It’s so fucking funny that we’re still getting five NYT op-eds a week calling for the left to tone down their rhetoric

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

whenever the media describes something as “partisan” it basically means the thing is broadly popular & probably super helpful but we can’t do it because some conservatives think it’s woke

you don’t have to hand it to the dems like at all but idk—maybe they would come across as better at messaging if every media outlet in the country blasted conservatives all day instead, raking them over the coals on every little thing & only emphasized the good points that dems made?

love it when media outlets say that dems aren’t good at conveying complicated messages on policy as if these outlets are not themselves being dog-walked by conservatives on messaging all day everyday

Ohio’s new age verification law targeting porn goes into effect today, which means people will either have to use a VPN or submit their IDs to use Bluesky. This is Project 2025 in action. The goal is to limit freedom and make it harder to access anything remotely progressive

"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.

I keep seeing comments like, “talk to your opponents” & I’m like, no. I’m not interested in dialogue w/ that.

“Di” means “two” but there’s no “other side” to you telling me I’m stupid bc I’m Black & a woman— or that a child should be forced to stay pregnant.

You’re gross. Case closed.

as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me

Left: Wow. We need gun reform.

Right: Wow. We need to put the left in concentration camps.

Media: Ok. It's time for the the left to bring down the political temperature here. Enough is enough.

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

This is what fascist scholars mean when they say "don't give them an inch."

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.

Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.

And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.

Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

they want it to be illegal to dislike them, make fun of them, criticize them, challenge them, ignore them, punish them, or ever hold them accountable for anything

The challenge to endure “difficult” ideas and speakers only extends in one direction. The pleas to tone down political violence only benefit one side. And it’s the side that is most violent toward marginalized people, which is granted bipartisan approval and protection

So what's the plan after we "play down" the impacts of climate change to allegedly help win elections. What's the plan when the water rises to your doorstep

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

This is precisely the problem, the refusal by centrist elites to differentiate between challenging ideas and debunked lies. It's not "challenging" to hear that black people are stupid or gay people are degenerates, it's just wrong.

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers