Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽

Oh, the networks might've found the most effective leverage any human has weaponized against Trump to date.

Obama: “Imagine if I had done any of this... Imagine I pulled Fox News' credentials from the WH press corps.” I never want to hear MAGA talk about “tyranny” again. Their GOP has given up the mantle of limited government, free speech, the Constitution. They are the tyranny.

Today, I went to the grocery store and purchased $20 worth of vegetables. I now have a $20 trade deficit with the grocery store. They clearly ripped me off. I will now cut off all trade with the grocery store and let my family starve in order to Make My Household Great Again.

In normal times, a sitting president turning a memorial for nearly 3,000 dead Americans into an opportunity to aggrandize and lie about himself would be a national scandal, met with widespread disgust. Sadly, we are not in normal times.

It will take me a decade to forgive the people who helped this abject moron become the most powerful person in America.

Trump is the most corrupt president in American history. By far. There is simply no one President that even comes close.

This is a statement from the most successful chairman in the history of the Libertarian Party. He's the chair who oversaw Gary Johnson and Jo Jorgensen receiving enough votes to tip the elections in 2016 and 2020. People across the country — and across parties — are waking up. H/t @sarwark.org

Ossoff: “Never let them forget. They hunted the Vice President to kill him.” Every day, we must remember the people leading us hate the Constitution. In modern history, no administration has been more hostile to our founding ideals than the one currently in the White House.

Trump, 2024: "Tariffs will lower prices." Trump, 2026: "I'm removing my tariffs to lower prices." Next time you're at the grocery store, remember that every economist on the planet warned you in 2024 that this is exactly where it would end up.

I have to give it to Darline. “MAGA is more concerned with what a half dozen trans athletes are doing than the most important geopolitical flashpoint of our time” is actually a pretty honest reflection of the base.

Real liberalism has been tried. First it created the Constitution. Then it abolished slavery. Then it ended segregation. Then it created the greatest surge of prosperity in history. Our problems today are not because liberalism failed. They are because we failed liberalism.

I enjoyed this conversation quite a bit. Ranges from the weird dynamics of political realignment, to how liberals should feel about DSA, to the need for liberal influencer incubation. Even a fun mention of @ashleystclair.bsky.social thrown in, though that tangent was sadly aborterd.

Darline Graham (Lindsey Graham's sister) was asked tonight about her position on Taiwan and the South China sea. Her reply: “National security is not my thing, not my area of expertise... but I support the military.” MAGA continues to set the bar *high* for the U.S. Senate.

Never underestimate the power of ideas. A single idea can topple entrenched power structures, redefine our relationship to authority, and bend the trajectory of history. Established despots and strongmen fear them for a reason.

I really enjoyed the conversation I had with @ryangeddie.bsky.social and @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com with @liberalcurrents.com. We talked about my origins in libertarian organizing, my childhood in a Pentecostal community, and what brought to the liberal coalition. youtu.be/c0GgJUaf5BM?...

Um. Knox County, Tennessee Democrats just flipped a traditionally deep red county commission seat by what looks to be +10 points. November is going to be wild.

Hard endorsement of every word here. Illiberalism is a weakness. Cruelty is weakness. Embracing illiberalism is the ultimate act of debasement and self-humiliation.

The most egregious act of corruption yet. If you can afford to pay $100k/mo, you can get early access to Trump's posts before anyone else does, allowing you to front-run market moves and profit millions, while the plebs play in the sandbox. People must go to prison for this.

Trump spent years whining that the DOJ was "weaponized" against him (a former president who claimed to be a victim). Now the DOJ actually is being weaponized against regular Americans. In this case, a former Olympian was targeted to satisfy Trump's narcissistic impulses. apnews.com/article/refl...

"If you create the image of dominance then people will feel dominated, and then you've won." — @jamellebouie.net Listen to the full episode: hubs.la/Q04r3y5K0

We are living through the most flagrantly corrupt administration in 250 years of American history. Every single day, he steals millions from us and from our children. He's turned the machinery of government into a personal enrichment scheme. Where is the outrage?

Putin is so scared of Ukrainian drones he cancelled Russia's Navy Day parade, again. He's now forced to stand in an empty lot in front of a printed photo of a submarine. The world's "second-strongest military" can't put its own ships in open water on its own holiday. Hilarious.

"It's like we are walking through the museum of wretched ideas and saying, 'Let's do this again.' How about a little fascism? Big buckets of antisemitism; let's throw in dashes of tariffs and a ground war in Europe." — @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social 👂: hubs.la/Q04qTT8b0

The White House is posting AI slop videos depicting immigrants as monsters. Dehumanization is always the first move of authoritarians. It never stops with one group. The circle widens until everyone except the most devoted (& debased) lose their humanity, their rights, and their freedom.

World Cup fans came to America expecting one thing and found another. Justin Hayes on why that surprise matters more than it might seem. www.liberalism.org/p/contact-as...

Trump just announced his intent to run for a third term. It's not a joke. As it's happened countless times over the last decade, the joke is always the announcement.

For the people who don't track these things closely, when JD Vance says he's “postliberal” in this context it doesn't mean “post-Democrat,” it means “post-Constitution.”

This is both a signal to the public and to the ICE agents. To the American people, he's saying he will protect the masked, armed men — even if they kill you, your child, your neighbor, or your friend. To the masked thugs, he's saying: you're good to kill more.

Running into this guy brought back decade-old trauma (in a good way) @sarwark.org