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Denny Carter

@dennycarter.bsky.social

Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform.

If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM

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Mark Jacob

@markjacob.bsky.social

"Pressure is building for Democrats to embrace a more timely, cohesive and yes, more aggressive response to the Trump/ Musk incursion. The blue state Governors’ COVID briefings offer the perfect model."
Jennifer Schulze (@newsjennifer.bsky.social) calls for daily Dem counter-narrative briefings.

Democrats should fight back with an aggressive, fact-based counter narrative every single day.

They know how to do this, they’ve done it before. The daily COVID briefings by blue state Governors are the perfect roadmap.

substack.com

February 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸

@gtconway.bsky.social

February 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM

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Scott MacFarlane

@macfarlanenews.bsky.social

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA):

“A program is not waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It is not fraud just because he doesn’t like it."

February 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM

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Alt National Park Service

@altnps.bsky.social

Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today — that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.

April 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM