This! Hanging a flag says that the people it represents are welcome, which is why we take down confederate flags (not welcome, losers) and put up pride flags (welcome!)

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

So refreshing to hear @rokhanna.bsky.social say this. And he’s absolutely right: we the people want fighters with moral convictions. If you don’t have the courage or energy to do that, get the hell out of the way. 👏🏼

Today feels like Jan 6th: A watershed moment which left those of us who love our country sickened and horrified. Whatever you do, don’t let Republicans, the media or others gaslight you tomorrow like they did to us after J6. Cling to how you feel right now, and fight like hell for impeachment.

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

Republicans continue because the political price they pay for rejecting Trump is higher than the price of their allegiance, and that is a choice made by Democrats and the broader political ecosystem that Trump is the focus and the GOP is more a victim than an accomplice.

Impeach this Racist thug of a President. Today. Now.

the 'electability' question is increasingly clear www.sosavstate.com/p/gavin-news...

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

“The Trump v. Barbara oral argument will reveal nothing new about the law. All it will reveal how willing the justices are to set the law aside in furtherance of Trump’s white nationalist project.” Always love how @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app nails it.

Per YouGov Rahm Emanuel is the 78th most popular Democrat, behind everyone from Michael Dukakis to Barney Frank. He is 12 places behind Harry Reid, who died five years ago. To the extent anything's happening here it's *entirely* media-driven. yougov.com/en-us/rating...

I do understand the economic conditions behind this likely price. Except…those same conditions will impact consumers’ wallets at least as much. At this price point? Sony might as well put out an ad and tell everyone to buy a Nintendo.

Trans rights are human rights. Newsom and anyone else who disagrees, Democrat or Republican, can fuck all the way off.

New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.” If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.

“Unity that refuses to name violence is just loyalty to the ones holding the weapons.” 💯

Exactly

That face when you’re nodding like a bobblehead on every other sentence…

DODGERS 💙🧢

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

This is how it’s done. If you won’t stand up ALL OF US - including specifically helping the most marginalized and powerless of us, you belong with the other side. Take note @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

This is how it's done, folks

this exists it is called thinking

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

One thing I wish all Democrats knew is that we don't expect you to be fearless. We expect you to be brave. Bravery is not the absence of fear. It is being afraid and moving ahead anyway. If you find that you are neither, then it is time to step aside. There are people who can do this job ably.

the single biggest challenge to integrating systems thinking broadly is that americans are taught from day one to think in terms of "how the world is supposed to work" and that consistently undermines our ability to acknowledge how the world actually works. it's a wild antipattern.

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

“If a government proclaims its interest in protecting the environment but allocates little money or effort toward that goal, environment protection is not, in fact, the government’s purpose. Purposes are deduced from behavior, not from rhetoric or stated goals.” - Donella H. Meadows

What. The hell.

Feels like every US Democrat should read this article.

Fun new civic idea: all Supreme Court judgements receive adversarial peer review.

Zoom is the Teams of Word

They said their aim was to make the U.S. great again. When the real fallout from this bill finally proves beyond doubt how they achieved the exact opposite—to us, to our economy, to our health—make them all wear it like a traitor’s badge of shame for the rest of their lives. The new red hat.

There’s a thing in wargames and strategic sims where you can tell from the jump where an opponent is going land their first blows, and there’s fuck all you can do to prevent it, and the trick is to stay focused and not let despair become an opposing force multiplier.

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

“Roberts’s Skrmetti opinion…reveals something that close observers…already know. The Court’s Republican majority is impatient…often so eager to reach ideological or partisan results that they hand down poorly reasoned opinions and incomprehensible legal standards.” Yes. www.vox.com/scotus/41728...

Illegal.

Only Brits would want to dim the sun (presumably on those 4 days a year when it’s not raining). www.bbc.com/weather/arti...

100% recommend this article.

Just fucking getting newsed in the face every fucking day

I say this as a historian — history will remember you utterly failing to meet the challenge of this moment. At the rate you’re going, “Schumer” is going to end up somewhere between “Chamberlain” or “Quisling”

Wrote a thing looking at yesterday's dissent from Alito, comparing it to SCOTUS rulings he joined in the past two years, and highlighting how there's only one principal for Alito about exec power: GOP Presidents have absolute power. Dem Presidents have none. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/06/a...

Beautifully put and true.