1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch. I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

not a single news org signed. that's what it takes. stand together. everywhere, every time.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.

Reality check: There is a bipartisan House bill to extend the ACA tax credits for one year—and just 14 Republicans have signed on. 14 out of 219, less than 7%. The vast majority of House Republicans want this to expire, or at least don’t want to be associated with an extension.

Take the good news seriously too

Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

Let's annotate: 1. Who did it? Clearly assigns blame. 2. Why did the culprits do it? Motive. 3. What must be done in response?

So Trump is defunding the police.

President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising. Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown.

this is the third time Donald Trump has shut down the government while his party controls both houses of Congress

Lawrence: One of the examples you've put out is in Speaker Mike Johnson's Louisiana district, a 60 year old couple earning 82,000 a year. Their health care premiums will rise by almost $20,000 by 300% because of what their congressman is doing.

"if the experience of Lincoln suggests anything, it is that there can be no real success without principle — ironclad and unyielding."

If I’m running messaging, the word on the street is that Democrats are refusing to fund a dictatorship. Either Article 1 means something or nobody gets anything.

"they rely on the *perception* of inevitability"

Republicans control the White House, Senate, and the House. This government shutdown is failed Republican leadership on full display.

Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what they heard. www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...

This shouldn't even be a partisan issue. This is a national security emergency. The response should be all hands on deck from every branch of government and every single check and balance option in history should be being desperately pored over. Anything else is an abdication of duty.

I need journalists to be able to identify a push poll when they see one.

if the Trump Hegseth address had been an email www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Undocumented immigrants aren’t even *allowed* to access Medicare, Medicaid or ACA credits. Republicans like Randy are going to spike your health insurance premiums, but they REALLY want you to blame an immigrant instead.

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.

At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”

I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio. It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?" WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

“average voter is centrist” is a statistical error, average voter holds dozens of contradictory and sometimes insane policy views that more or less counterbalance because theyre all conflicting

Bunch of relatively rich white men on here saying "no one could have predicted how bad things would get under Trump!! No one!!!" Fuck all y'all. Fuck all the way off.

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...

@jessicavalenti.bsky.social is very right that Ezra Klein is very wrong, both morally and strategically, with this argument that throwing half the population under the bus (the half that already leans more Democratic).

"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.

New Orleans has had the fewest murders this year since 1970. Carjackings are down 80% relative to 2022, vehicle burglaries are down 70%, shootings are down 63%. This is a wholly unnecessary stunt that will hurt local businesses.

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

of all the dumb shit that sucks these days, the dumbest and pettiest shit that sucks is the way people fetishize debate. i would like to revert to the old roughly agreed-upon cultural understanding that debate club is for boring friendless nerds

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

The entire piece is worth a read. "The evidence suggests that compromising on basic humanity doesn’t broaden coalitions; it hollows them out. The work now is to find ways to expand our reach without abandoning our foundation—to bridge gaps, yes, but never at the expense of our neighbor’s humanity."

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers: 38-54 (Quinnipiac) 39-60 (AP) 40-56 (Gallup) 41-58 (Reuters) 39-56 (Economist) On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

Safety Advice: I keep seeing young trans people on social media talking about therapists disrespecting their pronouns and parents telling them that the therapist has a right to their beliefs. I want to be clear: you have a right to the therapy room being a safe supportive space for YOUR growth.

"At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Today in Unhelpful Replies: "We've known this for a long time!" 1) You have (maybe). 2) Other people (maybe) not so much. 3) Repetition is key to learning. 4) Here's more/new evidence of the problem, which can help advocates. 5) It's likely developed or worsened, which can be motivational.

I put together a 4-page doc for those wary of the rush to integrate in K-12 schools (though much applies beyond). Four of the main arguments for teachers using AI tools & introducing kids to AI as early as kindergarten are addressed with rebuttals linked to sources.

also TNC pushes him on the "let's abandon abortion rights" thing and says, abortion rights are popular in red states, and Klein's response is, "well it was just an example I hadn't really thought about it." and TNC says, maybe you owe vulnerable people better than that.

The Klein Coates discussion is very good and very revealing - pundit class is structurally dependent on the possibility of a reasonable politics of persuasion, otherwise what is the point of punditry? And Coates just rejects that.

My general belief is that Dems need to spend more time thinking about what they believe and less about what they think some imaginary swing voters want them to believe. Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.

I’m really hung up on this idea that everyone left of center with any kind of platform must triangulate to swing voters in Missouri. It’s utterly bizarre. Politics does not work that way. It never has.

this is what really gets me we used to have a lot of pro-life democrats! they were obliterated in the tea party wave and subsequent elections and we have yet to see a prominent example of someone winning back one of those red/purple seats on that platform there’s just no real evidence it works

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

one other point before i spend my day complaining about ezra klein, even if you're approaching this from a pure brass tacks standpoint, i do not think that sacrificing your growing electoral advantage with women everywhere to appeal to pro-life "moderates" in red states is a good tactical move

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.