The The New York Times reported extensively on Mayor Adams' ethical issues back in 2021 but all of that got erased amid the great George Floyd backlash of 2021-22 nytimes.com/2021/05/16/nyr…

If Democrats would go on offense and wedge abortion/freedom as hard as Republicans are wedging immigration and gender pronouns, I would sleep much better at night. We are not learning the lessons from 2023 on most of the swing may, which continues to run old strategy.

Idea for @kamalaharris: agree to a Times or Post or NPR interview and ask her interviewers to explain why they can't call out Trump's explicit fascist turn for what it is. That would make news

X is killing it

We should be alarmed by how unalarmed we are about a second Trump administration. This race is closer than it would be if more people understood what a second Trump term would actually mean for them. 🧵

On The Beat with Ari Melber in < hour to discuss this essay and many more uncomfortable things about Reality, reality, and our increasingly inability to distinguish between the two

At this point in October 2020, I wrote a piece for the glorious The Bulwark, imploring my new Dem friends to finish the campaign with confidence and swagger. I wrote that if I ran the Dem party, my message would be: We are going to crush Donald Trump and the sickness he

We're trying to stand up to a fascist who's in cahoots with the world's richest man, and our only weapon is: knocking on doors and having conversations. Of course it feels scary. Right now our job is to be brave and keep knocking.

More Michael Podhorzer brilliance: " ...surveys are used to “reveal” popular support for the indefensible (once it’s been sanitized), lending it a veneer of democratic legitimacy. This is what I call “poll-washing.” " open.substack.com/pub/michaelpod…

Have you heard that even most Latino voters support Trump’s mass deportation plans? That’s because of what I call “poll-washing”—using surveys to “reveal” popular support for something the survey-takers don’t fully understand. It’s time for pollsters to poll the policies, not the

More than 1 million.

Where is LeBron James? His has been a powerful voice over the last few years but it sure could make a difference now

Wow. Mike Johnson was caught on a hot mic saying that he and Donald Trump will repeal the Affordable Care Act. Spread this everywhere.

1/2 But…the full data have been in the public domain for years, in some cases decades. Anyone with internet access can go to the PubMed National Library of Medicine database. The data are unequivocal: vaccines don’t cause autism and there’s not even a plausible mechanism.

A Chinese American friend tells me there's heavy disinfo on WeChat targeting conservative Asian men

Trump appears to be unraveling live on stage “When I say insane asylums, and then I say, Doctor Hannibal Lecter, does anybody know? They go crazy. They say, oh, he brings up these names out of— Well, that's genius. Right. Doctor Hannibal Lecter. There's nobody worse than him.

This is terrific

Hugging a bearded guy with an AR-15 right now. Feels good