Me remembering a senior politician condescendingly telling me that they needed oil and gas at COP because otherwise it was impossible to transition.

Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it. We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

On the blog: In approving Trump's transphobic policy of listing sex assigned at birth on passports, SCOTUS said govt was "merely attesting to a historical fact," thus echoing the obtuseness of Plessy v Ferguson's statement that Black folks were only choosing to see segregation as white supremacy. 👇

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Shaheen is not even running for reelection and gets full health coverage from her Senate position.

The arrogance of a Senator who is not even running again to take the lead in undermining the Caucus and the voters.

I guess what I mean is virtually no one who says this from a Western POV would be happy with any of their little vassal regimes in Amman, or Riyadh, or Doha, or god forbid the most important of Cairo suddenly became receptive to the democratic whims of their populace regarding Palestine.

Cut the rot out, cauterize the wounds, and then we can finally be a healthy party. Everyone of those not willing to fight for Democracy must be pushed through the door and never be listened to again. They had their shot for decades and it led us here, there are no fourth chances.

We desperately need to purge the weaklings and losers that proliferate the Democratic Party not only in Congress, but in nonprofits and other Dem-aligned orgs. We are a movement of cowards and people afraid of their own shadow.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

One party is trying to set up a theocracy in the United States. While the other party is led by fossils who think it is 1978 and their Republican Senate colleagues are their friends.

Okay this is kinda hilarious. 🤣

This country cannot have moderates as leading the only major opposition to a fascist political party built on white supremacy and grievance, religious bigotry, and entrenched wealth. We need to rebalance our discourse; pull it back from the far-right brink.

Say it with me: Tea Party of the Left That is what this moment calls for: A loud, uncompromising, ideological faction that exists solely as opposition to the other side and pushes their own side toward hardline policy positions.

My statement on the proposed Senate deal

Considering the Amount of Oil and Gas Lobbyists at COP30, it would probably be more productive for the climate to drone strike COP30.

The most Democrat consultant-brained piece of this was making it a procedural fight about ACA subsidies — that, if extended for a year, would help the GOP in the 2026 midterms anyway — instead of making it stand against Trump’s lawlessness and corruption. But that would require believing in things.

Too many people boldly claim knowledge on something which makes them appear like an expert. When they know fucking nothing. Which results in people assuming they are an expert and following their lead. This behavior constantly cripples my political party from action.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Call me radical but the party of FDR shouldn’t also be the party of Pétain. There is in fact a tent that is too big and too broad.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

Feel like at this point the best way to make the “both sides aren’t the same” argument is to point out that the Republicans are a well organized political party that is capable of taking decisive action in the pursuit of their goals…

Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.

Cull the Democratic Party. Systematically chip away all the weak, corporate centrists and corrupt, gutless elected officials who refuse to fight and instead suck at the teat of the oligarchy.

What do you call people who assisted in the rise of the Nazi party, despite not being members or believers in the Nazi cause? Often from your own side? Wonder what we did with such people. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

Much like 2024, Democrats seem to think there’s a binary choice in the 2026 election between voting for Republicans (evil) and voting for Democrats (feckless). They rarely acknowledge the third option which inevitably harms them the most: staying home.

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

People, this is the actions of a man who plans to never leave office. Now both the Rioters and the Operational Leaders of January 6th have been pardoned.

Any coherence imposed on Trump’s often self-contradictory approach is largely an artificial construct. Even the label Trump has adopted—“America First”—was suggested to him in 2016 by David Sanger; Trump didn’t think of it on his own and he certainly has not faithfully adhered to it. wapo.st/49bKyew

If Trump and MAGA can attack the BBC and win, do you think your public broadcaster will do better? Every time MAGA attacks and people like Prime Minister Starmer fold to Trump it empowers him to push further. Just like Putin, just like Trump.

If your supreme victory is getting Trump to follow the law, you have merely achieved Trump not continuing to commit one crime of many happening hourly. The cost? Your credibility and the healthcare of tens of millions.

One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law! That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Any Democratic senator, at any moment, could've derailed this by calling for Schumer's replacement and casting their colleagues as MAGA collaborators, thereby shifting the Overton window. But they're all in on it. This was always a team effort.

Primary every Senate Democrat, as a matter of course. They all collectively are responsible for their caucus members and if they don’t want to be then they can strip their committee assignments and remove the quislings from leadership.

LESS. THAN. A. WEEK. Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop. I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

Primary them all, not just the ones overtly doing the horrible things. The establishment has completely abandoned the American people. And that happened a long time ago, this is just the latest gross example.

Once they were in the shutdown though they could have made it about anything. Put clips of ICE abducting children on endless loop and say “do we keep funding a govt that does *that*?” Then you might get federal workers clamoring not for concessions but a strike. Again, requires believing in things.

"We don’t need a mass movement. We just need enough people who are willing to step up, change the narrative, and help to create the opposition party we so desperately need." (from March) www.liberalcurrents.com/its-time-for...

thank you @danielharper.bsky.social for sitting down with us for an entire morning and talking through the complete shitshow that was the carlson/fuentes bro fest

Critically this is why randos you fall in love with are dangerous and why Political Cadres are important to weed out people like Fetterman. There is a reason Zohran rose out of NYC-DSA successfully, because they already knew he wasn’t a fuck up from years of working together.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

These are millionaire politicians telling you this, King has 20 million dollars. He won’t feel any healthcare premium rise, he gets universal healthcare from his Senate job.

In a parliamentary system, esp Aus, these people would’ve been thrown from the ALP caucus and party before the press conference ended

ABC discovered the concept of Human Aging today. Truly incredible stuff happening under CEO Strapqueen

Linear times continues to baffle top journalistic experts

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