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1Oct 5, '23Dems are not obliged to bail out Republicans when the MAGA monster they created comes for them. The idea is absurd. It presumes Republicans can't be asked to take responsibility fo19.5×3M8.1k2k195
2May 2, '23Ron DeSantis' ongoing disaster with Disney is getting worse for him. It turns out his own memoir repeatedly admits that he weaponized the state against Disney for criticizing "don'18×2.7M12k2.3k417
3Jun 1, '23A remarkable thing just happened in a deep red Florida county: For hours on end, teachers, parents, and kids pushed back ferociously against right wing attacks on "woke indoctrinat15.9×2.4M15k3.5k709
4Aug 24, '24I think something big is happening here: Kamala Harris appears to be running precisely the kind of inspired, aggressive campaign that combatting the forces of rising authoritariani12.3×1.9M16k3.1k1.2k
5Jun 23, '25Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want10×1.5M15k4.8k2.7k
6Jun 14, '24An important development: Trump's criminality is becoming a genuine wedge issue against Republicans. Don't be fooled by GOP's outward shows of unity behind Dear Leader. The cracks 9.7×1.5M7.6k2k576
7Feb 23, '23If Kevin McCarthy is going to give 1/6 footage to Tucker Carlson, then Dems should make it available to real news organizations. I've confirmed with the Capitol Police that House D9.6×1.5M12k3.2k110
8May 26, '23Utterly shameless: Ron DeSantis is lashing out at the media for reporting on the removal of the Amanda Gorman book, calling it a "poem hoax." Again, *one single objector* got this 9.1×1.4M9.3k2.4k126
9Jun 23, '23This has gone under the radar, but it's a huge deal: John Eastman is facing disbarment proceedings for his role as key architect of Trump's coup. And Eastman really might lose. Whe9.0×1.4M8.9k1.9k131
10Sep 19, '23NEWS: Today @GovernorShapiro will announce that Pennsylvania is switching to automatic voter registration, potentially adding tens of thousands of voters to the rolls. "I see voter8.7×1.3M12k2.7k136
11Sep 5, '24It's a big deal that veteran journalist Mike Barnicle has now called out his media colleagues for failing to adequately cover Trump's visibly worsening mental state. It should spur8.4×1.3M21k5.9k830
12Sep 13, '24Big news out of Springfield: The Mayor has now confirmed that the emailed bomb threat did contain hateful language about immigrants. Trump and Vance can no longer pretend not to kn8.1×1.2M14k5.6k422
13Feb 8, '25In December, NYT revealed that Elon Musk and SpaceX were failing to meet govt reporting protocol designed to protect state secrets while they haul in billions in Pentagon contracts8.0×1.2M20k6.8k2.3k
14Nov 27, '24This is getting overlooked, but the whole premise of Trump's threat of tariffs is based on a lie. He's claiming Mexico must be bullied into stopping migrants. But Mexico is *alread7.5×1.1M12k4k1.2k
15Jan 26, '24A strange thing about media coverage of Trump and the border: It largely erases his term as president. He didn't fix anything. He too released many migrants. He couldn't get his ow6.2×934k7.3k2.9k347
16Mar 2, '23Now that Fox News has been decisively exposed as rank propaganda, Dems need to fundamentally adjust their posture. No more treating Fox as a news outlet in any sense at all. "This 6.1×919k7.5k2k119
17Jun 9, '23Stop saying the indictment "tests our democracy." The actual "test" we face is Trump's apparent crimes and the unhinged GOP defense of him, which effectively posits that any/all la5.7×861k7.2k1.8k91
18Sep 8, '24Why aren't we getting these front page headlines today: *Trump threatens to jail election workers if elected *Trump's vow of mass prosecutions of political foes puts spotlight on h5.4×825k7.8k3.6k297
19Jul 12, '24Remarkable finding in new Marist poll: By 68-32, voters say they're more concerned about a president who doesn't tell the truth than one who is too old to serve. Maybe we should co3.9×588k9.4k3.7k281
20Jan 20, '20New CNN poll: 51% of Americans say Trump should be *removed.* Only 45% say he shouldn't 69% say Senate trial should feature new witnesses 58% say Trump abused his power 57% say he 3.9×025k8.5k142
21Dec 13, '17Narratives that just died: -- African Americans won't turn out -- Trump's formidable last minute entry will swing election -- Pro-choice stance doomed Jones -- Bannon's use of Nazi3.5×027k7.1k0
22Jan 7, '21NEW: All the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee just wrote a letter to Vice President Pence, urging him to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump:3.3×024k6.6k247
23Dec 30, '181) As Trump ends the year with a flood of lies about his wall, we need to recapture a core truth about this presidency. Trump isn't “twisting the truth” or “stubbornly refusing to 3.2×019k8k488
24Oct 14, '20The New York Post story some are tweeting about has a huge falsehood in it: Story claims Biden pushed for the ouster of the Ukrainian prosecutor when he was investigating Burisma. 3.2×012k6.5k356
25Apr 27, '23A big development: After John Roberts told Congress to pound sand, Senators just introduced a bill *requiring* SCOTUS to adopt an ethics code, and requiring full disclosure of inte3.1×473k7.4k1.6k68
26Nov 9, '20It's time for news organizations to cover Trump's current moves as an effort to steal the election. No more euphemisms. That's what they're doing. And no, the fact that it is not g2.9×021k5.8k102
27Jul 1, '25Okay, this Musk tweet is pretty interesting. He's figuring it out!2.9×434k11k1.8k629
28Mar 23, '20NEW: Dems have found a measure that Rs buried in the stimulus that would restrict small business money from going to a range of health care providers that take Medicaid. This inclu2.7×011k8.4k195
29Oct 14, '20This is a huge tell. A GOP strategist tells Bloomberg that Senate Republicans don't want a big stimulus bill now because they want to pivot hard to austerity under a Biden presiden2.6×012k7.1k436
30Nov 28, '181) This is extraordinary. Sinclair is now reportedly requiring dozens of local stations to air a segment that defends the tear-gassing of migrants and describes them as an “invasio2.3×011k7k213
31Mar 1, '22Don't let them memory-hole this: * Trump spread propaganda about Ukraine interfering in 2016 * He withheld WH meeting from Zelensky after freezing military aid * He ousted US ambas2.3×012k6.2k478
32Dec 13, '19McConnell's vow of a rigged trial gives Dems an opening. They can try to force votes on fairer rules, and call for admission of new evidence, putting vulnerable Rs in a tough spot.2.2×012k6.1k332
33Feb 9, '25Just awful: One of the inspector generals that Trump fired was examining Elon Musk's failures to meet reporting protocol designed to safeguard national security as a major recipien2.1×324k13k5.3k802
34Feb 26, '20NEWS: Barack Obama is calling on TV stations to stop airing an ad from a pro-Trump super PAC that deceptively uses audio of Obama to make it sound like he's denouncing @JoeBiden fo2.1×011k5.7k147
35Dec 31, '17When headlines echo Trump's false or dubious claims without signaling to readers that they are false or dubious, they are doing what Trump wants them to do. This was the whole poin2.1×013k5.2k0
36Jun 1, '21NEWS: 100 leading democracy scholars just issued a powerful new statement warning that our democracy is under dire threat, and that Democrats must pass sweeping federal voting righ2.1×011k4.9k341
37Feb 20, '18As WaPo reported, top Obama officials asked McConnell to show a united front against Russian sabotage. But McConnell refused, claiming "he would consider any effort by the White Ho2.1×011k6.4k0
38Jan 7, '21Wall of sedition:2.0×012k4.8k244
39Nov 18, '19New ABC/Ipsos poll: 51% of Americans say Trump should be impeached *and removed* 58% say they're following impeachment hearings closely 70% say it was wrong to ask a foreign leader2.0×013k4.3k56
40May 3, '19Wow. The President of the United States just confirmed that he directly informed Vladimir Putin that he is not accepting the Mueller report's conclusion that Russia interfered in o1.9×012k4.7k61
41Oct 27, '20Dear Democrats: Play by the rules that Republicans have now established.1.9×015k3k61
42Sep 9, '20Holy crap. This is from the new DHS whistleblower complaint. He says he was ordered to "modify" a threat assessment, particularly "the section on White Supremacy" to make "the thre1.8×09.2k5.3k369
43Jan 22, '21Josh Hawley's ludicrous clean-up act continues. He just claimed that by enabling Trump's lie about the election, he was "representing" his constituents. Nope. He deliberately misle1.8×012k3.6k132
44Sep 15, '19This is really something. @RepAdamSchiff said on CBS today that the Director of National Intelligence has told the Intel Committee that he was instructed not to turn over the whist1.7×09.2k4.8k114
45May 8, '20Kayleigh McEnany gave away the game today. She told reporters that the White House is operating safely, *because it has testing and tracing.* But Trump won't create the robust fede1.7×010k4.5k142
46Dec 2, '17It's simply amazing that @SenJohnMcCain will vote for this after his allegedly heroic speech about regular order.1.7×010k4.4k0
47Nov 22, '17New post: Trump's rage-tweets about LaVar Ball are part of a pattern. Trump regularly attacks high-profile African Americans to feed his supporters' belief that the system is rigge1.7×011k3.9k1
48Oct 3, '19New USA Today poll: Americans support House *impeaching* Trump by 45-38 They support *Senate conviction and removal* by 44-35 (!) Note: 30% of Republicans say pressure on Ukraine t1.6×011k3.8k60
49Nov 22, '19It's time for Democrats to let go of the idea that Trump's GOP defenders can be *shamed* into acknowledging Trump's criminality. We need a deep reset. It's time to rhetorically tre1.6×09.8k3.8k161
50Dec 22, '20Mitch McConnell is falsifying the history of how we got the rescue package, all to save his Georgia senators. But he and Republicans were the chief obstacles all along, and only br1.6×09.8k4k171
51Nov 4, '20Meltdown in progress:1.6×012k2.5k92
52Jan 15, '21The new Post poll has some awful findings among Republicans: 51% say GOP leaders didn't go far enough in nullifying election 56% say Trump bears zero blame for the insurrection 66%1.6×07.6k3.4k467
53Mar 3, '20Trump is now attacking Biden as mentally unfit. Meanwhile, Trump's towering pathologies are impairing our response to a public health emergency. This absurdity is made possible by 1.6×09.5k3.8k73
54Aug 26, '21Huh, look what the internet found.1.6×011k3.6k191
55Jan 14, '19In light of blockbuster revelations about Trump and Russia, it's time to intensify scrutiny of McConnell's role: * Refused united front against Russian interference * Scuttled effo1.6×08.6k4.2k83
56Nov 29, '22Shockingly, Elon Musk's strategy of berating and coercing private companies into handing over advertising revenues, rather than making Twitter attractive to them, appears to be bac1.5×011k2.5k409
57Dec 29, '18You were offered $25 billion by Dems for your wall in exchange for legalizing Dreamers. You turned it down because you and Stephen Miller wanted deep cuts to legal immigration. Do 1.5×011k3.4k37
58Feb 18, '19We are numb to this, but here the President of the United States is amplifying calls to jail U.S. law enforcement officials who are investigating a foreign power's sabotaging of ou1.5×010k3.6k38
59Feb 12, '20Trump has now publicly admitted that his attorney general intervened in the case of his own longtime adviser -- who obstructed an investigation into an attack on our political syst1.5×09.5k3.7k103
60Jul 16, '18I'm going to keep saying this until you listen to it. Every time Trump makes this claim, it invites a new round of media scrutiny of the times in 2016 that *Mitch McConnell and Rep1.5×09.4k4k32
61Jan 13, '19New Post/ABC poll: 53% of Americans blame Trump and Republicans for the shutdown, versus only 29% who blame Democrats. Importantly, among independents it's 53-23 (!) 54% oppose the1.5×09k3.5k31
62Sep 4, '20Here's a shocker. It turns out the lurid story William Barr told on CNN about mail-vote fraud in Texas was riddled with falsehoods and misinformation. The prosecutor in the case ju1.5×08.5k3.9k108
63Oct 5, '20This is a very concise and well-argued case for voting for @JoeBiden.1.5×013k2k25
64May 18, '20NEWS: House Dems have learned that the State Department IG fired by Trump had mostly completed an investigation into the decision by @SecPompeo to fast track $8 billion in arms to 1.4×07.6k3.9k140
65Sep 26, '18SCOOP Mark Judge's girlfriend is prepared to speak to FBI about what Judge told her about group sex episodes as part of a renewed background check investigation, her lawyer has inf1.4×07.6k4.1k48
66May 29, '19Devastating. Mueller just clearly declared that he didn't bring obstruction charges *not* because the evidence didn't point that way, but because of DOJ policy, and because there a1.4×011k2.7k34
67Jan 30, '20GOP Senators know Trump's claims about Biden in Ukraine are lies. Here's proof. In a 2016 hearing, numerous GOP Senators were briefed on the *Obama administration policy* of pursui1.4×07.5k4.1k170
68Nov 16, '18"Paul Ryan leaves Washington as the architect of the GOP’s biggest loss of House seats in any election since Watergate." Good @RonBrownstein look at the price the GOP paid for the 1.4×08.7k3.2k118
69May 19, '20Wait, so *this* is the big Susan Rice smoking gun email? Seriously???1.4×09.3k2.5k267
70Sep 16, '20This seems like a big moment in the campaign. Trump explicitly told the nation that he should be trusted over his own CDC on the vaccine. That's headline news. It unequivocally con1.4×09.8k3k75
71Feb 14, '20NEW: Numerous House Dems are privately pushing to hear testimony from the prosecutors who quit the Roger Stone case in protest against Bill Barr's meddling, aides tell me. This wou1.4×09.1k3.2k61
72Sep 19, '22Don't overlook this. Trump's Ohio rally was unhinged, but he also delivered a clear message: He fully expects a GOP Congress to shut down any/all investigations into him. The barga1.4×07.7k3.5k187
73Apr 8, '22Such a big moment: Sen. Brian Schatz erupted at Josh Hawley on the floor, delivering a brutal takedown of Hawley's bad faith. I talked to Schatz about why Dems need to do this more1.3×09.8k2.2k153
74Dec 6, '19The Boston Globe editorial board comes out for impeachment: Has any other major metropolitan newspaper done so? Serious question.1.3×09.1k2.9k60
75Mar 25, '22The Ginni Thomas texts with Meadows also rip the lid off another big story: The hidden role of Christian nationalism in Trump's coup effort. Their talk about Jesus delivering the e1.3×08k2.9k217
76Jan 12, '21We need to cut through the baloney. Until Republicans forthrightly admit that Biden *legitimately* won the election and that Trump's lies about it are the cause of the violence, th1.3×09.4k2.5k92
77Oct 7, '20This private letter to the head of the CDC from one of his predecessors is just shattering. It says: "the biggest challenge in a century and we let the country down" It adds that h1.3×07.5k3.4k235
78Oct 5, '18If you really think that Susan Collins would have voted against Kavanaugh if 1) Avenatti hadn't repped Swetnick; or 2) Dems had made a bigger issue out of Ed Whelan or 3) [INSERT P1.3×011k1.9k11
79Nov 10, '20NEW: @ProjectLincoln is launching a TV and social media campaign targeting @JonesDay for any role it plays in enabling Trump's efforts to overturn the election, I'm told. Jones Day1.3×08.7k2.1k127
80Jul 5, '22Gavin Newsom's new TV ad slamming Ron DeSantis is best understood as an effort to fill a serious vacuum in the Democratic Party: The lack of leaders making a comprehensive case abo1.2×09.3k2k142
81Nov 8, '19Republicans are throwing Giuliani under the bus by claiming he freelanced the extortion plot. But there's a small problem with this argument. Trump directly told Zelensky that Giul1.2×07.9k3.1k65
82Mar 12, '18Why are smart people pretending not to grasp difference between 1) "covering" a presidential rally, which media should of course do and 2) giving unfiltered, endless airtime to Tru1.2×08.9k2.5k8
83Apr 29, '19New: Rep @tedlieu tells me House Dems must be prepared to launch impeachment inquiry in direct response to Trump's total resistance to oversight. Lieu also says House should quickl1.2×08.3k2.7k32
84Mar 25, '20Dems have secured a provision in the deal that prohibits businesses controlled by Trump, Pence, members of Congress and heads of exec departments from getting loans or investments 1.2×09.1k2k24
85Jan 10, '22A big deal: The coal miners' union just ratcheted up pressure on Manchin to support BBB. This is a seminal moment: The divergence in interests between workers and mine owners who o1.2×08.1k2.3k136
86Aug 1, '19Joe Biden just pointed out that Trump won a fluke-like victory by a handful of votes in a few states, while losing the popular vote by 3 million. Dems should point this out constan1.2×08.2k2.5k34
87Jun 13, '18As always, Trump gets rewarded for his absurdities and lies by headlines and tweets that don't inform readers when his claim is baseless -- which was exactly the point of the claim1.1×08.1k2.6k12
88Oct 2, '19Here @RepAdamSchiff is explicitly confirming a really important point: Anything the White House and the administration do to stonewall at this point will be considered for an artic1.1×09k2.1k31
89Mar 6, '21In the end, Dems remained united behind an enormous package nearly three times the 2009 stimulus that will help untold numbers of people. Amid two of the biggest US crises of moder1.1×09.6k1.6k36
90May 8, '19Only one 2020 Democrat fully grasps the threat that Trump poses. And only one of them has offered a suitably detailed and comprehensive response to *all* the challenges and perils 1.1×07.4k2.5k99
91Jan 10, '20It's hard to overstate how deranged this is. And the deafening cheers from the rally crowd demonstrate once again how heavily Trump's petty, adolescent abusiveness figures as a fac1.1×07.6k1.8k106
92Nov 9, '22Don't overlook this: At least 4 of the 5 swing states that decided 2020 won't have election-denying governors or secretaries of state. It may soon be 5. That's a huge step toward a1.1×08.4k1.9k182
93Jul 13, '20The White House's attacks on Dr. Fauci have blown up in Trump's face. They've highlighted that Fauci tries to learn from mistakes and prioritizes public health over Trump's politic1.1×07.5k2.3k56
94Apr 20, '22Mallory McMorrow's epic takedown displayed something you rarely hear from Dems: A willingness to forcefully call out right wing degeneracy for what it truly is. James Carville tell1.0×08.3k1.6k180
95Jul 9, '18It's so weird the way smart people are pretending not to understand that the problem people have with the media and Trump rallies is with the wall-to-wall broadcasting of his unfil1.0×07.8k1.9k13
96Nov 24, '19There's a weird framing in the media right now: "Has the impeachment inquiry *changed the minds* of any Republicans?" The problem with this is it furthers the assumption that Rs ar1.0×07.2k2k36
97Dec 3, '17Shame on those who treat helping the poor as solely a matter of charity, rather than one of societal obligation.1.0×07.6k2k0
98May 27, '20How many other Republicans have undertaken this simple and basic act of decency?1.0×08.6k1.4k10
99Dec 2, '22So richly deserved: Now that Musk suspended Ye for sharing a swastika, Musk is getting slaughtered by his fans, who are finally realizing his "free speech absolutism" was always th1.0×08k1.3k154

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