People like this guy are the ones in charge of the Republican party. There are some more reasonable ones in the grassroots, but they have no power. All policy is being driven by people like Joel Webbon.

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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.

WATCH — @timmiller.bsky.social : "You know what would be a better message than what Angus King is saying? MAGA podcaster Tim Dillon saying nobody's life is better since Trump took office, and maybe we should focus on helping people."

The hemp farmers forgot to give Trump a piece of the action. Cut him in for 20% and this all goes away.

This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.

We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party

It's depressing seeing so many rubes trying to defend being offered a fucking 50 year mortgage....

fresh off caving, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is going on Fox & Friends

Yeah, people will be so much happier when they negotiate their own insurance because folks definitely have enough information to navigate that process without getting fleeced. And we all famously love negotiating prices - that’s why everyone loves used car salespeople.

Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

Even the hard core right thinks Trump’s solution to “affordability” sucks.

Khanna explains his call for Schumer to be replaced over shutdown deal: "He is not meeting the moment" Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is "out of touch with where the party's base is."

'"Look, I've worked with Sen. Schumer. He did an incredible job on the CHIPS Act, on the [Inflation Reduction Act], on infrastructure. But it's time for him to be replaced. He is not meeting the moment. He's out of touch with where the party's base is."'

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"The Appeasement Eight gave Republicans bipartisan cover, and established another point of leverage Trump has over Congressional Dems...in a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Therefore, preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move."

Yep:

On Saturday, while fighting tooth-and-nail to keep SNAP benefits from going to hungry families, Trump debuted a seafood buffet at Mar-a-Lago with shrimp towers, lobster tails, and loads of caviar.

Congressional republicans have greenlighted his callousness, corruption, and cruelty at every step.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Trump has executed six more civilians in a small boat. The death toll now stands at 76.

The Contrarian

Robert Reich The Failures of “Centrism”

Centrist Democrats in the Senate folded on the shutdown, throwing away their leverage in exchange for worthless GOP promises.

When will they learn that there is no center between a government of oligarchs and a government of the people? https://youtu.be/EQzG_TrhyrY?si=LBXGJad9NjGyBGBo

Jim Obergefell celebrates U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of Kim Davis’s marriage equality challenge “I hope the Supreme Court halts further attempts by public officials to use their personal faith to deny others their civil and human rights,” the civil rights icon told The Advocate.

“Kim Davis should have lived up to her oath and duties as a public servant by serving everyone in Rowan County, Kentucky,” Jim Obergefell told me. “Instead, she chose to use her faith to persecute others.”

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Toad sits in the dark by his garden, reading a story to his seeds by candlelight. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*

“I will read the seeds a story,” said Toad. “Then they will not be afraid.”

Toad read a long story to his seeds.

Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

“Hopefully the Republicans may hear us” may be the dumbest sentence I’ve heard uttered since her colleague from Maine said Trump “learned his lesson” after his first impeachment.

80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.

Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?

My entire life Republicans’ game has been to stymy, undercut & undermine when Democrats have power so they can point to the resulting failings as evidence progressive policies are dysfunctional & then they get power & aggressively gut every social gain & Dems are still like ‘maybe we can negotiate’

"The central goal of much anti-transgender rhetoric is to make cisgender people believe that their interests and trans people’s interests cannot be met at the same time."

YES! @gbbranstetter.bsky.social hits the nail on the head

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."

The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.

And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.