This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.

I … worked on defining populism for years … and… he just… he skeeted it out.

An appropriate (or inappropriate) song for today, thanks to @xkcd.com .

It’s bad enough my kid says wicked but I swear to Jesus, Mary, and all the saints….

Have some more birds on your feed.

While you are organizing— and remember: the GOP is the main problem, they are in power and can stop this whenever— don’t forget to donate to Federal Unions’ funds for workers and do something to help you remember other things exist, like the bird feed!

The good news is everyone gets to bother their representatives now! Republicans are in power. They are the main ones at fault for the shutdown and that needs to be repeated constantly. For each time you yell at a Democratic politician, yell at a GOP one twice.

We’re going to fight over the very settled POTUS can’t pardon you for state crimes before the “can he pardon himself” biggie? For real?

Why not? Also you can go to the FEC’s website to figure out how much you’ve donated, then call and tell them not a penny more. Also, consider joining your local party org so you can go to conventions, vote on endorsements, and help write platforms.

This is not the end of the story, this is a sentence in the "Background" section of a Wikipedia page

Quick thread on timing of reopening the government, if they’re able to invoke cloture on MTP. (That’s a 60 voter, so you need 8 Dems assuming Rand Paul is still a no.) For timing, if they invoke cloture today (assume after 6pm), that begins the 30 hours of debate. Takes us to Tuesday for MTP vote.

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I’m very confused about PoliSky filibuster talk right now. Is it a timing argument (which I get) or something else? The fact that one senator has the power to block popular bills seems to be a big reason for shifting power to POTUS + public dissatisfaction w/politics.

Narrator: you should, in fact, call tonight. She stands by everything else however— especially urging the Dems to organize f’ing mutual aide and protests and start acting like the other party wants to throw them in jail.

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Y’all, instead of freaking ourselves out, why don’t we call MoCs AND state/national DNC and tell them to hold the line tomorrow? (Also remember the house is still closed, and offering reasonable solutions that are clearly going to be rejected can still be good politics)

Gen Z has also never known a world where there wasn’t video of Stevie Nicks staring Lindsey Buckingham dead in the eyes while singing Silver Springs which is one of the coolest things ever done. (Yes I know it’s not on the original pressing but is on reissues)

So the podcast Knowledge Fight has a recent episode where they cover Nick recounting his origin story and yup, it involves him not being able to deal with a girl that isn’t interested in him (bc he was saying anti-Semitic stuff) and him refusing to grow up and learn that’s just how life works.

This is a joke about trade wars and how you can actually destroy democracy via arcane boring lore. And somehow, JarJar.

I am begging journalists to follow these dudes to their new 50k a year jobs with minimal backup and districts the size of Rhode Island. Also, there’s a very big divide in what the public expects manner wise- even if you are beating their ass you better be ma’am and sir- ing people at the start

I still cannot believe that some of the most politically relevant movies of the recent era are the damn Star Wars prequels.

Germ theory is out, Physiognomy is in.

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I am getting more sold on the idea that the Cold War bipolar era was an extreme deviation in, well, everything, and all we thought we knew about politics, society, economics etc needs to be retested and reevaluated. Somethings will survive, but we should prepare for extreme mocking from history folk

If I was a democratic strategists, I’d suggest the following on the courts - hell yeah we’re reforming them -18 year staggered terms - expanding the court so much that the full court isn’t required to hear cases.

Sliwa is an objectively terrible person, but I am looking forward to the clips of him celebrating Cuomo’s loss.

So I went down a quick rabbit hole on Vermeule and checks out that a Harvard Law prof that converted to Catholicism is an integralists that doesn’t know that many so-called Catholic far right regimes also persecuted clergy and we did a pluralism to avoid constantly reliving the 30 years war.

The full CBS interview with Trump about the pardon of Binance's Changpeng Zhao is shocking. "Why did you pardon him?" "I have no idea who he is. I was told that he was a victim ... They sent him to jail and they really set him up. That's my opinion. I was told about it."

Lots of great resources in this thread for those in need of food or who can help in the Somerville area (including resources in multiple languages):

New idea: professors and students at Ivies have to spend some time on directional campuses— you know, the places most people go to— before they write an NYT oped.

Well, in government monies news, VA disability went out.

Y’all somehow I’m on GOP text list and they are absolutely insane and scammy.

1. A comms guy threatening reporters by siccing the White House on them. 2. The wife of a WH official threatening a pundit's citizenship. 3. A drunk ICE agent saying he'll check an arresting officer's status. These are all the same thing.

Just a reminder that Fuentes wants a Catholic Fascist Monarchy— a Falagist Franco from the 1940s. I’m not sure how that position is a “conservative” stance in the United States because that seems like a pretty radical break with the past, but what do I know?

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I’d also recommend Mettler’s The Submerged State, Thompson’s invented state, and the “Police are our government”. All focus on how people actually interact and think about government www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Hey since this is over by my mom’s and them, I just want you all to know that, as my partner reminded me, the monkeys have broken out of the primate center before. This probably should cause me more concern but like, I was raised in SE Louisiana and eh 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Immigration lawyers/law profs- A LEO wants to know how detaining people till biometric scans come back isn’t a 4th amend violation. Is there case law on biometric id or is this w/the 100 mile border or the Kavanaugh stops? How is reasonable suspicion for detention being achieved?

I guess I should lay out some prior assumptions. It's 2025, and there are a few consultant-class habits that I simply have No Fucking Patience For any longer.

I am so tired of the no war but the class war bros.

This is Teresa of Avila coded bc she would have done this every single time she could. She’d go on pilgrimages to Rome just to chat about their fellow hometown team, the Cubs.

My spouse can’t get a job in Louisiana because college professors are paid Wendy’s wages but Brian Kelly’s gonna get $50 million or so for getting fired for losing football games.

Louisianan Republicans from 1991 doing better than white lefty politics bros.

Klein is repeating the story that elite consultants from the 2012 Obama campaign have been pushing. Trying to sell Dems more of the same. It's better to stick with the data. The CES shows that every Dem and Republican nominee is seen as essentially the same except Trump in 2016.

It’s absolute bullshit that work requires me to do actual work.

Here's the kind of sanctions avoidance Changpeng Zhao facilitated, from his sentencing memo. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If this clip isn’t in every Democratic ad* in a swing district next year every Democratic consultant should be fired for incompetence.** *it won’t be **they should be