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And there it is.
Accommodation and acquiescence. Learned helplessness and preemptive surrender. Retreat and complicity.
In the midst of an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, the nominal opposition party fails to use the one key tool in its arsenal to push back. What a disaster.
Accommodation and acquiescence. Learned helplessness and preemptive surrender. Retreat and complicity.
In the midst of an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, the nominal opposition party fails to use the one key tool in its arsenal to push back. What a disaster.
The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38.
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
March 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
And there it is.
Accommodation and acquiescence. Learned helplessness and preemptive surrender. Retreat and complicity.
In the midst of an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, the nominal opposition party fails to use the one key tool in its arsenal to push back. What a disaster.
Accommodation and acquiescence. Learned helplessness and preemptive surrender. Retreat and complicity.
In the midst of an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, the nominal opposition party fails to use the one key tool in its arsenal to push back. What a disaster.
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Very messed up!
we’re starting to see evidence of news outlets retroactively detransitioning contributors to their publications — as in, stories were published under correct pronouns initially but have quietly changed to misgender the authors.
March 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Very messed up!
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Not a huge fan of getting ratfucked by the same cadre of cynical democrats over and over again. But hey. nothing we can do. Them’s the breaks
March 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Not a huge fan of getting ratfucked by the same cadre of cynical democrats over and over again. But hey. nothing we can do. Them’s the breaks
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Democrat senators voted to fund this today
BREAKING: The US Justice Department is examining whether student protests at Columbia University over the genocide in Gaza violated federal terrorism laws, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said today.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Democrat senators voted to fund this today
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If Dems were unwilling to fight over cabinet nominees and unwilling to fight over the budget/shutdown, it’s safe to assume they’re not going to fight over anything.
March 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If Dems were unwilling to fight over cabinet nominees and unwilling to fight over the budget/shutdown, it’s safe to assume they’re not going to fight over anything.
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The rotating villains were finally selected, and here we are. 🚮
Hassan YES.
That’s it. Cloture passed by democrats to allow the CR to be enacted. Vote ongoing but the 8 Dems defected to get it across the line and it will get 60.
That’s it. Cloture passed by democrats to allow the CR to be enacted. Vote ongoing but the 8 Dems defected to get it across the line and it will get 60.
They are one vote short but the vote is still open.
Current YES votes cast
King
Durbin
Schatz
Cortez Masto
Still expected yes
Gillibrand
Fetterman
Schumer
They need one more fence sitter I think
Current YES votes cast
King
Durbin
Schatz
Cortez Masto
Still expected yes
Gillibrand
Fetterman
Schumer
They need one more fence sitter I think
March 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The rotating villains were finally selected, and here we are. 🚮
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sorry but if you don't wanna get primaried, the bar now is "I think Chuck Schumer should be replaced as leader."
March 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
sorry but if you don't wanna get primaried, the bar now is "I think Chuck Schumer should be replaced as leader."
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And then at least nine Democratic senators immediately thereafter rubber stamped his continued dismantling of the government
it's too grim to write down but we just lived through the moment when a sitting u.s. president said in a speech at the dept of justice that he thinks news gathering has to be illegal, as covered by a far right tv network, with an ad for "angel cream" placed next to his head
March 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
And then at least nine Democratic senators immediately thereafter rubber stamped his continued dismantling of the government
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the number of yeses is high enough that you should assume there is broader support in the caucus for Schumer's approach, and also that he strategically allowed some of his members facing 2026 primaries to vote no (Hickenlooper, Warner, Booker)
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
the number of yeses is high enough that you should assume there is broader support in the caucus for Schumer's approach, and also that he strategically allowed some of his members facing 2026 primaries to vote no (Hickenlooper, Warner, Booker)
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you have to make them prove they're on the good guy team, and the way to do that is to primary them until they break with schumer and leadership
better to pressure a "good" one who still didn't object to unanimous consent or seek to oust that entire leadership class and their consultants than to accidentally miss someone who desperately needs to be shown the door
nobody objected to unanimous consensus, and short of an outright revolt in the next few days and the deposing of schumer as minority leader, and ex-communicating of the "yes" votes, you sort of have to assume everyone was on board with this. no doubt many were not but there's no way to be sure.
March 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
you have to make them prove they're on the good guy team, and the way to do that is to primary them until they break with schumer and leadership
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this feels like a capital b Break. in any sane party system they have in any other country there would immediately be an internal challenge for power, and you'll see some primaries etc, but but the democratic party's entire apparatus exists to suppress it. it's over. party's dead stick a fork in it
March 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
this feels like a capital b Break. in any sane party system they have in any other country there would immediately be an internal challenge for power, and you'll see some primaries etc, but but the democratic party's entire apparatus exists to suppress it. it's over. party's dead stick a fork in it
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the dem tea party movement in '26 will be fascinating to watch. i won't believe in it for a second because i'm not a sucker, but it will be interesting to watch!
March 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the dem tea party movement in '26 will be fascinating to watch. i won't believe in it for a second because i'm not a sucker, but it will be interesting to watch!
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if you *still* believed in the democratic party as a vehicle for change before this week i'd have called you naive. if you still believe it now you're either a collaborator or straight up stupid
March 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
if you *still* believed in the democratic party as a vehicle for change before this week i'd have called you naive. if you still believe it now you're either a collaborator or straight up stupid
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chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell have the same ideology of senate leadership, which is: yes, you have to absorb some hatred and malcontent. but in return, you get to sabotage the democrats
March 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell have the same ideology of senate leadership, which is: yes, you have to absorb some hatred and malcontent. but in return, you get to sabotage the democrats
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The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38.
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
March 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38.
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
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Breaking — 10 Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to advance their funding bill, including:
Catherine Cortez Masto
Dick Durbin
John Fetterman
Kirsten Gillibrand
Maggie Hassan
Angus King
Gary Peters
Brian Schatz
Chuck Schumer
Jeanne Shaheen
Catherine Cortez Masto
Dick Durbin
John Fetterman
Kirsten Gillibrand
Maggie Hassan
Angus King
Gary Peters
Brian Schatz
Chuck Schumer
Jeanne Shaheen
March 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Breaking — 10 Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to advance their funding bill, including:
Catherine Cortez Masto
Dick Durbin
John Fetterman
Kirsten Gillibrand
Maggie Hassan
Angus King
Gary Peters
Brian Schatz
Chuck Schumer
Jeanne Shaheen
Catherine Cortez Masto
Dick Durbin
John Fetterman
Kirsten Gillibrand
Maggie Hassan
Angus King
Gary Peters
Brian Schatz
Chuck Schumer
Jeanne Shaheen
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i hope chuck schumer shits in his pants and dies from the smell
March 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
i hope chuck schumer shits in his pants and dies from the smell
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A looming problem is my suspicion that there's no easy way to say to the rightfully extremely pissed off liberals and centrists that ~this~ is why "the left" has hated these guys [gestures at Democratic senators] so much this whole time. Many of them will read it as gloating and not an invitation.
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
A looming problem is my suspicion that there's no easy way to say to the rightfully extremely pissed off liberals and centrists that ~this~ is why "the left" has hated these guys [gestures at Democratic senators] so much this whole time. Many of them will read it as gloating and not an invitation.
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The federal workers unions have asked for the shutdown over the CR.
March 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The federal workers unions have asked for the shutdown over the CR.
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He got rolled by charlie kirk, who is a certified moron.
You don't get rolled by charlie kirk unless you showed up fully intending to launder charlie kirk's fascist views for a liberal audience.
You don't get rolled by charlie kirk unless you showed up fully intending to launder charlie kirk's fascist views for a liberal audience.
March 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
He got rolled by charlie kirk, who is a certified moron.
You don't get rolled by charlie kirk unless you showed up fully intending to launder charlie kirk's fascist views for a liberal audience.
You don't get rolled by charlie kirk unless you showed up fully intending to launder charlie kirk's fascist views for a liberal audience.
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Yeah you shouldn’t debate nazis because it legitimizes their stupid world view. Also he’s not debating them he’s sucking them off.
March 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Yeah you shouldn’t debate nazis because it legitimizes their stupid world view. Also he’s not debating them he’s sucking them off.