There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.

Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

this guy should never have to pay for a sandwich in that town ever again

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Bluesky rn

OK to be serious for a second: Dick Cheney won. This is the kind of presidency he spent his entire career fighting to establish. Like many revolutionaries, he was devoured by those who followed in his wake; but when it comes to his chief goal — formally installing an imperial presidency — he won.

New awareness campaign

Man, Will Smith just slapped the shit out of... Sorry. Sorry. Trying to delete it.

If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Also worth noting that the so-called "compromise" position boils down to "Trans-people can't exist in X space," whether it be sports, bathrooms, etc. You cannot compromise on one's existence because there is no middle ground. One either exists or doesn't.

I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.

Don't threaten me with a good time, Mark

We cannot be a meaningfully representative democracy until we replace the Senate & single-member districts as currently structured with actually representative & democratic institutions

Everybody wants to pretend that the people who have a problem the Nazi tattoo are actually upset about the Reddit posts because the Reddit posts are Reddit posts and not a Nazi tattoo.

I don't really wanna weigh in on the Platner thing (would rather my eyeballs be poked w/ needles) but going w/ "the idea that you must be perfect" when the issue at hand is an SS tattoo on his body for EIGHTEEN YEARS is hilarious

Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.

Which party had a majority in the house? Has Donald Trump increased taxes on imports, decreased them or left them the same? What percentage of voters know the US Atty for ED was pushed out by Trump because he wouldn’t indict Tish James and Comey? Etc

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

His grandfather was a millionaire architect, his father a very successful lawyer. Platner has NEVER needed help to "access higher education." He joined the military & became a Blackwater mercenary because he liked it. People would rather believe in fantasy than struggle with facts.

oh just straight up gutter racism!

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

Centrism is viewed by its adherents less as an ideology and more as an immutable law of the universe. Any modicum of progressivism is deemed foolhardy and dangerous because it viewed as unnatural. Oddly, such views do not apply to the right, which is viewed as simply misguided.

neat trick the "centrists" love to pull: just blankly asserting that all of their personal biases are popular and the things they don't like are unpopular and dragging the party down we see the transphobia, folks

One of the wisest things Ta-Nehisi Coates said in that Ezra Klein interview is sometimes we lose. It’s not a moral judgment or even evidence of strategic failure. Sometimes you lose. You can’t build a politics around “winning,” because 1) that’s not possible and 2) then you have no real values

I’m glad I took this screenshot now that she’s deleted it, as it captures what one commenter brilliantly called “Jessica Chastain portraying Richard Belzer”

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

Behold the ubermenschen bsky.app/profile/bgru...

you can’t really call this anything other than cowardice

If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

Goddammit...

Some questions which would have struck me as obvious to ask here: "When did you realize it was a Nazi tattoo?" "How did you feel when you realized it was a Nazi tattoo?" "What are you going to do about the Nazi tattoo?"

Oh come on

No Constitution, No Union.

If you use Spotify, time to stop.

This is pure trolling. There is nothing about this that is in any way serious. Yes, there are people who believe what he's saying to be true. But this guy (seriously, look at this used-car loser) is trolling for the lulz and the grift. There is no ideology here. I mean, look at him. He's a clown.

What's wild is that this is an actual conspiracy theory from the Alex Jones crowd, the far-right, and elements of the Christian Right. I think even RFK has dabbled in it. And now he wants to actually do it. It's bonkers.

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

Hey Ezra Klein, is this doing politics the right way?