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There are about 100 protesters outside Schumer’s building in the middle of the blizzard urging him to whip Dem votes against any more ICE/CBP funding.

love that ending

CNN is taking Trump's rally live but Fox News is not

bsky.app/profile/ratl...

Would love it if someone could find that footage

Ruth Messenger pwned him on Charlie Rose in the 80s

The International Monetary Fund says the global economy will slow sharply this year — weighed down by Trump’s tariffs.

Global growth will downshift to an annual rate of 2.8%, half a percentage point lower than projected in January and a "significant slowdown."

A+++++

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literally every day is going to provide more evidence that the "let's provide some votes for the least bad trump nominees out of respect for the presidency" was a boneheaded strategy. any idiot could have told senate democrats that any vote for any of these people was going to make them look bad.

You heard Trump’s attorney general — if you visit a Tesla dealership, she will prosecute you.

Be safe! Shop somewhere else.

Whitehouse confirmed to local press he’s a No on the CR and cloture.

And so now, anytime anyone insists that Schumer is just articulating a principled position as to the limits of the possible, the rebuttal is simple, clear, and obvious.

"He fucking lied about the CR, knowing he was going to sell us out. Why do you think he's not lying now?"

He lied to us. We demanded that he fight, and because we demanded that he fight, he told us he would fight. But it was a lie.

And when the lie was revealed, he pivoted seamlessly to insisting that no fight had ever been possible, would ever be possible.

His biggest test of the second Trump administration, and Schumer just got up and lied to the Democratic base about what he was going to do, planning to covertly sell them out. And when it became clear he couldn't sell them out covertly, he just reversed course and did it in public.

AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

the military purge starts

Very true, but also, Chris, it took you a long time to switch from asking repeatedly why Americans were still complaining about inflation when it had so clearly been arrested to realizing that people were complaining because prices had still not come down. That long press cycle hurt us.

Yes. Former Treasury and OMB officials explained to me in detail what sort of power Elon Musk has now been granted. They described it as akin to having his hands on a series of spigots that he can now turn on and off:

newrepublic.com/article/1910...

Not gonna lie I did kinda expect our Democratic politicians to have something like a plan to counter the 920-page detailed fascist blueprint that was published in April 2023

@schumer.senate.gov you made a deal to advance 3 cabinet secretaries in return for having the weekend off??!!! WTF is wrong with you. They are dismantling our government. And you want time to go for brunch?

These are the dems that voted to confirm the guy that just handed the Treasury to Musk:
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Kelly
King (Independent)
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner

Isn’t it weird how the word “filibuster” has disappeared since the election? Isn’t it odd that Mitch McConnell could lock down Obama’s first term but nobody can stop unelected Elon from pulling the wires out of the walls? Even if 49% of the country voted for this, what about the 48% that didn’t?!

My mentions are filled with people insisting Senate Democrats are powerless.

They’re not. They can throw up roadblocks by denying unanimous consent, forcing quorum calls, using holds and filibusters, etc

It’s so easy to figure out even a dimwit like Tuberville managed to pull it off.

Turns out Quiet Quitting was Congress all along.

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin