Thing is, to put him in his place they’ve got to have weapons to defend Ukraine. W/o that, 🌎 can talk all it wants, but Putin & Trump win.

I’m most curious how his base is reacting? Are they surprised by this? Willing to break with him at all?

thuggery shd be accepted as normal. This is where the reflexive anti-Americanism of the left and the cynicism of MAGA get very horseshoey.

Yes. And the dumbness of the “we’ve really never been better than our worst” argument is that it completely gives aid & comfort to Trump. Trump says, excusing Putin, that we haven’t been so great either; his whole justification is that we’ve never really been anything better, so his corruption and…

have a public option. Get that working, then expand more in a few years. Build it in politically palatable steps, that’s how we’ll get to a public option for all.

No, and if ppl happen to have good insurance at the moment, they worry abt rocking that boat. Dems shd propose something like lowering eligibility age for Medicare by five years. Less radical-sounding, lots of voters in their late fifties & up will like it, expands the number of people who…

The rest of the world has outsourced its defense to the US for so long that now Europe is pathetically hapless against the biggest aggression on its own continent since WWII. If this acct is true, this is murder, which can & shd be dealt w/ under US law, but talk of the ICC is fatuous.

Find your Congressional Rep here. This was pure murder. Now is the time to log off Bluesky and call our Reps.

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Now is a time to call our Congress Reps and demand this.

As Tom says, it’s early yet for Pres candidates - let’s win midterms first - but I’ll throw out Shapiro as worth a strong look. Very popular governor in prbly the most impt swing state, talented pol, has a rep for getting practical stuff done.

the pax Americana we’ve had since WWII. With all our flaws, wrongs, & errors, it’s brought an unprecedented degree of prosperity, peace & freedom to millions in Europe & Asia. Trump is toppling that pretty effectively, and I don’t think the result will be a safer, more peaceful world.

I’m standard liberal in that I want to see a decent, reasonably secure life for most people; favor things like universal health care. But oddly, Trump has made me more conservative in that I’m more aware of how fragile civil society is and how easily it can be torn up. Also, much more supportive of…

Hilary). Answer is not to respond w demagogues like Trump, but to listen to voters and not scold them about who they *should* like.

Afraid exactly the reverse of that is true. He had won primary after primary. He had the election results to back him up early. Clinton had her baggage, some fair, some not (I hv midwestern relatives who haven’t voted Dem since Bill signed NAFTA, and they definitely weren’t going to vote…

Mamdani kissing up to Trump for favors, as so many others have done. On same day Trump says Dem legislators deserve to die and shivs Ukraine. But Mamdani doesn’t care, it was a great photo opp.

Mamdani & Trump cozying up is least surprising thing in politics, two horseshoey populists.

I watched 60 minutes. Everyone needs to watch it and share with friends and family. It's enraging and laid out in very simple terms. Trump's pardon of Changpeng Zhao. www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-...

Oh, we’ll be up visiting again, thank you!