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I try to explain here what's happening. A bit of choreography to allow Senate Dems to fold without seeming to fold. They give up the 60 vote threshold and that's the end of the story. See below and the separate piece by TPM hill reporter @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social who gives more in depth detail.

submitted 9 hours ago • 38 comments

Again, non-Jews have given themselves the right to define who is a Jew. This is still antisemitism. The dominant form of pro-Israel politics in the US today is Christian Zionism, and it is antisemitic to the core. And to be Palestinian here is to be the untermensch. We are seen as subhuman.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

With everything I've said tonight about the Senate Dems head fake, nothing is over until it's over. This is 100% the plan right now. But if people aren't happy with it they should continue to make crystal clear to Dem senators have they feel about this. Enough pressure could change it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 21 comments

Ok, haven’t blinked yet. Might blink. By voting for cloture. Let’s how it plays out.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Call you Democratic senators. Tell your friends. Keep calling.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

I rarely say this, but if your Senate Democrat isn't doing what Chris Coons is doing, you should be calling them and asking why the hell not. It's not enough to EVENTUALLY oppose this bill - we need Senate Dems out there publicly rallying the troops RIGHT NOW.

submitted 18 hours ago • 65 comments

Call and ask for the Senator to: Vote No on cloture Vote No on the House-passed CR Vote Yes on the short-term CR, S.924, introduced by Senator Murray. If you get a staff member, ask where the Senator stands on all three votes.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Supporting this CR teaches Republicans they can do whatever they want to destroy the U.S. government for the rest of this country’s pathetic existence.

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on: “We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

"It is time for Democrats to steadfastly defend those [democratic] values, which are so deeply cherished by most Americans." 💯

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I usually don't participate in the Edsall calls for comments, but I made an exception b/c this topic is too important...& then he didn't use my comments. So, here they are: These premises are flawed: 1) that moderation wins. 2) that SMALL-dollar donors are Dems' problem. Both are wrong. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Blown away by this erudite book by @valentimvicente.bsky.social 🤯 An exceptional combination of theoretical sophistication and empirical breadth and depth. His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

The word "trade war" gets thrown around casually. They're usually more tits for tats, escalating diplomatic eye-poking. But what Trump is doing now with Canada, just upgraded with new tariffs this morning, is more and more like waging a war against our neighbor albeit it economic means.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

I said what I said: calls to move the Dem party to the “center” are bad politics & risk betraying Dems’ core values. Instead, the party must forcefully defend democracy against authoritarian capture: rule of law, anti-corruption & econ populism are winning positions. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

This is just the beginning if people acquiesce. Who else will be deported or disappeared for wrongthink?

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.

submitted 2 days ago • 623 comments

In light of the news about Columbia, I want to reiterate a point below by me and Levitsky: universities, collectively, are among the most economically powerful and geographically thick sectors in the US. If they stood up together in opposition to this tyranny, they would be incredibly powerful.

submitted 5 days ago • 87 comments

JD Vance earlier this week: “Thank God we now have a president who believes in free speech.”

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Putin was counting on Trump. He was Russia’s only hope. And Trump is now delivering for Putin.

submitted 7 days ago • 156 comments

BREAKING: Job losses spiked a whopping 245% in February. This is higher than any month since July 2020 (the middle of pandemic) and the highest in any February since the Great Recession of 2009.

submitted 6 days ago • 255 comments

So the tariffs are an insider trading racket (as is crypto), in addition to being a schoolyard domination game, right?

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

These people are reprehensible.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Complete dereliction of duty. The idea that Dems owe Trump any degree of deference is appalling. It’s a betrayal of the oath of office and of the duty to their constituents. Primary each one of these clowns.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 7 days ago • 1580 comments

This is just the classic autocrat play of selling state assets to oligarchs. We have become Russia.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

"It’s difficult to convey the full magnitude of the legal chaos emanating from the Trump administration. It goes well beyond the violation of individual laws — much of the past month has featured what feels like an assault on the very idea of law as a binding constraint."

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve got a piece in today’s @nytimes about Elon Musk as walking/talking violation of the Constitution’s appointments clause: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 74 comments

There's literaly an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer in the works. It's shown promising results in a Phase 1 trial. Most people with pancreatic cancer are dead within 5 years. It's what killed Patrick Swayze.

submitted 8 days ago • 89 comments

It was a pleasure to host @jean23bean.bsky.social yesterday for a meeting of the NYU interdisciplinary identities & ideologies project. Her book project on “Suspect Citizenship” in France is fascinating. @bartbonikowski.bsky.social @bryantjmoy.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This is Radio Free Europe, broadcasting to the people struggling behind the Iron Curtain under tyrannical governments

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Data collection is a fundamental part of understanding the public, the economy, and yes, increasing efficiency in government. This administration has already undercut data collection in public health and other policies, scientific funding for data collection and appears ready to undermine the Census

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

submitted 8 days ago • 1211 comments

This is what I worried about: The Trump administration would just create an enemies lists of universities on the pretext of battling anti-semitism, and threaten them with financial collapse. As universities fall in line, the administration removes any dissent from higher education.

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

submitted 8 days ago • 1093 comments

Every time one thinks it couldn’t be grosser, it gets grosser. The country (and existing world order) is being dismantled for sole purpose of enriching these sociopaths and fulfilling their fantasies of unlimited power.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Reminder that the Census determines how federal dollars, and House seats, are allocated. This is, yet another, five alarm fire.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments