It is even worse than it looks

One thing most people don't understand is that we in the US enjoy greater wealth funded by other countries because they assume we are a stable and relatively friendly hegemon.

The only art involved here was the performance of eating the AI-generated imagery.

I often lose patience w. folks blaming Dems when MAGA has all 3 branches. But the role of the opposition party is to educate the public. Right now Trump is destroying the post WWII order & listening to Chuck you’d think the biggest issue is the cost of eggs.

This is what they said about him then. This is what they say about us now. This is who they always have been.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

People need a plan that does not depend on Democrats winning elections forever. Your plan for American democracy needs to work even if different parties win the presidency and Congress over time. Democracy is a system in which people have freedom, participate equally, and power alternates.

Quick fun fact for all y’all about former Hill roomies turned Governors, Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger: Spanberger was born in New Jersey and is now the governor of VIRGINIA Sherrill was born in Virginia and is now the governor of NEW JERSEY Whoa! 😆

That there’s not a massive, credible, instant, bipartisan impeachment/25th Amendment move over these senseless and destructive Greenland threats is a sign of how broken our politics are — and especially how broken the Republican Party is.

Do you know why you've heard of the Boston Massacre? Because in 1768, when the British military began occupying Boston, Bostonians syndicated a "Journal of Occurrences" in newspapers around the country to help Americans understand what abuse of power looks like. By the 1770s, readers understood.

Job Alert: Markey’s hiring in Comms / Digital (vintage Nikes not included). massterlist.com/listings/mar...

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

This fall I noted a decline in how well my smart, capable, & motivated students could apprehend written exam question prompts. When I return to teaching next fall, I am going to add segments to my classes about how to read, understand, and answer short essay prompts. It will feel tiring for them!

TJ Sabula and the sandwich guy should do a podcast and youtube show together, no doubt in my mind they'd make money

This is "paper" compliance, as opposed to meaningful compliance with the MBTA-CA that might actually produce a unit of housing. Go get 'em, @massago.bsky.social!

Republicans' mistake in 2015 was forgetting that "The Party Decides" required the Party Elites to, y'know, *decide* to stop Trump. Democrats' mistake post-Obama is forgetting that Elite Cues means they get to actually *shape public opinion* to advance their policies, instead of kowtowing to polls.

Great argument here: let activists do their thing, let legislators do their thing (with or without slogans). The key is to get the actual laws passed to make people's lives better.

New list of municipalities that need to build more housing just dropped. #mapoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhC7...

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

I don't even know where or how to start on this. It's the epitome of everything that is wrong in Democratic electoral politics right now. Politically tone-deaf on Newsom's part, massive mis-read and misunderstanding of economic/policy data (to say nothing of public opinion). Ugh. Wrong, bad, dumb!

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

I've seen people dragging The Clintons for this, but frankly reading the actual letter it's a pretty big Fuck You (in what I'll term "high-civility language") to the Trump MAGA regime, making clear that this is an unlawful attempt to imprison a former president & presidential nominee.

Dokoupil going full Ted Cruz, minus the Hurricane trip to Cancun

“If you’re only considering the costs to industry and you’re ignoring the benefits, then you can’t justify any regulations that protect public health, which is the very reason that E.P.A. was set up” This will be tied up in legal challenges for years and can be reversed in the next administration.

Holy fuck, Nikki Glaser is roasting CBS News. On CBS.

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

Glad to know my soggy vacation to CA helped fill the reservoirs.

Frey illustrating the "incivility vs. intolerance" debate.

Biden was vastly better at the economy than Trump. 95% of all job creation since WWII happening under Dem admins - the pattern is still holding.

I am on a marketing-email unsubscribing spree today. * I do not need DAILY marketing emails from anyone or anything! * Why are so many emails so LONG they can't fully display in a browser? * Argh!

Rep. Underwood is vastly under-appreciated by mainstream Dems. She should be a household name! She’s awesome!

I think if you shoot someone in the face in cold blood for no reason you should get arrested.

Mayor Wu, at this point, I would literally give you all or part of an organ that I could survive without if you needed one.

What is the cost of failing to sufficiently mitigate climate change?

my heart is just completely broken for this woman, killed trying to protect her community and her friends, and for all the people of Minneapolis, who always seems to unfairly caught in the crosshairs of our national malaise

I am in some ways slightly more sympathetic than most to elected Dems right now as people scream Do Something at them, because there really, truly is not all that much they have the power to do at the moment besides yell but if all you can do is yell, the yelling has to be higher quality

Rahm is also one of the reasons Obama was *less* successful in office than he potentially could have been; Rahm squashed a larger more transformative vision for America. Rahm is nothing more than a status-quo defender for the monied interests that are destroying this country. Period.

It’s almost like the laws of supply and demand apply to housing costs. 🤔

When I teach Pol Comm, I organize the class around Democratic Norms. In our last week we talk about what happens when the sanctions for norm violations are not upheld, and I assign the essay from which this post is adapted. You should read it. Consequences are good, and necessary.

Trump and his enablers are going to kill a whole bunch more kids for no reason other than spite, and the media might cover it for a minute before moving on, but the lives of the families they hurt will be irreparably harmed.

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

Our country is the Bad Guy right now, y’all.

Mamdani’s campaign has used digital media to make visible so many of the New Yorkers who are so often overlooked yet are vital to the place being what it is.

Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

Sumerian engineers 2000 years ago

LOL. Happy New Year! www.facebook.com/reel/1203099...