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Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
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"When People Show You Who They Are, Believe Them The First Time" - Maya Angelou | Perfect as the Enemy of Good Quickly Leaves You With Neither
Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
(whispering): the Dems are actually pretty good at legislating in the minority
Side note: The HHS appropriations bill that passed as part of the minibus has ZERO anti-trans riders in it. It will almost certainly pass the House.
January 31, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
Unvarnished win for the good guys and gals.

It’s almost like the democrats care about trans rights.
Side note: The HHS appropriations bill that passed as part of the minibus has ZERO anti-trans riders in it. It will almost certainly pass the House.
January 31, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.
January 30, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
I celebrated the day Dick Cheney died and I *highly* doubt Kamala Harris shed a tear either, you people apparently just fundamentally fail to grasp the concept of "this guy is so bad even the other bad guy knows it!"
January 29, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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No seriously, what the fuck are you people, religious?? It tarnished Harris in the eyes of God to be seen onstage alongside a filthy sinner? Whatever you seem to think politics is, you have a mistaken impression!
January 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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None of these people appear to understand how any of this works. The point of filming ICE and publicizing their brutality is *to radicalize the public against that brutality and eventually put a stop to the violence,* not to bear silent witness to that violence as a kind of personal penance.
January 30, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Most of Biden’s initiatives were intended to be permanent. The IRA, CHIPs, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill. The difference was that the ACA ultimately got eight years to let the benefits sink in while Biden’s stuff was smothered in the cradle
January 30, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Democrats spanning from Jim McGovern to Seth Moulton have publicly called for abolishing ICE and there are clearly Dem votes for a shutdown so naturally "why aren't Dems saying anything?" remains the easiest way for low-effort clout chasers that don't pay attention to anything to rack up RTs
January 24, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
People are reading this way wrong. Schumer detached DHS from the other five bills in return for a two week CR on the DHS bill. Now Democrats can make demands on DHS spending without having to shut down agencies covered in the other five bills. They have way more leverage to get real concessions.
People just going out here saying the literal opposite of what happened. Thune caved! Thune did! This is a cave by Thune and Senate Republicans, any possible way you cut it.
January 30, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
This admin is still trying to figure out how to translate social media clout into votes and are, thankfully, continuing to come up short on that metric.
Really not trying to downplay the seriousness of journalists being arrested for doing journalism but the DOJ clearly did this for content purposes. It won't stick legally. It'll do numbers online though. The engagement will be tremendous.
January 30, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
Remember: these weaponized criminal investigations are not designed to hold up under court scrutiny. They're designed to intimidate and score political points among folks who want to pretend these bogus charges are "doing something". They're flailing from a weak dictator wannabe

Fear only helps him
Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.

The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
Breaking news: The Justice Department has issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as part of an investigation alleging that they are impeding federal law enforcement officers’ abilities to do their jobs in the state.
January 17, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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The whole point of these indictments, just like during Trump 1, is to be frontloaded political attacks that don't actually hold up in court but grab headlines and look like 'doing something'. Making the actual legal case that holds up under scrutiny, by its own nature, is gonna be longer & harder
January 22, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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The one thing to remember about these threats of investigation & indictment from Trump, going back to his first term: they're not intended to actually hold up in court. They're front-loaded political attacks meant to grab headlines and intimidate before the cases collapse under actual legal scrutiny
January 12, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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I have my personal issues with Serwer, but not surrounding *this*.

What a stupid justification to toss Stancil out.
I logged off for a few hours only to come back and learn that the journalist Stancil is getting burned for inviting is ADAM SERWER?

Serwer is one of the best journos working today, and he is clearly on the side of good. How is this even a scandal?
January 30, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Obviously give me Bluesky over the Nazi CSAM website every day etc but a very real drawback of its very small size is that a relatively tiny number of anti-Dem wreckers and accelerationist morons end up commanding disproportionate attention and there’s no easy solution
January 30, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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This is correct, but there are a lot of people On Here who have made a living claiming that Dems always lose and they simply cannot allow Dems to win, even if they have to lie and say it didn't happen.
People are reading this way wrong. Schumer detached DHS from the other five bills in return for a two week CR on the DHS bill. Now Democrats can make demands on DHS spending without having to shut down agencies covered in the other five bills. They have way more leverage to get real concessions.
People just going out here saying the literal opposite of what happened. Thune caved! Thune did! This is a cave by Thune and Senate Republicans, any possible way you cut it.
January 30, 2026 at 5:28 AM
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Folks, I don't know whether the dems will make good use of this in 2 weeks.

But this is an amazing move in terms of the possibilities it opens up.

They can now block DHS funding forever with no collateral damage
Republicans agreed to split up the spending bill -- pass year long funding for the other five bills + a DHS two week CR to allow time for negotiations.
January 30, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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I'm no Stancil fan but I feel like some sort of resistance organization trying to expel him for wrongthink says more about them than him tbh
January 30, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
I am truly not sure to do with the fact that Jeffries can demand express statutory authorization for states to prosecute ICE agents and because some random website didn’t put that in the headline nobody knows about it, and in fact get mad at him for not demanding the thing he is actively demanding
January 30, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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Many of you have truly impressive, Cal Ripken-like streaks of never clicking through a link
January 30, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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The article doesn’t hide the ball, the problem is that the people who spend 8 hours a day complaining on this website about what Democrats are doing can’t be bothered to spend 30 second reading an article about what Democrats are doing
January 30, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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no fan of jeffries, but holy shit is this article misleading. in the press briefing he calls for "a prohibition that DHS cannot *detain* or deport American citizens", and his focus throughout the briefing is on the detainment part
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Jeffries demands ban on deportation of US citizens as part of DHS reforms
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation fun…
www.kget.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Reposted by Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
I’m mad at Hakeem Jeffries for *spins wheel* making demands of Republicans

This is consistent with my earlier position of being mad at him for not making demands because I’m still mad
January 30, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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i don't think this is as bad as people are saying

separating dhs from the rest is a solid strategic start -- it's what they were going for, a long shutdown on everything will break the dems apart, just on this they can hold more or less indefinitely
January 30, 2026 at 12:12 AM