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I’m going to again post my stance on Trump and fascism from my campaign site. A lot of local Dems seemed spooked by this kind of talk, told me to “fight the far right as a private citizen and don’t attract attention to us.” But how much better would Dems be polling if they were talking this way?

submitted 19 hours ago • 18 comments

Trump’s team has multiple people giving Nazi salutes and these “centrists” still extend the benefit of the doubt, ignoring what’s actualy happening to punch left. It’s almost like they agree with the Trumpers but are too cowardly to just say it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Meanwhile the Harper’s crowd is too busy to be reached for comment.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I repeat, we’re living through a eugenic segregation push by elites that’s being framed as a populist revolt.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Pelosi stayed on way too long in my view. But she was great in 2005-2006 and 2017-2018, leading the opposition against Republican presidents who seemingly had unlimited power. Jeffries is off to a dreadful start, and the party base knows it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 10 comments

73 percent of Democrats think the party is not doing enough to take on Trump. 5 percent think it's doing too much, per new CNN poll. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

Can the Times and Gluesenkamp Perez at least slightly update their phoned-in, tired talking points? Can it be, "Twitter and Bluesky are not real life?" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

THREAD. Every day I get to work with amazing people from all walks of life who are dedicating their lives to fighting government repression and corporate predation. They do it strategically and relentlessly. The incompetence and grifting of political elites makes a mockery of it.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

One of the simplest and most important things you can do for anyone in your life is have them switch to Democracy Now's daily news podcast instead of the NPR or New York Times daily podcasts. Just that little change in propaganda exposure dramatically improves people's lives.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Decenter highly rejective colleges! Decenter highly rejective colleges! Decenter highly rejective colleges! Decenter highly rejective colleges! Decenter highly rejective colleges!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

The stuff they're doing is deeply unpopular and they're rapidly heading in that direction. Stop treating them like they're untouchable. We can fight back.

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

More of this. Do not give in.

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

GREAT PIECE! The Intellectual Dishonesty of Jason Furman prospect.org/economy/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Democrats have so little sense of priorities and so few political instincts that I’m amazed they are able to so much as tie their own shoes. They’re not just determined to not meet their moment; they insist on being insufferably smug about it.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Dem base: "Oh my god, Trump is acting like a king! Please raise the alarm!" Democrats: "Too complicated. No way to explain this to normie voters." Dem base: "OH MY GOD HE LITERALLY JUST CALLED HIMSELF A KING" Democrats: "A distraction. We should talk about the complicated policy stuff."

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

This is a very important story by @charliesavage.bsky.social — it lays out how the Trump admin is effectively circumventing judges’ orders to keep federal spending frozen. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

There's a lot going on in DC, and I want to hear from you. I'm hosting two IN-PERSON TOWN HALLS this weekend — let's talk about what we're doing in Congress and how we can take care of our community. RSVP ⬇️ 📌 Feb 22: bit.ly/3QhdVBx 📌 Feb 23: bit.ly/3X4OwPg

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Trump is pushing the policies he promised. He is not doing the things for which he gave no actual policy content for (e.g., lowering prices). It speaks to the lack of civic education and media literacy in this country that people were convinced otherwise.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

"I’m a professor, a teacher. I don’t look for trouble. But I would feel ashamed if I didn’t speak up for the values that have guided my institution and many others.”

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Lots of leaders of colleges and other key institutions are staying silent, either out of fear or a misguided view of "neutrality." But not Michael Roth. wapo.st/4k1ueQt

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

"We cannot have economic justice without social movements, we cannot have a functional democracy while workers are exploited and people cannot easily vote or control their own bodies." nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

"The right perceives things about the centuries-long march toward a more just and inclusive nation that the left fails to grasp: that all of this is intertwined."

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"Trump doesn’t worry about identity politics versus class politics: To him they are, altogether, the enemy of what he seeks, which is the empowerment of a ruling class built on capitalist exploitation and white dude-bro Christian nationalism," writes @rtraister.bsky.social.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

"It’s elites, who do not enjoy getting dogpiled on social media or having college students yell about settler colonialism, who are the most put off by the hyperwokeness of our era, while the vast majority of Americans don’t think much about the use of “Latinx." nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Of course if you actually oppose that programming and teaching such history but also want to remain a liberal/Democrat in good standing, vague use of DEI fits your interests.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Let me say it again: Trans people deserve to play sports. Trans people deserve health care. Trans people deserve access to bathrooms. Trans people deserve to be treated like human beings. This Congresswoman loves you and will always have your back.

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

nice post poking lots of holes in the Trump DOE's Valentines Day Dear Colleague Letter. worth a read for anyone who needs reassurance that the Trump admin lacks the power to re-write civil rights laws or end DEI in K-20 via executive fiat. educationcivilrights.com/blog/f/regul...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Lotta stuff you can urge federal Democrats to do right now that’s effective and useful, but the scale and impact of the constitutional crisis is so severe that they should be abusing parliamentary procedure to hold the floor in the House and the Senate until the coup ends. Waiting is dangerous.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

I said something very similar in my talk yesterday. Even before this moment, lots of ostensibly liberal academics believed that "diversity hires" were both endemic (not true) and less qualified (also a lie). The current moment is going to amp this up 1000%.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

The other thing about propublica is that they do journalistic “objectivity” right. They don’t pretend every story has two equal sides. The write what is true without favoring or deffering to the powerful.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

submitted 14 days ago • 912 comments

To the right, SNL jokes about Republicans count as Official Democratic Party Messaging. To centrists, jokes on SNL about Republicans and also that one time a junior employee said what you said was racist count as Official Democratic Party Messaging.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The pundit class "The Democrats are too far to the left" takes are always so vapid because they exist on a purely affective state divorced from any actual discussion of policy, and when they do engage with policy, they always end up with supporting abjectly unpopular ideas.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Yes, but also: What if Ezra & all the other white male Gen X/Elder Millennial Pundits, as they have aged & ended up turning into the very David Brooks-esque characters they once set out to replace, are not nearly as smart about 🇺🇸 politics as they believe themselves to be? bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

"You see, we had the right completely beaten on race and gender issues, until someone said Latinx in 2020, and then it fell apart and we're reinstituting segregation and the country's fascist now."

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

All of Ezra Klein’s recent punditry assumes that we are definitely in a normal liberal democracy where scandals will hurt and thermostatic politics function normally. Zero awareness that we run the risk of hopping the tracks into a competitive authoritarian system that follows different patterns.

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

the mild, non-confrontational obama formula for inclusiveness was so intolerable to a substantial chunk of the country that they put a outer borough george wallace into the white house. like, what are we talking about here?

submitted 6 days ago • 190 comments

Bill Kristol is substantially flanking most Democrats to the left, including on trans rights. That's how pathetic our party is

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney will die on the barricades next to you, Jon Chait and Hakeem Jeffries will live through the whole thing and somehow never leave their positions of influence, but will definitely attend some remembrance ceremonies for fallen resistance members in 20 years. Wild times

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

The United States as we know it is collapsing, which is bad enough, but what’s almost worse is the way that the leaders who are supposed to raising hell are absolutely convinced they can win by pretending it isn’t happening

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments