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It’s worth noting that when Jan. 6 happened, the pro-Trump right used dozens of conspiracy theories to try and offload blame from themselves—e.g., claiming it was “antifa,” “feds.” Now, they seem keen to just admit they did it—all of it—and it was good.

There is a slow-rolling coup against DNC leadership being attempted by the same failed centrist hacks at Future Forward, Third Way and Searchlight who got us into this mess. Matt Yglesias, Adam Jentleson, Anita Dunn and Jen O'Malley Dillon must not be allowed to take over.

I hate hate hate the fact that my takeaway from this is that the post-1978 econoblob consensus was entirely correct, and that there is literally nothing more important than price stability. Nothing. Embrace Villedrouin thought, I guess. Fuck.

@jonfavs.bsky.social y'all want a Third Way/Searchlight DNC chair. Not gonna happen. No way, no how. Over our dead bodies.

“America has always been like this” responses to “Orange Man Bad” posts annoy me. Obama didn’t post a video of him dumping his own fecal matter from a F-18 on his critics, then threaten to go to war with Denmark. That isn’t true.

People genuinely thought covid inflation was a price shock that would *revert*. Not that the already high prices would rise more slowly. High gas prices don't help, nor the fact that no one with a white collar job knows if it will exist 5 years from now or how to prep their kids for the future.

I can't even quite put into words the absurdity of a government who has taken the position that the singular President in the world immune from its domestic courts is its own.

Remember: it was like pulling teeth to get Republicans to fund the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. But it took them no time at all to create a $1.8 billion Insurrection Slush Fund to pay off the legal fees of the January 6th rioters who beat cops. These are sick, corrupt people.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

Whatever happened to the Epstein files? You know, the files containing info about the FBI investigating credible reports that Trump raped a 13-year-old girl, punched her in the face, and threatened her family to keep them from taking.

Does history say anything about what happens to potentates who are deeply unpopular while declaring themselves exempt from all laws and taxes?

The attack ads write themselves, man. “Donald Trump is using your tax dollars to pay off criminal pedophiles“ is just, like, a literally true statement

The Greek myths never said what color the swan was. For all the "purists" out there.

Assuming we can't stop this, is there any way to impound the funds in a future dem administration?

A $1B ballroom to entertain his donors, a $2B taxpayer slush fund for him and his criminal friends, and he “doesn’t even think about people’s personal finances.” Trump is a stain of corruption that will stand as a warning for centuries to come if our democracy survives him.

daaaamn london

One thing Cassidy's loss reinforces is the wild degree to which the GOP remains a locked-in cult of personality around Donald Trump. They can no longer win with him, but it's also not entirely clear they will be able to win without him after he exits the stage.

Louisiana Republicans just rejected Senator Cassidy. He has more than seven months remaining in his term. He should switch parties.

In Louisiana, raising the mandatory judicial retirement age from 70 to 75 has failed by 50 points, if you want another data point for how voters feel about the gerontocracy problem.

A devastating story has come out about a US citizen child, Orlin, who was murdered after ICE deported his mom. This tragedy is an abject failure by ICE, and it’s why I will not give them another cent. We must stop the cruelty and lawlessness of this administration.

Trump: "President Xi said America is a nation in decline. And I said, 'You're right.'"

WHAT THE FUCK, WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK THIS FUCKING CROOK IS STEALING OUR SHIT!!! Literally picking our pockets to line his own and his friends'!!!! He is stealing THOUSANDS of dollars from my family in lost health care subsidies and higher costs. And yours!! We should all react accordingly!!!!

All of these fuckers should be in prison, from the Jan 6ers to anyone who tried to game the vote to help Trump. But, instead, they get treated like special angels instead of traitors.

The faction of the Dem Party that was backing Swalwell, and then jumped to Becerra, has been wrong about basically everything in politics for the last decade. But that doesn't stop them from being just as smug and self-assured as always.

Oh look, Occidental Petroleum's spinoff is calling itself "Working Families For Puppies and Kittens for Xavier Becerra" in order to spend $500K for Becerra. Do you understand the assignment to stop the fossil fuel takeover, California voters?

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

This is beautiful

Will never understand how we normalized this guy's David Duke-level gutter racism

Trump and his allies are doing everything they possibly can to strengthen the forces in the center-left that are urging Dems to embrace procedural Total War. Trump and the GOP are doing this to our country. Every last shred of damage that results from escalation is their fault.

The level of smug Dunning-Kruger stupidity here is off the charts. You'd be better served taking three random humanities undergrads and putting them on the WaPo board than these fools.

There is a massive scandal brewing around Trump's pardon of a far-right Honduran authoritarian and convicted drug trafficker in order to reinstall him in power in Honduras, then undermine left leaning governments across Latin America. Seriously, read this: washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/12/h...

Supreme Court is basically a third party committee aiding House Republicans next to the RNC and NRCC.

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

I'm sorry, anyone who thinks Mass Effect is fascist is too stupid to have a conversation with. It's not even an interesting discourse. It might be a wee bit too optimistic in its liberalism. But to describe it as right-wing is braindead glue sniffing levels of misapplied critical theory.

Some people think Bluesky is a bubble. But the worst parts of late 2010s/early 2020s leftism definitely went over to Threads. Hoo boy is it bad over there.

Doing this will require Dems to likely live with less minority representation in our own congressional districts as a result. But that's not necessarily, as white Dems will frequently vote for POC reps even in majority white districts.

This is a truly insane op-ed to publish when we are about to have one of the most devastating El Nino years of all time due to man-made climate change. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

It's that simple. It's not even a 'thumb on the scale' or 'Republicans win close questions' issue. SCOTUS doesn't bother maintaining the pretext of consistently apply judicial methodology, they're just constantly maximizing GOP political power, no matter what that requires.

Sherman's March to Expand and Balance the Courts

The three dissenting justices have the goods: "...today the majority has broadened the meaning of the word 'election,' as used in the Virginia Constitution, to include the early voting period. This is in direct conflict with how both Virginia and federal law define an election."

What Spanberger and the Dem legislature need to do is just pass a law saying that in Virginia, "election" means "election day" and always has, therefore the SCOVA decision is a dead letter and the maps are in force. Just fuckin do it.

Becerra has openly spoken in favor of expanding oil operations in California AND accepted the maximum donation from Chevron. We’re heading towards a climate catastrophe, and Becerra wants to speedrun us into the apocalypse.

Based on this Virginia ruling, the Tennessee and Florida maps should both also be shot down. If not, Virginia should just pull a Tennessee and change the rules to ram it though the legislature. 🤷‍♂️

“.. If you need a 'stock market is not the economy' visual, this is a good candidate: Tech stocks relative to the market: all-time high. “.. Tech jobs relative to all jobs: all-time low.” - Schwab

This regime reportedly killed tens of thousands of its own people this year. Trying to famine them into submission seems as poorly thought out as the rest of this disaster.

I don't know if the stories i'm reading about possible actual murder and eugenics facilities on Epstein island are credible or conspiracy theories. Years of coverup and slow-walking by the govt itself make it difficult to evaluate.

The Wellness industry has the same greed as the biomedical industry but nothing it sells you actually works

Great piece here by @michaelkapp.com: the DNC under Ken Martin is pursuing the right strategy to fund state parties, and that strategy is already paying dividends in victories for Democrats. thehill.com/opinion/camp...