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Stephen Miller is a dangerous madman living in a world of his own making. I really can’t believe there isn’t more discourse around the madness we are witnessing each day.

It Is Imperative That Every Democrat Now Join The Fight Against Trump's Escalating, Dangerous Authoritarianism Two Live Events Today - Rep Eric Swalwell At 230pm ET, Senator Cory Booker Tonight at 8pm ET

Every Democrat must now join the fight against Trump's rising and traitorous authoritarianism - my latest 👇

www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/it-is-impe...

Simon is right -- broader, deeper collaboration among Dems is now essential:

A-FUCKING-MEN

It is critical we do not allow "realism" and "pragmatism" to be a tidy way of covering for cowardice.

Trump Press Sec Seethes as Fresh Polls Show Him Losing Shutdown Badly As Karoline Leavitt loses her temper under tough questioning about the government shutdown, a writer who closely tracks MAGA explains how all this reveals deepening cracks in Trump’s coalition.

Telling that Karoline Leavitt keeps snapping at journos precisely when they debunk WH's main arguments in shutdown fight. That and many new polls reveal that Trump's position in this standoff is very weak.

On the pod, @amandamarcotte.bsky.social explains this well:
newrepublic.com/article/2013...

The leader of this country has gone completely mad.

Sunday Hopium - Brutal New CBS Poll For Trump, Fighting Their Rising Authoritarianism More Aggressively, A Wonderful New Conversation With James Talarico Paid Subscribers Gather This Week Thursday At 7pm ET/Welcome New Subscribers!!!!!

From Hopium:
- Ugly new CBS News poll for Trump, 58% disapproval
- Dems must become more aggressive in challenging Trump's escalating authoritarianism
- Wonderful new interview with James Talarico
This, more 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hop...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Vance’s is a white guy whose entire political career was handed to him by billionaires — a career also fueled by the grievance that U.S. institutions conspire against white guys.

Don’t blame our leaders if the US military begins committing war crimes or attacking American civilians. Blame the women who laughed at Pete Hegseth during sex.

If you’re an Islamophobe you don’t get to complain about antisemitism

And if you’re an antisemite you don’t get to complain about Islamophobia.

It’s really that simple.

(So many shameless hypocrites around.)

The oldest man ever elected to the Presidency, with clear health problems and increasingly unhinged, untethered public appearances and postings, has now disappeared from public view of an extended period for 2nd time in recent weeks.

Truly, how is this not a bigger story?

bsky.app/profile/did:...

The human instinct to avoid discomfort is really dangerous right now. We need to break that. I'm talking 30+ days of *coordinated* habit-breaking and community building: boycotts, protests, media blitzes, learn-ins, etc. Basically, America needs a self-help book.

JFC

I asked Chris Murphy if he privately talks to Dem colleagues about why they don't sound the alarm loudly. His answers were depressing. Dems tell him they don't want to be "alarmist" or that "democracy" didn't work in 2024, so they want to stick to health care. 5/

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

WaPo Poll Finds Ds Winning Early Budget Fight Arguments, Trump/Vought Middle Finger Congress, Miller-Goebbels Keeps Escalating Hopium paid subscribers gather tonight at 715pm ET/Welcome new subscribers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From Hopium:
- New WaPo poll has Dems winning early arguments in the budget fight
- Trump and Vought are giving the middle finger to Congress, not just the Dems
- Dems simply must fight their rising authoritarianism more forcefully
This, more 👇

www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/wapo-poll-...

In the new NYT poll, 58% of independents disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy. He's in a really weakened state. Dems, hold the line.

In this discussion, @alexshephard.bsky.social and I make the case for standing firm:

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

We asked 1,000 Americans who is to blame for the shutdown. Here’s what they said. More Americans blame Trump and Republicans than Democrats for shutdown, poll finds.

New WaPo poll:
Extend ACA subsidies 71%-29%
Blame Rs for shutdown 47%
Blame Ds for shutdown 30%

Dems winning the big arguments so far

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Democrats MUST start labeling these gross new abuses of power by Trump ILLEGAL and file criminal complaints with the DOJ and relevant state Attorneys General.

Trump has responded to Democrats exercising their power under the Constitution today by trying to erase the legislative branch completely.

So Schumer and Jeffries were right to force the conversation not about the CR or shutdown but about the final GOP budget and their broader agenda to begin the process of forcing Rs to take responsibility for the incredible harm they are doing to the country.

That's what this debate is about. 5/

What happens if Dems not only say no to the ACA/Medicaid cuts but no to the tariffs, clean energy cuts and everything else that was passed without their votes in reconciliation?

I don't think people understand what an incredible shitshow Trump, Thune and Johnson have created, how weak they are. 4/

So a reason the Rs have acted so stunned that Ds made demands on the CR (stop gap to keep the govt open) is that it forced the Rs to start to deal with something that it's going to be very painful, perhaps impossible - getting a final budget that can get 60 votes in the Senate and pass the House. 3/

The 2026 fiscal year begins today and there is nothing remotely resembling a Republican budget on the horizon. House and Senate Rs are far apart on basic stuff. The White House is bat shit crazy. Not clear there's even a process for the Rs to produce a final budget, make tough calls. 2/

A central reason we're in this mess is that the final GOP budget is going to be full of ugly, deeply unpopular stuff - exploding deficits, destructive tariffs, cuts to health care/clear energy/food, supersizing ICE, tax cuts for billionaires - that Rs simply don't want to take responsibility for. 1/

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

Not sure but they are spot on here!