Congratulations to my friends in New York. Now can we please shift the focus to Chicago? (These items are all from today.)

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

Every member of this administration is truly evil down to their core.

Y'all, I'm asking for help for a member of my community to not be on the street when they've got a job in hand, and need to stay housed so they can start and keep that job. I've seen folks help people with a last minute save, and Briggsy needs one today.

Please help or boost if you're able! One Spirit Lakota is raising funds for the food pantry in anticipation of EBT cards possibly not getting filled for November due to the shutdown. Funds go to feeding residents of Pine Ridge, which already has one of the worst food deserts in the country.

An image of the Trump-Vance presidency smashing a wrecking ball into the White House to build a monument to Dear Leader—during a government shutdown—captures 2025 pretty well

This isn’t the whole story, of course – but if it’s not at the core of your story, you’re on the wrong track. Add “Once democracy made it possible for women to threaten patriarchal domination and for queer people to publicly affirm their identity” – and we’re already very, very close.

if there's an overarching theme of the last decade, (with obvious antecedents in 2009, 2000, 1994, and earlier) it's that one political faction believes governance to be a tool of warfare against their domestic enemies, and the other is surprised they keep getting attacked seemingly out of nowhere.

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for @nymag.com --> nymag.com/intelligence...

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Whatever the accuracy and value of “Democracy Indices”, this is truly remarkable and again shows the striking disconnect between the U.S. legacy media and U.S. political reality.

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

We've said it once, we'll say it again 👉🏽 no one hates DC residents more than Muriel Bowser.

It is remarkably frustrating to me to watch a system break down against a kind of threat its systems were *designed* - reasonably well designed! - to defeat because everyone whose job it is to actually *do* that is busy hiding under their desks hoping against hope someone else will bell the cat.

In Arlington, a church and artist mark sidewalks where ICE tore families apart. These ‘stumbling stickers’ force memory onto public ground—reminders of grief, resistance, and the refusal to let erasure win.

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

i really want everyone to read this because Dems are not going to win by default. new Republicans will run and they’ll say the right things to win. people will get fooled or maybe just agree. Dems need real candidates up and down the ticket or we never escape this mess.

The Sameer Project won’t stop! Their daily water distributions in the Central Gaza area continue. They distributed 24,000 liters of fresh water yesterday, July 26th. Donate: chuffed.org/project/1132...

One of the most obvious winning policy positions is “immigration is good and we should encourage it”

They are doing Defund The Police in reverse: Gutting the social safety net and giving unlimited power to a vast, violent gestapo to deal with the consequences.

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

ICE is abducting US citizens out in the open to provoke a response. They're doing this on purpose to escalate and then play the victim when people protest.

With the acknowledgment that Donald Trump is a gross bully for picking on a teenager, let's save some opprobrium for Gavin Newsom, who when given the chance to stick up for the kid folded faster than Superman on laundry day. www.kcra.com/article/cali...

If you're struggling to understand the dynamics of US politics right now and need a refresher on how the system is supposed to work, Harvard's got your back. For FREE.

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

SHOUT IT FROM THE GODDAMN ROOFTOPS “Millions of potential voters stayed away from the polls because they didn’t believe that Democratic centrism represents a genuine & progressive alternative…If that’s true, then trying again—with an even more centrist approach—is a recipe for yet another failure.”

“well, my neighbor got thrown in a gulag, my kid has measles and the ps6 costs as much as a ford bronco, but i just can’t get past dems refusing to say joe biden was old in 2025” - a voter who definitely exists

In flood of chilling Gaza news, I found this one particularly chilling: the boasting about routinizing the killing of a hundred Gazans a day to the point that you feel you now have a free hand to continue the slaughter because the world has gotten used to it and will look away.

Don’t play with it. Don’t yell at it. That’s feeding it. Literally. Block it.

It is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'

One reason that none of the scandals have ever *quite* stuck to Trump is that media companies have largely not chosen to make them stick. They drop a carefully reported story under an anodyne headline, nobody reads it, everyone shrugs and moves on

The two stages of tech regulation: 1) It is too early, we shouldn’t stifle innovation by regulating this new technology. 2) It is too late, the cat is out of the bag, we shouldn’t waste our time regulating this technology, we just have to learn to live with it. There are no other stages.

1) Gerrymander the districts 2) Pass burdensome restrictions to suppress voters 3) Restrict ballot initiatives so voters can’t use them to undo 1 and 2 or pass progressive policies Republicans have been doing this repeatedly in many states for over a decade now

Obeying internet law and sharing this joy.

you could tell a pretty comprehensive history of America by breaking it down era by era into which group(s) whites decided to hate so much that they unearthed previously unimaginable levels of society-breaking cruelty. the 21st century is defined by anti-Arab bias and Islamaphobia in bone-deep ways

White guy loses interest in performative philanthropy, fucks over 400+ families. Gift link. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Love to see it!

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

Since the prez is posting about farmers, here's what actually happened for farmers under Trump & Biden. Biden didn't do farm bailouts because during his term, farmers actually made money doing their job. What a novel concept! We should try that again!

This is where we're at now. (Also, please go read the full NPR story and consider making a donation. It's longer than usual for them, and is exactly the kind of in-depth reporting we need. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...)

a lesson for every college, law firm, business, etc. — if these chodes demand you do something, your first response should be some form of "make me"

What even is the point of being a massive multinational conglomerate with billions in the bank and armies of lawyers on call if not to throw sand in the gears of the dumb motherfuckers trying to destroy your (and everyone else's) business model?

if you want a more cynical take (many folks seem to): many electeds are selfish, venal people often only dragged kicking & screaming to do the right thing. want an ounce of institutional protection to remain? they need gold stars & sugar cubes. call a more feckless elected. use cory to shame them.

I’ve been sort of idly keeping track of all the points in the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars that arguably apply to the Trump Admin. This is the first four-in-a-row I’ve hit. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

This is it, this is the description I've been looking for.

If your senator said no to fascism today, call them and tell them that you expect them to move for the removal of Schumer as minority leader immediately.

\o/ Always reskeet/reblog the Tom Holland "Umbrella."

"The first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast was Charlie Kirk" is more than enough for me to say "absolutely not" to any suggestion Newsom play any role in the future of the Democratic Party. People like him are the past, the failures, the ones who got us here.