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“Our country, our nation, and by extension our military, has been gripped by fascism...” I joined Alex Wagner on the Runaway Country podcast for a very engaging discussion on the war in Iran and the U.S. strike on an Iranian elementary school, where we delved into the broader lawlessness…

"Peace isn't what you ask for when the boot is already on someone's neck. Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don't want to be interrupted."

The regime and many of its supporters are surprised to see so many people in America define "Us" as "my neighbors, my city, my state, my country," rather than as "my race and gender." And they seem to have real trouble processing the idea of taking risks to help others and stand on principle.

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

matt yglesias, hakeem jeffries, and keir starmer walk into a bar www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

The president fails to realize how deeply Somali Americans love this country. We are doctors, teachers, and elected leaders working to make our country better. We will not let Trump intimidate or debilitate us. My op-ed: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives' a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not' so the funding disappeared?? and people are dying??

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Fascism is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Both documented & undocumented immigrants are definitely deleting their socials and keeping heads down at the risk of being disappeared. While the average white American citizen isn’t being oppressed by the government. It doesn’t mean no one is.

the GOP nuking the filibuster to end this shutdown is the best case scenario if we want a chance at fixing any of this shit we're going to have to get rid of it, better to let them do it themselves rather than worry about Fetterman pulling a Joe Manchin

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

I still can't get over the fact that between 2017-2023, opposing Trump was very good politics, netting Dems many significant wins. Then Trump wins one fluky election - probably based more on inflation than anything else - and the Dems decide to stop fighting.

the idea the dems have to hold onto the "moral highground" by not counter gerrymandering is so dumb. nobody gives a fuck about the moral high ground. the president is literally rapist

The way you square low party favorables with an okay generic ballot and very strong special election performance is that the Democratic base is ready to crawl over broken glass to oppose Republicans and furious at party leadership for not feeling the same.

One thing that I haven't seen said in the last 24 hours is that the Democratic Party had an opportunity, as an institution, to help shape, foster, and direct the grassroots popular uprising against Trump II. They made a conscious decision not to.

ICE crossed a line in LA

When you write a weekly column, you don’t love most of them. 😑 But I’m pretty good with this one and hope you’ll read it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/trump-biden-election-media-coverage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The Big Lie undergirding MAGA’s immigration posture is that immigrants are fundamentally parasitic, they just take from the host country. It’s a fascist conception and also just obviously wrong if you think about it for more than 10 seconds. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

The White House is claiming it can take away anyone’s rights without due process and throw them in a foreign prison forever. What could be higher stakes than that? *This* is the trap, you fool: Talking yourself into accepting the end of rights in America because standing up for them might be hard.

This is a craven, evil take. Also, it's hypocritical and senseless - these infighting, Dems-in-disarray stories distract from the tariff messaging at least as much as fighting lawless kidnapping and destruction of human rights does. For nothing but the thrill of being a source of anonymous gossip.

Removing people to a third country to be imprisoned in a foreign gulag is also not deportation as it is typically understood. We can't allow these terms to be redefined.

10 national unions repping 3 million members demand the release of abducted immigrant workers and call for employers and university admins to refuse to cooperate and elected officials to “find their spines.” This is the way. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

"Do you want a good government or a country that's in ruins?" This interview was too good not to share in its entirety. So meet Grant, a 15-year-old student from Princeton, New Jersey, who spoke to our reporter at the #HandsOff rally there. He has some thoughts.

The people responsible for this should be fired directly into the sun www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

One thing that I think "hiding" does is it offers a small antidote to the "both sides" / balance paradigm - if they were hiding it, even they know it was wrong.

Most people have heard the quote “history is written by the winners”. I want everyone to understand that this is not some kind of metaphor. It is quite literal. Fascists always work to literally erase the artifacts that tell the history that they don’t want told.

Schumer wants us to believe Senate Dems are powerless while literally providing the votes to ensure the GOP agenda goes forward. If a shutdown was better for Trump, the House GOP wouldn't have passed this CR and the Senate GOP wouldn't vote for it. Schumer knows that; he's outright lying to us.

The whole "but both options are bad!" rationale doesn't reckon with the fact that only one option can be mitigated. A shutdown creates a fight that could lead to a different solution; a cave just locks in the bad option.

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

Chris Hayes: Some Democrats are convinced they just need to keep their heads down and hope they can run on egg prices in two years. Not only is that strategy morally wrong in my view, but it is strategically wrong.

The fundamental problem with Dem messaging is that they are making it crystal clear they don’t take seriously their own rhetoric about the existential threat Trump poses. Which is perverse, because it’s true. But if they don’t why should anyone else?

Hope to see you there

Here’s what I’ll say about all this: (1) the most direct way to influence the party is to change the people running in it, (2) as far as I know, @runforsomething.net has the largest candidate pipeline on our side, and (3) we were not at this retreat. Make of that what you will. 🤷‍♀️