The shadow cabinet idea was a great idea and should have been implemented a year ago. Would have presented an organized, unified response to the chaos, issue by issue, by people with expertise.

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

Can’t improve things by perpetuating the lie that immigrants are a threat. Have to take on that lie directly, siding with the pro-immigration American majority. “But if we get rid of ICE, who will stop the rampaging hordes of scary foreigners?” isn’t good politics. It’s ceding the issue to liars.

The absolute accuracy of this.

What this game could use is a couple of turnovers to keep it exciting.

There really is no statistic more revealing of what people will go along with and even embrace than the number of people willing to vote for Trump a second time; all else is downstream

NYT yet again you are working my last @#$%ing nerve.

As actual “jackbooted government thugs” wage war on an American city, the people who spent decades warning about government tyranny aren’t just silent. They’re stoked. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Losing my mind at the Dems with their billionaire backers and powerful friends who have come up with the brilliant strategy that the party should adopt the policy positions of the avg MAGA voter — apparently ignoring that independents and swing voters even exist. Is this what $40 million gets you??

We think of the postwar world order as having been built by the US. But as Getachew makes clear, that world order was completed by the intellectual giants of the African, pan-African and African diaspora liberation movements. It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.

I'm an OUTLAW and I listen to COUNTRY MUSIC and have a BEARD and drive a BIG TRUCK and I like to OBEY LAW ENFORCEMENT

For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply. Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.

In a time of crisis for U.S democracy, CBS News under new right-wing management just committed one of the worst acts of journalism in American history What's so terrible about its unverified, unlikely Trump propaganda over the the MLPS killing by ICE My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/cbs-...

A third immigrant held at Camp East Montana has died, reportedly by suicide. Victor Manuel Díaz was detained in Minnesota. He is the sixth migrant to die since Jan. 1 in ICE detention. My story: www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.

Any country that agrees to pay anything (let alone $1 billion) to join the Board of Peace is endorsing plans to replace the UN with a much more problematic replacement and is placing a final dagger into the post-WW2 order. No matter how you feel about that order today, this needs saying.

How can anyone take statements this idiotic seriously? Isn't this guy supposed to be one of the smart normal ones?

Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

Hi it's me, author of "Fuck Unions: Why Dems Need To Destroy Those Dirty Sweaty Hogpeople" back with my latest book, "Gone Woke: How Democrats Lost Their Connection To The Working Class"

Fun fact: before her congressman-elect husband died because he didn't think covid was real, Julia Letlow was a top administrator at the University of Louisiana Monroe, because universities are hotbeds of woke

I just got a mailer from Cassidy today, crowing about how in sync he is with Trump's agenda. Pity.

Bill Cassidy will always be remembered for enabling kids' deaths to impress Trump & then getting stabbed in the back by the main kid killer's boss. It's a complicated plot you'll struggle to explain to your grandkids (should any of us survive the next pandemic — something Bill helped make possible).

It was always going to go down this way for Bill Cassidy and he could have gone down with principle instead of subjecting us to the horrors of RFK jr

Make America White Again is very clearly the slogan, the movement, and philosophy at work here and the press is still shy about asking about it “a pair of asylum-seekers from Angola who handed over the keys to their apartment Wednesday and said they planned to head for the Canadian border.”

Just a lot of Saints fans with long memories. 49ers can get bent all the way backward.

The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work. Really depraved shit.

jd vance would sell his *own* children for a percocet if he thought it would get him closer to the presidency

it’s one of those fundamentally cursed hospitality violations that you read about in ancient texts

Too many years of the Saints sharing the NFC West with the 49ers has made for an insuperable hate. I cannot wish them well.

When you don't have a fan interest in either team, games like this are really fun. But I know exactly how Bill and Broncos fans are feeling right now, and I do not envy them their blood pressure and nausea.

1980s punks expected as much. Society should’ve listened to em.

If Chat GPT actually improves your writing, that's a sign you absolutely suck as a writer. And you should spend some time in shame and seclusion and silence while you work on improving it. Or you can find a writing instructor and do the work.

It's also WAY harder to accept the "both sides are the same" rhetoric, when you realize how small the number of "leftist" spaces are that will accept any talk of violence, and then witness just how publicly the right gets to fantasize about it. Left spaces shut it shit down, bcuz its a fed magnet.

If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head

Hell, Trump sent our governor to negotiate-- maybe he'll swap Louisiana? Or at least the City of New Orleans?

I personally don’t think it is the right time for language and tone policing when the federal govt is on tv every day laughing about how its armed secret police force can go “door to door” in your community and that you deserve to get your head blown off if you get in its way, all while the…

I'm making up my last couple of continuing ed unit hours for my EMT recertification, and it's been so nice to hear such unequivocal support for vaccines, vaccine programs, and municipal EMS participation in public health. Despite what the feds, and the loons at state level where I live, are saying

This is @privaricate.bsky.social’s handiwork 👇🏻

How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."

Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time. Time to claim your true history.

This is the case and nothing makes any sense.

Smarter people than me are obviously going through the details on all of this stuff but I genuinely don't see how any of the multiple insane things Trump is doing right now ever actually work out

When you think "convention (sic) wisdom" is a synonym for "expert, long-established scholarly consensus"

In my latest Substack, I explain why every video of what ICE is doing in Minnesota (or anywhere) is a powerful form of resistance open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh. I got nothing.

I’ve been stalwart backer of transatlantic alliance all my life. I understand why Europeans have so far trod softly/tried to keep Trump onside. But, there comes a time when you have to face reality. The US is no longer our ally. Its defense guarantee is worthless. Time to kick ass back🧵

Not a single shred of evidence that these views are widely shared on the American left. It's true that the Iranian uprising hasn't gotten a lot of attention but that's mostly because the Minneapolis ICE shit is so enraging, not because we support the regime. Come the fuck on.

Man, Denmark is rad. And so are the Danes. I visited a lot when I was working for NOLS in Scandinavia. And Copenhagen is one of my favorite cities. I'm really ashamed of my country's behavior. And also angry.