The ACA framework was the Republican plan. From the heritage foundation, to Romneycare, to the ACA. They walked away from all that because Obama and Dems proposed it. They’ve had 15 years to offer alternatives and haven’t. They have nothing.

Exactly! I wrote about this here: www.weekendreading.net/p/the-courts...

Someone should explain to him this is what “due process” is for.

Immigration is great! I am proud to be part of a nation of immigrants! These people are ruining what makes our country in the administration good. What a disgrace they are.

Notwithstanding that Birthright Citizenship’s popularity doesn’t mean shit- it’s enshrined in a constitutional amendment and buttressed with generations of jurisprudence. If we think we can start just horse trading with stuff like that we really don’t have a constitution or rule of law at all.

"Perhaps utterly unsurprising but one of the clear differences between activated and willing but not yet involved is having been personally asked by someone to do a concrete thing."

Good post by @tsgouros.bsky.social on how RI walked itself into municipal fiscal disaster.

"Doing more with less" is a slogan, not a plan. steveahlquist.substack.com/p/tom-sgouro...

Thanks for joining me to greet voters, @sueanderbois.bsky.social! And thanks to all of the voters who are braving this less than perfect weather to cast your votes, and the poll workers who are making all of this happen. Truly grateful!

Reposting in honor of the friends I lost in the 1980s and 1990s.

I don't understand this. Impeachment is a duty not a strategy. Does he think enforcement of the law is optional?

Can I just say, voting for Trump all three times and then calling yourself a “moderate New England Republican” is moderate New England Republican stolen valor; especially in a state where its moderate Republicans denounced Trump at least once and/or are independents now.

The actual text of the key example is in the replies.

The reason I want to see Secretary Hegseth and Admiral Bradley charged with murder, based on what we know, isn't because I hate the US military. It's because I served in the US military and respect it, and want to see its honor restored.

Trump, Vance, and Miller have inherited wealth and power they did not earn, achieved through advancement of values they do not share, at a cost they cannot comprehend. Like every other degenerate child of privilege they think their birthright is THE REWARD and not THE RESPONSIBILITY

There is literally no reason for the military to be in D.C.

There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.

Today - and every day - is a good day to read Justice Stevens’ dissent in Heller v DC. The bonkers 5-4 decision that not only made it legal to carry firearms in DC but also declared that the first 13 words of 2A were “merely preferatory”. www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/0...

Keep it going!

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

Bringing a nuke to the pension wars knife fight

I’m done funding cruelty. Target cuts DEI, Amazon bankrolls this administration, and Home Depot lets ICE terrorize workers on their lots. My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt

“Climate change isn’t everything“ is becoming a go-to justification for delaying action. This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with. 1/

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the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

To simplify: the thing that made American higher-ed unique was the institutional organization around education as a PUBLIC GOOD, rather than as an elite training ground, or job training. This aspect is nearly dead, killed by a thousand budget cuts.

It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own

The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless

Looking for what you can do to make you voice heard? This campaign is gaining traction. The enablers have to feel it. weaintbuyingit.com

"Our values and principles ask more than most of us are able to give—if they don’t, they are probably too weak to be worth holding. But we don’t have to celebrate our failures or, worse still, confuse them with our successes." (2/2)

No justice, no peace is a fact, not a threat.

US natural gas (methane) price are up 50% in the past month or so as new export facilities start exporting more LNG (methane). Often these US export facilities are owned by foreign entities (Japan, Qatar, etc).Japan is also buying up gas production assets in TX to supply the gas for export. (1/2)

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

How about "political reporter"?

The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.

For Armistice Day, here's a letter my great uncle wrote to his old school in 1914 about the Christmas truce

Fight don’t fold.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

AFR's Natalia Renta shares a quick rundown of what's at stake at Tesla's annual shareholder meeting today. Many are saying today will be the most significant day in the company's history so far, but how shareholders vote will have impacts far beyond just Tesla. 📖 ➡️ inequality.org/article/musk...

Yes!! Exactly this!!!

Worth watching, for every Democrat in Rhode Island. At least. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC1h...

More of this, please!

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

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