day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"

I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics

An article that wasn't focused on elite colleges might be capable of considering that disability accommodations are about a student getting a good education for themselves rather than framing things in terms of a hunger games competition for who gets to be elite in society

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

The right wing marched through media with bad faith complaints, cowing one institution after another into frightened overcorrection -- a perpetual defensive crouch from which they are pathetically easy to bully & manipulate. Now it's running the same play on universities, with similar results.

As always, Drudge shows how the press would cover Trump if Trump were a Democrat and/or they weren't afraid of him.

This week's @runforsomething.net feel-good update: A deep-dive into our 43 (!!) red-to-blue flips, including trends we identified & what's scalable to everywhere in 2026 & beyond. rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-g...

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

TONIGHT should send a clear message to all those elites - the people who run Big Law or have been in charge of elite academic institutions who decided to bend their knees last 10+ months - Americans coast to coast are paying attention & thankfully their brains haven’t been cooked by X. #NoKings

Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does. Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Weird, it's almost like most of the pundits are all hanging out at a white supremacist's social club for angry incels and having their sense of what's "real" wildly distorted.

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

Example one billion of the deeply right-wing lens that the NYT and other hugely influential media outlets persistently apply to American politics, even as they profess to believe themselves doing the opposite.

like, these people think that debra in marietta georgia just woke up one day and decided her biggest single issue was a kid in tucson arizona playing jv tennis with their friends and that was just a completely normal concern that she came to on her own

if you think the problem is that the democratic party is too extreme rather than our current media environment privileges right wing bull shit then you have no real business discussing politics in public

one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans

My main takeaway on the “moderation” debate is that Democrats would be better served by other debates besides left-right positioning, like how to develop new valence issues (corruption!) as wedge issues, and how to get attention for their policy proposals in the first place

even the democratic consultants are evaluating the democratic party according to the caricatures put out by republican-aligned media

Last time Democrats had a presidential primary, they opted for Joe “fund the police, fund them” Biden. In the Senate, Democrats voted unanimously against defunding the police. If the public thinks a party’s position is the opposite of how it votes, the policy stance is not the cause.

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

If Dems win the Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania in 9 days, it’s extremely likely the GOP can’t get a majority on that court until 2029. The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race. Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

I've genuinely come to think that one of the most powerful tools of the status quo is its ability to pull people into these epistemic circles where they're surrounded by people of a certain class, a certain perspective, and just inevitably absorb it after a while. It happens to so many people.

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

'we should try 5 community grocery stores as a pilot program' enrages the usual suspects more than 'donald trump just took a 10% stake in a giant multinational'

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Joseph Fishkin offers the best analysis so far of the Trump extortion "compact" proposed to nine universities. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

“Democracy depends on all of us, and especially those with a broader public platform, drawing the line. . . . It is an obligation that we must accept. Who are we to draw the line? We are citizens who demand to live in a democratic Republic."

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

the fact they're out here running "abigail spanberger will trans your kids" against one of the most conservative candidates out of the Democratic Party is a great example of why actually standing up for trans people, especially kids, is the only way to go

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

So many leaders in business and academia, so many politicians, clearly assuming that if they just go along with the fascists a little bit, they’ll survive and everything will be back to normal soon… This is not how it works, people! Read some history!

The defining political project of Trumpism is the promise to mobilize the coercive powers of the state and a constant threat of violent aggression to impose a reactionary orthodoxy on a changing, pluralizing society. That is the opposite of “agree to disagree.”

The right wing billionaires are soon going to control almost every single major media outlet.

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Dem consultants out there saying "voters won't care unless it affects their daily life" even as we are living through an extended nationwide hysteria about trans girls in high school sports, an issue which affects literally maybe a dozen Americans.

The university surviving an existential lawsuit isn't front-page, push notification worthy news the same way the president of the university having some sloppy citations in her graduate thesis was