Oh no, now Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are going to send a strongly worded letter to the Democratic base

"Politicians are all the same" is by far the most common political belief among Americans and Democrats should spend way more time convincing those people "no, they're not" than trying to position themselves as representing a middle that doesn't exist.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

“This is the way it’s always been done.” Schumer continues to point to a rule book that no longer exists. It’s irrelevant. And he’s still attached to it. He’s failed. He should resign. For the good of the party & more importantly, for the good of the country. Let the next generation lead.

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

great hamilton piece that gets at something I have tried less eloquently to express www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-york-s...

Why have good policies and messaging when simply bitching at people who don't vote how you want is going SO WELL for the Democrats.

📌“We’ve heard a lot about Democrats’ inability to communicate to the American public, but I’m not sure if that messaging is as much of a problem as it is the PEOPLE who are doing that messaging …” THIS is how the Democrats win again:

I am once again asking you to stop sending us money. But we do need your time. ⏰ zohranfornyc.com/events

The Schumer/Jeffries letter groveling for bipartisanship from Republicans "if anything, a weaker posture than they adopted in March, before folding and igniting an enormous grassroots backlash. "

The Catholic Christofascist undoing of 250 years of democracy and not a peep from NYT, Wapo, Mother Jones or any legacy MSM. @jayrosen.bsky.social @sulliview.bsky.social @markjacob.bsky.social linktr.ee/dissentinbloom dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/one-blood-...

This is such a good overview of the problems the Democrats are running into with the gerrymandering wars of 2025. The gist: too little too late. If they want to get power again, they need to win overwhelmingly.

I wrote what is essentially a blog post (😱) about why Dems keep screwing up their efforts to build out a liberal media ecosystem and what can be done about it: www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...

Tim Walz: "Think of how easy it would be to be a damn Republican. 'Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid frickin' red hat. What should I say today? I don't know, just make sure it's cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy -- the felon in the White House.'"

- DC/PR/USVI statehood - Enlarging the House - MMDs - New VRA - Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop... - Automatic universal voter registration - Rewriting <all> the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop... - Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop... Etc.

Now on to the next outrage. (Note: I didn't write this.) "Democratic socialists who seek to run mass campaigns and attain power with elections are now encumbered by sharing an organization with 'confrontationists' who hold fundamentally antidemocratic beliefs." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern

So scary, please send help

I can’t believe doing nothing but in the most annoying way possible isn’t working www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Casually grabbing breakfast Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park, B.C. 🇨🇦

🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.

Picking up “100 more seats” would effectively turn the US into a permanent one-party state, just so we’re clear on the stakes

Just now…

The most aggressive pro-Mamdani campaign operation in the city at this point is the Cuomo campaign basically.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

You’ve heard of Donald Trump. But have you heard of Russell Vought? He’s the man behind Project 2025—a 900-page roadmap for dismantling democracy and rebuilding it in the image of the far-right. Six months in, Trump is executing this plan step-for-step. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/project-20...

Wow. TX Democrats are setting a standard national Dems should probably start paying attention to. Extraordinary times and all that

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Gaza is starving. Gaza is being internationally starved. When people go to the few places where food is being distributed, the IDF mows them down. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fascinating survey data on the missing Biden voters by Lake Research. The voters who sat out in '24 weren't looking for a centrist or turned off by trans rights. They want a genuine economic populist agenda: take on corporate greed, lower costs, and make the wealthy pay their fair share.

Dem Party: We are spending $20M to figure out how to talk to male voters. Mamdani: Save your money. I have +45 favorability with male voters & +73 with men under 45. Endorse me. Dem Party: No way dude. Now—why is our favorability is -54? Let's spend $20M on wealthy consultants to figure it out!

Thank you @stephencolbert.bsky.social for your public service. Let’s hope we all make it through this year.

How Strategist Brain Took Over the Democratic Party slate.com/news-and-pol...

This is what an authoritarian police state looks like. And this is not something that can just be put back in a box in four years time. America will never be the same after this.

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

Worth reminding everyone that the current highest ranking Democrat in America openly admits he bases his decisions on what he thinks an imaginary person would want and today he and most of his allies are struggling to understand how somebody like Mamdani won by talking to voters who actually exist

Turns out Democrats have a purity test after all, but is not about LGBTQ-rights, protecting immigrants, or taxing the rich: they close ranks and try to destroy anyone left-of-Corporate-Elite.

Andrew Cuomo is selling out to billionaires and corporations to fund his campaign because he doesn't have the grassroots support to run without their money. Nothing that ever helped NYC started with billionaires cutting PAC checks in exchange for favors. The NYC ace in 2 charts:

Wow, NYTimes be like, “Andrew Cuomo is our problematic fave." The editorial board willfully misunderstands something I figured out in early adulthood: that sexual harassment tells you everything about someone’s relationship with power, and on its own, ought to be enough to disqualify from office.

“No Kings Day”: A compilation

Please share this everywhere. This is shameful.

“They took my cousin. He informed them he is a US citizen and his passport was in his pocket. We don’t know where they took him.” This isn’t about deporting undocumented immigrants this is about going after people who are not white!

Why does “bipartisan” almost always mean Democrats supporting Republican legislation?

Sitting US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly wrestled to the ground and arrested by the FBI for attempting to ask a question of DHS secretary Kristin Noem.

My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

I am begging people to recognize that authoritarians are not blackmailing every politician and institution that capitulates or collaborates. Sometimes they’re simply fine with going along with a brutal and dehumanizing project. And realizing that frees you up to find actual allies.

“A succession of top agents, all women, were given an ultimatum: Take a different post or be asked to retire.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/u...