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Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline.

I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate.

Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.

Mother's side: sales rep for the local electrical utility company
Father's side: battalion chief for the Washington D.C. Fire Department (and former marine)

Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.

Dem Candidate for Rep. Eric Swalwell’s Seat Donated to Far-Right Republicans — Including Laura Loomer Democratic primary hopeful Rakhi Israni, who is running for Rep. Eric Swalwell’s seat, gave to MAGA figures — including Laura Loomer.

NEW: A Democratic candidate in the primary in Eric Swalwell’s district raised $2M in the first two weeks of her campaign from unknown donors.

Rakhi Israni’s personal political donations have gone to over 10 MAGA and far right candidates including Laura Loomer.

theintercept.com/2026/03/04/c...

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

Pity about Good Morning, Good Morning, because it has George's most ripping guitar solo in their entire catalog.

The West Wing was the early 2000s administration we wished (fooled ourselves) we had instead of the actual Bible-quoting peabrain we got.

#Fascism is a suicide cult, and it's the perfect political philosophy for the religous end-times-ers eagerly awaiting for the final war to scour the Earth in fire. (Assuming they'll be the ones who "benefit" from it somehow...)
We've never had this conjunction of self-destructiveness before.

As if we haven't alienated all our allies already. Still, the bases were the next step.

I guess this is what happens when you pack the white house press corps with a bunch of very online propagandists and boot the real journalists.
Maybe now we'll see the WHCA dinner as the farce it always was.

Remind me which party launched two wars on Iraq, plus others on Afghanistan, Panama, Granada, Somalia, Cambodia...

It seems to me we can draw a (relatively) straight line from Trump abandoning the Iran nuclear deal nine years ago to Trump launching a war in Iran.

Impeachable offense under any other adminsitration.

This is a big deal

I’m sure bombing them to ashes is going to win their hearts and minds.

Usually when Republicans make messes, it's the Democrats' job to clean them up. Except these people are working to ensure no Democrat ever gets elected president again.

Good grief. I can't stand it.

We're all Charlie Brown now.

Trump’s Fury at Canada Backfires in Surprise Blow to GOP’s 2026 Hopes The number of Canadians visiting the U.S. fell off a cliff in 2025. It’s pretty clear why. And this fall, the GOP should be made to pay a political price for it.

This is striking: Trump's deranged attacks on Canada have caused a big drop in Canadian visits to states like Michigan, hurting the state's economy. There are 3 vulnerable House Republicans in Michigan. So this lunacy could help cost GOP the House. 1/

(new piece)

newrepublic.com/article/2071...

Done

(wasn't using it that much for anything of any significance, but nonetheless...)

Yes, he should have asked Congress. But if by chance someone does introduce a fait-accompli, they must vote against it. No "rally-around-the-flag" bullshit in Trump's war of choice.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Also, I doubt many media figures of are asking about illegally withheld files in the Jeffery Epstein case this morning.

Operation Subject Change is go!

You can tell which U.S. wars stem from the politics of the moment, designed to score points at home, and which have pure military goals outside domestic politics. It's in the name. Is the name obscure sounding, not giving a hint as to what it is? Military. Is it made for TV? Politics.

To make a point I should think would be obvious: Trump choosing to go to war without informing Democratic leadership in Congress should free leadership from the need for any "rally around the flag"-type of posturing.

This is Trump's war. #BoredofPeace

It's probably good they're rebranding the honors. It keeps the taint a little further from the previous honorees.

There's a whole lot of other policies that really ought to be enacted to future-proof a democracy. Others have listed them elsewhere, both on this site and the old one (where I started tooting this horn years ago). But dealing with the secret police has to be job number one.

Of course, per the OP, it's one thing to know or even be willing to consider actual solutions to the fascistic cancer eating the nation alive. It's quite another to choose to spend political capital on it, instead of the usual donor-service model of politics. Too many have sold their souls.

And especially, full-on dismantlement of the DHS, severing immigration and citizenship services from law enforcement permanently.
And if we're doing all that, reworking the entire immigration process to make it feasible for nonwhite and/or poorer people to come. Stop throwing up roadblocks!

And since I'm in a pithy/pissy mood, here's what I think ought to happen:
Numermberg trials for leaders.
Truth and reconciliation processes for underlings (in exchange for some leniency in sentencing; blanket pardons need to go out the window).
Job retraining for all to rebuild infrastructure.

I would think anyone opposed to Naziism will have no problem firing tens of thousands of ICE agents.

We could retrain them, but the American way is to toss 'em to the free market wolves. If we're going to create WPA-style employment program, open it to everyone, unless they're an insurrectionist.