lol for Trump: this is Treaty of Versailles - level utter crushing defeat

2026 rule of headlines: Any headline “I’m a Democrat!! Here’s why X“ in big media is a lock-down rock-solid guarantee that the article is badly argued garbage.

Israel’s Prime Minister on American cable network CNN trying to influence American politics. This is why it was so stupid that the Biden White House decided it was not their job to worry about Israeli politics. Israel and US politics are linked because Netanyahu chose to ally w US Republicans.

this is one of the very smart things about how the right wing messaging machine works — they test out messages both positive and negative to see what works then, once they land on something, repeat it endlessly until it's driven home.

Opposed to not just American principles but Jesus‘ teachings. Jesus warned his followers about guys like this who rejected tolerance and empathy and said they were the spawn of the Devil and would go to hell.

Our goal - the thing we should all dedicate our lives to - is punishing fascists and enablers like Marco Rubio with prison terms

also, re: Mona Charen 'No results found for "supreme court from:monacharen.bsky.social".' It is basically impossible to oppose Trump today without opposing this Supreme Court

I really fucking needed this. Not as bad as my client, who's been locked up by ICE for over a year. But his case really hurt and I needed to win it for him and for me.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

A reminder that David French worked for the Project 2025 litigation shop ADF (Alliance Defending Fascism) and he is a longtime defender of the conservative legal plot to take over our courts

Not the Onion NYT columnist & Leonard Leo defender David French, in conversation w Leonard Leo Supreme, concludes the 6-3 Catholic Chistofascist court is not divided.

For all the status quo whiny posters saying “what can she do, be specific!!!1!!” — in addition to the two specific suggestions above here is a third specific option she can advocate for. (The whiners will just come up w another bad reason why this won’t work because i reality they want inaction.)

really really good piece "a universe of failed political initiative, as any patient student of the right’s congressional inquisitions, from the Benghazi hearings to the long regress of Hunter Biden spectacles to the impeachment of Biden’s DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, can instantly confirm. "

The Dems' milksop case against corruption: my latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

fear of doing politics is going to sink us across this site there are many people who seem to think that the best way to do politics is to give up at every possible turn that is not inspiring

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

People are asking what @abigailspanberger.com can do, concretely. So, here is something substantive she can do: urge and sign a law defining the election period not as the way the majority defined it, but confirming what VA law says. Then order the state apparatus to adopt the correct maps.

There is about a 90% chance that Trump officials who raided Sen. Louise Lucas knew what the VA Court decision was going to be. (The raid worked to intimidate VA legislators to discourage a legislative response.) Conserv judges in Virginia move in the same social circles as Trump DOJ appointees

@abigailspanberger.com now faces a career-defining moment. Is she a fighter or is she a folder? Does she have what it takes to do the right thing or is she going to retreat behind process and conservative legalism and give up?

Yes and the ADL is now not denying anything, they and the Jewish right are working like crazy to blame the rising antisemitism entirely on the left and it may well work

Much of this is was the Obama White House’s fault. They had built a massive organizing 50-state machine, OFA, and then they decided they didn’t need to organize people— their policies would be popular and that would convince people. And they let OFA die

Re: Jamelle Bouie saying we should pay lawmakers a lot more, and people correctly chiming in to say it’s unpopular: Something that would be popular and help achieve this is a law requiring disclosure of rich people’s assets and income.

Want to understand john Roberts and the racism of the Roberts' Court generally, and Callais specifically? @thelisagraves.bsky.social literally wrote the book on Roberts, and has co-authored a must read article: slate.com/news-and-pol...

this is called "lying"

Right, his obvious lying tells us more clearly than anything else could that he’s always been a politician in the tank for Republicans fighting to enact a Republican agenda.

“Free speech on campus! No, not like that”

There are many possibilities but I think the original sin that led us to Trump II and the American Oligarch takeover was Ford pardoning Nixon. Nixon should have gone to jail. Rule of law. Equal justice under law.

This statement is meant to be left-punching, but notice that the most popular left-wing candidates (Bernie, Mamdani, AOC) are superb at plain-spokenness, and it is the moderate wing that usually offers language that has been optimized and focus-grouped to death

This is very very dumb. Starmer is going to lead his party to ignominious defeat because he does not understand narrative and fighting and therefore the public has lost confidence. But this scandal is not a sign he’s anti-democracy come on

blocked some accounts with porn, some attacking based on identity only, and some that slung around uniparty or bothsides fascism in their replies. Let’s focus on values, focus on ways to make change, avoid destructive nihilism, criticize where due but lift up too

one thousand percent true, and it’s why so many people are mad at Schumer for rolling over to Trump, and it’s why it’s political malpractice that Congressional Democrats were not out leading protests in MN and elsewhere

This is a phenomenal thread. Mamdani is showing FDR-like communications talent and vision.

Yes! We see this in the UK, and we see it in US NIMBYs too. Resisting change, loving the status quo: that is fundamentally a conservative position

American elite institutions have failed. They do not help people build good lives for themselves. Free markets only exist by government action. Capitalism is always going to move toward monopoly. If you want free markets, you need strong government that is respected.

I increasingly think that defining our current establishment as "center-left" is a problem because it blocks identifying the real problem. The NYT and Atlantic heads and fans aren't center-left, they're conservatives. They want the status quo to stay unchanged. (per @diplomatofnight.com thread)

National liberation movements are not always bad (although I get where this comes from). The real key is embracing liberal democratic pluralism and fighting for peace and tolerance. That was the US revolution, the French revolution, the Black Southern civil rights struggle etc.

Re Susan Collins:

Jake Sullivan is the worst Democratic foreign policy staffer since Vietnam. He and his people should be nowhere near power ever again, after their Gaza failure which brought us Trump and fascism. Give him the McGeorge Bundy career and shuffle him off somewhere.

Yea man I’ll reiterate it again and again I don’t have much of an opinion on the man himself but I have a pretty strong aversion to the rabid bullying directed his way. Don’t really care how you think he provoked it

How do Democrats defeat the Two Santas strategy that involves Republicans cutting taxes to increase the debt and corruptly leaving others with the bag? Run the Bag Of Coal for Billionaires strategy. Tax billionaires as punishment. www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartman...

It is going to be politically hard to add back the taxes that Republicans cut. So what we should promise for 2029 is a simply massive tax on billionaires. Not to raise all the missing revenue, but to punish them for their political interference and deter it in future.

It's the same people at @npr.org , and we wonder why the npr-listening NYTimes-reading Dem officials aren't acting with any rage and urgency.

more disturbed by the “[people] are dropping coverage.” No, they’re being dropped from coverage.

I feel attacked

Haha "Congress" Haha What liars the people who write the headlines at NYT are.

This framing takes agency away from the Republicans who ran a 50-year long campaign to end multiracial democracy. Seriously. John Roberts has been working on this since the 1980s, and the key rollbacks didn‘t begin until a Fed Soc majority on the court, 2005-on, after Bush.

This front page still does not say the word “Republican“ - not even one time. It also does not say Federalist Society, Leonard Leo, John Roberts, Reagan staffer, or Harlan Crow. NYT headlines mislead its readers.

several generations of goo goo liberals whose politics were Sorkin a decade ago find themselves much closer to Sherman today, having seen the institutions they took for granted crumble under the weight of corrupt men (very much including the bitch ass losers at the nyt)

Utter cowardice from the NYT headlines division. "Supreme Court Further Weakens Voting Rights Act, Igniting Political Scramble" "justices split along ideological lines" "Civil Rights Leaders [oh, just them?] See the Ruling as a 'Betrayal'" "Republican" mentioned exactly zero times