Remember, MAGA took a lurid, made-up QAnon fantasy about Hillary Clinton and Comet Ping Pong as an absolute empirical fact.
Emails about Trump raping little girls? They're suddenly disinterested.
Two things happened last weekend.
1. A group of pro-Trump billionaires took control of TikTok's U.S. operations.
2. TikTok appeared to begin suppressing content about ICE's activity in Minneapolis and criticism of Trump.
We all grieve in different ways! Some of us cry. Some of us want to be alone. Some of us want our friends nearby. Some of us want to gleefully tabulate how much money we made on merchandise with our dead beloved’s name on it. It’s all normal.
Mamdani was what so many politicians, law firms, universities, media companies, and others have not been: totally, completely, authentically unafraid. That's the only way to defeat authoritarianism.
Mamdani shows that the future of the Democratic Party has to be about principled movement building that imagines a different future, not a stale poll-tested defense of a status quo nobody wants.
cuomo being endorsed by trump proves what leftists have been saying for ages....that establishment democrats still protect most of the same corporate interests as conservatives, they just stick a pride flag on it.
Battery capacity by power grid in the US:
CAISO (California): 14,609 MW
ERCOT (Texas): 10,982 MW
PJM (Mid-Atlantic): 441 MW
Crazy that California has built 33x more battery capacity than the largest grid in the US (PJM).
In the last few years we've seen:
- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.
The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.
I laid out this morning what a real opposition can look like at this moment of crisis. We still have the power to stop this billionaire power grab, but Democrats need to act like our democracy is weeks away from disintegrating - because it is.
The latest US literacy stats have just dropped and they are every bit as grim as you might imagine.
"Approximately 50% of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading prescription drug labels"