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CLEARLY Trump is sinking into dementia. Let's call it out.

Just about finished w/Newsom. Thought he was the Dem future 2 mos ago. Now he's crumpled like a paper bag. We need far better, for the WIN.

www.theatlantic.com/internationa... Erdogan & Netanyahu are peas in a pod, along w/their counterpart Orban. Couldn't care less about this alarmism.

A basic rule of thumb is that you really don't want the Wall Street Journal to have headlines referring to the Great Depression.

RIP Pope Francis. I'm not R. Catholic (Soc. of Friends-Quaker) but I deeply aporeciated his Christian devotion & humane beliefs.

Look at this depraved Easter message from this supposedly "Christian" sicko.

Easter morning greetings!

Moderate Dems have been criticizing high-profile Left Dem activities like the Bernie/AOC tour as "performative." OK but why are moderate Dem leaders so silent? Where's their high-profile counterargument to MAGA misgovernment & abuse? Speak out, loudly & on repeat!

Shameless plug for good Democratic governance. Matt Tuerk's been Mayor of Allentown, PAs 3rd-largest city for four years, has managed this diverse town with good skill & energy, and is running a strong reelection campaign!

Read the Admin's extortionate funding letter to Harvard, OF COURSE Harvard refused! It's an attempted Orbanist takeover. No institution can/should agree to this.

AI deficiencies: here's a map of hummingbird migration on FB. Note how Meta's AI prompt mistakes it as an epidemic & discusses "symptoms?"

I think it was clear during DJTs 1st term that he wanted to run the US gov't like the "Trump Org." a 1-man fiefdom, & had no concept of separation of powers. Far clearer now. We NEED the SCOTUS to step in, hard, to rein this in; also GW Bush must use what cred he has to activate Congressional GOP.

Everyone interested in Dem politics, ethnicity and/or race should read Thos Edsall's NYTimes column today, focus is on Latino voters. And creatively plan out what to do.

Yuuuge patriotic protests against your regime today, DJT, biggest crowds ever! How 'bout that?

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... A KEY issue & problem to fix, let's fix it.

open.substack.com/pub/theliber...

Dems: it is CRITICAL to end the moderate vs progressive internal firing squad NOW. Can't afford it. No more ranting abt "performative Leftists" or "neoliberals." Unite on areas of common ground & fight w/focus on them!

There IS something alarmingly simian about MTG. Darwin would feel vindicated.

Jasmine Crockett needs to get under control & show some discipline. She's becoming the Dem MTG.

www.mcall.com/2025/03/26/l... Continued strong growth in Lehigh Valley of eastern PA!

prospect.org/politics/202...

No surprise here, another Jussie Smollett.

Growing sentiment for street protests here in US. Note of caution: HUGE street protests haven't (yet) toppled the Orban, Erdogan, or Maduro regimes, or Netanyahu, or the Burma junta. Street revolts show discontent but only succeed when the regime cracks internally as in Iran 1978 or Czech 1989.

I better understand why Schumer approved the CR & avoided shutdown, probably best of 2 bad choices. But the way he did it, w/no inter-Dem coordination, weak messaging, was awful & produced impression of ineffective weakness & confusion. Dems, step up & get on message & strategy!

Realizing that Newsom is NOT the one for now or for '28. Conversing w/reactionaries like Bannon & Kirk might make sense if done w/strength, but he was way too mild & deferential. Lacks the focused force to lead the Dem movement in our time.

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Feb voter quote, Blueprint Research: "No one has any idea what the Dem Party stands for other than opposing Trump. Dems have no message, no plan of their own, & no one knows what they would do if they got back into power." Ouch. We need to get this figured out and fast.

Read “A Vacuum, an Old Spanish Woman, and a Conversation I’ll Never Forget“ by Natalie S. Ohio on Medium: medium.com/age-of-empat...

I posted some sarcastic stuff but more serious now: I'm seeing conflicting well-put takes that Schumer caved disastrously, AND that his affirmation of the CR was an essential masterstroke to protect gov't from a Trump/Musk rampage during shutdown. Who's right?

If chimps wore makeup...

this is still so funny to me

Best Phila mayors: Clark, Dilworth, Rendell, Nutter. And new Mayor Parker's starting off great IMHO!

When conservative Americans talked about freedom they often meant their *freedom to* oppress others, and *freedom from* an “overreaching” federal government that might try to stop them. Now that such “conservatives” control the federal government and have shed all residual libertarianism, watch out.

It’s the Tesla Spring Sell-a-Thon! 🎉 @forbes.com $TSLA www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

Political reality: Dems MUST be a party that defends the rights of marginalized peoples as part of the American whole. Dems cannot win as the party PRIMARILY of marginalized peoples (or of Left advocacy eg coerced climate action).

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen... This is WAY contemptable, where the MAGA manosphere leads.

So. True.

We're in a true existential battle against Orbaanism here, we Dems have to coalesce around a few strong spokespeople & make our alternative case loud & daily.