Victor Shi

Now: Comms for Dems/good people; Past—@MayorOfLA; @KamalaHQ, @iGenPolitics_, @JoeBiden, @WhiteHouse, @CAPAction, @DNC, @Precisionstrat, @SKDK. @UCLA. Views=mine

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Between the videos of Jon Ossoff and Haley Stevens, I think we can all agree that TMZ's decision to descend into DC is probably the best thing that has happened in a while. More videos that get our elected officials to look, talk, and sound like normal human beings!

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

@kimmasters @EricSchultz @WSJ say it louder Kim!!!!

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

And as the Haley Stevens video demonstrated, if TMZ approaches you, don't pull your principal away! Lean into it, engage with them, talk to them. Staffers shouldn't be pulling candidates away from talking to TMZ!

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Between the videos of Jon Ossoff and Haley Stevens, I think we can all agree that TMZ's decision to descend into DC is probably the best thing that has happened in a while. More videos that get our elected officials to look, talk, and sound like normal human beings!

[TMZ @TMZ]

Sen. Jon Ossoff has one question for President Trump: "Why did you begin a war based on lies that you don't know how to end?" 🤔

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Today’s news is a repudiation of Paramount’s strategy of currying favor with the Trump administration to grease the wheels on this illegal merger –– from sham settlement payments to manipulating its own news coverage.

Stay strong and #BlockTheMerger

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

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[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that the president was so unashamed to photobomb the Spain Soccer Team’s World Cup photo and then FIFA totally photoshopped him out of the picture. He is an embarrassment and laughingstock around the world to depths hard to fathom.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

In collaboration with @munkschool, I am sharing a ten-lecture course I taught at @UofT this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.”
Watch the first lecture here: https://t.co/ry7GSIspXv

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is honestly pitiful. If you don't have the tiny amount of political courage that it takes to answer that question, why should we believe that you'd deal with Trump with anything other than total subservience?

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

What I loved most about today’s hearings into Trump’s nominees was how Democrats weren’t afraid to shame them, to humiliate them, to outright ask the complete disintegration of their basic character and morals. It’s refreshing and important to show.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

It is sad & troubling that a U.S. Senator has to do this in 2026, but someone had to, & I’m very glad that it was Jon Ossoff who did. There’s no one like Sen. Ossoff. An absolute masterclass. Just humiliating for Jay Clayton.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

More where that come from below. Thank you, Sen. Ossoff. https://t.co/GYyOKCMbVn

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Jay Clayton's election denialism did not go well

During his confirmation hearing for DNI, US Attorney Jay Clayton was reduced to shrugging and sitting in silence as Democrats like Jon Ossoff and Mark Kelly simply asked him to acknowledge the obvious truth -- that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, and Trump lost

But Clayton was too afraid of offending Trump to do so, instead stammering through dodges like "uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you"

Here's a supercut from Clayton's disastrous hearing:

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

It is sad & troubling that a U.S. Senator has to do this in 2026, but someone had to, & I’m very glad that it was Jon Ossoff who did. There’s no one like Sen. Ossoff. An absolute masterclass. Just humiliating for Jay Clayton.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: Who won the 2020 election?

Clayton: I’m not going to get into that with you.

Ossoff: Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question, to have to indulge the president's delusions?

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Whew. Maggie Haberman confirms today that Trump was surprised by his *own* tariff numbers and rates: “At one point, he didn’t realize how high China’s tariffs burden had gotten. It was up to 145% & his reaction was holy shit…It’s not a formula. It’s a gut feeling.”

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Full episode here

https://t.co/z9yPUvS3Hg

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Whew. Maggie Haberman confirms today that Trump was surprised by his *own* tariff numbers and rates: “At one point, he didn’t realize how high China’s tariffs burden had gotten. It was up to 145% & his reaction was holy shit…It’s not a formula. It’s a gut feeling.”

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

There is nothing in Trump’s economic policy that is designed to benefit ordinary Americans and working people. All there is to his economic policy is what Trump himself wants — and even he is surprised by the numbers his own Administration set. Stunning and wildly incompetent.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: We’re trying to have CNN go in a normal path and we'll do that.

Tapper: Well, I'm on a normal path right here, sir

Trump: You are

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

This action by the US government to subpoena reporters for reporting legitimate news on security concerns about Air Force 1 should alarm every American.

“The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects,” said David McCraw, The Times’s top newsroom lawyer, in a statement on Friday evening.