question: why does the media treat democrats as the only ones with any agency? republicans have a trifecta, they can prevent a shutdown whenever they want more important question: what is wrong with Alex Thompson?

this isn’t true, but i strongly encourage the president to keep telling the country he’s going to cut off their social security and medicare

like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want

To the Daily Beast staffer who put “79” into this headline, know this: We salute you.

According to Thune, farmers support Trump’s tariffs. If that is the case, they should not ask the rest of the country to give them money to bail them out. bsky.app/profile/atru...

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

If the government is simply whatever Donald Trump wants, it makes no sense to vote to fund it

People who are flailing can do a lot of damage, but I think it’s important to understand that they’re not in control (of themselves or anyone else)

the first admin certainly had some of this, but this time around, it’s just this fucking whiny crybaby bitch shit from every member of the cabinet all goddamned day long. fucking loser ass presidency.

Stop disappearing people with no criminal record, stop threatening their children to lure them into being captured, stop encouraging citizens to rat each other out, stop censoring comedians and academics, stop weaponizing the law, stop whipping up hate at the most vulnerable. Then maybe.

Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.

Empathy. That’s why he studies late into the night and agonizes over every detail and decision. If he can make the life of just one person a little better, it’s all worth it.

Just so it's clear who is being targeted - "The more than $30 million in federal funding, which was approved by Congress but halted by the administration, is targeted at students who are low-income or have disabilities or are the first in their family to go to college."

Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

“Pelayo said her dad described being held in a room with at least 150 other men as ICE officers constantly yell at them and call them slurs. He also told his daughters detainees are only given food and water based on good behavior.” These are the conditions at the site of yesterday’s protest.

Among Democrats - "Which of the following political figures would you prefer?" 🔴 AOC, Sanders, Mamdani: 53% ⚫️ Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi: 33% ⚪️ Unsure: 14% Read it all here -> usapolling.substack.com/p/democratic...

Against defeatism.

I would like Never Trump Republicans to demand that George W. Bush appear and speak up for democracy in this country. Why do ppl always ask Obama to do things and “where is Kamala”? Where is the 43rd President of the United States while democracy crashes & burns. This is the party he led. 1/

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Same week: 1. “Trump added $3 billion [in wealth] over the last year, leveraging the presidency for profit.” 2. “.. sales of foods commonly purchased when financial times get tough are on the rise ..” @zacheverson.com @nytimes.com www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people

They should really ask Keir Starmer how the tactic of suppressing your base while trying to become a lite version of the opposition has worked out.

Trump's approval rating and favorability by age. www.pbump.net/o/tracking-h...

Hakeem Jefferies’s team is now openly mocking fellow Democrats who are criticizing him for refusing to endorse the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor. Democrat party is 30 points underwater. Mamdani is 16 points above water. Imagine the arrogance of being down nearly 50 points & still talking smack.

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation

This is totally insane - like invading Iraq in response to 9/11. What evidence is there that any of these horrible events are related to universities?

Wtf When news broke that a suspect had been identified in the Charlie Kirk case, an X user asked Grok to supply an image of the suspect. Grok replied with an AI-generated photo of a young Black man. (Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, is a white man.)

president calls for political violence against those who disagree with him

'Israel Forms Well-Thought Out Alliance With Anti-Semites' has been a lot of the story of the last couple of decades.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

This this this. Impoundment and rescission is central. A "win" on (for example) Medicaid funding is no win at all if Trump can just ignore the appropriation.

There it is folks. The brilliant Dem strategy, according to the genius pundits with the ear of Dem leadership, is to let Trump keep doing everything he's doing but only if we can also help Republicans avoid paying a political price for hurting people long enough to hold the House and Senate in 2026

"Crime" is perpetual and unfalsifiable. It's the perfect issue because it happens every day and will *always* happen every day. 4/

Chuck Schumer has died and been replaced with ChatGPT, whose training data cutoff is January 2024.

The president is a rapist authoritarian who is destroying US institutions & literally invading US cities, quick ... restore healthcare subsidies!

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

Its once again striking how much Trumps entire fascist project is predicated on ppl buying the Potemkin version that exists in his shitposts rather than what it actually looks like on the ground and in the legal system

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something