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Prof. of Politics, writer at @slate.bsky.social, @newsweek.com and @thenation. Author, IT’S TIME TO FIGHT DIRTY. Chicago, in the Medium Bucket. Dad, husband. The alarmists were right. Views are mine alone. https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/dfaris

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One of the good ones yes

15.02.2026 02:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Once again asking why you do this to yourself Dave

14.02.2026 17:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Joe Flacco.

12.02.2026 12:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Folks the SAVE Act is DOA in the Senate. Thune knows that virtually the entire GOP agenda, inasmuch as there is one, is radioactive. Voter ID is one of the only things they want to do that polls well and Rs would rather use it as a weapon than nuke the filibuster.

12.02.2026 02:50 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

me, confused, lifts all my yogurt with my hands: please. My ferments

08.02.2026 19:00 — 👍 30    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

They literally won a Super Bowl a year ago! Goodness.

07.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That makes 30 Rs not running for re-election in the House. We're very close to 2018 levels of Republican retirements with a lot of time to go.

06.02.2026 21:40 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I think it's a long shot but with a really good candidate could be in play. Cook PVI has it R+7. Amodei has been there so long it's hard to say what a real House race could look like there.

06.02.2026 21:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Important point from this @gelliottmorris.com post, which helps explain not only why Third Way/No Labels efforts are DOA but also why Harris got zero traction trying to occupy ideological space that has almost no one in it.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/more-evide...

05.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The thing I might remember the most about the Trump years decades from now is opening the New York Times app every morning and going “Jesus fucking CHRIST”

05.02.2026 14:50 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“Every billionaire is a policy failure” was in fact the correct position send skeet.

04.02.2026 17:13 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not lately but it’s an all time great

04.02.2026 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

04.02.2026 15:47 — 👍 6047    🔁 1183    💬 68    📌 44

Also don’t put bowls facing up etc

04.02.2026 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I feel seen

04.02.2026 01:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh so you’ve already decided against cremation??

03.02.2026 10:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Also: What happens between elections is just as important as what happens during them. It’s not actually democracy if the civil rights and liberties of one party’s supporters are shamelessly trampled when the other party is in power and there is no accountability mechanism other than elections.

01.02.2026 15:02 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.

01.02.2026 02:27 — 👍 5824    🔁 1260    💬 91    📌 19
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Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort arrested after covering Minnesota church protest It was not immediately clear what charges that Minnesota independent journalist Georgia Fort and former CNN anchor Don Lemon were facing for the Jan. 18 protest at Cities Church.

🚨DON LEMON was arrested while covering the Grammy Awards. GEORGIA FORT was arrested at home. We all know Don Lemon & we must now know Georgia Fort.

Both are BLACK independent journalists. Both covered the recent church protest in St Paul. Both were taken by federal agents. We cannot stand for this!

30.01.2026 15:42 — 👍 47    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah it’s not the exact scenario I was thinking about but it’s still quite brazen and not a good sign

30.01.2026 15:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

On election night 2024 my wife and I sat down and came up with a list of signs that it might be time to leave. High up on that list was, "When they start arresting Maggie Habermans."

30.01.2026 13:40 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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“And if ye try to come see me I’ll cut off one of my four fingers I will”

29.01.2026 04:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Realized as I was reading to my two year-old tonight that the Banshees of Inishirin was what would happen if Frog suddenly turned against Toad.

29.01.2026 04:36 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.

28.01.2026 23:05 — 👍 6845    🔁 1639    💬 77    📌 37
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When you've lost The National Review....

26.01.2026 20:08 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

Bread and….click here to sign up for Circuses+

26.01.2026 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Funny you suggest that… this Thursday at 7:30 pm CST, the Champaign County Individible virtual book club is discussing It’s Time to Fight Dirty by @davidfaris.bsky.social. It’s very much about systemic power deficits and how they’ve facilitated minoritarian rule.

25.01.2026 02:42 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Maybe. Not everyone is prepared to protest in subzero weather like our friends in Minnesota but this really isn’t sustainable even with a population conditioned for compliance, most of whom would rather be watching Netflix. At some point the cognitive dissonance is too much.

25.01.2026 02:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Again maybe I’m naive but this all feels like a turning point. This can’t go on without triggering an unprecedented national mobilization that these homicidal clowns aren’t remotely prepared for.

25.01.2026 02:17 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0
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Democrats Need to Shut Down the Government to Defund ICE Terror With another deadline looming at the end of the month, party leaders must use the power they have to begin dismantling Trump’s police state.

Taps the fucking sign from a week ago

25.01.2026 02:04 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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