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what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
June 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
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we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him
I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.
June 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him
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A bill to make sure poor people stay hungry, sick, and dying so rich people can be slightly richer. Actually evil. We need to make people understand it in those terms and not something about “budgets” or “house reconciliation bills”
Bringing this to Bsky bc @steverattner.bsky.social hasn't posted it yet and it's so critical. The entirety of the cuts to Medicaid and food benefits are to pay for tax cuts for people earning more than half a million a year.
Call Congress: 202-224-3121
Call Congress: 202-224-3121
May 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A bill to make sure poor people stay hungry, sick, and dying so rich people can be slightly richer. Actually evil. We need to make people understand it in those terms and not something about “budgets” or “house reconciliation bills”
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if the democratic party wasn’t a gerontocracy this would have failed. gerry connelly staying in office til he died allowed this to pass. this is echoes of RBG not retiring. when will democrats fucking learn
Final passage by one vote, though likely the present and 2 NV were all available to them if they had been needed. It's with the Senate now
May 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
if the democratic party wasn’t a gerontocracy this would have failed. gerry connelly staying in office til he died allowed this to pass. this is echoes of RBG not retiring. when will democrats fucking learn
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Cannot be said loudly or often enough: the bill House Rs are considering passing tomorrow would rip health insurance and food assistance from millions, leaving the poorest households worse off - to partially pay for tax cuts that most help the richest - while increasing the deficit by trillions.
May 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Cannot be said loudly or often enough: the bill House Rs are considering passing tomorrow would rip health insurance and food assistance from millions, leaving the poorest households worse off - to partially pay for tax cuts that most help the richest - while increasing the deficit by trillions.
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First of all, MAGA Murder Budget is great. Second, asking people which messages would be most persuasive to them is worse than useless. Human beings are terrible at reporting why they believe things!
"House Majority Fund, a Democratic group aligned with House Democratic leadership, issued talking points for members on the bill."
Avoid Hyperbolic Rhetoric
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Avoid Hyperbolic Rhetoric
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May 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
First of all, MAGA Murder Budget is great. Second, asking people which messages would be most persuasive to them is worse than useless. Human beings are terrible at reporting why they believe things!
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NY Times: Our tips for fighting authoritarianism:
1) Acknowledge the authoritarians are popular with some
2) Many of the intentions they claim are good
3) Many of the goals they claim we can get behind
4) Some of the people they're killing are let's face it mad annoying
5) oops out of space
1) Acknowledge the authoritarians are popular with some
2) Many of the intentions they claim are good
3) Many of the goals they claim we can get behind
4) Some of the people they're killing are let's face it mad annoying
5) oops out of space
May 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
NY Times: Our tips for fighting authoritarianism:
1) Acknowledge the authoritarians are popular with some
2) Many of the intentions they claim are good
3) Many of the goals they claim we can get behind
4) Some of the people they're killing are let's face it mad annoying
5) oops out of space
1) Acknowledge the authoritarians are popular with some
2) Many of the intentions they claim are good
3) Many of the goals they claim we can get behind
4) Some of the people they're killing are let's face it mad annoying
5) oops out of space
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one of the things about Republicans is that they understand that attacking their enemies where they are strong is useful -- this was the premise behind the Swift Boat attacks!~
April 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
one of the things about Republicans is that they understand that attacking their enemies where they are strong is useful -- this was the premise behind the Swift Boat attacks!~
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Whether you love or hate tariffs, you can't help but be impressed at the detailed policy planning, the transparency of the policy process, the credibility of Administration announcements, relentless attention to detail, flawless execution, and the thoughtful predictability that business demands.
April 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Whether you love or hate tariffs, you can't help but be impressed at the detailed policy planning, the transparency of the policy process, the credibility of Administration announcements, relentless attention to detail, flawless execution, and the thoughtful predictability that business demands.
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a handful of billionaires, given control of the government to "fix the economy," are ending tax collection for rich people and putting an additional 10-54% regressive sales tax on everything regular americans buy
NEW: Having Gutted the IRS, DOGE is Now Preparing to Shutter the Tax Division at the Department of Justice. For the Super-Rich Paying Taxes Will Probably Be All But Voluntary Going Forward. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...
DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division
I didn’t know this until this morning. And I’m surprised it hasn’t...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
a handful of billionaires, given control of the government to "fix the economy," are ending tax collection for rich people and putting an additional 10-54% regressive sales tax on everything regular americans buy
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Everyone who knows anything about the subject warned *at the time* that the US normalizing torture under the Bush/Cheney regime could only lead us into ever darker places
I wish I shared your confidence Kara but no one went to jail for child separation. No one went to jail for CIA torture. No one went to jail for the financial crash.
And the folks who did go to jail for Jan 6 were freed by the guy who didn’t go to jail for Jan 6 or anything else he was indicted for.
And the folks who did go to jail for Jan 6 were freed by the guy who didn’t go to jail for Jan 6 or anything else he was indicted for.
April 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Everyone who knows anything about the subject warned *at the time* that the US normalizing torture under the Bush/Cheney regime could only lead us into ever darker places
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You have to understand that they hate you. Yes you, the educated liberal or leftist reading this on educated lib-left dot com. They took away AIDS medication from children for the specific purpose of making this video to trigger you. Triggering you is the goal and they will murder children to do it.
Are all government accounts on X just troll accounts now?
This is from the official House Foreign Affairs Committee—the same committee responsible for foreign aid, global HIV/AIDS policy, security assistance, and national security. This is how they choose to represent themselves.
This is from the official House Foreign Affairs Committee—the same committee responsible for foreign aid, global HIV/AIDS policy, security assistance, and national security. This is how they choose to represent themselves.
March 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
You have to understand that they hate you. Yes you, the educated liberal or leftist reading this on educated lib-left dot com. They took away AIDS medication from children for the specific purpose of making this video to trigger you. Triggering you is the goal and they will murder children to do it.
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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So we’ve got two competing schools of what the Democratic Party should do next. One of them is hosting the largest political rallies in history in places like New Hampshire and Arizona, and the other one just got $120 million from Silicon Valley and is on a book tour.
March 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So we’ve got two competing schools of what the Democratic Party should do next. One of them is hosting the largest political rallies in history in places like New Hampshire and Arizona, and the other one just got $120 million from Silicon Valley and is on a book tour.
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AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.
March 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.
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One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding.
March 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding.
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always the same
March 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
always the same
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The Democratic Party’s problems are not about being moderate or left. That’s a consultant and pundit red herring
The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame
The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame
March 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Democratic Party’s problems are not about being moderate or left. That’s a consultant and pundit red herring
The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame
The problems are in party organization, the culture of “it’s their turn” nominations, candidate recruitment, gerontocracy, inability to shape media topics, and coming off hella lame
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the shutdown he is crying about IS ALREADY HAPPENING and this is just voting to continue it bsky.app/profile/ryan...
letter from the biggest federal employee union: "AFGE members have concluded that a widespread government shutdown has been underway since January 20 and will continue to spread whether senators vote yes or no on HR 1968" talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...
March 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
the shutdown he is crying about IS ALREADY HAPPENING and this is just voting to continue it bsky.app/profile/ryan...
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19-20 months from now, Trump will have pushed the economy off a cliff and left the civil service a smouldering husk. If you're a Democratic elected and you think a government shutdown from a CR fight is gonna be the thing voters remember, you need your fucking head examined.
March 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
19-20 months from now, Trump will have pushed the economy off a cliff and left the civil service a smouldering husk. If you're a Democratic elected and you think a government shutdown from a CR fight is gonna be the thing voters remember, you need your fucking head examined.
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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This is entirely indistinguishable from seeing a guy walking down the middle of the street in a full Klan robe and hood
The Federalist calls for a return to the US's more racist, pre-1965 immigration policy and implicitly backs national quotas.
"The plain fact is that an Afrikaner farmer[...]will assimilate to our American way of life much faster and more easily than a Muslim from the Middle East..."
"The plain fact is that an Afrikaner farmer[...]will assimilate to our American way of life much faster and more easily than a Muslim from the Middle East..."
March 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is entirely indistinguishable from seeing a guy walking down the middle of the street in a full Klan robe and hood
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November 2024: Trump will save the economy
March 2025: We have returned to subsistence agriculture
March 2025: We have returned to subsistence agriculture
Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.
March 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
November 2024: Trump will save the economy
March 2025: We have returned to subsistence agriculture
March 2025: We have returned to subsistence agriculture