“When prosecuting cases, my colleagues and I treated harsh prison sentences as common sense. We believed people who committed serious crimes would remain dangerous for decades. … Long sentences felt not only justified, but necessary. We were wrong.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

Liberals next year and in '29 need to lean into rebuilding government agencies, particularly the IRS, which is leaving billions uncollected We can't and shouldn't try to out anti-tax the GOP IMHO, reforms in '29 need to face how to get the budget back to 1980 & 2000—high taxes & in balance

I had to write about Artemis II. The communion of joy experienced by so many during this historic mission--from the astronauts themselves all the way down to so many of us--was a light in the darkness and a glorious reminder: Great things are still possible. This future can still be ours.

"In bleak times when the world’s crop of populists and neo-fascists offer only visions of blood and carnage, war and testosterone-soaked ethnonationalisms... this vision of vast, complex, infrastructural achievements that belong to the public constitute the highest mission of liberal democracy"

Everybody involved needs to stand trial. And don't get me started, "It'll never happen." Sure, if you refuse to fight for it then yes, 100 percent it will never happen. All the more reason why I will not shut up about it.

On 4/21 from 3-5pm I am moderating a conversation with NYU professor @lilacb.bsky.social about her work with the @nexusproject.bsky.social to reject the weaponization of antisemitism. Event is open to any NYU affiliated people. RSVP link below. Please share! docs.google.com/forms/d/11hg...

Today in “Presidentialism was a grave mistake” The legislative solution is impeachment, not a commission to do the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments’ job for them. In a normal functioning democracy, there would just be a simple majority no confidence vote & we’d be done already.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance faced hecklers during a speech at a Turning Point USA event, where he said Pope Leo should "be careful when he talks about matters of theology."

We shouldn’t have to march to protect a rail line we voted for by an enormous margin and have been paying for over the last 10 years. But we do. See you in Ballard on Sunday!

AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter. And I think today was an important turning point

Look, he's not the Antichrist, but he is anti-Christlike.

He says in a recent podcast that one of his favorite movies is “gone with the wind”. Sorry had to share.

Conditions like these will reliably cause occasional deaths and the ICE agents culpable should face capital trials.

Is it possible Vance wants excommunication so he can begin his evangelical arc and maybe even marry a certain woman he's expressed interest in in the last year lol.

Just a reminder that JD Vance has been a Catholic for less time than Nacho Fries have been on the Taco Bell menu.

From the venerable @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com this piece is a timeless bullseye. www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

We need to be as internationally mobilized as the reactionaries are

The power in question has been apart of the Anglo-American constitutional project for a few centuries. So, I don’t know why we’re going back to the Romans.

I do not think supporting Ukraine is neocon

I just think it’s weird that we still have, in the year of our lord 2026, guys who are like, “God, no you can never do constitutional hardball.” Bruh, isn’t it a little late for that?

Riley Gaines loses at everything.

On Yom HaShoah, I am once again forever grateful that the Holocaust education I received - including from unbelievably brave survivors who jumped off trains to Dachau & lived through other miracles - taught me that the whole point was Never Again For Anyone. Not just Never Again For The Jews.

I think there are plenty of theological-oriented reasons to find the Trump as Christ images offensive. But, I think there’s also a real secular concern about the judgment and stability of a man who earnestly compares himself to God.

Remember when Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization? And then backed out of that and talked about forming a deal with Iran? And then dropped that and went to a UFC fight as negotiations fell apart? And then unveiled a triumphal arch and a photo of himself as Jesus? That was this week.

Meanwhile, in Houston, gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa is talking about Greg Abbott trafficking people into Texas’s private prisons and detention centers so that his donors will profit, and I really appreciate her for it.

Man. Person. Camera. Jesus. Doctor.

Message from Los Angeles Unified Mensaje del Distrito Escolar Unificado Los Angeles

“Democrats and sympathetic commentators on the broad center-left in the United States still cannot bring themselves to think much about questions surrounding hard power and the use of force.” www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Someday, someone is going to make a movie about the tech-bros who recklessly dismantled the professional US administrative state and it’s going to be devastating. Gripping excerpt from “Into the Wood Chipper,” Nicholas Enrich. h/t @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

can’t say what i want to happen to these people for legal reasons

When a political movement is so committed to white supremacy that it is willing to kill the country to uphold it.

From a golden age to “How much pain can you personally endure for my vague and unarticulated geopolitical goals?”

What identity? The one that launched world wars, colonialism, and the Holocaust? I'll take the Europe of: -the Enlightenment, - the Scientific & Industrial Revolutions and -of Hungary '56, '89, and '26 playing We Are the Champions over BIbi/Orban/Miller/Trump.

tonight we’re gonna post like it’s 1889

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

I took an overnight train from Milan to Sicily, and the train drove onto a ferry, we all got off and enjoyed the boat, and then the train drove off the ferry.

'Rat directional indicator' (RDI) is an amazing coinage.

"Artemis, like her namesake Goddess, shone a light in the darkness that made me believe we might—just might—make meaningful progress on putting an end to that other, dark half of America: the United States of Confederates, fascists, Christian nationalists, and preening imperialists"

This is true. The system has to be un-rigged, and a genuinely competitive democracy has to emerge. That also means dismantling the self-dealing corruption machine Orbán built.

I’ll have what Hungary’s having.

All honor to the Hungarian people for showing the way.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

I am literally running for Congress to put these people in prison. And I need your help.

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

I wanna go be in Budapest. I need an emergency injection of this into my veins

I just. I mean. www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.