Michael P. Breen
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Historian of early modern French law & society at Reed College. Prattles on about history, dogs, politics, soccer, & hoops. H-France Editor-in-Chief (www.h-france.net)
Michael Moore has been helping Republicans win elections for more than a quarter century, so this really isn’t much of a surprise now, is it?
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 12h agoMichael Moore Tells CNN He’s Begging for Progressives to Overthrow Democratic Establishment ‘Hacks’
The author of “The Liberal Case for Donald Trump” has thoughts about how Democrats should go about defeating hard-core MAGA Republicans in a deeply purple state
Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12h agoAnd this is why people hate the Dem establishment. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
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Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe
Any Democratic candidate who does not run this on infinite loop between now & Nov should be driven from the party in shame
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h agoTrump: "I think we should be given an A+ on the economy"
Republicans would ban elections altogether and install totalitarian one party rule if they thought they could get away with it
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 19h ago🚨BREAKING: Nearly a year after voting advocates launched a campaign to prevent a GOP gerrymander from taking effect in Missouri, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins officially blocked the citizen-initiated referendum on the new map from appearing on the ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 19h agoSusan Collins is a NO on Todd Blanche for AG: “While I believe Mr. Blanche is a capable lawyer, the Department of Justice has become increasingly political.” Unlikely to change the outcome; he can lose two Rs and get confirmed. Collins voted YES on Blanche as Deputy AG last year.
You can always count on Susan Collins to do the right thing as long as Republicans don’t need her vote
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h agoAs usual, Susan Collins does the tally, sees that Todd Blanche has the votes to win, and then announces...
Gosh, if only the Founders had made the legislature a co-equal branch of government with, and I’m just spitballing here, the power to control federal revenues and expenditures Can’t for the life of me figure out why they didn’t think of that
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Well I’m pretty sure Republicans are hoping for lawless authoritarian one party rule
Harry Litman@harrylitman.bsky.social · yesterdayA consummately shameful week for the R Senate majority. We have a Pres proven to engage in self-dealing into the $ B and to be 100% indifferent to the constitution, law, & norms there to constrain him; and an AG. nominee proven to have no limit in enabling him. What do we think is going to happen??
“Trump & Republicans made Todd Blanche Attorney General to bury the Epstein files” is a campaign ad that is both powerful and undeniably accurate
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayWhitehouse: "It's really hard to not have Jeffrey Epstein stick to people who vote to confirm Todd Blanche"
I say this in the context of trying to get people to rally around El-Sayed since he’s almost certainly winning tonight. But I was reminded of something this morning when an ES supporter said ‘well we’re tired of nominating centrists again and again and having them keep losing.’ And it occurred to …
It’s almost as if they know that an educated populace capable of critical thinking and analysis of facts is the greatest threat to their hold on power
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
The same could be said for the idea that the President is not a king who is above the law, and yet here we are…
Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · yesterdayThe idea that a war only exists if there are casualties does not appear in the text of the Constitution. Nor does it appear in Madison’s notes on the Constitutional convention debates. Nor is there evidence it was discussed in ratification debates. It is made up.
It’s only a war if it comes from the Guerre region of France. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling military conflict
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdaySen. Rand Paul: "I've had the debate with this administration ... they told me this isn't a war. I said, why isn't it a war? They said, 'Well, a constitutional war has to have significant casualties' ... initiation or declaration of war is *before* the casualties."
At times like this it’s worth remembering that we’re here in no small part because a bunch of folks convinced themselves & others a decade ago that Donald Trump was less dangerous than a center-left Democratic woman b/c “institutionalist Republicans” like Cornyn & Tillis would keep him in line
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · yesterdayBREAKING: The nomination of Trump's former personal lawyer to be Attorney General just advanced to the full Senate. Judiciary Republicans caved: All 12 Republicans voted in favor of Todd Blanche. All 10 Democrats voted against.
Nobody goes to the blue cities anymore. They’re much too crowded.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
Well these are the same people who told us that Joe Biden was the senile one …
Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · yesterdayits very telling that the mainstream media narrative is that dsa has wacky and unreasonable positions when the republican party position is that abortion should be banned, latino families should be put in concentration camps, black people should be shot by cops and transgender people shouldnt exist
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Republicans know they can’t win free and fair elections so they’re doing everything they can to make sure we don’t have them
Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 2d agoThey're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...
When Whitehouse is on, he's on. This is a flamethrower.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayWhitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
We disgrace ourselves as a nation each and every day Donald Trump remains in office. The drafters of the United States Constitution provided a remedy for a criminally insane president like the one we have—impeachment and removal ...
