Andrew Tobolowsky

Apparently cops shut down the Virginia Beach protest

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

we got rained on hard but the ppl were good and mad about the whole fascism situation

Today’s a tutorial level protest for people who’ve never experienced one before, please don’t shit on beginners for not starting on expert level.

Mike Johnson is one of the most accomplished liars that i've ever seen and the fact that he was elevated in part because he seems so church-y tells you a lot

Many people, in many different places, have felt this way

I REALLY wanted to make a joke about Eleanor of Aquitaine and Raymond Berengeur exchanging jerseys but it turns out the salacious rumors were about a different Raymond

And it's like man, okay, fine, locker room talk, whatever - did they mean it or not? If you're saying it's just how men joke or whatever, gross, but they are also pursuing a politics and policies that would help actualize all the shit they're saying, so

Even at BEST it's like - people on my campus keep saying but students will need this! For the job market! Okay? If carpentry turned out to be the new hot thing tomorrow would *I* need to teach it in my class? Or could they take a carpentry class and leave me alone.

Good for you, Ron

Again, we're literally so unused to Republicans winning big that winning by 1.5% points feels like a landslide and after the period that produced that impression the GOP is in a position to undo all the progress of the last 70 years. Not the party that the voters have been favoring!

But here's this party that is showing what it would look like to focus on delivering for your loudest constituents regardless of laws and norms and it's the party that's been so unpopular for so long that just barely winning the popular vote feels like a landslide for lots of people

In other words, as the party that consistently got the most votes, the Democrats simply should not have abided a situation where they never got to do anything because the EC, Senate map, and SC were always stacked against them. And they're here now because they did abide it.

I think I would feel very differently about the last 30 years of politics if the Democrats hadn't been the more popular party almost the whole time. But that's sort of the interesting thing, because Republicans are acting how I'd want Dems to act (ish) despite having been the less popular

Who's going to be the first governor to take a risk with the fact that the police aren't really under their control

As always, part of the reason the strategy of focusing on winning the next election by staying out of the way and letting the Republicans make themselves unpopular is that you actually need to elect people who are willing to do things that make this kind of behavior seem bad again

A little advice for No Kings Protests: be sure to dress up as bushes and creep along the avenue

Just a LITTLE behind the backboard

I want to be really prepared in case they change the rules so that a little bit out of bounds is OK

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

This is the way

The other argument they make is that Trump was elected, what he wants is what the nation wants which therefore can't be illegall

If it’s good it can’t be illegal, if it would work it can’t be illegal, if you want it to happen it can’t be illegal

It's really remarkable how much the throughline of this admin is "if you'd like it, it can't really be illegal." That's really the argument they explicitly make, over and over. "Trump got the troops paid, and the Dems are saying it's illegal?" Well, is it illegal? Yes! Both can be true!

The Manchin-Sinema argument was always for cowards. Pure cowards. What's better, maybe being able to stop two more Republican things they don't care about enough to do another way or being able to do literally anything yourself?

Numbers wise, you wouldn't think it would be a HUGE constituency

Jonathan Greenblatt ® @JGreenblattADL X.com What was reported in @politico is offensive and very concerning. But I'm also glad that many leaders, including @EliseStefanik and @RepMikeLawler, spoke out strongly and swiftly against these hateful statements. This is what leadership looks like - and is how decency and morality can be modeled.

The head of the ADL is a literal Nazi apologist.

Yes!

Very seriously, Dems should be attacking Republicans and squishy centrists on integrity and corruption. It should be the entire basis of the party moving forward