Jeremiah

The big difference between Trump's first term and second is that he didn't burn down a strong economy with tariffs last time around. It's a lot easier for voters to overlook his bigoted nonsense and authoritarian bluster when they feel good about material conditions.

I interviewed 20 Virginia House candidates over past few months. Always asked: what are you hearing on the doors?

Affordability. Good schools/no vouchers. Chaos/anxiety

No one ever mentioned hearing about trans issues - and that was GOP's dominant issue

Read @katelynburns.com's analysis. Spot on:

Where’d she get the brain implant? Mine is feeling a little outdated.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.

Married her yesterday.

The shutdown is ultimately a legislative negotiation about a budget.
Hard to resolve it when the controlling party in one part of Congress refuses to negotiate, will not re-open the House, is not in DC.

Johnson admits that Republicans refuse to fund SNAP because it would "reduce the pressure" on Democrats

IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.

The triumph of bullshit Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy.

"We are awash in bullshit. And while Bannon famously advocated a 'flood the zone with shit' strategy, it was supposed to be a way to overwhelm the opposition, not a prelude to diving in headfirst. The shit was supposed to be a weapon … but today it’s the stream that carries the GOP forward."

Mike Johnson is as if the new CEO of Campbell’s kept insisting he hasn’t heard of soup.

What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...

“If you’re watching television and the words ‘woke and weaponized’ come out of a politician’s mouth, you can know that this is coming ... from the strategies we’re putting out,” Vought boasted in a recording obtained by ProPublica.

By @andykroll.bsky.social

“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country

Trump: "They cheated on a commercial. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs and they said he didn't. And I guess it was AI or something. They cheated badly. Canada got caught cheating on a commercial. Can you believe it?"

Nobody’s perfect ❤️

When dressing up as a Nazi for Halloween is even remotely acceptable then you know as a country we have lost the plot.

We can never normalize this:

really did not expect to hearing about nazis all the time in 2025

was just not something i considered tbh

It begins

You may not remember this because your brain isn’t as poisoned as mine but during the first term there was reporting on how trump called the wh a “dump” to like his rich golf buddies or w/e and he angrily denied he’d said that and now he’s demolishing large parts of the WH because he thinks it sucks

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

It sounds like he’s talking about a toddler.

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

I hate that motherfucker with the burning passion of 1,000 suns.

A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)

When did they move all the historic artifacts out of the East Wing of the White House and how did they do it without anyone hearing about or seeing it?

And did they somehow know he intended to bulldoze the entire East Wing?

Even though Trump and Karoline Leavitt publicly lied about it repeatedly?

Good reminder that there is no “going back” from this, we only get out of it by going through.

One side of the White House has just been ripped out

Extreme damage at the White House

WHAT THE FUCK

🚨 Married GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales allegedly had an affair with his senior aide, Regina Aviles — who was found dead after she supposedly doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire, per The Daily Mail.

Uvalde Police are blocking release of the 911 call, video & records. (Daily Mail)