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Net approval of ICE: All: -17% DEM: -80% IND: -32% GOP: +60% Quinnipiac / June 24, 2025

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Finally a corporation is reacting to what’s happening here. Don’t be surprised that it’s not a car company or a shampoo brand. They’re all still pretending that life is normal. It’s a bookstore. Barnes and Noble fills their store display windows with Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale.

submitted 1 day ago • 288 comments

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."

submitted 18 hours ago • 547 comments

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

submitted 1 day ago • 453 comments

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

submitted 1 day ago • 285 comments

They're just televising the construction of concentration camps like it's a good thing. This is unimaginably dark.

submitted 1 day ago • 312 comments

Boy, Dems refusal to even attempt court reform sure is backfiring. Who could have predicted that?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

To put it another way: Zohran Mamdani received more than 432,000 votes, which would have won you 10 different states last November.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

everyone who said to do big stunts, draw attention to the issue, and hammer trump on it was right. and people like shor, yggy, newsom, gallego, were spectacularly wrong.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

You can’t govern as though public opinion isn’t variable. It is a fact - a simple empirical fact - that people can be & are persuaded as facts/perceptions/vibes change. You have to actually stand for something.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Trump says he gave Iran permission to bomb US airbase. Any other president would have been impeached before sunset www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/ju...

submitted 2 days ago • 383 comments

This is remarkable. New Quinnipiac poll finds support for path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants has risen to 64%. Only 31% want most of them deported. That's a 14 point net swing for legalization since Trump took office. On immigration generally, he's at 41-57!

submitted 2 days ago • 158 comments

Congrats to Zohran Mamdani. Important lessons. Focus on shifting economic power. Relentlessly. Have big ideas on how to do it. Be joyful and authentic. Even if your ideas aren't considered "mainstream" by elites. The elites have little idea what's actually mainstream.

submitted 3 days ago • 88 comments

Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

submitted 3 days ago • 161 comments

The most powerful figure in Congress is insisting that a measure passed by Congress in an effort to reassert Congress's rightful role in the constitutional order is actually unconstitutional and his Congress should have less authority and influence. The saddest set of eunuchs in world history.

submitted 4 days ago • 99 comments

I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡

submitted 5 days ago • 1622 comments

Yet Luigi launched a thousand hand-wringing op-eds from the chattering class. Makes you think

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

1 day apart

submitted 6 days ago • 309 comments

It's understandable we all mostly take it as a given that Trump doesn't bother to adhere to Constitution or the laws passed by Congress, but it is still both (a) absolutely necessary for our democracy and (b) good political strategy for Dems to file articles of impeachment over this.

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

@stevevladeck.bsky.social @bobbychesney.bsky.social could really use an emergency National Security Law Podcast right around now…

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

There was a survey a few weeks ago that found half of Americans thought ICE was just hunting criminals. The institutional press have failed to make clear ICE’s primary strategy today is capturing people through the use of compliance traps, and shipping them off to substandard prisons in the South.

submitted 7 days ago • 66 comments

the accuracy (via @midheavens.bsky.social)

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

As I have argued for months: The person calling the shots in this admin was never Musk or Bannon or Susie Wiles. It's always been Shadow President Stephen Miller. Anything Trump says on e.g. immigration is cheap talk; Miller is the decider. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 7 days ago • 185 comments

Yes. Stephen Miller literally overrode the Secretary of Agriculture on worksite raids. She convinced Trump to back her, he publicly announced a new policy, and Miller got that entire thing overturned in a matter of days and made Trump publicly back his vision instead.

submitted 7 days ago • 115 comments

Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 7 days ago • 67 comments

In Florida, “free speech” and “institutional neutrality” mean that a Nazi arguing that nonwhites have no rights wins a prize while a course with “race” in the title is censored for violated the law. Congratulations to all the credulous centrists who helped this along.

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

If allegations of antisemitism are causing you to leave Mamdani off your ballot, they should also be disqualifying for Cuomo. If you like Mamdani but-for these allegations, there are candidates who have more in common with him than Cuomo. Rank Lander & the other WFP candidates. Don’t rank Cuomo.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

What's driving me nuts about the Zionists for Cuomo brigade is that Andrew Cuomo has said some very anti-Semitic stuff in the past. This is a thing that happened.

submitted 8 days ago • 41 comments

I agree with this. Dems need to message against EVERYTHING that Trump is doing by talking about what they would do differently, and do it from a values based place, so everyone knows that an alternative is possible.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

submitted 8 days ago • 114 comments

There is no known safe level of exposure to cancer-causing asbestos. Trump's EPA is reconsidering a ban on deadly asbestos. Tax billionaires out of existence: they are an existential threat. Ban billionaires & their asbestos. ☣️ www.wired.com/story/trump-...

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as the sickness of our political era. It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.

submitted 11 days ago • 109 comments

extremely grim question. I think my preliminary short answer is yes my medium answer is, they didn't just kill the Equal Protection Clause, they killed it and buried it in Pet Sematary so it came back all wrong and twisted, fighting against everything it is supposed to fight for

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

submitted 10 days ago • 766 comments

Picked up a lot of blocks today. Not entirely sure why. Don’t really care if I’m blocked, just wish I knew if there was a pattern or if it’s just random.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

submitted 11 days ago • 551 comments

Fox News host Will Cain: "The 'No Secret Police Act' would ban local, state, and federal law enforcement from covering their faces when interacting with the public. Officers would also have to wear identifying information on them, like name tags. Hard to believe this is real!"

submitted 10 days ago • 1166 comments

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

submitted 11 days ago • 197 comments

Lander and Padilla have set the standard that absolutely every Democratic politician should meet or exceed if they don't want to get primaried.

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

Reminder that Zohran showed up for Baraka too (in person and before other NJ state officials did)

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

seen some people complaining that this is a political stunt and lemme say if this was the kind of political stunt more politicians were doing on a regular basis we wouldn't be where we are today dude is actually putting himself on the line here, fuck off with that shit

submitted 11 days ago • 331 comments