Remember Biff Tannen? He didn’t end up working for George McFly. He remained a bully & joined the Border Patrol

I'll add, when the reviewers are FBI agents who know damn well this review is being done to assess damage to Trump and for an eventual cover-up, they're probably going to take especial care to document what they've seen. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Huh. G. William Domhoff is still alive. If he’s still actively writing I’d love to hear what he has to say about these Epstein emails supporting a lot of what he argued about elite in America.

Why should he quit, when he's achieving his highest personal goals? Sanders has never cared about 'winning' -- he just wants to keep his cultists riled up, so they'll show up at his every speech & keep paying for his very nice millionaire lifestyle.

How many times does he have to get dusted before he learns to quit?

It only takes 1/1,000th of the FBI agents who reviewed the files.

It’s a great essay by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, but more than great it’s important You can’t go around saying people are ignorant & won’t change. Some—maybe most—won’t change; they will resist listening & learning. But w Trump & MAGA collapsing we have an opportunity to change some minds /1

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

People keep saying on here that the DoJ has finally cleaned the files so they’re releasable but that’s pretty clearly not true because: a) he was leaning on Rs to vote against all weekend b) he could just release them but is not

100% because he knows he lost too many Republicans. Now he’ll need to be pressured to say he wants Thune to move it asap Someone needs to ask Lindsay Graham about it. He’s the wind vane that shows which way Trump is…blowing

One thing I miss about Joe Biden is he would also make little digs and insults at the reporters asking him questions but he'd do it in an actually funny and subtle way, not just blunt and dumb like this bozo

I actually think it's funny they used "Operation Charlotte's Web." The smart female protecting her home wins. It's about solidarity. The vicious murderers are thwarted by creativity. Are none of these goons literate, even at a third grade level?

“New Hampshire”

Sad seeing someone who had reasonable & even insightful political views but Nov 2024 happened & they just snapped, & in good faith now blame Dems for the weather & bad officiating & a messed up carry out order, & doom that no Dem will ever again win an election.

I would strongly suggest people in Boston, Philly, MSP, Denver, Seattle, Bay Area etc read this & start changing your laws & organizing your communities. Likely that one of these places will be next.

Slave narratives reveal a lost antebellum South.

There are so many "suddenly, then all at once" risks right now, and that's a huge one.

That’s created a de facto soft-budget constraint. U.S. policymakers have been able to run deficits rather than make tough fiscal choices. If that goes away — especially if it happens quickly because the idiots running our government destroy the foundations of 💵 dominance — we’re truly fucked.

The end of dollar hegemony will transform U.S. debt from a fiscal drag into a high-yield fusion bomb. For decades dollarization has generated structural demand for U.S. treasuries, depressing the interest rates the U.S. needs to offer to service its debt.

THAT'S LITERALLY HOW THE SUBSIDIES & ACA EXCHANGES WORK ALREADY. CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY. I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.

Do you live in the Charlotte area? Know someone who does? One of the most important things you can do is get a whistle & tell your family & friends & neighbors to do the same. If people blow their whistle when they see CBP that takes away CBP’s ability to surprise vulnerable people.

North Carolinians:

Was Trump seen in public today? Seems like this should be an infusion weekend.

2008 Obama campaign looked at MS, w its large & potentially huge Black share of the electorate, & calculated they could win if they moved the white vote from iirc 18% Dem to 22% Dem. They polled, they did focus groups, tried all kinds of messages & concluded nothing could get them to 22% of whites

During the shutdown, many theories emerged as to what Republicans were up to. But there was one explanation that I kept hearing from House Democrats: it was all about the Epstein Files. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/it-w...

tbh the white libs I know who say stuff like this are all Bernie curious, looking for one neat trick to get white working class Republicans to vote for super progressive candidates without changing any of their policies.

Border Patrol conducts Kavanaugh sweeps.

Homan is still alive? Huh I guess he’s not busy since Miller kneecapped him & essentially put that thug Bovino in charge.

I managed a House campaign in 2006. I don’t remember “6 for ‘06.” Foley probably moved numbers 1, at most 2 points. That can be enough to decide a race. But health care was big, & we won more than anything on running against the war & tying the incumbent to Bush Bush mattered far more than Foley

It doesn’t get much more White Suburban Detroit than a Zamboni-shaped gravy boat giveaway by the Red Wings & Meijer

A friend from college texted me asking for advice and this was my first and immediate response.

GREAT advice. My husband, daughter and I carry whistles now. What’s happening to our neighbors is despicable!

Personally, I could definitely use 50k, but I have a whole lot of limits on how I want to get there

You need 50k so bad, you’re willing to be hated by an entire country lmao

Do you live in the Charlotte area? Know someone who does? One of the most important things you can do is get a whistle & tell your family & friends & neighbors to do the same. If people blow their whistle when they see CBP that takes away CBP’s ability to surprise vulnerable people.

For decades GOP pledged to do X, Dems told voters GOP wants to do X, & voters didn’t believe Dems, bc voters thought GOP wouldn’t do something as crazy as X Fundamental Q for next 10-20 yrs: Will voters believe Trump policies=Repub policies, or that Trump policies were separate from GOP policies

And my guess—& @anneapplebaum.bsky.social knows more about them than I do—but my guess is a lot of the threats come from a guy in St Petersburg sitting in front of a monitor. The problem is sorting through those vs real dangers.

“… Capecelatro and Stevens shared with Pope Leo how much Fr. James Martin, SJ’s outreach to LGBTQ Catholics means to them. The pope nodded approvingly at the mention of that ministry. Unity and peace aren’t just slogans for Leo XIV; they’re a call to welcome those long at the margins.”

No landscapers working No experience driving in snow Here’s another weather-related reason ICE is still active in Chicago but Border Patrol has mostly headed south for the winter.

They’re cops, so as usual they’re overreacting & using unnecessary force. But a problem w the protests at Broadview is that what’s happening inside the building is unconscionable, but if protesters get close to the bldg the Feds shoot them

I don’t like to hand it to him, but, the man’s insult game is usually a little more on point than this

Proper punctuation & capitalization, a sentence with four clauses, not particularly frothing at the mouth…Trump contributed little if anything to that tweet.

I think this is the Dem floor for 2026. If this is how it plays out it would mean Repubs net 1 seat in Texas but because it provoked redistricting in California would between them net Dems probably about 5 seats. Add 5 seats to the 215 Dems won in 2024 & that would give the Dems a 5 seat majority

Jesus Christ.

We weren’t Stalingrad. But I want Chicagoland to play a prominent part in histories of the collapse of Donald Trump (and Stephen Miller)

He’s going the fuck down.

Seems like Trump is overdue for an infusion.

Man. Will the IRS _EVER_ finish their audit of Trump?

After what we’ve endured here in Chicago, I want everyone to know that Border Patrol are 10 times the dickheads that ICE are

Maybe it’s one beer too many, but damn did I laugh at this.