Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

Schumer chose 8 Senators not up for election in 2026 to take the sellout "deal". They're hiding. The centrist Democratic leadership knows that the blue base hates these spineless cowards. They hope that we forget by 2028 or 2030. That we won't kick them out. Prove them wrong.

The Democratic Party stabbed America in the back less than a week after the American voters gave the party a “fight back” mandate.

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

"Eventually you have to stand for something, or somebody else will tell you where to stand, and if you'd rather not, they'll force you to stand there, and stand there you will. And there you'll be, standing in a place somebody else chose for you. You and the nothing you built inside."

As June Jordan said, “We are not powerless. We are indispensable despite all atrocities of state and corporate policy to the contrary... At a minimum we have the power to stop cooperating with our enemies. We have the power to stop the courtesies and to let the feelings be real.”

Really under discussed how the phrasing of polling itself is actually indicative of quite a lot in terms of steering people towards a particular answer. Compare NYT polls to Brookings polls for example. The former are designed to elicit a particular narrative, the latter are designed to gain insight

so it seems Saleh was killed (possibly executed) by an Israeli-armed/backed militia. We've known that Israel has been doing this. The goal: fomenting a civil war between Palestinian factions. Inevitably Israel will "intervene" to quell the clashes. Another tool in its genocidal arsenal.

it’s great how any time you say “kamala” on this app random people pop up to do lib denialist bullshit like we didn’t all witness “i’m speaking now” or the parade of dnc-goers plugging their ears. or the thousands of anti-genocide activists @ the dnc. or the surge in support, killed on purpose, or—

THE SAYING “DONT SHOOT THE MESSENGER” EXISTS CUZ IT’S THE ONLY THING PEOPLE EVER WANNA DO

Public funding of elections, then instead of giving mostly-ceremonial ambassadorships to big donors, we give them to elderly Senators.

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

I mean maybe everyone just repeatedly taking short term memory loss, brain fog and other blows to their brains, nervous and circulatory systems over the last five years helped create the conditions for the fascist total unreality

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

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Weather is getting nice, what if 10 million people went outside at the same time

We Need to Talk About 'Political Violence' www.youtube.com/watch?v=k__v... by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social

Having a lot of trouble summoning sympathy for folks who now pretend they thought Trump was only going to go after violent criminal immigrants. It was alway obvious that wasn’t true. You just mean you didn’t think he’d go after white people.

we’re going to have to throw a lot of people in jail after all this is over

what they are willing to do to Gaza they will also do to Juárez

This is the real story most mainstream journalists are missing. Ppl are setting up neighborhood watch groups to patrol their block, volunteers are accompanying migrants to school/work, etc. and much of this is happening organically as well as being organized by @freedcproject.bsky.social #FreeDC

Unhoused people are just the most accessible target. It won’t stop there.

Some video from earlier, multiple journalists bloodied in the scrum. This is just 90 seconds of over 10 minutes of extremely aggressive LAPD response tonight

their own voters can't stand them so... yeah.

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A series of events: —We ask Senators how many Americans had been killed by Israeli violence. None know. One replies “I am pro-Israel” —Settlers kill American —We ask Senators who took photo with Netanyahu about it. No reply —Senate approves more weapons to Israel —Settlers kill another American

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

American peace activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi would've turned 27 today. But Israeli forces killed her 11 months ago. Both Biden & Trump did nothing to seek accountability. Instead the US sent Israel $12 billion in weapons & another $4 billion in aid. And then Israeli settlers killed another American.

People changing their mind and speaking out on the horrors of Gaza is a good thing. But if a person “changing their mind” is in power, and they do not subsequently use that power in accordance with the seriousness of the new conclusion they have arrived at, then that’s a problem.

Don’t let the hardness of our world make you just as much. We fight each day not just to scream into the wind, but to bring our neighbors to feel as compelled as we do to scream and to embrace them when they do. As Michael Brooks said: be ruthless with systems, be kind to people.

NEW: I spoke with Sayfollah Musallet’s father. He tells me US leaders *still* have not reached out — days after Israeli settlers killed his son. And it wasn’t just settlers. Soldiers blocked ambulances for hours. Saif is now the 7th American killed by Israeli violence in the last 21 months.

schumer should honestly resign not just from leadership but from congress

I hope he wins so bad

oh my fucking god

No British news outlet reported on the fact that the ICC's chief prosecutor's UK bank accounts were frozen apnews.com/article/icc-..., reported back in May by AP. Is there a D-notice in place or do editors think this is perfectly acceptable behaviour in defense of the world's first good genocide?

Weird threat to make since Hakeem already went after @jabaribrisport.bsky.social and I. How’d that go for him, again? 2022 Primary Results: SD 22 Jabari Brisport: 70.4% AD 57 Phara Souffrant Forrest: 67.2% If the leader wants another public beatdown, he knows where to find me.

Another way that Zohran shows the way forward is he has spent zero time lingering on smears. Part of what killed Corbyn, for example, is that he has to publicly address every fake scandal and it drove long media cycles. The left needs to move past apologizing and constantly justifying itself.

average person online: have you seen what the race scientist said about him average new yorker: omg its zohran mamdani