I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Because it's such weird hyper-online gamer subculture stuff, there will be a lot of attempt to paint it as simply apolitical nihilism, but that is not an accurate description of the impression we're getting. This is very much at the intersection of that and far-right, they're completely entangled.

Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)

(iron man jeff bridges voice) lyndon JOHNSON built this! in ONE TERM! with a bunch of RACISTS!! don’t fucking tell me it can’t be done!!

Admit DC as 100 states to rewrite the Constitution

The kind of left liberalism Lakshya says is never coming back is just integration, and it ain’t going away until Lakshya and I and folks like us are no longer in America, which will be never. :)

a couple things are true: —Ds are mostly endorsing/supporting Mamdani —the outliers who are not (Jeffries, Hochul) suck and deserve to lose their seats.

Jamelle, Nikole, Lydia, Tressie and a lot of other people write for the Times and do great work that reaches a broad audience. I'm really glad they're there.

Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.

I used to have all kinds of complicated, nuanced thoughts about political ideology and policy, but all that remains is, man, I hate these fucking fascists.

The president and vice president, like most Republicans, think it is good that a christian fanatic murdered an elected Democrat, and they pretty clearly hope there will be more murders.

This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country

We're so close to fixing key drivers of California's housing crisis: ✅️ SB 79 would legalize apartments near transit. ✅️ AB 130 would end frivolous litigation against infill. ✅️ AB 253 + AB 1308 would prevent permitting/inspection delays. ➡️ Here's how you can help.

Mayor Brandon Scott appears to be doing something right, but somehow this remarkable, record setting decline in violence doesn't quite make national headlines the way the opposite does www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

On the other hand what if you didn’t wait till the midterms because that’s fucking insane.

"we prefer our ethnic minorities invisible and silent" is not a cause I will fight for

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

i think that the Democrats should triangulate in trans kids by accusing Republicans of being pedophiles

SB 79 PASSES OUT OF THE CALIFORNIA SENATE! 🎉🥑

Everyone needs to think harder about how to drive attention to this giant Medicaid cut bill Republicans are on the verge of passing — it’s very unpopular, all factions of Democrats oppose it, and yet it’s barely present in the discourse.

Ronald Acuña Jr. on the first pitch he saw this season. Baseball is better when he’s healthy.

tfw RFK's son is trying to remove people from Medicaid

s/o @zeitlin.bsky.social's heatmap coverage of the climate/IRA impacts of the maga murder bill

If the Bulwark is an op to make people sympathize with the center-right,then the left-of-center needs to come up with something besides endless doom and coalition-splitting to counter it. I've never been harassed by a Bulwark-adjacent person. I've never been told to vote against my own rights by one

the house republican plan to gut the inflation reduction act would result in $1 trillion of lost american economic growth via @emilypont.bsky.social heatmap.news/economy/hous...

We devote musicals, miniseries, and documentaries to the founders of our first republic and not to those of our second, who saw this country with clear eyes. We need fewer encomiums for Jefferson, Madison, and Lafayette. More respect for Sumner, Stevens, Bingham and Douglass (Frederick).

I think it's unfortunate that “it’s easier to break things than to build them" has become a tagline of the second resistance. It may be technically true, to some degree, in some cases. But it's often overstated, demoralizing, and concedes too much to the vandals.

UNDERWOOD: Do you believe that the US government has the authority to deport American citizens NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported

The Big Lie undergirding MAGA’s immigration posture is that immigrants are fundamentally parasitic, they just take from the host country. It’s a fascist conception and also just obviously wrong if you think about it for more than 10 seconds. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

We should do deliverism for Democratic constituencies and for the general public, but the dying industrial towns of Ohio are going to hate us whether we try to revive them or not. Let's just let them die.

Increase in car travel because planes are falling out of the sky

Hard time create orange man. Orange man create worse time.

We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.

so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

The Michael Scott vasectomy presidency

there are only 195 generally recognized countries. is he making deals with Wakanda?

Everyone else: things have multiple causes Will: you imbeciles, you absolute buffoons

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

Sinners was just impossibly good, a few highs that will sit with me for a while

Durbin said they couldn't do subpoenas because they didn't have a majority with Feinstein out, and then they did have a majority and they still didn't do subpoenas Hochul was supposedly waiting to remove Adams to avoid a snap primary and then the key date came and went and Adams is still there

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

Moving. A friend complained about resistance focusing around this 1 person, instead of the hundreds who deserve the same solidarity. But people think in stories. Rosa Parks is a story. So is Kilmar, and Daniel Berulis, the hero from the NLRB. Honor heroes. Be one, if you get the chance, and can.

Okay, cards on the table: I refuse to be concerned. Because I believe, in the pit of my soul, that being concerned creates a permission structure not to express one’s views to protect oneself. I don’t think we’re there, but even if I did, I wouldn’t act like it.

Fight for freedom, save America. #HandsOff