Jay Marcellus
@jmappel.bsky.social
Progressive messaging at ASO Communications. Previously Trans Law Center. Perpetually tired. Love fiercely, fuck the fascists.
The pedophile protector regime wants to force kids to beg for their lives alone in immigration court. Call your Member of Congress, tell them to demand HHS pay what they owe the lawyers representing 20,000 unaccompanied kids & let them keep doing their jobs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Thousands of immigrant children risk losing lawyers after Trump aid cuts
More than 20,000 unaccompanied children risk going to US immigration court alone after federal funding cuts
theguardian.com
Man, what a chapter. I need to catch my breath. What a journey!! Jane motherfuckin Austen is the best to ever do it.
You could write a whole thesis on the rhetorical brilliance of the wording "I think California transplants like Ken Paxton can become Texans"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTalarico: "It's funny because I'm the eighth-generation Texan in the race. I think California transplants like Ken Paxton can become Texans. That's what great about our state."
For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚
Trung Le Nguyen@trungles.com · 2mo agoSo I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
Last thing on yesterday’s Edsall piece: had I known he was also pushing this on immigration and crime, I’d have had LOTS more to say (with more research to back it up). Publishing that after ICE had just murdered 2 dads in the span of a week… is something. (He only asked me about trans people.)
Already seeing advice from punditocracy that Dems ought to tack to the right to (ironically) raise the saliency and affirm the positions of Republicans on so-called "cultural issues." Let's ask Keir Starmer how well this worked - I hear he has loads of free time.
There IS a slam dunk platform for Dem candidates. It’s taking on the fascists and their billionaire backers.
None of these people are okay, all these social strictures are ridiculous, and somehow I care about all this VERY MUCH. Goddammit, Jane Austen.
once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
Reuters@reuters.com · 3w agoSecurity camera footage obtained from local businesses showed individuals who are believed to be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounding a car and pulling the driver onto the street, in events connected to the fatal shooting of a man in a coastal town in Maine on July 13.
Would be nice if pundits telling Dems what they have to do to in order to win in red states actually, I dunno, listened to Dems who have repeatedly won in red states time.com/article/2026...
Can we all agree that before listening to NYT opinion (or WaPo) columnist on what Dems need to do to win, they have to show they have at least 1 Dem electoral or policy win in the past 5 years? Otherwise, it’s as useful as a fart. Everyone has one, no one wants to hear it, and it stinks.
A must-read (and excellent sequel to Bringing a Survey to a Gunfight)
Anat Shenker-Osorio@anatosaurus.bsky.social · 3w agoAs we lurch toward November, we're going to be getting the same advice dressed up as novelty: beat the opposition by becoming them. An examination of the failures of that approach: open.substack.com/pub/anatosau...
Gah! Forgot to add caveat that this study analyzes elections across many different countries and focuses on EU context, not US. I personally think that strengthens the point — how this strategy fails everywhere — but it’s true it doesn’t show this one way or the other for the US
Jay Marcellus@jmappel.bsky.social · 3w agoFirst and foremost, this study of over 100 elections across 4 decades, finding that “accommodative (adopting anti-immigrant positions) policy shifts” by center-left parties “tend to do more good than harm to the radical right." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
You should read an opinion piece published in the NYT today — and it’s not the one I’m quoted in. Thank you, @maragay.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
Opinion | The Democratic Establishment Had This Coming (Gift Article)
The Democratic Party needs shaking up.
nytimes.com
Millions of people do good in their communities every single hour and if we uplifted each example, we would drown out those who spend their time doing evil. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/n... - RIP to both of these men.
Jayson Conner and Jeffrey Newman, Who Gave Backpacks to Those in Need, Die Days Apart (Gift Article)
The couple, who died within a few days of each other, provided needed supplies, like socks and wet wipes, to people living on New York City’s streets.
nytimes.com
Lindsey Graham is survived by the US-Iran war, which he loved so much.
So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
Amazing how many people over the last few years have moved from person I sometimes disagree with, to person I disagree with who is also unpleasant online, to genuinely bad person whose soul has warped beyond recognition. the politics of our times are like a solvent for decency.
I just want to put this "fun" blast from the past here--an article in late 2004 in which Democrats can be seen blaming gay marriage activists for losing John Kerry the election by bringing lawsuits to enforce marriage equality. This article was not the only one.
Was Same-Sex Marriage Partly to Blame for Kerry Loss?
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I loathe polls like this one that ask Democrats if the party should move to the left or to the center. You can move in two directions-left or right. This phrasing is like saying, "Do you think Democrats should move left, or be normal, you know, like most people?" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...
Democrats’ Midterm Strength Masks Fierce Divides and Frustration, Poll Shows
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Protests erupted on Wednesday in Nashville as Republicans in Tennessee raced to slice up their state's sole Democratic district covering the majority-Black city of Memphis. Mother Jones’s @garrisonhayes.bsky.social is on the ground at the State Capitol covering the upheaval:
Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]
The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch
An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.
inquirer.com
“Democrats are trying to impose guardrails on how Trump’s fascist paramilitary force looks and operates, and how Trump can deploy his fascist paramilitary force, when the truth is that his fascist paramilitary force must be eliminated.” From First Draft: zeteo.com/p/reforming-...
First Draft: Reforming Trump's Gestapo?
As Congress weighs guardrails for Trump’s fascist military police, lawmakers vote to allow themselves to overturn the president’s tariffs.
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Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 6mo ago👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
This regime and its masked militia are bullies and cowards. Those who move heaven and earth to make a better life for their families, neighbors protecting neighbors, everyday people blowing whistles and delivering food — those are the #BraveofUS
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 6mo agoLast week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Brave of US will free America from this cowardly MAGA murder regime
