Josh
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Yeah I don’t care if you’re a socialist, a Blue Dog or Bill Kristol, if you’re an enemy of fascism then you’re my ally, and if you care more about your status in the democratic coalition than about beating fascism then you have to go.
Jeffries' camp is making this extremely explicit! They're practically salivating for the blood of the DSA
July 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Yeah I don’t care if you’re a socialist, a Blue Dog or Bill Kristol, if you’re an enemy of fascism then you’re my ally, and if you care more about your status in the democratic coalition than about beating fascism then you have to go.
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Best city in the world, baby!
June 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Best city in the world, baby!
Today I got a flyer in my door for Whitney Tilson (lol) and while I expected it to be dumb I was not ready for how bizarre it is
June 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Today I got a flyer in my door for Whitney Tilson (lol) and while I expected it to be dumb I was not ready for how bizarre it is
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wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests
June 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests
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The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III, and I count at least 15 of them that Donald Trump has also committed in whole or in part.
Particularly notable right now:
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."
Particularly notable right now:
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."
June 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III, and I count at least 15 of them that Donald Trump has also committed in whole or in part.
Particularly notable right now:
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."
Particularly notable right now:
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."
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There’s maybe no better demonstration of how centrism works than a guy tanking any kind of positive agenda and his own personal likability to move from -77 to -76 approval from the center-right party
Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr)
By 2024 vote
Labour: -5 (down 34)
Lib Dem: -13 (down 12)
Conservative: -76 (up 1)
Reform: -94 (down 5)
May 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
There’s maybe no better demonstration of how centrism works than a guy tanking any kind of positive agenda and his own personal likability to move from -77 to -76 approval from the center-right party
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Q: What do Bill Ackman, Anthony Scaramucci, Tanya Zuckerbrot, Randy Levine, Jonathan Kushner, and Geoffrey Berman have in common?
A: They're prominent Trump supporters who are funding Andrew Cuomo's campaign for mayor.
Yikes!
A: They're prominent Trump supporters who are funding Andrew Cuomo's campaign for mayor.
Yikes!
May 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Q: What do Bill Ackman, Anthony Scaramucci, Tanya Zuckerbrot, Randy Levine, Jonathan Kushner, and Geoffrey Berman have in common?
A: They're prominent Trump supporters who are funding Andrew Cuomo's campaign for mayor.
Yikes!
A: They're prominent Trump supporters who are funding Andrew Cuomo's campaign for mayor.
Yikes!
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The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
April 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
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NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
Gotta say I don't feel all that great about one of the biggest names in bioethics donating $500 to the mayoral campaign of one of the most glaringly unethical politicians in recent history
March 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Gotta say I don't feel all that great about one of the biggest names in bioethics donating $500 to the mayoral campaign of one of the most glaringly unethical politicians in recent history
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I’m not going to share the Noem video. But it is a case study in the sort of dehumanization and bigotry that has led to even worse horrors throughout history. We should all be ashamed that this is being done in our name.
March 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I’m not going to share the Noem video. But it is a case study in the sort of dehumanization and bigotry that has led to even worse horrors throughout history. We should all be ashamed that this is being done in our name.
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Jesus this is a kidnapping video of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by plain clothes immigration forces. Remember that Columbia agreed to a "no masks" policy for its fucking students while these thugs keep their faces covered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFI...
Surveillance shows Tufts graduate student detained
YouTube video by WCVB Channel 5 Boston
www.youtube.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Jesus this is a kidnapping video of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by plain clothes immigration forces. Remember that Columbia agreed to a "no masks" policy for its fucking students while these thugs keep their faces covered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFI...
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the constitutional crisis is already here. you're living through it right now. shredding the rule of law and ruling by decree and treating america like it's occupied territory to loot.
When asked if the Administration will comply with court orders on fired federal workers, WH Press Secretary Leavitt says the orders are unconstitutional: You cannot have a low level district court judge filing an injunction to usurp the executive authority of the President…
March 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
the constitutional crisis is already here. you're living through it right now. shredding the rule of law and ruling by decree and treating america like it's occupied territory to loot.
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Adriano Espaillat, who represents both me and Mahmoud Kahlil and whose entire political brand is built on fighting for immigrants' rights, has yet to publicly comment on the illegal detention and threatened deportation of a green card holder from his district. Instead he is posting about this.
Great news! ✈ Today, in my district, we celebrated the impact of the Open Skies agreement with the announcement of a new direct air route for consumers traveling from Newark to Santo Domingo.
Thank you to everyone who made today’s announcement possible.
Thank you to everyone who made today’s announcement possible.
March 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Adriano Espaillat, who represents both me and Mahmoud Kahlil and whose entire political brand is built on fighting for immigrants' rights, has yet to publicly comment on the illegal detention and threatened deportation of a green card holder from his district. Instead he is posting about this.
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NEW: NYPD data shows that, in the months before Debrina Kawam was set on fire at the Coney Island-Stillwell Ave. station, nearly ⅔ of calls about NYers suffering from mental illness there were closed out seconds after they were assigned to a police unit.
From @ndhapple.bsky.social
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Investigation: NYPD Nixed Thousands of Calls at Coney Island Station Before Horrifying Fire Attack - Streetsblog New York City
Nearly two-thirds of calls from the station were closed out just seconds after they were assigned to a police unit, evidence that nothing is being done to help troubled people like Debrina Kawam.
buff.ly
March 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
NEW: NYPD data shows that, in the months before Debrina Kawam was set on fire at the Coney Island-Stillwell Ave. station, nearly ⅔ of calls about NYers suffering from mental illness there were closed out seconds after they were assigned to a police unit.
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nothing but respect for my chairman 🫡
February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
nothing but respect for my chairman 🫡
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when Germany calls our government out for promoting Nazism, take them literally and seriously
meanwhile, in the foreign affairs department (www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...)
February 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
when Germany calls our government out for promoting Nazism, take them literally and seriously
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they just lied
they lied, and they lied, and they lied, and they won because of it and now they're claiming they had a mandate to do all of the things they lied about not doing and many more besides
the press bears an enormous amount of responsibility for all of this
they lied, and they lied, and they lied, and they won because of it and now they're claiming they had a mandate to do all of the things they lied about not doing and many more besides
the press bears an enormous amount of responsibility for all of this
This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration.
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵
Trump team preps list of banned staffers
The names include conservatives linked to Project 2025 and Republicans viewed as disloyal to the former president.
www.politico.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
they just lied
they lied, and they lied, and they lied, and they won because of it and now they're claiming they had a mandate to do all of the things they lied about not doing and many more besides
the press bears an enormous amount of responsibility for all of this
they lied, and they lied, and they lied, and they won because of it and now they're claiming they had a mandate to do all of the things they lied about not doing and many more besides
the press bears an enormous amount of responsibility for all of this
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I keep thinking how lucky it is that Elon Musk isn't Jewish. Then it might look weird that a foreign billionaire spent $1B to elect a president in exchange for the authority to steal your social security information and cancel congressional grants for children's healthcare
February 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I keep thinking how lucky it is that Elon Musk isn't Jewish. Then it might look weird that a foreign billionaire spent $1B to elect a president in exchange for the authority to steal your social security information and cancel congressional grants for children's healthcare
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So just to be clear these Paramount Executives are discussing paying money to the incoming president of the united states with the specific intention of influencing an official action of the government?
Holy cow. Executives at CBS’s parent company have discussed settling Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News/60 Minutes, because they need the Trump administration to sign off on a planned corporate merger. www.wsj.com/business/med...
January 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
So just to be clear these Paramount Executives are discussing paying money to the incoming president of the united states with the specific intention of influencing an official action of the government?
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The amount of stupid on social media right now is depressing. The billionaire Resnicks own a lot of land and a lot of water rights. They do not, contrary to a lot of the stupid, "own all California's water" or have anything to do with the L.A. fires.
January 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The amount of stupid on social media right now is depressing. The billionaire Resnicks own a lot of land and a lot of water rights. They do not, contrary to a lot of the stupid, "own all California's water" or have anything to do with the L.A. fires.
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I wrote about Car Brain, the people who cannot calm down about NYC's new congestion pricing toll, and the media that exists to make sure they never calm down about anything. defector.com/democracy-di...
Democracy Dies As Awful Man No Longer Able To Freely Drive 18 Blocks In Manhattan | Defector
It is not very difficult to learn true and useful things about the new congestion pricing toll system that New York City switched on last weekend, but it is much easier to learn untrue things about it...
defector.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I wrote about Car Brain, the people who cannot calm down about NYC's new congestion pricing toll, and the media that exists to make sure they never calm down about anything. defector.com/democracy-di...