how many concentration camps will be built by then? how many people disappeared by ICE? how many dead from losing health insurance? we can't wait til 2026.
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Clark is my rep. She used to be great. Then she became Whip and she mostly seems to engage in virtue signaling and fund raising ever since. I want to see a bill to protect free and fair elections. That should have happened under the BIDEN admin. These people are so behind the 8 ball.
jul 3, 2025, 7:01 pm • 7 0 • view
Unfortunately there is nothing that can be done at this point.
jul 3, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Agreed. Many keep passing over the fact the one in Florida took a literal week, because it’s built without humanity in mind. If Mother Nature or whatever took them out, this admin would be celebrating
jul 3, 2025, 5:58 pm • 5 0 • view
Project 2026 is the parallel being drawn to 1776. In 1775 the founders didn't agree with the law of the land, so they revolted in 1776.
jul 3, 2025, 6:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Um, the Revolution started in 1775.
jul 3, 2025, 6:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Yep.
jul 3, 2025, 6:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Why are we so absolutely fucked all of the time??
jul 3, 2025, 11:05 pm • 2 0 • view
They gave ICE 70 billion more dollars too.
jul 3, 2025, 8:06 pm • 1 0 • view
I am sure they will get started on the real work (texting us for money) this weekend
jul 3, 2025, 6:11 pm • 3 0 • view
I feel like there's a good chance this "Project 2026" is their plan to unseat Mamdani and the timing is coincidental.
jul 3, 2025, 6:32 pm • 1 0 • view
What's wrong with the Democratic Party in one tweet.
jul 4, 2025, 11:47 am • 2 0 • view
Project 2025 didn’t wait til 2025 to get started either. That’s not the idea here.
jul 3, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 3, 2025, 6:42 pm • 4 0 • view
They finally agree to wear parachutes. We’re already falling. It’s too late for that
jul 3, 2025, 6:50 pm • 1 0 • view
And please let’s not call it Project anything.
jul 3, 2025, 8:35 pm • 2 0 • view
And for the love of god stop calling it that.
jul 3, 2025, 5:56 pm • 28 0 • view
Then call it what?
jul 4, 2025, 7:40 am • 1 0 • view
damn straight, we can't wait, and we're not going to. f these fascists. bsky.app/profile/jess...
jul 3, 2025, 10:23 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s just gonna be a written statement by Schumer saying, “WE WILL WIN! WE WILL WIN!”
jul 4, 2025, 1:25 am • 1 0 • view
This idea that everything is functioning normally is just... wtaf But also: WHY in the WORLD would you adopt the same language as the fash with this?? fuck
jul 3, 2025, 5:56 pm • 41 3 • view
PATHETIC
jul 7, 2025, 1:37 am • 0 0 • view
I completely agree. The time is now.
jul 3, 2025, 6:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Personally I think people will be disappointed if they vote for a blue wave and then get two years of not being able to pass any legislation and the president is still a lawless king. But there will be hearings!
jul 3, 2025, 6:21 pm • 232 7 • view
We truthfully are only a dozen or so districts from a Congress that can override a veto. And once that happens, some GOP may feel empowered to vote their consciences instead of bowing to #FeatlessLeader.
jul 3, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Dude I don't even know if there will be hearings
jul 3, 2025, 6:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Like, why would any of them comply with a subpoena
jul 3, 2025, 8:15 pm • 1 0 • view
That would be better than what's going on now.
jul 3, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Disappointed? I’d expect almost nothing less.
jul 3, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
That’ll result in the dissolution of Congress. Either by decree (a Truth Social post!) or by simply defanging them by ignoring them, same thing done to the judiciary. Senate Rs will play the role of SCOTUS, paving the way for Tyrant Trump.
jul 3, 2025, 10:41 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s very important to pay attention to primaries and local elections this go around. We have a chance to get democrats who can’t meet the moment out of office and replaced with effective leadership.
jul 3, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Well see we have to play by the rules 🙄
jul 3, 2025, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
No, that would be looking behind. We must look forward!
jul 3, 2025, 6:22 pm • 23 0 • view
I was told we need a strong Republican party
jul 3, 2025, 11:10 pm • 11 0 • view
My Republican friends,
jul 3, 2025, 11:15 pm • 8 0 • view
I’d still rather be disappointed by that situation instead of having Republicans maintain a majority in both House and Senate. But better dump Fetterman.
jul 3, 2025, 6:35 pm • 3 0 • view
2030 will be the new 2010
jul 3, 2025, 6:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Democrats probably need to adjust and set expectations starting yesterday, and also let us know what the hell they plan on doing in the meantime
jul 3, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Instead of hoping to tip-toe into office and the majority, I'd love nothing more than to see 16 months of democrats promising to impeach the Mango Monarch and convict him in the Senate. Seriously, anything short of that and they have NO cred calling anybody else a bitch.
jul 3, 2025, 6:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Can't wait to vote for the Enabling Party so they can stop enabling the fascist president. 🌊🌊🌊
jul 3, 2025, 6:22 pm • 3 0 • view
the Republican plan was dated for when they’d take power and could start doing things, this Dem one is dated for when we’d elect them, which is often their entire plan
jul 3, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
It's a real shame Congress has not, and probably will not, figure out how to handle a President who will tell them to go fuck themselves with a Supreme Court who thinks the President has a point.
jul 3, 2025, 6:23 pm • 5 0 • view
How about stopping Rs from passing more legislation like the one they just did? Would that be a good thing to you?
jul 3, 2025, 6:45 pm • 1 0 • view
if we won back exactly 1 chamber and by a huge majority thatd be dandy as fuck
jul 3, 2025, 7:42 pm • 11 1 • view
and this is why ppl get disgusted by dems their focus on long speeches to *win* a record means nothing when masked marauders snatch up our friends and neighbors saying things like *project 2026* is the same- the election was 239 days ago where tf have you been Katherine
jul 3, 2025, 8:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Let me guess... Project 2026 involves giving lots of money to the same Dem politicians that got us to this point.
jul 3, 2025, 6:17 pm • 3 0 • view
Voters got us to this point where Congressional democrats have no power
jul 3, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, because politicians and their policies have no bearing on how people vote.
jul 4, 2025, 4:17 am • 0 0 • view
You betcha!
jul 3, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view
I think she is referring to the Republican project. Project 2025 is already underway, and the bill today begins project 2026.
jul 3, 2025, 6:14 pm • 1 0 • view
All to make money for the rich. Using prisoners for cheap labor, paying contractors to transport prisoners, build and run prisons/camps, money from foreign prisons who bribed Trump and his buddies so they can get tax money to imprison people. This is CAPITALISM where humans are disposable capital.
jul 3, 2025, 7:14 pm • 3 0 • view
Take a job building camps. Be bad and slow at your job. Compensate with maghat swag. Shit'll never get built. 😆
jul 3, 2025, 6:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Also, it's pretty clear (from all the masks coming off) that Republicans don't expect to have to stand for a real election anymore and have already laid the groundwork to ratfuck and/or outright cancel elections. They've grown into something terrible that cannot be simply voted away...
jul 3, 2025, 6:01 pm • 3 0 • view
At least 1.6 Million immigrants will be aprehended.
jul 3, 2025, 6:13 pm • 4 0 • view
Name it something else at least. My God.
jul 3, 2025, 8:14 pm • 1 0 • view
how about project Not In Our Fucking Name can we start that today Katherine
jul 3, 2025, 5:56 pm • 77 0 • view
she literally said Project 2026 STARTS TODAY
jul 3, 2025, 7:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Did that hose water taste weird
jul 3, 2025, 7:07 pm • 22 0 • view
Her statement means nothing. By the time we heard about Project 2025, it was already done. Heck, the Dems still think Abundance is a real strategy when polling suggests otherwise.
jul 4, 2025, 12:22 am • 0 0 • view
*We cant wait until January 20, 2027, which is when the next congress would be sworn in.
jul 3, 2025, 5:56 pm • 13 0 • view
The Republican Party exists to serve billionaires. Everything Republicans - especially John Thune & Mike Johnson - do is in service to the extreme rich. Republicans proved again today they DON'T CARE about average Americans or our Earth. #BigUglyBill #Medicare #Medicaid #RepublicansAreKillingUs
jul 3, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Why wasn't it started on Nov. 6 or Jan. 21 @whipkclark.bsky.social? What ever happened to Martin's shadow Cabinet for the media? What are y'all doing other than meeting with centrist consultants and donors?
jul 4, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
You would be bitching if they didn’t have a plan for the future
jul 3, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
It should have started a long time ago.
jul 3, 2025, 7:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Why do Democrats insist on using Republican naming conventions? It is so stupid.
jul 3, 2025, 5:58 pm • 20 1 • view
If only people had thought of that and voted blue on November 5th instead of staying home. Like HELLO?! That's how election cycles work. Trump and Republican politicians were elected and they are carrying out their agenda. There's no cheat code here that wouldn't result in people going to prison.
jul 3, 2025, 6:06 pm • 13 2 • view
You are interrupting their fundraising. Very impolite.
jul 4, 2025, 9:54 am • 0 0 • view
I understand we're in a bad place but your screenshot literally says "it starts today." I don't see how this can be read as "we're gonna sit on our asses for a year and a half" particularly after we've seen both sides of the Dem caucus do everything they can to slow down this catastrophe of a bill.
jul 3, 2025, 6:26 pm • 1 0 • view
No one should be able to say, "I didn't know". We must continue to post pictures, tell the stories of the people who are sent there. It starts NOW.
jul 3, 2025, 5:57 pm • 2 0 • view
They really annoy me talking about 2026
jul 3, 2025, 6:44 pm • 4 0 • view
we kinda have to wait until 2026. at least for federal action. the dems don't control either chamber of congress. until then everything is going to be local
jul 3, 2025, 5:57 pm • 3 0 • view
is what ppl who won't die or be deported say...
jul 4, 2025, 12:18 am • 1 0 • view
buddy, I'm the child of a Dominican immigrant. I am aware of how bad the situation is. I'm just telling you where we're at.
jul 4, 2025, 12:19 am • 1 0 • view
Quietism passing as realism then?
jul 4, 2025, 12:21 am • 1 0 • view
this isn't quietism. I am not being quiet. I am pointing out that if you want federal action you need control of the federal government. without that your focus needs to be smaller and more local.
jul 4, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
go-slow passing as reason, then.
jul 4, 2025, 12:35 am • 0 0 • view
complacency passing as pragmatism?
jul 4, 2025, 12:22 am • 1 0 • view
They don’t care.
jul 3, 2025, 6:45 pm • 4 0 • view
jul 3, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
The only upside to this kind of positioning is Whip Clark undercutting Neera Tanden by 3 years. bsky.app/profile/whis...
jul 3, 2025, 6:32 pm • 1 0 • view
we need people focused on sabotage.
jul 3, 2025, 5:58 pm • 5 1 • view
Are they so fucking stupid as to think using that name isn't going to backfire spectacularly? I'm tired of our representatives in Congress doing the kind of impotent points scoring that only a 14-year-old would be impressed with. The press isn't even on their side!
jul 4, 2025, 4:14 am • 1 0 • view
Should have started 2020 Congresswoman
jul 3, 2025, 6:08 pm • 2 0 • view
The election is more than a year away and we have kidnappings in the street and concentrations camps Democrats seriously think we're just going to have normal elections...in a year?
jul 3, 2025, 6:44 pm • 4 0 • view
As long as Americans refuse to fight against the literal Nazis making all this happen, there wont be freedom in the US. People dream about building a Time Machine to go back and kill Nazis, but they are wont shoot an ICE agent to save their trans/immigrant/BIPOC neighbour from the camps 🤔
jul 3, 2025, 6:05 pm • 2 0 • view
America waited 2+ years to help out during WWII. This is par for the course. You will get your freedom back. But it just takes awhile.
jul 3, 2025, 6:57 pm • 1 0 • view
“The Democratic National Committee (DNC) said it plans to place a billboard slamming President Donald Trump's much-debated financial package directly outside the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines—where the president is scheduled to speak on tonight.” www.newsweek.com/dnc-takes-sw...
jul 3, 2025, 7:47 pm • 1 0 • view
The best time to put together an action plan about all of these atrocities was during the election and getting Harris elected so none of this shit would happen in the first place. That didn't work out, so the second-best time to put together a plan to stop it is right fucking now. We do what we can.
jul 3, 2025, 5:56 pm • 5 0 • view
So what do you suggest? The minority party has almost no power.
jul 3, 2025, 6:01 pm • 9 0 • view
They have so much more power beyond being scoldy administrators and Congressional proceduralists if they had the gumption and courage to use it. They can organize in communities, attend rallies, call influential people, be bold in the media, groom and support new talent.
jul 3, 2025, 6:17 pm • 9 1 • view
I think many are doing just that minus a few of the old guard. That said I’m over the old guard. Plus media doesn’t cover much that displeases Lord Dump these days. But I agree overall. I’m ready to support fighters.
jul 3, 2025, 7:39 pm • 1 0 • view
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o...
jul 3, 2025, 7:25 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m not a no 🧐
jul 3, 2025, 7:37 pm • 2 0 • view
democrats are so bad and off message that they haven't put a thought into fighting project 2025 or developing their own for 2026/2028 yet despite having years of P2025's advanced notice.
jul 3, 2025, 8:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Why not just Reconstruction Now All of the messaging just sounds like "Reconstruction, Later"
jul 3, 2025, 6:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes it’s going to get worse. We are going to loose many battles. We have to support judges, lawyers, immigrants also democracts and independents. This is going to be hard. This will be long. Look at Ukraine. We all have lives we all have family and need to work. But I will not give up. I will dig in
jul 3, 2025, 6:20 pm • 1 0 • view
We should be fighting NOW but also have a detailed plan in place to move quickly once in power again. Both are important. (Although Dems should not be copying fascist lingo in the process.)
jul 3, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Calling whatever it is “Project 2026” is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve seen, and there’s been some really dumb fucking shit going on lately.
jul 4, 2025, 12:51 am • 2 0 • view
My understanding is that a lot of this stuff won’t even go into effect until the next congress. If that’s true and Democrats win back the house in 2026, our nation of low information voters will blame Democrats for losing their Medicaid and food stamps, like they blamed Biden for Covid.
jul 3, 2025, 6:11 pm • 2 0 • view
The funds to ICE would be available as soon as the bill is passed.
jul 3, 2025, 6:22 pm • 1 0 • view
They’ve been spending in anticipation. Same with the rescissions: not spent in anticipation that by the time it came to adjudication, it was the law.
jul 3, 2025, 7:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump's GOP Big Deadly Bill will hurt more than the poor. It's not just Medicaid and Medicare, the bill is coming for us all with a broken health care system and crippling national debt. This is no beautiful bill, but a step stone towards the end. erichensal.substack.com/p/gop-big-de...
jul 3, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
He and his evil greedy minions across America must be arrested NOW!
jul 3, 2025, 6:06 pm • 4 1 • view
Also, as many have pointed out, this bears the hallmark of authoritarian presidencies where they always win all the elections with 110% of the vote. Project 2046 perhaps.
jul 3, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
These people thinking we’re gonna just merrily continue along until 2026 need to stop drinking the Kool-Aid. Every month we descend further and further into a tyrannical state. Just wait until 400% increase in ice funding hits the streets.
jul 4, 2025, 5:03 am • 7 0 • view
Which starts ASAP. Not in January like many people believe
jul 4, 2025, 5:22 am • 5 0 • view
Dumb! We need new leadership!
jul 3, 2025, 8:08 pm • 1 0 • view
They're barely ready for Project 2004
jul 3, 2025, 5:56 pm • 31 4 • view
Nonsense.
jul 4, 2025, 8:04 am • 1 0 • view
Well every time an atrocity has occurred people have said we need to stop it and then done absolutely fuck nothing so I'm afraid that's just gonna happen again. They'll write letters to senators who's votes are already bought, march in circles in designated areas, and then wonder why it didnt work.
jul 3, 2025, 7:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Well she did say it starts today. And we are getting closer to it. Bet they are so congratulating themselves for coming up with that.
jul 3, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
You seriously couldn’t come up with ANYTHING a bit more original?
jul 7, 2025, 1:33 am • 0 0 • view
I’m scared to death I’m going to lose my spouse to a country he’s never lived in or to some random camp. He’s a naturalized, law-abiding citizen, a military veteran who legally immigrated to this country at 7 years old. But none of those things matter anymore.
jul 3, 2025, 10:00 pm • 6 0 • view
Democrats are making this so much worse with their clinging to norms. There won’t be midterms. They refuse to acknowledge that the rule of law is dead
jul 3, 2025, 6:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Also, why the fuck didn’t it start on November 5th?
jul 3, 2025, 6:04 pm • 3 0 • view
This. It's been only a few months, and Trump and his cult have destroyed so many things nationally and internationally. These are things that cannot be undone quickly. These are lasting changes that Trump cult has made. Also, very bold of her to assume there will be an actual "election."
jul 3, 2025, 7:28 pm • 6 0 • view
There will be. The fairness of the election may or may not happen, but there will always be elections.
jul 3, 2025, 8:13 pm • 3 0 • view
📌
jul 3, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Agree.
jul 4, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
The fundraising emails start today
jul 3, 2025, 6:10 pm • 3 1 • view
There will not be a 2026 midterm election.
jul 3, 2025, 9:16 pm • 4 1 • view
They’re all one-trick ponies.
jul 3, 2025, 7:09 pm • 1 0 • view
It should have started decades ago. I can’t believe they are boasting about starting a plan now.
jul 3, 2025, 7:44 pm • 6 0 • view
Not to mention, not even an original idea. Just piggybacking off the fascist plans and rhetoric. God I hate this fucking shit
jul 3, 2025, 5:58 pm • 5 0 • view
I’ll be stunned and amazed if trump even allows mid terms He’s already a full blown dictator
jul 3, 2025, 9:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Like, let's be clear, the elections -do- still matter, but people *absolutely CANNOT* be acting like "Whelp, no other options. Guess we just endure these ever-escalating horrors for another 18 months. *throws hands up* Absolutely nothing else we can do!" Shut. It. Down. Make 🩸Rs lives hell. Fight!
jul 3, 2025, 6:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Literally we do not need a cute catchphrase right now. Project 2026 should have started last year.
jul 3, 2025, 8:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Not many. The bill isn't taken into affect immediately
jul 4, 2025, 4:51 am • 0 0 • view
Agree. We won't make it til 2026 as a country. Republicans murdered our country in less than 7 months.
jul 3, 2025, 7:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Hell naww Project 2025 The Revised Edition.
jul 4, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
The DNC is leading us like lambs, to the slaughter.
jul 4, 2025, 12:12 am • 2 0 • view
They can build pop up concentration camps but there are never funds for housing the homeless.
jul 3, 2025, 6:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Don't be so quick to dismiss; look how stroppily she has folded her arms!
jul 3, 2025, 7:06 pm • 2 0 • view
YES ❤️
jul 3, 2025, 6:51 pm • 3 0 • view
Also "Project 2026" is terrible branding. Dems worked hard to make Project 2025 sound ominous, and succeeded. If they now copy that phrase it undercuts that work, both-sides-ing the issue, and muddles the moral story. Just pick a new name.
jul 3, 2025, 6:03 pm • 95 6 • view
Exactly this! I mean how dim can you be.
jul 4, 2025, 7:18 am • 0 0 • view
Suggest one. Attacking Katherine Clark for her way of expressing resolve is not helpful right now.
jul 3, 2025, 6:01 pm • 1 0 • view
That post wasn't an attack, it's a request. Any name will work, literally anything is better than that. "Restoring America's Freedoms" "A New America". "America Forward". "Project Rise Up".
jul 3, 2025, 6:08 pm • 7 0 • view
Ok. I can see that. Comments can land differently, and sorry I misread yours.
jul 3, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
It's really not that big of a deal and you are blowing it WAY out of proportion. In red states, people don't care what politicians say.
jul 4, 2025, 12:50 am • 0 0 • view
Not knowing how to brand is a huge Dem issue.
jul 3, 2025, 6:02 pm • 30 0 • view
Actually, white people voting for the Republican Party in the majority ever since the Civil Rights Act passed, because white people didn't like that Democrats were favoring racial equality, has been the huge "Dem issue" for decades.
jul 4, 2025, 8:10 am • 0 1 • view
Feels like my point was missed.
jul 4, 2025, 2:25 pm • 1 0 • view
No, it's prefect branding. He’s talking about revolution if you didn't understand it.
jul 3, 2025, 6:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Could call it Project 2026 Resist or ‘26 Resist’ for short. 26 Resist actually says something whereas Project 2026 is completely meaningless. Reform 26 could also work but maybe needs be a little stronger and rhyming so I like 26 Resist, short for the already in use Project 2026 ‘Resist’.
jul 6, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 3, 2025, 6:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Fucking stupid. Dems have zero clue what they are doing.
jul 3, 2025, 8:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Agree one million percent! Call it anything: BRAVE NEW WORLD. LOVE WILL WIN. YES WE CAN. Just stop with imitating the dark forces of evil
jul 7, 2025, 1:36 am • 0 0 • view
This is such a great point. I never really thought of the failure of copy-catting in terms of muddling of the moral message, but that is exactly what it does.
jul 3, 2025, 6:20 pm • 5 0 • view
They did not succeed. Like at all. And no, it actually makes the Right mad, so I say keep saying it. Why are you even complaining?
jul 4, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
They are terrible at this.
jul 3, 2025, 6:49 pm • 1 0 • view
They did not succeed. See current situation.
jul 3, 2025, 6:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Just now? Like, it had to be written into law before seeing a major problem that deserves to be acted on?
jul 3, 2025, 8:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Project RIGHT THE FUCK NOW
jul 3, 2025, 6:37 pm • 8 0 • view
well she did say it starts today
jul 3, 2025, 7:40 pm • 3 0 • view
It's Trump's first term all over again. If you weren't one of the million people who died of COVID then, you thought he wasn't so bad coming into term 2. People are already dead. People are dying. Thousands--maybe millions more will die now. Six months was bad enough. Fuck midterms.
jul 3, 2025, 6:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Showing the cards again: they wouldn’t be in power until 2027.
jul 4, 2025, 9:05 am • 4 0 • view
That’s the gist
jul 3, 2025, 6:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Is there some other thing we can do to stop Trump prior to 2026? If we wanted to prevent anyone from suffering based on Republican policies, 202 was the time to do it.
jul 3, 2025, 6:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Shut everything down.
jul 3, 2025, 6:40 pm • 2 0 • view
How?
jul 3, 2025, 6:45 pm • 2 0 • view
check out senategabe on here if u want srs answers
jul 3, 2025, 7:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Almost like they were hoping this bill would pass to help them win midterms because they dont have anything to offer.
jul 3, 2025, 6:17 pm • 3 0 • view
There are elections in 2025. -Make sure your school committee is smart -Make sure your city council and mayor will stand up to ICE -Make sure your state reps will do their best to mitigate the harms from our own feds
jul 3, 2025, 9:47 pm • 11 2 • view
youtu.be/rAxdjJ7PQN0?...
jul 3, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
And what exactly do you expect from 2026?
jul 3, 2025, 8:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Also where you been the past 6 months???
jul 3, 2025, 6:07 pm • 34 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/whip...
jul 9, 2025, 7:13 pm • 0 1 • view
She's been doing her job as the House Minority Whip. That's what she's been doing. All you have to do is follow people's social media or watch press conferences etc., to hear from them.
jul 4, 2025, 7:39 am • 3 1 • view
Lol learn what my job is before replying
jul 4, 2025, 7:42 am • 9 0 • view
"we're really gonna do something later.." To the comments "what can they do?" They can pressure state AGs to investigate /prosecute everything which could potentially be a state crime, for one
jul 3, 2025, 6:24 pm • 7 0 • view
And they are. State AGS have been suing since day 1.
jul 4, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
ICE has enough money now to show up at voting sites in 2026. you know looking for illegal criminals trying to vote.
jul 3, 2025, 7:21 pm • 2 0 • view
You can’t even come up with an original name, Ms. Clark? Losers.
jul 3, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
i'm open to ideas but there isn't much you can do with minorities in both chambers of Congress. the Trump Big Bill cake was baked as soon as voters gave Republicans total control last November. Trump ran on concepts of a plan, won, and now here come the consequences.
jul 3, 2025, 6:07 pm • 849 131 • view
We are at the economic strike part of this little timeline. But is there enough momentum or leadership to get us there?
jul 3, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course what you say is true. I think what makes people mad is how Dems who should have universally opposed every single thing Trump and Rs have done so far, such as all of Trump's nominees, so many of those Dems could not read the situation properly and voted yes over and over and over.
jul 3, 2025, 6:13 pm • 59 2 • view
Listen, I have plenty of axes to grind with the Dems, but when voters keep punishing them even after they deliver things like the ACA, IRA, ARP, etc., largely over things that are outside of their control, what exactly do we expect? Where is the incentive to deliver anything or stop anything?
jul 3, 2025, 6:49 pm • 55 3 • view
There were great things done during the Biden admin. I find it bewildering that most Americans didn't hear about it. We had a great economy, there was huge technology investment, etc...I don't know. Biden himself was a bad communicator and failed to toot his horn, but the media was bad too.
jul 3, 2025, 6:56 pm • 26 1 • view
The Democratic Party writ large are just bad at utilizing modern digital media. MAGA and the right run circles around them in that regard and the traditional media prioritize profit and access Like, the IRA got a couple days of coverage before the feds raided Mar-a-Lago. OBBB coverage has been huge
jul 3, 2025, 7:01 pm • 3 0 • view
The GOP world is tightly sealed. It will be a challenge to spread the warning about our new police state.
jul 3, 2025, 8:45 pm • 0 0 • view
You were right about that last part. Towards the end no matter what Dems did, every was focused on bidens health. People and the media expect drastically different things from both parties. Its why we are still talking about Dems when Republicans are doing all the damage.
jul 3, 2025, 6:59 pm • 36 3 • view
Right, I hear Fox News still spends most of its time talking about Biden. I mean, come on.
jul 3, 2025, 7:02 pm • 9 0 • view
Exactly! Democrats didn't get us into this mess - voters did. And now they got what they voted for.
jul 3, 2025, 6:55 pm • 1 1 • view
I don't think it's any one person or entity. This is all the result of a decades-long deterioration across virtually every aspect of our society. Death by a thousand cuts.
jul 3, 2025, 7:10 pm • 2 0 • view
In the case of 2024, non-voters mainly.
jul 3, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
i dunno maybe come to the realization all those were half measures designed to placate big donors while pleasing the fewest ppl possible
jul 3, 2025, 7:45 pm • 6 0 • view
Yes, half measures that got 45 million people on health insurance and constituted the largest climate change mitigation investment made by any country on Earth and extended unemployment benefits through the pandemic. I swear, you people forget what the root word of "progressive" is.
jul 3, 2025, 8:03 pm • 4 0 • view
half measure doesnt mean bad it means short of reasonable expectations
jul 3, 2025, 8:07 pm • 4 0 • view
It carries an extremely negative connotation while underselling a lot of major Dem achievements, and I'm frankly sick of that kind of talk. Trust me, there's a LOT I hate about the Dems, but this is the shit that makes me want to give up. Letting perfect be the enemy of good, every fucking time.
jul 3, 2025, 8:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Did Democrats campaign on their achievements in 2024
jul 3, 2025, 8:16 pm • 1 0 • view
letting the perfect be the strawman more like it. im sorry but single payer or public option arent big asks. obama later wrote he didnt want either of those things and thats why he didnt push for either
jul 3, 2025, 8:13 pm • 4 0 • view
jul 3, 2025, 8:14 pm • 1 0 • view
They are, though. The “half-measure” ACA took a lot of strong-arming to get through, and it created a backlash that delivered a historic midterm defeat for the Dems, despite how many people it helped. Like, voters slammed Dems hands down on the stove repeatedly. Are we surprised they are like this?
jul 3, 2025, 8:31 pm • 1 0 • view
it took a lot of strong arming to get it thru the filibuster which was always optional. hell single payer cdv passwd thru budget reconciliation anytime dems had a majority post great society as it gave us a single payer program reserved for a subset of the population
jul 3, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Expectations that are set by watching what the GOP does when it has even tiniest modicum of power.
jul 3, 2025, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
The reverse is also true. Voters haven’t punished Republicans for what they’ve done to the country over the last many decades and that’s incentivized them to continue unabated. bsky.app/profile/hunn...
jul 3, 2025, 8:00 pm • 5 0 • view
Yup. Because it's not about substance, it's about narrative.
jul 3, 2025, 8:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Absolutely. That’s a choice every voter reinforces.
jul 3, 2025, 8:16 pm • 1 0 • view
The ACA was trash, ARP trash. You want to give them props for crumbs? Laughable
jul 3, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, I'm sure the 45 million Americans that got insured through the ACA appreciate your laughs.
jul 3, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Insured by who? Billionaires who still took advantage of them. Just say you’re a fucking idiot without saying it. This country won’t be free until clowns like you are gone, when Americans deserve true universal Healthcare. Not insurance, you dunce.
jul 3, 2025, 8:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Tell me, Professor, what's the root of "progressive" again? Without the ACA, I wouldn't have been able to stay on my mom's insurance through college and grad school and would have had to pay for an entire surgery out-of-pocket. How free would I have been then, hmm?
jul 3, 2025, 8:55 pm • 1 0 • view
And with the better version of the ACA that was destroyed, by who? Bought-out billionaire ass-kisser Joe Lieberman (who can rest in piss) that would have given us a public option that would have actually helped more Americans and probably led to Medicare For All.
jul 3, 2025, 9:01 pm • 0 0 • view
But you had healthcare that your parents still had to pay for, lucky you. A joke
jul 3, 2025, 9:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, I don't put a lot of stock in Project 2026/28/32/whatever, but it's not like trying a little bit harder is going to stop concentration camps in their tracks once they're already here. When we lose, we lose.
jul 3, 2025, 6:39 pm • 4 0 • view
Yeah, we all are going to die anyway right? WTF?
jul 3, 2025, 7:08 pm • 3 0 • view
The work we need done will be done outside of the political and legal systems
jul 3, 2025, 6:44 pm • 1 0 • view
He ran FAR AWAY from the plan, rejecting any knowledge of Project 2025.
jul 3, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly. If folks wanted Dems to “do something” they should have voted for Dems. 🤷🏼♀️
jul 3, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
It will take us, because it is we the people. The American citizens will decide what we are and will be.
jul 3, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
But he had not heard of Project 2025.
jul 3, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
But the ones that will directly affect them won't come till after mid-terms. The only way they'll know they were lied to is when the hospitals start to shut down in preparation for the cuts. That may directly affect some.
jul 3, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
For one thing in the Senate, democrats can object to anything moving forward without a vote. How many times have things moved forward “without objection” or when the monstrosity was being read, why not force a quorum call?
jul 3, 2025, 6:14 pm • 11 0 • view
"i'm open to ideas" Weren't you just whining about people correctly calling out Biden's atrocities two days ago?
jul 3, 2025, 11:06 pm • 0 0 • view
GOP just passed a law to create a police state. It’s paid for by the poor, the sick, and the elderly. The over-wealthy no longer have to pay taxes of any consequence. What R voter will believe it?
jul 3, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I truly don't know what is so hard to understand about exactly this. Confusing the fact willful at this point.
jul 3, 2025, 7:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Dems need to acknowledge there was vote tampering and almost certainly will be again. No way did he win all the swing states. And maybe he keeps elections from happening at all. I don't put anything past them.
jul 3, 2025, 6:14 pm • 5 0 • view
Exactly this. Everyone needs to read things like: thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-th...
jul 3, 2025, 7:24 pm • 2 0 • view
I create this yesterday using AI to get an idea of when we can expect what. It offers some consolation in that the some effects will take time to roll out. bsky.app/profile/davi...
jul 3, 2025, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
All true, but I'd like to point out the cloture & CR thing. Democrats in the Senate should've shut the Gov. down in March. We would've danced to a slightly different tune now. I won't forgive those 9 mofos and I will bring it up all the time so others won't forget either. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
jul 3, 2025, 6:14 pm • 3 1 • view
oh sure. its not surprising. But it is still infuriating and depressing.
jul 3, 2025, 7:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Perhaps we need to work on Trump and his fragile ego. He promised many things. Congress drastically changed the bill from the things he promised. So he has good reason to veto the abomination. (Moderate snark intended here.)
jul 3, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s going to take a lot more good trouble
jul 3, 2025, 6:08 pm • 4 0 • view
And Katherine Clark should do that too. But focusing on 2026 is literally part of her job.
jul 3, 2025, 6:12 pm • 6 0 • view
We all know what has to be done
jul 3, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Well said and accurate
jul 3, 2025, 6:56 pm • 15 1 • view
sand in the gears. make everything a tedious and onerous for every little step. deny unanimous consent on EVERYTHING. make the Rs as miserable as they just voted to make the nation.
jul 3, 2025, 7:31 pm • 5 0 • view
Serious question, if Dems take back the House and Senate, could they negate the OBBB?
jul 3, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I think caving to the Republicans and not shutting down the government hurt too
jul 3, 2025, 6:14 pm • 9 0 • view
If they let the government shut down we would have lost the power in the lower courts and all those lawsuits and stays.
jul 3, 2025, 7:03 pm • 10 0 • view
Exactly closing the govt down would have been 10xxxxxxxxxxx worse
jul 3, 2025, 7:18 pm • 5 0 • view
Ds are the mother who says to spare the baby and give it to the other woman. If only the Rs had acted like a caring father, not an abusive one.
jul 3, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view
As recently as last Sunday Hakeem Jeffries thought it was a better use of his time on the talk shows to badmouth Zohran Mamdani than to focus on this obscenity of a bill. It's one of countless examples of behavior that explains why we've experienced the specific events of the last decade.
jul 3, 2025, 7:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes, Ds can be frustrating. But this can’t be solved by a party alone. This is a global danger now.
jul 3, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
We can't fight this regime without an organized political party built to do it, & the Dems are not it. What's the point of fighting to oust Republicans from office so the Dems cough up another Sinema, Manchin, etc. to deep-six the policies needed to repudiate the horrorshow already inflicted on us?
jul 3, 2025, 7:18 pm • 1 0 • view
The people must stand up and make their demands known. This feels like the end of our traditional party system, which may serve us well in a renewed America.
jul 3, 2025, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
One way or another, a day of reckoning must come for the Dems or the descent into more darkness will continue. There is plenty of energy available for defeating MAGA, but a neoliberal Democratic Party is an obstacle to that goal. It can be "reformed" or "replaced," but it cannot continue like this.
jul 3, 2025, 7:18 pm • 1 0 • view
What a cop out , the media are doing all they can to not report on the awful things in this bill…
jul 3, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Delay a quorum.
jul 3, 2025, 6:44 pm • 1 0 • view
This 👇 thread is 3 months old but has some updates towards the end (tap ‘More> to get to the end) and still pertains now. It explains what it means to be in the minority, but also shows what they have been doing with what little power they have. bsky.app/profile/maud...
jul 3, 2025, 10:18 pm • 10 3 • view
I'm gonna start pestering my county/state reps to ban any ICE concentration camps in my state. Also, pass laws to force LEO's to show face/badge/warrant upon request in the state. Might do fuck all, but it's something.
jul 3, 2025, 7:10 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s those something’s that will add up to real resistance- our state is doing just that.
jul 3, 2025, 9:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Where are you? Your stete might have a militia. worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankin...
jul 3, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
We are really going to need to lean on our states.
jul 3, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve tried. I’ve volunteered, protested, marched. I’m old, tired and broken. Will there be fair midterms and a fair presidential election? I’m politically dead inside. I’ll vote if I can, but like a neighbor to Auschwitz’s incinerators, I’ll just look the other way.
jul 3, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
No you won't. You'll tear down that Auschwitz incinerator, because yes they are coming for you, too.
jul 3, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
No. I’m an old, half metal grandma. I’ll take care of myself before they could get to me.
jul 3, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Seriously are you guys going to stand by when actual concentration camps are being built and say well there is nothing we can do. You should have all closed down the country with a national strike at least. You all need to do something before his private ice army is ready to go.
jul 3, 2025, 6:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Best I can come up with is to continue to try and slow them down through the courts. Not ideal but it's what we've got besides violence which is not the answer.
jul 3, 2025, 6:12 pm • 6 0 • view
Sabotage does not have to include violence
jul 3, 2025, 6:44 pm • 3 0 • view
Solidarity and decency can do powerful, good things.
jul 3, 2025, 9:07 pm • 2 0 • view
One of the high priorities of our #nonviolent #resistance should be to isolate the authoritarians, and to divide them from each other and from their closest allies and followers. We need to undermine their solidarity and their pillars of support. Let's plan our #goodtrouble with that in mind!
jul 3, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Factor the voter disenfranchisement Republicans have been chiseling away at for generations “Free and fair elections” increasingly is a boilerplate cliché that masks the opposite
jul 3, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Can a congress, elected say in 2026, repeal it?
jul 3, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Mutual aid, now. Disruptions like 8 hour speeches, 3 months ago. Firing every strategist, yesterday. Stop ruining the name of people that energize people, last week.
jul 3, 2025, 6:36 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm concerned that Trump will take his "I am King" and attempt EOs at blocking votes, such as mail-in, requiring same-day voting, and other stuff that hurts people from voting
jul 3, 2025, 6:14 pm • 2 0 • view
I believe he already has done some and they’re stuck in Court limbo land? His admin. ignores the courts anyway.
jul 3, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Its almost your "Independence Day" from tyranny. So here's a reminder about what your founders said
jul 3, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
This is Project 2025 in all its fetid glory. The wet dream of a bunch of obscene ghouls.
jul 3, 2025, 8:10 pm • 1 0 • view
And Stephen Miller is not holding a position that would qualify for impeachment?
jul 4, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe you saying this, these people who are blaming the Democrats will finally get it. They're attacking the wrong people, go after the people who voted for this shitgibbon and the Republicans who do his bidding. Geez. 🤦🏻♀️
jul 3, 2025, 7:00 pm • 12 2 • view
Unfortunately the consequences will be real, not just concepts
jul 3, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view
The truth hurts! Don’t forget he also has the Judicial Branch in his pocket too!
jul 3, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
3 Dems DIED this term. Elected bc the Dem party wants complicit, corrupt, & semi-conscious congressppl more than anyone who'd stand up to power & for the people. Also, gerrymandering, voter suppression, voter roll purges... my god...what a shallow insipid take. dude's clearly not open to ideas
jul 4, 2025, 12:15 am • 0 0 • view
They have so much more power beyond being scoldy administrators and Congressional proceduralists if they have the gumption and courage to use it. They can organize in communities, attend rallies, call influential people, be bold in the media, groom and support new talent.
jul 3, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
And Frontier County in Nebraska that gave Trump 86% of its vote in 2024 is seeing its medical center shut down. Yep.
jul 3, 2025, 6:41 pm • 20 0 • view
My guess is that they feel it will be worth it as long as Latinos are herded into the new concentration camps.
jul 3, 2025, 6:46 pm • 12 0 • view
Sad but so true. Stereotypes are powerful, and serve the GOP purpose here.
jul 3, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
They think only ''undeserving'' blacks get EBT.
jul 3, 2025, 7:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Or, and this is what I always hear when they justify their benefits: "Well, I paid into it!" (yeah, so did everyone else receiving the benefit, Dumbass).
jul 3, 2025, 7:21 pm • 3 0 • view
We wouldn't be turning this rage towards the Dems if they weren't voting to censure Al Green, confirm Charles Kushner, David Perdue, Kristi Noem, etc. It's despicable and they don't fucking understand the moment. They they think bipartisanship is possible with nazis.
jul 8, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Rural middle and lower class Republicans are reaping what they sowed.
jul 3, 2025, 6:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Can't imagine how proud all these forced (ok: MOST) of these spineless maga-cultism-fearing #gop bootlicking dumbassed cowards are going voluntarily to pretend feeling great about voting for this Bigdonor-Butthead-Bill waiting for upcoming midterms.
jul 3, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
I do think that if major media pushed it, and actually covered the scandals like scandals, impeachment would be a possibility. There's only so much media pressure that the congressional GOP could withstand.
jul 3, 2025, 6:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Another dagger is that Rs have the actual power to stop this and be seen as heroes. Would rather be seen as white privilege dominant men???
jul 3, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Good people can now use bureaucratic slowdowns to minimize the damage. We should consider ourselves in occupation, and act accordingly.
jul 3, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
May the consequences rain heavy on the heads of trump supporters.
jul 3, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Fascism was unavoidable after voters missed their last chance to stop it in 2016, having missed all previous checkpoints. The turning point was 2000, when the SCOTUS packed w R political operatives, learned they could get away with deciding the presidential election and voters wouldn’t punish them.
jul 3, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Ever since then, it’s been a crime spree in D.C. And yet, America still haven’t woken up.
jul 3, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
We’re awake, just never had to face a coup by a whole party. True, leaders should have seen this coming and prevented it.
jul 3, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Over 65% of Americans turned out in 2024. The highest in 35 years. And a majority voted for this, even with all Trump did, promised to do and Republicans have done for decades. Americans are not awake.
jul 3, 2025, 9:25 pm • 0 0 • view
But more voters in total wanted someone else. How to get those who stay home is key. Can states require mandatory voting?
aug 18, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Some good polling showing folks who watch/get no news, tend to vote R. Encouraging more civic engagement of any kind, may be the key.
jul 12, 2025, 11:28 pm • 1 0 • view
🤬🤬🤬🤬
jul 3, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
I might subject myself to fisticuffs but saying that the 90 million people who didn't vote didn't do so because the Dems ran a [fill in the blank] candidate is just a lazy way to say that they truly prefer what is going on now.
jul 3, 2025, 6:44 pm • 4 0 • view
The Democrats and Independents didn't believe it could happen and didn't act like their way of life was on the line. The MAGA faithful wanted what Trump was selling and welcomed his election. And now they are going to pay the price.
jul 3, 2025, 6:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup.
jul 3, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
get the state AGs to investigate everything which could potentially be a state crime.
jul 3, 2025, 6:21 pm • 3 0 • view
Blue states are doing that, but higher courts are an obstacle- especially the Supreme Court, which is sadly in Ts camp.
jul 3, 2025, 9:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes - that "we" is currently a clear majority of citizens and voters but in a rigged political system where the same "we" has very little political ability.
jul 3, 2025, 6:12 pm • 0 0 • view
A lot of the blame falls on us. Some of us did a lot during the 2024 campaign but many did not, despite knowing how high the stakes were. People who could have called GOP friends/relatives, volunteered, written cards/letter, or donated did not. Harris & other Dem candidates ran very good campaigns.
jul 3, 2025, 6:29 pm • 6 0 • view
Let’s not pretend Project 2026 hasn’t already started. It started in 2016.
jul 3, 2025, 8:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Which is more like 2027 if not later. Even if Dems sweep the midterms they won’t be in Congress till Jan ‘27 and Trump will still be in office. The fight is NOW.
jul 3, 2025, 6:01 pm • 8 0 • view
she said it starts today
jul 3, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Who believes there will be any more free and fair elections!
jul 3, 2025, 10:27 pm • 2 0 • view
The only solution is fewer Republicans. That’s not boosterism—it’s the truth.
jul 3, 2025, 6:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Chuck Schumer "The American People Will Remember" Energy here, like okay dawg what about doing something BEFORE the next election
jul 3, 2025, 5:58 pm • 10 0 • view
What would that be then?
jul 4, 2025, 12:06 am • 0 0 • view