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meggara.bsky.social
Overgrown punk. Attorney, cats, writing, American/Dutch, trying to learn how to make a difference.
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the biggest mistake the dem strategists made in 2024 was not letting him cook

this is so wrongheaded I don’t even know where to start having leverage is a function of the other side believing you’ll make real on your threats, and Dems have just shown that they will fold under a light breeze why shouldn’t Rs jam them on everything from now on? there is no stronger footing

Chuck Schumer resign in abject disgrace bitch

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

i’m stealing from @mtsw.bsky.social here, but we are seeing — on the national level — a very common red state dynamic. republicans tanking the economy and destroying the most dynamic sectors in order to *produce* a brain drain

The following is a letter sent to every U.S. Senator by Everett B. Kelley, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees. March 12, 2025 Dear Senator:

Thou shalt fire Chuck Schumer.

I bring a sort of vibes-based approach to discrete mathematics that cryptographers don't really like

I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.

Nazis doing historically Nazi things

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

It is absurd for the federal government to attack universities for "antisemitism." In fact, Trump's policy is itself antisemitic I explain here. snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

Remember the names of these Senators. They voted for cloture on the CR.

Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight

i think if you still defend dem leadership after this you should be studied in a lab to figure out what’s wrong with you. unfortunately that lab has also been defunded

Why are people mad at Chuck Schumer? Is it the whole rolling over and playing dead like a dog while another dog takes a giant shit on your face thing?

Anyone who cares about the shocking resurgence of antisemitism and its relationship to the attack on democracy all over the world must read this powerful analysis of the Trump-Vance attempt to humiliate President Zelensky in the Oval Office. Tim Snyder’s analysis is devastating.

I cannot emphasize this enough: no one will remember the shutdown even happened when it’s time to vote next year. One way or the other!

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

You watch movies all the way through because you’re a coddled baby who needs the meaning of a story spoon fed to you. If you were comfortable with ambiguity you’d stop watching ten minutes before the end

Trump Announces New Visa Tier For Immigrants Who Will Be Friends With Barron

The new McCarthyism proceeds apace. To be clearer than the NYT headline: a Palestinian legal scholar was accused by a shady substack publication that uses AI of being a terrorist & Yale immediately suspended her with no investigation into veracity or due process of any kind. Fun times!!!

AOC should announce a primary against Schumer tonight.

it was written by a guy who had supported the Nazis as a conservative and came to terribly regret his direct contribution to their evil.

that's it, I'm primarying Chuck Schumer

It would be a shame if we all flooded musk’s email ⬇️ [email protected] This is the email address musk is asking federal workers to email detailing their tasks during the week 🚨 you know what to do 🚨

Ukraine should not have worn such a provocative outfit.

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

It’s not so much a dog whistle as a guy shouting “dog!” And pointing at a large dog while the media say “wow, who can say what he means by this complicated gesture?”

If you think this is cool, I can't help you.

One of the funniest things about Spock is that once every seven years he gets so horny that he might blow up the ship or strangle the captain to death in pure horny fury but he doesn’t really think to let anyone know about it even though it’s been six and a half years since it happened last.