China didn’t take it. America gave it away.
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China didn’t take it. America gave it away.
Every time Trump brought up Biden’s age, I was like “dude, you’re just three years younger”. I don’t know why anyone didn’t say this. It wasn’t like there was some kind of generational gap between them.
Mark is right, although I confess I am a hypocrite here, for I wholly support the "remigration" of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. They have failed to assimilate to our cultural norms and instead have tried to impose their foreign backwards ways upon us, and so must be removed to protect our heritage.
you have every right and I am glad you are taking care of yourself….thank you for your excellent reporting!
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender, total of 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender, total of more than 4,000. Transgender folks are 1.0% of the population and they make up less than 0.1% of the mass shooters.
well whip counts etc is important! but fully agree not what the moment is calling for
What he said. Don’t be this dude
No big whoop, just Donald Trump pissing away three decades of U.S. diplomacy due to a fit of personal pique. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
Wow. I want every university counsel who is thinking about cowering before the Trump Administration’s threats, to read this and understand the caliber of attorney that has you shaking in your books. Yet another player in Trump’s army of incompetent thugs. www.propublica.org/article/leo-...
it is encouraging to see states asserting power against arbitrary and dangerous exertions of federal executive power rather than tying themselves up in knots trying to game out the consequences
i really admire Jeffries but he has the wrong skill set for this particular moment
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
lol they get less brutally honest when they are older
berniedoodle? adorable
I’m serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trump’s first tariff blunder. It’s so irresponsible to ignore this.
He wants the Nobel Prize for one reason: He can’t stand the fact that Obama, the black President who humiliated him during the 2011 White House Correspondent’s Dinner, has one. And he doesn’t.
To put it another way: The Trump administration is doing to VA what they did to the CDC
www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
Stopped at a Midas repair shop today and the guy there brought up the CDC. This is an example where raising the salience of what is going on really can break through the noise.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
And that gets at a larger point. Competitive authoritarian regimes benefit from reduced social trust — which is why they actively try to destroy it.
Elsewhere, a less egregious version of this kind of activity has been referred to as "mortgage fraud".
this turns out to be a fake post (regrettably!)
There is a point in life when you realize that the future belongs to younger people than yourself, and your job is to assist them.
I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
JD Vance: “Trump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.” { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
JD Vance: “I don’t believe Trump” will improve the lives of his voters. { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
I have a dim memory of a precedent for this…..During the oil crisis in the 70s some local businesses listed a base price and then a second price that showed the cost of oil….it communicated clearly to consumers what was responsible for the increased price.
these are so fantastic
I know it's illegal on here to notice that our leaders are actually fighting back in the job we actually elected them to do, but here's the Wall Street Journal bitching about Schumer's "historic" delaying tactics that have left almost 90% of Trump appointee slots empty. archive.ph/2025.08.27-0...
Tesla lied www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
call these death panels presided over by AI.
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
...after detaining three entire crews for several hours, because they included Native Americans from three tribes. The racism and white supremacy. It burns.
That… is the entire point of the Federal Reserve.
“.. if, God forbid, there's a terrible tragedy, I can't think of better on-the-job training than what I've gotten over the last 200 days,” he added. @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
bruce springstein on the lawn of Swarthmore College, free concert. Right before he took off.
The replies here are building up a lot of promises to Venmo cash to any reporter who will actually ask this question, so if you're looking for a quick buck *and* a boost of fame, take your shot!
“The federal government plans to hire private companies to use artificial intelligence to determine whether patients would be covered for some procedures” Death panels run by AI. Seems bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.
This is the peak Axios AI story. Workers are getting stressed because they’re under pressure to find something useful to do with AI. If they don’t investors will have bought into a bubble. Why do workers hate investors?
You can believe plenty in prayer and still find it utterly lacking as a concrete public policy response from an elected leader. If Biden had asked people to pray for inflation to cool off, what would these exact same people have said?
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
In a world of Harvard Crimson editorial boards, be a Tina Smith.
I'm sorry, the justification to wear masks is... because that's what criminals do?? Did he hear himself saying that?
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Wtf!?!?!?! The audible scream i just let out. thehill.com/policy/defen...
The right believes transgenderism must be “eradicated from public life.” That’s not what most Americans believe. This is why, as a former right-wing culture war warrior, I push my fellow Democrats to FIGHT the right on this culture war issue. Don’t stay quiet. FIGHT. Most Americans stand with you.👇
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Few doctors have wreaked as much medical havoc as Bill Cassidy, the senator who overcame his initial, well-founded concerns to pave the way for RFK’s HHS confirmation
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
So to recap: AI consumes huge amounts of resources, distorts the economy, steals people's intellectual property - after all of which, it still can't deliver right answers much of the time.
Trump is threatening to deploy military troops to Chicago & NYC. DC is a dry run for martial law and a warning shot for Trump’s real mission: to take full control of our country. He’s going after all Democratic-run cities. Crime is coming down in NY. We don’t want the National Guard.
An affront to the Constitution and everything it stands for. We should impeach him for treason, convict him for treason, and the impose whatever penalty the founders of this country would deem fit for traitors
This was not true until John Roberts made it true.
Missouri Republican Rep. Mark Alford: "I do not think that we should be sending National Guard into other cities unless the governor, unless the governor [asks],” he said. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
One of the most damaging left-wing beliefs, shared by many liberals, progressives, and socialists, is that politics is primarily, perhaps exclusively, about material circumstances and distribution. Damaging because, when met with a bigotry first movement, they thought material benefits would fix it.
same scenario here
www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-a...
Make America China?
Me, April 24: 16 House Dems Ask Law Firms that Capitulated to Trump If They've Thought about Their Bribery Exposure Brian Beutler four months later: Why can't Dems pressure law firms that capitulated? [Note: The Dem effort--and this wasn't the end of it or coverage of it--had a postitive effect]
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If your choice is the messaging of @jbpritzker.bsky.social or the messaging of David Shor, there really should be only one option Can someone send the Pritzker speech to Dem leaders and their not-so-savvy strategists?
I really think we should not overlook the fact that a very senior member of Trump's cabinet and one of the country's top law enforcement officials sees fit to claim as uncontested fact that Abrego Garcia is guilty of multiple horrific crimes that he hasn't even been tried for, let alone convicted of
Bcuz he lies as he breathes, bcuz he lies a thousand times every day, and bcuz he’s been doing this forever, the media no longer calls him out on his lies. They stopped doing that a long time ago. Shame on the media. They’ve normalized his lying. They’ve let him destroy truth.
It's not about whether Democrats are left or centrist or young or old, it is about whether they are willing and able to fight, to motivate and mobilize Americans to stand up to Trump and MAGA and whether they can help us defeat them.
CNBC: So we should expect the US government to be taking more equity stakes in businesses around the country? KEVIN HASSETT: It's possible, yeah. That's absolutely right.
here are some ideas for the peace prize: Indivisible; Afghan Alliance; ACLU
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
Comparing 2024 and 2016, Trump: - Lost 5 points in margin among white voters. - Gained 8 points in margin among black voters. - Gained 33 points in margin among Latino voters. - Gained 33 points in margin among Asian voters.
these people are so tiresome.
Donald Trump lies as he breathes. So…yes.👇
People do not encounter words in a vacuum, they receive them from political figures about whom they have pre-existing beliefs, something that strongly colors their reaction. The same message can be cringe or convincing depending on who says it!
People responding to this with "Not worth speculating about" are driving me a little insane, because I lived through the last year of the Biden presidency and read thousands of people speculating he maybe had dementia, Parkinson's, was a vegetable, including in the most elite newsrooms in the US
I honestly don't understand why this is a good response (which it is!) And Jeffries nearly identical message this morning is being widely criticized as "inadequate"...
Obv you don't know much about him...why not inform yourself?
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
On a personal level, I've already made this transition. When I look for leadership, I immediately look to see what Pritzker, Walz, Beshear, Wu, Mamdani, etc., are saying before anyone in Congress. More Democrats should do the same until Schumer and Jeffries are gone.
The fear of “selling out” that my generation had its group-think poseur elements of course, but our culture has traded that in for a belief that selling out is the highest, best goal and it is so fucked.
how is this a response to my point about Dana’s stupid question?
everyone is dunking on Jeffries here but this is in response to an idiotic question from Dana i.e. don’t Democrats care AT ALL about crime?
everyone is dunking on Jeffries here but this is in response to an idiotic question from Dana i.e. don’t Democrats care AT ALL about crime?
I really enjoyed this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social pod about Covid & MAHA, but one thing it repeatedly revealed is a habit of liberals that drives me crazy. A short 🧵.
I’m walking past humvees in the the nation’s capital, seeing viral images of Black and brown people being disappeared by masked agents in broad daylight, and Trump is saying law enforcement should “knock the hell out of” them. But the trending debate is over words Dems shouldn’t say. I hate it here.
context is everything in language. These words can sound contrived and inauthentic, they can be used as a cudgel, or used to impose rigid purity tests. They can sound ridiculous and arch. They can also be essential and precise. Why are we having this debate in such a black-and-white way?
I find this whole argument very black-and-white. These words are essential for the reasons you say. They can also be overused or used as cudgels for purity tests.. They can sound very contrived and inauthentic, for which most people have a good ear. Context is everything in language.