As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

God damn, Zohran just destroyed Cuomo regarding his sexual harassment of women.

no this seems perfect

Remember how under Biden the press said this was the biggest issue ever but how now under Trump it’s barely mentioned? Yeah.

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is. There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story. My take: it's giving Enron open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.

We cannot fight the far right until we acknowledge that the spread of ideas and beliefs is what drives voter behavior and other political decisions, and that we have created an information environment that is extraordinarily favorable to the far right

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Part of the transition from conservatism to authoritarianism is the shift from lies with some veneer of plausibility (wink wink) to lies that are demonstrably, obviously lies, such that accepting them involves an almost total subjugation of individual discernment or judgment.

you cannot lose elections to people that suggest lee greenwood for the super bowl halftime show over bad bunny

“Either this machine will be powerful enough to take your job or it’ll blow up and you’ll lose your job in a recession” is a tough outlook for white collar workers over the next few years.

Two dudes whom despite their best efforts have no power in Canada.

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Yeah. Because it's illegal.

That is 100% the right note to strike. I am getting very Van Hollen pilled.

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that the Trump administration unconstitutionally targeted noncitizens for deportation over Gaza war protests.

its hard to look at that speech in front of the generals as anything other than his pitch to the military to start shooting the media and democrats

Trump must be removed from office ASAP Every Republican in Congress should be bombarded with the question of why they don't support removing him office, given that he's suggested today using the US military against Americans

Just thinking today of all the colleagues who called us alarmists and cranks when we pointed out that Trump was talking and acting like a fascist in 2016

Is calling the half of the country that opposes you "bad people" and vowing to use the military power of the state to crush them "doing politics the right way"? I mean, he is up there saying words, trying to persuade!

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Ezra Klein’s moral collapse is one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen in politics

It is! I really am working hard to stay objective in telling the news, truly. But if you’re a racist piece of shit then you’re a racist piece of shit.

it's fascism, folks.

there is a bit of a conflation of "not going beyond public opinion" with "actively affirming your opponent's view of things"

Please stop showing me anything about Ezra Klein. Irrevocably opting out of “Ezra Klein”

If the former, then an American Starmerism makes some sense as an accommodation to a public that holds reactionary views on critical issues. But if it is the latter, then the public’s view is still something to strongly contest and is liable to change.

Ezra Klein—like every 'liberal' pundit who befriends and promotes right-wing propagandists as good-faith interlocutors—does not have a good grasp on recent political history, including events he lived through, which is part of why he's incapable of suggesting useful strategies for the future.

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites

The alliance between South Africa and Palestine is beautiful and everywhere

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

This is very good and reminds me of a point I always make when people say you can’t shame people out of being bigots. You can’t, but you can make them behave better by not creating a culture of permissiveness when they do

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

They demand people accept a “tradeoff” in which they don’t have to actually lose the Black support they’re willing to trade in. Which is impossible.

Now that’s what I call a pivot

Did Trump win in November because he showed grace and empathy to people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020? Politics is not an Afterschool Special. You put out a strong message about what's wrong, propose a compelling policy agenda, hope the economy cooperates and that's it. None of this mush.

Premise is there's numerous former Trump supporters (a) with a change of heart (b) who will change back if Dems don't flatter them. There are trivially few such people, if any. In reality, Dems need to win back nonvoters. They won't do that by trying to placate Trumpers, they'll just look weak.

i really have not seen yglesias et al reckon with the fact that kamala ran exactly the campaign they would have suggested and lost.

America is already complicit in Netanyahu’s campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and now Trump wants to send him $6.4B more in offensive weapons. Our priority should be ending the war and returning the hostages  — not funneling MORE taxpayer dollars to Netanyahu to bomb starving Gaza.

Bidens legacy is doing nothing after J6. Even the GOP couldn't believe they got away with it. Literally the biggest (not only) reason we are swimming in shit today is because Democrats were too scared to follow and enforce the law as it was written.

The Republican Party as it is currently constituted will destroy the United States — politically, economically, socially and culturally. The democratic reform of our federal system isn't only justified in itself, but necessary to force its moderation into a party compatible with liberal democracy.

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.

Just very weird to follow politics knowing that there's going to be a recession that'll make everything we're talking about feel like it happened in prehistoric times.