Rajan Narang

my politics in a nutshell:

there are people serving life sentences right now on thinner evidence than we have for "donald trump was jeffrey epstein's partner in serial rape" democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

ICE taking a father away while dropping his kid off at school. It happened earlier today on Junction Blvd, Queens.

Someone queue up the montage.

This is thrilling and didn't happen by accident. In 2023 we ended 30 minute waits on nights and weekends, and ever since, BART weekend ridership has been climbing, faster than weekday ridership. I championed this change for two years before staff made it happen, and it's worked as we had hoped.

For anyone wondering if young people still protest in America today, the answer is: absolutely and so many more wish they were protesting (and these data are from spring, so the numbers are likely even higher now).

Where we are as a country: in opposition to the establishment of democracy in Venezuela because it could infringe on the extractive contracts the president’s buddies have arranged with the current regime.

Metaphor alert:

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Anthony Kennedy's folly www.washingtonsun.com/influence/da...

These CEOs who never talk to a regular person always convince themselves that the backlash is fake.

I generally don’t believe in poll unskewing - if the pollster’s legit, throw it in the average and move on - but there are some pollsters doing likely-voter screens this cycle that are truly incomprehensible

A wise reminder from Admiral Radakin that the Allies retain significant unused economic advantages over Russia, and shouldn't hesitate to tighten the screws further in response to Russian attacks

ICE violently detained a student with a developmental disability/limited verbal capacity in Santa Maria. He's a US citizen, not that that should matter. It's past time for this rogue agency to go thearcca.org/the-arc-of-c...

Ronaldo Salgado, son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was tragically shot and killed by ICE in Houston, Texas earlier this year, made a surprise appearance at the Ready. Go. Vote. Rally. Ronaldo, thank you for using your voice to encourage our communities to get out to vote 🗳️

Not the first time Minnesota broke the enemies advance.

We’re so used to impunity we don’t even know how to process punity

Every major figure in this administration is an open bigot.

Feels like a metaphor for Elon Musk

And now back to my full time job, texting the word "stop" to every living Democrat.

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Imagine being a voter/donor primarily motivated by protecting Elon Musk. What a sad existence, including if your name is Elon Musk

As of Sunday, voters in North Carolina between the ages of 18 and 25 are voting at 2.1 times the pace they did in 2022 and Black voters are voting at 1.6 times the pace they did in 2022. #NCPol #NCSen #NCGA thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/theyre-att...

When Democrats win a trifecta in PA (either now or in 2028), it'll be important to decrease the power of Yass' big money and boost small donors.

The trouble here: to separate 'accountability' & 'prices are too high,' as we can see Patrick Ruffini doing here, is self-serving subterfuge. Why are prices high? Tariffs, fiscal deterioration's effect on interest rates, starting a stupid war in the Gulf … all stuff that people can fault Trump for.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

As far as our data can tell this is pretty much unambiguously good news for Democrats. Young voters strongly favor the Dems this cycle, including young men allianceforyouthpower.org/wp-content/u...

What's extremely telling is that there is never once an article like this written from the perspective of the person who cut off their parent.

In a just world, taxpayers choose elected representatives to decide how their collective tax dollars are spent, but billionaires think that by virtue of being special little boys who get away with breaking the law, they alone get to decide how billions are spent and we should worship them for it

Alternatively, we can just tax the living hell out of them

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

One of most interesting pro-voter maneuvers this fall: After facing years of attacks against popular initiatives, organizers in Missouri and Montana are pushing two measures this November that'd give their states arguably the strongest legal protections in the country for direct democracy:

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

Lula Goes HARD

One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of gerrymandering, I shall fear no evil; for D+10 is with me

how long until Mike Donilon pops up to tell us Biden would’ve come back like Lula