Everybody hates this asshole and he has made himself illegitimate by going on a nonstop crime spree since the day he took office. Why shouldn't the main issue for a congressional election be getting him out of office?

POLL: “Dems' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak… The path to 2026 doesn’t run through the center. It runs through the fight.” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

What can you even say? These people deserve their inevitable humiliation and the nation deserves journalists with more self-respect.

The NYT style guide

Trump does unpopular thing in direct violation of a campaign promise, part #976348 It’s not a mystery why his approval rating is 37% and Dems are leading by 10 on the generic ballot in our latest poll. Break enough promises and people start to notice

This is an unjust, illegal war. It violates our treaties and our laws. Presidential impunity must end.

Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.

vindictive, vicious cruelty designed to humiliate and criminalize every trans person in kansas horrifying fascist shit reminiscent of the runup to the literal holocaust

Senate Dems often like to say “well in private our Republican colleagues are critical of Trump.” But that’s the performative part! The standing and clapping for attacks on Dems, that is what their Senate Republican colleagues actually believe!

A big reason Democrats lose is that people think they're phonies who don't believe in anything or have any self-respect. Act like you believe in something. Anything. For fuck's sake

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

NEWS Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza.

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

We are the laughingstock of the world because of our moronic and psychotic president. Deservedly so.

for what it’s worth I think if and when we win this we beat the idea of the pan-white ethnostate into the grave forever. not claiming we’ll beat racism forever or ethnonationalism, just think this is the last window for that peculiar dream, and they know it

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

This is a level of state control of university teaching curricula you don’t even see in most authoritarian regimes.

The "Accountability" issue is getting muddled and we should be clear about what it is and isn't. I don't need Democrats to post Trumpian memes and say swears on TV, I want them to impose legal consequences on our criminal president and his accomplices. Until they can, they should cheerlead for it

This breaks me. I remember once a whole family - whose parents also were born in Mexico- stopped and helped me with my truck in the middle of nowhere. I’d have been fucked without them. I don’t get why people don’t want to live like this, our lives are so much more beautiful when we help each other.

THEY RAIDED THE CAMP TO TAKE THE KIDS LETTERS

This is indistinguishable from right-wing anti-SJW agitprop

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

These interviews with former Obama administration officials underscore a mistake none of them will express bluntly. They gravely overestimated the character of the American people. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

This is just open, unabashed white nationalist rhetoric at this point.

It's galling to contemplate but I really think you have to admit that Musk buying X was an unqualified victory. It can't be exaggerated just how much prominent journalists, pundits, business type, etc. mistake the vibe on X for "how the country is feeling."

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

To the extent that idealized, more democratic and inclusive "America" has been a reality, it is because of the people in the past who organized and acted and wrote and worked to make it a reality. Such people were no less "American" than the white supremacists they battled against.

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

This isn’t complicated. If local law enforcement saw a TSA agent exposing himself in front of passengers, he’d be arrested and prosecuted. When ICE thugs break the law, they have no more protected status than the TSA agent. Arrest and prosecute ICE agents who break the law.

damn you're telling me that sin taxes work to reduce consumption of socially harmful goods while keeping them legal and thus avoiding the problems of criminalization?

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said. “You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’” www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...

Damn i remember some big lawsuits of broadcasters over editing of events showing WH figures

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u... they ARE white supremacist messaging

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...