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If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.
I don't know what Mr. Grunstein's health insurance situation is, but the current legislative fight is a policy fight, and a lot of us have real skin in the game! You have to be able to both articulate a vision and fight for policy -- when the rubber meets the road, they're the same damn thing.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
Elementary school music class, 1977. We're playing hangman, whoever guesses the song title takes their turn at the chalkboard with a new song. I get one right, then go to the front of the class and begin drawing out the spaces for the next title. (1/x)
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Elementary school music class, 1977. We're playing hangman, whoever guesses the song title takes their turn at the chalkboard with a new song. I get one right, then go to the front of the class and begin drawing out the spaces for the next title. (1/x)
I just don't get it, I truly don't.
@ossoff.senate.gov If you cave I will be bitterly, bitterly disappointed and angry. Also broke. Where is the support for actual small businesspeople, the kind politicians always blow smoke about protecting?
I'm one of the 20 million, and it was to my immense surprise a few weeks ago when the Dem strategy of prioritizing protecting the subsidies was met here with widespread derision that doing so was overly wonky and out of touch, so....
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I just don't get it, I truly don't.
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Help me call Ossoff. I can feed my neighbor, I can’t pay their cancer care alone.
(And if he folds I swear I will primary the man myself if I must)
(And if he folds I swear I will primary the man myself if I must)
So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader
Call them:
Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542
Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224
King (ME)
202 224-5344
Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324
Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451
Masto (NV)
202 224-3542
Warner (VA)
202 224-2023
Fetterman (PA)
No Point
Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542
Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224
King (ME)
202 224-5344
Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324
Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451
Masto (NV)
202 224-3542
Warner (VA)
202 224-2023
Fetterman (PA)
No Point
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Help me call Ossoff. I can feed my neighbor, I can’t pay their cancer care alone.
(And if he folds I swear I will primary the man myself if I must)
(And if he folds I swear I will primary the man myself if I must)
@warnock.senate.gov go talk some sense to @ossoff.senate.gov , the fix is fixin' to be in.
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
@warnock.senate.gov go talk some sense to @ossoff.senate.gov , the fix is fixin' to be in.
@ossoff.senate.gov If you cave I will be bitterly, bitterly disappointed and angry. Also broke. Where is the support for actual small businesspeople, the kind politicians always blow smoke about protecting?
I'm one of the 20 million, and it was to my immense surprise a few weeks ago when the Dem strategy of prioritizing protecting the subsidies was met here with widespread derision that doing so was overly wonky and out of touch, so....
Republicans are explicitly saying they will deny food to 40+ million unless Democrats agree to end healthcare insurance for 20+ million.
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
@ossoff.senate.gov If you cave I will be bitterly, bitterly disappointed and angry. Also broke. Where is the support for actual small businesspeople, the kind politicians always blow smoke about protecting?
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A thread about an incident from last weekend that I'll call "Lucky I'm a White Guy (Chapter 7,412)"
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A thread about an incident from last weekend that I'll call "Lucky I'm a White Guy (Chapter 7,412)"
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
A thread about an incident from last weekend that I'll call "Lucky I'm a White Guy (Chapter 7,412)"
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
A thread about an incident from last weekend that I'll call "Lucky I'm a White Guy (Chapter 7,412)"
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
I took a car trip last week to some cities I'd either never visited or spent much time in (the epic trail from my Decatur, GA home -- Montgomery, Biloxi, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, then back home)
If your Edgerton's Joel
The fun will be total
If your Egerton's Taron
You'd best bewarin'
The fun will be total
If your Egerton's Taron
You'd best bewarin'
November 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If your Edgerton's Joel
The fun will be total
If your Egerton's Taron
You'd best bewarin'
The fun will be total
If your Egerton's Taron
You'd best bewarin'
The women who have been my superiors were all mission-focused, never bullshitted, and gave no indication they were amenable to gladhanding. That meant I knew my job performance was all that mattered. "Workplace" here seems code to me for all that other stuff.
as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The women who have been my superiors were all mission-focused, never bullshitted, and gave no indication they were amenable to gladhanding. That meant I knew my job performance was all that mattered. "Workplace" here seems code to me for all that other stuff.
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Tim Echols lost reelection for Georgia Public Service Commission because voters think he works for the power company instead of the public. He just sent an email to his supporters saying he’s going to go on vacation for the remainder of his term. Public service indeed.
Shoutout to @tiamitchell.com for flagging this email from the now out-going, veteran Georgia utility regulator Tim Echols, who announced in an email he is leaving the Public Service Commission immediately and taking a sabbatical
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Tim Echols lost reelection for Georgia Public Service Commission because voters think he works for the power company instead of the public. He just sent an email to his supporters saying he’s going to go on vacation for the remainder of his term. Public service indeed.
Atlantic never not gonna Atlantic
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Atlantic never not gonna Atlantic
IOW it's okay to keep talking about health care subsidies, folks.
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
IOW it's okay to keep talking about health care subsidies, folks.
I take it as a positive sign regarding the general attitude towards voting that, in a precinct where the only races were for two public service commission seats, there was an hourlong wait to vote earlier today (which I found out when I returned to a shorter line just now 😉).
November 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I take it as a positive sign regarding the general attitude towards voting that, in a precinct where the only races were for two public service commission seats, there was an hourlong wait to vote earlier today (which I found out when I returned to a shorter line just now 😉).
The three principal ghouls in our living history in the U.S. have been Kissinger, Cheney, and Miller. We failed to hold the first two to account in their lifetimes -- indeed, we declined to even try. Hope we don't make the same mistake again.
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The three principal ghouls in our living history in the U.S. have been Kissinger, Cheney, and Miller. We failed to hold the first two to account in their lifetimes -- indeed, we declined to even try. Hope we don't make the same mistake again.
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St. Peter at the Pearly Gates: Did you live by the Ten Commandments?
Mike Johnson: I have no idea. I have not seen those
Mike Johnson: I have no idea. I have not seen those
November 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
St. Peter at the Pearly Gates: Did you live by the Ten Commandments?
Mike Johnson: I have no idea. I have not seen those
Mike Johnson: I have no idea. I have not seen those
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Atlanta Community Food Bank just pulled $5 million from its reserve fund to feed people being denied benefits by Trump. Every gift helps. $1 = 3 meals.
Food and Fund Drives 2025
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November 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Atlanta Community Food Bank just pulled $5 million from its reserve fund to feed people being denied benefits by Trump. Every gift helps. $1 = 3 meals.
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We're still doing this "ignore policy" thing? Not everybody's head explodes when they hear the word "subsidy", particularly those of us who are high-information and who receive the subsidy. We want to hear its protection being fought for.
November 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
We're still doing this "ignore policy" thing? Not everybody's head explodes when they hear the word "subsidy", particularly those of us who are high-information and who receive the subsidy. We want to hear its protection being fought for.
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"Setting aside policy for now" is a precursor to us finding out later what bedrock Democratic planks they've chosen to abandon. I am an ACA subsidy recipient and want to hear it being defended.
November 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"Setting aside policy for now" is a precursor to us finding out later what bedrock Democratic planks they've chosen to abandon. I am an ACA subsidy recipient and want to hear it being defended.
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I don't know what Mr. Grunstein's health insurance situation is, but the current legislative fight is a policy fight, and a lot of us have real skin in the game! You have to be able to both articulate a vision and fight for policy -- when the rubber meets the road, they're the same damn thing.
If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.
November 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I don't know what Mr. Grunstein's health insurance situation is, but the current legislative fight is a policy fight, and a lot of us have real skin in the game! You have to be able to both articulate a vision and fight for policy -- when the rubber meets the road, they're the same damn thing.
I don't know what Mr. Grunstein's health insurance situation is, but the current legislative fight is a policy fight, and a lot of us have real skin in the game! You have to be able to both articulate a vision and fight for policy -- when the rubber meets the road, they're the same damn thing.
If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.
November 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I don't know what Mr. Grunstein's health insurance situation is, but the current legislative fight is a policy fight, and a lot of us have real skin in the game! You have to be able to both articulate a vision and fight for policy -- when the rubber meets the road, they're the same damn thing.
It really says something that a room designed for silent contemplation was torn down to erect a monument to bullshit peacocking.
The destruction of the White House movie theater leads me to offer everyone 50% off Mark Feeney’s book Nixon at the Movies, which, among other things, includes an appendix listing the hundreds of movies Nixon watched in office. Use the code WHITEHOUSE at checkout.
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Nixon at the Movies
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November 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It really says something that a room designed for silent contemplation was torn down to erect a monument to bullshit peacocking.
First time in New Orleans. All my life people have said I'd love it here, but as an introvert who has had to learn to live efficiently (so I could become self-reliant without living a shabby life), let's say I've had reservations. And, brother, are they being borne out...but I'm loving it anyway. 🤪
November 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
First time in New Orleans. All my life people have said I'd love it here, but as an introvert who has had to learn to live efficiently (so I could become self-reliant without living a shabby life), let's say I've had reservations. And, brother, are they being borne out...but I'm loving it anyway. 🤪
Dario Argento's Deep Red (Profondo Rosso), to be live scored by Claudio Simonetti's Goblin, Paramount Theater, Austin TX. Creepy synths soon to commence!
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Dario Argento's Deep Red (Profondo Rosso), to be live scored by Claudio Simonetti's Goblin, Paramount Theater, Austin TX. Creepy synths soon to commence!
Brisket at Terry Black's, Austin, TX. From here to the Alamo Drafthouse for a Jafar Panahi matinee, as one does.
October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Brisket at Terry Black's, Austin, TX. From here to the Alamo Drafthouse for a Jafar Panahi matinee, as one does.