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Democrats sometimes wonder why working and middle class republicans vote against their own interests. We need to stop saying that. No one votes against their interests. If we think they are, that just means we haven't figured out what they believe their interests are...

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pro tip: very few people right now want to hear about how your conscience wouldn't let you vote for Kamala. shut the fuck up

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open.substack.com/pub/oliviaju...

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Wrong. Impeachment sends a message to the successor. That we are not an autocracy. And NONE of the toadies in line has his cult following. Especially JD. Finally, not impeaching sends a message nothing he's done this time is as bad as what got him impeached last time... but this time is FAR WORSE.

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The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys by Traffic, 1971.

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Some years ago, I wrote a recollection of the first time I knowingly encountered the befuddling thing I would eventually know as MAGA. It was 2008, on Facebook. It was my old college buddy, Stove Minivan. (Names have been changed to mock the guilty.) www.the-reframe.com/one-about-th...

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

This is a good, funny sign. But it gets at a key element of what Social Security does. Middle aged people who aren't fully supporting aging parents can fund their kids education. It runs through the whole life cycle.

submitted 13 days ago • 92 comments

I try to be a student of strategy. For me it's a slippery subject, because it's easy for me to get strategy confused with tactics. My understanding is tactics (or technique if we're talking self-defense) are the physical, the actual tool you use. 1/

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Sen. Cory Booker has shattered the record, brought the BEST trouble, and redeemed the dream of America. Massive thanks with all our hearts and greatest appreciation @booker.senate.gov

submitted 17 days ago • 85 comments

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.

submitted 18 days ago • 295 comments

SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...

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Trump and the GOP understand many Americans are fed up with the status quo. The problem with many Dem leaders is that they are addicted to it. Progress requires change...which requires not just courage but imagination and the willingness to ask hard questions. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

submitted 34 days ago • 46 comments

It Was A Tough Call But They Want It To Divide Us #ABlueView🧵1/2 The vote on the GOP's poisonous CR was designed to divide Dem's by only offering 2 horrible choices each with likely terrible consequences. I believe they all acted in good faith & voted for the one they thought less disasterous.

submitted 34 days ago • 11 comments

It is clear that some of us understand the present danger & some don’t! I stand by the NO vote on the blank check for Trump & Elon… I’ve got no explanation nor agreement with Senate Dems being complicit in Trump’s Tyranny.

submitted 35 days ago • 414 comments

Buy a car to make the richest man in the world even richer! Fut tha wuck!?

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the stock market is crashing so hard today it resembles a SpaceX rocket

submitted 39 days ago • 524 comments

Shame on Democrats for not only failing to support Rep Al Green during The State of Dysfunction, but for voting to censure him. We need way MORE Al Green. And way LESS maga.

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Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w... I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

submitted 42 days ago • 88 comments

If he can do it, you can do it

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If you're looking for solid political journalism that isn't afraid to speak truth to power, consider subscribing to [email protected]. It's a very good resource. www.talkingpointsmemo.com

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