The First Amendment is your permit.

Absolutely 💯 Agree….

I have nothing but contempt for the entire genre of political naval gazing books and memoirs, and the people who write them, and Jill Biden doing her tour for this one at this time has got to be up there among the most contemptible. And that’s before you get to the substance (if it merits the name)

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

Just for you my liege

Read Drutman's piece 👇🏽 Democrats & the POTUS nominee in '28 need to run on ending the two-party doom loop in '29 by enacting by law: - Multiparty proportional representation, and - Party centric campaign finance reform >>> Act of Congress early in '29, thus PR teed up for the midterms in '30 <<<

These agencies need to be beyond the reach of the President. Would certainly support a constitutional amendment to make that clear. Also on 1/20/2029 we could: - make this clear by black letter statute, and - appoint 6 new SCOTUS justices who will recognize the supremacy of Congress

🚨Ian Austin, 6-tour combat veteran, shows us his injury after NJ state police struck him with a projectile outside Delaney Hall ICE prison. "We're willing to f*cking die here!" he shouts at police. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️

On election day, Nov. 2028, the celebrations will be bigger than VE day. We're getting our country back. Then in 2029 we entrench democracy and never go back to the status quo ante Trump that failed

"Too much of leftist politics at this moment is chasing Trump’s personalist appeal to a mythical male working class. The left has run this play before, and it failed. "I am, of course, speaking of Bernie Sanders." www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...

"A slightly less incumbent-hostile environment could have given Harris the victory. Indeed, I think it's quite plausible that Harris specifically could win if nominated in 2028. I certainly haven't seen any concrete evidence that she could not, aside from knee-jerk dismissals."

This is why I do not spend too much time or mental energy on these kinds of analyses. When the margin of victory is smaller than the margin of error of the tools you’d use to study it (beforehand and afterwards) I don’t see much value in the conclusions of those studies.

1/20 to Valentine's Day '29: - confirm 4-6 new SCOTUS judges - DC statehood & Gov appoints 2 Senators - independent prosecutor for 45/47 crime - 600-900 member multiparty House via PR teed up for '30 midterms > bigger reforms to follow @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/imagining-a-...

Again, the central reason that presidentialism was a grave mistake is that the simple majority no confidence votes that happen <all the time> to remove chiefs of government in parliamentary systems cannot happen now, even though the president is a raving lunatic & criminal authoritarian.

Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

In like the space of a week Trump and Stephen Miller have turned Trans into the new anti gay slur because they can't say F****t anymore Tribunes of the perhaps quarter of Americans who embrace their fascism Sick insecure men and their dupes

yes, this! “the ‘unitary executive’ is, quite simply, incompatible with a theory of checks and balances.”

And worth noting that the politicians say 'trans' because they can't say f****t, but their supporters hear f****t. Because fundamentally all of this is crippling gender-insecurity from a bunch of oversized manchildren - the worst thing they can imagine, their terror, is being called 'not a man.'

“Even now this seems to be the preference of our Democratic gerontocracy. They don't want to talk about Trump's crimes. They don't want to talk about accountability for Trump criminals.” www.liberalcurrents.com/prosecute-th...

This Vought policy is an attempt to choke out American higher education. America's fascists view its institutions of higher ed—and the people who staff them—as existential enemies of the purified nation

It's fairly lame writing to repeat a trope from Reagan 1980s, when the hindset of history now sees Nobel laureate Jimmy Carter as a man of great principle and integrity, and we now know he was completely right and ahead of his times to raise alarms about dependency on fossil fuels.

Jimmy Carter made 0 stock purchases while president. Before, during + after his presidency, he had: 0 affairs. 0 bankruptcies. 0 civil court judgments. 0 felonies. The only thing Trump ever planted was his ex-wife.* *He had her re-buried on his property to get a tax write-off as a cemetery.

“It is vanishingly rare for a woman leader to be perceived sufficient-unto-herself, the reason for which other people take action. For women in politics, even being seen is dangerous.” www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...

Jimmy Carter, the guy so opposed to corruption he put his peanut farm in a blind trust, the guy who negotiated the Camp David Accords, signed SALT II, returned the Panama Canal, created the Dept of Education, boycotted the Olympics over Russian territorial aggression, etc. etc. that Jimmy Carter? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

DEVELOPING: Sonic Death Monkey - excuse me, Kathleen Turner Overdrive, no sorry, Barry Jive and the Uptown Five - has withdrawn from President Trump’s America 250 celebration.

Insipid take by Rolling Stone. An amoral comparison.

One weird trick almost NEVER works. But this one could CERTAINLY do a LOT! SCOTUS illegally rewrote the 14th Amendment to allow Trump, an insurrectionist, to be POTUS again, WITHOUT Congress removing his liability. SCOTUS does NOT have that power. Only Congress does. Everything Trump did is illegal

ICE was "supposedly" created to protect the country from terrorism, and it turns out that ICE is the terrorists. Foreign interference, and ICE must end. It's a corrupt institution.

The American decision to turn over space exploration to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is turning out to be a fantastic decision—for China. The American space program is collapsing. www.independent.co.uk/space/blue-o...

UW - Madison has over 500K living alumni. Our alums are fanatical about Madison & the university. I have seen exactly zero attempts to publicly mobilize this network in opposition to the federal budget cuts, foreign student restrictions, or any of the other existential threats. Again, mind-boggling.

Tired: Tesla Takedown. Wired: Trump Takedown.

With the United States under Donald Trump declining geopolitically, does that mean the end of the dollar's dominance? youtube.com/shorts/7WBJm...

"A system employing proportional representation could halt gerrymandering — and the damage it does to representative democracy — in its tracks" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Perhaps a candidate running as underdog this Nov. should say something like: Hey, I'm running as a D/R because we have a two-party system, but if you vote for me, I'll work every day to break this two-party system that you all dislike so much. Who knows: maybe it will break through?

Yes! The poisonous weeds need to be pulled out from the roots before Democrats in power can govern as usual. CC’ing @erickakopp.com who's running for Congress in my district, #VA-01, on accountability & an anti-corruption platform. I’m betting she’d love to help lay the groundwork for these ideas. 😁

I realize Trump fouling up the 250th anniversary of 1776 is a real bummer. But you know 2029 is going to be the 240th anniversary of our current, constitutional form of government. Might be a good year to celebrate that.

Yes, I know this is not an official Dem Party initiative, just something from one of the core Dem-leaning nonprofits, but that's just cope, y'all. This accurately reflects the absolutely pathetic lack of vision & ambition in elite Dem circles. It's deep in the insular, consultant-led culture.

I wouldn't say we strictly enforced it since the Emoluments Clause had no authorizing act or enforcement mechanism. It was but another piece of duct tape / hopium / norm Post Trump in '29: -Emoluments Clause Enforcement Act: basically an independent prosecutor answerable only to an Act of Congress

we need to stop listening to—& aggressively discredit—those who thought hurting minorities was a smart strategy my latest audio essay (with transcript) www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer-apea...

So many people are talking about multiparty proportional representation and neutering the American presidency 👇🏽 Reform should be the first and foremost thing Democrats running for POTUS next year are talking about www.liberalcurrents.com/imagining-a-... www.liberalcurrents.com/proportional...

So many people are saying the only way forward is proportional representation 👇🏽 Also my piece in @liberalcurrents.com: www.liberalcurrents.com/proportional...

This is right, the only way to fix gerrymandering and the ills of our strange hyper two-partyism is multiparty proportional representation. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/proportional...

Dems must not run on our own version of the Powerful Presidency. We need to nuke the Imperial POTUS and make Congress ascendant and multiparty as I argued recently in @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/imagining-a-... www.liberalcurrents.com/proportional...

i think it is probably difficult to pull the “this guy isn’t manly” gambit when you look like someone aged up the boss baby

"The presidency is a fickle tool, one that changes hands too frequently to overly rely on. Trump in his first term was able to undermine years of careful diplomacy by throwing out the Iran deal, because its legal basis was essentially a handshake with the previous president."

SCOOP --> I talked to Paulina Mangubat, who was doxed by Stephen Miller's wife over the "ugly f--k" tweet. She stands by the tweet 100 percent. “What he’s doing is ugly—siccing federal agents on civilians, applauding when families are separated," she tells me: newrepublic.com/article/2111...

As a republic where the people create the government and rule ourselves, there is no reason for the existence of a masked national secret police force that picks up people, abuses them, and constantly violates our Constitution’s requirement of legal due process.

The reason the war doesn’t end and prices don’t come down and people are losing health insurance and the measles is spreading is that all the White House does is corruption 24/7.