David Faris
@davidfaris.bsky.social
Prof. of Politics, writer at @slate.bsky.social, @newsweek.com and @thenation. Author, IT’S TIME TO FIGHT DIRTY. Chicago, in the Medium Bucket. Dad, husband. The alarmists were right. Views are mine alone.
https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/dfaris
https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/dfaris
Do they think they fooled a single person with this bullshit? If anything it makes it —so much worse—that the whole thing was choreographed weeks in advance to hoodwink us. Unbelievable. Burn the whole party to smoking embers.
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Do they think they fooled a single person with this bullshit? If anything it makes it —so much worse—that the whole thing was choreographed weeks in advance to hoodwink us. Unbelievable. Burn the whole party to smoking embers.
Can someone please photoshop Schumer onto Charlie Brown’s body as Lucy is taking the football away
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Can someone please photoshop Schumer onto Charlie Brown’s body as Lucy is taking the football away
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The most demoralizing thing is knowing that we want to save democracy--are in fact working much, much harder at it--than Senate Democrats are or ever will. Genuinely the most fucking hopeless group of people on the planet.
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The most demoralizing thing is knowing that we want to save democracy--are in fact working much, much harder at it--than Senate Democrats are or ever will. Genuinely the most fucking hopeless group of people on the planet.
This is why Democrats are less popular than a case of the shingles. Being a supporter of this party is like loving a sports team that is actively trying to lose. Just incredible stuff.
CNN, CBS, others report that at least 8 Dems have reached a deal to end the shutdown
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This is why Democrats are less popular than a case of the shingles. Being a supporter of this party is like loving a sports team that is actively trying to lose. Just incredible stuff.
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
Paradoxes of parenting: rough day today. Have some kind of nasty chest cold that makes breathing a slog, and there was a half day at kiddo's day care, my wife was out of pocket for an immovable work event. The thing is that even when you are completely knackered, desperate for time to yourself....
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Paradoxes of parenting: rough day today. Have some kind of nasty chest cold that makes breathing a slog, and there was a half day at kiddo's day care, my wife was out of pocket for an immovable work event. The thing is that even when you are completely knackered, desperate for time to yourself....
Republicans would probably be better positioned in a fight over Obamacare subsidies if they had one single idea about improving the health care system that didn’t involve tens of millions of people simply not having health insurance.
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Republicans would probably be better positioned in a fight over Obamacare subsidies if they had one single idea about improving the health care system that didn’t involve tens of millions of people simply not having health insurance.
Is this real? She looks like she’s wearing a Laura Loomer mask to rob banks and go surfing.
laura loomer out here looking like 4 missing persons sewn together
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Is this real? She looks like she’s wearing a Laura Loomer mask to rob banks and go surfing.
So A House of Dynamite has sent me down a leeeetle bit of a nuclear war movie rabbit hole, and I just watched one that I not only had never seen but had never even heard of: an early HBO original movie called "Countdown to Looking Glass" (1984)
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
So A House of Dynamite has sent me down a leeeetle bit of a nuclear war movie rabbit hole, and I just watched one that I not only had never seen but had never even heard of: an early HBO original movie called "Countdown to Looking Glass" (1984)
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if the sandwich hit you must acquit
November 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
if the sandwich hit you must acquit
A good test of whether Republicans actually care whether they will win or lose in 2026--and whether they think they have successfully rigged the outcome--is whether they have ICE stop terrorizing Latino communities sometime in the months before voting starts.
Good summary of why pollsters whiffed in VA and NJ. TLDR: electorate looked like 2017 when pollsters assumed it would look like 2024, plus Latino turnout exploded.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Pollsters Didn’t See the Blue Wave Coming in New Jersey and Virginia
Pollsters say they miscalculated who would show up to vote and a leftward shift by Latino voters.
www.wsj.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A good test of whether Republicans actually care whether they will win or lose in 2026--and whether they think they have successfully rigged the outcome--is whether they have ICE stop terrorizing Latino communities sometime in the months before voting starts.
This landslide is more shocking to me than even the Virginia legislature. Suggests that many, many more people grasp the true nature of the democratic emergency than a year ago and understand that we have to play hardball to keep the republic.
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
This landslide is more shocking to me than even the Virginia legislature. Suggests that many, many more people grasp the true nature of the democratic emergency than a year ago and understand that we have to play hardball to keep the republic.
Thermostat go click click click click.
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Thermostat go click click click click.
Trying to fall asleep but experiencing this weird, unfamiliar feeling that’s keeping me awake.
Happiness? A glimmer of hope?
Happiness? A glimmer of hope?
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Trying to fall asleep but experiencing this weird, unfamiliar feeling that’s keeping me awake.
Happiness? A glimmer of hope?
Happiness? A glimmer of hope?
Perhaps people don’t want to be governed autocratically by the 500 most venal people on Earth after all.
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Perhaps people don’t want to be governed autocratically by the 500 most venal people on Earth after all.
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I actually discussed this with @davidfaris.bsky.social ! It would be… messy slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Time for a Blue-State “Soft Secession”?
Not a full-on breakaway, but, like, taking their tax dollars and going home?
slate.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I actually discussed this with @davidfaris.bsky.social ! It would be… messy slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Was reading Peppa Pig to my two year old and she pointed to a picture of a landline and asked “what’s dat” and I said “that’s a phone” and she laughed and laughed and laughed and said “Oh Daddy” the way she does when she thinks I’m obviously joking or lying.
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Was reading Peppa Pig to my two year old and she pointed to a picture of a landline and asked “what’s dat” and I said “that’s a phone” and she laughed and laughed and laughed and said “Oh Daddy” the way she does when she thinks I’m obviously joking or lying.
Five years ago I thought we were a few coin-flip Senate races from living in a functional country. Today it’s really hard to even envision a path.
November 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Five years ago I thought we were a few coin-flip Senate races from living in a functional country. Today it’s really hard to even envision a path.
Good morning to everyone except whoever is responsible for messing with time twice a year and my children being up at 5:45 a.m.
November 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Good morning to everyone except whoever is responsible for messing with time twice a year and my children being up at 5:45 a.m.
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You do absolutely have to hand it to Yamamoto.
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
You do absolutely have to hand it to Yamamoto.
If I was a Blue Jays fan I'd have to take an entire year off from watching Major League Baseball. Good night.
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
If I was a Blue Jays fan I'd have to take an entire year off from watching Major League Baseball. Good night.
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Fwiw, it’s nice to have a place to chat during a live event. That was one of the things that Twitter was great for. Before the dark times. Before the empire.
November 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Fwiw, it’s nice to have a place to chat during a live event. That was one of the things that Twitter was great for. Before the dark times. Before the empire.
Kind of incredible how badly pinch running has backfired for the Blue Jays in this series.
November 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Kind of incredible how badly pinch running has backfired for the Blue Jays in this series.
Starting to get that "Nate Cohn turning on The Needle" feeling here
November 2, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Starting to get that "Nate Cohn turning on The Needle" feeling here