Jonathan Stockall

Be the change you want to see in the world

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

96 private jets full of corrupt elites and celebs flying into Venice, a city destroyed by tourism, to celebrate the wedding of the world’s most shameless tax dodger: Jeff Bezos.

Well, it's the perfect anecdote for future historians writing about this Second Gilded Age --> 🧵

[Jonathan Stockall @jstockall]

@waelrick They know how weak that little bitch is cause for sure he tells them that “I’m a little bitch and if anything is different than my normal McDick’s hamburger and fries visit, keep an eye out”

[Jonathan Stockall @jstockall]

@joeorrico Send

[capitolhunters @capitolhunters]

Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it is being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built up his "political project" to seize power. 1/

[Jonathan Stockall @jstockall]

@BGatesIsaPyscho You and all the freedom fighters are all morons. WE THE PEOPLE are the owners. The government works for us. Every idiot now has a smartphone and everything is a conspiracy isn’t it?!? “Concerned citizen”…right. More like unemployed moron living in his mom’s basement

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

There are lots of misconceptions in the replies to @mattyglesias's post below. Will address some of them in this thread. 🧵

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I went to the Senate floor to tell a story about Trump’s first 100 days - a story of daily, norm shattering corruption.

I laid out 40 different corrupt acts - each one alone could have taken down previous presidents.

1/ A 🧵 of my speech. People need to know this story.

[Jonathan Stockall @jstockall]

@elonmusk Pay taxes and we wouldn’t have this problem

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

THE SAME COURT GAVE HIM IMMUNITY!!!

[Jonathan Stockall @jstockall]

@TheStandardNFT @realDonaldTrump Are you f^*king serious? Trump has golfed every fucking weekend. Keep believing the grift and enjoy the Kool-Aid

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

What I think a winning agenda for Democrats could look like:

1) @AOC/@SenSanders-style economic populism. Tax the rich, expand public services, balance the budget. Skip the ideological fluff: no anti-capitalism and degrowth blabla, just good old-fashioned social democracy.

2) @davidshor-style popularism: relentlessly double down on your most popular policies. Universal Pre-K, affordable child care, higher minimum wage, cheaper groceries, cheaper college, cheaper prescription drugs.

3) @Yascha_Mounk/@mattyglesias -style cultural move to the center: moderate on immigration, tone down identity politics, admit men & women are different, stop the obsessive language policing, explicitly distance yourself from far left cultural warriors. Reclaim patriotism. Be smart on crime: no 'defund the police' but more cops and better cops who solve more crimes. Be the party of cleaner streets, fewer guns, and public order.

4) @ezraklein/@DKThomp-style YIMBY/abundance agenda. Slash red tape, defy silly rules and procedures. Declare an emergency if necessary. Shovels in the ground, make a big show of building affordable housing and clean energy (livestreams etc.). Set targets and deadlines. Be the party of progress that (visibily!) builds.

5) Build a big tent of progressives, moderates and independents. Unite in opposition to Trump. Attack him when he engages in economic arson (tariffs etc) and democratic arson (blatant disregard for due process, civil liberties etc.), and when it highlights your strengths: competence, solutions, basic human decency.

And most importantly of all:

Win elections. Then do the right thing. (In that order.)

[Jonathan Stockall @jstockall]

@elonmusk Weird that on Jan 6, people had signs and talked about hanging Mike Pence while your “boss” Trump, urged them on. And then Trump set them all free. Keep going with your hypocrisy while you dismantle all the institutions that were investigating you welfare Queen

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

"Advanced flight bookings from Canada to the U.S. "have fallen by more than 70 percent for every month through to the end of September compared to the same period last year". In April alone, bookings are down from 1.3 million last year to just 296,000 now."
-@Newsweek

[Jonathan Stockall @jstockall]

@factpostnews “Art of the Deal”. Gonna sell others compromised products…man I can see why the MAGA’s think he’s a good businessman

[Jonathan Stockall @jstockall]

@Acyn He is running the country the same way: leading it to bankruptcy until Russia comes and bails it out

[Jonathan Stockall @jstockall]

@EndWokeness Conservatives grifted it and gave it all to the ultra rich, marketing it as trickle down economics…which they all just kept. Now as the wealth disparity gets worse daily, they push more social issue conspiracies so average folks fight while they sit back and get richer

[Jonathan Stockall @jstockall]

@WallStreetApes It’s weird how you post this about waste in the military spending and yet it won’t see any cuts at all. And yet programs that have little waste but help ordinary citizens, you guys make all the excuses in the world for Elon the Welfare Queen

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Peaceful protesters detained, lists of forbidden words, banned books —I've always doubted the sincerity of many right-wing "free speech" advocates, but their deafening silence today is still remarkable.

[Jonathan Stockall @jstockall]

@NoLieWithBTC I want to know why no reporter when interviewing him, when he says shit like this, doesn’t point out how much money he’s received from the government for rockets that blow up and automobiles that can’t drive well nor fair well in safety tests. Why? Billions wasted on record. Ask!

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Donald Trump may be aiming to annex the Great Lakes – and possibly south-eastern Ontario in a maximalist scenario – and kick Canada out of NORAD, judging by first-hand accounts of talks between Canada and the Trump Administration. ⬇️