OK Rewriting without typos: Democrats - learn from Labour. "Moving right" forces your core voters to go elsewhere or stay home. It does NOT persuade right-oriented voters to move your way. This is no longer a wild theory "from the left." It is proven in the UK, as well as many academic studies.

Recap of the week Mon: May the fourth be with you Tue: May the fifth (of tequila) be with you. Wed: Revenge of the sixth

Every weakness in our political system – the Electoral College, the makeup of the Senate, lifetime terms for the Supreme Court, the acceptance of gerrymandering – has been weaponized by the fascists to steal our government from us.

Ted Turner had an instinct for mergers, a lot of charm, an inhuman level of self-confidence, AND a wildly overinflated sense of what he could pull off, and if I were to pick a single deal that represented all of those qualities, it would be "I think I can turn Jane Fonda into a trophy wife."

I'm not posting much today because I'm busy trying to flex my eye muscles to figure out how to "look at something very strongly".

A win for free speech, a loss for Matt Taibbi.

Hope the folks at the Times are happy with the role they played in platforming and legitimizing this know nothing bigot propagandist.

Jeff & Lauren Sanchez are the lead sponsors and honorary chairs of the Met Gala anntelnaes.substack.com/p/lead-spons...

Many people did the same thing he did, but in this case a long investigation revealed that Trump wanted this particular individual prosecuted. - Todd Blanche

Maxwell has zero credibility. She already swore to Todd Blanche that Donald Trump (and Jeffrey Epstein!) did nothing wrong and nobody believed her. If she tries to expose Trump after he leaves office, he'll just call her a bitter lying sex offender and move on.

“I took the ‘is your brain melting’ test and I scored ‘you need to take this test over and over.’”

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

He's way too emotional to be in a position of leadership. We need a woman in there.

The party whose entire messaging is now centered on building an outsize ballroom?

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FWIW, the answer to this question is “no”

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

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The clown Eastman disbarred. The arc of the moral universe gets there eventually.

Rats fleeing a sinking brand

Trump caves to the wrath of the Knights Templar!

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.

Funny how that works.

Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.

I guess it’s good that threatening to destroy a civilization because his war of choice isn’t going well is getting people to call Trump unhinged but when the fuck was that guy ever hinged?

I was also an English major but I have heard of the sun

TRUMP: "I'm gonna fuckin' blow up all the fuckers! I wanna use all the bombs before I die! Helter skelter! Helter skelter! Race war! Race war! Fuck Easter and fuck you, too!" NEWS: "Trump promises to strengthen military in early morning Easter greeting."

Ron Johnson wants the Supreme Court to follow the Constitution except when he doesn't like what the Constitution says.

Starts a fight with a guy he does not know or understand. Is ASTOUNDED when the guy fights back. Turns to the gathered crowd and demands someone win the fight for him. Everyone folds their arms. Throws a tantrum because it’s “unfair.” The Art Of The Deal #manlymanstrength

I, for one, eagerly await Ezra Klein's assessment about what sort of politics this is.

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

Now, the Honorable Chuck Schumer is an honorable man...

2026 Frank Sinatra: Stop spreading the news

This is how it is done. Bier does not back down at all.

If we don’t change our Congressional leadership to new people who know how to fight and who want change, this is what is in our future. Look at the collapse of Starmer’s approval.

Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.

Let me guess, wealthy people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying taxes now want the countries they moved from to protect them?

The problem with the war in Iraq was that George Bush was an idiot. With the Iran situation, we've got... [checks notes]... oh jesus christ

We have lost a decade of our life to an evil idiot…a dolt. A moron. One of the most racist and dumbest humans on the planet. 10 years.

You have to give him credit. Saying this after the pussy grabber in Chief became president twice and is worshiped like a God by the Republican party takes some real chutzpah.

he’s so close to getting it

The Supreme Court:

At last. SCOTUS remembers that Congress is a separate and co-equal branch of government, to whom the Constitution assigns the power to levy taxes. One of Trump’s favorite levers is removed from the arsenal of extortion.

pedophile prince arrested in england. insurrectionist president sentenced to life in prison in south korea. meanwhile every day for our pedophile insurrectionist president is like a birthday party for a mentally disabled boy with rich parents.

Congrats to former Prince Andrew on his new job at CBS News

Newsom’s siding with the billionaires.

it's funny in a way, but the rubio speech is an AI-quality imitation of an Obama speech, but with ethnonationalism replacing pluralism. It's as if the prompt were, "write me an obama speech but make it white supremacist." Hasn't been president in a decade but they're still biting