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BREAKING: Chuck Schumer just acquired magic beans from John Thune in exchange for the National Parks, describes it as “a great deal for the American people”

Just a wildly shortsighted cut. Hurts Nebraska educators and students, and eliminates a really strong team.

Join your county Democratic Party! There are shockingly few people willing to show up and those are the people who get to make decisions

Before and after, street filled with cars to a street for people including kids

It’s not just about what you remove (cars, noise, dirty air). It’s about what you add (people walking, a lot of bike parking, trees, outdoor dining, and room for kids to play safely). Amsterdam: 1986 and today.

Streets for people.

HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after

If we go on strike, our union of 12,000 workers are calling on customers to NOT BUY STARBUCKS.

Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org

People in a protected bike-lane in downtown Vancouver.

A complete, connected, comfortable network of protected bike-lanes is a climate mitigation strategy. It’s a healthy cities strategy. It’s a social equity strategy. It’s an affordability strategy. It’s an economic devt strategy. It’s a smart mobility & space saving strategy.

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Etc.

The Senate votes in favor of the ban on happiness, enacting huge penalties for smiling even quietly to yourself when you're alone. 15 Democrats cross party lines for what they called a commonsense compromise.

Schumer gets a handshake agreement to let 10 people smirk once a week

Primary them all.

Adam Corolla is the textbook example of why divorce protections are important for nonworking spouses - he used to brag routinely on his show about how his wife didn't have to work because he earned so much. It was a point of pride for him that she quit her job when they got married.

Taking out a 15 year loan to buy an item that typically lasts 10 years

In the interview he makes it clear that
* he believes that is impossible to make Trump back down, even though that happens on the daily.
* His definition of "fighting" is holding press conferences

It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.

Inflation over this period was a cumulative 92%. Median household income increased by 16%. So everything below approximately 125% on this chart is the same price or cheaper in real terms as a percent of income for the median household. (If you use per capita GDP instead, that 16% becomes like 70%.)

These figures are in nominal terms, which is absolutely wild. Half the things listed here got cheaper or stayed the same *even without adjusting for inflation*.

THE CITY OF WASHINGTON WAS BUILT ON A STAGNANT SWAMP SOME 200 YEARS AGO AND VERY LITTLE HAS CHANGED.

IT STANK THEN AND IT STINKS NOW.

If yall don’t do nothing else, I want you to let those AI videos go. Please. People are still being funny and cute in real life. Please join the rest of us back in reality.

Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.

Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.

One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.

Worth noting - you don’t do this if you think you’ll be in power forever

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Health care costs will skyrocket, people will lose coverage, and the transfer of wealth from the poor to the ultrarich will continue.

DC has faced the brunt of the shutdown, but federal workers are still resolute in calling on Dems to hold the line. Where is our fight?

This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone

This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?

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

when pizza enters the bagel sector, you can have it any time

Trump regularly ignores the law. That's why it's important to pass more laws saying "hey, you got to do this". It's called the Pinky Swear Principle

Translation from Ken Martin: "WTF, guys?"

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

For the WE LOVE CAPITALISM crowd, I can't overstate how big a problem the current healthcare system is for actually starting a business. I would have NEVER started this company if my wife wasn't working in health care in 2020 (and had that sweet heath care industry insurance).