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Tim are you sure you want to do smart politics instead of starting a podcast with steve bannon

submitted 5 hours ago • 42 comments

Suspect this is accurate report. On "too late" that's a subjective matter, but to the extent that's true who's fault is that exactly? This has been telegraphed for literally weeks, even months. It's 100% true Sen Dems havent laid the groundwork. But who's fault is that? (Also, not at all too late)

submitted 11 hours ago • 34 comments

YES

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

this would be genuinely great news a reminder, if this happens: call your Senators back and thank them for voting no here it's important that not only do we yell at them to do the right thing but we thank them for doing so in the hope that they will keep it up

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

the absolute most charitable thing you can say about a lot of democratic lawmakers is that they want to hold onto a political order that no longer exists

submitted 16 hours ago • 414 comments

i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution

submitted 1 day ago • 1099 comments

agree 100% with film and graphic novels. not convinced on video games but am open to it

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Those who know me know I was highly critical of what I saw as some of the rhetorical excesses of the campus protests. Khalil and I wld probably get into a spat immediately. It's all the more important for people who believe as I do to say clearly, the protections of the law are for everyone.

submitted 2 days ago • 115 comments

This is like Musk's repeated claims that we'd be on Mars just about now, or that he'd have reliable 'full self-driving' cars by the mid-2010s. (www.jalopnik.com/elon-musk-te...) The guy has no more fidelity to the truth than Trump himself.

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

Attacking the legal profession is a time-honored strategy among autocrats looking to crush dissent

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I would note that this message is full of (a) kitchen table issues and (b) both rhetorical and material moderation and people love it because it is clear, mobilizing and oppositional this is what the national Dems just don't get

submitted 7 days ago • 102 comments

This is a really important thread about the Democrats in Congress and why it’s a problem.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"There isn’t some 22-year-old putting together a 'Most Defiant Moments At The State Of The Union' listicle this morning. Twenty-two-year-olds don’t have jobs anymore."

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

these people are hopeless. i hope they all get tea partied next year

submitted 8 days ago • 413 comments

The State of the Union speech left me with a horrible taste in my my mouth. Was it the innefectual showing from the democrats? Or the blatent cult from the republicans? Perhaps both

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Justice Alito dissents, along with Thomas, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. 4 votes for "fuck you I do what I want." Hanging on by a thread here.

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

Trump just distills the 4+ decades of the conservative legal movement, with all its theory building and so-called scholarship, down to its core essence: a corrupt power grab.

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Electorally it’s meaningless. But from a social movement perspective, coordinated protest sets the conditions for sustaining resistance. “Hehaw nothing matters” is certainly right on an individual instrumental level but politics is an iterative game where you constantly accrue and spend capital.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

submitted 8 days ago • 3346 comments

Oh, now we're dragging people out of the SOTU. Democrats, your job is not to be quieter because Al Green got dragged out. It's your job to get LOUDER.

submitted 8 days ago • 135 comments

US Rep Al Green removed by Trump's Nazi while others sat and watched or jeer at him. He stood up to Trump and told him he had no mandate to disrupt Medicaid for millions of people. Make a list of which politicians you are going to keep. So far it's a short list. #3E #SOTU

submitted 8 days ago • 640 comments

Why did the Democrats bother to show up? They should have boycotted. Yet again Minority Speaker Jeffries misses the mark

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Ah yes, if he says enough falshoods then it must be true.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Awesome to see @adanisanchez.bsky.social in CapFax this morning! @abundanthousingil.bsky.social @parkingreform.org

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Weird, shitty, disorganized response. How are they still this bad at this? It's been four months since Election Day.

submitted 8 days ago • 543 comments

He usually tries to at least open with broad vague lines that are “hard” to not clap for. He’s not even trying this time around.

submitted 8 days ago • 599 comments

Like I said. The party needs new leaders.

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

congrats democrats, you got played like chumps. but at least you're respecting the office or some bullshit

submitted 8 days ago • 319 comments

apparently i still have the capacity to be pleasantly surprised, who knew?

submitted 8 days ago • 236 comments

Start making calls - and say you’re concerned about filing taxes if privacy law won’t be adhered to.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Moron

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Enjoying everyone's dunks on Rahm Emanuel but I have to note, once again, that he is still the undisputed champion of Worst Political Instincts for saying, in 2009 as White House Chief of Staff, "I don't give a fuck about judges." Whoops! Maybe you should've cared about them, Rahm.

submitted 11 days ago • 53 comments

Just asking questions.

submitted 11 days ago • 398 comments

sigh time to break this one out again, huh

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

Each and every person who normalized the idea that this is a "public square" and therefore all people have an open invitation to be an ass in the replies of strangers clearly never learned how to respect anyone but themselves.

submitted 11 days ago • 154 comments

Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.

submitted 12 days ago • 529 comments

I feel as if we're capable of acknowledging that a one-day boycott is mostly symbolic without becoming contemptuous and dismissive of people finding a little meaning and comfort in such a symbol. The scorn seems petty.

submitted 12 days ago • 772 comments

Tesla can survive or the American Republic can. Not both. fortune.com/2025/02/27/t...

submitted 13 days ago • 84 comments

Just totally unnecessary carnage at the hands of this conspiratorial narcissist

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 15 days ago • 1234 comments

Bitch you are the government.

submitted 15 days ago • 1257 comments

if i didn't have to cook for a family and thus have to cook on something of a regimented schedule, i would 100% do "how to cook" videos as a side gig

submitted 16 days ago • 105 comments

I’m reading the ‘Character Limit’ book about how Elon Musk wrecked Twitter and it’s quite good, but so far the most remarkable thing might be how many different ways the authors come up with to say, more or less, “This guy is zoinked out of his mind all the time”

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

BY WHOM INDEED

submitted 16 days ago • 169 comments

So many ways to lose a House majority

submitted 16 days ago • 404 comments

What happened today. February 23, 2025 #whathappenedtoday #imgur imgur.com/gallery/01X1...

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Spineless. Jeffries is spineless. And clueless

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments