this is exactly why i've been saying Primary Every Dem for the last nine months schumer is just the point man: he's leader because he does what the democratic caucus wants him to do. if he's surrendering this battle it's because the majority of senate dems want to surrender

this message, which also went out on official party channels at about the same time (despite being news from this morning), is timed to distract you from the senate democrats folding

Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?

democrats are giving in without delivering on the ONLY THING they swore they’d fight for? the strategy isn’t clicking for me here

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

Trump repeatedly fell asleep during his criminal trial in New York last year. You may not have heard about it much because the media decided that Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard 20 years ago merited more prominent coverage

one of the most infuriating genre of posts on this site is "oh you think wealth inequality is bad today? but have you considered that people were poorer eight or ten decades ago???" yeah! no shit! put herbert hoover on the ballot and i'll vote against him!

If the political opposition doesn’t put these ICE & CBP institutional criminals in prison, annihilate their budgets, purge the datasets and repeal their authorities, this will keep happening. And that opposition will reveal itself as a false, controlled opposition that is no less predatory on people

this color makes the cybertruck look exactly like it just fell out of some terrible, low poly 3DO game

even non-traditional media outlets have distorted reality for trump's benefit Snopes *still* has this blatant deception online denying the reality that trump called the white supremacists who marched on Charlotesville "very fine people"

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it's very funny that rick scott is the biggest medicare scammer in history but the republican party nonetheless entrusted him with managing their campaign funds, funds which then mysteriously diminished far faster than could be reasonably explained

the moderate option is sentencing people like miller and rubio to extremely long prison sentences

"Anything we can actually do we can afford."

sure man, there hasn't been a stagnation in purchasing power. people just don't feel like buying their first home until they're in their 40s

"what is the greatest deliberative body in the world?" and if you say the senate you don't get to work in politics anymore

She gave the Bills $600M in state money for the new stadium

the organization that are surrendering to trump know they could win if they fought but the people who run cornell like trump and are eager to steal your tuition dollars so they can hand them over to a fascist

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

hey, remember when a girl went to prison for manslaughter after encouraging her boyfriend to commit suicide? just thinking about that for no reason

NO DEATH PENALTY BUT THE CORPORATE DEATH PENALTY

This reminded me of this classic post except that everything has gotten far far dumber and more made up

Kennedys in the '60s: putting a man on the moon, quashing race riots in the south, working to alleviate poverty Kennedys in the 2020s: wrecking our ability to track & prevent epidemics, provoking a measles outbreak, indefinitely dismantling the federal government

thinking about how michael bloomberg spent more than a billion dollars on his 2020 presidential campaign to finish in 37th place but the money didn't even matter because bloomberg's net worth has roughly DOUBLED in the last five years

imagine if cop shows on TV accurately depicted the behavior of cops. there'd be an episode where the cops twiddle their thumbs while they watch an arsonist pour gasoline on a daycare. then when the building is set on fire they wouldn't even bother to call the fire department

I don't think tech companies should get any government backstop at all, nevermind AI ones.

has a single dem in congress called for CBP to be disbanded? i despised this guy for more than a decade but at this point i think i'd vote for comrade kristol over most incumbent democrats

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command. If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics. It’s trials w real punishments.

It is a trick question: they will all be in prison.

it's insane that people don't bat an eye at a football coach at a state university pulling down $8m/yr to teach a maybe a hundred student athletes but lose their minds at the idea of the governor or legislators—people who oversee 11-digit budgets—being paid competitive salaries

horrific thread of the abuses being committed by DHS, proof that every ICE agent has the soul of a concentration camp guard

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

look you don't understand if a liberal throws a sandwich at a masked man who may or may not be an ICE agent it's a felony & they should go to prison forever but when trump officials openly murder fishermen well that's just tough love

people say they want a strong republican party because it would clamp down on the extremism but the republican party IS extremism and it has been for a very long time

this is one of my favorite genres of posts, i got one for ya the release of Weezer's Blue Album is closer in time to the assassination of JFK than it is to today

i've been massively disappointed by every senate dem this year but i do appreciate wyden pointing out that making billionaires pay the same tax rate as their secretaries is the moderate solution and the alternative makes FDR & the New Deal look like a libertarian paradise

turn Elon Musk over to the Hague, clapped in irons, and give them some extremely meaningful looks www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...

correction: we're not sending steve bannon to prison we're sending steve bannon *back* to prison

they call it jury nullification and you’re hearing it more and more. people say you can’t, you can’t nullify, but juries say, stop us. it’s incredible really. can you believe it? jury nullification.

good riddance to nancy pelosi, a leader whose defining traits are: • only agreeing to impeach trump after being dragged kicking & screaming by the rest of her party • she botched the 2nd impeachment w/ her dawdling & allowed the GOP to rally to trump's defense • unaccountably genius stock trader

since the guy blocked me for disagreeing with him here's what he was arguing, that pelosi was correct to say the US needs a strong republican party but there's no such thing as a strong GOP devoted to democracy & the rule of law! there's no constituency for such a party! it's a flight of fancy!

this argument is that we'd have been better off with a strong GOP that stifled the bigots & the nutjobs but that's a fantasy version of the GOP! it's like saying you wish your dog was actually a horse! the GOP has made itself the home for bigots & nuts for decades! it's core to their appeal!

marc andreesen's incomprehensible wealth is entirely attributable to the fact that he was working at a state university who provided him with the resources to be one of the lucky lottery winners who cashed in riding the wave of the computing revolution

chuck schumer quite literally prefers a world where the president is a fascist and NYC is run by a serial sexual abuser than to live in a world where the left has any power

The Trump regime is East Winging the Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the 10,000 scientists and engineers in NASA science and engineering directorates.

greg abbott denying representation to the people of houston is an incredible injustice but somehow manages to be small beans compared to the time he pardoned a convicted murderer on the basis that abbott thinks it's fun & cool when a reactionary guns down a liberal protester in the street

only a murderous fascist or a madman would ever espouse this point of view this psycho is calling for rodrigo duterte style policies which, infamously, lead to death squads roaming the streets killing people with impunity (fyi, duterte wound up in The Hague for crimes against his people)

notice how when elected dems point out something horrific the trump administration has done they never, never say what they will do in response