Matt Bennett
@ThirdWayMattB
Co-founder & EVP for Public Affairs, Third Way Long-Suffering Syracuse fan. On Bluesky: @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social
I'm sorry, but it's preposterous to claim the New Democrats of 1992 fumbled away a durable coalition built by FDR. @BillClinton saved a party which had lost 5 of 6 presidential elections, and he and Obama are the most successful Democrats of our time. nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opi…
As Laurene Powell Jobs turns The Atlantic into a journalistic all-star team, an even richer owner lets some of his best talent walk out the door every week.
🗞️"@CapehartJ, the Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist, has taken a buyout at The Washington Post after 18 years with the paper," @sarafischer reports in Axios AM. Capehart will "continue to co-host 'The Weekend' on MSNBC."
As usual, @crampell channels almost precisely what I’m thinking but much more persuasively. Great column on the siren song of populism. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
Trump has signed legislation cumulatively adding $13 trillion in debt in his 4.5 years as president - dwarfing every other president in our lifetime. Give me a break.
Britt: We are $37 trillion in debt. It’s not just fiscally irresponsible, it is morally irresponsible and I'm so grateful to President Trump and his leadership for saying the buck stops with me and we’re starting to rein this in..
A+ taunt
Found in House Republican conference: 219 able-bodied adults who refuse to work.
I don’t think it’s fair to say the New Deal coalition was exhausted just because Democrats lost in landslides in 1972, 1980, 1984, and 1988…
Nothing says "this isn't a coverup" like adjourning Congress early to block the vote.
Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. nyti.ms/4nZtblR
Generally, even with bad presidents, it's ridiculous to blame price movements on their policies. But in this case, there is zero doubt: - Trump did this. - To you. - On purpose. - For no reason other than his personal grudges.
Roasted coffee prices jumped 12.7% in June vs. a year ago, while instant coffee rose 16.3%, per BLS data. Now Trump’s insane 50% tariffs on Brazil, the top coffee supplier to the U.S., take effect August 1. Get ready to pay way more for your morning cup.
“To break through, Democrats will have to break some eggs. They will need to speak in ways that may draw jeers from the very online left or the ‘groups’ and see that as a crucial part of signaling to swing voters that the party has learned and changed," says @ThirdWayMattB. Read…
Pause to consider that this is who we have become.
"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs" according to a {Human Rights Watch} report." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Incredible thread about a very important - and very terrible - person. What he's doing is immoral, un-American, stupid, and deeply counterproductive. After this lunacy, why would ANYONE help US troops in unfriendly places ever again?
You probably haven’t heard of #SpencerChretien. That’s by design. He’s not shouting on cable news or trolling on social media. He is behind the scenes doing real, lasting damage. Especially to the people who risked everything to help our troops in Afghanistan. An #AfghanEvac 🧵
Nothing says “I revere the ‘Hillbillies’ I pretend I grew up with” like throwing them off their healthcare, cutting their food assistance, and pulling funding for the Narcan that’s kept many of them alive.
My NPR colleague @BrianMannADK, who has covered addiction for years, breaks some news about the federal response to fentanyl.
Who could possibly have seen that coming?
Lisa Murkowski tells @adndotcom that “I feel cheated” after she made a deal to protect wind and solar projects in OBBA only to see Trump issue orders to quash them.
What’s so stunning to me is when we lost in November, there was near universal recognition that the Democratic brand was toxic to the country and we needed to moderate immediately. Yet less than a year later prominent Dems now want us to shift further left while calling for the…
Jennifer Welch from the I’ve Had It Podcast explaining why moderates need to be burned to the ground.
Is that Bannon’s version of “in about two weeks”?
Before Jeffrey Epstein's arrest, Steve Bannon filmed about 15 hours of footage for a documentary on him. it's never been released. Epstein's brother told @VaughnHillyard he wants to see it. Bannon is saying he'll release the documentary "early next year" nbcnews.com/politics/trump…
When the “cofounder of Bluesky” attacks someone on X with a raft of bullshit, she is talking to a very particular audience.
When the head of an organization, that is funded by and promotes the interests of the corporations and billionaires destroying the working class and our planet, tells you something is “great” — he doesn’t mean for all of us. He means for him and his friends.
🚨 Of the top 16 fundraisers in the House, 100% of GOP money is going to competitive races But 91% of Democratic money is going to safe seats Dem Donors: funding viral videos & list buys GOP Donors: funding battleground seats
Not sure what to do about the fact that this little white nationalist & other right wing looney tunes like him are more honest about the state of affairs than the random Republican MSM outlets put on their roundtable. It's a pickle for all involved.
Nick Fuentes to Trump: "Fúck you. You suck. You're fat, you're a joke, you're stupid, you're not funny... This entire thing has been a scam. We're gonna look back at MAGA movement as the biggest scam in history. The liberals were right... we will see Trump as a scam artist."
Rahm Emanuel is right. @MikieSherrill and @SpanbergerForVA's campaigns are winning formulas for Democrats.