Squirrel Revolt

Opinion | The compromise that might make risking a third Trump term worth it Eliminating the electoral college is worth the short-term risk of another Trump presidency.

let's just go ahead and put this in the bad takes hall of fame

A series of quorum calls or objecting to UC during the day would do more to disrupt the Senate than 12 hours of talking over night.

call your local party chair. knock a packet for your school board candidates. register some college kids. do anything that moves the needle.

this is why we lose.

dozens of folks willing to spend their saturday afternoon being civically engaged...and they use that time to hold up witty signs.

we've spent years criticizing the "own the libs" mentality and now we're just doing the exact same thing.

james malone hasn't even been a state senator-elect for 48 hours and he's already taken down a presidential nomination

for the next pa dems newsletter, they should do a piece condemning musk and doge for all the reckless firings. they can contrast it with a story about their years-long journey to protect the job of their worst employee until they tragically had no choice but to do the right thing and let him go

real bold decision to address this on camera today.

does he not know how much worse he makes things when he talks?

Tax revenue could drop by 10 percent amid turmoil at IRS Staff cuts and disruptions related to the U.S. DOGE Service have officials bracing for a sharp loss of revenue.

connor roy was right apparently - stop paying your taxes

With Orders, Investigations and Innuendo, Trump and G.O.P. Aim to Cripple the Left The president and his allies in Congress are targeting the financial, digital and legal machinery that powers the Democratic Party and much of the progressive political world.

while there's absolutely no basis for these "investigations," Democrats should both be scared and be preparing contingency plans.

it's not hyperbole to say that without ActBlue, Bonterra/VAN and Hopewell/1630 we would not have won a single (contested) federal election in the past two cycles.

absolutely agree! not sure how saying the system needs to change how's it funded is "agreeing with the enemy." but please let me know!

i don't actually! that's why I said "reform" and not "completely eliminate." thanks for checking

not being able to pay 100% of your obligations, given your existing and projected assets, and thus having to engage in a process to only partially meet your obligations, is the definition of bankruptcy.

and yes, raising the cap is absolutely the best approach to reforming the current setup

fun fact: social security is in fact going bankrupt unless we reform it.

starting your response by acknowledging and validating the view of the listener is how you build a bridge and get them to listen to your point.

ignoring reality is how you get quickly dismissed as a contrarian idiot.

Opinion | Democrats sent a scary message with those pink outfits Please tell me that Democratic lawmakers have a plan up their pink sleeves.

another lefty opinion column that makes me want to put my head through a wall.

"democrats should DO something!"
"no, not that."
"no, *i* don't have any ideas to contribute."
"why aren't they giving me what i want, but can't begin to describe?"

@postopinions.bsky.social really meeting the moment

hardly the biggest news of the day, but this one hits home. it feels more and more like the era of smart data politics that started around 2006 is over. now it's all just angry talking heads and clickbait headlines.

Delaware County Republican withdraws from county council race after days of online attacks over DEI Tasliym Morales withdrew from the race for Delaware County Council after other Republicans attacked her over DEI and said she wasn't conservative enough.

meanwhile in delaware county...

"Morales’ decision to withdraw followed days of attacks on social media, primarily from conservative activist Leah Hoopes, targeting her for her background, arguing she wasn’t a real Republican, and accusing her of supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion."

just love how clear dlcc is making it that the PA senate isn't on their radar and can't be flipped given the current maps

still unbelievable how much better mcclinton handled 2021-22 compared to hughes and costa

like how did that call go? "hi, i'm salena. just yesterday i wrote a basically racist column attacking summer lee. would you like to help us stage a photo op where mccormick pets your dog?"

Opinion | Pennsylvania, the swing state that defies conventional wisdom Two senators from opposing parties focus on the commonwealth’s industrial heritage, not politics.

look, i get that no one is willing to work comms for sen. fetterman anymore. but for the love of god, can someone call him and give him a heads up that 'sitting down with right-wing hacks who are paid to make republicans look good' is a bad plan?

took us a month to get to literal secret police forces

if the left is going to come out of this stronger, it would help if self-proclaimed "leading voices" would get offline and learn something about government actually works.

trying to press on with a business model that only encourages fact-free outrage is going to make it worse.

Democratic Party Leaders Are Asleep at the Wheel Despite the organizing of thousands of federal workers and a growing grassroots opposition to Donald Trump, the Democratic Party leadership refuses to offer any serious opposition to a billionaire cou...

another article about dem leadership "doing nothing" while outlining exactly zero proposals for what they might do.

nothing. no hint of substantive criticism beyond "cool it with the nicknames." just childish whining.

Scoop: Mayor Cherelle Parker had lien filed against her for unpaid property taxes The city said the mayor owed $634.85 for a vacant plot of land she owns in Mount Airy.

dear revenue dept: thank you for investing in modernizing your systems so the city can catch things like this, and we can all laugh at how every psrt of it is hilarious

crazy choice to say they are launching a program when the texts went out last week. i guess the party staff got enough angry calls from their county parties that they realized they had to say something about it?

glad to see pa dems is starting off 2025 spending some of their nest egg on an ambitious new texting program designed to...recruit dems to run in districts that are already held by dems?

Trump’s Gaza takeover plan met with bafflement, skepticism from Senate lawmakers ‘We’ll see what our Arab friends say about that. I think most South Carolinians would not be excited about sending Americans to take over Gaza. I think that might be problematic,’ Sen Lindsey Graham s...

send US troops to Gaza?

Graham: "problematic"
Paul: "unlikely" and “no business”
Hawley: not the "best us of...resources"
Tillis: "obviously it’s not going to happen"
Mike Johnson: "let’s withhold judgement"

Fetterman: "I fully support"

"whereas i had a chance to persuade voters not to support dems and i just dove right into it"

i mean i get the argument that senate dems could slow down confirmations, but again, trump doesn't want the government to function. he's not gonna care if there's a senate-confirmed agriculture secretary

not to pick on this person in particular, but - i don't really know what people like this mean by "we" and "allow"

every house dem could literslly light themselves on fire in front of the treasury building today. it wouldn't make a difference.

mass protests in the street? why would they care

for all y'all who just "couldn't get on board with kamala" because gaza or she's a cop or whatever...hope you feel good today