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All the people saying "nothing's going to happen as a result of this" are treating themselves as a spectator to history rather than a participant. We have to be the outrage we want to see in the world.

This was pulled from the agenda thanks to quick work by a lot of people!

anyway if anyone wants to talk about north allegheny trying to shove a vote on license plate readers in the agenda before the new board gets sworn in

fyi north allegheny school board is attempting to sneak in license plate readers on tomorrow’s agenda, hidden in the superintendent’s report in the combined meeting before the new majority gets sworn in

Americans are already getting pounded by high healthcare costs. I'm not rolling the dice on my constituents’ healthcare on some pathetic promise from the Senate for a future vote that Mike Johnson won’t honor anyway. Nope.

if you’re pissed off but want to remember the hope from last week, read this: newrepublic.com/article/2027...

john fetterman campaigned on not being the next joe manchin, duping a lot of people in the process, when the reality is and always has been that joe manchin was always a reliable healthcare vote in the senate

"What if, hear me out, we aligned with & helped pass the agenda of the people voters just rejected Tuesday and sports fans are booing?"

Essentially, this is a case of over promising and under-delivering. In fact, the defining trait of Trump’s second presidency has been avoiding having him in a room with Schumer and Jeffries to cut a deal. This is why Johnson put the debt limit in OBBBA, which pissed off Rand Paul.

The insurrection succeeded

As a Fetterman hater and alarm bell ringer from 2017, yes, this. We tried telling yinz! For years!

We...desperately need more low-income people in Congress who know what it's like to navigate health insurance problems. But we live in an ableist society where it's hard for younger disabled and chronically ill politicians to get elected.

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

Local politics > congressional politics.

john fetterman campaigned on not being the next joe manchin, duping a lot of people in the process, when the reality is and always has been that joe manchin was always a reliable healthcare vote in the senate

Prescient

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.

Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care? What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.

underrated result from Tuesday!

If you're a doomer after these past three weeks, you aren't paying attention

You really do have to be willing to be part of making the thing that you say other people must make or do. That's just basic at this point. [feel free to rage about this on your own timeline not in my mentions]

Jacky Rosen is one of the more moderate Democrats. She's a pretty even-keeled person and she's been livid this whole week.

If your first response to Nancy Pelosi's retirement announcement is some kind of insult or castigation of her, you need to do a shit ton of soul-searching.

If you're a young person, find your people are try stuff. You don't know how it will turn out AND THAT'S A GOOD THING. Failure is a natural part of living. Not something to be scared of. Try shit. Don't sit back and throw stones at others who are trying shit.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

as I said two years ago: voters don’t want extremists running their kids’ schools!

their power together is legit too much

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

it’s obvious that we have our “Joe Rogan of the left” & it’s Jennifer Welch 👑

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

good organizing also isn’t magic. it is about reawakening our connections with each other, being honest about our self and shared interests. it is incredibly human and it actually makes sense.

I love a school board election

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

Eugene Debs, a Midwestern socialist? The coastal divide is being united

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

in north allegheny school board news—dems pulled off a sweep 🧹

I owe my career to Beto’s 2018 campaign

This was Beto 2018 in Texas. So many connections/friendships made, so people stayed in organizing. We’re still deep in the weeds down here, even more so now that they’re making us a major cog in the deportation machine, but I got to see what this could look like on that campaign & haven’t forgotten.

🗓️✨ Don’t leave democracy to chance—You have 5 hours to go vote! 🗳️Every voice counts, every vote matters! 💪⚖️ #ProtectPACourts #VotePA

The stakes couldn’t be higher. Justice David Wecht warns that a deadlocked PA Supreme Court would be “disastrous.” We can’t afford gridlock on our highest court — our rights, democracy, and freedoms are on the line.

When we vote YES, we give power back to the people. We protect our rights and freedoms, and we stop billionaires from taking over our democracy!

Zohran Mamdani marching across the Brooklyn Bridge with supporters, including Tish James and Brad Lander, before delivering his closing campaign message in City Hall Park.

well time to meal plan for Tuesday www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pol...

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

40% of live births in America are paid for by Medicaid. Slash that shit and then what? Babies die. Mothers die. We all pay more for every kind of medical care and hospitals go belly up. How. Is. That. Winning?

what am I supposed to do with all this leftover candy