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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 6 days ago • 2374 comments

House Democrats are very clear: We’re asking Senate Democrats to vote no on this CR, which is not clean.

submitted 8 days ago • 284 comments

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

submitted 8 days ago • 2726 comments

I’m neither young nor woke. In fact I’m kind of a stick-in-the-mud. A few weeks ago, I was at a dinner that included Sarah McBride. We had a pleasant time and interesting conversation. It wasn’t at all a burden to treat her with decency and respect. Republican members of the House might try it.

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

submitted 19 days ago • 2249 comments

Internalize that the United States as we understood it on January 19, 2025 is gone. We are in the midst of rewriting the rules and reconstructing society right now and must adjust accordingly. There is no going back, so we must imagine and think forward

submitted 25 days ago • 29 comments

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

submitted 29 days ago • 829 comments

Jacobs: It's so funny to me that my colleagues on the other side spent 30 minutes talking about how we don't want unelected bureaucrats making these rules when they're literally allowing a unelected Elon Musk run roughshod over congress' power of the purse

submitted 35 days ago • 105 comments

New: @aoc.bsky.social tells me that Democrats shouldn't bail out Republicans on a government shutdown without "incredibly substantial" concessions. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 37 days ago • 94 comments

I spoke out against the billionaire takeover of our federal government. We must fight back and thwart this blatant threat to our democracy.

submitted 38 days ago • 8 comments

Democrats looking toward the midterms are foolish. It hasn't even been 3 weeks and Trump has destroyed critical components of the government. By the midterms, it will be too late.

submitted 40 days ago • 41 comments

Hearing nonsense that Ds are threatening a shutdown. False. Entire matter is in GOP hands. What's happening is that Rs are coming hat in hand to Ds for help because they can't agree among themselves. Ds shld have a simple demand. No help until the criminal conduct stops.

submitted 41 days ago • 302 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 49 days ago • 3778 comments

Anyone know why Trump’s military is flying Black Hawk helicopters in the flight path of a civilian airport?

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

This is of course false. Most cancer research has never come from philanthropy. The US gov funds most cancer research. But this is where the GOPs public faces only being billionaires comes in handy. Leading billionaire wants to fund tax cuts by shutting off funding for childhood cancer research.

submitted 51 days ago • 130 comments

Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 51 days ago • 372 comments

I think the Dem base’s anger at elected Dems for their bizarre, paralyzed accommodationism is building much faster than anyone realizes. Pressure rising, explosion may be imminent

submitted 52 days ago • 148 comments

Trump is more popular than he has ever been. The media is softer on him than it’s ever been. The chief task of the Dems, and of any self-styled #resistance, should be to puncture that bubble of popularity that he currently has in this honeymoon. To drag him - down. Forget the bipartisanship BS.

submitted 53 days ago • 318 comments

Updated list of companies committed to DEI Costco, Meijer, Kroger, Giant Grocery, Ben & Jerry’s, Ulta, Macy’s, Old Navy, Nordstrom’s, TJ Maxx, GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…), Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans

submitted 53 days ago • 918 comments

No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.

submitted 54 days ago • 647 comments

Visual Investigation: Many of the Jan. 6 rioters who President Trump pardoned attacked Capitol police officers, video shows.

submitted 54 days ago • 59 comments

As promised! Some more thoughts on Profar; radio notes, Ueck, and the first edition of Padres Connections! open.substack.com/pub/jesseagl...

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

submitted 55 days ago • 4405 comments

Democrats are Surrounded by Low Hanging Fruit: Get To It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/democ...

submitted 57 days ago • 75 comments

President Trump just let more than 1,500 violent criminals loose on our streets. On January 6, 2021, Daniel Rodriguez tased a police officer until he had a heart attack. Watch the video below to see the January 6 rioters that Republican politicians are calling "patriots."

submitted 56 days ago • 21 comments

Multiple USDC judges aver that Trump pardons “won’t change the truth,” as Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly writes. “What occurred is preserved ... Those records are immutable & represent the truth, no matter how the events of J6 are described by those charged or their allies.” 1/6

submitted 56 days ago • 14 comments

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

submitted 57 days ago • 1203 comments

"The mass pardon sends a message to the country and the world that violating the law in support of Mr. Trump and his movement will be rewarded," writes the New York Times editorial board.

submitted 58 days ago • 30 comments

Every good player that goes to the dodgers and doesn’t go to the Mets, Brewers, Dbacks, Braves, Giants is actually strategically good for the Padres [ducks]

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

We have taken so many punches as San Diego sports fans. Only thing to do now is hit back, find a way to get into the playoffs, go on a roll & win it all. The Padres have great players, but to do that, they need to get better. Ownership needs to give Preller the resources to improve.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

I don't where this all ends up, but I don't think a democracy in which only one of the two major parties is committed to peaceful transition of power is particularly sustainable!

submitted 73 days ago • 987 comments

Ultimately, the reason Donald Trump never faced any consequences for January 6th wasn’t incompetence. It was inconvenience. Everyone in Congress knew what happened that day. But no one with authority was willing to bear the costs of confronting it. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

submitted 72 days ago • 58 comments

Excellent distillation by @joshtpm.bsky.social, as usual. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/sprin...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

For anyone with young kids, or who may still be a kid at heart, you will love this story by beloved children’s book author (and my beautiful wife), Jillian Sterling Wilson! a.co/d/9vywmI0

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

"Trump won the crucial blue wall states... by 231,000 votes? So if just 116,000 voters across those three swing states – or 0.7% of the total – had switched from Trump to Harris, it is the vice-president who would have won the electoral college … and the presidency" - me for the Guardian:

submitted 107 days ago • 274 comments