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The media's attempt to be unbiased mostly resulted in them just parroting Trump lies as truth, which mainstream media before Trump was far less likely to do. That's the main story of Trump's 2024 comeback. Media just became a propaganda megaphone and abdicated its responsibility and utility.

we must simultaneously acknowledge that 1) this person is a fucking moron who made an idiotic decision 2) Trump fucked up her life more than any of us yelling at her would 3) we must encourage more people like this to admit they were duped and convince them that voting for democrats is the answer

NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

Alright, you want your congressmen/women to "DO SOMETHING" - this is doing something. Petterson gave birth 3 weeks ago. Mullin is hospitalized with complications from knee surgery.

There are only two options here: 1) Hold the line against the illegal & catastrophic way Trump–Musk are destroying the government, including if that means shutting it down. 2) Endorsing, ratifying, and acquiescing to it as a valid and permanent state of affairs. There is no in-between.

@insaneintherainmusic.com is toby referring to you in his interview about off??

imagine the excruciating conversations that had to take place before publishing this headline

it's absolutely wild to shitpost about yourself being a king of a country whose entire foundational story of itself is centered on overthrowing the last person who deigned to call himself king on these shores

While we're one of the lucky ones and already have an active archive channel, not everyone else is that lucky, and that's gonna be a ton of work and storage issues to resolve in two months. This also screws over viewers who specifically stay on Twitch to watch VODs/want to see chat replays.

you need your publicity stunts to be louder, angrier, more persistent. the protests at Treasury got some coverage and had legs on social media for a while! but unless the Democrats are consistently going hog fucking wild, why send crews to pressers and protests held by a powerless minority party?

There are so many people out there who just aren’t plugged in, can be reached. Too many people are acting like every voter has been tapped and chose a side so insulting those closest on the spectrum is how to win when in reality there are so many people waiting to be reached. 1/

Guy who beat the drum for the Iraq War saying dumping transgender Americans won’t save us while @sethmoulton.bsky.social sits in his D+28 Massachusetts House seat and says Democrats “refuse to even debate [trans] issues” and calls MtF trans kids in sports “challenges many Americans face.”

missed the rfk confirmation but wow out of all the scenarios, a party line vote excluding *McConnell* is the most shocking. No Collins nor Murkowski.

Rachel Maddow is interviewing Kathy Hochul––who has the power to unilaterally remove Eric Adams!––right now and her first five questions had nothing to do with him. The liberal media is *complicit* in this absurd situation.

ny dems pls stop being feckless for once in your lives and actually be partisan for once

In all seriousness WHAT IS HAPPENING??? Sassoon gave you massively damaging evidence! She directly implicated Trump’s goons in a corrupt quid pro quo! Why aren’t you standing in front of cameras shouting about it???

One thing that I'm thinking about is how the Democratic Study Group, which is the liberal caucus which slew the Great Ogres of the Conservative Coalition thus paving the way for the great society and civil rights, was at the peak of its influence as an *information* distribution network

It is genuinely fascinating that Fetterman's stroke had such a deep effect on his entire payche. It outright converted him into a completely different person.

On top of the cruelty and horror Republicans are committing against children is the knowledge there is no blue state safe harbor. They will ignore federalism, the constitution, laws, decorum, good sense, and human dignity in their lust to hurt trans people. All of us are in this fight together.

Army guidance on implementing President Trump's order on transgender troops, filed in court today, says to NOT take adverse personnel action against people based on gender identity "at this time" and to continue medical treatment. for gender dysphoria. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

oh btw jenkins won the county executive race

i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!

international thermostatic opinion lmfao

This has been two weeks of constant events that are more dangerous than January 6th or, I’d absolutely argue, even 9/11, and it is a damning indictment of American media that so many publications and reporters are too cowardly, too docile, to act like it.

it doesn't actually matter whether the Democrats can *actually* do much in Congress to stop Trump tbh. they need to behave like an absolutely rabid opposition party either way, because the party has to restructure itself around the single mission of destroying these fuckers

If you’re a blue state legislator wondering how you can protect trans people right now, allowing birth certificates to be changed without listing them as “amended” so that we can still get passports is high on the list.

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*looks directly at camera*

The horrors of this past week reminded me how batshit insane some of the anti-Dem rhetoric online during the election was, and upon reflection I think this was really a stand out performance from Bree.

Extremely overdetermined that I am not a senator or rep, but if I were and this were the policies and nominees the executive branch were trying to ram through Congress, I would object to every unanimous consent request, no matter how minor, and force it to a standstill with endless rollcall votes.

@protonjon.bsky.social lmfao stephen colbert just played the disappointed voice clip

'Harris 2024 was effective, but not effective enough' is the unappealing but most honest takeaway from most of this stuff

One thing that I think Dem-messaging-forward analyses like these need to grapple with, but never do, is that in the swing states, the places that got the biggest volume and concentration of Dem messaging, performance relative to 2020 was better than everywhere else.

Something to consider when mainstream Dems start getting mad at Big Trans all over again