More messaging like this please

Here’s a gift link to my New York Times piece on what Dems can learn from bad bunny www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

This makes me want to…🤬

The Democratic Party needs to get younger, feistier, smarter at messaging and more in touch with the electorate, both at the state and federal levels. Democratic voters need to get more discerning about who they choose to fight against the rising tide of oligarchic fascism. 1/6

Great idea. Just in time for the midterm elections. www.thebulwark.com/p/state-comm...

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks. On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

History repeats.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

This has promise: "“Yes, New Jersey should sue the Trump administration, but we have to do more... The state should also eminent domain Trump’s golf course in Bedminster and build some affordable housing there instead. If the federal government won’t stand up for New Jersey, Trenton should.”

🚨🚨🚨 “Form a circle, form a circle.” They do not want us to see what they are doing in Portland. Low hanging fruit for us. This was posted 3 hours ago. 1/2

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Dear Ezra Klein, bodily autonomy is not a bargaining chip. What rights are you willing to give up? Let’s see you walk the talk. The burger is on me. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

Let me be clear: this will impact ALL of us. It’s bigger than just Medicaid & Medicare. We will all pay the price.

The government is officially shut down, and Trump is threatening war on American cities. Seth Meyers takes #ACloserLook at what comes next... youtu.be/2kYFtt3IYTA?...

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

‘War-ravaged’ cities don’t typically have artisanal kombucha on every corner.

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

People are saying that Dems want to give $497 quadrillion to every immigrant here. 37 trillion people illegally cross our open borders every single day. 45 billion Americans are MURDERED by illegal aliens every year. But libs REFUSE to believe these Republican FACTS!

from Wednesday's post: the Secretary of Stupid, Piss-Drunk Pete Kegstand, basically ordered our military to commit more war crimes, and then Little Donny Fuckface got up and blithered incoherently, because of course he did. please read the whole thing — link is here: bit.ly/3KOoHiU

This is the best elevator pitch I've seen from Dems on the shutdown.

I wish I could find the post, but someone on here recently pointed out that the elite pundit addiction to Twitter is distorting their worldview even further. They really think America is far more right-wing than it is, which requires ignoring actual data. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-right-...

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

FAFO

The same man who bankrupted casinos is bankrupting the U.S. government. Different stage, same con: Trump’s failure is always someone else’s tab. This time, it’s yours. #DonaldTrumpsShutdown 4/5

Every shutdown is a choice. Trump chose billionaire tax breaks over working families. Chose chaos over stability. Chose power over people. And now Americans pay the price—again. #DonaldTrumpsShutdown 2/5

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

The people who were very temporarily opposed to violence last week are back to celebrating mass murder for its own sake with a zeal that can only be described as “outlandishly horny.”

If you were in the room during Hegseth and Trump's speech, and you'd like to share your response anonymously, reach out to me on Signal (in bio.) Share widely.

It’s so pathetically predicable. “Democrats did __________ because of illegals.” They think the American people are dumb. They aren’t.

If Trump had become president 20 years earlier, Epstein would have been in his cabinet.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

Such a tragedy

The headline here is “Hegseth announces changes that will protect domestic abusers in the military.” Even though this is incontestably true, no news organization will use this headline, because telling the truth is deemed impermissible if the truth hurts the right too much

This shutdown needs to be called the Epstein Shutdown. Yall can’t hide

Sad, but true.

Americans: My family needs healthcare GOP: No Americans: It is VERY important GOP: NO healthcare but here’s coal Americans: I don’t need coal GOP: It’s all we have. Wait, here’s measles. Americans: But my kid is sick GOP: The gold in the White House is 24 karat. #RemoveTrump

In Trump's America, your tax dollars will help wreck the planet

That is just plainly not true. Your budget slashed help for people who buy Affordable Care Act plans. That's 22 million Americans whose premiums are going up - RIGHT NOW - by double digits directly because of a policy you passed.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

A convicted Florida felon is so hellbent on ABUSING POWER to STEAL your healthcare that he's willing to shut the government down to do it??? F THAT NOISE!!! #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

Every major Democrat has millions in their campaign account. The threat to democracy is big enough that we need to be funding mobilization and messaging right now - not just banking money for the next election. If we don't build right now, there might not be another election.