It isn’t 1984 anymore but Dem leaders act like it is

“We need moderates,” he says while the Trump administration rips bloody chunks out of America’s democracy and dismantles decades of progress.

The Democratic Party is changing.

It's not just New York. In Maryland, at least two state senators & one state representative are losing to challengers to their left.

This statement is so wild coming from a former DNC chair. He appears to have said the quiet part out loud: loyalty above all. This attitude is so pervasive in politics today.

This post comes as is DSA scoring victories in NY.

Members of Congress calling out the blatantly unlawful proposed OMB rule on federal grantmaking. Let’s keep the pressure on! thehill.com/newsletters/...

Jay Bhattacharya cannot acknowledge that the COVID-19 vaccines are overwhelmingly safe and effective. He has spent years casting doubt on the vaccines. He allied himself with Kennedy and it paid off. He can’t backtrack now. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

This is very good news

We need a new law aimed at reversing media consolidation. A diverse media ecosystem is essential for a healthy democracy. Of course, we don’t really have one of those.

Forced detransition is genocidal. Let’s be clear about this. If you strip a group of people of the medical care they need and force them to abandon their cultural and personal identities, it’s elimination.

Everybody knows this is bullshit. Shame on all the news outlets putting this lie in the headlines. apnews.com/article/refl...

Academic freedom is suffering under the most censorial presidency in modern history.

This is so unbelievably chilling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is what bought looks like.

So much needs to be reversed by the next administration. Add this to the list.

He was Herbert Hoover in 2020. He doesn’t want to be Herbert Hoover again.

Just like a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist…

I’ve taken to watching old great baseball games to relax. Just watched the Detroit Tigers come from behind and win 7-6 against the Yankees on June 21, 1988. Bottom of the 9th, a walk-off grand slam after a full count. Just incredible. I was born less than two months later.

friends, I have brought you a gift

The complete loss of cold years in the Arctic since the 1980s is astounding. The last "blue" stripe was 1992, following the Pinatubo Volcano eruption in the summer of 1991. #ShowYourStripes #Climate #Arctic

Consummate centrist wins against conservatives but then tacks right, angers everyone, his party starts losing ground, and he ultimately gets ousted. I wonder if there’s a lesson there…

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LOCKDOWNS! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

“Why don’t Democrats have a good message?” They can’t adopt strong positions because it will alienate the big money. That’s why.

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

This is exceptional work.

The new, heavily redacted ODNI report from Tulsi Gabbard claiming that Dr. Fauci is to blame for COVID cites—and this is real—a press release from Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vax conspiracy-promoting group founded by Robert Kennedy Jr.

The administration is pushing the COVID lab leak conspiracy again and hoping you don’t actually go through the supposed evidence it has. This is such self-serving political nonsense coming months ahead of what promises to be a brutal midterm thanks to very unpopular blunders by the administration.

As everyone is saying, this botched job is a metaphor for the whole administration.

Bhattacharya is the first NIH director to speak at CPAC. He has overseen cuts to research disfavored by the administration all while claiming that he and Kennedy are depoliticizing science. This outburst is wild. www.importantcontext.news/p/as-hhs-rai...

Knowing Ezra Klein is a member, can we all just acknowledge now that “abundance” is just repackaged neoliberalism?

Where does the nyt keep getting these journalists? And this seems like an abuse of taxpayers and the public good, all the way around

An ex-nyt reporter who a) is rabidly anti-vax and who b) endorsed Trump is now set to reap a windfall funded by taxpayers because c) his Trump benefactors in DOJ conceded in his bogus lawsuit—that had been dismissed by a federal judge 🧵

I legitimately cannot overstate how bad it would be for trans people in the United States if the FTC wins this suit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

People need to make a bigger deal out of Elon Musk's endorsement of "Reconquista." This is naked fascism. newrepublic.com/article/2119...

NEW from Important Context: All eyes have been on the Trump slush fund settlement, but a week earlier, the DOJ settled a Biden-era censorship lawsuit brought by anti-vax writer Alex Berenson, which was on appeal from a federal court dismissal. According to Berenson, it included a 6-figure payout.

The Trump administration is directing taxpayer dollars to president’s supporters. The government was winning this case. It had already won a dismissal. Berenson was appealing. Rather than fight, the government gave him $150,000. That’s taxpayer money.

The amount of money this administration is wasting to suit a destructive political agenda is staggering.

The Trump administration is directing taxpayer dollars to president’s supporters. The government was winning this case. It had already won a dismissal. Berenson was appealing. Rather than fight, the government gave him $150,000. That’s taxpayer money.

Cross around her neck

NEW from Important Context: All eyes have been on the Trump slush fund settlement, but a week earlier, the DOJ settled a Biden-era censorship lawsuit brought by anti-vax writer Alex Berenson, which was on appeal from a federal court dismissal. According to Berenson, it included a 6-figure payout.

Funny that some people are surprised Ezra Klein is on this list. I, myself, am not: (h/t @capitolhunters.bsky.social)

This--too--DOES NOT SURPRISE ME! From #ScienceUnderSiege (w/ @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social):

Possible, but not a guarantee. Harris has never been a particularly strong campaigner as her positions have tended to be squishy. Either way, a primary would have added more democratic legitimacy. Clinton is correct that Biden needed to drop out. But where was the pressure before the debate?

Again, something that would warrant a full investigation and likely removal from his position in normal times.

If I were Platner’s campaign manager, I would simply run this video over and over and over.

Bibi better watch out, the checks are about to be *very* strongly worded www.ft.com/content/e14a...

The problem w accurate reporting, like that of @accountabilityji.bsky.social & @walkerbragman.bsky.social, is that sometimes you learn things that burst your bubble! Alas, we know it’s better to be aware & as @coopspeak.bsky.social jokingly says in this epi, maybe LIAM needs to be “taken” 😝:

A good day to remember that Ronald Reagan’s detractors were absolutely correct.