Both CA Senators voted to criminalize it even though weed is legal in CA. Cool!

It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing. We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.

Every Democratic claim that some future event will turn the tide just sounds like Calvin reasoning that if he goes 2 hours into the future, he can get his completed assignment without having to do it.

What’s the victory going to be here? The prez & speaker both precisely said in 4K they’re gonna kill ACA now you have zero leverage. Your leadership gave up the one chance you had to back the people on not just this but ICE raids, dissolution of the Constitution, & targeting of political opponents.

This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.

Democrats with no leverage: Give in to GOP Democrats with all the leverage, social mandate, moral authority, clear achievable win in sight: Give in to GOP

I'm seeing people defend Schumer and all I can think of is that BUFFY quote about "That's the kind of wooly-headed liberal thinking that leads to getting eaten."

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*defending politicians with a long track record of losing political battles* "you don’t understand, these guys are good at politics"

The most feckless members of your caucus can’t hide behind this after betraying everyone who stuck their necks out. You want us to unify? Sacrifice your weakest. Throw Schumer and Durbin to the wolves in the name of unity and we can talk.

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

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I am so eager for a generation of Democratic politicians who have no institutional memory of what Republicans were like before Bush. Give me the ones who call Cheney "Darth Vader" thanks to The Daily Show, who saw their old relatives stand with a man who said "grab them by the pussy."

will some billionaire do us the public service of gifting this asshole a private post climate apocalypse sex bunker, or a seat on the space ark, or whatever it is that’s keeping his leaden ass on the grift so that he finally gets out of the way?

THIS is how I find out that ALL'S FAIR was co-created by the guy who's West Wing was "shot almost word for word?" This is what happens when Kevin Biegel doesn't come over to Bluesky, our cultural history of WGA-related in-jokes dies. deadline.com/2019/04/jon-...

it's funny that Trump is the only guy who can take a cave and make it into a even Greater L

Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent. Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado. One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.

Chuck Schumer is nothing more than a human strongly worded letter, and he must go. Say it loud.

This is exactly correct.

I’ve said this b4, but here’s a little inside baseball from a former Republican: Back in my GOP days, we Republicans would privately laugh at how Democrats would never go to the mat to win. We always knew Democrats wouldn’t fight to the death politically. Last night proved Republicans right again.

My God, what a horrible, pitiful, defeatist, tone deaf, and just plain…WRONG thing to say. Retire now @SenAngusKing if that’s how you feel. Retire now and put someone else in your place who will stand up to the fascist in the White House.

And further, the Senate Dems now own the shutdown. They essentially take responsibility for it and away from the GOP. They gave everything and got nothing and we all get kicked in the teeth.

These are the people who forged Electoral College vote certificates and tried to pass them off as real, right in front of the whole country. Maybe the most insane crime of them all.

If you have experience, usually they'll want to see an example of your coverage. Most of the time I had to do "audition coverage," which was that they'd give you a script and ask you to cover that. Every now and then I suspected this was just a way for them to get free coverage.

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I read scripts professionally for about 10 years... do you want to know HOW MANY insane descriptions of boobs I read in that time? honestly, I'd have welcomed more foot description just for variety.

There’s also quite a gulf between “doesn’t spell everything right” and “riddled”

YES. And it was always depressing to point this out to people and have them respond with some version of "Tarantino doesn't spell everything right!" Bitch, if you were Tarantino, your script would be on my boss's pile and not mine. In that stack, you get no benefits of the doubt.

Chuck Schumer never met a moment he didn’t meet.

7. Jeff Merkley. He's fine. Leave him. 8. Jon Ossoff. Do not like that he was involved behind the scenes! Biggest risk by far in terms of losing a seat if primaried, though. 9. Gary Peters. Retiring. Ugh. 10. Jack Reed. Do you ever hear Jack Reed's name? No? Me neither. Could be worse.

4. John Hickenlooper. Squishy moderate from what is now a very blue state (CO). May have been involved behind the scenes. Primary. 5. Ben Ray Lujan. Usually pretty good, actually, I'd leave him alone. 6. Ed Markey. Generally a good Senator but too old. Please do not replace with Seth Moulton.

2. Chris Coons. This guy sucks! This guy has always sucked! Wanted to go home for valentine's day rather than call witnesses after J6. Delaware is incredibly safe and deserves better. Easy primary. 3. Dick Durbin. Retiring. Still want to primary him just out of general principle.

okay, so, with Dems successfully keeping anyone up in 2026 for voting for this turd let's take a look at who's up in 2026 anyway: 1. Cory Booker - apparently involved behind the scenes, constantly looking for bipartisanship. I don't dislike him personally but he doesn't have what we need. Primary.

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

I did not see a single ad or trailer for this. Did they do any advertising for this?

I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵

For the record, Tim Kaine was a feckless loser as a VP candidate, and now an abject coward as a senator. Emblematic of the do-nothing gerontocracy of the Democratic Party. No money for them til they get rid of all of the 8 AND leadership.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

This looks awfully intentional.

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

When the WGA and SAG/AFTRA are holding the line but the DGA swoops in and messes it up for everybody. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...

Absolutely meaningless. He has the power to stop this. He can let the Democrats who are caving know there will be serious consequences if they go ahead with this. Threaten to kick them off committees. Whatever it takes. He can stop this and is choosing not to.

They caved. Senate Democrats caved. Their voters demanded just one very simple thing: FIGHT. Dammit, just FIGHT. Instead, they caved.

my bar for Jeffries is pretty low so I think this means something

he’s lost the people who go out of their way to attend the SALUTE TO SERVICE game

Exactly this — caving for nothing makes all that pain for nothing. Further, them caving lends credence to this being just some political scrum when it’s actually much more fundamental than that! Call those senators, please.

2/ The Senators who want to vote yes on basically any terms appear to be shaheen, Hassan, king and Fetterman. Slightly less clear but I think pushing that way are Peters and Durbin. You’ll note that four of these six are retiring. Others who seem on the fence include the two sens from Georgia and …