Reverend Dave

/3 I am informed it’s normal to get more intolerant as I get older and I think I am absolutely getting less tolerant of other people’s absolute bullshit.

not beating the "he's staring into the grave" allegations here

Anyway, a newsroom that just paid $16 million to settle a bogus lawsuit over a trivial editing matter probably ought to keep a standards editor around, but WDIK

this is literally never not accurate

Goddamn what I wouldnt give to live under the Dark Carnival administration. President Violent J and VP Shaggy 2 Dope would - with absolutely no hyperbole - be so much better than the current horror show or feckless assholes like Schumer. I want my POTUS to have clown make up and basic human decency.

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$11k deductible
$16k out of pocket max

the marketplace page says i can apply for a catastrophic plan w hsa based on affordability. there are no such plans for my state

This is so unimportant compared to the many blazing tire fires in America, but dems WHAT WOULD YOU SAY YOU DO HERE AT THIS POINT?

what if the firehose of fascist shit isn't wiping out the memory of the electorate? what if it's just hitting different things? and idk it seems like a persisting problem to me that dems aren't in lockstep with and fully tied to no kings, possibly the biggest social movement in american history

In Italy labor unions helped start a network of left-leaning news/music radio stations that have become some of the staples of public information in much of the country. They now run on a donation / ads model, but initial investment was from labor. I think about this often.

Much like 2024, Democrats seem to think there’s a binary choice in the 2026 election between voting for Republicans (evil) and voting for Democrats (feckless).

They rarely acknowledge the third option which inevitably harms them the most: staying home.

"How could Dems cave like this after last Tuesday's victory?" But it wasn't a victory for Schumer. His candidate -- the Trump-supported one -- lost. The jubilation and hope folks feel about Mamdani? Chuck feels the opposite. To sum up: he sucks.

Guarantee in the next 24 hours some Democratic consultant type will go on CNN and say, with a dismissive little chuckle, “Well, we didn’t win any points with Bluesky.”

Bitch please a lot of Americans barely even remember Jan 6th

It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare

the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence

this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch

Uh I hate to break it to Slow House but you can't pardon state crimes, and all of the fake elector prosecutions involve state offenses.

The base can handle some kayfabe but not when Republicans are torching the constitution and abducting people off the street.

NEW from @votersoftomorrow.org:

“Either through complicity or incompetence, Chuck Schumer once again proved he cannot provide the type of leadership that young Americans demand. It is clear he must step down as caucus leader.”

Let everybody else be clear: you are preventing any chance of that happening.

DHS/ICE used an Olivia Rodrigo song for a video on Instagram and after calling them disgusting, Olivia's team allegedly pulled the song for use on Insta so the video has no background music.

This is the second time she's done this - previously it was a tiktok song.

In exchange for nothing, Schumer let the Senate blink right before the universal pain point ofassive travel
disruptions could have forced real concessions from the Senate Republicans, who were for half a week reeling at popular disapproval and electoral defeat.

Asking my Senators to vote for new leadership; either Chuck Schumer cannot whip votes, in which case he's useless, or he is fine giving up leverage for nothing, in which case he's worthless.

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

A real banner week for Chuck Schumer, given that only a few days ago he refused to back the Democratic nominee for mayor of his home city.

More than 10,000 flights delayed in worst day of disruptions since shutdown More than 2,800 flights were canceled Sunday, while Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said the shutdown’s impact on airports is “only going to get worse.”

This and the airline industry lobbyists are what did it. Not Americans starving and paying twice as much for healthcare.

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Senate Democrats are the only group of people in America that could look at the election results from *less than a week ago* and conclude, “Ah, what the people want now is for us to roll over and show our bellies to the reactionary creeps”

This is most directly about the fake electors (none of whom face any federal charges anyway) but the actual wording of it is much broader: it's effectively a full and complete blanket pardon for anybody who had anything to do with trying to steal the 2020 election, not just the Jan 6-ers.

First page of pardons

Second page of pardons

Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really

Ed Martin seemed to explicitly link the pardons to his “No MAGA left behind” mantra—tweeting the news in reply to a post that said exactly that.

In addition to his role as pardon attorney, Martin leads the Weaponization Working Group, which probes alleged “politicization” of the Justice Department.