“When you face an existential threat to democracy, cowardice is complicity,” Yale professor Jason Stanley tells @mehdirhasan about Democrats’ weak response to the right’s growing fascism.

Governor Ron DeSantis says he will “destroy leftism” if he’s elected president. @Mehdirhasan explains why his language - and that of other right-wing Republicans - is so dangerous.

Banning TikTok is a national security need, not a threat to First Amendment freedoms, says @jamil_n_jaffer: "We're talking about dance videos and the like." But @JameelJaffer tells @mehdirhasan that banning the platform has much more crucial consequences.

What does the future hold for Succession's Gerri and Roman? @j_smithcameron tells @mehdirhasan why she thinks the show left open the possibility of a relationship after the series finale.

https://nitter.vloup.ch/t.co/oWnUNLV20n As Elon Musk meets with the Chinese foreign minister in China today, it's worth remembering how Musk's deep financial ties pose a danger to the rest of us.

.@MehdiRHasan: “Conservatives who love to engage in doomsday histrionics whenever a homeless person shoplifts a loaf of bread from a San Francisco grocery store, those people, have no issue with maniacs tearing through Target stores... and menacing minimum wage retail workers.”

.@MehdiRHasan: "You can't win a Democratic presidential primary, you're essentially a spoiler candidate." @marwilliamson: "Isn't that what people said about Donald Trump? I will win if people vote for me."

"If the deal does hold, let's hope and pray it does because the alternative is Armageddon, then there is a lot for Biden to crow about" @RBReich on the positives of the newly released debt ceiling bill.

“There’s a pundit-industrial complex that’s waiting for them, with book deals and cable news contributorships,” @MollyJongFast shares her take on why some of the lesser known potential GOP presidential contenders, like North Dakota’s Doug Burgum, may be mulling a 2024 run.