Good news Douthat! Women don't wanna be in your workplace either: news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...

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Child rapist posts what?

Child rapist president hopes his pedophile protection ring holds:

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So many things get me about the roll over, show belly capitulation from the Senate. And one of them is that the promise of a future vote in the Senate isn't even the promise (ha!) of future *passage* of an ACA bill because House would have to deliver same promise.

Imagine choosing Bari Weiss for anything when Versha Sharma exists? While Bari cries about concocted "cancellation" and promoted beyond her capabilities, folks who are actually speaking the truth and nothing but AND generate profits are forced into silence.

It is not only a duty to tell the truth, it can be an act of righteous rebellion.

"Bedtime? What's the point of bedtime?" My child...when he was a TODDLER. If you have to ask, you desperately need external boundaries set for you.

Pollingism is the Democratic default that assumes voters are rational actors, make their decisions on basis of issue preferences, & that polling can allow us to accurately discern how they will actually behave.

Pedophile protector says what?

You know how watching a new comedian bomb at Open Mic makes your whole body crunch with second-hand embarrassment? Yeah. That. But with an equal dose of rage.

UK's Zack Polanski understands the most basic rule of messaging: if you want to touch a nerve, you have to touch a nerve. Of course they're coming after him and of course his Green Party is rising in polls and members. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The most literal definition of a leader is to go first. Thank you @indivisible.org for your steadfast leadership, courage & clarity about what this moment requires. indivisible.org/statements/i...

What was behind Tuesday's Dem sweep? Borrowing a page from Bonnie Rait, winners pursued the "Let's Give 'Em Something to Talk About." And didn't get caught flat, or foot in mouth, when MAGA trotted out their divide to conquer hate baiting.

When CA launched Prop 50, it was polling at 38%. And so, we did it anyway. Winning campaigns requires that your GOALS define your actions, recognizing opinion - including who agrees to vote - is malleable. In other words, be a thermostat, not a thermometer. contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...

Hey Roberts Court, if you'll launder Trump's crimes, we'd like some of the same! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

When CA launched Prop 50, it was polling at 38%. And so, we did it anyway. Winning campaigns requires that your GOALS define your actions, recognizing opinion - including who agrees to vote - is malleable. In other words, be a thermostat, not a thermometer. contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...

Many of us start our days with coffee. Let the coffee makers lead the way to start much bigger things too!!!

hell yeah! (one great resource on this)

Starve the corporations, not your neighbours.

Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.

"The job of a good message isn’t to say what is popular. The job of a good message is to make popular what we need said." Read Part 1 of Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight by @anatosaurus.bsky.social in @contrariannews.org

We must Move Our Money, away from the forces of destruction aiding this regime & into our communities. From Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, folks are collectively committing to avoid Target, Amazon and Home Depot. If this leaves you $ to spare, local food banks, shelters, & community groups need it.

40* Senate Dems said no. House Dems have said they will fight & we should encourage them. Meanwhile, Reps have gone all in on Trump's efforts to turn our government into a weapon against our people. *Yes, I know. No vote on stage may still hide helping cloture backstage.

How long till we learn American, United & Delta worked the phones on Senate Dems?

Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.

Yes, feel all the fury. And also, know that Democrats who came of age and of power in this pay-to-play system were never going to be what saves us. Only those of - whatever our day jobs - actually willing to confront this regime will bring us out.

My kingdom for a parliamentary system with a no confidence vote.

There but for the grace of working in international politics, electoral & confronting authoritarianism, go I. Genuinely grateful I know we were never going to vote (alone) our way to democracy. It takes unrelenting resistance, refusal & ridicule of regime & all its enablers.

Fool me 700 million times, you aren't fucking fooling me. I'm taking orders from the billionaires who want their planes flying & profits soaring.

In 2024, swing & disaffected Dem focus groups kept saying "it seems to me 'this' happened on Dems' watch." This being fall of Roe, anti-voter laws, more month than check. Coupled with "in 2020 they said turn out to protect our freedoms, we did & it didn't work. Now they're saying it again?"

"Our constituents want us to take this vote" really tracks well with shielding anyone up for re-election from taking this vote.

This moment demands fighters, not folders.

Thank you New Jersey for picking this leader and allowing her to send a very clear message about what "real Americans" (TM) want.

We absolutely will not budge unless Americans can pay for their healthcare! Unless, of course, we get stuck at the airport for some hours.

Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.

"What if, hear me out, we aligned with & helped pass the agenda of the people voters just rejected Tuesday and sports fans are booing?"

Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.

The most rudimentary knowledge of human behavior tells you that if you say, "if you don't X, then I will Y" and you punt on your "then," your "if" is, always was & always will be a lie.

Not sure what's more embarrassing: admitting you're afraid of a sandwich or admitting you believe MAGA will revisit their promise to vote on anything other than blow jobs for billionaires.

What the proponents of Pollingism simply cannot understand is that the purpose of politics is to enact an agenda, not simply to win for the sake of doing so. contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...

Not sure what's more embarrassing: admitting you're afraid of a sandwich or admitting you believe MAGA will revisit their promise to vote on anything other than blow jobs for billionaires.

No taxation without the opaque promise of a future vote from a criminal syndicate.

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of please let MAGA continue to attack people here and abroad for the promise of a future vote on healthcare.

What do we want? To set aside savings we don't have for healthcare we cannot access! When do we want it? At the future point that MAGA pinky promises they'll revisit ACA, no really guys.

Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.

Pro or anti crimes against humanity is an on-off switch. There is no moderate position.

A Day in the Life of Trump: Nap. Golf. Nap. Turn government into a weapon against Americans.

What the proponents of Pollingism simply cannot understand is that the purpose of politics is to enact an agenda, not simply to win for the sake of doing so. contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...