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I spent the entire Biden presidency warning idiotic establishment Senate Dems and Biden who opposed getting rid of the filibuster that Trump and the GOP would come back to power and do it themselves. I hate to say I told you so but… I fucking told you so.

Go big or go home.

6 is too many.

Get it down to 3.

UBI, universal healthcare, end corruption (I.e. restore democracy, rule of law, liberty). Be bold and unapologetic.

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a 31st day.

She holds the record for the longest wait to be sworn in of any special House election winner in decades.

Spotify hit with boycott calls after airing Trump's ICE ads: 'Don’t stream fascism' Outrage over Spotify running advertisements for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ramped up on Tuesday, with the progressive advocacy group Indivisible urging users to cancel their subscriptions ...

Oh we're just getting started. www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-26...

We reign in oligarchs and corporate overreach w taxes and democratic reform. Lift everyone up with universal healthcare and UBI.

We don’t surrender the ability to bring criminals to justice (defend human rights) - but lead with really good shit.

Fund #1-2 with significant wealth/ billionaire taxes. Restoring democracy and justice encapsulates abolish ice, reform the police, fixing scotus, and new VRA, dc statehood, banning congressional stock trades, etc. but the broader theme is US the 97% or whatever v them the 1%.

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I think the lesson I’m taking from this AND the popularity of mamdani/ kitchen table issues would be for the dems to keep their progressive goals but identify 3 big ideas and run on that all day long. I’d suggest:
-Universal healthcare
-Universal basic income
-Restoring democracy and justice

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Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇

If you have a RING door system, ICE has the right to request that footage and use it against you or your neighbors.

RING is partnering with the Gestapo.

seemingly, without making a ripple in the new cycle, MSNBC reporting yesterday that schools in Chicago have moved to indoor recess because of ICE presence and use of chemical weapons.

this country has failed children at every given opportunity.

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You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights.

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This happened today.

CNN is reporting that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social referred to a voter he was meeting as “my man” at a campaign event today, even though the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution has made it illegal to own human beings since 1865 and remains the law in states including New York

I’m sorry, if someone has a birth certificate that proves they were born here but a mobile app with face recognition software disagrees, they will side with the app?

What?

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

A fall morning in Chicago now: biking down Lawrence through Albany Park, which looks like a relative ghost town compared to its usual foot traffic, watching as street vendors scramble to pack up and flee because ICE just grabbed someone. Folks screaming and whistling at every intersection.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

New Yorkers: we have to run it through the tape for Mamdani.

Assume nothing until it’s all over.

Vote, and get everyone you know to vote.

We all know how things have gone in the last decade when folks got comfortable thinking we had it in the bag.

It’s not over until it’s over.

Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party | Robert Reich Democratic party leaders like Chuck Schumer refuse to endorse Mamdani, and the New York Times wrongly cautions against h

This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic party.

It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic party.

Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/28/zohran-mamdani-democratic-party

Jesus Christ my pta wants to help families who are losing SNAP benefits and I said ok let’s raise money went give gift cards to the families.

But no that’s too simple a solution. They want to assemble food baskets and send them home with 7 year olds.

I can’t deal with white people today.

Rugby. Raw athleticism. Played by men and women. All ages all sizes. Kicking, running, tackling, passing, wrestling. Insane fitness requirements. Feats of strength. Batshit insane kick passes. A game that progresses and builds each phase but can also turn on a dime based on the bounce of the ball.

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

It's easy to believe most applicants to ICE can't even pass an open book test when you see the successful ones like this chad threatening to arrest a photographer simply for walking behind him in a goddamn Sam's Club parking lot.

Not exactly the sharpest bunch here.

John Dickerson To Depart CBS News In First Major Talent Exit Under New Paramount Owners John Dickerson, co-anchor of CBS Evening News who has been with the network since 2009, said that he is exiting at the end of this year.

dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.

The voting machines weren't hacked and the vote counts weren't fabricated in 2024 for all the same reasons it didn't happen in 2020, either.

Most charitably, those pushing that stuff are gullible and ill-informed. There's a real constitutional omni-crisis going on without making stuff up.

Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."

That’s was so much more than I expected…lol. But now I’m thinking about how I would have felt if you’d just responded with “38 years”.

Thank you so much. Your posts are so helpful and necessary. I know a lot of us appreciate it.

The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

How long did you live in misery before you were able to”choose” happiness?