"I asked a number of Senate Democrats if increasing ICE funding is a red line for them in the upcoming budget negotiations. Most of the lawmakers I spoke with refrained from describing it in that way"
www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-dem...

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"

BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"

1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."

2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."

3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

I'm really having trouble processing the relative silence from Barack Obama about a colleague who he'd hosted at the White House, the Minnesota State House Speaker, being assassinated, but rushing to get out a weepy statement about Charlie fucking Kirk.

losing my mind at this. apoplectic. want to punch a wall, or a human being

data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

BREAKING: Israeli Forces Intercept Gaza Aid Flotilla and Take 20 Crew Members Captive

The ‘Handala’ is the third aid flotilla ship attacked in the last year, as Israel continues to starve 2 million Palestinians. — @premthakker.bsky.social reports.

READ: zeteo.com/p/breaking-i...

Rahm Emanuel is a huge sack of shit who thinks that dumping on trans people will win him the presidency, part 1 million thehill.com/homenews/cam...

New from 404 Media: ICE is searching a massive insurance and medical bill database to find deportation targets, according to internal ICE material. The database is all encompassing, contains details on 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills www.404media.co/ice-is-searc...

Dems who voted yes to invoke cloture for Dale Marks, Trump's pick for Asst Secretary of Defense:

Baldwin (WI)
Coons (DE)
Fetterman (PA)
Hassan (NH)
Hirono (HI)
Kaine (VA)
Kelly (AZ)
Kim (NJ)
King (ME)
Klobuchar (MN)
Reed (RI)
Rosen (NV)
Schiff (CA)
Shaheen (NH)
Slotkin (MI)
Warner (VA)
Warnock (GA)

again: the issue is one of a credibility and values gap. the modern democrat has no real core values they can articulate and therefore no credible theory of the case to press. conversely every republican is clear on their values: being racist, black bagging immigrants, hunting trans people for sport

this gets at something i've been thinking about: the only democrats who actually seem to be "obsessed with pronouns" are the centrist dems who are obsessed with talking about how their party is too obsessed with pronouns

We need a leftist Andrew Tate. We need a leftist Fox News. We need a casino where you don't gamble and they give you free money. I refuse to understand the ecosystem I'm in the center of and I will not leave or modify my behavior. We need leftist McNuggets

Reminder that in December, Nancy Pelosi, from her hospital bed, whipped the vote for Gerry Connolly—who'd recently been diagnosed with throat cancer—against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
www.jezebel.com/75-year-old-...

This is absolutely catastrophic and an enormous betrayal.

Undocumented folks have been promised that this info-sharing b/w IRS and DHS wouldn’t occur so that they would pay taxes to a state that offers them nothing in return.

Now they will be rewarded with deportation.

rahm emmanuel's last act in politics was leaving the chicago mayor's office in disgrace and axelrod is almost YEARS removed from a successful campaign. who cares what they think

I was supposed to discuss our book *The End of College Football* tonight in Washington, DC.

I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States.

They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.