Great thread!

The anti-Cinderella story everyone wanted! The richest team in MLS allowed to flout all the roster rules to buy a retirement title for Messi (who is still totally the best player in MLS). But does anyone care?

Any Democrat not willing to demand Hegseth’s resignation and investigate him and the commanders who executed this clearly illegal order for war crimes should resign or be primaried.

If some people have no due process, you can be called such a person and then you don’t have due process either. This is exactly why due process for immigrants is as essential as for everyone else.

This is actually a good argument for why the legacy political parties should embrace proportional representation or RCV or some sort of electoral reform. They have a chance for survival with it, but without, they could be totally swamped/overthrown.

This is really important messaging. More of this please, Dems!

This is example 45,338 of why left/liberal voters hate Democratic politicians. More concerned with doing favors for buddies than with actual democracy.

Yet more evidence that DC needs to cease any and all cooperation with federal agents who tried to kill a guy for having tinted windows by shooting into a car where *they couldn’t have known if there were other people present*. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

It's easy for "leaders" to hide behind the notion that you are "protecting the staff at your institution," or "not doing anything to make the situation worse," but the reality is that the situation is dire. You can either lead the fight against fascism or hide. But don't expect kudos for hiding.

It's genuinely insane that we don't have answers to basic questions about how our tax dollars are being used by MPD to support the abductions of our neighbors. Hold the hearings! Make the details public!

Just offering a reminder to those who infrequently tune into baseball that the Mariners and Blue Jays have each won more playoff games *this year* than the Pirates have won in the entire lifetime of someone who is 30 years old.

We have been told that the National Guard deployment in DC will cost the federal government $201 MILLION through the end of this calendar year. If the Guard is really staying through the America 250 celebration, the total cost to the taxpayers could easily top half a billion

Literally negatively polarizing themselves into being pro-monarchy.

I think this is true. I also think it's true that up until Trump, there was a check on bigotry at the top of the Republican Party (e.g., McCain saying Obama wasn't Muslim at a town hall). When you put an open bigot at the top, who can enforce rules of decorum down throughout the rest of the org?

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

This gives cover for Ds to come forward about every off-color thing they've ever heard a Republican staffer say. And that keeps this story - "Young Republicans are all Nazis" - in the public eye. Hopefully Dems don't opt for "message discipline" and try to make this, too, about healthcare.

I think this is right. The thing that has always fascinated me is the hypothesis of the politics-doers that *not the truth* is somehow politically better than the truth. Like, is there any theory of when/under what circumstances?

This honestly feels like the sort of thing that could bring the whole admin down. Dems should make absolute hay out of this. Brazen corruption. Everybody hates corruption!

Bowser testifying to congress and not mentioning the national guard or ICE is just utterly feckless. She's just totally out of step with voters in the city. My biggest issue is people being disappeared by ICE. She genuinely doesn't seem to give a s***.

CNN's quoting Jack Posobiec, and the NYT Mag won't quote Kevin Kruse. We're living through attempts at mass erasure of leftist (and not even extreme left) opinion in mainstream media (cc: @karenattiah.bsky.social) that represents the POV of >25% of Americans.

How close are we to a nationwide fugitive immigrant law that attempts to criminalize the most banal interaction with any undocumented immigrant under the guise of aiding/abetting? We’re near true 1850s anti-abolition stuff.

Racial profiling is blatantly unconstitutional. The fact that the Supreme Court doesn't understand that and is supposed to be the primary interpreter of the constitution is less an indication that racial profiling might be constitutional and more an indication that SCOTUS it isn't fit for purpose.

This is why “Abolish ICE” (or, perhaps with more nuance, “significantly circumscribe ICE’s power” was and is the correct position.

The people who authorized this all need to go to prison, either here or in the Netherlands.

It's painstakingly obvious that the only path forward is through either a total takeover of the Democratic Party and replacement of leadership or the creation of an alternative apparatus to win elections. Current leadership is simply not equipped for the moment.

Honestly, what is the point of @mayorbowser.bsky.social ? Acquiescing to the "papers, please" authoritarianism of this administration is a disgusting abdication of responsibility to the safety of District residents and a protection of our individual liberties. #FreeDC

Yes,Dupont Circle, a hotbed of crime and a low-visibility place.

The civility people are a sort of nihilist species. They think you're not supposed to feel anything. "Why are you getting mad? They're just words." Nothing matters except the discourse, and also the discourse doesn't matter.

This is so f*****. It’s a school. Kids deserve to go to school free of men in tactical combat gear.

@mayorbowser.bsky.social You’re also the mayor, not a helpless passenger. We want your action not your thoughts and prayers. GTFOH

A direct assault on the freedom of American citizens with a militarily-imposed doctrine of “show me your papers” is not a distraction.

Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news

Unfortunately, I just witnessed my first federal security actions in DC. Hard to describe it as anything other than blatant racial profiling.

Better not engage in any speech the illegally quartered federal security officials don’t like!

This is why so many people who share a lot of preferences with Democrats have very low esteem of the Party.

Cosign times a million

Justice for me but not for thee simply isn't democracy

You can't have a free society if federal agents go around arresting anyone.

This is such an important point. But it's hard to imagine Democrats doing anything to hold any leaders/government officials accountable given that 1) they didn't do that post J6 and 2) D leaders seem unwilling to actually do anything to resist the rising tide of authoritarianism.

I’d like to see anyone in the Democratic Party wrestling with this question.

Just to make it clear, leftists should never vote for any Democrat, even in a general election against a Republican, who tries to work against Mamdani at this point. Cc: any Democrat with presidential ambitions

Just the NYT giving anonymity to and inflating the credentials of a white supremacist while failing to cover the president slurring Jews… on the same day.

He did clarify this position on this phrase that he did not himself say! He gave a super nuanced answer where he expressed empathy both for people who feel threatened by this phrase and also for the wide semantic range of the word "Intifada" in Arabic, and why it might feel empowering to others.

The only answer at this point is Court reform. Only Democratic presidential candidates serious about reigning in a Court too happy to facilitate the most corrupt executive in American history will have my vote.

Might as well write up the handcuffs in the style section as the latest fashion trend. Like what on earth is this framing?!

Many people become worse versions of themselves as they age. I'd hypothesize that what rankles the left-of-center elite is being confronted by better versions of themselves. They've compromised on truth and morality to get ahead and they are made uncomfortable by people who haven't.

Not Mother Jones! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is very weird. The Musk-Trump feud day was the best day ever on BlueSky. It's been getting steadily better. It takes time to build whatever community you might have previously had on Twitter, but it's definitely worth it.

Thoughtful thread(s)