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Cat parent. Dog therapist. Human observer.
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Guess we'll just have to do both. And if we don't control both houses of Congress and eliminate the filibuster for legislation, we're not doing affordability because Republicans will see to it that we don't.
The former senator says Democrats risk helping Republicans in 2028 if investigations overshadow affordability.
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You will not find this guy or anyone like him ever rending his garments over a Republican exploding the deficit. Responsibility is for Democrats. We should tax the rich because they empower fascists, and cut defense because our over-investment has enabled terrible foreign policy decisions.
Nobody wants to hear it, but the next Democratic president is going to have to do some nut cuttin’ on the national debt (Republicans never do anything to pay down the debt when they control office). It will be painful. It will piss people off. But it will be necessary.
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Collins is probably as decent a human being as you will find among congressional Republicans. And that decency didn’t stop her from abetting Trump or his agenda. I wish we had a better nominee in Maine, but I’ll take the worst D over the best R for the foreseeable future.
Take everything you know about Platner, then change his registration to GOP, and ask yourself if you would be this determined to ignore it all.
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Nowhere is this more true in my experience than the Northern Virginia suburbs! Formerly a pretty lily-white community, now among the most diverse communities you'll encounter. The desegregation may not be happening in urban cores but it is certainly happening in suburbia and it's part of MAGA panic.
Not just a Chicago story. An everywhere story. America actually built the Beloved Community of MLK’s dreams, but we’ve largely overlooked it because it happened in the first-ring suburbs
Platner is a closetful of shoes waiting to drop and an object example of what happens when our leftmost voters go looking for a real Working Man to fall in love with instead of some stupid establishment Dem. With that said, it's still Blue No Matter Who if his opponent is Susan Collins.
I understand those who are torn between voting for a piece of shit vs letting Trumpublicans retain control of the Senate. I don’t understand those who can’t at least admit that he’s a piece of shit.
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I’ve seen enough. God is 1) real 2) nonbinary 3) primarily motivated by a deep hatred of JD Vance
JD Vance is on a historic roll: He campaigns for AfD in Germany - they lose. Invited the Pope to come to US for Trump’s big event - Pope refuses. Leads peace negotiations with Iran - fails miserably. Campaigns in Hungary for Orbán - who gets smoked.
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And that's mostly just a tribute to his media team, which is genuinely good and deserves a job with whoever ends up being the nominee.
I've long assumed Newsom's popularity with some people is largely how he's a lot more combative towards Republicans than a lot of other Dems, but there's a bunch of more left wing Dems who do that, and who don't have all his baggage, including the aforementioned "elitist california lib" thing.
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I apologize to every citizen of every ally who looks at this and asks what the hell NATO means now. I wish I knew too. We will be poorer and less safe going forward, no matter what comes next. And we will deserve it.
Danish troops dispatched to Greenland in January took enough explosives to destroy the island’s main runways near the capital Nuuk and at a former fighter base, following Trump’s threats
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I hate to ask for more help but I am terrified about Luther and if anyone wants to donate to his care I started a gofundme. Please don’t feel obligated to help, I know everyone is struggling. gofund.me/4dfe27f77
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Senate Democrats should offer an amendment to the SAVE Act requiring the same registration and identification requirements for voting as for buying beer and guns
Sen. Hagerty: "We have to show ID for almost everything we do here in America. I do not understand why exercising one of our most precious rights as Americans is not one of those issues that Democrats can support."
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They say in times like these, you have to pick a lane or three in the fight against fascism or risk being overwhelmed. One lane I picked was supporting indy and regional media and one outlet I chose was TPM. It's something I can do and it's important.
Thank you to Pete Hegseth for vividly illustrating why it's so important to support independent media organization's like TPM during our annual membership drive. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/state...
@andybeshearky.bsky.social, if this notion is going to work for you and the country, then why didn't it work for Joe Biden five years ago? Why are we here now?
Beshear: "If somebody is looking for a Democratic version of Trump, that's not me. My goal is to bring people together, my goal is to heal the country. You can't do that if you're engaged in the same tactics he is. If that's what the American people are looking for, I'm not their guy."
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The next Democratic administration should claim fraud to justify withholding funds, thus forcing red states to prove their innocence and sending the message that no one is getting out of here alive if the Republicans stay their present course. apnews.com/article/trum...
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1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
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So now federal employees will be even more protected than they were before, when it was already illegal to fire them without cause during a shutdown or threaten to withhold pay from them when they return to work? If you truly believe that this vote wasn't a mistake, you are unfit for your position.
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
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