I think people are starting to realize that Congress isn’t doing its job at all and Mike Johnson is ceding virtually all power to Trump and the fools he’s placed around him.

I want to note that numerous very large subreddits have made any statements of support for Democrats or “liberalism” a bannable offense. They are, at best, useful idiots for the far-right.

This is something I think about almost every day, and you should too.

I took a college course on the history of espionage and the professor was a cold war liberal who had an oddly consistent worldview where he regarded Reality Winner and Chelsea Manning as patriotic whistleblowers but despised Snowden as a traitor and told the entire class he should be hanged

A lot of things have gone really wrong with white men of my generation, and Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz really give me hope that there are better angels among us.

One of the weirder things in this weird timeline is that the former host of The Man Show has been far more consistently up for this moment than Jon Stewart.

I’m just going say once again that all of social media is an absolute trash fire during any breaking news event. Log off. Read the AP story tomorrow.

So much cope in the replies but Mamdani would likely have barely won if the general was ranked-choice. In one of the most liberal cities in America.

Emerson finds TN-7 basically ~tied ahead of Tuesday election, with Trump underwater in a district he won by 22. A winnable race for Dems. If R’s lose this race their ability to control the House *this year* is a real issue. Link to donate to Dem Aftyn Behn here: secure.actblue.com/donate/aftyn...

Also in this whole debate I realize that I am increasingly less self-confident in my own abilities and can admit I was always dumber the less old I was. The age-wisdom curve is real.

Substack has an antiscience health disinformation problem. MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack. Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...

I get that we love to hate on the “consultant class” but nobody, and I mean nobody, has dumber “Democrats should do this if they want to win” advice than any big social media account, especially if they have a Substack or podcast they’re selling.

This probably makes a lot of sense if your brain dissolved itself in 2016

All of these are bad but one thing that’s even less comforting is how many journalists are on X. What happens there always ends up downstream even for adults who are never on it.

One thing that’s interesting to me tonight is that X and Meta sites are pretty explicitly algorithmically manipulated, but Bluesky seems more just a case of users who learned what performs and is rewarded in those.

I recently rewatched The Social Network and honestly it feels a lot more like Oppenheimer now.

Put aside what the reaction would be if Schumer or Jeffries said this, how is this not seen as boosting Trump at a point when his unpopularity was at its highest point?

It would be great if a lot of people reflected on their own actions in 2024. I get that won’t happen. But honestly if you can spend all of 2025 and 2026 just loudly complaining about the opposition party and then look yourself in the mirror, you should probably ask yourself what’s wrong with you.

I’m sure he couldn’t give a shit, but this is the post that made me cancel my subscription to Public Notice. Internet brain seems to come for any journalist in the poster environment, but this is not journalism. This is engagement farming. This kind of broke my heart. I loved Aaron.

Seeing the reactions not fully a day later, I’m going to double-down on this take.

I wish we would really take a look at the legacy of Justice Democrats. Who was involved in its founding, who they’ve elected and how they have all had a role in where we’re at today.

I think it’s quite bad actually that an entire narrative was created around a closed-door meeting and assumed to be truth by almost every journalist and big poster on this site from Bouie to Rupar and beyond.

Imagine the commentary on this website if Schumer and Jeffries had exchanged friendship bracelets with Donald Trump.

Ah, cool. Definitely not horseshoe theory. Great job today, everyone on the internet!

As I have been saying for MONTHS now, nationalizing Mandami is pure political benefit for Trump and the GOP. Lets them to paint Dems as the party of actual socialists and will fuel DSA-type primary challenges who can’t win when they aren’t in a D+30 environment. A lot of suckers here today.

Trump has sold out the US, Ukraine, our allies to Putin and we need to have a serious conversation now in America about whether this is OK, or a form of treason. bsky.app/profile/chri...

Just remembered that nine days ago the only thing anyone could post about was “Dems cave” and that most of the big accounts here are kind of idiots who go where the trending winds blow.

*taps mic* John Thune is the Senate Majority Leader. He’s the Republican you don’t complain about as you negatively fixate on the Jewish guy who is the Minority Leader, no matter what he does. Like how the unanimous consent removed any room for the White House to change their mind on the petition.

Few if any mainstream/center-left parties are as good on trans rights as Democrats, and we don't do ourselves any favors by pretending otherwise.

I know “Schumer has to go” is a cheap way to get likes on this site, but you do realize that Thune and the GOP would love for that to happen, right?

The No Kings protests were largely attended by normie liberals, and I thinks it’s painfully clear that 50501 is positioning itself as an online leftist Trojan horse. They should clean house or go away.

once again forced to conclude that the cultural dynamic of late 2025 is 'i have lead poisoning' or 'there is a gas leak'

“An electorally significant chunk of voters are not even aware of who is in control of the govt” should both humble and also present some window for optimism among people on this site

I agree that Fetterman should be primaried, but he isn’t up for reelection until 2028. Why the hell are you expending one iota of energy or money on this when the midterms are coming up in less than a year???

Paid blue-checks should have been the end of any serious people staying on Twitter, which tells you people like, for example, Jon Favreau, are just attention hounds who care more about if it makes them money than any serious defense of democracy.

So @50501movement.bsky.social is circulating a video of a guy saying candidates "are being paid to be Israel first, to be loyal to the Zionist project and not to their constituents, not to the American people." Which is just a hairs breadth away from saying "Zionist Occupied Government." Not great!

"The Democratic Party hated their nominee for NYC Mayor & tried to sabotage him" is going to live on in the brainwormed minds of bluesky political hobbyists the same way "they made Tim Walz stop calling Rs weird" will: a claim totally disconnected from reality that survives bc it lets ppl bash Ds

This pretty much admits that tariffs are inflationary while the admin has continued to deny that. These things are more expensive for consumers directly because of tariffs.

The internet has convinced a lot of people that it’s absolutely rational to be most angry at the Senate Minority Leader right now. What are we even doing now?

Charlie is really doing some of the best reporting on how the internet is breaking our brains, and I can’t wait to listen to this.

This is arguably an exercise in "what's popular is whatever Republicans approve of that Democrats don't entirely hate". But generally, yes, there is advantage in conveying to voters "we stood up for what's right, but not at the expense of hungry kids". That's not too complex for voters to understand

This is going to be very nuanced and very divisive. I hope you will do me the courtesy of reading the whole thing and digesting it before commenting. Okay? Good, here goes: I think many people in our party misunderstand what a congressional leader is. 1/

How easily the comfortable spend the lives of the vulnerable.

I need to be clear about this, we're no longer being 'warned' about this, we're in the midst of a generational crisis caused by this. You don't get Elon Musk, J.K. Rowling, Yoon Suk-yeol, Marc Andreesen and countless others in their reactionary incarnations without social media addiction. Period.

Truly this is the dumbest night I’ve ever seen on Bluesky so I just want to time-stamp some thoughts. 🧵

they were willing to keep the government shut down forever, starve people on SNAP, crash all air travel, to make people pay more, focus, they want to make people pay more, Republicans, focus, tell people that.

Moderate Dems are under extraordinary pressure from constituents to end the shutdown over immediate needs like SNAP. And the founder of Indivisible thinks we should primary Ossoff in 2026. This is the dumbest night and reveals a lot about people.

The most important thing in 2026 is to regain majorities. This makes that both harder and more expensive.

We are doing the “primary them all” thing again, and I want to remind you that Republicans would love that. Truly just collective stupidly here tonight.

It’s apparent that the actual effects of the longest government shutdown — like SNAP benefits being withheld or reduced and federal workers not being paid — are just abstracts for too many people.