It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

I think I would take reactionary centrists more seriously if they could cite one (1) example of progressives pushing for social change the *right* way -- using just the right slogans, supporting just the right policies, protesting in just the right fashion.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

What makes Google's data center flex announcement today so notable, IMO: 🔌💡 1) 1st known utility contracts on AI DC flexibility 2) 1st incorporation into utility planning 3) 1st use of ML workloads for flexibility 4) Definitive, long-term contracts 5) Flex applies during certain hrs/times of year

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Legitimately feel sick. We are hours away from the largest cuts to low-income people in history. People’s lives will be ruined. It is so unfair. It’s unfair to be born into a system that allows this level of poverty in the first place and it’s evil to rip away aid from the needy. Hard to watch this.

. @danpfeiffer.bsky.social gave me the best political advice anyone ever has. Obama won because he was prepared to lose. You have to stand for something. Zohran stood for his values and something new, and he inspired many!

Speak up. It’s easy.

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

NEW, from me: The House reconciliation bill would be horrible for the country’s energy policy. But the Senate can fix it. I have a new piece in the @nytimes.com with the three recommendations for how lawmakers can avoid disaster: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...

I updated this old graph of mine. It shows that, if not for the Bush and Trump tax cuts, debt/GDP would be stable rather than rising forever. I've updated the methodology to first assume an AMT patch at Clinton levels, so I'm only attributing to the Bush tax cuts their portion of the AMT patch.

If it’s _not_ a bribe, that means Qatar is just giving a $400M plane to Trump - why? For fun? Because they like his personality?

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

“But these tariffs just don’t make sense!” Here’s the game: Step 1: institute extremely high tariffs for no real reason Step 2: retailers raise prices Step 3: repeal tariffs (after declaring victory + claiming achievements no matter what) Step 4: retailers keep prices high Step 5: profit!

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

In addition to his political savvy, Chuck Schumer also offers cutting edge communication strategies ranging from an op-ed in the New York Times to an interview with the New York Times

Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

some helpful reminders: -not all jews support israel -criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic -being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas -arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment -violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

Everyone can see that the center-right was a hollow shell, yes? It collapsed immediately & totally, which suggests there wasn't much to it. And everyone can see that conservatives' stated principles were always bullshit, right? Small gov't. Judicial restraint. Rule of law. Out the window.

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

The deputy speaker of Israel’s parliament and a leading member of Netanyahu’s party calling for the bombing of food stocks in Gaza just a few hours ago. You won’t see this mentioned by any European or American leaders, or by most western media.

Seems like a pretty important detail

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

47 doesn’t understand good vs bad. He has no concept of morality, just power. He just sees strong vs weak. He likes strength and despises weakness. He views Ukraine as weak and Russia as strong, so he bullies Zelenskyy and sucks up to Putin. He has no clue what true strength looks like.

MAGA leaders undermine govt, dismantle our global standing, destabilize our economy, decimate soft power through foreign aid, and destroy our health, all to consolidate more power and wealth in the ashes. Cruelty and malicious destruction is intentional, not a side effect. Pure, self-serving evil.

[getting a bootleg flu shot] Them: do you have an egg allergy? Me: wait, you also sell egg?

Yesterday, like every Tuesday @senatedem.bsky.social held a press conference. @schumer.senate.gov, @murray.senate.gov and @baldwin.senate.gov spoke. Patty called EM the leader of the Republican Party party, and gave calls to action for us on what we can be doing right now 1/3

"It’s a familiar Silicon Valley mindset, the reason startups are forever reinventing a bus, or a bodega, or mail. It’s the implacable certainty that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things." www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

My new coping mechanism is asking ChatGPT for West Wing versions of 47’s White House scenarios. My latest:

You can’t fight feelings with facts - especially about the “task force” and “working group” you formed. People are scared. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social needs to meet the moment, empathize with fears, and convince people he’ll fight for them.

Welfare for the wealthy. This spending bill is cruel and morally bankrupt. Trump doesn’t care about debt. He doesn’t care about people, only himself. It’s now laid bare: DOGE is a transparent effort to undermine government’s regulatory capacity to concentrate power and wealth beyond imagination.

This is insane. If you wonder why some of us think the rule of law is about to fall, it's this. The U.S. Attorney for DC is not "President Trump's lawyer" and its job is not to "protect his leadership" nor prosecute people who "refuse to put America first".

Stunning democratic backsliding here: apnews.com/us-news/miss...

This is #2 at the FBI

The most shameful betrayal of an ally by a U.S. President in modern history.

Call your reps! Today’s topics: - QAnon Kash and personality Dan Bongino running FBI. Retribution expected - Call it a Coup - Strong comms: Sen Smith “dick boss” Elon comeback and Gov Mills “Maine will resist unconstitutional directives.” Emulate! - Town Halls demonstrate: resistance building!

This is a head-spinning barrage of threats to democracy in less than a month. Shock and awe indeed. brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-...

If Trump and Elon think a program is wasteful, they can change the law to delete the funding - or refuse to sign into law a government funding bill that provides any new money for them. What they can’t (legally) do is simply stop spending they don’t like.

We should view the hypermajority of DOGE “savings” in one of three categories: 1) totally fake, but PR for Musk - like he always does 2) real, but super harmful cuts - like stopping cancer & Alzheimer’s research 3) ironically *creating* waste - bcuz contracts will eventually be paid, w/ penalties

February 23, 2025

USAID informed employees via email that it is terminating 2,000 workers and placing thousands of foreign service officers and other direct hires worldwide on paid leave, effective tonight.

When Dems realize this kind of pithy response will help them stay in office the tides will turn. Senator Smith can be a bellwether because she isn’t running for reelection. This is the way!