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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, amen. I trudge dutifully to the polls and vote Dem every time but I hate the “even though we really suck on gay rights, we know you’re not gonna vote GOP.”

Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 5h

Get rid of these cowardly collaborationist Dems.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 6h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 5h

I cannot handle how the Dems' entire messaging strategy is devoted to chasing those three old white men in some Iowa diner who say "law and order" is their primary concern, to the expense of fighting fascism or standing up for immigrants or gay people or trans people or really standing for anything.

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 5h

She's obviously lying and dissembling and you guys are just going to get sound bites but no one will hold her in contempt or suggest she be impeached for lying.

Dems: great at theatrics, shitty at actually opposing fascism.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 7h

It's not an "immigration crackdown." Stop using the administration's fascist framing.

It's "sending armed thugs to racially profile innocent people."

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 8h

I am so fucking tired of hearing that the walls are closing in because they’ve been saying that for years.

Swalwell hoping Trump will defeat himself so he doesn’t have to lift a finger to do anything.

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 13h

Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 8h

And elected Dems are so committed to wooing soft Republicans that they aren't standing up for gay people, for immigrants targeted by ICE, for trans people, for cities against ICE.

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Bill Peris @bill-peris.bsky.social · 10h

He’s so close to getting it.

Maybe a system where neither of these people have to pay for care?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 10h

It’s unconscionable that in a society as wealthy as America, there’s no paid parental leave, and zero publicly funded daycare. “What to do with kids whiles we work and they aren’t old enough for TK” is such a barrier/weight/burden.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 1d

It's disgusting how much you are depending on others to do your jobs. You're waiting for the courts to take action, rather than DOING SOMETHING YOURSELVES TO STOP THE FASCISM.

You're all still pandering to those three rural men who love Law & Order in a Kansas diner who'll never vote for you.

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 1d

Surely that was not intended to be heard as a compliment by anyone who's not a moron. Trump took it as one but I suspect Carney didn't mean "transformative" in a positive way.

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone's fat dumb racist uncles showing up to stand around showing off what they learned from Call of Duty.

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 1d

AND YET DEMS ARE NOT DOING A THING TO FIGHT IT.

How about "we'll fund the government when the authoritarianism stops"?

You guys are so invested in pandering to the right that you can't fight back against military occupation and ICE thugs, for fear of pissing off people who'll never vote for you.

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 1d

“The legislature alone determines supply to the executive” is a foundational principle of the entire US-CanAusNZUK constitutional order.

Jesse Singal Vapes Piss @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 1d

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 1d

Well that’s a thousand years of constitutional law just out the door. Supply has always been the prerogative of the legislature. It’s the whole damn point.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 1d

Do you guys have just nothing to say about ICE or the military occupation of blue cities?

Are you so desperate to pander to the law-and-order crowd?

Dems are just chickenshits who love to post and then run off to have lunch with Ted Cruz.

Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 1d

There is no point in having these hearings. There's no consequences to Bondi lying and obfuscating. Dems are just giving her a platform to make sound bites for Fox and for them to spout their propaganda.

We need to penalize lying by excluding liars from public life, not "debating" them.

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

i'm not out of line here in thinking there's a tremendous amount of property theft, extortion, and worse, happening with ICE right?

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 1d

So it’s going to involve running around buying testosterone supplements?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

We need a complete and total shutdown on right wing pseudo-intellectuals bloviating about how their substack posts are bravely defending the foundations of “Western civilization” against the radical left onslaught until we can determine if their ideas made more sense in the original German.

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 1d

“Desperate” is Hitler in the bunker mobilizing kids as inevitable defeat looms.

“Desperate” is not the current GOP, with elites bending the knee, the courts in their grasp, and Democrats too terrified to talk about anything other than the rote “this is all a distraction from healthcare.”

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Opens the Door to Using the Insurrection Act and Pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell

Trump and Stephen Miller are gearing up to unleash the Insurrection Act in a desperate bid to consolidate power and destroy their critics.

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Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 2d

We are also on eggshells because the response from the good guys is limp and pathetic.

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

The entire country is walking on eggshells because a madman is hallucinating about crime sprees and burning cities.

Brad @bradaltad.bsky.social · 2d

The fascism is not a distraction from healthcare or Epstein. If healthcare were perfect and Epstein never existed, they would be still doing fascism.

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