Electability is the buzzword at Democratic conventions across our nation. I understand why some Democrats are tempted to play it safe. Many see Republican victories in 2026 and 2028 as an existential threat and think the answer is to nominate the safest possible candidates. But America is not facing an ordinary moment. We have levels of wealth concentration not seen since the first Gilded Age. Millions of young people cannot afford a home, childcare, healthcare, or college. Voting rights and women’s rights are being rolled back. Black and Latino communities, rural America, and factory towns have been excluded from the wealth generation of the modern economy. The answer to a crisis of this scale is not caution. It is a bold vision equal to the moment. We cannot simply be against Trumpism and go back to a status quo that tore this nation apart. We need a new economic patriotism that creates good jobs in every ZIP code, rebuilds American industry, delivers Medicare for All, provides childcare $10 day, makes public college tuition-free, creates 1,000 new trade schools and technical institutes, guarantees homeownership for every American who works hard by age 35, and ensures that the gains from AI and technological progress are shared by working and middle-class Americans. We need to end foreign wars, reject gun boat militarism abroad, and stop providing aid to governments that violate human rights. And yes, I believe America is strongest when it celebrates being a nation of immigrants. The future of this country is not one group against another or running away from our diversity. It is Americans of every race, faith, and background united around the simple idea that everyone who works hard deserves economic security, dignity, and a chance to succeed. That was Frederick Douglass’s prophecy of a Composite Nation in 1869. If Democrats want to defeat Trumpism, we cannot simply run safe, focus-group-crafted politicians who try to substitute demographic or biographical connection for a real policy vision. We cannot recycle candidates who will never be seen as leaders for true change. We have to offer something fresh, something bigger than fear and insults. We have to offer a vision of shared prosperity. We have to give people a reason to believe that the future can be better than the past. That is the path that Franklin Roosevelt, a leader who governed from a wheelchair after polio, showed us. It is the path John Kennedy showed us as the first Catholic president. It is the path Barack Obama showed us as a trailblazing African American president. It is the path Bernie Sanders showed us as a Jewish, democratic socialist who transformed our politics. The great reformers in American history did not win by playing it safe. They were by no means conventional candidates. They won by meeting the challenges of their time with courage equal to the moment. We are at our best as Democrats when we are not afraid. We are at our best when we are bold.

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AI could generate trillions in wealth in the coming years. We can let Elon Musk and a few Silicon Valley billionaires become richer and richer—OR we can tax AI and invest in schools, healthcare, and workers.

Pretty much all of the prominent voices who supported the Iran War assured us it would be over by now. None of them will admit they were wrong. Even less will they admit that their initial assurances were based on nothing but their own wishcasting. This whole shitshow has been an enormous waste of time and resources and our country has not benefited from it at all. Its advocates have moved the goal posts repeatedly and have even to this day refused to clearly articulate what constitutes a victory and how we’ll know that it’s been achieved.

Why would women's advice not be useful? Maybe fix your misogyny and that'll get you started. Im sorry I hope things get better for you otherwise

Now would be the time to fight back. If you had a pulse. Or red blood in your veins. Pussies.

Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.

I know this is hyperbole but "securing humanity’s future..." 🤣🤣🤣 This is the sort of tripe that fuels British exceptionalism, intended or not.

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Jeff Bezos is spending $200 billion on AI and robotics. Jeff Bezos is replacing hundreds of thousands of his workers at Amazon with robots. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. What a surprise. The Washington Post doesn’t want a moratorium on AI data centers.

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I left the Washington Post 12 years ago. An editor told me Jeff Bezos would gut the paper and I wouldn’t have a job very long. The motto when I left, before they changed it to ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ was “For and about Washington.” They changed it to communicate the diminished ambitions of a once grand paper. Anything that didn’t directly impact the Bethesda or Fairfax reader had already been cut. The newsroom had dwindled to 600 or 700 reporters after many buyouts. The Graham family strategy was to become a local paper, free from the cost of international bureaus and expensive teams. Marty Baron was brought on to execute this local strategy (we called it managed decline) before the surprise Bezos purchase changed everything. Bezos did the opposite of what the newsroom assumed he would do: he poured obscene amounts of money into a cash incinerator. He gave the Post a fancy new building. He subsidized every section of the paper, even the ones with no readers. He expanded international. He financed experiments in video and podcasting. He gave the newsroom a blank check for over a decade. Rather than pursuing a strategy based in reality, the Post newsroom became very accustomed to a billionaire patron giving them everything they wanted in perpetuity. In retrospect, this was a terrible business decision because it made the young reporters and editors delusional. The old ones who remembered the cuts and the pain of the business before Bezos— when they finally took the free coffee away—they had all been fired or left the industry. The “For and About Washington” strategy was also a loser, because it retained the most expensive parts of the newsroom while diminishing its reach. Sports is expensive. Metro news is expensive. And as pretty much every other local newspaper in the country has learned, the old local paper model is broken and has been since the internet arrived. The Post’s brand was and is Washington politics. It’s the seat of American power. It should be focused on covering politics from its premier perch in DC. It should have never been distracted by anything else— it only ever needed this product. It lost sports to the Athletic. It lost International to The Times. There’s no reason to compete on those products. The Post can still own politics, and every story, feature and reporter should be focused on covering it. But it needs to stop pretending that the world didn’t change 20 years ago and start listening to its readers again. There are solid media companies being built for the future and the Post can become one of them. But the old Post died many decades ago. Pretending Bezos killed it isn’t true.