Beth Arnold. A Liberal Southern Woman

White men are most of the problem.

MAMDANI, CLINTON, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IT WAS THE summer of 1992 and I was sitting in a hot tub with Oprah Winfrey and Bella Abzug at a dreamy spa called The Golden Door, in Escondido, California.

The Democrats used to be the party of the working class — the people.
Somewhere along the way, we traded our soul for corporate money.
My new essay, Mamdani, Clinton, and the Democratic Party, looks at how that happened and why new voices like Mamdani give me hope.
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A hard fact. And this is what the Democrats do—over and over again. But they’re the only way to make an effective vote count, as ineffective as those votes often are.

Amen. I’m still a Democrat, too, and will always be a good vote. But as my daughter just said to me, Fuck the Democrats.

The powerless impotent Democrats fail themselves and us again.

No doubt.

MAMDANI, CLINTON, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IT WAS THE summer of 1992 and I was sitting in a hot tub with Oprah Winfrey and Bella Abzug at a dreamy spa called The Golden Door, in Escondido, California.

How did Democrats become Republican Light—and can progressives like Zohran Mamdani bring us back?

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US Army advises food bank to soldiers in Germany amid pay uncertainty US soldiers in Germany may not receive November pay amid the prolonged US government shutdown. Emergency funds covered October salaries, but future payments are uncertain.

BLAME TRUMP & THE GOP: The US Army published guidance on its website directing soldiers in Germany to emergency social benefits, loans, food banks and food sharing organisations where volunteers provide leftover food through public fridges. www.euronews.com/2025/11/05/g...

It captures the essence of Trump: 'How dare he faint and distract from me'

Always the same thing. The louder they moralize the worse their morals are.

MAMDANI, CLINTON, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IT WAS THE summer of 1992 and I was sitting in a hot tub with Oprah Winfrey and Bella Abzug at a dreamy spa called The Golden Door, in Escondido, California.

In 1992, I sat in a hot tub with Oprah Winfrey and Bella Abzug, trying to sell them on Bill and Hillary Clinton. Back then, it felt like the dawn of something new. But what eventually followed was the slow unraveling of the Democratic Party. Mamdani is a new chance.
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Federal agents drive off with 1-year-old girl after arresting her father in Los Angeles Federal immigration agents arrested a U.S. citizen in Los Angeles and drove off with his car, which had his one-year-old daughter inside.

MOFOs. This is child abuse.
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Federal agents drive off with 1-year-old girl after arresting her father in Los Angeles

Mike Johnson on the tariffs case before SCOTUS: "I'm cheering for the president that the executive will win on this. Now, I say that as a jealous guardian of the legislative branch of government, Article 1."

I’ve been noticing how the costs at Walmart have gone up. They don’t even put the price on all the tags now. They don’t want people to see them. This is total BS.

I’ve been noticing how the costs at Walmart have gone up. They don’t even put the price on all the tags now. They don’t want people to see them.

MAMDANI, CLINTON, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IT WAS THE summer of 1992 and I was sitting in a hot tub with Oprah Winfrey and Bella Abzug at a dreamy spa called The Golden Door, in Escondido, California.

From a hot tub with Oprah and Bella Abzug to the rise of Zohran Mamdani—this is the story of how the Democratic Party lost its way, and how it might finally find its future.

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Leave it to Kellyanne Conway to Trumpsplain the alternative facts.

A nation run by thugs from the top down. And these thugs were funded over feeding our children and families, the vulnerable. The cowardly bully-in-chief is creating an army of rats snd bullies to terrorize people of color and really all of us.

We are a racist nation.

I was flying to NYC one Thanksgiving. I got stuck in Memphis and had to get a later flight. I remember his photo in the Vanity Fair I was reading. The media kept covering him. He knew early how to get them to.

Society never let him in.

I can’t see enough of this clip!

Bam!

David Hare wrote a great play about Moses. Ralph Fiennes played him well.

Live updates: Zohran Mamdani challenges Trump as he wins NYC mayoral race

Great clip. Worth watching. Mamdani in Trump’s face. So satisfying.

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As far as I’m concerned, that would be getting back to our roots. When we were the party of the people and not Republicans Light. Before we were moved to the Right by the powers-that-be—the Clintons and others moved us to the Right—and Liberal was a proud moniker and not a dirty word.

Word.

Blumenthal: We’re going to continue finding more of the ballroom donors who evidently didn’t want their names revealed. And let me name them: BlackRock, Susquehanna International, Nvidia, OpenAI, Vantive, and Extremity Care.

And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to

Yes. Yes. He was exceptional in almost destroying our democracy. I was in Hvar, Croatia during that time. Had a big discussion with the owners of the hotel next door about it. (Alcohol was involved.) They said our democracy was gone. I argued it would be back. 🤔

Holder: The Supreme Court is a broken institution. And it’s something that has to be part of the national conversation in ’26 and in ’28.

If there is a Democratic trifecta in 2028—and I think the possibility of that is pretty good—Supreme Court reform has to be on the table.