Jake Faleschini

It is shocking to hear a judicial nominee unable to answer a simple question: Does the President have the right to do anything he wants?

NEW: As the Senate prepares to vote on Emil Bove’s nomination to the Third Circuit, two more whistleblowers have emerged, according to Whistleblower Aid and the Justice Connection. /1

That is some hard 🥶 truth.

Hey #AdamsMorgan and #DupontCircle peeps. DC Public Library @dcpl is changing its tune from 5 years ago and is now saying that our neighborhoods don't need a public library. What do you think? dclibrary.org/sites/default/…

I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦. Fuck Trump, Vance, and Musk … wannabe dictator pieces of shit.

Behind the headlines of mass layoffs, there are thousands of people with families, bills, and responsibilities that suddenly have their lives turned upside down because of this insane political stunt. Today, I want to share a few of their stories.

A 27 yr-old Iranian woman converted to Christianity, and had to flee Iran (where conversion brings the death penalty). She fled to the US to seek asylum. The Trump administration arrested her, put her in shackles, loaded her on a military plane with 300 other migrants...

Hey @311DCgov and @DCDPW - would really appreciate an SRN number here. Trees are still there. Thanks so much!

Hey @311DCgov! Happy Sunday. We have 7-8 Christmas trees still sitting in the planters on the Northeast corner of Champlain St and Kalorama Rd NW, many of which have been here for 7 weeks or more. Can you please open up a ticket for @DCDPW to come collect them?!

@311DCgov @DCDPW Thank you!

@SoundPolicy @DCDPW Good afternoon! Your service request number is 25-00111731. DPW is the responding agency. Have a great day!

Hey @311DCgov! This couch is still abandoned and rotting away in the pocket park on The corner of Champlain St and Kalorama Rd NW despite multiple 311 requests for a bulk trash pickup over the past six months. Can @DCDPW PLEASE come deal with it?!

The first critical election of the new Trump era is just 132 days from now: Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court race. 🧵

@SenSherrodBrown Every. Judge. Matters. Let’s get them ALL confirmed by the end of the year.

A single judge in Texas just blocked four million American workers from getting the overtime pay they earn. This is exactly why our fight for workers isn’t over.

@SenSchumer You have 24 more to go and only 4 work weeks to do it in. You’re not moving fast enough.

NEWS: This Senate Democratic Majority has now confirmed 215 highly-qualified judges. And we will keep going.

As of this posting, 88 counties have certified their election results, and our campaign is now leading the race for NC Supreme Court by 106 votes.

@SenSchumer But filing cloture on 6 nominees in 2 of the 5 weeks you have left isn't going to cut it.

@SenSchumer It is possible to confirm them all if you schedule votes for all of them.

The Senate will continue fulfilling our constitutional obligation to consider and confirm President Biden’s highly qualified judicial nominees and nominees to other agencies. We will work to get as many of them confirmed as possible.

@ezraklein Will you please move to BlueSky. I like your feed but this place sucks.

A few thoughts from the conversations I’ve been having and hearing over the last week: The hard question isn’t the 2 points that would’ve decided the election. It’s how to build a Democratic Party that isn’t always 2 points away from losing to Donald Trump — or worse. The Democratic Party is supposed to represent the working class. If it isn’t doing that, it is failing. That’s true even even if it can still win elections. Democrats don’t need to build a new informational ecosystem. Dems need to show up in the informational ecosystems that already exist. They need to be natural and enthusiastic participants in these cultures. Harris should’ve gone on Rogan, but the damage here was done over years and wouldn’t have been reversed in one October appearance. Building a media ecosystem isn’t something you do through nonprofit grants or rich donors (remember Air America?). Joe Rogan and Theo Von aren’t a Koch-funded psy-op. What makes these spaces matter is that they aren’t built on politics. (Democrats already win voters who pay close attention to politics.) That there’s more affinity between Democrats and the Cheneys than Democrats and the Rogans and Theo Vons of the world says a lot. Economic populism is not just about making your economic policy more and more redistributive. People care about fairness. They admire success. People have economic identities in addition to material needs. Trump — and in a different way, Musk — understand the identity side of this. What they share isn’t that they are rich and successful, it’s that they made themselves into the public’s idea of what it means to be rich and successful. Policy matters, but it has to be real to the candidate. Policy is a way candidates tell voters who they are. But people can tell what politicians really care about and what they’re mouthing because it polls well. Governing matters. If housing is more affordable, and homelessness far less of a crisis, in Texas and Florida than California and New York, that’s a *huge* problem. If people are leaving California and New York for Texas and Florida, that’s a *huge* problem. Democrats need to take seriously how much scarcity harms them. Housing scarcity became a core Trump-Vance argument against immigrants. Too little clean energy becomes the argument for rapidly building out more fossil fuels. A successful liberalism needs to believe in *and deliver* abundance of the things people need most. That Democrats aren’t trusted on the cost of living harmed them much more than any ad. If Dems want to “Sister Soulja” some part of their coalition, start with the parts that have made it so much more expensive to build and live where Democrats govern. More than a “Sister Soulja” moment, Democrats need to rebuild a culture of saying no inside their own coalition. Democrats don’t just have to move right or left. They need to better reflect the texture of worlds they’ve lost touch with and those worlds are complex and contradictory. The most important question in politics isn’t whether a politician is well liked. It’s whether voters think a politician — or a political coalition — likes them.

BlueSky really is better. ill be there most of the time now. @jakefaleschini

NEW BLOG: Why The Senate Must Confirm Every Biden Judge written by AFJ Justice Program Director, Jake Faleschini (@SoundPolicy) afj.org/article/why-th…