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I know I shouldn't be surprised but it is incredible how swiftly abortion was pushed out of the political conversation the minute the election was over
March 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I know I shouldn't be surprised but it is incredible how swiftly abortion was pushed out of the political conversation the minute the election was over
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Yes. The answer is yes.
Reporter: Is it time for new leadership in the Senate?
Jeffries: Next question.
Jeffries: Next question.
March 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Yes. The answer is yes.
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Thanks to Tim Walz for leading the way on this.
Democratic campaign committees and state parties are partnering to host a series of town halls in GOP-held districts after Republicans were advised against holding town halls.
The districts: AZ-6, CO-8, IA-3, MI-10, NE-2, PA-7, PA-8.
"If they won't talk to their own voters, then Democrats will."
The districts: AZ-6, CO-8, IA-3, MI-10, NE-2, PA-7, PA-8.
"If they won't talk to their own voters, then Democrats will."
March 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Thanks to Tim Walz for leading the way on this.
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If it helps to speak in his language here's a quantitative analysis of this strategy failing in 13 countries www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
If it helps to speak in his language here's a quantitative analysis of this strategy failing in 13 countries www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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There has never been a better time to primary your rep or senator
Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.
March 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
There has never been a better time to primary your rep or senator
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the role this website has played in radicalizing liberals in such a short period of time cannot be understated tbh.
having a space mostly free of Nazis and TERFs does wonders!
having a space mostly free of Nazis and TERFs does wonders!
March 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
the role this website has played in radicalizing liberals in such a short period of time cannot be understated tbh.
having a space mostly free of Nazis and TERFs does wonders!
having a space mostly free of Nazis and TERFs does wonders!
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Non-fascist billionaires, please consider funding like a dozen lefty media outlets, please. www.mediamatters.org/google/right...
The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces
As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this conte...
www.mediamatters.org
March 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Non-fascist billionaires, please consider funding like a dozen lefty media outlets, please. www.mediamatters.org/google/right...
If your in a the district of any of these folks. Contact them and tell them you will donate and volunteer for any primary challengers.
I am about to be a NYC resident and I will campaign against both Gillibrand and Schumer
I am about to be a NYC resident and I will campaign against both Gillibrand and Schumer
These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
March 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
If your in a the district of any of these folks. Contact them and tell them you will donate and volunteer for any primary challengers.
I am about to be a NYC resident and I will campaign against both Gillibrand and Schumer
I am about to be a NYC resident and I will campaign against both Gillibrand and Schumer
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i think it's important for folks who are generally in the "Democrats suck and never do anything helpful" camp to understand that, yes, that is more or less true, but what Chuck Schumer is doing right now is like, in a league of its own in terms of Democrats actively working against democracy
March 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
i think it's important for folks who are generally in the "Democrats suck and never do anything helpful" camp to understand that, yes, that is more or less true, but what Chuck Schumer is doing right now is like, in a league of its own in terms of Democrats actively working against democracy
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I’m calling for new leadership in the Democratic Party. So many democrats want to do the right thing, but leadership is stopping them with the unspoken threat of refusing to give them leadership positions down the road. NEW DEM LEADERSHIP NOW!! #NewDemLeadership
March 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I’m calling for new leadership in the Democratic Party. So many democrats want to do the right thing, but leadership is stopping them with the unspoken threat of refusing to give them leadership positions down the road. NEW DEM LEADERSHIP NOW!! #NewDemLeadership
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"Privately, House Democrats are so infuriated with Schumer’s decision that some have begun encouraging [AOC] to run against Schumer in a primary."
Ocasio-Cortez mobilizes Democrats against Schumer plan as colleagues privately urge her to consider primary challenge | CNN Politics
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that she plans to mobilize her massive base of followers to oppose what she described as an “acquiesce” by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to accept th...
www.cnn.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"Privately, House Democrats are so infuriated with Schumer’s decision that some have begun encouraging [AOC] to run against Schumer in a primary."
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FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.”
Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.
Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.
Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.
Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.
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 10:58 PM
FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.”
Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.
Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.
Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.
Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.
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I don’t buy the narrative that Trump & President Musk actually WANT a shutdown. If that was the truth, they would’ve put forth an even worse bill that would 100% guarantee zero Dem votes.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
March 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I don’t buy the narrative that Trump & President Musk actually WANT a shutdown. If that was the truth, they would’ve put forth an even worse bill that would 100% guarantee zero Dem votes.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
What they did was propose a bill that green-lights DOGE & Elon’s billionaire takeover by omitting guardrails.
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My two cents: we don’t abandon the Democratic Party. We remake it. It’s a good party. It just has bad leadership.
March 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
My two cents: we don’t abandon the Democratic Party. We remake it. It’s a good party. It just has bad leadership.
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everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
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Since Obergefell is being challenged and we're about to see a bunch of "should you be allowed to marry more than one person?" the answer is yes, you actually should.
Polyamorous relationships should have the same legal protections as monogamous ones, so long as all involved are consenting adults.
Polyamorous relationships should have the same legal protections as monogamous ones, so long as all involved are consenting adults.
March 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Since Obergefell is being challenged and we're about to see a bunch of "should you be allowed to marry more than one person?" the answer is yes, you actually should.
Polyamorous relationships should have the same legal protections as monogamous ones, so long as all involved are consenting adults.
Polyamorous relationships should have the same legal protections as monogamous ones, so long as all involved are consenting adults.
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Going after poppers is part of a deeply homophobic conspiracy theory with AIDS. I'm not kidding when I say this should be terrifying
March 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Going after poppers is part of a deeply homophobic conspiracy theory with AIDS. I'm not kidding when I say this should be terrifying
They must be getting swamped my calls won’t go through
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
March 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
They must be getting swamped my calls won’t go through
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If Chuck Schumer enjoys a single day in NYC for the rest of his life without being told to go fuck himself at least once, then NYC will have utterly failed as a society.
March 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
If Chuck Schumer enjoys a single day in NYC for the rest of his life without being told to go fuck himself at least once, then NYC will have utterly failed as a society.
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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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I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.
March 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.