Chris Edelson

The central argument in my book is that trump is using contrived emergencies in an effort to claim the kind of unlimited power asserted by 17th century British monarchs. The Iran War is one example of this.

Pure, uncut racism.

This is a 2018 wave election with the difference being unaffiliated/independent voters are showing up in force, too

There never was a non-horrible plausible explanation for the Trump birthday card to Epstein.

Julie K. Brown at the Miami Herald is still doing the heavy lifting on keeping the story alive. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

The Grand Old Rape Party

Anolt “AJ” Laguerre Jr. should be 23 today. He was shot and killed at 19, one of three victims of the 2023 racially-motivated mass shooting at the Jacksonville, Florida Dollar General. #disarmhate View the birthday calendar at thebirthdayfairyproject.org

"The President once again complimented Jon Husted's ass and also complimented Nikki Minaj's ass. Minaj stood up and waved to the cheering audience." - Excerpt from White House traveling radio pool report by Jon Decker in Michigan

This bigotry reminds me of the ugly slurs directed at candidate and then President Obama. trump's immediate antecedents in the Republican party told us that Obama is not a real American-and trump, of course, helped spread the disgusting "birther" lie about Obama. Enough of this garbage.

only trump, an actual convicted criminal, has the shameless chutzpah to mark a Senate candidate as dangerous based solely on a vile stereotype about his religion.

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

Trump is straight up saying during speeches that he wants white people coming to the country but not black. I don’t know what else people need to see.

We've reached the point of the "end birthright citizenship" campaign where people are calling for it full-throatedly while the president stands next to them and nods approvingly A political movement that holds as one of its main pillars the overturning of the 14 Amendment is anti-democratic

Today was the best day for global democracy in quite a while.

ugly, naked, unapologetic bigotry. trump's breath is rank with the odor of fascism, as I have said in the past.

"The gender gap persists, but its because _everyone_ swung left this cycle" is going to be a very important analytical point. Young people are generally more persuadable and Democrats are only going to have a "mandate" insofar as they capitalize on the anger and ambition that drove the 2026 vote.

The Justice Department's last-second letters about noncitizen voting contain people with no history of voting whatsoever, and they're moving so fast they sloppily sent one county the wrong list of names.

They somehow tracked Acton’s birth mom down, found her living in a car with her cats, in a church parking lot, and took her to a video shoot to make vague accusations about her daughter, who she hadn’t seen in 40+ years, being a liar. Borders on elder abuse.

We should incessantly remind people of our own revolutionary history, that when soldiers shot people during the Boston Massacre, they were prosecuted locally with no sovereign immunity invoked to protect them from homicide charges. bsky.app/profile/nath...

So witkoff/kushner toadie sell out negotiations involves cutting Russian companies in on US energy deals? Are we giving Alaska back to Russia?

I sometimes think of Trump as a Moral Alien. A garden variety sociopath usually at least grasps, however roughly and abstractly, how someone with a minimal sense of empathy or conscience thinks, if only because it's often tactically necessary to fake it. Trump has lost contact with even that.

Trump and a number of others in the GOP are attacking someone for having reported her abuse as a child. This is utterly depraved and every news site should be leading with this.

We found that USPS cuts have caused at least a one-day delivery/postmark delay, most affecting states that allow ballots to count if they come in after Election Day as long as they’re postmarked by that day. Rejection rates increased most in areas that voted for Trump in 2024.

link to a presentation I did yesterday at Tufts on donald trump's effort to undo the American Revolution by attempting to claim the kind of power associated with 17th century British monarchs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5D3...

Like the barbarians sacking Rome These cretins lack respect and reverence for America's liberal democratic ethos, and they demonstrate it time and again by destroying our icons and relics for their own selfish motives

But we at @protectdemocracy.org were ready to fight and WON a court case to stop the voter raids last night. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

Voter intimidation is illegal. There will be accountability.

a thing called November? Is this real?

Rosalie Martin should be 6 today. She was shot and killed at 4, struck by a stray bullet in the waiting room of her dentist’s office in 2025. Guns are the #1 cause of death for American children. #endgunviolence

That sound you hear is the Cold Warriors of yore spinning in their graves at the sight and sound of these lickspittles fluffing a brutal Russian autocrat

This is a central point in writing I am working on regarding the need for accountability. The book Regime Change describes trump's lack of shame as a superpower. It's not. It only works because Republicans do not hold him to account. If Ds get the chance, accountability is essential.

A disgrace.

utter disgrace for the United States, shameful beyond words. witkoff and other trumpists are so limited in their understanding of the world that they can't comprehend how embarrassing this is for them and the United States.

If Biden ever etc etc. I need alcohol. Obligatory @jaketapper.bsky.social

For Andry José Hernández Romero & others sent to CECOT. For those rounded up like animals & dumped God knows where. For their familiies. For Ukraine. For the poor who were left to die when we illegally cut off aid. For the allies we betrayed. For the Rule of Law. For the start of making things right

"I am confident that Iran's cause, like Russia's, is a just cause" -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, yesterday Rubbing it in our faces. Dog walking the US president for all to see. And still Trump kisses up to Russia, apes their propaganda, and tries to help their aggression succeed.

Fox News headlines and other coverage of Paris riots is like something taken out of the racist, pro-genocide novel Camp of the Saints

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)