I cried in the car yesterday and apologized to my partner for pushing for us to move here. He stopped me and said "This is happening here because of the same reasons we wanted to move here. This is the place we should be."
It says something to me that neither Renee Good or Alex Pretti weren't originally from MN- but that they embodied what makes Minnesota wonderful: neighbors.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
Not to Stancil-post too much but โinflationโ is why we lost, not because of inflation but because it was the best macguffin for the job.
I donโt believe Dems can win a second consecutive term in the current media environment.
Itโs remarkable how closely Trump 2 is a replay of Trump 1, where his win shocked a bunch of people and everyoneโs now overcompensating because theyโre freaked out. What makes it worse this time around is that thereโs an obvious answer for why he won (inflation) and people are choosing to ignore it.
Kinda think this is a bad sentence? Black, lgbt, etc people are very often tolerant in the face of indignity - Rainbow Coalition invocation may have been stronger.
Hegseth: "Should our enemies choose foolishly to challenge us, they will be crushed by the violence, precision, and ferocity of the War Department. To our enemies, FAFO."
It's becoming clear that this is not an administration that is popular or skilled enough to do the consolidation needed to implement actual fascism, so they've decided that constantly creating fascism-flavored content is good enough
I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesnโt like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
Because it's such weird hyper-online gamer subculture stuff, there will be a lot of attempt to paint it as simply apolitical nihilism, but that is not an accurate description of the impression we're getting. This is very much at the intersection of that and far-right, they're completely entangled.
Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.
The kind of left liberalism Lakshya says is never coming back is just integration, and it ainโt going away until Lakshya and I and folks like us are no longer in America, which will be never. :)
Jamelle, Nikole, Lydia, Tressie and a lot of other people write for the Times and do great work that reaches a broad audience. I'm really glad they're there.
Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, Iโll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
I used to have all kinds of complicated, nuanced thoughts about political ideology and policy, but all that remains is, man, I hate these fucking fascists.
The president and vice president, like most Republicans, think it is good that a christian fanatic murdered an elected Democrat, and they pretty clearly hope there will be more murders.
It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
We're so close to fixing key drivers of California's housing crisis:
โ ๏ธ SB 79 would legalize apartments near transit.
โ ๏ธ AB 130 would end frivolous litigation against infill.
โ ๏ธ AB 253 + AB 1308 would prevent permitting/inspection delays.
โก๏ธ Here's how you can help.
Mayor Brandon Scott appears to be doing something right, but somehow this remarkable, record setting decline in violence doesn't quite make national headlines the way the opposite does
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/cr...
Disagree. Weโre trying to win a battle for control over this country and our future.
The Mexican flags hurt our cause and make it more likely that the fascists will win.
The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.
Everyone needs to think harder about how to drive attention to this giant Medicaid cut bill Republicans are on the verge of passing โ itโs very unpopular, all factions of Democrats oppose it, and yet itโs barely present in the discourse.
If the Bulwark is an op to make people sympathize with the center-right,then the left-of-center needs to come up with something besides endless doom and coalition-splitting to counter it. I've never been harassed by a Bulwark-adjacent person. I've never been told to vote against my own rights by one
We devote musicals, miniseries, and documentaries to the founders of our first republic and not to those of our second, who saw this country with clear eyes.
We need fewer encomiums for Jefferson, Madison, and Lafayette. More respect for Sumner, Stevens, Bingham and Douglass (Frederick).
Which founders? The founders of our second founding, those who drafted and ratified the 14th Amendment did.
Thatโs why they drafted Sec. 2 that would punish states that engaged in voter suppression and Sec. 3 that bars insurrectionists from serving in state or federal govt.
Two things I hold simultaneously: on the one hand, Democrats absolutely need to be honest about what compromises itโd take to win competitive Senate elections in Red states.
OTOH, Senate apportionment is increasingly incompatible with sustaining the republic and most be addressed directly.
I really feel like more people need to constructively engage with this! You can think the moderation/centrism discourse is often braindead (as I do!) but the center left really needs a pretty robust convo about what winning, say, an Iowa or Kansas or Texas or Ohio senate seat would look like.
I think it's unfortunate that โitโs easier to break things than to build them" has become a tagline of the second resistance. It may be technically true, to some degree, in some cases. But it's often overstated, demoralizing, and concedes too much to the vandals.
UNDERWOOD: Do you believe that the US government has the authority to deport American citizens
NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens
UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported
The Big Lie undergirding MAGAโs immigration posture is that immigrants are fundamentally parasitic, they just take from the host country. Itโs a fascist conception and also just obviously wrong if you think about it for more than 10 seconds.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Bessent: "I'm told that in parts of Florida, gasoline is $1.93, and that's an automatic tax cut for the American people. We're probably gonna see a lot more car travel this summer. So I think things are in good shape."
so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations.
everything.