Coates, kindly, exposes every flaw in @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social's arguments and he continues to double down with white dude, naivety to be kind, ignorance to maybe be more honest. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social's team could learn a lot from Coates here as her centrist push aligns with Klein.

Ezra Klein explains why he is against the “oppositional” approach of Dems. One example he gives is blatantly false: immigration.

But more important: Klein shows how folks like him almost always casually throw vulnerable people under the bus in the name of “practicality.”

Klein is wrong: Biden waived 26 federal laws so he could build Trump's shitty wall. It was one of the many terrible Trump policies he continued and was followed shortly by funding and abetting genocide. www.politico.com/news/2023/10...

The mainstream / leadership Democratic position of today is to the right of George W. Bush on immigration.

Revisited this spectacular Kaleb Horton paragraph about crows this morning. "I have met crows that should be in jail" is one of those sentences that's so good you're initially furious you didn't write it yourself before circling back around to just being glad you got to read it.

If/when Dems regain control of Congress, the path is clear. No clerks. No building. No shadow docket. Nothing, until the Wizards In Robes stop ignoring the law, data, history, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution. And there will be 25, with 9 chosen by lottery for any case.

Just a reminder that these "pivotal votes" that the Democrats got in these recent special elections aren't pickups. They are pivotal seats that have been vacant for months because the Democrats who previously held them ran for office notwithstanding age and cancer diagnoses, then died in office.

I think it's also worth noting that Raul Grijalva was consistently ranked as one of the most progressive House members. It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking of the gerontocracy problem as coming from the more centrist or moderate wing of the party, but it's really cross-ideological.

Elected office is not an entitlement and having members die of old age in office is failure of party discipline.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

But this isn't toxic debt repackaging, this isn't a bubble, don't you worry your silly little brain about it.

Local police couldn't dream up a better rehabilitation campaign than, "We're not as bad as ICE, those guys are assholes."

For the record, the local police had to arrive to free the girl from … the federal police.

This is horrific. It’s undeniable that we will need trials for ICE officials and officers after all this.

“Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family.”

ICE arrested the man two days later at the same place (his house).

They knew where he was, they knew they could come back.

Taking a five yr girl on the autism spectrum hostage is appalling. Period.

That they knew it was totally unnecessary just highlights the gleeful cruelty.

It’s a new season. The air is lighter. Let’s find an hour a day to move our bodies. Even if it’s a 30 min walk.

Just start.

Obviously they only polled Bluesky weirdos and not real american twitter democrats lile Nate Silver