going on record now: I am very much looking forward to Team AOC-Lander Oversight Comms

Agree. Mamdani could have tried to primary Jeffries and in fact he poured cold water over a Jeffries primary.

When we say @indivisible.org is brave and deserves credit for taking action to primary status quo Dems, this is why. Jeffries is angry. Indivisible is incurring the anger of the party leadership.

On the Dem leadership freakout, bumping this piece from Feb 2025. “No help on anything until the law breaking stops. Period.” Friends, Dems did not follow this advice. Even now they are voting for judges. Now we are here.

Wow. I do not think the current Democratic establishment has any idea the tsunami of change that is coming.

It’s not the whole reason these candidates won, but @indivisible.org deserves huge credit for taking a stand, supporting primary challenges against incumbent Dems. They did this to try to change Congress. Most orgs didn’t have the courage to oppose incumbents. This👇is leadership. 👏

I don’t think Chuck Schumer can win a primary in two years, no joke

Even as my book heads toward publication, I remain amazed that someone else didn't write it first. More than a few marquee journalists at major publications were in much better positions to tell the world about Silicon Valley's dangerous radicalization. Even now, at this late stage, most are silent.

Democratic leaders do two jobs: legislating and fundraising. AOC has dropped the fundraising. Her two jobs are legislating and doing public communications. If more Dems had done that—took on a major public comms effort—we wouldn’t be in this place.

“progressive Dems who voted for the resolution felt blindsided by the CBC’s opposition; CBC members felt that Jeffries and his leadership team, by failing to provide specific voting instructions, had hung them out to dry.”

Yeah so a whole bunch of people with large followings all frying their brains on outlandish Israel-themed conspiracy theories is not Actually good. It's actually very alarming

Musk’s Grok got hundreds of little girls killed?

I’m sorry to have to tell you about the Major Questions Doctrine and I know it seems to have been forgotten but as soon as a Democratic president reaches the White House suddenly the government will be able to do nothing because major questions

That's. Not. Leadership. Leadership takes vision, values, & tenacity. It takes struggle to get people to move with you towards a common good. Not everyone will like you all the time, but if you're building trust & consensus while winning that vision, they move with you. Jeffries & Schumer must go.

“[Jeffries] views his role as entirely…member management, and everything is viewed through the lens of keeping the different caucuses happy with him. I don’t think he’s really here to be a leader.” - one Dem House member Remember this when we need a public leader after the midterms.

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10. These voters know who's screwing them. Per a new study by Bluelabs, as reported by @gregsargent.bsky.social, the most resonant messaging "blames insurance companies and other conglomerates for high medical & prescription drug costs and hits big corporations for price gouging and tax avoidance."

Make the bad guys pay: A Democratic message that the white working class will hear. They respond to gestures of power. A THREAD.

John Roberts never intended to "meet the moment." All of the chatter about him being a "moderate" and an "institutionalist" was pure propaganda and the corp media and far too many S.Ct "experts" fell for it. Roberts was a fascist in law school and is still a fascist.

The genius of Obama's big speech is this: He effectively stated that Trump/MAGA do not accept the Declaration of Independence's promise of equality. In the battle over our 250th anniversary, we need to put that basic truth squarely on the agenda. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

Right. And Obama is pandering to your desire for normalcy. But real leaders don’t do that. Real leaders would tell the truth about who George W Bush is and was and bring people like you and me along with them. Obama is a great man. But he is not a leader for these times.

Bad move by Clinton, Obama, and Biden. Now is not the time for fuzzy bipartisanship with fascist enablers. Now is the time for going to war against Republican elites like GW Bush. We must have a Truth and Reconciliation process first. THEN we can have bipartisanship again. Not now.

Good thread

🙋🏼‍♀️ Silver-haired, anti-establishment voter here in a recently declared toss-up district that USED TO BE safe “leans red”, wanted to weigh in on this topic but replied to wrong post… Follow our primary in #VA01. Main problem: PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW THERE EVEN IS A PRIMARY. bsky.app/profile/linc...

"What are we going to do differently?” one woman asked, pointing out that the Democrats’ brand is terrible. ... Clyde’s eyes were wide. She hadn’t expected friendly fire. “We do have a good message!” she sputtered. “Affordability!” 👀 @elainegodfrey.bsky.social

I hate to say this, but Trump‘s mind is gone and he’s heading into deep dementia and he is STILL a better judge of Netanyahu than Biden, Sullivan, Blinken, and the other Biden foreign policy people are

🧵!!! As someone who was on the inside of this mess, it was actually worse as all of these folks, plus a number of senior military leaders had gone all in on delusional hackery coming from senior folks in DC at a variety of agencies and departments.

Everyone who is interested in the disaster that is Trump should look at this. Biden's advisors steered the Israel/Netanyahu policy that brought us death and destruction in Gaza, Trump, and the downfall of the American Republic. And we know it because they still think they did the right thing.

Ha, Thune and Republican Senators think that Trump is on their side. Morons. Fools.

Musk buying Twitter was one the most successful propaganda campaigns of all time, AND many of us were raising the alarm about that at the time based on history, AND conservatives in the left-liberal party and in the Biden White House heard that and told us they didn’t care.

The 🇩🇪 chancellor, posting at Elon Musk’s Nazi Bar about appeasing the lawless far right authoritarian leader threatening to destroy NATO & withdraw US troops from 🇩🇪. Shocking that his party is cratering in the polls.

ICYMI: We reported for @prospect.org last week on documents obtained by @phoenixprojnow.bsky.social detailing how Silicon Valley elites view "abundance" as an avenue to advancing their political power. prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...

The 12-person jury is a lot older than 56 years.

Democratize America’s liberal party. Make it a mass membership org with regular voting on party business and endorsements instead of 3,500 campaign committees in a trenchcoat.

This, and worse. I’m old enough to remember “surrender monkey“

they would be absolutely hammering the media in unison for using “deal” instead of “surrender” and the media would capitulate under the pressure

Based on the apathetic behavior of Congressional Democratic leadership one could reasonably conclude that no one cares.

2 important things about today's column 1st, we need to talk about how insane it is that Elon Musk abused his X platform to whip up violent race riots in Belfast, and yet 3 days later becomes the world's 1st trillionaire. How is this real? 2nd, also important... www.inquirer.com/opinion/elon...

🚨Rule of law emergency in Connecticut🚨

This is why Dem leaders embracing bipartisanship for their own short term gain are missing the forest for the trees. They’re setting their own party identity on fire

Nicole Russell is an inveterate liar and conservative operator, and every D member of Congress should say that directly on a podcast or livestream at least once a week

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

That The New York Times did not lead with the Knicks' title is final proof that The Times is not a New York newspaper anymore.

In fact, even beyond US law, we can probably take Musk down at the International Criminal Court, right? Does the wanton and illegal destruction of USAID count as a crime against humanity?

This is not unreasonable and yet not a very positive take!

A party that exalts “bipartisanship” as a value in itself is a party that doesn’t truly value anything. It permits them to avoid making any progressive commitments and avoid accountability when they fail to do anything. The cynicism it implies and breeds in voters is itself a danger to democracy.

Ok this is pretty cool

No Garlandsplainers. Elect people who are willing to fight and understand history and the moment we are in. Clinging to norms and bipartisanship is wrong for this moment. The norms are gone. Toss them aside and be more partisan and rebuild a new America.

Worth noting that it would be possible to tax his wealth *AND* convict him for his crimes.

I really, really, REALLY hope this is not true. There is still a peaceful path to removing the regime with a truth and reconciliation process that imprisons Trump officials and oligarchs without blood. But if civil society doesn’t get behind that we risk this 👇👇