i also just don’t know how you look at what clergy have been doing in mobilizing against ICE and think that right now is a good time to start complaining about christian progressives, like, pick your battles better

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

There's a type of politics person who will insist that the Democrats are no different than the Republicans on trans rights; meanwhile, in Kansas, the Democratic governor literally constantly vetoes anti-trans bills. She just vetoed a bathroom ban that the Reps overrided. Many such cases!

Counterpoint: The story of the Trump era is in part a story of the collapse of any idea of public civic virtue, and the left needs to respond by reclaiming the language of character and morality. For many, this moral language is going to come from religion, and we need to be comfortable with that.

More and more of us are saying!

I was just thinking this the other day - how you heard about for ex Sunrise Movement all the time during the Trump/early Biden years. Not so anymore. Are they still doing things?

I think it’s pretty clear this is all extremely intentional. The media has refused to cover Trump as he actually is for 10 years: a corrupt, racist imbecile. It’s intentional. These way out of proportion attacks on AOC, smarter than Trump in every way, are intentional.

fwiw insofar as there’s a maga after trump, i think RFK, jr. is an underrated figure for inheriting it, he is unlikely to disappear whenever trump croaks

“the GOP’s multiracial working class coalition” Yes Trump made inroads in 2024, but can we please take stock of the levels here? I just looked at the data again. 80% of Trump’s 2024 voters were white, according to Pew, and he lost low-income non-whites by ~20 points.

James Talarico is running an Instagram ad about his interview with Stephen Colbert getting censored, using it to fundraise. It has ~155k likes as of a few minutes ago. I have never seen a political ad get that kind of engagement before.

Stevens primaried a Democrat - Andy Levin - who dared to speak up for Palestinian humanity, so this tracks.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Tomorrow you may see James David Vance or some other purported Catholic from this administration with ashes on their forehead, it’s important to remember that it’s all just for show.

Eau Claire: I'm noticing an uptick in credible reports of ICE activity in recent weeks. Stay vigilant, and remember to be *specific* when citing alleged ICE activity - number of agents, vehicles, what they're doing, where they are, etc. Can report suspected ICE activity here: 1-800-427-0213

Chuck Schumer spectacularly failed the “vote blue no matter who” test and should be hounded from office

Finally caught a break at work today after 2 weeks being a slog. Better weather might have the kids in a better mood?

And not incidentally, "Keep hope alive" - the iconic line of his 1988 speech at the DNC - remains great advice for 2026.

The more you read about Jesse Jackson, the more you understand how fundamental he was to keeping some sense of the progressive spirit alive in this country in the '80s and '90s, even when austerity was in its heyday. Definitely was one of the greats.

After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.

I mean the fact that a Texas Senate race is close at all, regardless of who the Republican nominee is, is like... insanely bad for the Republicans. Trump won Texas by 14 points in 2024, his highest margin of victory ever there.

In an age where Trump has won 2 of 3 national elections, I think my main takeaway is "never talk with too much confidence about someone's electoral viability." The "glass half full" interpretation is this means AOC could win nationally. The "glass half empty" is President JD Vance.

February has been such a long month, despite it being literally the shortest month... really makes ya think

NEW: When North Carolina's GOP wanted to pass a bill last year to require that local governments comply with ICE, they were one vote down. A Democratic lawmaker gave that decisive vote—as she has on other GOP bills. Now, she faces a primary challenge from a progressive activist... in 14 days.

Sorry your health insurance costs so much more this year, we needed to make fancy airplanes for illiterate dog-murderers

Democratic fortunes in November don't rely on the "enthusiasm" of its voter base. The Dem voter base is not enthusiastic. The Dem voter base is full of rage. They're looking for someone to match that rage, to channel it. But even if they don't get that, they'll crawl over glass to kick MAGA out.

we're gonna have so many bad boyars, folks, more bad boyars than you've ever seen, big strong men with tears in their eyes, they'll come up to me and say "no one's ever had worse boyars than you, mister trump"

"Democrats didn't support Mamdani" is this really crazy myth that needs to die

Sometimes I regret being an asshole to people but I do not regret being an asshole to people who have defended USAID's death "but from the left." I was trying to stand up for the people who were killed by this ghastly policy.

I'm like "you must vote for the Democrat in 2028 under all circumstances" and you're like "oh but what if they're a socialist?" what part of UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES is so hard to understand

these people seemingly cannot comprehend any political claim except as some kind of stratagem against the left. the idea that "Trump is a fascist who will kill us all" is something we sincerely mean, rather than a tactic to bully them into accepting a dreaded moderate, is incomprehensible

BlueSky sometimes represents the desires of the Dem base - abolishing ICE, criticism of the pro-Israel consensus within the Dems - but sometimes it's actually incredibly far afield of where normal Dems are.

Nobody is arguing for blind loyalty. We are saying that, come 2028, you will be faced with some form of the simplest imaginable choice: MAGA, or not? And if, even without knowing anything else, you think that question doesn't already have a clear and urgent answer, you deserve ridicule.

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

I don't just think DHS should be abolished and agents who have committed misconduct prosecuted, I think their assets should be seized and used as restitution for the people they've harmed. Jesus Ochoa, Raymundo Gutierrez, and Jonathan Ross should all have to pay reparations.

Thinking about the ICE stooge who told that lawyer that if they gave all the people that they have detained lawyers, then ICE couldn't do what they have been doing. HMMMMMMM

Smart liberal legal people: how feasible it is to take ICE's pension funds and use them to create Super USAID? Asking for a friend

do you comprehend that "getting ICE out of Minneapolis" is an extremely non-theoretical issue for me right now and I'd vote for an actual lukewarm potato salad over the guys who invaded my city

One thought that had been germinating for a while that 2024 caused to fully finish growing: a huge difference for people in politics, I've found, is whether you view voting as a pragmatic act that builds toward something, or whether you view it as basically a form of self-actualizing.

All the smart leftists I know understand that self-identified liberals outnumber them and that they need to build a coalition with them; all the dumb ones think West Virginia, a state that gave Trump 70% of the vote, is ripe and ready for socialism if you just use the right words for it.

You guys still need to take ending USAID out of your platform tho.

One thing I give the DSA compared to other more left-wing orgs is that a good chunk of their membership actually wants to be politically relevant (a notable minority does not, but they seem to be losing influence in the org esp after Mamdani's win).

Imagine, just imagine, putting this in terms of “delight.” You have a chance to cast a vote against the government terrorizing American cities and presiding over the needless deaths of millions and you need *delight*? Get the fuck out of here.

imagine being a beautiful cow and ending up as a boxy, three-button USA flag sport coat with a collar gap and the bottom-most button fastened

Anyway, since we're discussing aliens apparently people should watch "Bugonia." Jesse Plemons is so good at playing weirdos!!! I love Emma Stone! Yorgos Lanthimos apparently does too!

I mean this is just correct. Space is so big. The nearest star is still trillions of miles away from us. Even if a civilization could become starfaring, it doesn't mean they'd necessarily be visiting *us* because there's billions of other star systems they could be visiting in our galaxy alone.

One reason I volunteer quite a lot for Democrats and their aligned candidates, occasionally putting my ass in sketchy situations for them (incl. canvassing a town that voted 2:1 Trump on the eve of the 2024 election), is because I don't think the Dems want me, my friends, or my family dead.

Thinking of Frederick Douglass, whose chosen birthday is today (like most enslaved people, Douglass never knew his actual birthday). He escaped slavery in the late 1830s, when abolitionism in America was young. The slave power, as it was known by abolitionists, was stronger than ever. (1/4)

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.