The people who have tried through hook and crook to transform this country into a real multi-racial democracy are worth uplifting.

lol Threads banned the new Infowars. Silenced for TRUTH. Everybody go yell at them.

I’m not optimistic about US politics but I think Trump dropping 11 points in a year and a half while the media kisses his ass and Democrats cower is actually a good sign. The numbers would be even worse if liberals invested in media and we had better Democrats. And those things can be changed.

Literally hurts to read this.

It’s really hard to overstate how certain the various institutional actors were that Trump was cooked in the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6. It informed so many bad choices, like Pelosi not moving to impeach day-of. Everyone trying to make everyone else do anything controversial.

The thing to understand about Third Way moderates in 2026 is that they are basically a second-generation cargo cult performing rituals designed to prevent Walter Mondale.

would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

You will never get the commentariat to care about this even a hundredth as much as they cared as that time a college girl wrote an OpEd about rape culture in the campus newspaper in 2018.

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

Trump is not America. He's anti American. America is eating birria with some randos on folding chairs in the parking lot of the Food 4 Less watching the world cup on a flat screen wearing my knock off Mexico jersey.

this meme is uniformly evergreen

What are we going to do about the fact that our president can fail in spectacular, absurd, and consequential ways… and people only learn about it if they’re in the small subset of the population who hangs out in the section of the media universe where they talk about presidential failure?

if I were an elected representative and my constituents were coming up and saying "our daughter can't go to college unless she gets an athletic scholarship" I would be like "this is why we need universal free college" not "we'll pretend to solve this by being cruel to trans people." crazy right

It's just like MAGA, except it wants a more tolerant, egalitarian society, where everyone has healthcare and the material prerequisites of a life of dignity. I guess from the perspective of the theater critics in media, that difference is invisible.

the commutation was an abuse of power since she was utterly unrepentant and he knew it, it was timed in a way to foil the legislature responding which was another abuse of power and this is insult to injury, he should be impeached

The vast, vast majority of Americans were & are utterly unaffected by high levels of immigration. The "palpable sense of a national immigration crisis" was ginned up by right-wing media & a bunch of spineless, gormless dipshits in media & the Democratic Party went along with it.

i can vote and barack obama can be president and kamala harris can be vice president because protesters got beaten in the street standing up for equal rights, women's rights, worker's rights, suffrage and all the rest of it. if we retreat an inch on equality we spit in all their faces. trans rights.

Donald Trump is a very stupid fucking person who genuinely has no idea how anything works and the U.S. press should never be allowed to live down their failure in communicating this mercilessly and clearly to the U.S. public

MAYBE WE CAN LEARN SOME LESSONS FROM THIS AS A SOCIETY

The most important divide in the Democratic Party today is between those who think Trump is a temporary aberration within the GOP and those who understand that Trump is the best version of what the GOP will be for the rest of our lives and into the foreseeable future.

When I was in grad school they literally let me teach a class that I basically failed the year prior

Serenity now...

this framing, the court standing up to trump, is precisely why this withered old piece of shit is unfit to even hold office, let alone lead the caucus

I don't think people understand the degree to which outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times set back trans rights with second-rate reporting that doesn't stand up now, let alone in the future. They have failed at the most basic journalistic duties.

celebrating the supreme court and promoting the fiction that they are standing up against Trump is an insane rhetorical stance for someone in Schumer's position. The Supreme Court Gang of Six is the leading vanguard of the plot to enslave our country, you don't have to hand it to them.

Finally time to mute “Ezra klein”, I just cannot take more discourse about what this dumbass does next

A Brief History of Kids Today Are Selfish 🧵

My political opinions on Buttigieg range from "meh" to "sure, whatever" but the weaponization of that particular speech by elements of the "Left" is stunningly grotesque, and another example of how any actual attempt at sincerity or nuance or complexity in American politics gets you punished.

Our tax dollars being stolen in order to make our electricity more expensive. Times reports it as "Trump would pay" and "struck deal"

yes. you cannot win calvinball by taking advantage of the new rules. you have to fire the refs

Again, if there's a Democratic majority in the House in 2027, I think it's imperative that they start impeaching Supreme Court justices.

1. the next Dem president should immediately fire every Trump appointee anywhere in the civil service on Day 1 2. The Money should support court packing because we are one single solitary vote away from Fucking With The Money

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

leadership and the DCCC’s obsession with protecting incumbency regardless of the incumbent is infuriating

The issue is that nonpartisan, independent, and fact-based (good goals for journalism) have been replaced by centrist and equally critical of both parties, neither of which are journalistic principles. So confronted with a radical wing of the GOP, legacy media invents equally radical Dems.

additionally, if there is ANY possible non racist motive for an explicitly racist action, Alito says you must accept it as the actual motivation. meanwhile, ANY use of race consciousness to prevent or alleviate discrimination is unconstitutional under “equal protection”

The university that had to be aggressively petitioned to remove a customized stained-glass window of John C. Calhoun is easily convinced to commit to a campaign of resegregation? Why I never

I was on a Zoom call with advocates from Springfield and elsewhere in Ohio yesterday afternoon, and it’s absolutely horrifying and inexcusable what this administration is doing to this community and the lie that Sam Alito told to OK this.

Has anyone fact checked this with the price of the shrimp yet?

People will turn up for centrists as much as liberals and progressives if they fight. The biggest enemy of the Democrats right now is apathy.

This is the key point. Harrison‘s understanding of politics does not come from the single election he ran in and lost horribly. It comes from his years working for Jim Clyburn followed by being a lobbyist for the Podesta group. It’s those “understandings” that deemed him qualified for DNC chair.

A lot of discourse since Tuesday hinges on idea that some politicians are owed a seat, it’s their turn & it’s problematic to not back them. & that’s so odd to me — because not only you have to wait for 88-year olds to deign to retire, but then there’s someone else waiting who’s owed & you can’t run?

Grimly amusing Dem machines think they deserve some sort of entitlement hierarchy. My entire life, everything has been moving backwards, politically, democratically, bureaucratically, judicially. You are all failures. You are presumptively part of the rot that must be removed down to the root.

One of the most remarkable things about the Trump era, and especially Trump II, has been seeing how guys like Emmer have changed. He was never a moderate, but he was seen as a mainstream Republican, not a Steve King type. Now he's, well, a Steve King type

ya i'm sorry "i backed cuomo in the primary, hey why is the guy cuomo beat running a challenger against me" is just a "sucks to suck" issue

this court is monstrous, completely out of control, and must be packed until its power is broken that was true yesterday, that is true today, and that will be true tomorrow even if they do hand Trump a defeat on birthright citizenship

I remember when non-binding language suggestions from university HR departments were national news, subject to repeated outraged columns in multiple media outlets. Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?