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Wonder how Bill Cassidy is feeling about himself these days

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@betoorourke.bsky.social tells Sen. Chuck Schumer to resign during a rally with @governorwalz.mn.gov

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REMINDER: Support affordable housing in Chevy Chase. The meeting is TOMORROW. You can attend in-person or virtually. This is one of DC's most exclusionary neighborhoods and NIMBYs have resisted all attempts to bring more housing there. We need your voice! RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/yimby...

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The lesson Trump learned right away in his first term is that accountability gives permission to the media to cover the story as a scandal while stonewalling with lies and denials prompts the media to move on and say the story is over

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t you try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

Registration for YIMBYTown 2025 is open. I've been to many conferences related to cities/housing, and this one is my favorite—engaging sessions (i.e. not all talks/panels), walks and bicycle rides, happy hours, etc. If you're at all interested in pro-housing advocacy, you must attend! yimby.town

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Tout this widely. The biggest danger right now is, as @dandrezner.bsky.social said yesterday, pluralistic ignorance, when “people who hold a majority opinion are unaware that it is a majority opinion”. We need to broadcast all the signs that the town halls etc are not a fluke.

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

“Emails” is a complete rebuttal to the endlessly repeated refrain that some scandal is politically meaningless or won’t move voters, a refrain usually repeated BY JOURNALISTS AND POLITICIANS THEMSELVES to excuse not focusing on the scandals. Complete reversal of cause and effect

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

submitted 5 days ago • 375 comments

Zero harm and ample upside in Democrats calling for impeachments and a special prosecutor. The VP, the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury, the DNI, and the NSC were all involved in the grossly negligent disclosure of specifics on combat operations.

submitted 5 days ago • 124 comments

the single most consequential thing that naive ‘orange man bad’ heuristics would have mislead you on is probably Operation Warp Speed, and since he retroactively went anti-vax and appointed an essential oils crank to HHS, it’s not even that big a miss.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Progressives: "Pursue our good policy agenda, it will win you an election!" WRONG Moderates: "Want to win elections? Pursue this bad policy agenda!" ALSO WRONG Basically nobody: "Pursue a good policy agenda, because policy outcomes don't really effect elections" CORRECT

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Only 17% of people thinking Elon is a drug addict is a real growth opportunity for discourse generation. How do we get journalists asking the white house about his drug consumption? What is Trump's take on his ketamine usage?

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

rfk jr's attitude toward anyone or thing that gets sick is "if he dies, he dies."

submitted 11 days ago • 838 comments

Anyone seen any info/response from DC officials on this? @maustermuhle.bsky.social

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to be clear, USIP staff spoke to MPD prior and then called them to report DOGE as trespassers and when the cops showed up they instead held the door open for Musk’s thugs.

submitted 11 days ago • 78 comments

to me the most disturbing fact about DOGE’s raid on the US Institute of Peace is that the local cops helped them.

submitted 12 days ago • 242 comments

It's happening again...

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

One of the most important things for Dems to do for long-term viability as a party is elect as many pro-housing local leaders as we can, especially in states projected to lose population - then empower them to build fast.

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

New NBER paper shows dramatic effects of NYC's congestion pricing in contrast with a set of control cities: A large reduction in travel times on roadways—average speeds increased by 15%—combined with a substantial reduction in vehicular emissions. www.nber.org/system/files...

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

This is appalling for the mistreatment, the arbitrary refusal to honor a valid visa, and the contempt of court, but on top of that: We do not have enough transplant physicians. They are worth more than their weight in gold. The Trump admin just deported one solely out of bigotry.

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

NIMBYs will fight tooth and nail against ANY zoning change to allow new housing, no matter how little it will change existing neighborhood look and feel; so advocates should just ask for what they actually want.

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Anyway I just sent a fax to my senator. faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

submitted 15 days ago • 196 comments

People who don't pay much attention would think we're crazy to state that a core project of the current conservative movement is to disenfranchise women.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

Really happy to see this new Econofact memo out that explains why deportations could actually increase crime and that they certainly will not decrease crime. econofact.org/can-heighten...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Trump's own former chief of staff warned the country about this exact thing, at great risk to himself, and the New York Times imes ran it on A14 and buried it

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

submitted 17 days ago • 1216 comments

I joined @freedcproject.bsky.social on Capitol Hill to talk with senators about allowing D.C. to spend our local dollars on our priorities - on public safety, education, and more essential services. We must prevent a catastrophic cut to DC’s budget in the continuing resolution.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

my latest: whether or not this is a constitutional crisis, there ought to be no question that our constitutional order is rotting from the inside out

submitted 17 days ago • 100 comments

This chart seems to suggest that something is going wrong in the United States, specifically. (www.ft.com/content/7568... )

submitted 18 days ago • 101 comments

Not lost on me how funny it is that Trump put a 10% tariff on Canadian electricity and it was good and based but when Doug Ford put a 25% export tax on electricity it was an evil attack on America’s basic security and freedom that needed to be retaliated against.

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

This, @fetterman.senate.gov, is one of the many reasons I'm asking as your constituent to vote against the dirty CR. (Another reason is the tariff validation hidden in it.) It's not a clean CR; it does more than move dates. Voting "yes" is endorsing the lawlessness and chaos of the Trump admin.

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

Tell your senators to stop the CR. Even if it were clean! Which it’s not!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Today I published a story about the Trump admin moving away from Housing First, and I wanted to offer a few additional thoughts. I’ve been covering homelessness for a long time, and I do think HF advocates need to reconsider some aspects of their advocacy /1 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Yes this is true: Dems seem to be pairing rhetorical moderation with procedural hardball, and I am very appreciative of the latter

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments