Total incompetence. In service to starving especially the elderly & kids. There's something deeply immoral about these people!

Please start at the top. This thread is really upsetting, but we have to see what is being done. It's deeply wrong.

11/ Theo Bovens, the chairman of the Black Liberators in the Netherlands foundation and also leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Appeal party, says that he intends to raise the removal with the new US Ambassador to the Netherlands, Joe Popolo.

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

I understand he's a busy guy, but if I were the Pope and an order like this came down in my hometown...

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

There it is. Just thought it up while lying on the couch. The GOP is 73 million angry hornets in an elephant costume.

johnson has kept the house away for an entirely unprecedented length of time and has taken the genuinely radical position of not seating a duly elected rep to avoid a vote, it's absolutely fair to assume to that he's hiding something awful, it's his responsibility to prove otherwise, not ours

So Schumer's offer was a smoke-out. Make it plain Republicans *WANT* your healthcare costs to double or triple.

I'm not sure where I come down on 'the offer' bouncing around on here. What I'm tryna say is: If a died-in-the-wool Democratic 80 y.o. grandmother, who's kicked some local butt on library and school board organizing, thinks Schumer (and maybe Dems writ large) need this bolstering, it's a problem.

"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats

johnson is also fucking terrified of what's in these files and is willing to keep the house on permanent vacation to prevent their disclosure, and that's becoming obvious to even the most checked-out median voter

My partner is cleaning his parents garage. The "we" includes an 80 year old mom!

"Despite the ongoing shutdown, the tone-deaf paeans to splendor have continued"

NYT: All the News We Feel Like Making Up

Gift link, BTW. Because it should be free to read about the looming recession!

A well done intro to GOP cuts to Medicare. Also like the "Beautiful for Billionaires Bill" jab. Good one!!

Since BLS is shuttered (and may remain neutered after whatever re-opening manages to emerge some day), we have to read tea leaves like this. Not lookin' good.

for years people posted about not falling for it when Republicans tried to recast themselves post-Trump MTG is doing it Right Now! she's not waiting, and everyone is going with it, amazing.

No way really that Honolulu wouldn't be impacted, but air travel is basically Hawaii's only option. Not that people want to drive Chicago to NYC or what have you. But they can. SMH

Sean Duffy, noted for his competence and follow through 🙄

Logging back in late to learn justice prevailed for Sandwich Guy. Hurray! How embarrassing for Pirro and her hobgoblins to fail to convince a grand jury to return felony charges, then bring a misdemeanor charge instead and lose that. Losers.

"Trump canceled your flight" is about as easy as messaging gets.

Really perfect coms work there, Lindsey.

NEW: Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky has conceded. A stunning defeat for a MAGA media fixture who built a national profile on claims of a "complete gang takeover" of Aurora that led President Trump to visit and falsely proclaim the city "conquered" by an immigrant gang

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

For what it's worth, Minnesota's state Senate Dist. 29 special election yesterday saw a 5.9% swing left. The Republican still won easily (that seat is in Emmer country), but fits with some larger trends. The bugaboo is turnout. Waaay down from 2022. So 🤷‍♂️.

Ezra Douthglesias I'm ded.

Corruption v. honesty is a big one. Despotism, for sure, but people feel corruption if it's happening at their local or state levels, too, and the whole GOP has become the party of insider trading, purchased access, memecoins, gambling, all of it.

i probably sound like an asshole tonight but man i am fucking tired of pretending that democratic voters and urban people with all of the implications republicans have very much stopped pretending to dogwhistle about are not the heart of this country. it's us. it's always been us

when someone says "i voted for donald trump and then mikie sherrill" i promise you they are not a crossover voter with a coherent politics. this illusion has to end

This, from TPM blog, will fade from memory soon. But Trump campaigning for Ciattarelli and him getting a drubbing (after coming within 3 points last time) is seriously bad for DJT.

Wow

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

Boom!

Harbinger, I dunno. But good anyhow!

Really hoping that a few hours after voting closes tonight that we'll see some meaningful results & that Republicans get rebuked. But in this weird time, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Im genuinely mad about this.

Matthew Yglesias isn't even on this platform yet somehow I have to constantly watch the endless ripples of his weird little engagement trolling efforts ripple through the discourse like a stinky fart at the opera

But really, noblesse oblige back in the day was mostly just reasonable self-preservation instincts by the overlords. Current billionaires forget the brilliant Mark Twain “History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”

Incredible that these flowers have lasted till Nov. 4 in Minneapolis. And yes, Katie is my choice. If she's yours, and you haven't voted, polls are open till 8:00pm. And please don't rank Shaffer – in a race with only two viable candidates, ranking someone you don't want isn't useful!

Fun fact: The rich hate helping anyone pay for anything. Sh*tty subways? He doesn't ride 'em. Potholes? I'm sure his ride has the best, softest suspension money can buy. And so on. They want the fancy restaurants, big nights out on the town, but on the cheap.

Today is the day, if you weren't able to early vote! My humble suggestion: 1. DeWayne Davis 2. Jazz Hampton 3. Omar Fateh Pick your preferred order, just *please* don't rank Frey! And really, Davis first 🙏.

"The thing that I'm most proud of in this campaign is not the successes. Its that we took so many swings. Swinging is an example of not being satisfied with the options you currently see. We have to build something more." I want way more Democrats to do this: Vision. Future. Effort + hope. LFG!

In "honor" of Dick Cheney's passing, I link to this (sorry it's Politico, but worth it). Cheney was a strong proponent of the kinds of hard power that US admins abuse, and here we are again.

I don't want politicians to be pragmatists. That is literally what the federal bureaucracy and Supreme Court are for. I want a president and lawmakers who are dreamers. Who inspire. Who push the boundaries of what government can be. If you want to be a pragmatist, go work on policy in a cubicle.

"Everybody in America is happy right now.” An actual quote from Donald Trump on the issue of inflation and prices, 60 Minutes yesterday. Seems he is probably utterly lost, in a world made of staffers who feed him nonsense.

Speaker Demuth: I know how to collaborate with DFLers Also Speaker Demuth: Gov. Walz "hates" people who don't agree with him

This is about Mamdani and all the off-the-charts behavior of 'establishment' types. But it could just as much apply to Mike Johnson. Or JD Vance. Or even DJT himself. They're all desperate to control things they can't. I'm deeply worried that we're coming apart at the seams. But Americans hate it.