the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.

The Supreme Court majority has decided that they are the fact-finders, and the facts are what they want them to be, and quite frankly if District Courts disagree, they can pound sand because they're not the ones in charge.

They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.

Toppling the regime in Venezuela would aid the person who won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize instead. The whole situation is crazymaking.

Impeachment articles from the House, no UC approvals in the Senate, or bust

In my work, democracy isn’t a regime type. It’s the set of conditions that let a society check what’s true, argue about it, and hold power to account. When that system breaks, the label on the regime stops telling you anything useful.

The Dwight Schrute Insurance Program for the People

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Sure, those are facts available to them for sake of argument. But will Congressional Republicans dare to criticize their party leader and his staff in the Executive? I won't hold my breath

That court ruling only covered use of the contingency funds that had been previously allocated by Congress for use during the shutdown.

For people to see a future beyond the fascists, we need to preserve certain parts of our Collective Project called government that form the foundations of our society on which to build a more free and democratic govt. There's lots of good in our government that anti-fascsists shouldn't burn down

I'll accept the collateral costs of regime change. I refuse to accept the collateral costs of social collapse through the total destruction of the bureaucracy that supports the foundations of modern, interconnected life, despite an authoritarian being in the highest office at the moment.

Collapse of the non-DHS, DoD, DoJ bureaucracy would be catastrophic for society and result in life without severe weather alerts, food safety screening, port security, federal benefit disbursement to the poorest. Society wouldn't be able to rebuild post-regime change under such cataclysm.

Seconded. We need a functioning bureaucracy, doing the parts of govt that most don't appreciate is done on their behalf, to maintain our society, even while the project of regime change is pursued.

In squishy Dem fashion, I wonder if that is being saved for the next CR fight in January

Could you explain why couldn't someone like Bernie vote to not give UC for this cloture vote given their opposition?