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I try to explain here what's happening. A bit of choreography to allow Senate Dems to fold without seeming to fold. They give up the 60 vote threshold and that's the end of the story. See below and the separate piece by TPM hill reporter @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social who gives more in depth detail.

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Also, if you're openly saying you'll vote to pass the Trump-Musk blank check CR if you get votes on amendments, that by definition throws away your leverage. Republicans know they don't have to vote for the 30-day stopgap in the scenario that Dems themselves are publicly outlining.

submitted 2 hours ago • 22 comments

"A desire to capitulate in search of an excuse" sums up a lot of what's happening right now, and it's where Trump gets the bulk of his political strength

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

🚨🚨🚨Senate Republicans are trying to jam through a disastrous spending bill that would rip funding from programs that millions of Americans rely on: Veterans benefits, nutrition assistance, and health care benefits. We have to stop it. Call your senators NOW— tell them to VOTE NO: (202) 224-3121

submitted 5 hours ago • 102 comments

When D.C. residents have to lobby Congress to stop it from doing things that could be harmful to the city, they’re told to contact their… oh, right. No senators or voting representatives.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

A diseased population is easier to control and further hurts the economy, benefitting China and Russia.

submitted 12 hours ago • 27 comments

This is how Dems on the Hill need to message on Trump’s economy instead of pussyfooting around! “I would challenge every Republican… to explain how any of what Donald Trump has done in his 51 days in office has helped improve the lives of Americans.” - @tarasetmayer.bsky.social Watch this…

submitted 21 hours ago • 183 comments

🚨URGENT ACTION is🔥 EVERYBODY IN THE 50 US STATES WHO DOES NOT LIVE IN DC 🚨 The Senate votes to remove $1 billion in local DC funds tomorrow at 10 am. This will defund schools, healthcare, housing. We have no senators to call. Please call yours at (202) 224-3121.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

The President was doing a car commercial from the WH lawn as the economy fucking crashes. Are we great yet?

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

Republicans want to break our Federal Government and then act like heroes trying to fix it. Citizens are not happy with this plan!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Trump’s fighting harder for Tesla than he is for you!!!!!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Said it many times now, including today on the pod: the signal failure these past weeks, distinctly Democratic, was failure to lay out conditions far in advance. No Dem votes for Big Lie nominees. No Dem CR votes unless the crime ends. Shape discourse at the outset—before they beat you to the punch.

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A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

submitted 1 day ago • 299 comments

Taking a brief break from severely harming the economic lives of working class Americans, he does a car commercial for the wealthiest man on the planet. MAGA, MAGA.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Trump destroyed our economy in just a matter of days!!!!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Americans: We’d like to afford basic necessities, keep vital programs, and not lose our retirement savings. Trump: Best I can do is a car commercial for the richest man on Earth.

submitted 1 day ago • 1549 comments

BREAKING: As the stock market and economy collapse, Donald Trump is filming ads for Elon Musk and Tesla. This is insane.

submitted 1 day ago • 127 comments

My latest, a blueprint for Democrats at this time of peril newrepublic.com/article/1925...

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Just as Hitler rose from the ashes and grievances of World War I, it looks like Trump’s dream is to reduce the United States to rubble so that he can turn what’s left of our once great country into his base of aggressively expansionist operations in alliance with Vladimir Putin and a few oligarchs.

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

2 people have already died and this anti-vaxx freak is going to get more people killed with his conspiracies. Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

He was a few months ahead of himself.

submitted 1 day ago • 821 comments

Dems. Hold the line. Do not vote to fund DOGE (the government). Make the GOP fund the government or let them shut it down. They’re the majority.

submitted 1 day ago • 194 comments

RFK. Jr. is America's #1 Public Health Threat.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

Everything Trump touches turns to shit. We already knew that. When will the enablers stand up for America? If they won't, I hope the Democrats go to every district in America to force an answer as to why.

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submitted 2 days ago • 163 comments

Could someone in the media…ANYONE…just come out, live, and say, “Look…it’s clear to anyone with a pulse, that Donald Trump is intentionally fucking up every aspect of the U.S. as fast as he can. Oh, and, since I’ve gone this far, it’s also clear he’s been sucking Putin’s d*ck for a LONG time!”?

submitted 2 days ago • 189 comments

Trump was handed an awesome economy. He was handed the best, by far, post-Covid economy of ANY industrialized nation. He was handed an economy with employment way up, consumer spending way up, the markets way up, & inflation way down. And in only 7 weeks, he’s fucking it all up.

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

"Republican budgeting never made sense. Now the GOP’s fundamental dishonesty has been channeled into a vindictive assault on government workers and the American people led by the literal richest man on earth. The war on budgeting has become, inevitably, a war on us."

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

When Trump’s recession hits — not if but when — he’ll blame Biden and the mainstream media, which he’ll call the “lamestream media” or the “enemy of the people.” You can take that to the bank.

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

It’s really says a lot when Donald Trump can’t bring himself to lie about something.

submitted 3 days ago • 101 comments

This is how you do it. More please.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

A recession isn’t inevitable yet, but if the administration continues on its current path, it’s more likely than not. Most MAGA influencers aren’t old enough to remember the real economic pain from the 2008 recession, but I hope someone is advising him to rethink this trade war.

submitted 3 days ago • 189 comments

If only they had the ability to vote in some legislative body. But Nay, they only can be “concerned” thehill.com/homenews/sen...

submitted 4 days ago • 328 comments

Per @anneapplebaum.bsky.social: “One person who never talks about a cease-fire is Vladimir Putin. He does not talk about a cease-fire with his own people. He has at no time offered a cease-fire to the Ukrainians or the Americans.”

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

The point is to break America. The guy in the White House is nothing more than a Useful Idiot allowing it to happen. Direct your anger at every @housegop.bsky.social member @senategop.bsky.social member allowing this to happen. They are the enablers who RIGHT NOW are refusing to do their jobs.

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

As Trump now actively helps Russia kill Ukrainian soldiers and civilians, the silence of Republicans who used to say they were staunch supporters of Ukraine is deafening.

submitted 4 days ago • 312 comments

This is some excellent good trouble

submitted 4 days ago • 821 comments

Every possible orifice in every conceivable institution is being stuffed with sycophants, criminals and grifters.

submitted 4 days ago • 748 comments

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.

submitted 5 days ago • 188 comments

Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

submitted 7 days ago • 2061 comments

Exactly this.

submitted 7 days ago • 488 comments

"America does not need a 'resistance,' or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people," writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social:

submitted 7 days ago • 118 comments

Developing: USAID to spend $40 million on condoms for Elon Musk.

submitted 11 days ago • 430 comments