I'm old enough to remember 1976 and wondrous excitement of 200th anniversary - tall ships, 50-state quarters, the speeches and all the events that were crowded as hell. Trump can't even excite his own MAGA base to attend his pisssant fair, even as troops patrol a stagnant reflecting pool.

Reasonable to have different preferences in a primary race - but the tell here is talking to those "donating" money This is about how corporate donors need to redirect their money, no doubt by hiring people like Van to organize boots on the ground to support pro-corporate candidates.

As we assess the United States at 250, I think the world's judgment on our contributions is more accurate than the glossy stories we tell ourselves. They rightly see us as contributing to instability around the world and undermining freedom here at home.

So funny, since I knew Van Jones when he was a leader in Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM)- a left cadre organization. That he is now playing role of ex-CP neocon advising corporate Dems on beating back DSA upsurge is sad/hilarious personal trajectory.

SpaceX stock has fallen below its first day close and now its bonds are being treated like junk by investors. Awesome this shit sandwich is going to automatically be shoved into many retirement accounts.

Everything Trump runs directly - the Kennedy Center, reflecting pool, and now the "Great American State Fair" are clusterfucks of incomptence & failure Just like all the firms Trump bankrupted, because Trump is a terrible businessman but a savvy con man. newrepublic.com/post/212395/...

I'll take it :) britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

Trump looting National Parks to fund his vanity projects in D.C. is absolute Versailles "let them eat cake" symbolism. Symbolic of the broader looting of our nation by Trump's corruption.

"I run the protection program" -- ie. GOP Congress exists to protect Trump's corruption from oversight

Trump doesn't care at all about higher prices on consumers - but will destroy our alliances to protect the profits of his tech oligarch donors.

That most of public doesn't know Epstein files contain affidavits of Trump raping a 13-year old is testament to how craven media has been. That lawsuit had to be by an independent journalist and NOT any of the major media companies highlights that cravenness. www.thedailybeast.com/judge-corner...

Unions did the right thing in NYC and mobilized to help stop a bill to criminalize free speech protests near university and school campuses around the city. Frankly embarassing that a majority of NYC City Council voted for this anti-speech measure in the first place. psc-cuny.org/clarion/onli...

Tucker Carlson is an anti-semite- and Cruz helps mainstream him by equating him with all those who oppose Israel's genocidal war and Occupation. Cruz promotes antisemitism among the young people he says he's worried about by not giving any option to hate Israel's actions and not hate Jews.

Trump just killed auto production jobs in South Carolina "production of the Polestar 3 was moved from Chengdu, China, to Ridgeville, South Carolina...The future of Polestar 3 production is now in limbo" Completely arbitrary sudden decision like all Trump decisions www.thedrive.com/news/feds-ki...

Federal government under next Democratic Congress should send money directly to local school districts, bypassing state govternments, but on the condition they cover actual US history- not this whitewashed crap.

Instead of plotting how to "stop the socialists", maybe corporate Dems should instead show voters how they are going to "stop Trump" and deliver for average Americans. Because that's what Mamdani did going back to work right after his candidates won www.youtube.com/shorts/FLyMO...

"Look at all the corruption we get away with without consequences. Poor Dick Nixon got a raw deal"

It is because of constant lies and attacks on other Dems like this by Jeffries that there are close to 211 other House Democrats I would rather have as Speaker compared to him.

The median income in Jeffries' district is $63K while the median income in my district where Darializa defeated Espaillat is $52K. Just a reminder that Hakeem Jeffries is a liar- or grossly stupid- whichever you prefer in a potential Speaker.

Court that regularly rails against the federal govt overriding the states just overturned consumer protection laws in all fifty states around cancer-causing chemicals. This court is literally licensing corporations to murder without consequences.

This idea of a sudden shift left is ridiculous. Party has been shifting steadily left for years. Biden adopted policies far to left of policies he once promoted as Senator- since Biden voted for Reagan's tax cuts - BECAUSE he recognized this shift. /1 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hawaii in response should mandate every hotel and store post signs with one of two allowed message "We refuse entrance to guns on our property" or "Please bring your guns and feel free to conceal them from other guests" Be interesting to see which signs stores put up.

Always worth highlighting Thomas is insane ideologue who wants to strike down the federal minimum wage and all labor protections, most environmental and most consumer protections in the name of "states rights" - except where he regularly overturns state laws but only when MAGA court says so.

Hawaii set up what is know as default contract rule - ie. assumption is owner has barred guns on property unless a gun owner requests an alternative contract of permission. But MAGA Court strips states of most basic state property rights power in name of MORE GUNS. apnews.com/article/supr...

Saying we got a rule changed in 24 hours is a way of saying "we illegally violated the Administrative Procedures Act" which requires actual notice, process, and public input before making major changes in policy.

Victory of Mamdani's slate just reflection of socialist left winning over two-thirds of Democratic voters to be favorable towards the idea of socialism. Although credit due rightwing for calling Obama & Biden "socialists" to point that Dem voters identify every progressive issue as socialist now.

For all the centrist Dems ranting they will be called socialists because of Mamdani and his slate of elected allies, a reminder that you will be called a Communist no matter what you do- since even Obama was called a Communist just as every Democrat since FDR has been. www.ms.now/msnbc/giulia...

The ink spilled on crime stories is ridiculous given that the death toll from environmental causes - heat deaths from climate change, pollution-induced diseases and so on - completely dwarfs deaths from murder. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

Clearly are sources arguing for birthright citizenship so any LLM should have those arguments available. That Grok doesn't should crash SpaceX's stock all by itself, since if its AI is being personally manipulated by its owner like this, it is clearly unusable for any serious purpose by anyone.

The GOP collectively have endorsed and own Trump's debacle in Iran- and own the soaring prices at the pump and global mockery of US failure. The spinelessness of GOP Senators bowing to Trump never ends.

As long as Suozzi keeps winning his primaries, I'd rather he vote with Dems than GOP. But he should recognize that us Democratic Socialists are the majority of the party and he is a guest in OUR party.

If Jewish Congressman and half of NYC Jewish voters said stop defending Israel's genocide, why should Catholic & Protestants in rest of country defend it? Most did so out of respect to Jewish members of party - and that argument ended yesterday. Which is what freaks out the pro-Israel centrists.

Irony here is Tish James got her start blowing up the Democratic Party as the first candidate to run as a third party Working Families Party candidate to defeat a Democratic party nominee in 2003. Mamdani didn't blow up the party, the voters did. Listen to voters or get out of the way.

Suozzi said -"Economic insecurity, climate change and immigrant injustice are all real problems, and alternative solutions must be offered." Meaning moderates have not been offering solutions, just running interference for corporate donors - which is why they lost. www.axios.com/2026/06/24/m...

Reflecting pool is perfect for cutting through all BS since operation is simple enough and problems obvious enough that it's clear that Trump can't manage the simplest tasks - which makes it clearer to people that there is no secret plan just incompetence in his larger scale debacles like Iran.

Biggest mistake Mamdani made was not supporting a primary challenge to Jeffries. I know Mamdani was trying to be pragmatic but it just encourages this bullshit by Jeffries who has complete disdain for the voters who removed his cronies. www.huffpost.com/entry/hakeem...

A sad fact is that it took Trump and Elon committing mass murder for the public to learn some of the great things the Biden administration had been funding Media's indifference to these stories then makes them partially complicit with this mass murder.

Revolt against Dems colluding with fascism extended beyond NYC last night

My overview of last night's political earthquake in New York- and it wasn't limited to the House seats or even just to NYC, but extended downballot and across the state. And leftwing movement was real- but it was even more about demanding DC Dems fight nathannewman.substack.com/p/new-york-d...

Trope out there that Darializa won because of whites voting for her - while ignoring fact that district is 83% non-white. Erasure of black voters is its own brand of racism by the pundit class- particularly agregious given that race-baiting was a big part of the attack on her.

A reminder that Starmer's centrism "won" with fewer votes than Corbyn received in both the elections he led as Labour leader. US Dem leaders emulating UK Labour instead of Mamdani's mobilization of Dem voters are just admitting their goal is serving their corporate donors, not winning elections.

This kind of private dismantling of scientific knowledge in the US parallels the public gutting of our universities. The US dominance of global science is clearly at an end. Future scientific progress will, unfortunately, be in the hands of China's dictatorship.

The triumph of Mamdani-supported left in the US the same week of the humiliation of Starmer's "centrism" in the United Kingdom is pretty symbolic. Sad that so much of DC establishment looked at Starmer and thought, why can't we do more of that?

Lots of bipartisan anger at pro-corporate politicians- as Utah ousts the state Senate leader who rammed through a massive data center.

So Burnham really will be just warmed over Starmerism. Looks like the Greens remain the only progressive alternative to Reform in the UK.

Got to say, Chris Murphy would be an outstanding Senate Majority Leader if Dems take back the Senate

This. Problem for Dems is voters think Jeffries, Schumer and other DC Dems are ineffective and weak. NY decided to send Dems to DC who will fight for their voters, not throw them under the bus.

Yeah, electing Jewish former Comptroller - allied with other winners tonight - shows rabid antisemitism. Broken brains and lies to explain tonight's vote as anti-Jewish. Dems are party of Jews, Muslims, Christians, Blacks, Whites, Latinos, Asians & everyone vs the white racist Christian party.

As a socialist (ex-DSA) colonialist in the district, I will note that whites are only about 17% of NY-13. The real divide has been Harlem African-Americans vs Wash Heights-Bronx Dominicans. So more interesting story is African-American Dominican won the district - scrambling that divide a bit.

Logic here is fascinating- if you support nonviolent protest and this leads dictators to murder people, YOU are the guilty party and responsible for the dictator's murders. Musk exposes his moral depravity even when trying to excuse his mass murder via cutting off USAID food & medicine