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It’s worth watching Mamdani’s full 13-minute address. THIS is the 4 of July speech the country deserves. If you teach, consider adding it to your curriculum. If you’re a parent, watch it with your kids. This is a weekend to reflect. This speech was pitch-perfect. This speech should be remembered.

PLEASE STOP DESCRIBING BIRTHRIGHT AS 6-3, I AM GOING TO GO INSANE

The most important divide in the Democratic Party today is between those who think Trump is a temporary aberration within the GOP and those who understand that Trump is the best version of what the GOP will be for the rest of our lives and into the foreseeable future.

literally one day apart. goldfish would scoff at this lack of object permanence

Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country

fixing the court is table stakes for any Dem running for national office, you are not a serious candidate if you can’t get on board with this and refusing to do so is disqualifying in a primary because it doesn’t matter what your policy positions are if SCOTUS will just overrule them

Not to keep repeating myself, but the problem with the Court is not merely that their decisions are bad, but that their entire self-conception of themselves as the Guardian Council of the USA, with sweeping and arbitrary power to maintain the mos maiorum, is utterly incompatible with a free society

Democrats should definitely go after the big tech companies! But doing it by reference to *content* instead of *structure* isn’t just repugnant on principle, it’s a guaranteed backdoor for fascist censorship—starting with our trans friends and neighbors.

There are much worse decisions to come out of this term but the Slaughter/Cook split is the most openly lawless. Like there is no way to square these decisions legally, they are purely outcome-driven

CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

Everyone in the western world right now does not want ... THIS. Whatever it is. Whether churning 7 PM's in Britain in a decade or the anti-incumbancy wave that caught Harris and 12 other leaders, they don't want ... *how this world makes them feel.* 5/x

TBH I feel like Mamdani has bent over backwards to demonstrate that he's not remotely antisemitic, and guys like Frum who will call him an antisemite anyway on the basis of his religion and anti-Zionism are doing the work of bona fide antisemites

Congratulations to the young multi-racial coalition of New Yorkers who are demanding better.

Don't be fooled by the fact that none of today's 5 #SCOTUS rulings were "big" ones. Four of them split the Court along its usual 6-3 ideological lines—one of which guts accountability for human rights abuses; one that makes it harder to enforce Spending Clause statutes; and one that's bad for LPRs.

“Wanna form a union?”

The objection is not to social liberal policies per se, but to the existence and influence of urban/educated cosmopolitan populations. A very large bloc of voters are simply never going to vote for a party that is associated with those people.

Watching this Administration start and lose a war of choice with Iran for reasons they still have been unable to articulate hammers this point home. It’s stochastic terrorism and internet grievances dressed up in a trench coat pretending to be a government.

This is the latest attempt by the "Justice" Department to get you to shut up, stay home and let a dictatorship happen. Please don't.

New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration

I do not think it’s good that a guy materially aided a race pogrom and then became a trillionaire in the same week.

The violence in Belfast is a reminder of something I don’t want to take for granted: The fascists here hoped the response to the depredations of ICE would be similar, with people turning in or attacking their neighbors. That it was the very opposite is worth remembering in this season of despair

You’re not allowed to be racist anymore because that’s racist. bsky.app/profile/atru...

If you’re in line to dunk on Spencer Pratt: STAY IN LINE.

It's not the main thing here, but I take issue with the idea that we should want "normal people" serving in the Senate at all. Only one hundred Americans get to be Senators. They should be brilliant subject matter experts. I don't want ordinary people making laws!

It's absolutely infuriating that blue-state governors do not see this as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to launch their schools into the stratosphere. And I don't mean that in a greedy way. I mean that they could actively work to save US higher ed AND make their schools even better.

What's happening with Platner is why you hop off the bus at "he has a nazi tattoo"

If my country is the country of Jim Crow, it is also the country of Thaddeus Stevens, and it is incumbent upon us to make this the sort of country that embodies the ideals for which Thaddeus Stevens was ostracized after his death

I will fucking die mad that we let the stupidest people in society with medieval peasant brain ruin recognizing what should have been a moon landing level triumph

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

my 2028 candidate is whoever promises to take the construction equipment that lay waste to the east wing of the white house and drive it directly to the supreme court of the united states

This morning federal agents hit a woman’s vehicle while chasing and eventually detaining a man, later using a taser on him while pointing tasers and pepper spray at bystanders at Lawrence/Kedzie in Albany Park. Story to come via @chicago.suntimes.com

the fact is these democratic governors do not have actual control over their own state police forces, and that’s a seriously scary problem that no elected wants to talk about or deal with

Every PD, everywhere: “We’re not working with ICE, except like, every time”

1/ This line is the border between Evanston and Rogers Park, Chicago’s northernmost neighborhood. On Oct. 31, it became the site of what appears to be an attempt by Evanston police to dodge the city’s sanctuary city ordinance... 🧵

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

the challenge for talarico and dems will not just be repeating this accusation over and over again, but telling the story over and over again, so that voters understand the words "adam hoffman" as a synecdoche for the entire case against Paxton every time they are invoked.

Democrats have provided reflexive & unconditional support to Netanyahu & Israeli governments, even as they undermined the values we claimed to stand for.   It's time to end taxpayer-funded support & condition arms sales to end the occupation & salvage a 2-state solution.

ICE is a lawless, racist, fascist agency that must be defunded and abolished for US democracy to continue.

Almost needless to say but I’ll keep saying it: in the presidential primary you should support the candidate you like, not the candidate you think will appeal to some mythological swing voter. More people liking the candidate you like is what makes them electable, not a resume.

Congratulations to the 2026 High School National Championship Tournament winner, Stevenson A! #naqt #hsnct #quizbowl Congratulations to the 2026 High School National Championship Tournament winner, Stevenson A! #naqt #hsnct #quizbowl

I think Democrats should come out and say Blanche's "settlement" and the Slush Fund generally is one act in a continuing January 6 conspiracy, extending statutes of limitation for another 3 years.

i think a lot of it is that there was 1) a concerted, nationwide propaganda campaign to make people think the economy of 2021-23 sucked ass 2) it worked and 3) the economy got worse than 21-23 in 2024 and then got worse than that in 2025 and 2026

every single democrat in the senate voted to confirm marco rubio as secretary of state. every single one.

At this point, it's less about disciplining Polis. He's made his decision and has chartered his course. But Colorado Democrats need to remove him from office if only to put fear of God in any other Democrats thinking of following in his footsteps.

Massie voted straight GOP the vast majority of the time. His only real break with Trump was over the Epstein files. Kentucky voters rejected the guy who wanted to expose the truth about a sex offender because Trump told them to. Think about what that means.

Pedophilia is a plank of the Republican Party, a very real policy goal that they work towards on a consistent basis, from the President to the primary electorate. The Republican Party's countless exposed sexual predators simply represent the party's view, which is that children should be molested.

So the thing about Thomas Massie is that he’s what you would THINK is the worst case scenario for a public servant. Has horrendous politics and supports awful stuff but at least has the tiniest shred of humanity that he opposes sex trafficking kids. That makes him the best Republican somehow!