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Today, the only people in Washington DC more cowardly than Congressional Democrats, are the journalists assigned to cover the White House.
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This is a really crude choice for a program.
There isn't five percent of your audience that wants to hear from Jake Tapper or his ghost writer right now.
With such a small audience; you really can't argue that you're trying to hit a middle ground -- there is no "middle" here.
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Newsom is quickly destroying his brand.
He's not going to get that five percent of Republicans and ten percent of independents he's angling to land; but he needs those 55% Progressive Democrats, if he's going to make a play for the Presidential nomination.
He's lost them all so far.
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... so to emphasize; a President can not unilaterally impose a tariff on anything, from anywhere. He has to negotiate. There has to be an agreement.
Why did it take so damned LONG for the Courts to react? There should have been an injunction the morning after Trump's first temper tantrum.
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The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 was a big failure. Congress realized that they were not politically able to manage the Tarriff process, and in 1932, they delegated the job to the President, but limited his power. He could negotiate, but could impose a tariff only after an agreement was reached.
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The alt weekly idea is a mic drop.
If every university Journalism Dept. threw ten good reporters at this, they'd change domestic media immediately.
Progressives are NOT the ones crying for more Joe Rogans. You're thinking of the Rahm Emanuel Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.
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We don't need a news report from Senator Klobuchar.
We need her to propose a practical solution.
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The trade school system is not robust enough to offer anything approaching a practical alternative. ... so forget it.
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Trump is a Russian agent. Putin is cutting his legs out from under him, because he can. You need to recognize this if you really want to be President, Chris.
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The Democratic Party does not, in fact, stand for anything.
They've worked hard to wash issues out of their campaigns for 40 years, and we all are paying for it.
To win elections, define seven or eight or nine issues and propose solutions and explain why your proposals are best. Rinse; repeat.
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If Trump takes ten years to deport eleven million immigrants; he'd have to deport TWENTY TWO THOUSAND immigrants every WEEK. He would need a good five THOUSAND concentration camps around the US, and five to seven thousand flights (mostly to South America) a week.
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Some of us would melt; some of us would not melt.
I think the nature of the contact would depend upon what kind of contact it was; with whom, and what we thought their intentions were. Within a week or a month, we'd all be used to whatever had changed or not changed in our lives.
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Mitt Romney reported the same thing several years ago.
I think Republicans are just using those threats as an excuse to take the politically easiest path forward. They would have had to pay for a 'no' vote regardless.
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The Suburbs are not where the centrist/conservative Dems live. Suburbanites are just as Progressive as any other corner of the Democratic universe. In fact, suburbanites are the reason why there is a progressive resurgence across America.
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1) We have trade schools, but their instruction is often out of date and many parts of the country are not served well.
2) Our trade schools are not networked with each other, or with the industries they serve.
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Putin can't stop fighting until the Chinese let him. When he stops fighting; he risks being overthrown.
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... I'll bet you a shiny new nickel that they DIDN'T arrest their employer for hiring them
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After six months, blusky FINALLY started showing me responses to your posts yesterday. I'm still not happy with them.
The NY Times is in serious trouble with their subscriber base. I think they'll come unravelled over the next couple of years.
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America didn't want him.
Harris lost because 1) about 14% of the 2020 Democratic turnout didn't come back to the polls in 2024, 2) Red States disenfranchised between four million and eight million voters (mostly dems) between 2020 and 2024, and 3) Dems were asleep at the switch.
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Very poor article. No details at all. Just handwringing.
Invite men to come and help reform the Democratic Party. They'll come running for that.
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I know three things: First, no real investigation ever took place. Second; Garland took 18 months to hand down the first indictment. Third; Trump never went to Court. This shows me that something pretty rotten has happened, and that Garland and Biden are at the center of this horrendous misfire.
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... a 20-something that thinks he looks cool in a fedora.
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... the answer is yes. If he were white, he also would have been interrupted. That's the way the fascists roll.
Stop making this racist. It cheapens real racism and makes you sound despirate.
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... I'm finally reading R's "prequil" now. Next, I think I'll read 'Apple in China."
I think other hosts mean well but are "company women," who take direction from their producers and listen much too closely to their company-selected guests. That's just the way it's going to be on MSNBC.
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Part of Pramila's ability as an administrator (mandatory skill in the House leadership) is that she's also outspoken and articulate when she needs to be. for now, I think I'd vote for Pramila over AOC or Ro Khanna or Mark Pocan.
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I think AOC is probably a better administrator than most of us realize, but we probably need her on the front lines more than we need her trapped in Congress right now.
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I think if the GOP lost around 40 seats, it would elect enough Progressives to clear out the Democratic leadership and put a Progressive in the House Speaker's seat -- someone like Pramila Jayapal.
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Klobuchar is very, very, VERY late to the party and she didn't bring any beer.
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Gallego is a big disappointment to me.
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AF-1 has lots of security measures built into the plane.
Will this embarrassing piece of krap have those security measures as well, or is Trump just rawdogging it?
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Biden should have arranged for civil service employees to have done this by last Thanksgiving.
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... to watch Rachel or not to watch Rachel on this inauguration day.
(sigh) Not.
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joni ernst announced for confirmation, so it's almost over.
Just for laughs, I'm still watching McConnell, who hates Trump. We would need one more nay vote.
I still can't see replies on bluesky.
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With sympathy; I don't have high hopes for Adam Schiff.
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With the Trump administration scheduled to start in six days; a "National Nonpartisan Study" has become impossible.
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There are 470,000 software engineers working in the Bay Area.
70% of them hold H-1B Visas.
This is a scandal.
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Our free speech rights do not cover lying in order to harm others. Why don't media sources (like you) explain this to their subscribers and audiences?
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Why doesn't google use its own AI to scan apps for telltale malware code, and then just refuse that code? This would seem to be a no-brainer.
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Bezos should sell WaPo to its employees. He'd make a profit and the Post would finally be run by professionals.
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MSNBC has been trying to bring back Chris Matthews for a half dozen years now.
He's right: Elon Musk is an idiot.
But Matthews is a broken, spring-loaded clock full of gun powder who goes off every hour on the hour; but he's still right twice a day.
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I'm not convinced.
The Democratic Party needs a strong, vocal, insightful Progressive to manage a complete, successful party reform effort, or the party will drop 30% of its voter base in 2026.
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WHY did Jack Dorsey leave?
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Musk's objection goes nowhere if the Onion walks away from the Infowars twitter account. That would probably render that account unusable by anyone. In fact, the Onion could later file suit against Twit/X themselves, if Musk starts using it.
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Nobody has looked at the breakdown for the new GOP House caucus. I'd be surprised if the lunatic (freedom) caucus gained any headcount. I suspect that conservatives will cast a side-eye toward Trump, but cast a few more votes with Dems this next year.
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It annoys me, that these folks are often called Liberals or Progressives. It smears real Liberals and progressives, who aren't given the time or space to defend themselves in the same media venues that smear them.
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I kinda got over the New Republic 20 years ago, when they kept apologizing for Bush, Cheney, and the Iraq war. It wasn't just the 'moral' thing; it was the 'judgement' thing, too, and the 'courage' thing as well. 'The Nation' magazine is also on my list
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... joy reid should show the vid of MTG's latest sputtery take, and then respond with three minutes of uninterrupted maniacal laughter, and then cut to commercial.
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This has always been true for corporate (for profit) media, daily newspapers especially. If you want to have a truely independent, free media; you have to set up publicly-owned or subscriber-owned not-for-profit media platforms.