I think this passage is the crux of my disagreement with Drutman and @gelliottmorris.com on moderation: this reasoning is circular. The party labels and levels of polarization are not exogenous to choices made by both parties. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...

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ActBlue, Open Society, Indivisible—terrorists all. Note how slipshod, confused, and ramshackle this project sounds even from quoted behind-the-scenes insiders. Miller WANTS it to sound maximally ominous and intimidating. The targets should hold their heads high and carry on.

Henry's writing about about institutional actors more than the mass public, but the basic collective-action point relates to mass protests as well--a means of signaling the scope of opposition, unafraid and peaceful. Put me in mind of the No Kings day planned for 10/18, which can't come soon enough.

“This battle holds bigger lessons. The greatest weapon that the forces of regime change possess is the fear of inevitability. If everyone believes that Mr. Trump will succeed in reshaping America, he will.” A great @himself.bsky.social column in the @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Super happy for the awesome @hahrie.bsky.social and her MacArthur fellowship -- couldn't go to a more deserving scholar and person... www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Theory: Trump's governance is so hardwired to generate crisis & chaos and multiple media stories at once (typically a problem for Dems struggling to break through the noise) that it's actually making it hard for the GOP to effectively focus attention and jam Dems on the shutdown.

Is this the first Dem MC to say this explicitly? That the reason this is the GOP’s shutdown isn’t because they “refuse to negotiate” or whatever but because they in fact have the power at any moment to nuke the filibuster and pass whatever they want to keep the govt operating?

ONE EDITION AFTER ANOTHER

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

US law created to punish human rights violators—sanctioning officials personally instead of whole countries, since leaders usually don’t feel broad sanctions, passing the pain onto the population—now deployed to punish a Brazilian judge for upholding Brazilian law in the face of a coup attempt.

Trump's affection for Epstein is so earnest. It's like Kim Jong-Un level.

Seeing Don Bacon mix it up with critics and energetically defend this bill is instructive. He's a moderate who isn't seeking re-election. He's voting for this because, whatever his marginal objections, he believes in the agenda the bill embodies. The same goes for the vast majority of his party.

If you have a Republican Senator or Rep and you are opposed to this bill, you should call them.

Easy for close politics-watchers to miss the ways in which the old standard interchamber dynamic has now flipped—the GOP Senate has moved this legislation significantly to the RIGHT of what House Republicans had produced. The quirks of the reconciliation process are only a part of the explanation.

Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind. I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why. Please share! This is really important!!! @heatmap.news

What @daschloz.bsky.social and I wrote in March: "At a time when the stakes of interparty conflict are existentially high, the Democrats’ picayune organizational dynamics retain an unmistakable student-council quality." The DNC's crisis of student-councilness is more acute than we knew.

Thinking back to this @jeffstein.bsky.social classic. www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/o...

Inside the key party meeting with a Dem consultant in January 2025: youtu.be/ySP2NpzB_9w?...

“About two-thirds of the public says they have heard either little or nothing about the budget bill.” A fixable problem but it takes doing! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It'd be great if resignation letters like these weren't written in code. If the substance of these intraparty disputes matters at all, make it legible! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

A few takeaways from this big Atlantic piece on Future Forward and the Harris campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

He’s heading back down now, but I feel like there isn’t much of a consensus explanation for why Trump’s numbers had started to drift back up over the last month.

Trump's immigration approval has fallen 6 points on net this week www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

This is the most straightforward thing they've said so far. They're using the military to "liberate" Los Angeles from its mayor and governor.

Everyone do what Mark Ruffalo tells you to do

Such an absolute Type. A true recurring Guy through the ages! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most primitive, atavistic tendencies."

Quite a weekend for celebrity aeronautic stunt work. #MissionImpossibleTheFinalReckoning #TheRehearsalHBO

Long past time Cruise had a Final Reckoning with natural graying.

The House reconciliation bill's Medicaid work requirement provision will cause just under 8 million people to lose their health insurance, and the changes to the ACA exchanges and subsidies will add another 6 million people to those ranks. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

The Republican reconciliation bill is considerably more cruel and regressive than Trump's 2017 upper-class tax cut: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/05/it-i...

New, from me: The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...

Richest man on the planet. Just staggering stuff.

Trump takes big swings on plenty of stuff so it’s telling to see him so clumsily backpedaling, on THIS specific issue, from the implications of his own supposed party realignment. For all of MAGA’s disruptions, rich people’s taxes remain the lodestar of GOP politics.

Republicans' lockstep deference and delegation to the executive branch on core legislative functions goes hand in hand with a seeming collapse in their collective capacity to actually legislate when they have to.

tfw the thing you’ve always done takes on newly virtuous pedagogical branding

Will the courts bail the GOP out of the political consequences of Trump’s economic catastrophe via the Right’s own goofy “major questions” doctrine? Stay tuned! www.vox.com/economy/4114...

Revised Loomer Edition

The PBS Kids app is one of the few things you can trust your kids to play around with on a computer. All the shows that you can stream are good and entertaining. Nothing positive comes from getting rid of this, they're just trying to make life worse for everyone www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

For @newrepublic.com, I wrote about a new Michael Lewis-edited essay collection on hero civil servants, and the comparatively permeable, not-so-deep state they've administered (until now). newrepublic.com/article/1946...

The gambit being carried out by Trump, Vought & Musk amounts to a kind of bet that 21st century Americans lack a sense of state—of every day connection to the federal government. But as constituents flood town halls with complaints, and friends lose jobs, that bet looks less likely to pay off.

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Our NEA grant was canceled. Here’s a letter from our development director about what’s happening.

Second-term Trump messages: "America's over-indulged 11 year old girls own too many pencils." And also: "I'm not sure whether president needs to obey the Constitution."

Being a dial-turned-to-11 self-aggrandizer and flimflam man is part of Trump’s core, as much as being a “fighter” or provocateur. Supporters can dismiss/bake in any given instance w/out needing either to believe it or break with him. But it creates a record of claims to SELECTIVELY endorse at will.

Smart.

By June 14 we *could* be well into a multi-front economic fiasco—and this lil’ parade might become a watershed moment. apnews.com/article/army...