New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

“Virtue signaling” has been an all-purpose tool to invalidate any form of advocacy which isn’t centered around selfishness.

Whether it’s Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade advocating killing homeless people by “involuntary lethal injection” or MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd bringing up things that Charlie Kirk said, both networks have crossed the boundaries of decency.

Tax. The. Rich.

Interviewer: Why shouldn’t President Trump send the military to occupy your city? Big Important Democrat: I support and love the Police I really want to kiss the Police

"Tax the rich" is three one-syllable words.

Do not accept the question "But how do we pay for it?" about social programs ever again. That talking point is done forever.

From me: We've been getting all Gilded Age-y for a while in America, but the writers are getting too lazy with the references now. A transcontinental railroad merger? Rotten borough-style gerrymandering? Tariffs? A Lochnerian court? The 1800s are back. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

I watched the @mehdirhasan.bsky.social debate video and came away with the sense that these people are having a good time being callous and malicious, and that they have no real politics. badfaithtimes.com/its-one-long...

People have lost trust in government ever holding the powerful accountable. This is how Trump wins by saying “drain the swamp.” If we want government to do good things, we MUST restore trust in government. Release the Epstein Files and ban congresspeople from trading stocks!

Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one

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It’s almost like Americans were never fundamentally, inevitably “anti-immigration” and Democrats never had to just put their hands up and meekly chase Republicans (and lose), and affirm all their anti-immigrant positions that helped get us here at all!

Excellent piece.

But congestion pricing polled terribly. The “popularists” who run Democratic party strategy said we shouldn’t do it. Because the polls were bad. But public opinion can change, and politicians can and should lead it. Vote for politicians who will lead public opinion, not follow it.

“We posted a series of screenshots without any alt text of a thread we shared on the site owned by a Nazi to explain why we amplified the words of a Nazi thanks to a freelancer we sought out to bring us the words of that Nazi which he hacked so we could spread meaningless distortions.” Fuck you.

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

The GOP is not a good faith partner in governing. They are not on the level. Their stated goals are irrelevant and disconnected to their behavior. Any Democrat who pretends otherwise is misunderstanding our opposition and not up to what this moment demands.

Whether it's Republicans like Donald Trump opposing birthright citizenship in 2025 or Democrats like Jefferson Davis opposing it in 1860, both parties have shown opposition to birthright citizenship.

I do not understand why lawmakers twist themselves into these absurd knots. Trump sucks right? He should be removed from office? Try to remove him from office.

she should resign straightforwardly, she did not "misspeak", she went on a racist rant about how a Muslim mayoral candidate is a terrorist, under an administration that is floating words like "denaturalization" and she's a Democrat? absolute dereliction of duty resign

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.

Mamdani: And this is why New Yorkers deserve access to fresh tomatoes Adams: I once bit into a tomato and it started talking to me and said "Eric, please don't hurt me. Eric, visit Turkey" Silwa: Tomatos? I've seen illegals turn American citizens' heads into Tomatos

tough times for vote blue no matter who.

i shan't be listening to the takes of centrists who believe in nothing

Get BENT, Andy.

Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.

This is what gives the game away...

Exceptional piece from @rtraister.bsky.social on Cuomo. Covers his terrible governance, his selfishness, his lying, his harassment. There is nothing in this man that anyone should want near power. 1/2

There a reason the protests are being covered differently from the Tea Party The Tea Party was a front for the wealth class that owns the media and were used to demonize necessary reform These protests were democratic and populist, which the wealth class and its media opposes Hope that helps

being able to hear the wheels on the Sherman tanks squeal on account of no one there is some incredible footage. A+ comedy.

I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

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once again I must tap my own sign

An excellent, if utterly infuriating, piece.

funny how you never see "I'm a popularist who doesn't agree with Medicare for All but man, it polls so well, we should run more candidates on that platform"

This wouldn't bother me so much if they actually meant broadly effective and popular as opposed to just moderate. It’s always "stop letting The Groups bully you into defending trans kids," never "let's run on a $20 minimum wage, health care for all and jailing criminal CEOs"

Trans people have not "weaponized" our rights--we are defending our rights against an effort to eradicate us from public life.

“Who believes that Donald Trump—fixated on imaginary graves and Photoshopped tattoos—is going to be able to process new and alarming information in the middle of the night, with the fate of the world at stake?”

The two obvious flaws here are that 1) it makes policy choices reactive instead of proactive and 2) it ignores the problem being addressed by the (probably misguided) original idea: that there is a robust narrative universe that excludes Democratic ideas.

if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost

THREE patreon posts in THREE days??? what has come over me? Turns out I have a lot to say this week. Another one's coming tomorrow as well. For Patreon, I wrote about why a little Nebraska mayoral race proves the centrist pundits wrong on trans rights. www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...

Amen