i mean it’s both. there’s a real burden on voters to deliver the opposition to power but then there’s a burden on the opposition to use that power appropriately for the task at hand. we are where we are in part because voters delivered them to power in 2020 and they catastrophically flubbed it.

If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby

Hell, they’ve tried murder and *that* hasn’t worked, not because the commuters aren’t afraid of death, but because their fear of living in a country where ICE wins by fear is greater than their fear of death.

[deep breath] 6 Grammys 17 Latin Grammys 16 Billboard Music Awards 54 Billboard Latin Music Awards Spotify’s most-streamed artist 4 times (2020-2022, 2025) 1st non-English language artist to top Spotify's year-end most-streamed list. And a natural born American citizen.

It’s important to understand: 1. *Why* these people have started voting. 2. How to make them stop. I’m not being coy - I don’t have answers - but I think we need them.

This is, I think, the most transparently craven these people have ever been. If they actually believed this there was plenty of time to mention it during the QAnon/Pizzagate era when people were shooting up pizzerias and digging through John Podesta’s hacked emails looking for secret codes. 1/3

Yep, this is better than the first version. We’re going with Strong Accountability Option, folks, unless It Happens first. The capitals are the giveaway, the very CAPITAL giveaway.

About number one billion on the list of what’s wrong and depraved about this, but funding a shrimp treadmill would be a better use of tax dollars than flying these folks around the country from filthy cell to filthy cell trying to bore them into leaving.

So, uh, this is insane and needless in a year barely a month old and already chock full of both.

Gavin Newsom is so cool. Pure ambition, no values or even loosely held beliefs, assesses the current situation looking for a lane and instantly settles on People Are Into Evil Guys Now and sticks the pivot. Perfect clarity of purpose. He would be a danger to all those around him in any job he had.

This is a good, important thread, and a difficult subject to broach, so kudos to Robert for doing it. We need to focus on behavior and actions and not stigmatize preferences, especially those that, if we’re actually being honest, are not really as deviant as is often claimed.

Yeah I was trying to be charitable but I stopped being able to somewhere between "you owe us deference based on time we put into activism toward completely different goals" and "if you don't let black bloc pricks light fires in your neighborhood you deserve the consequences"

Is someone collecting the best of these mock Choitner interview posts (thinking of the tacos here) and saving them for later? Is there a single-serving account? Or are they just tears in the rain?

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Can’t wait until “Trump being corrupt isn’t news / is baked in” goes away and in the first couple months of the Newsom administration we learn from the Republicans and press that it’s an OUTRAGEOUS scandal that the assistant press secretary signed her financial disclosures with an autopen.

This, by the way, is the *actual* reason we need to win the internecine struggle for control of Democratic Party from the Searchlight/Welcome faction. We’re gonna have a Dem president in 2029, & they’ll appoint either a Shapiro or a Krasner for Attorney General. That choice is the whole ballgame.

This, right here (this post and the next one about our brothers and sisters who can’t afford to face and overcome their fear because they lack our privilege), is the whole deal. The whole ballgame. I don’t know how you could state it any clearer.

@bencollins.bsky.social in case you didn’t see you can go ahead and skip this one.

Populism!

Today will be helpful for distinguishing between news orgs and mainstream propaganda mills. News orgs will report this (it *is* news, it adds *some* context) and move on. Mills will focus on it, analyze it, and ask Dems about it until it’s 50% of the story, so the takeaway can be “who can say?”

Lots of good points in here about pushing when you have the advantage, but also this key point, which essentially boils down to “You want our votes. You solve it.”

Correct. I did like Walz. A lot. But this was the primary reason I was so unshakably behind him. Walz wanted to get elected VP on the Harris ticket. Shapiro wanted to be President himself, first and foremost.

Unspeakably petty.

In fairness it’s a bit difficult to see operational changes on the ground from the New York Times’ staging point for their Twin Cities Occupation coverage at Ye Olde Pickle Factory in Nisswa.

This is all true - and it happened in May, 2023, roughly 5 months after Dems lost 2 years of trifecta control of government but still maintained control over the Senate and WH. The call is coming from inside the house, Senator. She died because you were too scared to do something when you could.

This is apt. It’s not just that strategic, city-wide invasions would make fair elections in those cities impossible. Between roving patrols and Kavanaugh stops, a much smaller DHS presence would also be a nightmare for immigrant-citizen turnout.

Ok, so we’ve established that a Democratic Administration *can* come equipped with a DOJ that investigates powerful people like Members of Congress on the thinnest possible pretexts. Something to remember for later.

a lot of Democratic officials have asked the protesters to be careful to not "give Trump what he wants" and I think it's fair to ask them to do likewise

Sen. Gallego receives tonight’s “Let Him Cook” Award. This is his first win and first nomination.

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if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

Hannah Arendt

Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)

There’s an important corollary embedded in here. They think if they can find the source of the money and cut it off, they can turn off the resistance like a light switch, but that isn’t true. But if we turn off their money spigot, it will immediately cause root structure damage to their movement.

Ok, hate to be that guy, but all these Senators that are coming around say they won’t vote for the DHS funding bill - Have any of them been clear about whether they’ll vote for cloture to end debate and bring the bill to a final vote?

The ubiquity of cameras in the Twin Cities, on all the time, pointed everywhere, even when nothing is happening, combined with a network that identifies significant footage & pushes it out with in minutes, is a powerful weapon against the government narrative. The truth gets its boots on fast now.

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Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

The last few years have seen the largest wave of immigration in American history. All those images we carry in our heads about people arriving at Ellis Island — we just surpassed that. Crime went down. Real wages went up. This is a fake problem. Enough is enough.

Looks like they’ll get a second chance. Anyone think they’ll take it?

Been in Minneapolis the past week ish. Here are some photos I took while I was here.

Conor Lamb apology form damn

The red line is like the end of a rainbow - always two steps beyond whatever is currently happening, so they can always say “geez guys, stop being hysterical, he’s not even [next step] let alone [step after that]!”

People talk a lot of shit but some days I love this website.

So, let’s be clear here. Of the two explanations given for why they can’t buy homes in this excerpt (they “[lack] the credit necessary to qualify for a mortgage” vs. “they couldn’t afford to buy”) the first one is correct. They will be paying more in rent than they’d pay monthly on the mortgage. 1/

Thinking about how republicans were going to the border nonstop in 2024 even though fucking nothing noteworthy was going on and doing interviews and press conferences with their asshole supporters down there and screaming "SHE'S NEVER BEEN TO THE BORDER" and made it a national crisis