MTG is positioning herself to attract Trump voters looking for an excuse to leave Trump without taking actual culpability / facing any consequences for their actions. “It’s ok, we were all duped”

Hat tip to @wired.com for this excellent piece of journalism on Gen-Z protests in Nepal www.wired.com/story/nepal-...

"Every Accusation is a Confession" + "The Cruelty Is The Point" are the only 10 words you need to understand the entirety of modern Republican politics.

it's right next to the Siren School for Nautical Navigation

Today's writing flow state music: Daft Punk, Derezzed. On repeat. That's it. (Is this insane? Yes. Does it work? Apparently, also yes.)

Go directly to the Louvre, do not pass go, do not collect $200

My kingdom for a Democrat willing to peg a campaign around a new Anti-Corruption Task Force. "I don't give a damn who they are or how much money they have, these corrupt assholes are going to pay for their crimes" would do Saddam Hussein numbers.

Exactly. And this move is pointlessly self-defeating: publicly sacrificing your constituents to protect the filibuster is a good way to ensure that Dem primary voters pick candidates who overtly promise to blow up the filibuster.

Your daily reminder that anti corruption is THE issue in American politics today, and it’s the path of least resistance (from non billionaires at least) to restoring the Dem party brand.

Dem electeds continue to treat GOP colleagues as if they are someone separate from this, when they should instead be demanding to know whether Mike Johnson took personal bribes to cover for Trump raping children.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

If you're mad about Surrender Schumer et al, channel that rage into volunteering with Indivisible in the Dem primaries. To sweeten the deal, they give you the opportunity to write a personal note to Schumer. Which I had *a lot* of fun with. www.indivisible2026.org?utm_source=l...

My position hasn't changed since March: ZERO donations to ANY incumbent Dems until Schumer steps down. "But some are good!" Too bad. Dems need to feel existential pressure for change. The good apples can fight to bring down Schumer and transform the party, or they can go down with the ship.

Not one -- *many* cleansing primary seasons. The US democracy movement needs to lock in for the long haul. Every elected Dem should face the music on this -- repeatedly, if necessary. We take it one step at a time, but our attitude should be that we will not quit until we own the Dems entirely.

Idk if AOC is “electable” or whatever, but if she runs for president, she‘s gonna win the Dem primaries. Like, all of them. An anti-establishment Dem who is both charismatic and deeply loyal to the party? Surrender Schumer is serving it up for AOC on a silver platter.

Even if I accept these claims—and I do not—none of this is justification for caving today. Dems could have used the holidays to ratchet up pressure on Trump to engage (or to further immolate over SNAP funding and drive his poll numbers down). Instead, they caved two weeks early.

Dem electeds still do not understand that, as livid as Americans are with Trump, they are just as, if not more furious with the Dems’ jaw-dropping cowardice as Trump walks all over their constituents.

One silver lining from this disaster is that the Dems who will cave on this are likely the same Dems who want to keep the filibuster — we now have an even more legible justification for voters to cull them.

Meanwhile, in the Middle East: 👀👀👀

More of this. Dems should explicitly invoke Trump’s “dealmaker” status to force him into the conversation. This also has the added benefit of totally humiliating Congressional Rs as toadies who clearly can’t think or act for themselves

DC JURY: AIRBORNE SUB WAS A MOMENT OF LEAVITY

I already knew that Trump truly doesn’t give a damn if we all drop dead. But like…damn.

*thump* anti-corruption *thump thump* anti-corruption *Thump Thump* anti-corruption *THUMP THUMP* ANTI-CORRUPTION

This was obvious before, but it is now explicit: Trump wants to kill the filibuster in order to rig future elections. But that *does not mean* that Democrats should cave on the shutdown. The filibuster is driving a wedge between Trump and the GOP Senate: force them to choke on it.

I mean, really, if the Dems can't figure out a way to combine "anti-corruption" + "affordability" into a clear campaign strategy, they deserve to lose.

Setting the punditry debates aside, today's elections should make it *very* clear that American liberalism's demise has been greatly exaggerated. People do not like incompetent ham-fisted tyranny. Liberals have a winning hand -- they should act like it!

"Fight harder, polarize everything" has been blindingly obvious since Jan. 20, 2025, and the only thing more obvious is that current Dem leadership doesn't have the stones for it. Swalwell/Murphy/others are starting to get it, but they are kneecapped by their apathetic senior colleagues.

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 The logical implication of this thread is that Dems need to stop arguing over "moderation" and instead commit to a plan that actually addresses their two big problems: 1) Structural conservative advantages in Congress (DC statehood, expand House, PR) 2) Conservative media domination (???)

I am convinced that the path forward for Dems is to explicitly lean into an institutional reform agenda, framed as the solution to endemic GOP corruption. Use the most corrupt presidency in American history to justify transformational reforms that will prevent this stuff from ever happening again.

Tired: 👊🇺🇸🔥 Wired: 🙈🙉🙊

All of the above

I’m at the gym, and a radio ad just played the old internet dial up tone with the (incredulous) voice over: “that was the INTERNET in the 90s…but now you have blazing fast connections…” I can’t tell if I’m the target demographic or the punchline

Bluesky: road rage, but for the poasters

The filibuster is a dead man walking — that the GOP is still clinging to it is a miracle. Regardless, Dems need to prepare for the filibuster’s demise. We cannot entertain the fiction that it provides any real protection — whenever push comes to shove, Trump’s GOP will do what it wants.

A+ example of stubborn commitment to pet theories despite all evidence to the contrary. Dems are reaping dividends from hammering Trump on violent secret police, which are now hugely unpopular. Pritzker is helping to turn what *used* to be the GOP’s winning issue into a glaring liability.

Boy, it’s a good thing Dems tacked to the center and funded trump’s budget in the spirit of biparti…wait what

Very simple stuff that national level Democrats have simply refused to hear for a decade — they viciously shut down the reformists, and the party is suffering terribly as a result.

I am once again asking Democrats to seriously commit to an anti-corruption crusade — an issue that transcends existing partisan cleavages and is broadly appealing to literally everyone

This would be *far* more than current crowd counting estimates suggest. Could be measurement error, sample or response bias, etc. But it could also be that “participation” in protest movements takes many forms, and No Kings is mobilising a huge degree of latent popular support.

I grew up in white rural Ohio next to a family who spoke Portuguese. They were some of the best neighbours we could have ever asked for. This disgusting bigot is a disgrace to his state.

I suspect that Trump sees Venezuela like he did Iran. Whether strikes actually achieve any strategic military objectives (or makes things 10x worse) is irrelevant. Trump is doing it to look tough, and because Venezuela cannot easily retaliate, he thinks it's costless.

Holy moly, this guy is going to be an outstanding mayor.

This is correct, and it is also why the Tesla Takedown movement is important. Business elites will start to speak out when they believe that the consequence of submission to Trumpian corruption is a level of enduring public spite so severe that even huge companies cannot survive.

Congressional Democrats have spent 9 months hiding from their own shadows instead of gleefully taking shots at the broadest side of a barn in American history. "The second we regain power, we will raze this disgusting altar to wealth and greed to the ground." See? Easy!

Janet Mills is, by all accounts, a good governor, with very high favorability ratings. She's not getting stomped because people dislike her, or because they particularly like Platner. She's getting stomped because -- for the love of god -- VOTERS WANT GENERATIONAL CHANGE.

Trump beating the "You're a King" rap by turning the White House into his very own Versailles