lauriewainberg.bsky.social
democracy, media and anthropomorphizing cats
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...did not have majority support AND it was getting harder to obfuscate GOP agenda (e.g. working/middle classes weren't buying "trickle-down economics") AND demographic trends favored Democrats
2. No negative consequences from w/in the party for candidates and electeds lying excessively
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A working theory:
GOP electorate / electeds skew psychologically dogmatic.
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Ongoing dialectical relationship between:
1. GOP recognition that it was getting harder to win the presidency b/c its agenda (econ policies benefit wealthy / corps. + no safety net + social conservatism / bigotry)...
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You are the ruling body of the most powerful country in the world and oldest democracy of the modern era. Nearly 330 million human beings are directly impacted by your work. It is the duty of the body to ensure that every member can vigorously and effectively do their job.
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How about fighting tirelessly for the only remedy available for arresting the destruction of the institutions of government, as well as democracy itself: impeachment and removal. Remember when you took an oath to defend the Constitution, not to DCbrained consultants who lost you everything?
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Some of us could (especially after his arguably democidal handling of COVID) but we were told we were being hyperbolic or we had trump derangement syndrome or that it’s only fascism if it comes from Europe otherwise it’s just sparkling right wing politics.
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What are you doing about it? If you're not for impeachment, the Constitution is not your lane.
We are so exhausted, exasperated, demoralized and done with nearly all of you.
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@ericlipton.nytimes.com The Supreme Court made it impossible to convict Trump on four criminal counts related to his months-long, multipronged attempted self-coup. Does that mean that he didn't attempt a months-long, multipronged self-coup?
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Please stop calling what's happening a "Constitutional Crisis". It's a POLITICAL crisis. There's a remedy for what's happening: impeachment and removal. There's a branch of government empowered to do that. It's a political problem that Republicans won't honor their oath to defend the Constitution.
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This is Vance telling the political class that @washingtonpost is now the regime's Völkischer Beobachter. It's his victory lap.
Vance today:
"By building a level playing field for American industry, this administration is once again making America the economic envy of the world."
October 2024:
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I can't believe I'm going to try to give the Techdirt guy a tech tip, but this was life changing for me:
Auto Tab Discard + Tree Tabs (Firefox)
ATD puts tabs to sleep. W/ TT, you can group & search in a vertical sidebar and, w/ one click, export the session. Import loads it all back super fast.
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lol
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That is some high production value. It took a significant amount of time and $ to produce it.
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This isn't complicated. "If they can do it to him, they can do it to you." That's the message. Say it at town halls. Go on Fox. Go on Rogan. Talk to Portnoy. Show the videos. Call it what it is: kidnapping. Tin pot dictator stuff. Democrats have agency: CHANGE THE FRAME.
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Not an analysis/comparative, but there are at least a couple of project 2025 trackers:
Progressive Reform has a running spreadsheet and someone on patreon has created a web tracker.
(Can't understand why Dems dropped this after election) )
www.project2025.observer
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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@cajsa.bsky.social has kept a running list for years:
Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers Pt. 55
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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4. What's new?
Unlike the oligarchs of old, broligarchs aren't just looking for tax cuts and lighter regulations; they largely solved those problems.
Broligarchs have a global political vision, and it’s set on a collision course with American democracy and American leadership on the world stage.
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What’s up with the “independent”? Seems like he was manufactured in a lab to split the Dem vote…
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"If..the most powerful person in the world..could go into office knowing..there would be no potential penalty for committing crimes, I'm trying to understand what the disincentive is from turning the Oval Office into..the seat of criminal activity in this country". -KBJ, oral argument, Trump v U.S.
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Has there been any research re: who has time to listen to podcasts and why?
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I actually l’ed ol, thanks
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When you trade a cloture vote for an opportunity to vote on something you know won't pass, you are nothing more than a rubber stamp for Trump and Vought's extreme agenda. The American people deserve better. We see what you are doing. It is bad faith, cowardly and gravely inadequate.
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Wesleyan's president, Michael Roth, stands out and puts the rest to shame.
A college president offers a class in standing up to Trump
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Say Something
For heads of institutions, it’s all too tempting to do what’s easy.
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FYI: it doesn’t matter who members bring as a guests. Nobody will even know they are there, let alone hear from them. This should go without saying, but here we are. Democrats have several hours to get unified around a better plan. Please.
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FYI: it doesn’t matter who members bring as a guests. Nobody will even know they are there, let alone hear from them. This should go without saying, but here we are. Democrats have several hours to get unified around a better plan. Please.
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FYI: it doesn’t matter who members bring as a guests. Nobody will even know they are there, let alone hear from them. This should go without saying, but here we are. Democrats have several hours to get unified around a better plan. Please.
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FYI: it doesn’t matter who members bring as a guests. Nobody will even know they are there, let alone hear from them. This should go without saying, but here we are. Democrats have several hours to get unified around a better plan. Please.
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FYI: it doesn’t matter who members bring as a guests. Nobody will even know they are there, let alone hear from them. This should go without saying, but here we are. Democrats have several hours to get unified around a better plan. Please.
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FYI: it doesn’t matter who members bring as a guests. Nobody will even know they are there, let alone hear from them. This should go without saying, but here we are. Democrats have several hours to get unified around a better plan. Please.
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FYI: it doesn’t matter who members bring as a guests. Nobody will even know they are there, let alone hear from them. This should go without saying, but here we are. Democrats have several hours to get unified around a better plan. Please.
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FYI: it doesn’t matter who members bring as a guests. Nobody will even know they are there, let alone hear from them. This should go without saying, but here we are. You have several hours to get unified around a better plan. Please.
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FYI: it doesn’t matter who members bring as a guests. Nobody will even know they are there, let alone hear from them. This should go without saying, but here we are. You have several hours to get unified around a better plan. Please.
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FYI: it doesn’t matter who members bring as a guests. Nobody will even know they are there, let alone hear from them. This should go without saying, but here we are. You have several hours to get unified around a better plan. Please.
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FYI: it doesn’t matter who members bring as a guests. Nobody will even know they are there, let alone hear from them. This should go without saying, but here we are. You have several hours to get unified around a better plan. Please.
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...Congress starting to tell the truth, and we need to figure out how to make them do it, and quickly.
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...the Republic from him was for a critical mass of them to tell the truth about his lies. But at every critical juncture, they chose power instead.
I don't know if or how we make our way out of this, but I'm quite certain that there's not a way back without a critical mass of Republicans in...
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..the fringes were able to use to lure in, maintain and grow their audiences.
Trump was always a corrupt and shameless liar, and the vast majority of Republicans in Congress and national party leaders knew it in 2017. They knew he was dangerous, and the bare minimum that was needed to protect...
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...accept and repeat those lies, day after day, year after year: from the Oval Office, in the WH briefing room, in front of the Capitol, on the House and Senate floors, at town halls, on TV, and even in court.
That's how we got here. That is the raw material that the liars and grifters on...
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...but never has a POTUS / POTUS candidate lied so blatantly, repeatedly and directly to the public about easily falsifiable things, both mundane and highly consequential, and even criminal and deadly, and had roughly half of Congress, and the leadership of one of the two major political parties,...