Michael Anderson

So many vestiges of time prior to instant communication and ubiquitous nationwide travel

I think Jackson may surprise! But the others most certainly not.

I dislike Schumer a ton, but this is fully on Minchin and Sinema. You can blame him and other party leaders though for repeatedly failing to lay the ground work for a pressure campaign but its not clear that would have swayed the key votes anyway.

I don't think I exaggerate when I say that the abolition of the filibuster is a matter of national security and the continuity of civilization

Need more Senators to be echoing it, but yes this is good!

The fact that Goldman is saying they seems to indicate the caucus is pretty in on this

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.
 
Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

I do not think there is anything nefarious! I think its bad to convince yourself that she is the only person who can win and that believing that is symptomatic of larger problems. I will also say people arguing the opposite side are also wrong IMO.

That is fair but I think one big concern here is that the party establishment players that heavily lobbied for her to enter the race clearly do not think it is an issue! Which is itself a problem.

This is stupid. Dems have a standalone bill at the ready to pay the troops. The house just needs to come back and pass it. If they don’t thats on Rs.

Trump is in ‘excellent’ health, White House says, amid questions about second exam Outside physicians asked why the president was making a return trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, six months after undergoing medical tests.

I spoke with physicians who have treated presidents and VPs about Trump's return visit to Walter Reed — and they had questions.

“The answer that this was just part of his usual annual, or semi-annual visit, is disingenuous,” @jreinermd.bsky.social told me.

I also think another problem here is that people typically do not run for Senate to serve only a single term and projecting it out makes it much more problematic!

Ike is the one that sent in the troops, Nikons 1960 vp was former MA senator Henry Cabot Lodge, the south was still a Dem stronghold in Congress, and the key votes for the actual CRA were northern republicans like IL senator Everett Dirksen.

In 1968 he did

Yes lots of weird stuff could have emerged! I dont think khrushchev trys to put the missiles in Cuba for instance.

The rest of this thread is nonsense but I think Nixon elected in 1960 could have been heterodox on that front. The republican party was split on the issue and the southern strategy hadn’t been deployed and cemented yet. Nixon was kind of ideologically vacuous.

Do we know who the pannel is on this one?

FUCK THIS

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

When a blow-up frog is more articulate and grounded in reality than the President of the United States.

Both

I am tired of this shit. Constantly insisting new things are not possible and running the same stuff because its "worked" while never trying anything different ever sucks. Stop running scared and do what's better not just for today but the long run.

It’s maybe not shocking that the institutions closest to fact—district judges, juries—have proven most robust against an onslaught of lies, but it’s to journalism’s eternal shame that it has behaved like the political institutions and not the honest ones.

Anyone know the deal with the low flying choppers on the northwest side of chicago tonight?

Anne Frank and Underground Railroad analogies write themselves.

The media coverage does not reflect this AT ALL.

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

Also being supremely let down by their superiors

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

Seen in Maywood, Illinois