Schumer is guilty of failing to keep his caucus aligned, however. I think someone else might manage the factions better.

Clearly #AI is incapable of "getting" Bob Dylan

because everything is personal to this president. But if this old guard isn't prepared for the cost, they can't retire fast enough for us, and get out of the way, and pray they get a comfortable quiet retirement.

The battle are outside is raging.

The new wave of Dems all know that in an autocracy, you'll have to sacrifice much more to get anywhere. And that you may have to go to jail. You'll probably be stalked by someone within the regime. You'll probably be publicly hated and ostracized and personally attacked,

And for most Dem leaders, it has never been. Some are donating 100% of their pay during the shutdown, and fighting for the right things, but apparently just a few too many are ready to cave because the cost was higher than they thought they'd have to pay.

But the Dems also have to realize that Trump doesn't care about government, open or closed. He'll fund anything he wants done, illegally, if he has to. Until we arrest his henchmen for breaking laws, and he has to re-pardon the same people over and over. It can't be about the next election.

Currently over 90% of the country is insured, and while expensive, it used to be affordable. If they fail to secure anything, probably 20 million will have to drop it overnight if the cost were to double.

4. Why Dem leaders are hated? Too many factions have never seen them truly stand up and fight for something the entire party supports. 2025 shutdown drew a clear line everyone understood. Poor people have a right to eat, to survive. Everyone deserves affordable healthcare.

For decades establishment left wielded this "broad tent" power to protect their own narrow interests. People of color were promised a seat but not protected in key moments. Feels like exploitation to them. Progressive Left thought race defined every other issue and that Trump proved them right.

3. The big tent is burning tent city: Both the Progressive Left and Outsider Left dislike or hate the party, so anything short of a complete victory feels twice as painful to bear. These groups have lost faith in government and think the two-party system works against them.

Dem Leaders can't decide if they are in a class war. Or which class to protect. Their opponents know exactly who they work for, and who's expendable. They know everything is about class, and code switch to coddle each core constituency. IYKYK: you are protected by them.

It suppressed my content years before Grok. I left one year ago and am happy to get to interact with humans again, though I still think I'm better off not being on any social media site.

Just here for #NaNoWriMo peeps

The only reason they haven't just ignored the rules that say the government must shut down is that a shut down (with "emergency funding" to whatever they want) already serves their interests: being unaccountable to anyone.

There might be a few left named after Civil War era seditionists that need a new name.

I looked, there is this one:
Thomas G. Abernethy Federal Building

(as well as Ft Bragg, Lee, and Picket to rename)

or is this the context?

sometimes seeing a comparable chart puts more words to a thing

Years ago when I taught I had an image of the color spectrum that infants see and the blurry level -- can't find it -- do you have images like that to share?

this is cool. Should be in the textbook, as it was missing from Kandel & Schwartz when I took/taught it.