Simon Rosenberg
@simonwdc.bsky.social
Democratic political strategist, analyst, commentator. Hopium purveyor. More than 30 years in the fight.
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Let's Make December A Very Good Month For Democracy
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Let's make December a very good month for democracy by
- Winning TN-7 and the Miami mayor's race
- Forcefully challenging his malevolent agenda, create more public rebukes
- Make him defend his corrupt, dangerous, lawless advisors
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- Winning TN-7 and the Miami mayor's race
- Forcefully challenging his malevolent agenda, create more public rebukes
- Make him defend his corrupt, dangerous, lawless advisors
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Hard to believe how pathetic, desperate, and ridiculous this is.
If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
December 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Hard to believe how pathetic, desperate, and ridiculous this is.
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🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
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Whoa. There are well over 200 people on the @grassrootsdemhq.bsky.social phonebank for @aftynbehn.bsky.social today, and many of them are first time callers. This is amazing to see!
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Whoa. There are well over 200 people on the @grassrootsdemhq.bsky.social phonebank for @aftynbehn.bsky.social today, and many of them are first time callers. This is amazing to see!
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This is a good point: The bombings in the Caribbean advance the notion that the only thing the US military needs to concern itself with is what's going on in our hemisphere
Great work here from @gregsargent.bsky.social. Timely thread and article......
Also strongly encourage folks to see Trump's selling out of Ukraine as the same op as Trump's Caribbean adventures. The elevating of the cartels/Maduro downgrades importance of defending Ukraine, countering Russia.
Also strongly encourage folks to see Trump's selling out of Ukraine as the same op as Trump's Caribbean adventures. The elevating of the cartels/Maduro downgrades importance of defending Ukraine, countering Russia.
News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me.
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This is a good point: The bombings in the Caribbean advance the notion that the only thing the US military needs to concern itself with is what's going on in our hemisphere
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Wow. Mark Kelly’s Devastating Takedown of Trump.
December 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Wow. Mark Kelly’s Devastating Takedown of Trump.
Great work here from @gregsargent.bsky.social. Timely thread and article......
Also strongly encourage folks to see Trump's selling out of Ukraine as the same op as Trump's Caribbean adventures. The elevating of the cartels/Maduro downgrades importance of defending Ukraine, countering Russia.
Also strongly encourage folks to see Trump's selling out of Ukraine as the same op as Trump's Caribbean adventures. The elevating of the cartels/Maduro downgrades importance of defending Ukraine, countering Russia.
News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me.
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges
Will Republicans give us a real investigation into Trump’s bombings, now that we just learned horrific new details about them? Or are they seriously going to fall on their swords for Pete Hegseth?
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Great work here from @gregsargent.bsky.social. Timely thread and article......
Also strongly encourage folks to see Trump's selling out of Ukraine as the same op as Trump's Caribbean adventures. The elevating of the cartels/Maduro downgrades importance of defending Ukraine, countering Russia.
Also strongly encourage folks to see Trump's selling out of Ukraine as the same op as Trump's Caribbean adventures. The elevating of the cartels/Maduro downgrades importance of defending Ukraine, countering Russia.
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LIVE AT 2 PM ET - @stuartpstevens.bsky.social sit downs with Lincoln Square regular, @simonwdc.bsky.social!
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December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
LIVE AT 2 PM ET - @stuartpstevens.bsky.social sit downs with Lincoln Square regular, @simonwdc.bsky.social!
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In the next few weeks Democrats need to further weaken the legitimacy of the Trump regime by making the crimes, corruption, betrayal, and malevolence of Trump’s top advisors - Hegseth, Noem, Witkoff, Bondi, Kennedy, Vought, Sacks - a major topic in our discourse.
Time to put the Trump regime's corruption, lawlessness, and betrayal front and center in our politics.
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putting-th...
My latest 👇
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Putting The Trump Regime's Corruption, Lawlessness, And Betrayal Front And Center In Our Politics
Let's make December a very good month for our democracy
www.hopiumchronicles.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In the next few weeks Democrats need to further weaken the legitimacy of the Trump regime by making the crimes, corruption, betrayal, and malevolence of Trump’s top advisors - Hegseth, Noem, Witkoff, Bondi, Kennedy, Vought, Sacks - a major topic in our discourse.
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Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Trump/GOP math doesn’t math! Trump/GOP pay for their $ handouts to billionaires by making everything unaffordable for Americans! 22 million Americans will have their health care premium costs skyrocket through the roof as of January 1st due to Trump/Republicans refuse to extend ACA tax credits!
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Trump/GOP math doesn’t math! Trump/GOP pay for their $ handouts to billionaires by making everything unaffordable for Americans! 22 million Americans will have their health care premium costs skyrocket through the roof as of January 1st due to Trump/Republicans refuse to extend ACA tax credits!
Hard to understand this as anything but an attempt by a hostile foreign power to destroy the country.....
This is the new chair of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which meets this week to scrutinize the childhood immunization schedule and administering hepatitis B shots at birth www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hard to understand this as anything but an attempt by a hostile foreign power to destroy the country.....
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Hopium Backs Eileen Higgins For Mayor Of Miami!
Links to support Eileen ahead of Dec. 9 runoff: www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/hopium-bac...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Hopium Backs Eileen Higgins For Mayor Of Miami!
Links to support Eileen ahead of Dec. 9 runoff: www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/hopium-bac...
Links to support Eileen ahead of Dec. 9 runoff: www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/hopium-bac...
Let's make December a very good month for democracy by
- Winning TN-7 and the Miami mayor's race
- Forcefully challenging his malevolent agenda, create more public rebukes
- Make him defend his corrupt, dangerous, lawless advisors
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/a-week-of-...
- Winning TN-7 and the Miami mayor's race
- Forcefully challenging his malevolent agenda, create more public rebukes
- Make him defend his corrupt, dangerous, lawless advisors
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/a-week-of-...
Let's Make December A Very Good Month For Democracy
I'm going live with Stuart Stevens today at 2pm EST - Join us!
www.hopiumchronicles.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Let's make December a very good month for democracy by
- Winning TN-7 and the Miami mayor's race
- Forcefully challenging his malevolent agenda, create more public rebukes
- Make him defend his corrupt, dangerous, lawless advisors
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/a-week-of-...
- Winning TN-7 and the Miami mayor's race
- Forcefully challenging his malevolent agenda, create more public rebukes
- Make him defend his corrupt, dangerous, lawless advisors
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/a-week-of-...
Reposted by Simon Rosenberg
Time to put the Trump regime's corruption, lawlessness, and betrayal front and center in our politics.
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putting-th...
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putting-th...
Putting The Trump Regime's Corruption, Lawlessness, And Betrayal Front And Center In Our Politics
Let's make December a very good month for our democracy
www.hopiumchronicles.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Time to put the Trump regime's corruption, lawlessness, and betrayal front and center in our politics.
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putting-th...
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putting-th...
I don’t know why any of Trump’s staff believe he’ll stand by them when they break laws on his behalf.
cc @michaelcohen212.bsky.social.
cc @michaelcohen212.bsky.social.
Translation: Pete may well go down for this. But I’m not going with him.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
December 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I don’t know why any of Trump’s staff believe he’ll stand by them when they break laws on his behalf.
cc @michaelcohen212.bsky.social.
cc @michaelcohen212.bsky.social.
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@cdelawalla.bsky.social , keep up the excitement! The canvassing for @aftynbehn.bsky.social is so energetic to behold, and on Tuesday, 12/2, we can all see the #TN-7 seat for US Congress won by someone who represents the people of TN, @standupforscience.bsky.social and the American people. 😊
Excited to be on the ground in TN-07 with a team of @standupforscience.bsky.social volunteers canvassing for Aftyn Behn!
We spent our time off the beaten path, in the neighborhoods of Robertson County! A cold day with a very warm reception!
#aftynfortn
We spent our time off the beaten path, in the neighborhoods of Robertson County! A cold day with a very warm reception!
#aftynfortn
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
@cdelawalla.bsky.social , keep up the excitement! The canvassing for @aftynbehn.bsky.social is so energetic to behold, and on Tuesday, 12/2, we can all see the #TN-7 seat for US Congress won by someone who represents the people of TN, @standupforscience.bsky.social and the American people. 😊
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Lemme see if I can remember from the Biden years what we're supposed to say. Oh yeah: "Watching him sundowning like this, it's clear it's time for him to lay down his burden and get the rest he deserves. How cruel of the people around him to force him to stay in office—it's inhumane." How'd I do?
December 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Lemme see if I can remember from the Biden years what we're supposed to say. Oh yeah: "Watching him sundowning like this, it's clear it's time for him to lay down his burden and get the rest he deserves. How cruel of the people around him to force him to stay in office—it's inhumane." How'd I do?
How does someone not know what part of the body a MRI was looking at? This shit is so f-ing crazy.
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
How does someone not know what part of the body a MRI was looking at? This shit is so f-ing crazy.
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The drunken rapist war criminal sure is a psycho.
December 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The drunken rapist war criminal sure is a psycho.
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Join Speaker Emerita @pelosi.house.gov phone banking for @aftynbehn.bsky.social (TN-CD7) today at 3:30pm PT/6:30pm ET!
The race is close - YOU can be the difference maker.
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
The race is close - YOU can be the difference maker.
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Phone Bank with Team Aftyn! Monday Join Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi · Mobilize
In partnership with Aftyn Behn for Congress, Team Pelosi, Grassroots Democrats HQ, Voters of Tomorrow, and Women's March Action.
**Join Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi Sunday November 30 at 3:30 PM PT/...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Join Speaker Emerita @pelosi.house.gov phone banking for @aftynbehn.bsky.social (TN-CD7) today at 3:30pm PT/6:30pm ET!
The race is close - YOU can be the difference maker.
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
The race is close - YOU can be the difference maker.
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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Trump's standing with the public has taken a huge hit in the past few months. He's now regularly polling in the 30s. And their big play to reverse this decline? War in Venezuela - and that's even more unpopular than his handling of inflation. 4/
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Trump's standing with the public has taken a huge hit in the past few months. He's now regularly polling in the 30s. And their big play to reverse this decline? War in Venezuela - and that's even more unpopular than his handling of inflation. 4/
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A polling thread:
- Support for Trump and the GOP has collapsed over the past few months
- He is now regularly polling in the mid 30s
- Attacking Venezuela more unpopular than his handing of inflation
- Consent of the governed has been withdrawn, regime may be facing a legitimacy crisis 👇
- Support for Trump and the GOP has collapsed over the past few months
- He is now regularly polling in the mid 30s
- Attacking Venezuela more unpopular than his handing of inflation
- Consent of the governed has been withdrawn, regime may be facing a legitimacy crisis 👇
Trump drops 11 points - 11 points! - in the past month in Gallup. Just a staggering decline. 1/
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A polling thread:
- Support for Trump and the GOP has collapsed over the past few months
- He is now regularly polling in the mid 30s
- Attacking Venezuela more unpopular than his handing of inflation
- Consent of the governed has been withdrawn, regime may be facing a legitimacy crisis 👇
- Support for Trump and the GOP has collapsed over the past few months
- He is now regularly polling in the mid 30s
- Attacking Venezuela more unpopular than his handing of inflation
- Consent of the governed has been withdrawn, regime may be facing a legitimacy crisis 👇
Time to put the Trump regime's corruption, lawlessness, and betrayal front and center in our politics.
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putting-th...
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putting-th...
Putting The Trump Regime's Corruption, Lawlessness, And Betrayal Front And Center In Our Politics
Let's make December a very good month for our democracy
www.hopiumchronicles.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Time to put the Trump regime's corruption, lawlessness, and betrayal front and center in our politics.
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putting-th...
My latest 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putting-th...
Reposted by Simon Rosenberg
Yes, that's right: Kristi Noem said "persecute," not "prosecute."
Noem: "Anyone who has info on this needs to know we will be coming after you & we will bring you to justice. We absolutely will persecute you b/c we do know that we will never allow this to continue to happen in our country -- allow individuals who came to our country unvetted by Joe Biden ... "
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Yes, that's right: Kristi Noem said "persecute," not "prosecute."
Reposted by Simon Rosenberg
Oh my god the absolute depravity of this.
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Oh my god the absolute depravity of this.