chalexander.bsky.social

chalexander.bsky.social

@chalexander.bsky.social

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John Roberts is brave enough to ask the question: what if we are all umpires calling balls and strikes, but also we are all Angel Hernandez ?

Joe Patrice@joepatrice.bsky.social

I don’t think we fully appreciate how much funnier Roberts’s “balls and strikes” metaphor is now that Major League Baseball is saying “human umps are terrible arbiters, we need more robots”

Remembering how Ted Cruz let Trump call his wife ugly and suggested his dad had a part in the JFK assassination

Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social

I know we've talked a lot about the total capitulation of the American elite in government and civil society and how little respect they seem to have for the power they and their institutions wield but it's genuinely baffling how many of them also have no respect for their families

Ah, so Ohio has a larger role in Trump first becoming president than was originally reported. /s

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

if literally everything else is the same except that the upper peninsula of michigan was part of wisconsin and the florida panhandle was part of alabama, clinton wins decisively and Trump becomes a forgotten joke. It makes you think! bsky.app/profile/lisa...

These issues are fundamentally downstream of a housing supply shortage. We need more homes and this means easing the government imposed cap on housing in residential neighborhoods

Dan Osborn@osbornforne.bsky.social

-End taxpayer subsidies for giant corporate mergers that create housing monopolies. -Stop foreign investors from buying up American neighborhoods. -Explore reasonable limits on how many homes Wall Street can control in any one community.

Lawmakers have a legal right to unannounced visits to ICE detention facilities, you and I do not. The administration is trying to keep lawmakers out. They can force this issue. This is only one example of what people are talking about when we ask they do something!

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An enterprising democratic senator or rep could test the limits of article 1 section 6 here if they wanted to make a name for themselves

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

"They are also worried about a potential Tiananmen Square moment where you have a protester standing in front of a tank. That is not what America is supposed to look like."

If you’re voting for cloture it’s a good as voting for the Republican CR

Senator Mark Warner@markwarner.bsky.social

Update: I will be voting NO on the CR. Virginians deserve more than letting Elon & Trump run wild through our government, slashing jobs and cutting services. Let’s pass a 30-day extension and get an actual deal done.

chalexander.bsky.social reposted

If you want an opportunity for moral and strategic clarity rip Kennedy, Hegseth, and Gabbard apart in confirmation hearings. Ask Kennedy if he knows the names of the Samoan kids he killed with measles; read the police report of the rape Hegseth committed; show pictures of Gabbard meeting with Assad.

Brian Schatz@schatz.bsky.social

The tax fight next year is going to be an absolute barn burner and it gives our side a perfect opportunity for moral and strategic clarity. They want to raise the price of stuff you buy and use your money to give more to corporations. Let’s keep it simple and let’s fight, after the holidays.

chalexander.bsky.social reposted

I am trying to be patient because I 100% get that people are terrified but I am really struggling with all this knee-jerk public defeatism from other liberals and leftists right now

chalexander.bsky.social reposted

this is about 24 hours out of date now but it’s good work and if you are under the impression that House Dems are staying silent about the Mace/Johnson bathroom situation, perhaps because people keep lying to you about it, you should take a look.

static@static-prevails.bsky.social

This is a list of statements by House Democrats defending Sarah McBride. It does not include statements of support that make no mention of the transphobic attacks against her, or statements about transphobia that are not directly relevant. It also does not include retweets/reposts.

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