Extremely tangential, but the Jan 6th - Jan 20th triumvirate is one of those things that is unknown to most of the population. It has had no effects, and I thought it would.

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

In Our Majesty's Secret Service Lazenby looks to the camera and says "This never happened to the other Fellow." It's really not that serious.

"It doesn't matter whether we got concessions, Trump can just ignore them!" By that logic we should keep the government shut down for literally the next 3 years or however long it takes for Trump not to be President anymore. If that's what you want, fine (it's not fine), but say it out loud.

What I find funny about all this hemming and hawing over the Senate is that the only scenario that gets the government open without the House coming back means the government shuts down again two Fridays from now.

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Alright you do, in fact, gotta hand it to Schumer

If it's true that RealClearPolitics removed their polling average of the VA Attorney General race because it was wrong, that should really be the nail in the coffin for them. It's GOP polling propaganda that hasn't been rigorous or transparent in a long time (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-pollin...)

you're laughing? when polls close, andrew cuomo is going to have to blast off with team rocket and fight meowth for a seat and you're laughing?

The winning Democratic message in 2025:

Lot of very normal responses in the quotes to this.

Voters really don't like inflation, and frankly everything else is secondary to that.

*taps sign*

I'm one of the last remaining Biden defenders around and this simply ain't it. Yeesh.

*blowing up the statue of liberty to build a highway* erm I thought you libs were supposed to be YIMBYs

Those who'd sneer at outrage over the White House fancy themselves slick. Ears to the ground. They don't concern themselves with frippery when there's a war to be won. Well they don't know a goddamn thing. Symbols are powerful, and politics is a game of using them to your advantage.

CHOTINER: So you're attending a No Kings protest today. ME: That's right. CHOTINER: But according to Steam, you've played over 450 hours of Crusader Kings 3. ME: Okay, well- Now hold on. That's sort of unfair. CHOTINER: Oh? ME: Sometimes I play as a duke or a count. CHOTINER: I see.

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

The Franchise by Isaac Asimov

The only thing powerful enough to defeat Trump the first time was liberalism and guess what, we're gonna do it again, so you guys had best get used to it now.

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Many of you don’t want to hear this but the liberal international order currently rests upon the shoulders of a Ukrainian Comic and a former AQI insurgent

Leo to Dolan.

@uticaeric.bsky.social just talked about this on the second breakfast pod but Rhodes is the epitome of the briefcase carrier. Dude with an MFA in creative writing has an editor of foreign policy introduces him to Lee Hamilton➡️iraq study group➡️Obama campaign➡️Obama White House➡️deputy NSA

announcing my new think tank, the "people hate inflation, that's like 90% of why harris lost" institute

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

9/11 this, 9/11 that; some of y’all need to put down the 9 ELVEN rings gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desire power <send>

oh so we're referring to the biden era as a boom now, huh

The press: “Kamala, what is your position on updates to section 420(c)69 of the internal revenue code? Too slow, you dumb bitch, never gonna be president.” Also the press: “mr. Vance you’re so dreamy, tell us more about Ohio.”

*grits teeth so hard my jaw falls off* Critical support to Comrade Massie

Ok is she too careless to realize that the blanked out word here is ”Jews” or is she fully over the edge?

Given the speculation, an incapacity would probably be the optimal outcome. You'd likely want to hold off on a vacancy until after the midterm so that Democrats would have a veto over any Vice Presidential appointments.

What even more wild about the original Ernst scandal is it was propublica that broke the story; think about how many hill reporters sat on it to preserve access

Doomers: The 2026 election doesn't matter, Republicans are just going to rig the whole thing anyway Various red state republican incumbents: I'm just going to quit now because if I run in 2026 I'm going to get absolutely killed

The Speaker’s Lobby isn’t a big room. The doors are small, and the windows give a clear view. Babbitt saw the policeman with his gun drawn. She knew what she was doing. He didn’t fire until her head crossed the threshold.

Was definitely worth watching the Peacemaker previously on because they changed which superheroes showed up at the end of the first season finale to match the new DCEU.

from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

To a certain extent I can understand the arguments against giving Schwarber the All Star MVP....but that doesn't mean it should go to Alonso. Probably should go to Brent Rooker for helping to rally the AL to force it to the tiebreaker.

so Elon is saying that hanging out on Twitter cooked Grok into MechaHitler. imagine what it’s doing to you

Okay, but what’s the source wearing

they’ve even plowed tens of billions into a man-stealing operation so vast and unaccountable that it makes the fugitive slave act look like a modest and responsible use of federal power

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

Patrick “Patty” O’Rorke, the top graduate of West Point’s class of 1861, was killed in action on July 2, 1863, while leading the 140th New York Infantry to save the Union position on Little Round Top. He was 26 years old.

I mean I give Schumer a ton of shit but he kept his whole team including Fetterman onside, he peeled off 3 others, his side worked the system a ton to get a whole lot of garbage taken out of this disaster bill, yes the name change flex is dumb but guy actually put in proper work this time