Jim Carroll

Editor, The Hot Screen; contributor at Flux

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

David Duke did not express himself this violently in public.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: A wave is building. The kind of wave that comes once a generation. And people have been pushed too far and they decide all at once, altogether, that enough is enough. We have the power not just to restore checks and balances, but to rebuke these abuses of power with such power and decision that no president dares try anything like this again for a century.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: And, see, this is what small men like Donald Trump and Mike Collins will never understand. That our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas and our care for one another. Americans are not a race. We are a people united not by ethnicity, but by shared convictions.

Crowd: *chants USA*

[Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein]

The GOP was once called “the healthy & wealthy party.” But now new data show nearly 70% of House Dems represent districts where life expectancy exceeds the national average, while life expectancy lags below the ntl average in over 70% of GOP seats. My take https://t.co/xtOqpnkUJo

[Michael Linden @MichaelSLinden]

For what it's worth, my strongly held view is that being pro-worker IS being pro-growth.

Worker productivity is where growth comes from. And worker productivity comes from supporting workers, treating them well, and rewarding them fairly for their contributions.

[Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein]

Per @CDHealthData @nyugrossman, far more House Rs than Ds hold seats where an elevated % of residents suffer such health problems as diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity & breast cancer & cardiovascular deaths. In 54% of R seats (vs 31% of Ds), uninsured exceeds national avg

[. @GregTSargent]

Sad: Before Trump's big 250 rally, Fox wildly hyped the event. Then when turnout cratered, Fox went mum. As @MattGertz says, Fox often shields viewers from the truth about his historic unpopularity.

On the pod, we unpack why his 250 gala failure matters:
https://t.co/tj6wLZZz9W

[Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas]

Elon Musk bragged about feeding USAID into the "wood chipper" but now he pretends that whatever happens as a result isn't his fault.

If DOGE had saved the federal government billions of dollars, you can be sure he would be taking credit for that.

But somehow he's not responsible for the consequences of eliminating these programs?

Today at @TheArgumentMag we published a thorough explanation for why we should hold @elonmusk responsible for the deaths of *at best* 700,000 people.

https://t.co/7CWoyQCiDk

[. @GregTSargent]

"Things have gotten so bad that Republicans won't win an election ever again if we can't figure out how to stop millions and millions of Americans from voting" is quite the declaration of confidence in Trump/GOP leadership!

[Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein]

Trump's eroding approval among whites w/out a 4-year college degree-his core audience-is the key to expanding the D map in 26, as I discussed w/ @DanaBashCNN. In 24 he won 65% of PA's non-college Whites; new poll puts his approval w/them at just 39%. But they still doubt Dems too

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

sentencing is happening now and 5 of the defendants have received 50 year sentences. chilling and should be a huge story

[. @GregTSargent]

Trump's Iran fiasco is breaking up MAGA coalition by alienating *three* key constituencies: Low-engagement voters who care about economy, GOP anti-Iran hawks, and Tucker/MTG isolationist types.

On the pod, @NGrossman81 is good on the deeper currents here:
https://t.co/ioTpbDBsts

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

The sentences handed down today are a huge threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years in prison even for those not involved in planning the protest? The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression. Everyone should be learning about this case. https://t.co/XLki7OBuID

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “The latent racism of the Republican Party was the kindling and Trump just lit the flame. But it’s always been there. There is a tendency to see Trump as this departure from what Republicans previously have been, but he’s not. What he’s done is taken the mask off. Trump is vulgar, that’s the difference”

[Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein]

Talk about the coalition of restoration: in latest @CNN poll, 78% of Republicans & leaners say society has gone too far in accepting different cultures/gender roles/sexual orientations & 58% say society'd be better off if men/women returned to traditional gender roles.

[. @GregTSargent]

"There was a time when people used to think of Marco Rubio as a sort of reformist Republican. Now he is walking around in oversized shoes because Trump bought them for him. My God."

[. @GregTSargent]

Trumpism is a monumental failure and this gives Dems and liberals a big opening to reset on immigration. Here @shikhadalmia and I try to go big and deep on what this should look like. Really hope you'll check this one out:
https://t.co/Qcau3osjcv

[. @GregTSargent]

"Everything Trump touches turns to crud...The idea that the world’s oldest republic...the nation that invented republican values...puts up with it, that’s what really shocks me."

On the pod, @paulkrugman is brilliant on Trump and our national decline:
https://t.co/sz8ArJIHcx

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

Sunday reading: I wrote about how the Trumpists have been contemplating despotism.

This week’s piece - on crucial inflection points, the remaining barriers against extremism, and Miller/Vance lusting for escalation:

https://t.co/7Vt8G8uJZn

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz