David Rosen

The RIFs began months ago. This is just recycled DOGE, just as unpopular and just as illegal.

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

You need to own a movie theater to project that much.

The Dems have been successful at convincing many of their supporters that the GOP is vastly out spending them but the bigger problem is the GOP plays the game and Dems just hope to fall ass backwards into political success

as free press effectively takes over cbs news, keep in mind that democratic investments in media have been minimal -- at best -- and the party and its donors continue to light money on fire for dumb campaign bullshit that makes consultants rich but doesnt win elections or change the narrative

I have always begged Democrats to prove me wrong about them, and for once they did.

I expected Senate Dems to fold by now in the funding fight, and this time many are standing up for themselves for a change.

More of this please!

It's a start. There is still a long and perilous journey ahead.

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

And it's such a simple message for non-political junkies! You can't make a deal with a double crosser!

Agree, and I would broaden this to include households where severe mental illness and other kinds of intense family dysfunctions are present.

Those experiences are highly instructive as well.

Normal childhoods, marriages, and families leave people unprepared for abnormal politics.

Big media and Beltway outlets are stuck inside their own reality bubble.

Most have spent months saturating their coverage with narratives blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

But voters saw right through it.

The public CORRECTLY blames Trump and Republicans.

Kind of ironic: The reason why the government is shut down right now is because Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin saved the 60-vote rule.

This is false as a matter of law, but it’s also useful as an admission that Republicans are perfectly happy with the government shutdown and will use it as a pretext to harm more Americans.

Please, please, please grab hold of that third rail.

This core right-wing belief is at the same time a psychological projection, a revealed preference, and highly instructive.

It means the only thing standing in the right's way is their fear of consequences and reprisal, and that's the only thing capable of stopping them.

The problem is structural: when people can choose whichever reality they want to live in, they pick realities that feel good and validating, which often means grossly bigoted and authoritarian ones.

The Corrupt Supreme Court Must Be Reformed: Dems Must Champion It Going into 2026 and 2028 it’s time for, essential for Democrats to...

Rapid Supreme Court expansion in early 2029 is the mountain we have no choice but to climb.

The entire Democratic Party will either make it all the way to the top of that mountain in time, or the whole nation will perish on it.
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🚨🚨 NEW DOCUMENTS FROM EPSTEIN'S ESTATE DETAILING HIS DAILY SCHEDULE:

They show meetings with Steve Bannon, Peter Thiel, and a potential visit to Epstein’s Island for Elon Musk. Prince Andrew is listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet.

DOJ must release the Epstein files NOW.

This is a good reminder that ideological and partisan labels -- especially "independent" -- mean very different things to different people.

During crisis points, legislators are often emotional decision makers. What they do is more about how they feel in the moment than what's right or strategic.

This firing threat looks like the kind of thing that might anger and provoke Senate Democrats who may have been ambivalent so far.

New Proposal Shows Congress Can Enact Guardrails to Ensure a Deal Is a Deal for 2026 Funding | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Republicans in Congress should be willing to include proposals like these in a 2026 funding agreement to ensure it is implemented consistent with the deal they reach.

Great piece from @centeronbudget.bsky.social talking about the ways the bicameral Democratic CR alternative works to address Trump spending lawlessness - and highlights the need.

It's pretty wild -- maybe even unprecedented -- for Schumer to be saying exactly the right thing this quickly.

More of this please!

Also, the Trump White House lacks the policymaking finesse and message discipline to execute this without coming off like archvillains.

DOGE's real mission was to steal goverment data on all of us.

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

My hometown newspaper dodged a bullet, at least for now.

I don't think the mid 2000s are a helpful way to think about the hard choices ahead. Instead:

What's the bare minimum a Dem trifecta has to get done to restore democracy, rule of law, and social pluralism -- and prevent a fascist relapse?

Sound strategy will be downstream of those answers.

Trump was never the Deals guy. He's the Temper Tantrum guy who hates deals and breaks them.

There will never be a better time than this week for Democrats to get in front of microphones and cameras say that.

Democratic messaging remains a decrepit, rotting tree falling in a deep, dark forest that nobody can see or hear.

It's going to stay that way until Democrats and their megadonors transform the media landscape and make comms a top priority.

Does this sound more like someone with a strong hand to play or an empty one?

What really frustrates me about the political data pundits is how regularly they ignore the actual data. Dan brings the facts in this thread, including this item. Democrats lose not because they're insufficiently moderate on policy but because they aren't convincing voters they will bring change.

Anti-abortion Democrats are the reason the annual spending bills are packed with attacks on women's health care that we'll probably never get rid of -- with more on the way.

So in addition to harming women and families, these Democrats are partly responsible for breaking the federal budget process.