More fun to play the victim, I guess.
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More fun to play the victim, I guess.
He's wrong on everything, so this tracks.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
This is step one in how we lose free and fair elections. It’s not that Trump will “cancel” the midterms. It’s just everyone has to vote in person, and urban downtowns will be filled with ICE checkpoints and intimidating National Guard troops to “double check” that only citizens vote.
The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.
Yikes!
How is Wiley Nickel a real person's name?
One thing he could do is finger roll.
one reason democrats have a credibility problem is folks like adam schiff were taking smiling photos next to netanyahu two weeks ago
Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...
water is also really vital for life. however, too much water and you drown.
Feminists and abortion rights activists warned that this would happen, and now here we are: A Tennessee woman has been denied prenatal care because she’s unmarried. The woman—who hasn’t shared her name—spoke about her experience at a town hall last week.
Gift link to the story Trump doesn't want you to see! www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
trump wants Texas Republicans to redraw the state congressional map to help keep the House majority and guess what? They will do it and he will keep the majority, all while Democrats, who could do the same thing in Blue states clutch their pearls and cry "it's not fair". FIGHT THE FUCK BACK!
All that relentless complaining about "the groups" and "leftists online" undermining the Democratic party but we can't get leadership to endorse the actual winner of the Dem primary over a sex pest, a crook, and a Republican in a beret. Our leadership is toxic as hell and needs to go ASAP.
i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf
The $80 million was supposed to go back to active-duty military, veterans, Department of Defense employees, and their families who bank with the credit union. They were illegally charged fees by the bank. Give them their money back.
my regular reminder that many of the wealthiest and most powerful people in this country very plainly believe in eugenics
Another way to handle this would be, “The spokeswoman for DHS declined to go on the record. Our news organization does not provide anonymity to government spokespeople and thus we are unable to provide DHS’s response. We will be happy to update this story should DHS change its policy.”
"The Ghor are waging insurrection against the Empire"
What transit experts generally tell you is: the highest use of scarce resources is making transit service more *frequent & reliable*. That's what actually boosts ridership. Everything else -- free point-of-use fare, electric buses, fancy new trolleys, architecturally fancy stations -- matters less.
Ag is a real job. It takes real skills, knowledge, & people who gaf about what they're doing. Stop treating agriculture like society's dumping ground.
Hey 19
I think one of the biggest pitfalls of having so many older people in government is that they still try to govern like it's 1978. Like, they have to learn sooner or later that the "Give a little, get a little" strategy is dead, and like, your Republican colleagues literally just want you dead.
Same with packing the Court. Put that bill in the House and I doubt it gets 50 votes.
For 6 months, Dem leaders have downplayed or refused to frontally address many of Trump's worst abuses by saying those are "distractions" from the Dems focusing on economic issues. But as Trump's tax bill is being voted on, Jeffries is attacking a Dem ...over a phrase that Dem doesn't even use.
Really impossible to overstate how completely this guy has failed at every aspect of being an opposition leader over the past six months. Jeffries is a truly inspiring example for every soulless careerist who would rather be king of nothing than stand for anything decent in the world.
As I keep saying, I do not think people know that there is basically no legal way to immigrate here by applying.
This Day in Labor History: June 22, 1944. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, better known as the G.I. Bill, was signed into law. Let's talk about the role of the GI Bill in reshaping working class life, as well as how it could reinforce racist institutions.
The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.
Democratic politicians and liberal pundits bemoaning the LA protests need to understand that as *their* failure. None of this would be happening if they had offered effective resistance to mass deportation (extraordinary rendition, in truth) instead of considering undocumented people expendable.
I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.
We are spending more adding a terminal to one airport than on all high speed rail projects throughout all of US history Just in case you are wondering why CA HSR is proceeding so slowly
The wimping out thing only works if you don't want him to wimp out. So it seems backwards. And dumb.
Journalists really need to get more comfortable with the phrase: “You’re wasting my time sir; good day.”
I visited Fort McHenry in April with my kids. The park didn't have enough staff to raise the Star Spangled banner. Kind of a metaphor.
Voting yes on this crypto bill is Democrats' declaration of corruption. There is no non-corrupt reason to support crypto.
Swing voters are often characterized as “moderate,” even though every election shows us more and more that they’re really “change voters.” They’re not loyal to any ideology, they want something different, because the status quo isn’t working.
According to the NYT, people making donations to a charity run by the Clintons -- donations used to help poor people -- is corruption. Making a giant gift directly to the president is not.
Cardinal Robert Prevost has requested everyone use the name Pope Leo XIV when addressing him. No one seems to have a problem with using the name he’s chosen despite it not being his birth name. Seems like a courtesy we might extend to everyone if they request it.
at most you'll be able to afford an egg, 2 dolls - but at least you also won't be able to visit any national parks wealthiest nation on earth™️
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is
“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥
yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.
Very informative chart from Washington Post
Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers
Why not? It always works.
They can't get a poll done that quickly, so they don't know what to do.
Joseph E. Johnston seems most appropriate. Never fought, just kept retreating.
Go to hell.
Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮
Go to hell.
Alright fuck it. Who’s launching the democratic version of the Tea Party? I’m in.
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
This Tim Walz quote from The New Yorker pairs well:
![“I would argue that the road towards authoritarianism has been paved with people saying, ‘You’re overreacting . . . I don’t think you can underestimate how far [Trump] will go”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y2lqiupkezir2zjz6xwiuivc/bafkreidcgtpbyift4tx6ffz2qksqlxd25msoqbl5d2slvq3po72ew5tf6q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.
The question is settled, this is going to funnel money to quacks and grifters to create a CDC-approved fake "study" that supercharges vaccine misinformation. It's not just a public health failure, it's a terrorist attack on public health.
HAYES: “The United States siding with Putin against democratic allies will have massive consequences for global politics for decades to come.”
All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.
Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.
If you still have friends/family who think this administration will help them, talk to them about money....
taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
most journalists today can be divided into two groups: dedicated, impoverished people who mostly write for publications you've never heard of that started eighteen months ago or JP Random House The First, who writes columns for the New York Times about which ethnic groups it should be OK to hunt
Sheryl Crow has sold her Tesla and donated the proceeds to NPR. “My parents always said... you are who you hang out with”
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
If Senator Van Hollen actually believed this, he would bring the Senate to a halt himself to delay RFK’s confirmation vote by weeks. But Van Hollen does not have this courage or strength of vision. He will not object to unanimous consent because he doesn’t want to work weekends. More… 1/3
“The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, is stealing money from you to put in his pocket” has to be the easiest political argument ever www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
It wasn't crazy if it could work, unfortunately there was zero chance of that in this atmosphere. So yeah, crazy.
I'll probably say this 5 million times in coming years, but: A political strategy that relies on the public "waking up" and realizing that Trump & Co. are awful -- on their own -- is destined to fail. No matter how bad it gets. None of this is self-executing. People must be told & shown.
No one lets go of anyone’s hand.
If the President can shut down agencies created by statute and funded by appropriation, just because he wants to, then Congress might as well close up shop and go home. If the President can appoint people to do this without any confirmation and oversight, same.
Scooter Libby would like a word.
When protestors uttered the slogan “defund the police” the national media had a massive freak out. But now that Trump wants to actually gut the FBI and (it would seem) illegally fire 1000s of people who work there, the same media sees it as a curiosity, a dull bureaucratic matter.
helpful and important to stop thinking of x as a social media platform and see and talk about it for what it is: a political weapon
Sometimes I think there should be like a one penny charge for each reply. Maybe then people would think "Does anyone need to hear this?"
We need to stop thinking journalists will save us. It's up to the people to put a stop to this.
Law only works if people pretend it exists. When we take Trump's word for it that he has the authority to do something it *gives* him that authority. It is important that journalists stop reporting what Trump or Musk says as law.
If there is any doubt that tariffs are passed through to consumers, the cost of propane to heat my house just went up by the amount of the tariff
He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.
if nothing else it is very funny that one of our very worst take writers published a “hey maybe trump isn’t so bad you hysterical libs” piece literally the morning before trump claimed sovereign power over the entire government
we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
The Democratic Party didn't have a plan for winning the election. The Democratic Party didn't have a plan for losing the election. I'd say "learned helplessness" is the guiding principle of this "organization." www.semafor.com/article/01/2...
Causes of, and solutions to, political problems: 1. Money 2. Power 3. Organizing ... 999. Words
Yes. Because of this lack of resolve, Republicans have reasoned that they can cajole Dems into helping them fund the government, increase the debt limit, etc. But those are the tools a resolute opposition would use to force Trump into compliance with the law. www.offmessage.net/p/dont-prop-...
You are embarrassing yourself, this won't age well at all.
Also a story, several of your D colleagues capitulating.
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.” MLK Jr
their view is that high status jobs ought to belong to white men, who exist at the top of a natural hierarchy
How it started. How it’s going.
