Mind you, I’m all for taxing the rich. I just don’t think this is a good way to do it. It’s like hunting deer. Blowing up deer with a grenade launcher is a great way to dunk on the vegans. It’s not a great way to get deer meat.

Candidate for Congress reposting openly Georgist account 👀

the bio-mysticism of the völkisch movement, a conception of the national body as a literal biological organism engaged in evolutionary struggle with other nation-bodies and with parasites, is wildly different than the structural justifications of 'natural order' underpinning American white supremacy

Howdy, neighbor! Scott Brown, right next door here

Why do people keep acting like being a Pats fan is MAGA coded Have any of them ever looked at an election map of New England

My not-actually-brother-in-Christ, you have described a parliamentary democracy, which you are not! What is Keir Starmer but Charles III’s “advisor”, chosen by the will of the people? Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.

I asked them how their economy would get by if clean energy made oil obsolete, and the speaker basically talked around the question. My friend went for the jugular, and asked why they’re not a democracy. The speaker confabulated some nonsense about the king’s advisors listening to the people.

In high school, I took a weeklong field trip to DC, and one of the events was a visit to the Saudi embassy, where we had a Q&A with a high ranking diplomat. Little trolls that we were, my friend and I decided to ask them highly embarrassing questions.

my hot take is that all of the founding fathers would be less shocked by black people and women getting to vote than they would be by a majority-Catholic SCOTUS that regularly determines national policy. they would think we had been conquered by Spain

Karoline Leavitt is the female version of the worst person you ever met at college. Source: my sister-in-law’s best friend was her RA in college. She literally was that.

the question of the levant is very....complicated

As a Christian and a left-of-center liberal, I have a dual sense for “you are using in-group jargon, nobody normal talks like this”

Saying “you look like a Zionist” is just calling someone a Jew, as an insult

I never understood the idolization of Malcolm X. What did he actually achieve? He spent most of his career saying white people were literally the devil, and as soon as he reneged on that, his own former coreligionists branded him an apostate and murdered him.

Markey is a doddering old fool. I met him on a high school field trip in March 2017, when Republicans were gearing up to repeal Obamacare. I asked him why he opposed Paul Ryan’s American Healthcare Act. He didn’t recognize the name of the bill.

Please please please let Trump polarize boomer libs against NIMBYism like he polarized anti-corporate types against protectionism

Worth noting here that two of the Senators who caved on the ACA shutdown - Kaine and King - explicitly cited fears that Republicans would nuke the filibuster as part of their reasoning for caving. Not clear at all that Republicans can get to 50+1 on that with most of the government functioning.

The judgement of God upon latter day Sodom?

I don't actually know how Congress works

the Baileys are apparently on your side

Pretty much the best conceivable scenario for Democrats in 2029 is a smaller Senate majority than Obama had for half of his Presidency.

Is this the most openly racist administration since Andrew Johnson, and the most openly racist administration capable of implementing its policies since Buchanan? Cleveland allowed Jim Crow to form and Wilson segregated the federal government, but generally the hate and the violence came from below.

Did the good numbers even buy interest rates dinner first

Speech and debate clause undefeated

To prevent riots or to arrest federal officers?

Greece and Turkey are rooting for us to annex Greenland so that they won’t “win” the “first NATO-on-NATO war” award

I don't have a broader point here but it's just kind of surreal, it's like reality is glitching

Maduro is not a Putin or a Chavez. (Or a Trump, for that matter.) He's not some machiavellian genius or charismatic autocrat at the center of a personalistic regime. He's a former bus driver who inherited a consolidated autocracy built by Chavez. He's a front man for a mafia state.

The year is 2035. Massachusetts is the only livable state in America, but home prices in the Murdersville neighborhood of Fall River have increased to one William dollars. The legislature passes a law to allow five new homes to be built. They are January 6thed by every senior in the state.

“And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Washington as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Washington.”

Isn’t all this talk about the courts and SNAP just kicking the can down the road? Even if Trump has to use all the emergency funding, THAT will run dry in less than a month

That none of the Senators who caved are up next year doesn’t prove that the whole caucus secretly conspired to get this outcome and foist it on those who could not be held accountable. (Democrats are not known for their secret conspiracy abilities.) It proves that no one disciplined by facing…

Reminder: the vast majority of elected Dems held strong. We can throw the bums who didn’t out.

I mean Dems have the luxury of their votes not mattering there, right? Republicans can jam through a party line vote with no filibuster.

Most of the party did their job! It’s one guy in the House and nine in the senate who need a booting hard enough to turn their behind into a crater.

Probably saved four Senate seats and a dozen or more House seats, while avoiding the embarrassment of a 55-41 blowout where Trump flips New Jersey

I called Markey and Warren to thank them for being no and to demand that they remove Schumer if he doesn’t walk this back. I then called Schumer to inform him that I had done this.

My nana is on Medicare, my mother-in-law-to-be is on Medicaid. I know we’re headed for some major pain if there’s a shutdown. But I think we’re headed for a crisis regardless. Whether it’s a shutdown in 2027 when Dems control the House, or the government screeching to a halt because millions…

I support blocking the CR. I think it's the better move. I am not at all confident of that. Reasonable people can disagree. I am confident that a leader shouldn't come out supporting it *after* a majority of his caucus declared against it.

left/accommodate in the broader political sphere are leftists who said voting didn’t matter in 2024, there won’t be elections in the future anyway, etc. and more or less define themselves in opposition to the party.

That’s a strong assertion with no proof. Things could easily go the other way, getting even worse for Republicans - like literally every shutdown in history prior to this point, including the one when Trump was President.

I’m not convinced the “Dems are secretly caving” thing was ever true. Dems pretty much never lose budget battles.

Can’t. Samus is a girl, and that’s DEI.

I feel like everyone should be more skeptical about some guy I’ve never heard of making a claim about the Senate

Henry George mentioned!

Figured as much because the House is easier to whip than the Senate, but Seth Moulton’s Salem office just said that they believe he’s a NO on the CR, although they need to double check

If a Democratic administration seriously pushes YIMBYism at the national level, will polarization improve the standing of YIMBYs among Dems at the local and state level like we’ve seen with tariffs, or will the suburbs shift catastrophically right to numbers not seen since HW?

I know a woman who said in one day -It’s a shame Biden had to leave the race -Harris can’t win, she’s a woman -She could vote for Vance at the top of the ticket (fortunately she knows he’s gone over to the dark side now) -She can’t believe that guy missed

Ngl sometimes when people are all “do something!!!” and no proposed course of action satisfies them, I suspect they want an unprintable solution