Zach Goldman
@zachgoldman.bsky.social
Political Director, SEIU 1021. Proud Oaklander. Fighting for a better world.
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Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings
Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over?
lol. lmao.
lol. lmao.
October 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings
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So we’ve got two competing schools of what the Democratic Party should do next. One of them is hosting the largest political rallies in history in places like New Hampshire and Arizona, and the other one just got $120 million from Silicon Valley and is on a book tour.
March 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So we’ve got two competing schools of what the Democratic Party should do next. One of them is hosting the largest political rallies in history in places like New Hampshire and Arizona, and the other one just got $120 million from Silicon Valley and is on a book tour.
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The other thing that is infuriating about Schumerism is pinning your hopes on some kind of popular movement to save you while doing nothing to foster it and in fact many things to stifle it
March 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The other thing that is infuriating about Schumerism is pinning your hopes on some kind of popular movement to save you while doing nothing to foster it and in fact many things to stifle it
Time for Schumer to go.
Trump is already defying the courts.
He has no more right to defy a district court than the Supreme Court.
Essentially saying all lower court rulings are optional for Trump is legally incorrect and irresponsible.
He has no more right to defy a district court than the Supreme Court.
Essentially saying all lower court rulings are optional for Trump is legally incorrect and irresponsible.
Schumer: "If he defies the Supreme Court, then we are in uncharted territory ... our entire democracy is at risk. I believe that if Donald Trump should defy the courts, the public will rise up. Democrats will fight it in every single way ... autocrats only succeed if the public lets them."
March 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Time for Schumer to go.
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DEMOCRATS: Republicans control the House, Senate and White House — what power do we have?
PUBLIC: So you'll use the bully pulpit instead?
DEMOCRATS: Haha no
PUBLIC: So you'll use the bully pulpit instead?
DEMOCRATS: Haha no
March 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
DEMOCRATS: Republicans control the House, Senate and White House — what power do we have?
PUBLIC: So you'll use the bully pulpit instead?
DEMOCRATS: Haha no
PUBLIC: So you'll use the bully pulpit instead?
DEMOCRATS: Haha no
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To give a sense of how much money this is: according to CBO in 2023, non-defense discretionary spending was $917B. So the cost of running the entire federal govt, aside from SocSec, Medicare, Medicaid & defense was $917B. And in six weeks DOGE lit $500B on fire.
So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
March 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
To give a sense of how much money this is: according to CBO in 2023, non-defense discretionary spending was $917B. So the cost of running the entire federal govt, aside from SocSec, Medicare, Medicaid & defense was $917B. And in six weeks DOGE lit $500B on fire.
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Here’s a rough equivalent: Consider if in 2021, Joe Biden tapped a billionaire pal to slash agencies that Republicans like (e.g. ICE and the Pentagon) and then negotiated a Dems-only gov’t funding bill with Pelosi and the squad. And told McConnell + 10 Senate Rs to vote for it. How would that go?
is there a GOP mirror image in recent history, or
March 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Here’s a rough equivalent: Consider if in 2021, Joe Biden tapped a billionaire pal to slash agencies that Republicans like (e.g. ICE and the Pentagon) and then negotiated a Dems-only gov’t funding bill with Pelosi and the squad. And told McConnell + 10 Senate Rs to vote for it. How would that go?