you should not want to be on a site where people post that kind of joke you should not want people who make that kind of joke to have "public space" or whatever you are making yourself a bad person by excusing this

There are a whole lot of municipal elections this week, as well as a primary for the US House in TN-07. We have AT LEAST two mayoral seats we can flip, so don’t sleep on this one. Here’s the breakdown: Mon Oct 6 - MD & MA Tue Oct 7 - AK, AL, FL, IA, MA, NH, NC, & TN Wed Oct 8 - MA Sat Oct 11 - LA

The police are not an army and Pritzker isn’t the commander in chief of the police organizationally or structurally, and culturally/politically there’s problems with them doing what he wants anyway, and I don’t think it’s a good idea to let Trump dictate our feelings about our own politicians.

TYPING SOMETHING IN ALL CAPS STILL DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE.

To help you plan for the shutdown and understand how it may impact you and your family, I have prepared answers to frequently asked questions.

If only truly terrible people suffered, it would be 1 thing but the desire to inflict collective punishment brings us down to the level of the worst of us. Divide & conquer works best when both sides actively participate in dehumanization. Celebrating harm is unethical. It’s also harmful overall.

I mean not for nothing if you want to run for office by trashing the party that you're supposed to represent then maybe you should form a new fucking party. I don't want people running in my party that despise the party and everything about it. Get your own fucking party. Fuck you.

There's a lot of misinfo going around right now that I would be wary of. The GOP has been trying to make it seem like Democrats are shutting down the government over trans healthcare. Neither side's funding proposal does this. Don't do their job for them.

Democrats do not have the ability to block anything in the senate because they are in the minority @washingtonpost.com

Worthless both-sidesing from PBS. Democrats showed up for work. Republicans blew out of DC for vacations on the orders of their Speaker, who is enabling Trump to destroy everything he doesn't like during the shutdown.

And I tell you this because every single person who makes their own social media posts or just reposts other people, is an influencer. You have the ability to influence people, no matter how minuscule your platform is, so what you say matters. 4/

This is not ok. We don't use kids as political pawns regardless of who their parents are. Rush Limbaugh famously did this to Chelsea Clinton when she was just 13 years old. It was not okay then just as this behavior is not ok now.

The idea that we should endlessly criticize/push for them to "do better"/push Dem leadership out because they lost an election is doing Republicans work for them, full stop.

All you ppl on this thread trashing Jeffries when you should be trashing the folks who did this- yourselves and the repubs. You’re just admitting your guilt. You are so clueless and prove without a doubt how we got here. You did this. He can’t fix your mess. You fix it.

There are so many accounts here sharing this deceptive edit by MattMattOlive from TikTok, and a good few are followed by several mutuals of mine You really are an irredeemable bunch on the whole. Just slap the word "Israeli" on something and you'll go back to your ways.

If they all cared this much about their own local races we'd be better off.

the continuing resolution does not create any substantive policies that are not in the BBB, which does not have anti-trans stuff itself because of the work of Sarah McBride and Tammy Baldwin in removing it please stop letting idiots rile you up with panic

Make your peace with the lose-lose situation you didn’t prevent in November & go elect more Democrats this year & next year so it doesn’t keep happening. I don’t wanna do 100 more threads explaining why each specific person eventually votes yes because y’all lack the ability to think critically.

Just blame the people in the majority who have control of Congress. The Republicans. The people who enable Republicans. The people who vote for them. Not the Democrats in the *minority* who don’t do your meaningless show pony votes that accomplish nothing. It’s not that deep man. Learn basic shit.

Jeffries has consistently won with 70 percent of the vote and is minority leader. He isn't going to lose a primary. His unpopularity is strictly online.

i would like, for my birthday this year - it's not until next May but i'll accept the present any time - more people targeting opprobrium at Ezra Klein than at "Democrats" when Klein's entire animus at this point is built around elected Democrats correctly ignoring the shit out of him

And "Democrats should use Republican tactics, which are more effective" falls flat because Republican tactics suit Republican goals; destruction and chaos. You can't fix the vase by breaking other things. 💁🏻‍♀️

Liberals are the one group in politics who look at the world and say “this is all messy and complicated, because people are messy and complicated, so progress will be slow and imperfect, but we have to try.” It defines us, and everyone hates us for it.

You want him to call for investigations he cannot convene, do oversight he cannot act on, & set conditions for funding the government in a chamber in which he has no controlling votes. If he did all this you would hate him for his impotence.

Jeffries is doing a great job and I’m so done with arguments otherwise), have subpoena power and hold the hearings WE want. So PLEASE stop talking about primaries as if it is the thing to fix everything. Pay attention to the district, not your utopian hopes and dreams. 10/

If medbeds are real why does Trump look like that

I went through his 843-word piece line by line and have debunked no fewer than 20 gross exaggerations, disingenuous nonsense and flat-out lies in an admittedly lengthy rebuttal. WARNING: It's long, and some of it gets pretty wonky. acasignups.net/25/09/28/how...

Bluntly, if you’re trying to ratio Hakeem Jeffries for saying people deserve healthcare as Republicans are about to shut down the government for the authoritarianism that you voted in or supported through voter suppression, you haven’t suffered enough yet. What you’ve chosen for yourself is on you.

This is why I do not take fellow white people who make Palestine the omnicause seriously EVEN THOUGH Gaza is a horror and I'd yeet Bibi to the Hague this second if I was the evil overlady of the world.

ICE has taken the Superintendent of the Des Moines Public Schools into custody. No explanation why.

I refuse to live in fear and none of y'all should either. The fascists at the head of the federal government want everyone to live in fear, and the most courageous thing we can do is refuse to give that to them.

“Shut it down”. Me: Ok. Where is the plan to provide basic needs for those who won’t have jobs so your employed self can scream this from your sofa? “But the Montgomery bus boycott…” Me: …did not just *voila* happen and would not have been successful without a plan to do exactly as I described

My fellow white people, please read this thread.

The replies. Lol The left is just pure rage at the election they worked so hard to lose and are demanding hakeem fix it for them. But he can't with no votes. Lololololol

The exploding infrastructure demands of the tech industry, as well as all the bullshit they’re trying to force on us, are one more great reason to make sure you’re voting for Democrats. GOP sure isn’t going to regulate those ass kissers.

The brass-plated gall and bratty entitlement of this Trumpaloon Farmer Saggypants, who voted to strike such a heavy blow against our country, who voted to deport his own workforce, calling his fellow Americans "spoiled" because they don't want to milk his cows for him.

The Dems *won* the working class. The only way you can reach the conclusion they "lost" it is if you deliberately exclude Black and Brown working class people. So the real question is: what about you makes you want to center white people?

I see that even those white people who are *always* otherwise able to avoid being trolled by a false Politico characterization are rushing to slurp up its latest bullshit about Harris.

For the people with the tired 🥱 and uninformed replies about letters, try actually educating yourself on their purposes. bsky.app/profile/maud...

That vote didn't change any law. It didn't give any additional power away, nor did it confer anything to Trump. Fight the important things and don't get bogged down in the weeds with the unnecessary. This is all designed to wear people down. Don't get got by the banana in the tailpipe.

Listen to the sister. This is all performative bullshittery designed to induce rage bait. A resolution has absolutely zero effect on law. It does nothing. It's not worth fighting over when we're trying to save the country. Did I expect Dems to vote for it? Yes. Do I care? No.

Commemorative Resolutions in the Senate only require a simple majority of 51 votes. Dems could have objected to the resolution forcing it to a floor vote that Republicans would have passed anyway since they are in the majority. It was a trap…

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It remains relevant that an actually tiny number of Republicans could save our constitutional republic and they won't do it

This is an irresponsible post, dude. Straight up misinformation.

Schumer has led an unprecidented embargo of executive appointees to the point where the GOP is about to gut the filibuster and all you people can do is whine about how they're not "meeting the moment." It's deranged.

Trump is flailing wildly, the majorities in both houses of Congress are about to walk blindly into a shutdown, the FCC director is threatening media corporations into compliance in shutting down unfavored speech, and people on this website don't have anything better to do than to attack Dems.

Stop bitching about Democrats and call Republicans.

Read something the other day which described hope as "impossible to have", and I recall @mariafarrell.bsky.social's wise words last November. Hope isn't a luxury at times like this, it's a duty. Without it, nothing is possible.

...isn't capitulation. This is conservation of precious resources - your voice and energy. Don't waste them on pointless sturm und drang. There are infinite words available to oppose Kirk's positions that never entertain trouble. Use them. Lexical defilade is smart politics.