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Johnson should see the writing on the wall and bring the original CR deal up for a vote - his tenure as speaker is already over after today, regardless of how this gets resolved

We honestly don’t know what Pokémon looked like, we’re just guessing that we put their bones together correctly

All the while (most) congressional Dems keep chugging along with the same old/elderly playbook.

Trump’s first term was a study in the capitulation of the Republican Party and conservative movement. Apparently Trump’s second term will be a study in the capitulation of…everyone else.

ABC News' settlement was catastrophically awful, but if the DM Register settles on this one that will pretty much end political polling as an industry. If you can be sued for an outlier there's no reason to trust those numbers.

What really ought to be banned is calling something under 300 words a manifesto

I’m sorry but 262 words is not a manifesto. It’s a statement. Maybe a communique. Not a manifesto.

Everyone should read this thread.

Eventually, all tyrants fall.

Remember, Tulsi Gabbard claimed Assad didn’t use chemical weapons, it was “the rebels.” Her confirmation hearing will be brutal, if she even makes it to there

This guy has some serious Blagojevich energy. Remember when people were acting like he was the future of the party? 😂

Nothing says “lead the Pentagon” like mommy making phone calls for her very good boy.

South Korea rn is what it looks like when people see democracy as a fragile thing that needs to be defended by all means necessary, and not as their inevitable birthright as citizens of an exceptional nation

Kudos to South Korea's right-leaning ruling party, which turned against its own embattled President and rejected his bid to declare martial law. There's a lesson in there somewhere.

It's hard not to watch Koreans mobilizing in the early hours to defend their democracy and not feel angry all over again at polls showing how Americans don't value their own democracy.

I came onto Bluesky an hour ago, and the first two things I saw were posts providing useful context for understanding the imposition of martial law in South Korea—the exact kind of thing that Twitter used to be so useful for in a developing crisis.

Out of everything going on right now, the President (perhaps inappropriately) pardoning his son after he was obviously prosecuted for political reasons is pretty low on my list of priorities

It's up to Democratic officials whether they want to stop exclusively rewarding legacy media with their time and start validating the people who are actually advocating for their agenda. But until they make that decision, the asymmetry that cost Democrats this election will persist.

Democrats make a mistake by fixating just on Joe Rogan. It is about a mentality that going on a Sunday show with 50,000 viewers is more important than talking to a YouTube influencer with 3 million.

Dems beat Trump by a lot more in 2020 than he beat us in 2024, and the GOP didn't hand-wring about the need to find common ground with us. They treated us like enemies of the entire country and a critical mass of voters were convinced. "We need to compromise and accommodate" is not the lesson here.

A little Sanders-style disruption, that might make the elites in the Democratic party uncomfortable, should be the order of the day. From @aaronregunberg.bsky.social earlier this month: newrepublic.com/article/1881...

“He’ll start throwing people in jail, and I’d be at the top of the list,” said Gen. Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—a man not given to hyperbole, who understands how autocrats operate. newrepublic.com/article/1812...

This is why Democrats really shouldn't have given up on Walz's "weird" messaging. Because this shit is WEIRD.

We need a whole new generation of strategists in the Democratic Party.

it appears coups are illegal elsewhere

This season has been a new low in NFL officiating

I wonder if the incoming Trump White House will refer to Biden as “the former guy,” and try to change the topic whenever his name comes up, or whether they’ll blame practically every self-inflicted problem they face on the horrible Biden administration. Haha, I do not actually wonder this.

This will mean higher gas prices, higher alcohol prices, higher food prices, higher building prices, higher car prices, higher pharmaceutical prices, etc. Trump is about to teach Americans who *actually* pays for tariffs (the consumers do).

The moral of the story, kids: It’s fine to try to stop the peaceful transfer of power and incite a mob to storm the Capitol and do all you can to overturn an election as long as you run again and win 🇺🇸

RASHOD BATEMAN

The penalties will be the death of this Ravens team

I understand the realities of why they are doing this but it, like everything else, is yet another pox on our crumbling democratic norms.

The way certain parts of the online-lefty "socialist" wing of the Dem coalition has defended identity politics while the "moderate" faction shifts towards a class-based argument sure is something...

I'm sure your thoughts on this question will be insightful @jonlovett.bsky.social

so what happens to the Khive now

Well, she’s currently Governor so she doesn’t need to run.

What’s the most underrated Thanksgiving food? I will start. Whiskey.

So wait, you're telling me they lied about not wanting to do Project 2025?

Why are Trump supporters not wanted ? You dont have to follow them. You can block them. You can filter words. Don’t you want @bsky.app to have all perspectives ? I certainly do. As long as it’s civil. Why not welcome different viewpoints ?