I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Huh, I'm hearing that the Democrats shut down the government, why can't Donald Trump make it open up again, I thought he was in charge, is he not in charge? Is he too weak to make the government open up again?

When they go low, we go high. Higher and higher, turning and turning in the widening gyre

The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

The Trump administration says it will withhold $350 million in grants to hundreds of colleges that serve large populations of minority students, calling the decades-old programs discriminatory.

So the understandable idea that we need leaders of "both sides" to denounce political violence is, I believe, a nonstarter. MAGA's whole rhetorical mode, for 10 yrs, has been advocacy of violence. It'd have to denounce itself. It won't. So what else we can do to slow the rush toward more? 2/3

I'll be on PBS Newshour tonight discussing the slow civil war. To what I had the opportunity to say, I'd add that this isn't a "both sides" moment, because to MAGA there is only MAGA & enemies of MAGA. Even if the shooter turns out to be, say, a Groyper, that worldview is MAGA or enemy,.

Also, sorry, too worked up and my first cup of coffee just hit… Kirk was part of the effort to overthrow the elected government of the United States on January 6th! In what sense was that
“practicing politics the right way”????

Charlie Kirk may have been good at showing up at college campuses and talking to anyone who would listen etc. But the org he headed built a database of professors to target with harassment campaigns in the hopes of drumming them out of academia. Is that practicing politics the right way?

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Is the signature that looks exactly like all of Donald Trump's other signatures, which appears on the page credited to Donald Trump in the birthday book made for Donald Trump's close personal friend Jeffrey Epstein, really Donald Trump's signature? Experts say they can't be sure.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

It's very important that you not duck jury duty

What's happening in Texas (and possibly NY, CA, IN, and elsewhere) around gerrymandering is a reminder: The Democratic Party needs to invest in winning state legislative races *every cycle, all the time.* You never know when a crisis will hit and we'll wish we had more seats or different leaders.

the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

The Supreme Court is out of control. To allow the president, without any explanation, to unilaterally dismantle agencies created by an Act of Congress is to endow the president with sovereignty. There is no justification, because they haven’t given one. Our country is in big trouble.

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

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