For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do. If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections. www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...

🚨new article🚨 "Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive 🧵Thread🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨BREAKING: The Justice Department launched a new wave of lawsuits against six more Democratic-led states Tuesday — escalating a federal effort to seize unredacted information from millions of voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Everybody involved will need to go to prison and if democrats in congress don’t have the stomach for punishing these people they should just resign now.

One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input

If they want to slow down the Trump administration, Democrats should begin promising this *now*

All joking aside, parliamentary systems (in which there is a Prime Minister who is elected by the legislature) perform better on many metrics than presidential systems like ours. If we were to rewrite the constitution today, we should have a Prime Minister, not a president.

Engage base to carry message, create clear moral quandary to convert the conflicted, and expose opposition for the true outliers they are. BRAVO to @ndlon.bsky.social for brilliant giving media something to talk about: www.latimes.com/california/s...

This is the outcome of pretending the purpose of politics is getting elected for its own sake, no matter what you "need" to say & support to do so, instead of actually desiring to enact your agenda.

Area man (who makes his living claiming expertise in the subject) stumped by fact that politics is actually about power and money, not about delivering what proves popular in polling.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

In a normal political system that has strong parties, there would be a way for members to replace leaders like Schumer who disregard their preferences. In the US, Democratic voters have essentially no mechanism to change the direction of the party leadership.

Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people. Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people. We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.

Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now

UK's Zack Polanski understands the most basic rule of messaging: if you want to touch a nerve, you have to touch a nerve. Of course they're coming after him and of course his Green Party is rising in polls and members. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow. She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.

How long till we learn American, United & Delta worked the phones on Senate Dems?

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

If you don't want the #Dems to cave & allow ACA health insurance costs to explode you can contact your US Senator here: senate.gov/senators/sen... & your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati... Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.

Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income. It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions. If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

imo a big problem right now is the fetishism for proper procedure that grips so many left-of-center elites, which leads them to believe that the only way to resist is lawsuits. sooner or later someone must realize that you have to simply refuse (or give a countermanding order) and face trump down

be real nice if DC had an actual hometown newspaper at the moment

Gavin Newsom and Buttigege both seemingly want to be the American Keir Starmer, and Americans sympathetic to that pitch should glance over at how things are going across the pond

the other thing is that they were very invested in the idea that a "canceled" person like Cuomo could come back.

Katherine Clark, the second-most powerful Democrat in the House of Representatives behind Hakeem Jeffries, just admitted Israel is committing "genocide" in Gaza: zeteo.com/p/second-mos...

This is actually good news. We have to get comfortable celebrating small victories where we can right now. And while this is not perfect, it is good news

Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic: Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...

On DC: When we say "crime is down" or "murder rate fell," we are bringing crime and murder top of mind. We have seen this backfire consistently. Say what you're for and have created, not what you fight and have eliminated. Far better to say, "in DC we have proven solutions for safety..."

The attack on DC is not merely an attempt to intimidate, silence & control this vibrant, Black led city. That alone merits our collective outrage. It is also an attack on dissent itself - as DC is the center of protest, of people exercising our freedoms to speak against this regime.

Authoritarian regimes that capture capitol cities remain in power far longer than those that don't. #FreeDC

i've never been particularly interested in epstein stuff, but if it turns out that the missing footage involves people entering or leaving the area of the cell it would probably be the biggest scandal in american political history.

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

Resist. Refuse. Ridicule. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Fascism requires compliance and crumbles once it's withdrawn.

one of the massive differences between Trump II and other fascist movements is that his popularity among young men was extremely fragile rather than being the ironclad base of his support

ALT: Rebecca Torres stands in front of a military vehicle approaching a federal immigration agents raid in the agriculture area of Camarillo, Calif., Thursday, July 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker)

I'm a professor at the flagship university for the fourth whitest state in the US. Over 80% of our students are white. The biggest barrier to access here is that due to lack of state funding, we have top 10 highest tuition per capita of public unis in the country. We also have a food pantry.

Went to vote yesterday, last day of early voting for the NYC primary. The line was around and down the block. Been voting at that site for years and never seen so many ppl. Some of it's bc actual Election Day is likely to be 100+ degrees, but still a good sign for non-Cuomo candidates, IMO.

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

Who would have guessed that "play dead," tweet about prices, and green light MAGA crypto crime spree*, isn't a winning strategy? (* yes, yes not all Dems. And the ones actually confronting fascism are, not coincidentally, getting donor support.) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...

A right-winger -- a registered Republican, a Trump voter, an evangelical anti-abortion activist -- assassinates a Democratic official. Republicans respond by blaming the left. Democrats respond by blaming ... no one.

One of the many reasons I think it's important to refer to Trump's movement as fascist is that it allows us to connect incidents like the assassinations in Minnesota with things like January 6th. Trump and his networked brown-shirts are both part of the fascist plot to destroy democracy.