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5. Articulate a political vision, yes. But also whip the %#!? caucus to hold that line, even when it hurts. Especially when it hurts.

Good luck and Godspeed.

4. I think I’m coming around on expanding the court. Get a good slogan for this and run with it. Have regular people care about it.

3. Political education on state campaign finance reforms. Then fund and run the candidates who pledge to uphold them. You’ll lose a lot. But you need to regain the moral high ground. You have to build the mountaintop.

…etc etc etc tangible wins.

2. Stop playing around and invest in the GD South’s electoral infrastructure. Don’t just hold your nose for white sides. Hold them for annoying but fundamentally right minorities, women, queer people, disabled people etc.

It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:

1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…

Honestly, after watching the whole interview, I don't know who is actually running the country. I don't think we know who is making the decisions and what he is being told. This is scary.

So the president doesn’t know about one of his pardons, says China is somehow secretly testing nukes and said of Schumer “I just left Japan; he’s become a kamikaze pilot”? OK.

Wait, did they edit an interview? Did they not air every second?

I heard that’s grounds for a multimillion lawsuit

I'll concede to the popularists that running red state Senate candidates who trash the Democratic Party likely helped those candidates win some elections, but then you have to start asking yourself what that does to the party brand in that state and nationally.

US accused of ‘bully-boy’ tactics to sink climate deal Officials say ‘threats’ used to derail net zero deal for shipping industry ripped up rules of global diplomacy

The global damage this one election inflicted will be impossible to tally

www.ft.com/content/4e0a...

The War Powers Resolution was Congress’s attempt to rein in the quasi-legal military authority that had been accumulated by the presidency. It was passed in response to Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia, Operation Menu, which was *drumroll* an airstrike campaign.

The new right-wing CBS edits out the most news worthy part of their “interview” with Trump.

Need to keep saying this:

Again imagine the reaction from US corporate media and Congressional Republicans if a 79 year old Democratic President sounded like this - having no idea what is happening around him.

Personally I think we should probably have a form of government where the executive does not get to decide what happens to taxpayer money based on his whims

I hope future generations recognize how quickly and strangely the contours of what counts as a political scandal changed for this president.

It's pretty clear that O'Donnell was warned not to probe too deeply on anything with Trump. She didn't give him a Fox level bootlicking but she let an awful lot go. . And it appears that part of the ridiculous CBS "settlement" with Trump they are allowed to freely edit his answers.

For the love of God, can just one interviewer push back on this insanity?

There are people seeking political asylum in America. They were not taken out of mental asylums in other countries and brought here.

It's a big mistake with big ramifications, but no one wants to correct Our Special Boy.

why we do not have a 24/7 media drumbeat, "the president is mentally incompetent," I will never understand

“My sons are into it. I’m glad they are. It’s probably a great industry, crypto.”

(Wasn’t so long ago that much of the press was losing its mind over Hunter Biden’s overpriced paintings)

Weird.

It's almost like her current boyfriend, the director of the FBI who flies her around the nation on government jets, might have shared information that would normally be limited to trusted law enforcement circles.

But that can't be right, because that would probably be a *crime*

Ok, this HAS to be blown up everywhere.

This asshole has been saying that Biden didn't know who he was pardoning and they used an auto pen. Comer sent a referral to the DOJ.

Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen.

Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy!

Sorta seems like a problem.

F.D.A. Drug Unit Chief Is Placed on Leave, and Cites a ‘Toxic’ Environment

Wow: George Tidmarsh, brought in by Trump admin to lead FDA’s drug division, is on leave after he says he questioned FDA’s plan to speed drug approvals, @by-cjewett.bsky.social reports

Also says he clashed with Vinay Prasad and blames him for a toxic environment at FDA

We need to address the fact that the LAPD - which is not ICE and at least nominally under the control of a liberal Democrat -- is violent and out of control and violating human rights just like the feds are

Ignorance isn't bliss, I'm afraid. More like ignorance is cancer

Conservative Bishops when people who oppose birth control have health care plans that include it: This is a grave violation of religious liberty!
Those same bishops when immigrants in ICE custody are denied the Body of Christ: No big deal.
I’m so glad these JP2 & Benedict bishops are set to retire.

This is the same as using lawfare to prosecute the presidents political enemies, the same as Speaker Johnson refusing to swear in an elected Democrat, the same as Trump still claiming he won the 2020 election.
It is not a democracy if opposition figures are not allowed to hold power.

Perhaps the most impressive thing about him is he has never risen to the bait on this, not once. His answer is always some form of, “I want to be Mayor of New York.”

The Trump-Vance war on the Catholic Church. They’re now detaining people as they exercise the call of their Catholic faith.

This is one of those inconvenient truths: it’s a lot easier for various well-paid strategists and pundits to advise “stop saying Latinx” (a non-issue) versus “substantively change the media environment and people’s online consumption habits”