one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus
Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.
Yeah!!! Can't wait to check it out.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.
new video up on the youtube page youtu.be/N1DVvGlzGEs?...
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.
What a smart & fun read about the deeply moral, smart, and fun movie series that is KNIVES OUT
I only ever met Christine once but I’ve never forgotten her incredible energy. She was an inspiration to countless filmmakers, especially Asian-American ones like myself. RIP to a true legend.
I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...
There is no emergency, let the tax cuts expire. Raise taxes on billionaires.
US aid to Ukraine since Feb 2022 totals $128 billion, mostly older weapons, not cash.
The crypto industry is seeking a bailout of $100 billion from the US Treasury. That is cash.
Remember that when crypto CEOs accuse anyone else of "grifting."
www.cfr.org/article/how-...
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.
DON’T ABANDON UKRAINE 🇺🇦 Join us on Saturday, March 8, 2025, from 1–3 PM at The Ellipse (President’s Park South) in Washington, D.C. to show unwavering American support for a strong U.S.-Ukraine relationship.
📍 Be there. Stand with Ukraine. Make your voice heard.
Remember: Any candidate you rank in our upcoming ranked-choice primary in June could end up getting your vote ... and becoming mayor.
Trump posts that his plan for ending the war is to put Americans in Ukraine as a tripwire to deter a Russian invasion...
So, NATO?
In a world of JDs, be a Zelensky.
Love seeing how Zelenskyy's English has improved to the level of the wit and courage he's always had. "Костюм" means "suit" in Ukrainian but is also a severely sly word to drop in a room full of empty suits.
American statements in the Oval Office indistinguishable from Russian propaganda and celebrated by Russian propagandists.
A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that
No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
Everyone in the Trump coalition voted for someone to get got. Most of them didn’t realize that they were that someone to someone else.
THERE IS NO AMERICAN CONSTITUENCY FOR AN ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA. Even the GOP hates it. It’s just that Russia, for reasons we STILL do not know, owns Trump.
