“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

Party policy positioning just doesn't, and can't, work the way that some are treating it as. Even if we stipulate that parties could pick up votes from changing their image by changing policy positions, the last part of it just doesn't work that way.

Political party policy positions are simply not chess pieces that experts in public opinion can shuffle around to maximize vote totals. Parties take positions because party actors care about those policies, and also (less relevant with death penalty) because voters want solutions to big problems.

one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

Can’t remember who said it but Bari Weiss’s one and only skill is convincing the dumbest rich people to give her money.

seriously, there is no evidence whatsoever that Weiss is capable of writing a news story, much less running a news organization. the actual quality of the writing at The Free Press is barely a notch above AI slop.

RIP CBS News

Cuomo is Trump's preferred candidate and yet a whole lotta big Democrats can't bring themselves to endorse Mamdani. The party needs to be cleaned out, starting with Schumer and Jeffries.

Cultivate within yourself the utmost possible contempt for the far right and only then will their behavior become comprehensible and predictable to you. They’re animals masquerading as people

They hate vaccines not because of any knowledge or experience they’ve had with vaccines, but because it’s a useful vehicle for otherwise-shapeless anti-establishment resentment, directed against people they enjoy attacking (experts, the educated, diverse institutions of higher ed, foreigners, etc.)

You cannot actually understand the right’s beliefs or behavior if you take their political claims at face value. But those beliefs and behavior make perfect sense and become very predictable if you understand it’s just a pretext to indulge in subrational, emotionally rooted anger and paranoia

It’s not that Klein doesn’t take the right seriously. It’s that people like him take the right TOO seriously. They examine right-wing beliefs as an extension of valid policy objections, rather than almost entirely arising from the right giving people permission to indulge in inchoate resentments

The Republican Party is filled to the brim with deviant, malformed sex pests & predators. People really ought to talk about it more.

Honestly one of the most disgraceful pieces I’ve ever read.

Actual human communication is dramatically more complicated that. Democrats have, without exaggeration, driven American democracy into a wall by outsourcing their brains to this class of hucksters, who pretend to insight but who have never successfully changed the public narrative on anything.

The methodology here is godawful and laughable, by the way. The effect of political messages can’t be tested by reading someone the message and then seeing how much less they approve of Donald Trump after. That’s not how social persuasion and consensus works, AT ALL.

If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research

Ask and you shall receive. I was sent a polling/strategy memo that is being circulated in DC. It offers advice to Dems on Trump sending the National Guard to DC. "Distract" is used 10 times. "Stunt" four. I'll try to post it later, but I assume others have it as well.

Also, what Trump is doing is THE MILITARY INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF AMERICAN CITIES and has nothing whatsoever to do with fighting crime. Military units can’t and haven’t apprehended criminals or solved crimes. “He’s lying, this is an authoritarian occupation” - how hard is that to say you idiots

jeffried studiously avoids all of the verboten words and yet still sounds like a management consultant.

the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech

Defeating fascism in Europe in 1945 was a historical mistake. It’s time to compensate the victims. by JD Vance

hey if Trump’s in ill health IT SUDDENLY BECOMES VERY IMPORTANT THAT JD VANCE FOLLOWS HALF OF TWITTER’S BIGGEST NAZI ACCOUNTS

i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.

The three long tails of the Democrats’ accountability dodge. www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...

yeah for all my complaints about democratic comms, putting a full on fascist like stephen miller on camera backfires every time the right does it. stephen miller could be ordering a big mac and he sounds like goebbels.

these people just fundamentally believe that only they have the legitimate right to political power www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-...

this is just straight-up dictatorship and it’s repulsive and pathetic our newspapers and TV stations still won’t say so. there is no emergency. there is no precedent for this in US history. Trump is establishing military and paramilitary control of the capital

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

imo it's far more useful and accurate to criticize 09-10 senate dems for not ditching the filibuster than for specific policies they watered down or failed to pass altogether. there was a big movement to get them to do it, it was substantively correct, and they suffered electorally for not doing it

it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist

pls share/RT Democrats keep setting money on fire instead of trying to win elections www.oliverexplains.com/p/democrats-...

let me sum this piece up for you: “hey, it’s me zaid jilani! you might remember me from my credulous profile of josh hawley, published the literal day before january 6. well now i have another credulous take, the time on another far-right maniac. i am definitely not an idiot.”

When you strip away humanity

Donald Trump doesn’t want to release the Epstein Files because HE’S IN THEM.

the number of elected dems who actually understand the republican party is shockingly small. rather than giving them better insight, knowing and working alongside republicans has blinded them. it’d be fascinating if it wasn’t such an existential threat

as correct as michael is here this is the inverse of how it works in the world of elite commentary, where a willingness to entertain race science somehow makes you more credible for your "heterodoxy" (see: charles murray)

it’s a conspiracy against constitutional governance and the american people, and they should all be in prison. justices, senators, every last one of the republicans in office

All true. And this just indicates the motivations of these four outlets. WaPo, NYT, and CBS are motivated by making money and thus by keeping the powerful happy. But WSJ is a propaganda outlet designed to achieve Murdoch family political goals. And those political goals involve dropping Trump.

The Times hates the Epstein story because the Times doesn’t cover news so much as it performs being the New York Times: a sober, serious newspaper that challenges readers. “The president defends his child rapist friend” sounds like tabloid trash that doesn’t belong in the Times, even if it’s true.

the Ellisons are going to turn CBS into yet another trump friendly propaganda mill, but the press coverage of this obvious goal will repeatedly avoid mentioning this fact because it might upset a Republican

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

There is something ironically right about it. Truly iconic image. Trump heroically, righteously defiant to ... nothing. There is no enemy (unless its a MAGA-ish young man with mental health issues.) It catches the soul of MAGA: pseudo-patriotic negative polarisation against non-existent demons.

chris rufo (twitter): we’re going to lie and say school teachers are involved in satanic ritual abuse of children and these dumb fuck journalists will buy it jake tapper: and now we take a look at mcmartin preschool and the grave allegations against it chris rufo: thank you jake, fearless as ever

The Republican Party is the verminous, bigoted party of ignorance and anti-Americanism, striving to turn this into a totalitarian blood-and-soil shithole.

The path for Democrats is very clear: have good ideas, believe in them, state them clearly, stick to them, act decisively in support of these ideas, speak to the young half of the electorate, support other democrats who do these things. Follow Mamdani and Lander's example or fade into nothingness.