Jonathan Cohn
Editor. Political director for Progressive Mass. Opinions are my own. Phone-banking-while-walking evangelist.
- All the Democrats saying that Democrats should stop talking about this can kindly walk into the sea.
- Democrats with the fewest votes cast in line with Trump: Hirono: 2 Markey: 2 Merkley: 2 Murphy: 3 Van Hollen: 4 Warren: 4 Sanders: 5 Murray: 6 Smith: 9 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Democrats most likely to vote with Trump this year (# of votes with Trump): Shaheen: 62 Hassan: 59 Fetterman: 57 Warner: 55 Rosen: 53 Slotkin: 52 Hickenlooper: 49 King: 49 Kaine: 46 Kelly; 46 Cortez Masto: 43 Peters: 41 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- 5 members of the Democratic Caucus joined Republicans in advancing Trump's pick for Deputy Secretary of the Interior today: Fetterman Gallego Heinrich Kelly King
- The police admit they were wrong. But ICE is still holding her in detention. www.huffpost.com/entry/ximena...
- I love when people who say "Democrats should stop focusing on cultural issues and focus on kitchen table issues instead" elaborate what they mean by "kitchen table issues" and it's some convoluted tax credit scheme that no one will notice and then deregulating crypto.
- Anti-corruption messaging is a winner, and it is something that can be a differentiator that doesn't throw vulnerable people under the bus.
- Maura Healey evaded having to comment on this story last week because “we don’t know all the details.” Well, here are the details. And they make it even worse. Abolish ICE and salt the earth of the office after. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- Get filled with rage every time I see a quote from Maura Healey on ICE raids where she is defending the ICE agents, not standing up for the rights of her constituents.
- This five-story building in the Cayman Islands is home to almost 19,000 international corporations. (Slide from @phineasb.bsky.social’s presentation on corporate tax-dodging)
