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@nytpitchbot.bsky.social everybody is getting in on the act now. Headline is vintage Pitchbot . www.macombdaily.com/2025/12/10/e...
The White House says the midterms are all about Trump. Democrats aren’t so sure
Republicans remain united in their strategy, using Trump to energize their base.
www.macombdaily.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social everybody is getting in on the act now. Headline is vintage Pitchbot . www.macombdaily.com/2025/12/10/e...
Exactly right. Trying to be GOP light and spending millions $ to try to win over “never t***p” voting block is a losing strategy. Can’t always run a super liberal candidate but ppl are tired of do nothing Schumer and Jeffries types.
BTW the Washington Times did a story on this speech that completely ignored his racist ravings and demands that people spend less on dolls and pencils.
You can't pierce the thick MAGA bubble -- independent and infrequent voters are where it's at. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/de...
You can't pierce the thick MAGA bubble -- independent and infrequent voters are where it's at. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/de...
December 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Exactly right. Trying to be GOP light and spending millions $ to try to win over “never t***p” voting block is a losing strategy. Can’t always run a super liberal candidate but ppl are tired of do nothing Schumer and Jeffries types.
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They grift and steal so openly because they are convinced that they'll never have to answer to voters again.
December 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
They grift and steal so openly because they are convinced that they'll never have to answer to voters again.
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Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything
I’ve become something of a broken record on this. But repetition sometimes...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
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The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.
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in an ideal world the democrats would have an insta-party reaction to all developing news. flood the zone on everything. everything should have an immediate dem reaction/take/quote. as it is the party slumbers through each media cycle, barely responding to anything and hardly instigating a thing.
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
in an ideal world the democrats would have an insta-party reaction to all developing news. flood the zone on everything. everything should have an immediate dem reaction/take/quote. as it is the party slumbers through each media cycle, barely responding to anything and hardly instigating a thing.
Correct. Especially Jeffries. Even if Dems had 280 House seats he would do nothing significant to undo damage since Jan 2025.
I can count on one hand, maybe two, the number of Democrats in Congress who understand the fight and don't deserve to be primaried
Mark Kelly is being directly targeted by Trump and he’s responding to those threats - good! - but then Kelly goes and votes to confirm one of Trump’s judicial nominees.
Why would you actively help your abuser? Come on, Dems. Show some damn courage and insight.
Why would you actively help your abuser? Come on, Dems. Show some damn courage and insight.
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Correct. Especially Jeffries. Even if Dems had 280 House seats he would do nothing significant to undo damage since Jan 2025.
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Whenever Democrats say “we can’t” about some BS norm, our response must be “ok, YOU can’t, we’re now replacing you with someone who can.”
December 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Whenever Democrats say “we can’t” about some BS norm, our response must be “ok, YOU can’t, we’re now replacing you with someone who can.”
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TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
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sabrina carpenter more clear in her "messaging" than most dem members of congress
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
sabrina carpenter more clear in her "messaging" than most dem members of congress
Definitely have a bad feeling about the true intent of that operation. Not sure if individual state law enforcement can open cases. If not, this needs to be a national Dem issue.
Remember what they did vs. what they said. They got in and immediately started downloading data. And walking out of the building with it. Then they destroyed some agencies, most notably USAID, for fun and to hurt people. None of this was about finding waste or fraud.
You can’t convince me that everyone involved in DOGE should not face DOJ investigation and prison time if convicted when this chaos is over.
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Definitely have a bad feeling about the true intent of that operation. Not sure if individual state law enforcement can open cases. If not, this needs to be a national Dem issue.
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
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one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It
As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
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I don’t care what happens with the Texas legislative maps. Democrats should still gerrymander the shit out of blue states.
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I don’t care what happens with the Texas legislative maps. Democrats should still gerrymander the shit out of blue states.
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I was already leaning toward hostility vs the mainstream media after Whitewater and the Gore campaign but the Iraq war is what tipped me into complete loathing. It’s been tough watching as liberalism still largely trusts and elevates the press even as the press aids fascists. Please stop.
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I was already leaning toward hostility vs the mainstream media after Whitewater and the Gore campaign but the Iraq war is what tipped me into complete loathing. It’s been tough watching as liberalism still largely trusts and elevates the press even as the press aids fascists. Please stop.
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Given that for my entire life the most insane far-right viewpoints in this country at any given time have become the GOP mainstream position within five years, the fact that the Edges or Fringes of the right are now open blood-and-soil Nazis bodes ill for the future.
i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)
Opinion | JD Vance Is Idling at the Edges of American Politics
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Given that for my entire life the most insane far-right viewpoints in this country at any given time have become the GOP mainstream position within five years, the fact that the Edges or Fringes of the right are now open blood-and-soil Nazis bodes ill for the future.
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This is Pancho and Lupe. Some siblings have the same nose or ears. Pancho and Lupe have the same side eye. 13/10 for both (IG: panchocorgi)
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This is Pancho and Lupe. Some siblings have the same nose or ears. Pancho and Lupe have the same side eye. 13/10 for both (IG: panchocorgi)
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The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
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my anger is not going away in a few weeks. it is insulting for these senators to horsetrade so that ppl retiring or not running until 2030 can vote no while they find just enough yes votes to do what the GOP wants.
i will be angry for longer than a few weeks and i don't appreciate the condescension.
i will be angry for longer than a few weeks and i don't appreciate the condescension.
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
my anger is not going away in a few weeks. it is insulting for these senators to horsetrade so that ppl retiring or not running until 2030 can vote no while they find just enough yes votes to do what the GOP wants.
i will be angry for longer than a few weeks and i don't appreciate the condescension.
i will be angry for longer than a few weeks and i don't appreciate the condescension.
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To repeat: I have studied a lot of cases of autocratization over the past 15 years. Wrote about them, taught about them, consulting about them.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
March 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
To repeat: I have studied a lot of cases of autocratization over the past 15 years. Wrote about them, taught about them, consulting about them.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
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If the democrats care about these things they don’t operate like it, and voters see that.
Democrats care about people. We don't want kids to go hungry. This is both our greatest liability and our greatest strength.
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
If the democrats care about these things they don’t operate like it, and voters see that.
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Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
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The corporate media runs Democrats in Disarray stories, because it's the easiest route.
Those stories don't get the GOP mad. Those stories channel executives' worries about socialism & taxes. Those stories are tried and true products.
Who cares if there's no merit to them? Just run them again!
Those stories don't get the GOP mad. Those stories channel executives' worries about socialism & taxes. Those stories are tried and true products.
Who cares if there's no merit to them? Just run them again!
After a week in which Dems exceeded expectations in elections, Trump's popularity continues to tank, the GOP largely abandoned the task of governing (just as Thanksgiving travel approaches), I'm a bit surprised to see many more stories highlighting weakness in the Dem than in the GOP coalition.
This NYT framing is ludicrously overstated. Sure, there are primaries. But if anything, the results showed a lot of Dems that there's a way to unify the factions around anti-Trump and affordability politics (as I try to argue in the piece/thread below).
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The corporate media runs Democrats in Disarray stories, because it's the easiest route.
Those stories don't get the GOP mad. Those stories channel executives' worries about socialism & taxes. Those stories are tried and true products.
Who cares if there's no merit to them? Just run them again!
Those stories don't get the GOP mad. Those stories channel executives' worries about socialism & taxes. Those stories are tried and true products.
Who cares if there's no merit to them? Just run them again!
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Two days shy of the official 50th of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, made it to the Grohmann
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Two days shy of the official 50th of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, made it to the Grohmann
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I think there's a lot of things that are specific to Bolts, but I dare say no one follows state supreme court politics like we do.
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I think there's a lot of things that are specific to Bolts, but I dare say no one follows state supreme court politics like we do.