Aaron Datesman

Not actually Tom Green.

[Tom Sherwood @tomsherwood]

#News - Dozens of names potentially up for appointment to that open DC Council at-large seat Kenyan McDuffie vacated. But don’t overlook Amy Mauro! Who, you say? Amy Mauro.
https://t.co/EgYZZhElE4

[Aaron Datesman @StrictlyNormal]

@tomsherwood ABSOLUTELY!

[☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz]

The foundation of Elon Musk's wealth is the hard work over decades by thousands of government employees — ones at NASA, government scientists who invented GPS (of which my father was one), and more. He is a spoiled child living in a fantasy world. https://t.co/xTuDD1bfMJ

[Jeremy Slevin @jeremyslevin]

The Senate candidate who overperformed Harris *more than anyone* was Nebraska's Dan Osborn, an independent union organizer who ran on an aggressively working class populist campaign.

I wonder why there've been virtually no think pieces or cable news panels about this.

[Josh Rainer @JoshRainerGold]

A crazy white guy who was obsessed with raw milk figured this out over 100 years ago and came up with all kinds of neck exercises to stimulate the thyroid and lymph nodes. His name was Bernarr MacFadden and he was the first fitness influencer.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

1. Identity politics is bad because it's fundamentally a con, a way of ensuring plutocrats control our society. It's the inversion of 'rights' to support authoritarian corporate power. Here are some examples.

*Stopping offshoring is racist.*

[☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz]

It's remarkable that none of the most powerful people in the Democratic Party bear any responsibility for the Democrats losing, but apparently that's what the evidence shows

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

One thing I hadn’t realized is how much Democrats have come to think of George W Bush as a reasonable President who followed the rule of law instead of a guy who did war, torture, and cronyism.

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

The true swing voters don’t swing between Republicans and Democrats.

They swing between the voting booth and back to the sidelines if they’re being ignored or taken for granted.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

The reason I find the 'blame The Groups' framework so problematic isn't because I like The Groups. I'm not liked at all within that ecosystem. It's because that framework is besides the point. We need a way to actually do *thinking.* What does that look like?

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Teamsters President Sean O’Brien’s request to Kamala Harris was to keep Yale law grad Lina Khan at the FTC because of Khan’s work on Amazon. Harris wouldn’t, so the Teamsters didn’t endorse.

Abundance!

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

It took a humiliating military defeat, crushing sanctions, and a historic economic collapse to turn Germany fascist. All it took in the United States was the election of one Black president.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

So far, Trump’s cabinet picks are no more “weird” or “extreme” or “clown car-ish” than George W. Bush’s.

Bush’s just had Ivy League/Beltway credentials and DC lanyards, which is why liberals now remember them as sensible normies. But they were sociopaths.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

If Trump's government is going full wing-nut, can he at least declassify the remaining JFK assassination stuff & the UFO stuff. I mean we deserve something.

[Zephyr Teachout 🇺🇸 @ZephyrTeachout]

Wow I hadn't realized this was possible. This seems like a no brainer!!!

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Analysis | Trump’s top priority in an attorney general is shielding himself from criminal prosecution. He should choose Merrick Garland.

[☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz]

One headline that could be published this week and pretty much every day is

Democrats Furious That Voters Believed the Wrong Lies

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

Susie Wiles, Trump's top campaign adviser and new chief of staff, was the Duval County, Florida co-chair for John McCain's 2008 campaign, and co-chair of Mitt Romney's 2012 Florida campaign. So her elevation clearly signals a dramatic ideological shift in the Republican Party 😂

[Andrew Dessler @AndrewDessler]

[Very Nordhaus voice] “Because most economic activity occurs indoors, warming of several degrees Celsius will have a minimal impact on our economy.”