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Democracy is like exercise. You can't do it once every four years and complain when you don't see results. Pro-edit button. "Soros-backed." He/him. Linktree.com/joekatz45.
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"In history, we'll all be dead."

submitted 10 minutes ago • 0 comments

Whether or not Zohran wins, he is setting the bar for how every Dem candidate needs to communicate. Simple, engaging, repetitive, clear-eyed about the stakes and taking the work seriously but not himself seriously. That’s the model for all Dems, ideologically aligned or not.

submitted 11 hours ago • 20 comments

The cruelty in today's politics feels horribly corrosive. Bringing up that hard-working immigrant families — undocumented, yes, but not violent criminals — are being ripped apart based on immigration status doesn't bring compassion or even pause, but gleeful cheers.

submitted 1 day ago • 446 comments

It's a truly jarring split screen that Kristi Noem's goons attacking Sen Padilla happened at almost the exact same time as 16 Dem senators crossed lines to vote with the GOP to invoke cloture on the crypto bill, forfeiting any leverage. Dems need to act like an opposition.

submitted 13 hours ago • 663 comments

www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

just like on a national level I feel like you should really have to back up your emergency declarations with *something*

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

what a week. imagine being so shitty that you've got bluesky out here having to decide if we support* Gavin Newsom and the Catholic Church now. * this is a joke I'm tired we're all tired don't be obtuse about it

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

hey look a list of 75 people to primary clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025158

submitted 7 hours ago • 26 comments

Abolish ICE predates this admin Remember it was under Clinton that border patrol *tripled* in size to become second largest law enforcement agency. And it was under Obama that border & immigration enforcement began to outpace the budgets of all other federal law enforcement agencies *combined.*

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Good new news from me at @motherjones.com: The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that families no longer have to prove that schools acted in "bad faith or gross misjudgment" in any circuit when suing for disability discrimination. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

I've spent the last few days fielding emails about this, and one thing I can tell you: the angriest, most brained-poisoned, most hate-poisoned right wingers you'd ever care to come across really, really, really don't want you to protest on Saturday. So I think we should. #NoKings

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

Anyway, everyone should relax about potential US military action. As we all learned from SignalGate, there's a robust and well-structured interagency process with explicit, written guidance from the commander in chief regarding the use of military force.

submitted 9 hours ago • 29 comments

With nothing in the landscape it's hard to judge size and distance. This is the furthest point of the US and it's a rocky beach and arctic tundra. All that's missing is a melting clock. #scape #Alaska #arctic #bluesky

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

The oppression of the entire Latino community of Los Angeles right now is difficult to convey. Normally vibrant local retail areas of East LA and SELA look like ghost towns this week. People are afraid to leave their homes. Parents afraid to go to work. It's US citizens too. Anyone with brown skin

submitted 13 hours ago • 52 comments

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

yep! unpaywalled:

submitted 15 hours ago • 68 comments

Call your reps. Tell them they need to draw a goddamn line. There are a huge range of procedural tools they can use to slow Congress to a crawl. Use it or lose it. (Scripts/language here.)

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

These 11 Democrats just joined the GOP to vote to force DC police to cooperate with ICE, against the city's own laws. Ed Case Henry Cuellar Don Davis Laura Gillen Jared Golden Vicente Gonzalez Adam Gray Kristen McDonald Rivet Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Tom Suozzi George Whitesides

submitted 15 hours ago • 83 comments

An Israeli source is telling CNN that this is not a one-day attack on Iran. That is what we call a war.

submitted 11 hours ago • 12 comments

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

submitted 15 hours ago • 601 comments