tré easton
@treeaston
purveyor of lavender scare vengeance | 🍑made
Tester keeping it to 7 points as Trump carried Montana by 20. MY KING! Monuments should be erected in your honor!
quite literally saved 4 US senate seats
turns out people really love the idea of america doing good in the world.... ...the problems start when they find out that doing good in the world costs money.
uh this is a pretty big narrative violation? 83% of Americans support giving medicine to developing nations 78% support giving them food and clothing 63% support economic development 61% support strengthening democracy close enough, welcome back liberal internationalism
Towards the holidays every year, Mike Lee’s staff appoint themselves gatekeepers of the Senate’s expedited bill passage process—meaning they demand “clearance” of mundane bills like renaming VA hospitals before an arbitrary deadline or they’ll block passage. So he can fuck off.
Staying in session to get Trump nominees confirmed has been made necessary by the Democrats’ unwillingness to expedite the confirmation process—just as Republicans have expedited the process during Democratic administrations
nyt giving James Carville precious op-ed space to say democrats will have to wait until after the midterms for a new leader to emerge and that the party should campaign against trump’s budget bill.
When it comes to the future of the Democratic Party, I never need to hear from anyone with the last name Biden ever again.
It's very hard to build a durable anti-fascist political coalition when a not insignificant portion of the would-be coalition is seemingly more committed to bad faith arguments and browbeating natural allies than they are to winning + making change. It's simply not sustainable.
Google is free. If you’re saying I voted for military funding, you are lying. Receipts attached. Drag me for my positions all you want, but lying about them doesn’t make you part of the “left.” If you believe neo-nazis are welcome and operating in good faith, you can have them!
As much as I think it's foolish for NY leaders to slow walk getting behind Mamdani, I also think we risk over learning lessons here. The '28 race will have its own contours and eccentricities. We'll also live ~10,000 political lives between now and then. So let's chill a bit.
If a more moderate Democrat beats a progressive in the 2028 primary (as in 2016 and 2020), it will be tough to convince progressives to unite behind the nominee when the Democratic establishment won't rally behind @ZohranKMamdani after his convincing primary win.
Congressional staffer.
what’s it called when you’re super insecure but at the same time you can walk into a room full of people and think you’re better than everyone else?
I have lived 1,000 lifetimes since this tweet.
My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best…
The end of federal funding should be the cue for foundations + wealthy individuals of all stripes to step in and help undergird a nonprofit model for PBS and NPR. And not just the big kids on the block but the smaller and less populous markets. And while you’re at it, rescue…
And i DESPERATELY need more people whose job it is to cover this stuff to understand where the real fault lines lie. Please let the 2016 and 2020 primaries die. Haven't we all suffered enough?
The tension in today's Dem Party isn't primarily between ideological factions. It's between the fighters & the folders, the reformers & the guardians of the status quo. We need more @PatRyanUC's.
this is like me flirting with six pack abs: interesting thought experiment, but the universe simply has not willed it to be so.
.@GlennYoungkin flirts with 2028 presidential bid in Iowa as some fellow Rs fret about his chosen successor’s campaign. via @SchneiderG washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…
And what's worse, the extremes on the right will still by and large show up and pull the lever for Republicans. Meanwhile, Democrats get tagged for the unpopular shit left wingers push while also not getting those people's votes! Double homicide!
The real problem is that when people are annoyed by random left-wingers saying and doing XYZ, they take it out on the Democratic Party, but don't punish Republicans when right-wingers endorse blood & soil nationalism and repealing the 19th