I'll be talking to Senator Van Hollen tomorrow on my substack "Thinking About..." in the new series “Now We Act.” www.inquirer.com/opinion/van-...

Chris Van Hollen fought when no one else would. Make him Dems’ leader. | Will Bunch

The Establishment’s race to keep Schumer and Jeffries as leaders must be stopped if Dems want to hold onto their midterm gains. Maryland’s senior senator should be on the shortlist.

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It really is like Beijing and Moscow grew Trump in a lab. Our “foreign policy” these last two years has been one long adventure in serving both.

INTEL: I've spent days talking to DC insiders. Schumer does not yet have the votes. His strategy is to make it seem like an inevitability - it ain't. But who else? This is where I've shifted. Will gets it right: it's Chris Van Hollen. And I think people are misreading the signals.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 11h ago

This lost cause is worth fighting for The Dem establishment's coronation of a weak Chuck Schumer as Senate majority leader is NOT a done deal if the people fight back Reward the senator who fought Trump when everyone else was cowering in fear My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/van-...

📌Well, looky here: One of the biggest Republican rats is fleeing the sinking ship. Pass the popcorn.

Please join Tribal coalitions such as the All Pueblo Council of Governors, the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, and the Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes in opposing this bill. Urge Congress to reject the dangerous Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act❕

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On Monday, November 9, 2026, the U.S. Senate plans to vote on a bill that would gut Tribal sovereignty, dismantle environmental protections, and lock in fossil fuel dominance for generations. The Bi...

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Happy Diwali to all who celebrate the Festival of Light🪔🎇

"One Senate-invented rule says you need sixty votes; another Senate-invented rule says a simple majority can get around that. There’s no reason to treat the former as sacrosanct. Prioritizing an outdated proceduralism has undermined efforts to correct democratic backsliding in other countries."

Institutional Reform That Can Be Done With a Simple Majority in Congress

Chapter 2 (pp. 8–12) from The Reconstruction Papers.

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Dude whose signature look is a garish black leather jacket that costs as much as a car got honeypotted? SHUT THE FRONT DOOR

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The US intelligence community believes that Alice Huang, an executive at a Singapore-based Nvidia customer who was said to have been romantically involved with the US chipmaker’s chief executive, was recruited as a spy by China’s Ministry of State Security. ft.trib.al/DnT9JqY

I had a wonderful time visiting the Tougaloo Community Center — so many of our seniors have personal connections and memories of the Civil Rights Movement. To celebrate the change we're making in Mississippi alongside them was incredibly special.

Derrick Johnson, national president, NAACP: Mississippi is one of the only states in the US that doesn't have early vote. Most of this ballot cure, & the delay & confusion that goes with it, would have been prevented by early vote. (A completely normal thing that most other states do.)

Look, Van Hollen went to El Salvador. Schumer didn't even go on his book tour.

The DCCC just emailed me. It’s bad news guys. They're "nearly broke" after taking out "a $25 million line of credit," and they need me to "refill" their "empty bank accounts." I wonder if paying ~75% of what’s raised by these emails to fundraising vendors has something to do with it?

Here is that column! Read it and tell me what you think www.inquirer.com/opinion/van-...

Chris Van Hollen fought when no one else would. Make him Dems’ leader. | Will Bunch

The Establishment’s race to keep Schumer and Jeffries as leaders must be stopped if Dems want to hold onto their midterm gains. Maryland’s senior senator should be on the shortlist.

inquirer.com

While I know No-Tab Pete hurts his feelings, I'm dying at Dumb McNamara

A Remarkable Moment in U.S. History A diminished MAGA government remains acutely dangerous. But the path to consolidated authoritarian rule is shut. America must now use this fleeting window for transformation. My new piece:

A Remarkable Moment in U.S. History

A diminished MAGA government remains acutely dangerous. But the path to consolidated authoritarian rule is shut. America must use this fleeting window for transformation.

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My latest for the Guardian. Centrism didn’t win the Democratic Party the election. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Centrism did not win the Democratic party the election

The blue wave, while a rebuke of Trump’s policies, was also a referendum on the party’s status quo

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To the WSJ ed board: Trump didn’t steal this election only because our coalition stopped him for 21 months. We beat 8 major sabotage schemes—culminating in our election-eve SCOTUS win in California. Read the inside legal story in my column 👇 -TN

Contrarians, This Is Your Win — And We Will Keep Fighting

Publisher’s Roundup 92

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We are proud to announce that we are now the AAUP-NC Critical AI Policy Project. Read more about this change in our latest newsletter: substack.com/home/post/p-... or blog.cappnc.org/blog/an-anno...

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And then a couple of other related announcements

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If you're ripping off the American people, you should lawyer up.

Sorry but not sorry that I'll be reposting this kind of good shit every time I see it. Ignore the trolls and boost your allies who are going on offense. We learned that from Lula's Army.

Oversight Dems@oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · yesterday

If you're ripping off the American people, you should lawyer up.

One of my favorite Blue flips was just called yesterday. Brad Chambers defeated Pennsylvania State House Rep Brett Miller by 40 votes. That's right; a young man with dreadlocks won in rural Lancaster County. Amazing.

The Boston Review is so consistently phenomenal.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d ago

Smart as always from Jake

100% agree. The Democrats need to hire the best vertical-video producers in the country and fund them to put out a CONSTANT stream of social media Content about the ongoing investigations into GOP crimes + how Democrats are rebuilding America. I am deadly serious about this.

Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 2d ago

They've gotta make content! Do well-produced videos about the investigations that people can share

Whiteboard in the library at UMass asks if the library should have an “AI Makerspace” and the students’ “NO” answers are off the charts. They hate this so very much. I’ve never seen a whiteboard in the library this fired up.

Happy Saturday. Have some joy.

In his first public appearance since winning the election, James Talarico adds his “I voted” sticker to Lorenzo Salgado’s memorial in Houston. Lorenzo was murdered by ICE 4 months ago today.

This is a recording of Maine Wire reporter Adam Stade screaming at his wife. She was suffering from postpartum after giving birth the week before. She was upset that he had come home in the middle of the night and was cooking seafood, knowing the smell made her sick youtu.be/v75mdtltq9E?...

Former Candidate for Bangor City Council Adam Stade of Bangor GOES OFF !!

YouTube video by Robert Kearns of Bangor Maine

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Jacqueline Antonovich@jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 2d ago

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