Governors and mayors need to step up and face the unavoidable reality of having to direct state and local police forces to protect their people against federal agents who are deliberately and flagrantly violating the constitution on a daily basis. www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immi...

Dem governors and mayors who haven’t spent the last year thinking about what it would actually mean to use state and local police against armed federal agents are guilty of a dereliction of duty, regardless of how little attention the matter has received.

There is a no-longer charming naïveté in the belief that politicians fail because bad people somehow became politicians, and if we just replace them with good (or GREAT) people it’ll all get fixed. Americans of all ages love superheroes, but, ALAS, “childishness is sinister in adults”

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

Wanna see a pathetic geezer grovel for *the promise of* breadcrumbs? Nah, me neither.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Do @alsobrooks.senate.gov & @vanhollen.senate.gov support the removal of Schumer from leadership? If not, we must assume they too are part of this corrupt bargain. ‘No’ means nothing without action to back it up.

This is the litmus test

The arrogance of a Senator who is not even running again to take the lead in undermining the Caucus and the voters.

Hear that alarming screeching whistling sound? The pot has finally come to a boil, the Blue Tea Party is getting started for real.

The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

So about that piano-sized hole

"But if every American were as upset about this as I am, there’s an even better answer: multimember districts with proportional representation." www.theargumentmag.com/p/newsom-got...

Saving face? Backing down now will prove beyond all doubt the complete fecklessness of the Democrats. If you thought the brand couldn’t sink any lower, get ready to see a grand piano-sized hole in the floor. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

MPMD showed out in “beat down trump” mode, from the @refusefascism.bsky.social march from 14th/U to the main rally #nokingsdc Even got a drum circle going in the mid of constitution ave w/ the rest of the “stupid white hippies”that so haunt PeeWeeVermin’s nightmares.

Nearly 10 years in, these two deserve huge amounts of kudos for the work they’ve done. Get ready to defend them, cuz the attacks and smears will only escalate from here.

Heh, amateur. You need Burner phones in Faraday bags. Drone recon w/ thermal overlay. Exfil routes pre-mapped. Comms on encrypted freq. Full MOPP gear for CBRN threats. Defensible rally points with snipers. Surgeons and fake passports (with new face) ready. Then; *maybe* you can attend a protest.

people on this website are all "you think protesting works? that pales in comparison to my strategy of being a plucky-yet-savvy organizer who subverts authoritarianism without any infrastructure" and then not be a plucky-yet-savvy organizer who subverts authoritarianism without any infrastructure

All these accounts suddenly taking enough interest in #nokings to offer “tips” & “advice” should you dare venture out on Sat. Folks the assignment is the same as it’s been all year. Your mortal coil, out in physical space w/ everyone else who wants to put an end to this.

Lets be real. A man who puts on a mask, completely obscures his identity, to smash through doors, terrorize and abduct people with impunity, and do so on the public dime, is at a bare minimum a social leech. A blood sucker feasting on and weakening its host.

Stating the obvious isn’t being pollyannish. It’s essential when living under a regime based on shameless hourly lies piled higher than Golgotha

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Proportional Representation is the radical idea that a party that gets 30% of the vote should never have 100% of the power. In most stable democracies, this is already obvious. Why not here?

They’re telling us what they fear. Let’s make their nightmare come true.

Not saying this a part of a real plan, but it’s easy to see how dismissals/acquittals in the Comey and James cases will be spun quickly as more evidence of corrupt TDS judges -> another loyalty test for congressional GOP stooges to impeach them. The evil logic is pretty predictable at this point

We hope it’s obvious to congressional Dems what a weak bluff this is. These threats, whether from this prissy shit or Jabba himself, must be recognized more with each passing day for the empty bluster they are.

Really feels like trumps ultimate goal is to just get so many troops in American cities and hopes that one of them goes rogue and starts shooting

Credulous reporting for credulous people. Trumps goons threaten catastrophe w/ usual heaping helping of MAGA gibberish, but ultimately daddy trump intervenes to bring us back to our senses. 🙄 a decade of this & still so easily played. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

Yes, we are directly impacted by the shutdown. And yes, Dems must stand their ground for as long as it takes. Failure now means a rapid slide into dictatorship. Every day more people are coming out, & the largest nationwide day of protest in US history is just 2 weeks away. Hold the fucking line!

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

The right wing propaganda machine is escalating to the logical next step: “they’ll kill us if we ever relinquish power!” We must accept the total destruction of freedom and democracy as their short term goal and act accordingly. The shutdown is the fulcrum, what happens in the streets is the lever

We’ve been saying it for months. We need millions in the streets to stop this. Next chance 10/18.

Time to rip the bandaid off

It’s only a matter of time before Americans wake up to the profound sickness of the 2 party system, a profound lie that reduces a complex, rich & diverse society into a debased duality of tribal war for cultural supremacy. The rot is deeply set. We must bury this illusion to save ourselves

If you wanna see what a techno fascist surveillance state will be IN AMERICA, look at Israel’s collab with corp tech RE Gaza and West Bank. Intercepting, recording & storing phone calls on cloud systems, using AI to analyze, ID & target at scale & RETROACTIVELY justify killings.

It’s important for folks to understand that when Ezra Klein speaks he’s usually talking to Dem party donors. If you’re listening to his podcasts or reading his writings and are NOT a Dem party donor or otherwise not in a position to buy yourself a politician or 3, the message isn’t likely for you.

Disney, Sinclair, Nexstar like dominoes. Who is the next capitulator we think is vulnerable to mass people-powered pressure?

@indivisiblebaltimo.bsky.social @indivisiblebaltoco.bsky.social thinking about sites in woodberry and hunt valley where bullhorns could be in order

The Democratic Party is a coalition that naturally should and wants to be two or three different parties, and we'd all be better off if we had a proportional electoral system that allowed that. The abnormal dysfunctional system that doesn't should not be taken for granted as set in stone forever.

If nothing else, it should be a pretty big red flashing warning that Dem leadership in Congress is hated *by their own voters* to an unprecedented degree. This isn't just normal grumbling. They can't even show their faces at mass protests because they'd be booed and they know it.

In any event, we can argue what they should do but congressional Dems obviously aren't going to. Which is why they're being sidelined, and this will accelerate, while governors and state/local officials take the lead. And they're not sitting around waiting for the midterms.

Every regular tool Congress has, he's already nullified and eviscerated. Legislation, appropriations, oversight, impeachment. He is for all intents and purposes ruling by decree already, the only choice for Congress is to either play along and pretend or rally the people for a radical confrontation.

We're not in a situation where Dems win the midterms and then Congress can hold him in check for another two years, ride it out. That's just not the system of government as it exists anymore. Whether the next Congress will have the ability and political will to fight back is being decided right now.

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This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...