Real ones also know that the AI industry is already basically getting bailed out (because they’re exempt from the tariffs the rest of us have to pay) www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...

There will be much said about Nancy Pelosi, the greatest Speaker in modern history (& yes, imperfect otherwise). For now, I'll simply note that, along with passing the ACA, she (& Biden) spent the last 4 years passing some of the most progressive legislation in 🇺🇸 history, with threadbare majorities.

The central political cleavage of our age

This is the part that will be the hardest and most expensive to rebuild. Senseless breaking of things, that also happens to be illegal & unconstitutional. But most importantly, just the senseless breaking of things.

Please please please can we get back to a society that punishes lying like this

FEDWATCH: “.. Domestic flights serve as a real-time economic momentum indicator .. “.. When the number of domestic flights declines, GDPNOW is expected to lose between 0.1% and 0.5% in the next 1-2 weeks and may slow even further, as observed in the past ..”

Like the White House, there is no other wing anymore. Only shards & remnants & a handful of supposedly “moderate” Senators who keep hanging out in the remaining wing/basement with the far right authoritarians that are now a supermajority of the party.

In terms of how the Hill works Pelosi at 75% is still better than anyone else. She's a giant, and Harris's failure shouldn't diminish her achievement in deposing Biden. She was right, but the opportunity opened too late. But in retail politics there's been a hole in her swing for some time.

“Sooner or later, all our games turn into Calvinball”

“People don’t care about unemployment, only inflation” Yes, folks really told you that. Total 🦗 on that view now. No one could possibly have predicted. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Today, class, we will once again discuss “revealed preferences”

Another, more factually accurate description of “economic agenda” is “tariffs that clearly violate multiple domestic laws & ratified international treaties.” Regardless of what the 6 Wizards In Robes rule about IEEPA, this remains true of USMCA, the WTO, etc. etc.

This was, of course, completely predictable and logical, as EU politics simply follow national politics in this. Most EPP parties have normalized the far right in their own country.

When your "I'm not antisemitic, it's just that ..." defense is "if we push back too hard on antisemitism I might have to eat dinner with some Jews and that would contradict my faith" ... You're not beating the rap guys

I’m taking a victory lap for my coverage of young voters over the last year. I’ve argued that Trump’s 2024 gains with voters <30 stemmed mostly from anti-incumbent sentiment from high inflation — and that “GOP gains” / a youth “realignment” was a mirage. Tuesday’s results suggest I was right.

"The results wreck the argument from some prominent centrist commentators that Demts should react to 2024 by accepting that they lost the culture and need to compromise on core values to win again." Good @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social on the overreading of 2024: www.arcdigital.media/p/democrats-...

My dude, the <entire> problem in 🇺🇸 politics right now is that you are <not >jealously guarding Article I while a Mad King runs amok.

It's a real problem if your party has a wing that doesn't think Hitler sucks.

Also, the dollar had appreciated significantly off trend in Q424 before overshooting down in 2025. This is basically resetting now to last fall.

Look, I was serious when I told you that Ezra Doutghlesias would not recognize the median voter even if she ran over them in the Milwaukee suburbs with a shopping cart: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Gorsuch simultaneously owes his SCOTUS seat to unprecedented legislative power abuse & has been deeply complicit in enabling unprecedented executive power abuse. He is large. He contains multitudes.

Marx, Engels, and Lenin, famous political philosophers of the Byzantine Empire

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers (Or. Online.)

Zohran Mamdani is not the main story

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin. How times change.

I just feel it necessary to explain that if this one line were true, what he’s saying is American consumers are paying a tax out of their own pockets to keep the global economy from collapsing.

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

We were looking for a good quote to set up the satire here, but nothing clicked. Then Douthat’s op-ed dropped late morning, and well, thank you New York Times yet again. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yea...

<taps mic> <John Facenda voice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCHM... "The Narrative™️ <cannot> fail. It can <only> be failed."

"To look back at the Bush years is to see a Republican Party whose contempt for governing laid the stage for today's Republican Party and its contempt for governing" May his memory be a blessing, in that we see him as he actually was & start holding elites accountable for what they actually do.

$7 billion, you say? 🤔

"National emergency" 🤔🧐 on.ft.com/49BOOUA

👇🎯 This was always a category error mistaking the site for the structural vibe. The way you know this is to think about how much fun this place was last night & during Game 7 of the World Series.

Good to know that Virginia, Georgia, and Pennsylvania are blue states 🤔

FIFA awarding a "peace prize" to Trump would be so absolutely on-brand, a truly genius innovation.

👇🎯 Every single meaningful institutional reform to protect our democracy is either going to require 1) 15-20 Republicans in the Senate to vote for it; or 2) abolishing the filibuster. If we're depending on 1) alone, we're doomed. bsky.app/profile/mcop... Hardball as anti-authoritarianism

Injuries. The great run was done at age 27, sadly. One of the great what-ifs, along with "What if Ken Griffey Jr. had stayed healthy beyond age 30?"

After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be

We have become French in our hatred of our presidents

The 2029 book is going to be something

👇🎯 It's politics & partisan policy preferences all the way down. The question of whether Trump Is King & the obvious wildly illegal abuse of IEEPA & the violation of all the trade laws/treaties (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) is not really what's driving the 6 Wizards In Robes from breaking w/ Trump here

What is this? The Wizard In Robes (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) may be showing signs of acting like an actual supreme/constitutional court? Quite a 24 hours here.

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

Youngkin wins by two points? That’s a model to follow Spanberger and Sherrill win by more than a dozen each? Boooooring

You never know what is going to hit a vast untapped well of something here on Bluesky dot com