Here's where we are: Republicans have shut down the government. Why? They won't negotiate. They want to pass a bill that will allow the Trump administration to throw 15 million Americans off their health care & double premiums for 20 million Americans. We won't let them.

Democratic Party messaging about the need to take on the Trump Court is NOWHERE near strong enough.

Whoa--a surprise September flower riot

This never happened. Dems cowered, appeased, waited for it to blow over. Now hysterical Nazi rallies are part of the U.S. political culture.

If anyone in the Democratic Party had a brain they’d be pulling out all the stops to spin up some offensive litigation to blow up or delay any sale. Everything Trump has done here is egregiously illegal, and TikTok has major US competitors who would surely like to see it die. What are you doing??

The truly, truly strange thing about Kirk is that I have not seen his supporters quote one statement by him that illustrates his supposed nobility of character.

Persons identified as the 'left' and held responsible for the Kirk shooting have every right to be outraged that they have been defamed and endangered by the false statements made by the president. Democratic leaders should demand a retraction and an apology.

X, the political violence app

UPDATE: JeffCo Sheriff's Office says three students have been shot at Evergreen High School. St A's Hospital says all are in critical condition. Our live coverage here: www.9news.com/article/news...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

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Dem consultants out there saying "voters won't care unless it affects their daily life" even as we are living through an extended nationwide hysteria about trans girls in high school sports, an issue which affects literally maybe a dozen Americans.

In another defeat for the material interests theory of politics, young trump voters ranked "owning their own home" more important than young harris voters and then voted against the candidate promising to give them $25k towards their downpayment

Update: Gorgeous September mayhem.

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From the U.S., Kier Starmer really does come across as a perfect example of you cannot successfully try to ape reactionary conservative politics in the long term. Labour got a single win and Starmer proceeded to drive the party into its worst polling in generations by courting the right.

"Dems are so worried about alienating a small slice of the electorate they’re hesitating to condemn the most abusive act yet by an unpopular president. I’m no strategist, but boy does that sound like a losing strategy," writes @monicapotts.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/1996...

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Millions of Dem voters noticed the January 6 accountability failure. Millions noticed when a decade-plus long failure to change filibuster rules prevented the codification of Roe. Hundreds of thousands of DCers know why we don't have statehood. And we're as likely to respond to surveys as anyone.

#BBCBreakfast: "Anas al-Sharif has been accused by Israel of leading a Hamas cell, something he denied" This isn't journalism.

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US CPI in Nov 2024 was 2.7% up on Nov 2023. In Nov 2023, CPI was up 3.4% from Nov 2022. These are nowhere near the material realities that explain a vote for fascism. Non-material, ideological causes were obviously instrumental.

Fire with fire is the only way to change the equation www.axios.com/2025/08/04/c...

When Democrats regain control of the House in 2026, they must defund the Trump Court. There have to be consequences for its attack on the USA.

Loyalty to a genocidal Israeli government could have catastrophic consequences for a Democratic Party that can only win if it enjoys the energetic support of millions of young idealistic Americans.

Americans would understand and support the impeachment of Donald J. Trump for instructing his personal attorney to corruptly solicit false testimony from Ghislaine Maxwell to cover up his apparent involvement in crimes against children with Jeffrey Epstein.

We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales. This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide. We are doing this and history will never forgive us. Gaza:

JFC this story. Guy survived torture under Pinochet and was granted asylum in 1987. Went to replace his green card after losing his wallet & was disappeared and deported without explanation.

Why we need mass primaries next year.

Funny how Republicans ram through their priorities deploying "rarely used" or "novel" methods (rescission in this case) while Democrats are helplessly constrained by ancient DC rules, customs, pinkie finger agreements etc and can only ever proceed on a bipartisan basis.

Quite extraordinary how these Democratic elders stick to political precepts that ceased to apply at least 20 years ago.

This is good framing by the Democrats. @josephoneill.bsky.social

They’ll probably be able to disappear the story if Dems don’t find creative ways to keep it in the news. www.offmessage.net/p/epstein-li...

Extraordinary how the Republican political violence remains unnameable as such.

Blue states should prohibit the use of masks by federal authorities.

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky. So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵

Extraordinarily sinister scenes in Los Angeles.

The orange now demands Irish visa applicants "list all social media usernames or handles of every platform they have used from the last FIVE years” on their applications. The US embassy in Dublin also orders that people set their social media profiles to "public". Yeah, right. 🥴

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I am looking for congressional leaders to come out quickly and forcefully against this. We need unequivocal opposition. We need theatric demonstrations of defiance. We need to see leadership. Trump will steamroll us all if we display weakness. Where are our leaders?

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This is the key point. You're dealing with a bully seeking domination, not with an adversary seeking a particular outcome. Appeasement will get you nowhere.

🚨The Trump regime has declared war vs LA, NYC, Chicago. The regime decked /handcuffed Sen Padilla last wk. Reported Trump voter just assassinated a prominent MN Dem elected & targeted other Ds. Schumer/Gillibrand led Sen Dems including Schiff (CA) are responding by voting 4 Trump’s crypto bill. 🙃

None of the people quoted in this article are willing to face the source of the violent rhetoric and begin to do any work to stop it. It's all "both sides" or not me." www.startribune.com/after-one-of...

Republican political violence has to become a subject of political discourse. The taboo against mentioning it has to end.