Some grudges are righteous and worth keeping. We can't fix things if we allow those responsible to escape consequences.

This is a slam dunk decision. Kelly's a genuine hero and deserves our support. Giving him access to the list is not just right, it's damn good politics.

Setting up rules to protect ourselves from our worst human impulses is what makes it civilization. These people are monsters who seek to destroy rather than build. We got better over time (but with still a long way to go) because we chose it and worked toward it. Progress is a choice.

Good to know!

I look forward to his trial for conspiring to wage aggressive war.

His wisdom in retiring only grows with the passage of time. Enjoy that martini and cigarette in Florida...

The point of having power and strength is to not have to use it recklessly. These are very juvenile and dangerous views to have.

This is an excellent piece.

Hegseth isn't even a tenth of the man Mark Kelly is. Shameful.

Financial markets people are some of the worst political observers out there. They seem systematically unable to assess geopolitical risk.

Tomorrow the House Democrats will host a hearing with witness accounts from January 6th 2021. Watch here www.youtube.com/live/EUEmzBY...

All this does is make people needlessly ill. It's the modern equivalent of the Tuskeegee experiments and is wholly unethical.

We are forgetting all of the lessons from the first half of the 20th century which were so dearly paid for in human blood and suffering. War comes at a great cost, as those of us who had WW2-era grandparents well know.

Neo-fascist movement turns to aggressive war based on half-baked notions of racial superiority for profit and plunder. If only there were some precedent in history we could learn from here... It's important to recognize this for what it is and to call it out.

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This.

They're Nazis.

Well that's food for thought

Always. But. Happy New Year to my Buckeye fan brother. Condolences. I love you nonetheless.

Iowa Dems are the underreported story of the year.

All of us who are cancer survivors mourn her loss.

It is not immiserating good people who were not Harris voters, it is immiserating racists, neo-nazis and antisemites. The Harris voters are unfortunately collateral damage. The Trump voters deserve what they get. I'm sorry for my lack of compassion, but folks got what they wanted for others.

Kid3 should claim that fart. Hell, it might get him into Yale.

It's a cult. A socialist cult.

I propose something more modest. One takes a trump or one might step in a pile of dog trump. Alternatively, one can have the trump scared out of them.

The origin is simply having a moral compass that points in the direction of decency and compassion. The revulsion is derived from that.

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Dems must "earn" your vote but fascists aren't automatically disqualified. You're a fascist enabler, then. Got it.

75,019,230 of us disagreed with them last November. They can't possibly shut us all up. Which is why it's important to keep speaking out against this corrupt, immoral and criminal administration. We are right and they are wrong. Never forget that.

Adolf Eichmann was pretty good at organizing deportations. The people organizing this deserve the same fate.

Merry Christmas to one of the Democratic Party's party's most effective members of Congress. We appreciate you and your leadership!

Here's what we do: win control of the House and Senate in 2026. Until then, keep speaking out and highlighting the abuses. But without actual institutional power to cut off funding, what we can do is limited. A handful of Republicans could stop this, but they won't. The voters chose this.

Merry Christmas to the brave people of Ukraine. There is no place on Earth that deserves genuine peace and freedom more.

This right here. It was the easiest choice ever and the voters, particularly white voters, blew it. An act of national seppuku.

Your reminder here that 20 Republicans, probably less, in the House and Senate could shut this down immediately if they chose to do so. Their inaction is complicity.

Note also the asymmetry at work. Democrats must "earn" a vote, but nothing a Republican can say is automatically disqualifying, even when it is racist and/or fascist.

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The most damning thing about it isn't whether it's true or not. It's that there is nobody who can truthfully say that it doesn't sound like something Trump might do. That alone is a hell of a thing...

Millions of factory workers in the postwar years worked their asses off so that their kids wouldn't have to work in a factory. It was the greatest amount of upward mobility in human history and these billionaires want to undo it all.

I am sorry to hear this. As a cancer survivor, these things hit different now. Cancer doesn't care about your politics, your wealth or your religion. It's a brutal thing to go through and my thoughts and best wishes are with him and his family as they navigate through the coming months.

The New Deal was still largely whites only, but FDR's rhetoric about freedom was important 20 years later when the civil rights movement was hitting its stride. His record left a lot to be desired but his rhetoric exposed the contradiction between American ideals and reality.

I'd be wary of the Bradley Effect here.

This is a good take. Don't be fooled by any of these factions, though. None of them spoke up last year when it actually mattered. They are all Trump enablers to some degree. The only thing that will fix any of this is a Democratic President and Congress.

This is simultaneously shameful and embarrassing and no doubt a reaction to @kajakallas.bsky.social comment earlier today. He is setting up open conflict with the EU, the folks who have been our allies for nearly 85 years.

This was mass murder and a crime against humanity.

This is the only way out of our neo-Nazi, white supremacist/christian nationalist nightmare. The worst Democrat is better than the best Republican at this point, so we need to elect good Democrats.

This is so tragic. Survivor's guilt is very real. Trust me, I know. It is a terrible thing to carry and can eat you alive without help. In this case, he had help and it still wasn't enough.

This is one of the most Democratic districts in the nation. Nothing against George Conway, but this seat should go to a life-long Democrat in my opinion.