Moderates and centrists are annoyed to find out that people hate that they are the most likely to vote in support of fascist bills and Trump nominees. Also, good.

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

I talked to someone in healthcare today and am genuinely panicked the country is headed towards an epic disaster in terms of healthcare costs and the Democrats’ plan is… nothing. Companies cannot cover the costs and will continue to dump those costs on individuals.

I'll never be able to prove this and it's also the dumbest theory I truly believe.

People are like "Has she always been like this?" and the answer is yes. From 2014: www.bbc.com/news/newsbea...

Probably a perfect time to note that Tim Kaine is the 8th most fascist friendly Dem in the Senate & has voted yea for 23% of the fascist bills and nominees placed before him.

“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”

a sequel: cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”

Working on the end of year roundup of the most fascist Dems in the House and Senate. Bummer of a stat is that from July to now, the number of Democratic members of the House who haven't voted yea for a single fascist bill has dropped from 60 to 48. That's 22.5% of the Dem members of the House.

Filing closed in North Carolina three hours ago and no one filed to primary Don Davis. According to Politics1, 3rd parties and independents have until March 3rd to file to run.

NEW: The FBI has launched "domestic terrorism" investigations into anti-ICE activity across the US. Some cases are under Trump's NSPM-7 order to crackdown on "anti-fascism" and "anti-Americanism." Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org + shared w/ Guardian include FBI map of cases in 30+ states:

All the anti-trans stuff this week (really, this whole year and the past several leading up to it — but especially this week) has taken a real toll on me. I feel so sad, scared, and angry. I feel like I don't belong in this world, and that really sucks.

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

As always, a reminder that according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Jewish people made up less than 1% of the German population in 1933.

Glad I get to spend the holiday anticipating the supposed opposition party gutting an entire medium for community, organizing, and protest. Dick Durbin is probably more worried about how gauche it is to give a Christmas gift that far into the New Year.

Major party filing closes tomorrow in North Carolina & Don Davis doesn't have a primary challenger. So either there's a surprise qualifier or people are going to have to get real comfortable with supporting a 3rd party or independent option. Otherwise, it'll just be a choice between two fascists.

If you do not support trans people - by actively dedicating your time and money (if you have it) and voice to their cause - you are a failure of morality and humanity and you are not just a bystander but a culpable participant in one of the most violent attempts at eugenics of our time.

Swalwell is running for Governor of CA and better have a very, very good personal emergency reason for skipping this vote, because anything less than a family crisis is inexcusable

'Tis the season for Drew Magary's Hater's Guide to the Williams-Sonoma catalog: defector.com/the-2025-hat...

Interested in getting Vicente Gonzalez out of office? He has one primary opponent: Etienne Rosas. If Gonzalez wins the primary, the Green Party is running Eddie Espinoza.

Interested in getting Henry Cuellar out of office? He has two primary opponents: Andrew Vantine & Ricardo Villarreal. If Cuellar wins the primary, the Green Party is running Marlon Duran. Campaign sites are in the alt text.

Once again, I dare the vote blue no matter who crowd to defend these vile people and their fascistic votes. At the barest minimum, have the decency to no longer cosplay as caring & empathetic people.

As I wrote today: www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...

For my newsletter, I wrote about how the Democratic Party "Big Tent" fell in on trans kids yesterday. www.burnsnotice.com/the-big-tent...

“Here’s our North Star: Does this help us win?” Well, it might, but that would come at the expense of some members of the party's elite, so.

every single person who has ever opposed any element of trans rights - from the Republican fash who want us completely annihilated to the Democratic-voting men and women who think there are "legitimate questions" about trans people in sports - have our blood on their hands. I will never forget.

This is the second day in a row where I've randomly looked into the live feed of the US House only to be treated to an enlarged picture of gore presented by a Republican congressman. Real rad that doing that doesn't break any rules of decorum.

Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf

Another disaster. This one has actual harmful consequences for trans kids and their families.

Today the main vote to watch out for is HR 498. After yesterday's vote for HR 3492, its safe to assume there are 3 safe Democratic votes for this bill as well. Also, due to it not elevating youth trans healthcare to a felony like 3492, it can be advertised as the 'rEasOnaBle' option.

Trump has called for at least three of these senators to be thrown in prison. And they’re still voting for his agenda.

Every trans person and ally must boycott voting not only for these three Democrats, but any other House Democrats from the states (Texas, North Carolina) who don't condemn and disavow Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis for this sickening betrayal. There is no space in the tent for genocidal policies.

Call @repmarktakano.bsky.social office tomorrow and ask his staffer why he, as the chair of this caucus, refused to denounce Cuellar, Gonzalez and Davis of NC's YES votes. We cannot let him get away with this cowardly shit. Here is the link to his numbers takano.house.gov/contact

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

Incandescent and logging off for a bit. Truly, vote blue no matter who sorts, I dare you to defend Cuellar, Davis, and Gonzalez's votes. Tell me how they had to do this. Show me the calculus that makes it make sense. At bare minimum, state your case so your hollow cowardice is in the public record.

I feel like I've said this a million times by now, but if you hate Henry Cuellar, I promise you hate Don Davis just as much but just don't know it yet.

The House just started their vote for HR 3492, Marjorie Taylor Greene's exceedingly vile anti-trans bill. A motion to recommit (table the bill) is up and is set for a strict 5 minute vote. The motion fails on a party line vote.

In latest tweet, Bovino thanking Evanston PD and Chicago PD today for “providing assistance” in their raids today.

The House discussions have started hours earlier than normal.

the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...

Based on this last week of voting, at minimum there are 15 Democratic Senators who have no interest whatsoever in doing everything they can to stop fascism. I'm not posting this to be depressing, but to state the sober reality of how much work is being abdicated to us to fight fascism.

Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”

meanwhile, the US attorney general also wants to categorize trans equality activists as belonging to “designated terrorist organizations”. a leaked Justice Department memo from December 9th added “radical gender ideology” as part of its definition of “domestic terrorism”.

Confirmation vote for Jared Isaacman just began. Not expecting any changes in vote amongst the 16 members of the Dem Caucus that voted yea for cloture.

Roll call is in! Voting yea for Musk ally Jared Isaacman is: Tammy Baldwin (WI), Maria Cantwell (WA), Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Maggie Hassan (NH), Martin Heinrich (NM), Tim Kaine (VA), Mark Kelly (AZ), Andy Kim (NJ), Angus King (I-ME) ->

Currently watching CBP agents intimidate Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss in a Home Depot parking lot.

Musk ally Jared Isaacman passes cloture 67--30 to be head of NASA. Based on absences from the S 1071 vote, around 16 members of the Dem caucus voted yea for him.

The Senate is onto the cloture vote for Musk ally Jared Isaacman to be the head of NASA. Currently, the vote sits 49-18. It's possible that a ton of Republicans voted early, but these do not look like party line numbers.

And S 1071 passes 77-20. Will wait for the roll call to update, but it seems the same 28 Dems that voted yea for the motion to proceed and cloture did not change their votes.

We're into the final scheduled voting days before Congress goes home for Christmas. As such, he next two days are very busy with votes. For the Senate, the first thing on the docket is concurring on S 1071. Based on past votes, it is set to pass with the support of 28 Democratic Senators.