should learn from him. And maybe instead of bitching to the media, they could fight for good policy and get shit done for their constituents too But that requires commitment and whining is easier

Oh, he's so close to getting it.

Breaking the power of SCOTUS—both specifically to gut the Roberts court but also for all future courts—really does need to be a top priority of the next Democratic president

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

This isn’t just oddly inappropriate. It suggests that the ongoing Middle East negotiations are intertwined with private profit-making opportunities for the Trump family.

The Tea Party was (1) small protests which were (2) hyped by media & (3) led to the election of radical nut jobs who (4) badly broke US politics. What we have now are (1) huge protests that were (2) dismissed by media but (3) still got a few candidates in deep blue NYC who (4) will work to fix it.

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.

Democratic voters prefer politicians who are ready, willing and able to fight. Where incumbents fail that test, voters will look to replace them with politicians who will actually fight. That's it. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

"if elections keep turning out like this, things might get bad. watch out."

WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.

good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands

Thank you, Jocelyn! It's the G.O.A.T's birthday today x

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Trump literally drove a presidential motorcade through the reflecting pool while it was still being refurbished & before the new liner even dried properly. if you drift a bunch of armored SUVs around inside of a dry pool, it damages the liner. it isn’t difficult to figure out what happened.

Yeah, he tried to hedge his bets with the dual endorsement 🙄 after polls started coming out, but his original endorsement is getting clobbered. I don't want either of these awful people as my governor so lets do everything we can to elect @drjljohnson.bsky.social!

Not beating the eugenicist allegations

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,

BREAKING NYT: Government documents raise new doubts about Trump's unsubstantiated claim that "vandals" sabotaged the Reflecting Pool. There's no indication the peeling blue coating and algae blooms were caused intentionally — and the Trump admin knew that.

Both these headlines are from Texas this month. Texas sentenced anti-ICE protestors to 100 years in prison, but a serial pedophile to only 30 days. This is MAGA exemplified.

a cool moment -- Kaitlin Collins tells Brad Lander that he won his primary live on air during an interview with him. Lander responds by saying, "I'm thrilled. I did not expect to be on air when the race was called."

i know i know but in todays political climate no other president would be able to even joke about not knowing what they were signing without getting fuckin pilloried and for this fuck it is just another oh lets just humor him monday

"President Donald Trump launched an unnecessary war against Iran and destroyed the economy, but he's mostly focused on deploying the National Guard to protect the renovation of the reflecting pool he completely botched" is a sentence that would have gotten you involuntarily committed 20 years ago.

Taken down by that great, powerful member of antifa: basic science.

😹 come on now who is writing this season

antifa with a knife in the reflecting pool