“After a year spent organizing to try to convince the Democratic Party to unify and oppose this regime, here’s where I am: The time for convincing is over. We need new leadership.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social Demand that your Dem senators call on Schumer to step aside: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

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not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

You can literally quit now dude! There’s nothing stopping you! Live your best life so you can stop fucking up ours!

I think this touches a deep, often-overlooked point. In my labour law days, I saw some employers spend MORE money fighting unionization than they would have paid accepting it. Loss of control was driving them at least as much as profits! Control is vital – with environmental policy as well.

BREAKING: A whistleblower tells House Judiciary Democrats that convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from Donald Trump. tinyurl.com/582addcc

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

just shorten the headline to “don’t talk to the new york times” lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.

if you’re going to run as a moderate you’ve got a very high bar to clear to convince me you’re going to take any stand that matters or do what needs to be done

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

you ever want to just get a bunch of friends together, get a little crazy, and abolish the senate

The Premier League is now 5 seconds of open play then 30 seconds of prepping for a set piece. We can fix this with rule changes: - Teams only get four set pieces per possession - If the set pieces are bad, the other team gets the ball - If they're good, they get four more - Let's call them "downs"

The man accused of “assaulting” a federal agent by throwing his Subway sandwich walks free on Thursday after countless attempts from the Trump administration to prosecute him both federally and criminally. trib.al/FhV3y8u

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!

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one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

1: shoots gun at Capitol on J6 2: slueths tell fbi his name 3: he kills a man, claims self defense 4: he tells police he was the j6 gunman 5: he’s finally arrested 6: trump pardons him for j6 7: he allegedly kidnaps and sexually assaults someone www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

If you're in Colorado, there are resources:

Now that everybody is caught up on long throws it's time to start talking about Dyche Zone free kicks

If one more service employee is forced to ask me if I have any special plans for today I’m gonna flip y’all

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

very long good thread about why trump is so central to the current GOP--he's the only thing holding together what is in fact a very fractious coalition, and even if he lives out this presidency he's clearly not gonna be a force for much longer

(I think this is exactly what courageous anti-Zionist Jewish comrades have meant when they say that Zionism is antisemitic: its function in practice does shit like this that puts Jews in danger, you're making bedfellows with Real Sick Freaks!!)

This is where decades of repackaging press releases from law enforcement and taking them at their word got us

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Remembering when I moved here and the people in KS acted like I was going to a foreign land that had never heard the gospel and not a city with more Catholics than there are people in the state of KS

Ohhhhh that’s where that mean comes from!

democrats, if bill kristol is to your left, you’re doing it wrong, and you will be primaried

People should do check in's with themselves about what things they are not saying or doing because they are afraid of conservative backlash, including threats and bombardment You need to pay attention to how you are being worked on and how fear is being used to govern you

high salaries and robust public funding for elections

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

Saying “We are not going to get a better offer” when you clearly hold all the leverage is the exact type of loser shit that has kept us in this political moment for decades too long.

They finally understand the assignment

Very interesting news. I think I like where we landed though. Guti has a year tops left in this league. I think you can actually build around Paxten for a decent chunk of time before he moves on (assuming things go well and he has interest).

If my state pension fund is tied up in this shit…

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Conservatives have two settings: “tell on themselves” and “off.”

Hey man, Republicans are fine with these things and they control the government so maybe talk to them about it

Lots of federal workers who have lost their jobs. Maybe this is you.

The whole press is Breitbart now

Folks, is it normal to be scared of being a human because you might have to interact with people that are different than you?

i guess we will never know if they were ICE or not

Oh hey, my union cleaned up at their first negotiations! The birthday week vibes continue apace.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.