The lack of ego Rep. Nadler is showing is a perfect example of putting service before self. This deserves so many props and respect. Thank you, @nadler.house.gov.
The lack of ego Rep. Nadler is showing is a perfect example of putting service before self. This deserves so many props and respect. Thank you, @nadler.house.gov.
I've been filling in at Blog for Iowa this week. Here is today's post. “The average Iowan will spend 39% less on electricity than the average American because it produces 57 percent of its electricity from the wind, the second-biggest wind state in the country.” blogforiowa.com/2025/08/29/e...
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
the harsh realization that every single administration hire is one of the shittiest unqualified mediocre people in the world
I don't know exactly what to do with this insight but this thread is too long anyway and I'm tweeting too much today anyway and I should probably just eat lunch and walk the dog.
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
I'm in a miniatures painting group, mostly Americans complaining about customs/duty/tariffs that they never had before. A person who didn't vote in November because "he's a one issue voter" is complaining about his bill, someone explained it, and he said "so everyone on social media was right???"
Actual human communication is dramatically more complicated that. Democrats have, without exaggeration, driven American democracy into a wall by outsourcing their brains to this class of hucksters, who pretend to insight but who have never successfully changed the public narrative on anything.
Still waiting for someone of prominence to admit it was not about eggs.
A middle school I interact with is in a state with a school cellphone ban and y’all everybody in there is relieved. EVERYBODY. The kids, the teachers, the janitors. They are so relieved. Nobody is really uptight about it…except some parents.
Tomorrow in the New York Times: Was Ghislaine Maxwell Credible When She Said That Donald Trump Never Did Anything Wrong? We Asked Woody Allen
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
I love this. It's crazy, pretty much everyone I know, everyone I've ever talked to about it, craves some sort of more communal living. *Everyone.* And yet the US offers almost no models -- you have to build it from the ground up.
Is this just me? It seems like such a vibe shift, from tech being the cutting edge exciting thing to tech being basically an industry run by the world's worst people, producing pestersome, enshittified products people don't want. Night & day from 20 years ago.
just can not shake the feeling that democratic leadership really believes they are just a couple votes away from the halcyon times of enjoying senate softball and seersucker suit day
Same
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"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.
Folks who know me know I’m no normalizer. I pub’d a book in ‘23 arguing we were already in a “slow civil war.” It’s really speeding up. All is at risk. *And* it remains unlikely, *&* political & social organizing is how we keep it that way. (The “bring it on” crowd are… not wise.)
Mark Zuckerberg has spent $110M to buy 11 houses in one Palo Alto neighborhood. He's turning the homes into a compound. That's on top of his 30 bedroom, 30 bathroom compound in Hawaii and another in Lake Tahoe. I don’t want to hear that billionaires can’t afford a wealth tax.
I’m gonna say armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches — or maybe one exchange of gunfire — short of a civil war’s opening stages.
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Drives me nuts. In 2005, okay fine. In 2025 we know how this works, we know what happens when we don’t have the financial support for libraries and journalism. Why are we still yelling at people for not sending you a personal cut and paste of every article??
Basically every mainstream news outlet has demonstrated, through their actions, that they disagree. But not a single one of them has publicly acknowledged or defended their judgment.
This.
Spot on.
You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again. — Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Bless these Alaskans!
Minnesota just ranked in the top 5 best states to live. By investing in the things that matter - economic opportunity, health and safety, kids and families – we’re focusing on improving people’s lives.
The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.
"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
I cannot believe this is the White House.
The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend. This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending. Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared
God everything sucks. This is what happens when tech bros use capital to dictate the means of creating culutre instead of facilitating it. This dudes don't have ideas about community or humanity in a way that actually facilities community and humanity.
It's funny how we say "a bug hit my windshield" when we are the ones going 70mph. I'll bet the bug's family describes it differently.
Serious question: Who in the world needs corporate Democrats backed by Big Money when there's a Republican Party?
🚨 🚨 NEW Whiteboard on Winning Democracy in the Long Term Who would ever use big money to prioritize statehouses? Um…the Koch Brothers, that’s who. It’s called ALEC and it’s why they’ve been winning. We must do the same. WATCH and RT 1/
Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome. Love, Allison
NEW: We now know what Bove lied to Congress about according to the 3rd whistleblower. He lied when he said he didn’t offer promotions for DoJ lawyers who helped him dismiss the Eric Adams case and consequences for those who didn’t. There is audio evidence. Gift link: wapo.st/4fdVVmX
Republicans hate me because I fight hard and I refuse to be held back by norms and rules that the GOP ignore. If Republicans try to gerrymander another 5 seats in Texas, Democrats should gerrymander 30 more seats in states they control.
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated
What a sick-ass archive pull.
94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet. The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year. Something has gone terribly wrong.
I think I deserve to know whether the President of my country raped children. Don’t think that’s a huge ask.
“No-Cuomo voters made up 70% of fully completed ballots.” ✊✊✊ gothamist.com/news/how-did...
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
It’s been 16 years since Congress raised the minimum wage. Meanwhile, folks are out here trying to survive on $7.25 an hour. In this economy?! I’m standing with my Labor Caucus colleagues to #RaiseTheWage, because $7.25 ain’t cutting it.
Jesus is like “keep my name out cha mouth” 😄
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
News of Osbourne's death comes weeks after the he reunited with his original Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, for a triumphant final show.
It’s painfully obvious now: this administration is waging a long, drawn-out war on anyone who’s ever read a book without illustrations. The fact that we’re still getting up and going to work each day feels like a small miracle. The mental exhaustion isn’t a side effect—it’s the strategy.
Every two or four years we fight over the menu, but the oligarchs already own the restaurant. You’ll need to zoom in.
With the latest Congressional funding clawbacks, Public Media, NPR, PBS will lose up to 15% of their operating budgets. For $5/month, you can get PBS Passport & access to pbs.org libraries, & help them heal the wounds. #STOPtheCUTS-HEALtheWOUNDS #RESIST through #PeacefulProtest #EveryEffortCounts
Having just spent a few months reading accounts of CBS’ grotesque cowardice during the 1950s McCarthy-era blacklist, it’s nice to see that The Tiffany Network respects its traditions
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.
Stephen Miller: "Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity." Leaked video shows the current White House Chief of Staff at 17, describing the torture of iraqis in gruesome detail as the group erupts in laughter.
This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.
SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS!
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The paid MAGA shills are trying very hard to keep the gravy train on the tracks, but actual MAGA voters are pissed at becoming the party of pedophile protection. Turns out there *was* a bridge too far. How about that.
It’s shocking to me that amidst all of the misrule, corruption and horror that surrounds us, a sizable plurality of America is still more comfortable with full-bore fascism than a light dollop of Scandinavian-style socialism
I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on, the President of the United States even joking about revoking someone’s citizenship should be met with universal condemnation.
Funny Mamdani thing, regarding the anti-Mamdani fundraiser: Just saw multiple people on Threads saying “I now understand what is meant by Corporate Dems” and “oh so this is what happened with Bernie Sanders, I get it now.”
This isn’t about “youth.” Its about breaking the establishment dogma that is holding the party hostage. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law. A new generation that gives meaning to the “we” in “we the people.” Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future.
My sense is that the 22 agencies that were combined into the new Department of Homeland Security in 2002 generally functioned better before the combination. Isn't it worth seriously considering whether it's time to do away with DHS and disperse its various functions back to DOJ, Treasury, etc?
I really wanna shake people until they understand that if you want the entire country to take labor actions you need them to actually be organized You cannot get the entire country to go on a general strike by posting online. You need unions. A lot of them.
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
It’s the 4th of July and every channel is showing ‘Independence Day’ on a loop when they should be showing ‘Idiocracy.’
Susan Collins has voted 3 times TODAY to strip health care from Mainers. When given the chance to protect Medicaid and affordable health care for Mainers, she sided with her party instead.
Lindsey Graham just said that Jesus wants a 10% taxation rate. This Jesus fellow is wild
2.977 people died on 9/11. The daily quote for ICE is 3000. I think putting it in terms like that puts it into perspective. They want one 9/11 every day.
Just caught a clip of parliament where a Liberal MP and the speaker told Leah Gazan to retract a statement saying the government was acting very colonial because it wasn’t “parliamentary language”. Telling an Indigenous MP not to use the word colonial… is pretty colonial.
Orange Daddy gonna be big mad.
NOT A SINGLE SENATOR should vote to confirm Emil Bove for the 3d Circuit Court of Appeals. (Fixed It!)
Met someone today who told me he ranked Cuomo and was taken aback that my immediate response was “oh so you could forgive the sexual assault then?” If you’re gonna cast the vote, own up to it!
You know who else isn’t living safely with their family?
What to take away from the Mamdani win: voters want decent, genuine people who are committed to working to better the lives of constituents. They'll get over the scary buzzwords if you give them some hope.
Preaching to the choir, but it's clear we have an endemic of underqualified white men who overestimate their intelligence, importance, and competence in positions they have no business being in. DEI was just an attempt to correct that by having qualified individuals ALSO from other walks of life.
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
And likely some of them employers too:)
The members of Congress who have traded Palantir stock in the last few months are: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.)2 Rep. Julie Johnson (D-Texas)3 Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) Rep. Gil Cisneros (D-Calif.) Rep. Jefferson Shreve (R-Ind.)4
Folks can argue about the relevancy of the “Democratic socialist” label all day. But if that’s what you’re hung up on, you’re missing the larger point. People aren’t chasing labels. They’re chasing change. Real, structural, unapologetic change. 🧵
Five Ways the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Could Make It More Difficult to Get Health Insurance in N.C. #ncpol www.theassemblync.com/politics/leg...
Whenever I see Dems claim they are out of power, there’s nothing they can do, I think of Brad Lander and how he escorted people to court while being comptroller and running for mayor. Do something or get the f out of the way so there can be more Brad Landers.
A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.
Maybe the tweeting didn’t help?
We were very happy to give this scoop to @marisakabas.bsky.social's The Handbasket because it is important to support independent journalists who are doing the hard work at this time. Giving this story to Marisa also guarantees it will be in The Washington Post verbatim exactly 48 hours later.
Given this administration’s actions in the Eric Adams case, it would seem to me that New Yorkers would want a mayor that’s not corruptible. I am not a New Yorker, but if I were, I would not rank Cuomo.