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liberalfederalism.bsky.social
Progressive Federalism- Because Trump voters are immune to reason and the MAGA/Tea Party Fever will never break.
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NY Times: "MeidasTouch is a leader among the numerous digital-first outlets that have been rapidly reshaping the progressive media landscape since Mr. Trump took office."

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My view is that the American South never fully took to liberal democracy. And I think we have to reckon with that to face the moment we’re now in. I wrote about it for @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-de...

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abcnews.go.com/Politics/cal... Weak and Unprincipled. The California electorate was not clamoring for this. Sending hot button social issues back to the States, trans athletes, DEI, etc.. is not an excuse for blue states to walk away from difficult issues. Principled Federalism please.

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Feels like a think tank should be working on something called "The American Restoration 2029" which basically undoes Project 2025. This daily stream of changes to the executive branch leaves no doubt that any effort to return to normal governance will take a years-long planning process.

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Everybody's upset abt this or that thing Dems did or didn't do at the faux-SOTU. Poor messaging, poor this, bad that. Very few of those things matter much or will be things we'll remember in a couple months. What they do on the CR really does matter. A LOT. That shld be 10x more focus anything else.

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“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

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As many Americans look to other countries for examples of the turn against democracy the country is now experiencing, @aselrod.bsky.social holds up the example of the American South, in the @thebulwark.bsky.social

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U.S. House Republicans' budget blueprint directs the committee that oversees Medicaid/CHIP to cut $880 billion over 10 years. Even if that committee completely defunds every other program, Medicaid/CHIP will still need to be cut by nearly $500 billion.

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On the whole "are progressives more electable" debate, I think the answer is quite concretely that "no, the progressive candidates that are being fielded are not more electable than the moderates". We observe this over and over in elections. But: what if we entertain the notion it's not causal?

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"Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American Dream," says Trump's billionaire Treasury Secretary to justify Trump's trade war. Translation: Trump won't lower your grocery prices. (1/2)

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It hasn’t even been two months and already we know we don’t need the long judgment and perspective of history: his second administration is extremely high up there, arguably the top, in terms of both most openly and brazenly corrupt and lawless: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Chaos and confusion are bad for working people, bad for the economy, bad for America. And that's all Trump seems to offer.

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My husband ran a successful business and used our local rural post office daily. My elderly neighbor’s meds come through the rural post office. The post office is one of the only places left open in my rural community. Losing it could quite literally kill my town and my neighbors.

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hey, can one of the reasonable centrist writers condescendingly explain to me again that it is overblown to call these people segregationists?

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Why can’t every Democrat talk like this?

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The large-scale, indiscriminate layoffs of federal probationary workers are unlawful and causing chaos — not only hurting DC residents and our economy, but also placing increased demands on District resources. We are joining with 19 states seeking to stop these illegal firings.

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Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.

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This (gift link) is scary / depressing on how fear of retaliation by Trump has silenced much of civil society, from business to law to the press to university leadership. Wesleyan president Michael Roth is a lonely profile in courage here, and makes me proud of my family's connection to Wesleyan.

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New from me: A school district in Pennsylvania voted against adding a Black author's book about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre to the curriculum. Then, the community decided to do something about it.

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

If they destroy the post office — who is delivering ballots? If they block press from attending events – who will report the news? If they fire all the nonpartisan prosecutors – who will hold them accountable? The GOP plan to win future elections is right in front of us.

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