I have my own red state problems, but Julie looks like great senate material (and Hick does not) -- I've chipped in!

This from Hickenlooper is worse than standard Institutionalism. It has an extra layer of "oooh, we don't want to make them mad at us" snivility for good measure.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

We need more of this, all across the country.

JUST POSTED: first in a new occasional series, Political Strength Training, this is a tour through some of the fascinating data we've accrued over the past few cycles of campaign work. However disastrous you thought the Democratic campaign approach to immigration was, it's worse. 🧵

I've been saying: Democrats sticking to their principles rather than swaying with political winds is not only more morally admirable, *it is more politically savvy*. Nothing was more predictable than this thermostatic backlash against Trumpian fascist immigration policy.

Oh that is a hell of a basis to challenge the corrupt-ass J6 payoff fund.

Polis might otherwise be great—I don’t know—but he needs to be permanently disgraced if for no other reason than we must deter pointlessly caving to fascists.

I'm furious with Congressional Democrats' timidity, and I've decided to try to do something about it: I'm raising funds for @senadorajulie.bsky.social in her challenge to incumbent John Hickenlooper in the Democratic primary for US Senate in Colorado. Let me explain why you should join me. 1/9

We are going to need Dems with the disposition to go right after this madness, and that means primaries. Here’s one: bsky.app/profile/luke...

This thread is exactly why I support @senadorajulie.bsky.social for US Senate over John Hickenlooper

Agree 💯 w/@lukegarrett.bsky.social, and will reach out to many friends in CO working hard to change political representation in the state. There really are not "state only" members of Congress. Each one of them, but esp Senators, make decisions that affect all of us. Let's make this happen.

THIS IS SO GREAT. Like a lot of people, Luke has been radicalized a whole lot over the past couple years. This is exactly the kind of storm hell with a bunch of squirtguns energy we need in primaries right now. Please read and donate and share this thread!!

I'm furious with Congressional Democrats' timidity, and I've decided to try to do something about it: I'm raising funds for @senadorajulie.bsky.social in her challenge to incumbent John Hickenlooper in the Democratic primary for US Senate in Colorado. Let me explain why you should join me. 1/9

“The populist framing outperforms, because it’s giving people a clear reason. It’s giving them a clear villain," said @jenancona.bsky.social, a co-founder and vice president of Way to Win.

Doing this to cars full of high people is a betrayal of Taco Bell’s social contract with our nation

I've been trying to think who Altman reminds me of and he's the spitting image of Burke from Aliens

the thing about the institutional apparatus of the dems is that it’s the biggest collection of losers we’ve seen in my lifetime. despite 2 governing trifectas in the last 18 years and the presidency for 12, they’ve overseen the return of segregationists and the end of bodily autonomy for women

Funny (not funny but you know) that a substantial number of people in this country can't accurately assess what's going on because they can't bring themselves to believe that someone could be this stupid, let alone the president

not only can they not believe someone could be this stupid, they cannot believe they themselves would have been stupid enough to vote for someone this stupid, so there must be some kind of twelve dimensional chess going on with respect to the emperor and his clothes

Friday night self care

What a time to be alive. It’s popular front time, motherfuckers.

Another beautiful morning to be ride the bus baby

If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?

you've got to respect this. jim crow's on its way back and black democrats have decided to trust their colleagues enough that they're going to fucking take one for the team once again. we gotta make it worth it.

Punir les oppresseurs de l’humanité, c’est clémence; leur pardonner, c’est barbarie.

give DC statehood combine the dakotas save money on not having to change the flag

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz can eat shit.

Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

NORMAL SECRETARY OF HHS: “You should not inject saline into your balls.” RFK JR: “You should not inject saline into your balls. You should use colloidal silver.”

AOC is right to say this, and anyone who attacks her for it is wrong. And AOC should under no circumstances be labeled antisemitic.

My “this is not a golden calf” shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

I finally visited Ripped Bodice, the incredible romance bookstore in Brooklyn, and it was a feast for the eyes and mind, but this sign especially 🌷💃🏼👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🌸🧞‍♀️💘🧚🏾‍♀️

god bless a man who had the gift of true righteousness. also a man who looked absolutely goddamn crazy just truly one of the weirdest looking guys god ever made

Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

listen rich people, if you want everybody to stop paying taxes that don't directly benefit them, you're gonna have a real bad time

The Law and Political Economy of Dickishness (forthcoming Yale LJ 2027)

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

If the Supreme Court is concerned about its declining public legitimacy and thinks too many Americans are calling the Supreme Court illegitimate, the majority could try not issuing bad faith rulings that illegitimately distort law in pursuit of undemocratic partisan power. That’s always an option.

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

If it is permissible and advances the cause of antifascism, it is obligatory. That is the floor. That is what maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time means. If you can't get on board, get out of the way. If you won't get out of the way, you must be replaced.

This company exists for the purpose of crimes, though I’m not sure exactly what all of them are.

The gold, 22-foot Donald Trump statue definitely isn’t a false idol. You can tell because Trump’s pastor friend said of the new statue at his Doral golf course, “Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf.”

“The incredibly unpopular ruler, whose time is split between insane wars no one wants and building golden monuments and palaces honoring himself, has changed the rules so only his party can win elections” is a story that often ends on a scaffold

incredibly funny that this bullshit trust and safety team is going to Streisand Effect themselves into everyone knowing about this restore @cara.city you miserable babies

BREAKING: Epstein Suicide Note Unsealed