Daniel Plainview

Ten years ago today Scalia died, and McConnell immediately said he wouldn’t let Obama fill the seat. Dems said and did nothing; the media treated it as normal politics. No one treated it as a crisis. I believe historians will view this episode as one of the key moments of our descent into fascism.

i believe in occam's razor. the simplest, most obvious response is that the game is being thrown on purpose. the other explanations are too tortured and absurd.

Okay but what if Trump was personally criticizing you as an official act in his capacity as president?

Yesterday’s attack on Iran sends a strong message to would-be dictators who use secret police to murder protesters.

Pundits: if Trump ever directly defied a supreme court order then it would have to be characterized as a constitutional crisis Trump: *directly defies order* Pundits: What to make of Trump’s bold tariff gambit? It depends who you ask.

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.

There doesn’t have to be a conspiracy around what Epstein was saying in these emails because the reality is that sexual violence is enabled at every level of society, so he had no reason to hide what he was doing. The government, the powerful, even many in the media knew the truth

Blanche: It's not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

Okay, so impeach when?

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

If you want to know what people mean when they say Democrats are "controlled opposition," rather than whipping votes against ICE funding, Hakeem Jeffries struck a deal with Republicans to allow Democrats to feign outrage at ICE while still funding the spending package.

If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed. Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.

Oh, thank god! They‘ve sent a letter!

If only we could have seen this coming…

Tiresome to keep repeating it a full decade into Democrats giving Nazis power to commit Nazi atrocities but: The government must be shut down permanently until this Nazi criminal is gone, and Democrats who refuse to go along with this should be afraid to leave their homes.

Will we pull out of NATO before annexing Greenland?

(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops .. @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Not a real opposition party.

I don't understand this or the daily Bluesky posts re how we'll have new Nuremberg Trials after Trump. Trump committed unprecedented atrocities in his first term; Biden forgave him and his leading Nazi cohorts. Not a single 2028 Democratic Presidential contender has vowed to do what needs to be done

If the Supreme Court makes you mad keep in mind that within the last week Democratic senators have been voting for GOP judges to get on the federal bench

the democrats aren’t a real opposition party

Say it with me: Trump rapes children.

Like, not joking.

Investigate the Sulzbergers.

It’s very clear that the president of the United States is a pedophile, and it’s been clear for many years, and no one does anything about it.

After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run. We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

Senate Dems could at any moment choose to remove him from leadership, but every day they choose stasis and complacency instead.

Not a real opposition party.

Nancy Pelosi declined to seek war crimes charges for Bush admin criminals, and she had to be pushed to impeach Donald Trump. Meanwhile, she made tens of millions of dollars on insider stock trades. I’d celebrate her departure if her seat weren’t being filled by her nepo baby daughter.

there are monsters among us and when they die we don’t have to pretend they weren’t monsters

Democrats aren’t screaming 24/7 about the fascist GOP’s refusal to seat a duly elected representative in Congress.

You’d be hard-pressed to concoct a better metaphor for America in 2025 than Trump lying about his ballroom and tearing apart the White House in broad daylight while Democrats do absolutely nothing in response.

This is the stuff we need way more of: simple, non-violent acts of refusal to submit to fascism.

They could have perp walked Trump, multiple times, for multiple offenses. They could have convicted him in the Senate, as a bipartisan majority of senators voted to do. When you decide not to pursue justice, this is the result.

On February 13, 2016 I sounded the alarm on our democracy. That’s when Mitch McConnell said he wouldn’t let Obama replace Scalia and the Democrats didn’t immediately treat it like the constitutional crisis it was. Nobody listened, but I was right.

Sustained mass protest is and has always been our only way out of this. I’m talking about tens of millions in the streets, sweeping general strikes, and so on. Every day we count on the Democratic Party to save us from fascism is a day we will slip further into fascism.

Never forget how fast the Democratic Congress passed an emergency spending bill to increase security at Supreme Court justices' homes after peaceful protests outside.