I hate the SAVE America Act. But in the long run, the demise of the Senate filibuster would be great for liberalism—and it would even help (yes, help) bipartisanship. trib.al/LzMr4Ag

From @perrybaconjr.bsky.social: "The Democrats are in danger of giving away one of the most important perches in American politics, particularly with a radical Republican like Donald Trump in the White House, and one that they should easily own: the California governorship." trib.al/HUipm6R

New Column: Why a big part of me hopes John Thune kills the filibuster, and why you should too! newrepublic.com/article/2083... via @newrepublic.com

From @alexshephard.bsky.social "But now Trump is in free fall, trapped in a war he started that now threatens to destroy the global economy. Maybe, for once, Schumer’s strategy makes sense." trib.al/SLDcuzY

New Column: Watching Mike Johnson give Trump that "America First Award" was harder than watching the Dinner Party episode of The Office. At least the latter was trying to be funny. newrepublic.com/post/208284/... via @newrepublic.com

New Column: Watching Mike Johnson give Trump that "America First Award" was harder than watching the Dinner Party episode of The Office. At least the latter was trying to be funny. newrepublic.com/post/208284/... via @newrepublic.com

“The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.” —Justice Sonia Sotomayor trib.al/ihEak8N

From perrybaconjr.bsky.social: "Experts armed with data and cross-country comparisons are universally declaring that the United States is becoming less democratic and at a rate much faster than other nations around the world." trib.al/oP0JKa8

New Column: If the war ends soon, what will it have accomplished? More bad than good. And of course, as soon as I say this, he'll probably do the opposite! newrepublic.com/article/2080... via @newrepublic.com

Uh...what happened to "regime change" and "unconditional surrender"? Here's what happened: Iran didn't fold in two weeks, like Trump thought. What a joke. I mean, no prolonged war, presumably, so that's good. But if this is how this ends? Huge political embarrassment for Trump.

From Simon Lazarus: "Yes, Trump might be distinctly deranging. But we must keep the parade of horribles that follow in his wake in view if we are to survive them." trib.al/5qqSgBB

New Column: What an embarrassment. I mean him, the flatterers who surround him, AND his dead-end supporters. newrepublic.com/post/208026/... via @newrepublic.com

From @dceiver.bsky.social: "Imagine if the dumbest person in the world and humanity’s biggest asshole were the same person, and that guy was president. Then imagine he started a war with Iran. Now check the news." trib.al/6eeMzpD

From @alexshephard.bsky.social: This war is unpopular, aimless, and illegal—and the Trump administration is preparing to ask for enough money to fund it for many months to come. If Congress can’t hold the line here, with a new forever war in the offing, then when will they ever? trib.al/35jQhOp

From @mford.bsky.social: "Dictatorships are always more fragile than they try to seem. If anything, the president has deeply underestimated his legal and political peril." trib.al/4Ztx0VX

From @gregsargent.bsky.social: "Trump’s official rationales have lurched in all directions, and what’s missing now is any wrestling with whether the supposed benefits we’re gaining are worth what we’re sacrificing." trib.al/NvzykYl

Will the great and mighty United States of America, the oldest democracy in the world, celebrating its 250th birthday this July, be demoted to “partly free”? I don’t know. But the mere fact that we even have to ask this question is chilling. trib.al/P7KGcJt

New Column: Freedom House is set to release its Freedom in the World report for 2025 this Thursday. Will the United States be demoted from "free" to "partly free"? That we even have to think about this is sickening. newrepublic.com/article/2077... via @newrepublic.com

New Column: What that hideous video with football hits tells us about the Trump regime. newrepublic.com/post/207741/... via @newrepublic.com

"Nothing turns the public against the incumbent party like a tanked economy and a disastrous war. The Iranians believe they’ll achieve favorable terms once the U.S. economy begins to crater and the public turns against Trump." From @brynntannehill.bsky.social: trib.al/Kn6VQJQ

"Democrats cannot be allowed to repeat their past mistakes. We must bring the architects of our current nightmare to justice—not in the name of the past, but in the name of the future." From @aaronregunberg.bsky.social: trib.al/ZjDVZ2e

"You cannot watch Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth preen and strut about our new 'overwhelming and unrelenting precision' and vow of 'no hesitation' in 'crushing the enemy' without seeing this MAGA intoxication at play." From @gregsargent.bsky.social: trib.al/i8tfBEy

Leaders around the world appear to be struggling to respond to an American administration that is no longer constrained by pretending to care about human lives, the law, or the cost of its hubris. From Annelle Sheline: trib.al/aHSanNa

"Twenty years ago, in other words, neocons and neolibs could justify war with 'values' (coded Christian) and 'interests' (coded capitalist). Violent superstitions were supposed to belong to the other side." From @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social: trib.al/JFaK0vq

"Moderate Democratic voters are not centrists clamoring for a return to the Clinton era or rebukes of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders." trib.al/wOplJhG

New Column: How in blazes did so many people fall for the idea that this guy hated war? That he could bring prices down? That he is competent to run a high-volume McDonalds, let alone the country? newrepublic.com/article/2074... via @newrepublic.com

The man is, whatever his other faults, just way in over his head. Maybe Democrats should say that more often. The fact that he’s costing taxpayers a billion dollars a day on a war most of them didn’t want may be a good place to start. trib.al/tGW9ROh

It’s bad enough when your business model essentially plans for government programs to provide the money you’re not willing to pay. trib.al/48VHpow

Immigration as an issue has been transformed from a notable Trump strength into one of his most glaring weaknesses. We’ve learned that most Americans value what immigrants bring to this country. It’s been heartening to see. trib.al/C9gGqUw

New Column: Yes, she was bounced for hurting Trump's fragile ego. But millions of righteously outraged Americans made a difference here, too. newrepublic.com/article/2074... via @newrepublic.com

"Trump has squandered some of the country’s greatest sources of strength. By repelling nearly all of America’s allies—alliances that are among the best instruments of leverage Washington has in the world—he has paid China and Russia enormous dividends." trib.al/ufxc5eQ

One of this year’s most closely watched midterm contests is in Georgia, but if H.B. 1108 were to become law, the whole country might have to wait weeks after the fall elections, or even longer, to learn which party has won control of the chamber. trib.al/Rgbj0pZ

"If Trump insists on steamrolling over other countries, the United States will eventually discover—like Napoleon’s France, Hitler’s Germany, and Stalin’s Soviet Union before it—that other countries always have options to resist." trib.al/fRLkOgW

For the court’s conservatives, the only consistency is their inconsistency. Still, things rather conspicuously keep going the GOP’s way. trib.al/IU332wI

"A 36-year-old Bible-quoting former public school teacher against a philandering, corrupt 63-year-old career politician is about as ideal a contrast as Democrats could have wished for." trib.al/yJZxG9o

"Immigrants have helped reduce deficits every year between 1994 and 2023, in large part because the amount they pay in taxes outstrips the cost of the benefits they receive." trib.al/njoop3l

It’s clear the Democratic Party rank and file demands a new position on Israel. There’s one candidate, or maybe two, who can best answer that call, if they choose to. trib.al/ou4PBCg

"Democrats should hope that Paxton wins. He’s the ideal opponent for Talarico. Calling the attorney general scandal-plagued would be way understating his issues." trib.al/ctHTJHo

The court’s conservative members went out of their way to change their normal procedures in shadow-docket cases to benefit a Republican member of Congress as she tries to fend off a less favorable legislative map. trib.al/g80DPxm

"Facing sustained criticism from the MAGA faithful who rightly see the war as a “betrayal,” Trump could well spiral into unprecedented territory." trib.al/bEIaXiL

"Democrats should hope that Paxton wins. He’s the ideal opponent for Talarico. Calling the attorney general scandal-plagued would be way understating his issues." trib.al/QArUjMl

“By Hegseth’s standard, any country having any advanced defensive weaponry of any kind can be labeled an imminent threat.” trib.al/ayOE74Q

"Trump is clearly law breaking right now and being allowed to, which is really frightening. He’s operating like a king." trib.al/2YYoi9l

Question for Pam Bondi: With the Dow down to 47,000, are we allowed to take the Epstein files seriously now?

Figures like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, who has explicitly compared Canada to Ukraine, see Canada as a bastion of decadent liberalism in the West that must be broken and subdued, one way or another. trib.al/m9FTkHb

Figures like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, who has explicitly compared Canada to Ukraine, see Canada as a bastion of decadent liberalism in the West that must be broken and subdued, one way or another. trib.al/JBH5xt1

New Column: If I were Iranian, I'd be hopeful at this moment too. Of course. But so were Ukrainians in 1941, and Iraqis in 2003, and... newrepublic.com/article/2071... via @newrepublic.com

Even cursory knowledge of this history ought to be enough to prevent any industrial-scale MAGA finger-wagging at those of us who aren’t popping champagne corks just yet. trib.al/ygonvN5

The results are in from our recent readers’ poll. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets high marks. Kamala Harris, not so much. trib.al/2kkkOBq

This administration wants to drop a shitload of bombs, to kill a foreign leader, to destabilize a foreign nation, if not an entire region simply because it can—and because no one can stop them. trib.al/ihkdtOo