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Welp, I hope my Senator, @murray.senate.gov, is actually as humiliated and panicked as her expression makes it look like she is. We have to get rid of of this generation of useless Democrats.

"get rid of these baby-snatchimg freaks" is so simple and so universally appealing, and our ossified so-called representatives can't even bring themselves to say it

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

Pretty good

If there are *any* Democrats in Congress who will still vote to keep funding this administration when it is using that money to terrorize our cities and refusing to allow congressional representatives their clear right to observe their activities, then those reps need to be primaried into retirement

Our employers will send $45K of our compensation to insurance companies for premiums for our family of 4 this year. We spend $45K if none of us ever sees a doctor. Would I prefer 12% of our income be sent to the federal government instead to cover premiums AND our actual care? Fucking OBVIOUSLY.

It’s clear who the aggressors are. Keep remaining nonviolent, and record EVERYTHING. All of these masked ICE thugs will be held accountable.

Miller and Yglesias love to say Trump won by moderating and therefore Democrats must veer right to win. Trump went HARDEST right on the very issues (immigration, race relations) that elite Republicans saw as their biggest electoral liability and on which they begged for moderation. "Experts" indeed.

“we heard tale of expanding the tent”

Gotta either find a better source of dopamine than yelling at strangers on the internet or develop some impulse control. Not looking great on either front.

Never been more proud of my alma mater. 💜

If Dems want to pivot to "kitchen table issue" in their messaging this is the one! Say he has to come to congress for a vote on the tariffs or you don't vote for government funding bill.

As others have pointed out, the idea that we can control their behavior by modeling respectability (cooperating with the compulsory grief around Kirk, for example, and not saying truthful/angry things about him) is akin to an abused person's belief that they can control the abuse by being perfect.

Look, if you're a world renowned institution of higher education and a pedophile criminal with an approval rating in the 30s offers you a deal, you gotta take it

Fascinating survey data on the missing Biden voters by Lake Research. The voters who sat out in '24 weren't looking for a centrist or turned off by trans rights. They want a genuine economic populist agenda: take on corporate greed, lower costs, and make the wealthy pay their fair share.

To be fair, they also don't understand how science works

I keep saying it: The push for AI made so much more sense to me once I realized tech bros talked to it like a woman who won't talk back.

Who will primary @cantwell.senate.gov? We need a Senator worthy of Washington State.

@cantwell.senate.gov

There is no Central Committee of Immigrants, planning protests. People are protesting with the symbols of their own community because they feel that community is under attack and want to show support for it. You cannot order them to stop this like in a strategy computer game.

sending 500 marines to a county of nearly 10 million people to stand around holding their dicks with nowhere to sleep is not actually the sign of a successful declaration of martial law

ICE crossed a line in LA

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

On "Abundance"

In general, I can't think of much that's more useless than an elected official scolding the public about message discipline, which is not the public's job.

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

Personally I think that the problem with popularists like MattY isn't that they're recommending politically savvy concessions that are unpalatable to those evil, purity-obsessed libs. The actual problem is that the ideology they advocate for is essentially Starmerism, which is a colossal failure.

America’s Constitutional crisis was 2017-2024, starting as soon as the Constitution’s bans on bribery were no longer in effect, and going through the elevation of an anti-Constitution criminal granted permission by the Supreme Court to break laws. We are now in the post-Constitutional crisis.

The worst thing about living in this country is the tens of millions of people who would rather be governed by these despicable rapist morons than let other people be free.

Many voters view the Democratic Party as weak, and elite centrists want that to mean "too feminine" because they gender strength as masculine. But people view the party as weak because it so rarely fights for the values it claims to hold.

whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

CHUCK SCHUMER HAS TO GO. He’s way past his best by date and I’m not talking about age, I’m talking about usefulness. Senate Dems need to step up and have some courage.

Then call for Chuck Schumer's removal as Senate Minority Leader. This is a classic banana in the tailpipe: Dem leadership who are in safe seats and most well-funded to hold off a primary challenge will fold like cheap patio furniture to Trump/Musk while rank-and-file Dems post defiant messages.

@schumer.senate.gov If you vote for cloture you are a stain on this country’s history that will never go away. You are willingly passing power to a tyrant in waiting, and you are a disgrace to every oath of office any senator has ever sworn. Your legacy will be one of cowardice and contempt.

And if you vote for cloture, you are voting for the CR. Nobody is fooled.

Republicans are fascists and Democrats have chosen to be their accomplices.

It's funny thinking back to the argument that Dems couldn't get rid of the filibuster when they were in power because they'd miss it once the GOP was in power.