AdventureAwaits

[Van Jones @VanJones68]

Reasonable Democrats are going to have to get off their couches, roll up their sleeves and start organizing real voters on the ground.

We can no longer rely only on TV ads, digital spend and endorsements. Just donating from afar and complaining about the DSA won’t cut it.

The DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) can beat moderates in a growing number of blue strongholds. Why? Because the DSA has patiently built an army of on-the-ground organizers — who go to meetings, help each other, study together and THEN work to turn out voters on Election Day. That army grows every day — election or no election. Their investment in real people grows (and compounds) with each election cycle. The DSA has a bigger army, every time, win or lose.

But at the end of any election, all moderate Dems have for their efforts is a bunch of ads that nobody will ever see again. That’s not going to work anymore.

If you are a Democrat who believes in opportunity, dignity and democracy for all — but you don’t hate rich people, cops, free enterprise, the West, Israel and the United States of America — I’m talking to you!

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

Democrats complain that Republicans call them "socialists" but then they keep electing socialists. It seems that "blue dog" Democrats have been replaced with old-school socialists. Do schools not teach the economics of Cold War Eastern Europe?

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

So weird. I was told Iran was cool with us because after 47 years they really wanted to reset the relationship.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Arpit is correct. The rent freeze is a bad idea. It raises rents in the long run because it discourages construction, and in the short run all it does is shift rent increases from stabilized to market rate units. Many people's rents will *increase* because of this move.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

If you want to beat the MAGA movement you need politicians who some Republicans like, that’s what it means to do well in elections.

[🐺 @LeighWolf]

After demonstrating poor judgment, ignorance and entitlement…she chose to make sure every future employer could easily find the evidence of her idiocy.

She’ll be unemployed (or under employed) for ten years then emerge as a grievance socialist and leading candidate for congress in a blue area on a message that condemns the capitalist system for keeping people down and preventing people like her from getting ahead.

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"You're spending something like £65 billion on defence and £360 billion on welfare. Lucky you, you must not feel any danger..."

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski on Britain's defence spending.

#Newsnight

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Palestine serves as a culture-war wedge issue for the Dems' new DSA Left. It's something you never have to moderate on or tone down. It riles up the activist base with no policy implications. And it's an instant tell of whether you're on The Team or not.

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[Bernard Stanford ✡︎ @stanfordNYC]

I've made this point before, but the craziest thing about NYC rent control is that it mostly isn't even means-tested or distributed according to some set of calibrated criteria. It's just confiscating this huge amount of value and giving it to names drawn out of a hat.

[AdventureAwaits @rmp619]

Even the Obama guys are horrified by the Socialists that won primaries in NY.

[Pod Save America @PodSaveAmerica]

Jon Favreau on Darializa Avila Chevalier's election.

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

i know disability rights groups hate gatekeeping but the victims of this sort of cheating are actually disabled people.

And I will repeat my modest proposal that the state bar audit people who claimed disability accommodations in the moral character process.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Europe literally kills tens of thousands of people each year with this type of nonsense. And no one has provided a reasonable defense for it.

[Max Abrahms @MaxAbrahms]

Sorry to disturb your reading about how Vance wants to protect Christianity but…

[Kathryn Paisner @KathrynPaisner]

The speed with which we went from, “Don’t stop talking about Charlottesville,” to, “There are good people on both sides of antisemitic terrorist attacks,” is really breathtaking.

[Boo @IzaBooboo]

"The spirit of the law" is a blazing neon sign saying "the actual text of the law doesn't say what I want."

[Larry Elder @larryelder]

When Mamdani freezes the rent on New York tenants, will he freeze landlords’ mortgage payments, their property taxes and their income taxes?

[LoLNothingMatters @DastDn]

It wasn't hard to foresee & I was fully aware that it was coming, but still - actually living through the helpless frustration of watching Trump/Vance take a torch to the US interests, gleefully unmake work of generations, sabotage us with utter impunity, is utterly demoralizing.

[Sunny @sunnyright]

.@JDVance call on line one

[Councilwoman Inna Vernikov @InnaVernikov]

Every Republican must speak out against this lunacy. Why are we arming the enemy? No, Erdogan is NOT a nice guy.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Three theaters have a common pattern. In each, an American adversary ends up stronger, and an American ally ends up weaker, more isolated, and less certain of our word. This is not the absent-minded drift of a distracted government. It is the consistent application of a thesis Vance has stated plainly for years: that the world is multipolar, that resources are scarce, that allies must fend for themselves, and that America should pull back to what he deems vital and let the other great powers run their own neighborhoods.

The trouble is what that thesis costs. American leadership was never charity. It was the cheapest insurance policy in history. We maintain a forward presence that keeps the sea lanes open, the rivals contained, and the wars small. Trade it away and you do not get a tidy multipolar balance. You get a world where Iran rebuilds, Turkey drifts, Russia digests, China watches, and every ally concludes the American guarantee is a wasting asset to be hedged against. Isolation does not make us safer. It makes us smaller, and it makes the people who wish us harm bolder.

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