Jen in Motion

Mike Johnson hates women so much

We’ve known for forever that they don’t think gendered violence is a really serious thing but it’s still wild to hear them say it so plainly.

Rarely is it asked, is our Joe Flacco elite?

Something that is being made *very* apparent by the rise of AI videos is that ideas without execution are kind of worthless

We often say Congress has the power of the purse, a framing coming from the Federalist Papers. But to be technical, it is federal law that has the power of the purse. Appropriations bills are laws! Rather than a fight between branches, it's better to think of this as a question of the rule of law.

Ooh, I did a thing like this in 2016 where I looked at how many seats we'd need to win in the leg to make it blue and it was fascinating work.

At this point, the gerrymandering and Supreme Court Voting Rights Act conversation are one in the same.

This is me, so I of course am not here to talk about worst case scenarios, or what makes me think the VRA could be gone by 2028.

I’m, of course, here to talk about what we CAN do.
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The most middle-aged woman thing: I desperately have been trying to find the model of bra I'm wearing but I can't because I wore away the writing on the tag and I keep looking at the brand's website and going, "NO, it has the bow and no patterning, Chantelle!"

Honestly, Mamdani has The Juice (TM), I genuinely like him like I like AOC, Raskin, Van Hollen, etc.

My relatively low-stakes conspiracy theory is that the Chiefs desperately want to release Harrison Butker but know they can’t without JD Vance being the most annoying anyone has ever been

Underrated that a lot of Dem splits come down to whether an elected works in the established large donor system or the newer small donor one.

This is...this is both the most correct and completely incorrect because if you can claim this, you are TOO FUCKING ONLINE for the senate. (I am also this person)

re: tonights NYC mayoral debate, if you dont get that Curtis Sliwa has a burning hatred for Andrew Cuomo that few of us can understand and has been waiting years to be able to be on a stage next to him where he can rip his guts out on live TV, I dont know what to tell you.

Trump Threatens Democrats As Government Shutdown Enters Third Week: Live Updates The Trump administration said it has dismissed over 4,100 federal workers since the shutdown began but a judge has since ordered it to pause the firings.

Not a surprise given the rest, but this is why impeachment being simultaneously the sole remedy and a dead letter is very, very bad.

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."

I had to do a double take, why is Doctor Oz cosplaying as Trump with hair?

No, I got a lot of lore about yesterday's Main Character and their comments on protests that I did not want, I don't need moar about another one, nooooooo.

lots of little hairline cracks starting to show

This is just one senator, but it’s representative of the fundamental problem on health care subsidies: republicans simply do not want to extend them. Mike Johnson says they do and then waves his hands a bit to hope you don’t notice the qualifiers that mean lol no I don’t.

I'm sorry that you can't just vote once and banish evil forever. I'm sorry your parents lied to you about how life works.

Despite being unable to pass a state budget, the Republican NCGA is now prioritizing the passage of partisan Congressional maps.

Democrats won across the statewide ballot in November, and these changes would further misrepresent our evenly divided state.

North Carolinians deserve better.

lol.

"So why should voters bother to reeelct Republicans if despite controlling the White House, the Supreme Court, and both chambers of Congress they still can't do anything to stop the Democrats?"

Me, looking at the VA AG race and imagining the revisionist history we'd get in 2027 if a failed Platner race was what cost us the senate: yes, you are correct, that is how that works.

Also for fuck's sake, he did the thing, Would they want it to come out NOW when they can find another Large Progressive Dude to stan or next October before Collins wins again?

70k followers for the most gutter-brained conspiratorial nonsense imagineable. Based on the idea that most bog standard, man-bites-dog "popular online outsider candidate said a bunch of slurs online" storyline of course has to be illicit coordination

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’ Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.

Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

excited to learn what new york based dipshit is going to take over the “making assumptions about portland politics based on tiktok” beat

imagine laying off a politics reporter based in portland oregon in the year 2025

Again, Mark Zuckerberg's kids go to a screen-free school with 14 students total and multiple specialized tutors