The most important thing to know about all congressional rules, including the filibuster, is unless there is something explicitly laid out in the constitution, they are all bullshit. If a majority of members want something they can get something. Period.

White House aides fear Trump will sell out Taiwan to make trade "deal" with China that he can brag about. “Everyone is holding their breath,” said one person familiar with the talks. www.alternet.org/trump-china-...

I’m not the kind of lawyer who is ever going to argue a case at SCOTUS or land the next big Warner Bros M&A deal, but I am very, very, very good at explaining how to navigate the punishing bureaucracy that tries to kill us.

CA Prop 50 seemed like it might be an uphill fight, that voters hate gerrymandering in the abstract so nuking the independent commission might fare poorly. Turns out it's polling as a blowout because voters can grasp context, the necessary retaliation framing, and bottom line that it's anti-Trump.

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We've learned from Chicago folks: If you see ICE lurking: Blow your whistle intermittently If ICE is kidnapping someone: Blow your whistle continuously If you hear a whistle: Get to safety if you need to OR Follow the whistle to form a crowd Stay nonviolent, don’t stay silent! #WAWhistles

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Bari Weiss is ignorant and bad at her job in no small part because she's a bigoted reactionary and being a bigoted reactionary requires you to adapt a false and ludicrous worldview. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/white-supr...

Celebrating the return of the NBA

Even when the moments aren’t going viral and therefore recede a bit from national headlines, it’s worth remembering again that the trump administration is still raining a lot of terror down on the chicago area. All the love to the great American city and its surrounding neighborhoods

no one tell them all unrelated koreans are running around calling each other brother and auntie and grandma and whatnot their brains will liquefy

At least 6 vehicles in a convoy is what the tough guy needs to drive to downtown Chicago to go to court. A pathetic display.

most of this is that she hates johnson but i often wonder whether she’s actually closer to the base than the average house republican is

Please tell this creep who I deeply regret voting for that we don't want authority figures looking under our children's clothes.

Israel has violated the Gaza ceasefire multiple times since day one, however, it has chosen to escalate its attacks and launched a major airstrike targeting a hospital.

I don't share kid pictures on the open internet but today I really wish that I could Because the toddler is wearing fake glasses around and is THE SPITTING IMAGE of Olivia Reinhold's failed John Oliver impression

Amazon is laying off 30,000 workers, after CEO Andrew Jassy laid the groundwork by talking up the productivity gains from AI over the summer, saying they'd need fewer employees. Amazon's own workers, meanwhile, say that's BS. AI hasn't been "transformational"—AMZ just needs the $$ for data centers.

A clearly addled Donald Trump wandering off from the Prime Minister and then saluting the Japanese flag. He looks like he doesn't even know where he is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Bn...

Susan Collins: “I'm very concerned about air traffic controllers. I had two flights this Sunday and last Sunday averted at the last second. One of them actually touched down and then took back off. And in all the years that I've served in the Senate, I've never had that happen.”

The leopards are starting to lick their lips in anticipation.

You keep voting to keep the government closed Concerned Susan. Taking health insurance and food away from your constituents doesn’t even rank on your Concern-o-Meter.

BREAKING NEWS: Susan Collins is "very concerned"

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His goal has always been genocide. With full US backing and an international community that refuses to take action

wait, what?

“I’m getting to do what I enlisted to do.” 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Finally, some good vaccine related news

Using your platform to debate people who don’t believe in climate change, or feeding kids, or funding schools, or bodily autonomy, or voting rights, or civil rights isn’t helping anyone change the political climate. It’s just giving a bigot your platform.

Pretty sure the next argument from centrists is going to be that Democrats must not be for the restoration of the humanitarian avenues for migration that Trump scrapped.

NYC mayoral race reaching "eats rice wrong" levels of petty wasn't on my bingo. They really got nothing, do they.

Ms Rachel just called Andrew Cuomo a raggedy old racist bitch

I keep saying it over & over, if you want to see Democrats Doing Something, you've got to be looking at the states

LOL Well, Sean is the shadow White House chief of staff after all

they’re so desperate lol

No kidding. He’s descending further and further into senility right before our eyes.

Oh my god @hnalbandyan.bsky.social and the LA Times crew. Wonderful headline

“The teenager said during a news conference that he and his dad were pulled over by a car w/no clear indication it belonged to law enforcement. The officers who approached did not identify themselves as law enforcement and wore uniforms that bore no official insignia, he added.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

Everyone is 12 theory is a theory like gravity.

this is it

“Their vests, they didn't say ‘police,’ (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), nothing. And that's when me and my dad got scared because they started hitting our window, tried to open the door,” said the teen. “Me and my dad went to fight-or-flight mode and we just backed away.” #AbuseofPowerWatch

Crazies came out.

They found money to pay the ICE thugs, but not to feed the kids… fortune.com/2025/10/22/g...

Their fair share would be WHAT THE REST OF US PAY. Most people pay up to 37%. Billionaires pay around 1%. You’re just saying words that make it clear you love billionaires and the suffering of the working class.

"This is how Epstein’s social empire grew. Each dropped name lead to more names he could drop later, until so many prominent individuals were linked to him that his operation became, for too many years, like the big banks he patronized: too big to fail."

Musk effectively copied over all of Wikipedia and had Grok go over it to give it a far right bias in its framing in articles to turn it into a propaganda tool. It's conservapedia 2.0 backed by the world's richest man. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Since winning a PA Supreme Court majority, Ds have: - Erased GOP gerrymander - Upheld mail voting - Rejected Trump bid to overturn results So you can imagine why Rs really want to seize the majority ahead of ‘26 + ‘28. Which brings us to Tuesday’s crucial election: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

at least clinton was good at selling himself in the interim. obama and biden pulled a political disappearing act for most of their presidencies outside of election season.