It is definitely possible for Jeffries to lose his seat. It depends on the possible primary challengers.

This looks like the Trump administration is assassinating poor migrants searching for a better life in America. If that's right, it would fit with co-President Stephen Miller's views. "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" - that is the real America 1/

Must read: “We are where Hungarians were in 2010, where Russians were in 2000, & where Germans were in 1933. Those places’ futures were not inevitable; had elites & even ordinary people made different choices, catastrophes could have been avoided. Ours still can be too.” www.vox.com/politics/462...

Notable that a narrative in this dreck piece is also that polarization is bad; dividing people into groups is bad. Rightwingers have long aimed to demonize polarization to deflect from the fact that their people have bad values and deserve criticism.

If I could amplify any message in any meaningful way…

My god, yes. This exactly. The goal is to activate those who are not paying attention. Not to persuade the far right minority. Schumer and Jeffries pretending all is normal is terrible because it prevents activating those who are not paying attentio.

Not just media execs. Congress is also divorced from what people want right now. Dem leaders are also subject to a propaganda and harassment campaign. Look at how many of them and their preferred pundits are still on Twitter. And the 3M+ NoKings protests didn’t register in their media sources.

Political speech compelled by the government a severe violation of the first amendment of the Constitution, and a non-corrupt SCOTUS would nuke this law from space

Political speech compelled by the government a severe violation of the first amendment of the Constitution, and a non-corrupt SCOTUS would nuke this law from space

Not just over Mamdani. I agree with @brianbeutler.bsky.social that Schumer and Jeffries and D leadership greatly underestimates the backlash that is building against them. The CR/budget/shutdown lack of fight, the Charlie Kirk day of honor support: the D base is angry at the D leadership.

so this h1b thing is not even an executive order but a presidential proclamation, and should "not have the force and effect of law" (as per the library of Congress) but that won't make any difference because we seem to be completely resigned to be living in a dictatorship, yes?

A lot of respect for Kristof for not letting this go. It will be easy to forget the USAID cuts in the years to come. It's good to have people around making us remember.

"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. ... Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness." (Orwell, Politics and the English Languag) Like saying an overt racist did politics "the right way."

Good thread. Nearly all the Klein contradictions can be explained by Status Quo bias, and sometimes by Power Worship. 80 years ago Orwell said both. He got Ezra Klein right.

“Disney is run by human beings. Some of those human beings are cowards. Those cowards don’t want to be named and shamed, and if you do that effectively, they will shift their behavior.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social Cancel fascism and reinstate Kimmel: indivisible.org/government-c...

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

*A Centrist restaurant consultant walks into a pizza parlor* "I can't understand why you're not doing more to get people who hate pizza to come in here to complain about your menu"

There’s something going on here: while Senate and House Dem leadership fold like so many cheap card tables, candidates like @katmabu.bsky.social put their bodies on the line and rally people to the cause. Across history of democratic governance we know what kind of movement wins.

“Carr waged an unabashed campaign to be named FCC chair. He appeared on Fox News espousing Trumpist talking points and publicly authored the chapter on the FCC in Project 2025.” All the Trump appointees: propagandists and apparatchiks. Good piece here from J Reiss of @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social.

Everyone, this account is misstating the Senate rules and is doubling down on falsehoods. The fact one R was on the Senate floor was pre-negotiated in a process where EVERY Democrat had a chance to block it, and none did. Post below is wrong. Ask @normornstein.bsky.social about this.

Dave would be a good person to hire at a funded science media outlet.

This is right. 58 Dems in the House did stand up and they deserve our support and praise.

Instantly iconic image. This will be around for decades.

Well, AG Sulzbergers' NY Times is up to the same stuff its been doing for a decade: Inviting bad-faith rightwingers with a pro-billionaire agenda to publish stories that harm democracy. Christopher Caldwell is a former fellow at the Claremont Institute, which is to the right of Proj 2025/Heritage.

No. It was on the Senate calendar and any Democrat could have gone to the floor and objected. That they did not was a choice. 1/2

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Umm, what? Ted Lieu is going to yield: his boss @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social just said Ted Lieu is going to yield. What is going on here?!

"That’s the thing about negotiating with fascists: the negotiation is never over.... Giving your lunch money to the school bully has never once stopped him from coming back." @marisakabas.bsky.social on the lesson to learn here. www.thehandbasket.co/p/jimmy-kimm...

Ok, I’m a broken record, but: Democratic leaders should be out in front of these protests. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social should be leading, should be rallying people. In this historical moment, Democrats in Congress are less legislators than public communicators.

From 2018. Sigh. danancona.com/2018/01/09/p...

just sayin they also just passed a motion to declare Sept 25 Lobster Day

Had to block someone who said the two parties are the same. No. l

Charles Koch and rightwing billionaires have funneled money to academics to study polarization over the past ten years exactly because they WANTED political science and elites to focus on polarization being bad—to distract from Republicans being bad. Hoover ran “polarization“ fellowships.

Today demonstrates American politics in a nutshell: •Senate MAGAs: Voted unanimously to change the Senate rules to confirm 48 of Trump’s nominees at once •Senate Dems: Responded by voting unanimously with Senate MAGAs to make Oct 14 the National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk *Deep sigh...smh*

Losing my ever-loving-mind watching the same people who were just clutching their pearls claiming censorship over mean emails from WH staffers to Twitter about COVID misinfo are now HAVING THE FCC CHAIR openly threaten broadcast licenses over a joke about the president AND THE BROADCASTERS CENSOR IT

Very good stuff!!

Hearing that that Senate Republicans have a vote queued up today for a national day of remembrance for Charlie Kirk - and Dems can stop it by simply objecting. Will one of them do it? Word is that no Dems are saying they will object right now.

It is both funny and chilling that AG Sulzberger put this list out on the NYT corporate website* instead of in the—oh I don’t know, maybe—the New York Times Politics or Opinion section?!?!!! *nytco.com, which usually lists promotions and hosts NYT financial reports

Probably worth us all saying: Charlie Kirk was a bad person, who said bad things and had bad values.

Charlie Kirk was a bad person, who said bad things and had bad values.

The Constitutional remedy for all of this is impeachment.

Probably worth us all saying: Charlie Kirk was a bad person, who said bad things and had bad values.

George Orwell is turning over right now. 🔥🔥 This is very much a move towards totalitarianism— control of journalism and media.

Today 31 Democrats chose to side with Donald Trump over DC. We did not ask for this. It will not make us safer. And fueling this fascist president's agenda is dangerous for our entire country. (🧵)

😂 not all Ezras

So let me get this straight: the Trump-brokered deal for American ownership of TikTok means: Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz get all the profits But China still controls the algorithm So it was never about national security and all about skimming cash.

This is fine, but let’s all remember that John Roberts, in the “Trump is a King above the law” case (Trump v US), said that it was totally legal and totally cool that there be no firewall between DOJ and the White House. Blame the Supreme Court too. It must be totally reformed.

Adam Schiff is not a leader, he's bent over to crypto and money instead of fighting them. But dang, he's a good questioner. Listen to the beginning of this. Former courtroom attorneys know how to question a witness. Schiff nailed him to the wall.

I feel similarly. What sad destruction of a once-proud civic institution, once a bulwark of our democracy. Somewhere, Katie Graham is sticking pins into a generic tech oligarch doll.

many have been saying things like this