This has to be a non-starter for senate dems. has to be.

Struggled organizing my thoughts for this one. It's been a long work week trying to make up for the money spent and time off for Thanksgiving. Also I had like three different posts I wanted to write

even congress becomes an agent of the president, as its ability to exercise authority over the executive branch becomes a function of the executive’s willingness to be held accountable.

a thought about trump v. slaughter. it is largely unspoken, but the assertion that there is an unlimited presidential removal power and that independent agencies functionally cannot exist is an assertion of presidential sovereignty.

What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?

11YO: 8YO sat on my face! 8YO: He said my butt stinks. 11YO: Smells better than the rest of your body. Me (outside): Buddy you can’t say stuff like that. Me (inside): Holy shit an *immaculate* burn.

Gramps here, lecturing leftists who say the Dems can't change that in 56 it was aligned with Southern segregationists (who got the VP noms), but by 64 with MLK, because of successful social movement organizing. Take the party over, leftists. Else you're not actually involved in US politics.

I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.

Rage posting like this is exactly why so many people on the left stay mad at Democrats. CA just passed Prop 50 to offset what TX is doing. VA is on deck to follow our lead. For the love of gawd...USE THE DAMN GOOGLE AND STOP BASHING DEMS! It's voter suppression.

Democrats get labeled as obsessed with trans people yet Republicans spent their time during the shutdown doing this.

Virginia ABC needs to stop! 🤣

Anyway, if you're surprised at all about the SCOTUS decision, remember - Bush v Gore chose the president on such nakedly partisan grounds they put in the opinion that it couldn't be used as future precedent - Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito & Barrett all served on W's election legal team

According to this Supreme Court: ❌ Using race conscious admissions in college to give minorities a fair shot ✅ Using race to profile people on the street to detain for immigration sweeps ✅ Using race to disenfranchise minorities in elecciones The only consistency is white supremacy.

Trans people suffer the most violence in prison. PREA was never enough but it’s just disgusting to roll it back.

If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.

Even if she doesn’t win? Everything is up for grabs . EVERYTHING . If someone tells you we should run from diversity cuss em out. They say women’s rights are too iffy? Cuss harder They say “trans rights are a problem” cuss harder still

Reactionary centrists are getting everything they wanted out of the UK's Labour party, a purge of trans people from society, a crackdown on immigration, austerity measures on social safety net programs. It's only made Reform more popular and decimated Labour's support.

This is useful

This this this

Take a moment to watch performance artist Guillaume Juncar. You won’t regret it.

conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.

What do people think the 90s were

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored? Started. Going.

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

For Thanksgiving I made: Deviled Eggs Layered Salad Turkey Cranberry sauce Gravy Spiral Ham Stuffing Scalloped Pineapple Green bean casserole Mashed potatoes Creamed pearl onions Glazed squash casserole Macaroni and cheese Sweet potato gratin Dinner rolls French butter Mincemeat pie

you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked

So went from “Canadian Bacon” to “uncle buck” and 30 something years later the only actor who’s character I’ve love in every role is John Candy. More so the actor—he had that quality—looking forward to “Trains,Planes&Automobiles” for T-day

I think I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving leftovers more than Thanksgiving dinner

My dark sense of humor has me laughing hysterically thinking of all the ruined Thanksgiving dishes this might cause 😂😂😂 methinks AI is a bubble.

can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport

To strike an optimistic note, the shock of the rapid & incredible first 6 months- really the first 6 weeks- of the Trump administration has worn off & the worst fears of Trump consolidating power have been thwarted. We're more likely than ever to be able to (re)build democratic institutions

Hopefully less typos in the post than last time. Some quick thoughts of the Trump/Mamdani meeting, "leftists," MTG, and new coalitions. And the main thing I'm excited about: my first totally from scratch mincemeat (fruit not meat) pie!

My finest work:

"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..." www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

The Nazis are running the United States. Be afraid, very afraid. There is no courage without fear. Now take that fear and make action to stop this! www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

I saw somebody comment earlier that Vance will be a less dangerous President and I don't agree. Trump is dangerous because he is erratic and unpredictable in his actions and reactions. Vance is an ideologue and actually believes some of the things he says. That is truly dangerous.

I want to hear about RFK jr.’s sexual acts even less than I wanted to hear about Bill Clinton’s in the 1990’s. 🤢

In 2020, the Virginia General Assembly passed my resolution HJ 85 to recognize Nov. 20 of each year as Transgender Day of Remembrance to memorialize those who died for daring to simply exist. Some years are especially hurtful and *so* painful — and yet our resilience remains. It always has. #TDOR

😂😂😂 Methinks this AI bubble is gonna pop soon.

the first trans member of congress got nearly the entire house democratic caucus to sign onto a letter saying misgendering trans people is not only wrong but violates the rules of that chamber of congress you don’t see that happen in most countries tbh

This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud

Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.

Yeah. What Emma Thompson said.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

I bet somebody could make a killing by making a new version of Geocities right now. Like something pretending to be a Social Media site, but where you customize a homepage and put whatever you want up on it. Just, like, reinvent the original web within the context of the current web.

It was the first election I voted in, and that was a common attitude--so many people were just like, "I don't know." Neither choice excited people and no one could imagine America going off the rails. (I voted for Gore because it seemed obvious to me that Bush wanted to go to war with Iraq.)

probably should have realized this would be a magnet for nader dead-ender obnoxious dipshits, but i am always surprised when they turn up loud and unashamed 25 years later