Join us at the @92ndstreety.bsky.social THIS WEDNESDAY! We couldn't be more excited to sit down with @edwardluce.bsky.social to discuss 'The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski.' 😍 There are still some tickets left, so grab them before they're gone! www.92ny.org/event/mika-b...

“What did they have that eludes their lesser-known heirs today? The answer is that Kissinger & Brzezinski were immigrants. Newcomers often value America’s freedoms more than its native-born and are statistically far likelier to start companies, win Nobel Prizes & launch schools of thought.” ~Ed Luce

Congrats to the Morning Joe team! Morning Joe averages TWICE as many viewers as CNN from 6-10am. More people have watched Morning Joe than CNN for 10 years straight. Morning Joe is the #1 show in DC for all of cable. Thanks for all you do. We are grateful!

Tonight, a Democratic candidate became the first Democrat to win the county in a federal election race since 1992. A simply stunning result. Trump won FL-1 by 37 points. Republicans have easily routed Democrats in Pensacola’s Escambia County for over 30 years. Not tonight.

Wasserman has seen enough. Calls Wisconsin for Susan Crawford.

BOOM

Amy Coney Barrett's writings on the court give the impression of a law professor turned judge who is often exasperated by her fellow conservatives’ shoddy reasoning and corner-cutting.

“There is nothing in the Constitution that requires that the members of the coequal elected branch of government be constrained from offering even the slightest hint of critical advice when they see the President pouring gasoline on our national security and dancing around it with a lighted match.”

“Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies. They are our allies. We should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security and the entire free world. All while cynically waving the American flag.” ~Reagan 11.6.88

“I challenge JD Vance to go to Ukraine and get a briefing from the Ukrainian military and talk to the Ukrainian people. Then tell me what you think.” ~Lindsey Graham, April 2024 thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Murdoch’s New York Post today. #ukraine🇺🇦

David Ignatius on a Just Peace for Ukraine 🇺🇦 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The US has recklessly run up over $30 trillion in debt since 2001. When I left Congress that year, we had 4 consecutive years of balanced budgets and a surplus of $155 Billion. Today? A $36 Trillion debt and $20T more over the next decade. Catastrophic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/b...

The unlikely bond between Jimmy Carter and Jerry Ford is a rare story in the history of the American presidency and all the more unimaginable in today’s polarized environment, but it transcended politics and partisanship. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/u...

November brought a 6% shift nationally towards Trump. But in Wisconsin, it was only 1.5%. At the same time, we reelected Tammy Baldwin to the Senate and flipped 14 state legislative seats. Organizing and communicating year-round matters. We can do this in every state and territory.

“So long ago Was it in a dream? Was it just a dream? I know, yes I know It seemed so very real Seemed so real to me” ~@johnlennon #9dream ❤️

Kash Patel said he'd “come after” journalists in a podcast last year. Now that he's in the running to lead the FBI, the comment is troubling both sides of the aisle and may become a central point of contention if he comes up for Senate confirmation.

Most of Trump's nominees are perfectly normal & deserve confirmation. But some--Hegseth, Gabbard, Patel, RFK, Jr., etc.--are not only dangerous, they'll be bad news for Trump & the GOP. Trump supporters need to stop them. Dems need to do what they can to help. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-senat...

This precisely: “We have to be going to places where voters are hearing only about Democrats from Republicans. If voters hear about Democrats only from Republicans than Democrats are going to lose.” @benwikler.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/u...

8. What I have come to realize, however, is that the fight against the far right is secondary to the fight to strengthen liberal democracy. These are related but fundamentally not the same struggles.

This is where I am, pretty much. (Thread.)

Last time Trump won, Republicans had a huge margin in the house, this time…. Not so much

I am such a believer in this. Down-ballot is the way. It’s also how we build a sustainable future of good leaders and infrastructure to elect and support them, as well as the movements they represent. We don’t just need strong candidates. We need strong organizers, managers, CoS, grassroots, etc.

Gerrymandering in North Carolina gave Republicans the US House majority. While their margin is historically small, and chaos will soon consume Johnson’s GOP Caucus, rigged Republican maps continue tilting the balance of power away from American voters and toward right wing pols. Reform badly needed.

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is scheduled to reopen to the public on Dec. 8 after a fire engulfed it five years ago. Once the doors are reopened, more than 40,000 people are expected daily. Here’s how to plan your visit and what to expect.

In my view, the best book for the history of the Holomodor is “Red Famine” by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Happy Thanksgiving to all in the US. Remember: all of the organizing and outreach we did was not in vain. We carry the knowledge and experience we gained within us, and we will put it to good use in the months and years to come. 💕

What is preventing World War III? Ukrainians are containing the ongoing war in Europe to their own country; they are deterring war in the Pacific; and they are preventing spread of nuclear weapons. These scenarios have not played out because Ukrainians take risks snyder.substack.com/p/a-third-wo...

Bless his heart

Through my activism, I’ve realized it’s organizing, not public protesting, that forces lawmakers to act. So I’m not alarmed that people aren’t in the streets (yet). The most effective resistance isn’t en masse, but underground—and it starts in communities.

815 billionaires hold more wealth than half of American households. If that doesn’t tell you we’re in a second Gilded Age, I don’t know what will.

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change