How about a constitutional amendment making the constitutional amendment threshold simply a 60% vote of each house?

Listen, my children, as here is unfurled The story of the sandwich that was hurled On the 10th of August in ‘25; What a moment to be alive! As many chose to look down and duck, One man decided he had to stand up, And so he wound up, and said ‘What the f___’ And gave his sandwich a freedom chuck.

My take on the tariffs oral argument. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

The Spanberger-Sherrill-Mamdani axis hints at the outlines of an emerging Democratic coalition for the Trump 2.0 era. It can and should be organized around both anti-Trump and affordability politics. Because they are often deeply complementary or even one and the same. trib.al/ICogBVB

These are the murals I want to see lol. Also where can I buy a t shirt like this

If the Grand Jury and the Trail Jury is a bulwark now against Maga Authoritarianism, except the administration to roll back the right to jury trials, impose internment with charges, etc.

How much taxpayer money did MAGA spend on this bullshit case while shutting down the gov’t to starve people and take their health care away? how much are WE spending to prosecute and fail to convict almost every single ICE protestor? Perhaps this $ could go toward SNAP and health care subsidies.

Could the tram-train/S-bahn model work in the US and Canada? Mos def. The infrastructure exists. But regulations are the obstacle, as @dennislytton.bsky.social explains in this paper: drive.google.com/file/d/1ftWP...

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

I wrote a peer review article in the Transportation Research Review a few years ago that addresses the (generally) unnecessary regulatory hurdles (and planning silos) to S-Bahn type service like this in the US. drive.google.com/file/d/1ftWP...

My insistence that the President get congressional authorization for military force isn’t really about weakening the executive. I think what really weakens the executive is going out on a limb & committing US forces without having the debate necessary to get Congress & the public firmly on board.

The guy on the floor is America.

The front page of the New York Times is asking if women belong the workplace and @aselrod.bsky.social and @liberalcurrents.com, come through with this. Incredible timing.

Good piece. The... I'm not sure if "more serious" is right, but the version of it Vance and others more openly advocate... is this crackpot idea of giving extra votes to parents, which I wrote about @theunpopulist.net. Nominally that wouldn't discriminate by sex, but it's unabashedly patriarchal.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Seems @aselrod.bsky.social somehow knew what Douthat’s pod would be about today

How can these two seemingly contradictory things about US politics both be true? 1. Partisanship is calcified. 2. Election outcomes are thermostatic. TURNOUT. It’s not the same people who vote every time. Mobilizing, organizing, educating, party infrastructure—it all matters.

it is genuinely disturbing how central rape is to reactionaries today. "In the act of rape the natural order is restored both physically and mentally. Women return to their reproductive role and they like it. Men are dominant again. And everyone is so happy about it."

When you send the National Guard into cities; When you deploy masked ICE agents to yank people off the streets; You’re getting Americans used to images they shouldn’t be used to.

The fuckers got away with it. The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them. They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

“'Happy Days Are Here Again' was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s campaign jingle in 1932 and became the ballad of the Democratic party for the next several decades, until it was retired as too old-school at the party’s 1992 convention. Maybe it’s time to bring it back." www.thebulwark.com/p/vive-la-re...

“anti-Trump politics really is about his policies, about the very concrete and very damaging things he is doing as president to the economy, the country, the rule of law, and the constitutional order daily.” @gregsargent.bsky.social on what we can take from Tuesday newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Here’s a first: NYT reporting that both Sherrill and Spanberger won 7% of Trump supporters. Yes, he is that bad this time, that he is at long last losing his base! #hope

"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"

These are not the same: 1) Ukraine bombs Russian energy…. Meant to finance the attack on their country 2) Russia bombs Ukrainian energy… meant to provide heat and light for civilians over the winter. Evil

The U.S. right is using low birth rates to foment a panic about impending population decline. If they can convince reasonable people that this is a real problem that must be addressed, it opens the doors to policies that restrict women's rights. This is the cover they've long wanted.

Utah was the first state where a woman legally cast a vote and Utah was the only state to ever revoke that right. The sentiments at the time were similar to the ones in this article—a sense that if women didn’t vote the way men wanted, then men didn’t think they should vote at all.

A big part of the right’s reaction to Mamdani’s victory is the idea that “mass migration” has transformed NYC and threatens to transform America. But if foreigners are ruining America, then women, whose tender disposition favors so much immigration to begin with, are accomplices in that ruination.

To the right, a lost election is proof either of an unfair election or that someone ought to lose their right to vote. Alan discusses the latter today

That the executive can't spend money, and thus do stuff, without the regular and periodic approval of a representative legislature isn't some incidental hiccup. It is the core premise of the power of the purse, the most bedrock foundation of Anglo-American constitutionalism from time immemorial.

Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women. I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

Tell everyone about this story. Make it the face of the ICE invasion

Who does shit like this? Did ICE agents gleefully volunteer or did supervisors have to bully a team into going?

People on the far right are literally citing the fact that a lot of women voted for Democrats, and instead of saying, "hmm, maybe we should try to rethink how not to alienate them," they're saying, "let's repeal their right to vote." Via @aselrod.bsky.social

Not even close The electorate has shifted and the pollsters don't know know how to sample it yet

“The idea that women shouldn’t vote has existed on the crank right for a long time. But increasingly, it’s made its way into more mainstream MAGA conversations” www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

*cut to campaign logo* "I'm [insert name here], Democrat for Congress, and I approve this message."

Yes, we will. He's done enough damage.

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

Loving the R takes on the election results here in the Commonwealth of VA. Saw a sm post where one still refers to the Republican Party as family-centered and posits the party should be able to attract likeminded “legal” immigrants from SA, Africa, and C. America. Completely of touch.

not to take anything away from mamdani, i think lander also deserves a lot of credit he showed courage when cuomo was leading by going after him hard & was able to put his own ambitions (& ego) 2nd to keeping someone unfit for office out of it

All the pearl-clutching about Zohran Mamdani--by right-wingers who elected a half-senile old TV star president--is very amusing. For once the shoe is on the other foot.

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.

Not either/or, but yes that would also help. www.liberalcurrents.com/age-limits-f...

ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.

Me, last week looking at MTG picking fights with her party leadership: “MTG is running.” Reporting today: MTG thinking of running for president