Jane Forman

Health services researcher. Qualitative and mixed methods.
@washtenawdems Precinct Organizing Committee. Dog mom. Singer.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

@ByronDonalds @Olympics everyone is turning against you degenerates. sorry.

[Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp]

As someone who has real concerns about anti-Semitism on the left, I feel nothing but contempt for the smear campaign against Zohran Mamdani.

There is no evidence against him. His enemies are trivializing a profoundly serious issue to win power and cover for Israel's far-right.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Important to realize that Trump’s approach to Canada and Greenland is like his approach to Ukraine. It’s not even American imperialism. It is America enabling Russian imperialism. It’s America destroying its own best alliances, cutting itself off from its own crucial bases, making a Russian nuclear first strike on the US easier, opening Arctic territories that were once safe to Russian expansion. That’s the one logic that makes it all make sense. There is no conception of US interests, including an imperial one, in which this makes sense.

[. @GregTSargent]

Again, Marco Rubio signaled straight out on Twitter that the administration is going to simply ignore Congressional spending directives that Trump and Musk don't like. So voting for this is a vote to emasculate yourselves, Democrats. It doesn't matter that it's politically hard to hold the line. You are expected to do hard things when the moment demands it. This is one of those moments.

[Armando @ArmandoNDK]

I'd say to threaten no donations to the DSCC might be effective

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

I hope Senate Democrats understand there is nothing clever about setting up a fake failed 30 day CR first to turn around & vote for cloture on the GOP spending bill.

Those games won’t fool anyone. It won’t trick voters, it won’t trick House members. People will not forget it.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Crockett: 19 of the 26 Republicans on this committee voted against keeping FEMA funded and 9 are in states that were directly hit. I don’t understand why we pretend that we have all these issues with this agency when you don’t want to fund it.

[Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard]

At some point, we need to have an honest conversation about the fact that when journalists say “working class” they almost always mean “white working class.”

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

To President Biden and all elected Democrats: Stop playing by rules that no longer exist. At this point, it's not just spinelessness, it's complicity.

[Brent Erickson @BErickson_BIO]

Timothy Snyder "Imagine that you are a foreign leader who wishes to destroy the United States.  How could you do so?  The easiest way would be to get Americans to do the work themselves, to somehow induce Americans to undo their own health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence.  From this perspective, Trump's proposed appointments -- Kennedy, Jr.; Gaetz; Musk; Ramaswamy; Hegseth; Gabbard -- are perfect instruments.  They combine narcissism, incompetence, corruption, sexual incontinence, personal vulnerability, dangerous convictions, and foreign influence as no group before them has done.  These proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer.
I do not defend the status quo. I have no doubt whatsoever that the Department of Defense and the Food and Drug Administration require reform.  But such a reform, of these or other agencies, would have to be guided by people with knowledge and experience, who cared about their country, and who had a vision of improvement.  That is simply not what is happening here.  We are confronted instead with a group of people who, were they to hold the positions they have been assigned, could bring an end to the United States of America."

[Secretary Pete Buttigieg @SecretaryPete]

66,000 projects and counting—it's a Big Deal.

[Olivia of Troye @OliviaTroye]

Tulsi Gabbard as DNI is a slap in the face to intel officers, but that's the point given Trump's disdain for our national security community. Having a Russian propagandist who spreads fringe conspiracies at the helm will likely lead to our allies refraining from sharing intel with us. It will weaken our security posture & make us more susceptible to terrorist attacks on our homeland.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The ability of demagogues & autocrats to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions & normalizes them. It slowly numbs the senses, including outrage. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear.

[Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein]

Trump has shown he understands a cardinal rule of strong man dominance: constantly force your allies to defend the indefensible & to make ever greater concessions they once would have considered beyond the pale. Each surrender paves the way for the next. Gaetz just an opening bid

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

What angers me most is that Democrats are quote literally capitulating to an incoming dictatorship and his destructive authoritarian regime without so much as a shout. They are just handing over the keys to the US govt and telling us it’s all going to be okay.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Of course Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Todd Young, and John Curtis could all say tomorrow they won’t agree to abandoning the Senate’s constitutional advise and consent role. Might be good to nip some of the planned authoritarianism in the bud, no?

[Commissioner Neil Makhija @NeilMakhija]

Hey folks, Please come watch my county — or any county — in Pennsylvania audit the election results.

We do two audits after every election, and might even do a recount for the U.S. Senate race.

Until you see the results, maybe don’t jump on the StoptheSteal bandwagon.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Federal prosecutors are on call in every district in the country. Interfering with voting rights is a federal offense. Any effort to intimidate, harass, threaten or harm voters will result in a visit from the FBI. Witnesses or victims may call 9-1-1. (Making a false report is a crime, too!) Let’s keep voting safe, free, and fair.

[Jane Mayer @JaneMayerNYer]

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