After today there is no good reason for Cong Dems to show up for Trump's speech this Tuesday. They are not going to get anything out of it.

Yet Dems are disorganized re what to do bc of unclear/uninspiring leadership from Schumer and Jeffries.

Dems are leaderless.
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Keep it up. He should not know peace until he gets his act together or resigns leadership. archive.is/Rv504

republicans immediately blamed the fire on democratic environmental policy and leadership. democrats have not said anything about the fire's connection to years of gop climate denialism. this is kind of a fundamental difference to how both sides approach politics.

Excellent overview of where Dems need to go next.

Ben Wikler is a great choice for DNC chair. Known him for 25 years, and he is a genuine, life-long progressive.

100%. It's a simple, elegant plan for Elon and his cronies:

Step 1: gut the federal workforce

Step 2: secure a zillion dollars in extra contracts to perform all the functions you just gutted at a massive markup

The thing that keeps getting me about all the pieces fretting about Bluesky being too insular is that the argument seems to be that those of us who are most likely to be abused by the right (BIPOC people, trans people, queer people, etc) must put up with being abused for the sake of public discourse

If any assignment editors are reading -- I bet a full accounting of all the financial support Elon Musk and his companies received from the federal government would make for great reading when he inevitably tells all the poors they have to start making sacrifices.

Still can’t get over how many people on the right voluntarily went to bat for Matt Gaetz despite allegations of sex trafficking of a minor. Not only was it for nothing since the AG nomination failed… but now you’re forever on record advocating for an alleged statutory rapist.

Not seen in NYT's "what to know" about Pam Bondi: the only thing you need to know, that she fired prosecutors in her office who were investigating companies engaged in foreclosure fraud, after receiving thousands of dollars in donations from those companies.

My new second-favorite Scalzi aphorism: "Your internship gives class credit? Fuck you. Pay your interns."

I keep thinking about those congresspeople kneeling in the rotunda wearing kente cloth scarves, very performative. There has been no loud, visible, unified support for Sarah McBride from the democrats. It’s a real disgrace. That is your colleague! They are bullying her in your faces. And silence!

The ironic thing about post election chatter is that a lot of the time it’s candidates who lost, underperformed, or underworked who have endless time to go on TV and share their blame story.

And for their part, journalists rarely EVER ask if that person actually ran a functionally solid campaign

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

Hey thanks for the Section 702 renewals, Senate & House intelligence committee Democrats in particular! Warrantless bulk surveillance over Americans’ international communications data is about to be determined by Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard.

incredible correction

American politicians - including the President - should be asked to condemn anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian violence in the same way they've been expected to condemn Hamas.

When you play 9/11 Politics, this is the result. 22 years after 9/11, there is *no excuse* not to know this.