Rik Silverman

[Rik Silverman @riksilverman]

Halloween in DC for @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris — it's on the ballot! #VOTE

[Adam Jentleson @AJentleson]

For me this will be the diving rod in 2020: who’s offering a vision of change that steps up to the plate and takes power from those who have it and used it to do bad things? To make real change you have to name the enemy and take their power away. Everything else is tinkering.

[Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton]

The national myth of freedom and equality for all is perpetuated not only because it’s part of our education and tradition, but because the myth itself is so integral to the identity of those who have been successful. 2/

[Katherine Cross @Quinnae_Moon]

If you commit your life to politics, you commit your memory to it as well. It does not slander an ex-president to criticise his legacy, even with cruel words. He has passed; millions of us who were affected by his policies remain. We deserve a say.

[A.R. Moxon 🦋 @JuliusGoat]

No party can be allowed to become what the GOP has chosen to become and still be permitted by a free and democratic society to continue to exist, if that society wants to remain a free and democratic society.

The lesson has to be "this is political death."

[Richard Yeselson @yeselson]

The demand for egalitarian democratic procedures—universal franchise, fair and neutrally administered elections-is one of the most **radical and militant** demands of modernity. So leftists should fight hard for it and view it as such. Throughout the 19th and 20th c., they did.

[Kate Aronoff @KateAronoff]

Scared by that new report on climate change? Here's what you can do to help:

• Seize the state

• Bring the fossil fuel industry under public ownership, rapidly scale down production

• Fund a massive jobs program to decarbonize every sector of the economy

[Dr. Jeffrey Lewis @ArmsControlWonk]

He’s right. The sense of unity many people remember was premised on racial and gender exclusions enforced by violence. We’re divided because lots of people are insisting that they are equal and lots of other people would rather burn it all down than accept that.

[Rik Silverman @riksilverman]

@Blessti @MarkARKleiman @meredithheron 51 votes for #2, no excuses

[Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton]

Might be an important moment to remember the Social Contract only holds as long as the government actually represents the will of the people.

[Benjamin Hochman @hochman]

Pitchers duel

[Monjula Ray 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🥥 @queerBengali]

Stop fucking expecting Barack obama and Michelle obama to save you.

They did for 8 fucking years.

Then they told you to vote for her, and you called them neoliberal corporatists.

[Stephen Colbert @StephenAtHome]

One thing I know for sure: no one on the right side of history has ever had to nitpick what the definition of “cage” is.

[Matt O'Brien @ObsoleteDogma]

Fox News hosts are using white nationalist rhetoric—“illegal immigrant invaders,” “their goal is to change your country forever,” etc.—while lowering the bar to the point that anything short of the actual Holocaust is okay.

This is the propaganda half the country is hearing.

[Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton]

Just want to point out that this administration has regularly used phrases like "protect our culture," "change our culture," and has referred to immigrants as "animals" that "infest."

They are not hiding it. They're telling you everything you need to know.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

The most alarming thing to me about living through an illegitimate proto-fascist coup of American democracy is how mundane it is.

I still have to pay rent on time. There's still baseball on TV.

But everything is... wrong. Like an Instagram filter over every second of every day.

[Sam Wang is at samwang.bsky.social @SamWangPhD]

@JDB_219 @jmartNYT I think good correlative work in this domain is hard...but at a minimum it seems to me that national NYT correspondents should be aware of that research before repeating conventional wisdom on those Ole Liberal Democrats.

[Eli Valley @elivalley]

"Not gonna deny he's a Jew, but he put that aside to work with white supremacists, and I respect that." https://t.co/sVmgSAk2Xm

[Brian Beutler @brianbeutler]

“First they came for the imported steel, and I said nothing, for I was not a steel.”