And a big part of how that became the talking point among the wrecker crew is bc a lot of very big, very brain poisoned accounts decided to start doing fantasy posting about what was possible and treating anything less than that as a sign of ~fecklessness~, so there we are.

cc everyone that was junking up @chrisgeidner.bsky.social's replies this morning with "judges have no way to enforce any of this so its meaningless"

This style of post is literally every second thing I see on here and it’s utterly absurd. Van Hollen in particular could not be a worse target.

Anderson Cooper: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." There's a lot of people here in Minneapolis who are sick of the lies being told by the Trump administration about Alex Pretti

yeah i generally think that there's mounting evidence that the trump admin does not actually think that the troops are willing to be the boot on people's necks like they're hoping.

Whenever the shutdown ends, you should blame republicans for the horrible things they do, and you should understand that people who tell you to blame dems instead are not really interested in fixing anything.

ICE and CBP agents need to understand they're going to be wearing those masks for the rest of their lives.

There seems to be a lot of "we want to complain" but not much of "we want to vote" or "want to run for office" among a certain group of people. I suppose that is one place where AOC gets credit. She actually ran! And won!

It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.

Right. People are asking for a Shadow cabinet and like, Senate Dems are already in their respective committees that essentially functions similarly Explicitly name them shadow Secretaries? Ok, what happens when JB wins the 2028 nom and his proposed cabinet doesn’t give a shit about these Senators!

For ninety-five percent of reachable voters, the leadership required amounts to "you're gonna help vote these fuckers out, right? Good." And for the other five percent what they need is an impenetrable mystery.

Listen, I don't like hearing about affordability either, but I'm grown enough to realize it ain't for me, I'm adult enough to know that under a Democrat, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden, Harris etc ICE doesn't behave this way, so I don't need Congressional Dems to be my emotional support.

Did you see the "progressives" out there that were complaining about the restoration of the ACA subsidies because it "bailed Trump out"? They'd rather have Americans pay that difference and be angry about it because populists are parasites that feed on that anger. Suffering is their nutrition.

I am tired of people publicly performing fear and calling it courage.

Old people get crepey skin. And bruise more easily. But if he's right about how much aspirin he takes.... WHOA. He's causing his own bleed.

First Elon Musk at Twitter, now Bari Weiss at CBS. What’s next, finding out others who loudly proclaimed themselves free speech champions never valued free speech at all, and were always doing “speech I like must be widely distributed and cannot be criticized, speech I don’t like must be censored”?

Everybody repeat after me for the thousandth time: Legislative leaders in our system are not and cannot be inspiring national figures. That is not the job.

So the thing that was definitely going to happen even with the shutdown, happened? The only thing that is surprising here is that people believe that extending the shutdown was going to avoid this.

Getting mad at Mark Cuban for these extremely reasonable questions shows just how broken people's brains are around socialized medicine.

Signs Trump is losing his grip: - R’s passed CR that (for now) blocks Trump's RIFs - R's just passed NDAA that denies Hegseth $$ until he releases boat strike video - 20 R's just joined Dems to block Trump's Executive Order on fed labor rights - Indiana Senate Rs kill redistricting in blowout vote

Everything you think repubs did from the minority they actually did from the majority. You need to figure this out first before you wade into politics

You seem to have ignored the part of my thread where I briefly addressed exactly this, so let me elaborate on that part: Your upbringing in a hypercapitalist society has indoctrinated you into viewing elections through a fraudulent consumerist lens. bsky.app/profile/game...

Another thing you don't need to worry about unless someone kills the filibuster.

New York isn't the only Northern state. In fact, Trump won the majority of states bordering Canada and the Great Lakes. Which proves the larger point that Northern whites are racist conservatives.

Read this.

Folks, no party or faction that has triggered a shutdown has ever gotten its demands met in a shutdown. That was always the risk going in. People (like me) were saying you were going to have to deal with eventual disappointment going in.

I think there is also something to be said about having the correct progressive/left resume, and then running as a normie Dem who’s focused on local issues. Some might say that’s “moderating” I would say it’s running a campaign according to facts on the ground.

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

This is key. The diminishment of SCOTUS will become a sociological fact before it becomes codified in law. That process is now very well underway.

I definitely think this is true, but I also think a lot of voters would only see Democrats as strong if they were actually able to stop the bad things from happening, not simply delay them. People say they want fighting, but what they really want is victory.

I know it's illegal on here to notice that our leaders are actually fighting back in the job we actually elected them to do, but here's the Wall Street Journal bitching about Schumer's "historic" delaying tactics that have left almost 90% of Trump appointee slots empty. archive.ph/2025.08.27-0...

Some quotes from the article for the ‘DO SOMETHING!’s. 👇

And I gotta say, every time I see someone talking about “earning my vote” I wonder if that person understands just how loudly they are advertising that they are fundamentally just a fuckin’ sheep that needs a shepherd to lead them to doing the right thing rather than being able to do it themselves.

The correct answer when you hear someone else say Do Something should be "you fucking first". 1) it would shut a lot of people up 2) it would maybe actually result in some leadership being taken outside of elected representatives.

A-fuckin'-men on all of this. We all have a *civic duty* to *each other* to not allow the fascists to attain positions of power. Once you turn voting into your own game of purity and fully embraced the consumerist mindset, well, the fascists have gotten the perfect useful idiot they wanted.

Truly wild photos coming in from Los Angeles right now.

We're starting to get voter file data back and Change's model indicates that the biggest contributor to Kamala losing was new voters entering the electorate breaking heavily toward Trump substack.com/home/post/p-...

Young people *are*, in fact, protesting, the question here is disingenuous because it is designed to start fights. And it's that way because the truth is that the biggest orgs fighting against fascist takeover of the US government are lib-coded and lib-led, and that makes online edgelords mad.

like *democrats do not control any of the formal levers of national power.* everyone on here is screaming "how do we stop this." sorry kids, it's way too late for that. the question is how do we take power back and *fix* what musk+co are about to break.

An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.

Animation of daily normal precipitation throughout the year using stations data from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Probably my favorite animation.

"It’s easy to tell yourself that not voting will somehow work magic, that literally doing nothing is not just a principled protest but even an effective strategy for getting what you want. But it’s a delusion." Declining to vote doesn't get politicians to chase you, it gets them to write you off.

Valentine’s Day is the perfect day to remind everyone that a vote is not a valentine, you aren’t confessing your love for the candidate. It’s a chess move for the world you want to live in.