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I used to have to park my hard drive before I shut down the family pc.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

This is big. Speaker Johnson’s procedural loophole to avoid a vote on Trump’s wildly unpopular, cost-raising tariffs failed. I’m glad my bipartisan resolutions in the Senate to undo Trump’s tariffs have passed, and now it’s time for the House to vote to do the same.

No, Our Revolution is the Bernie PAC that lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to an international crime ring because their staff fell for a [checks notes] email hack.

Or so they told the IRS in 2017.

I wonder if they told their donors.

$1 billion dollars to support veterans struggling with homelessness thanks to Prop 1, exemptions on income tax, and more.

#SB694 builds on @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom’s legacy of supporting and protecting veterans in California.

The most annoying part is that the trap they're setting is so blatantly obvious and yet Fulton County has no choice BUT to rush headlong into it.

They know they're going to lose.

That's what they want, the case to be dismissed so they can scream and rally their base.

Time and time again, Susan Collins has prioritized the President, her donors and her party's interests over those she represents.

She has made clear where her loyalties lie, and it's not with Maine people.

Enough is enough.

Hey really quick - which party controls the judiciary and has since the Civil Rights Act?

Actually, what happens in Black women show up, do the organization, the fundraising, and then the white DSA show up afterwards, gentrify the movement, pervert its message, and ultimately cause it to fail because they're too toxic for the average American.

BLM. Occupy. And now Minnesota.

Israel isn’t why antisemitism exists.

Antisemites are why antisemitism exists.

And antisemitism is why Israel must exist.

If I warn you about a horrific disease, detail all of the symptoms you'll suffer if you contract it, and then offer you a vaccine which you reject - it's not actually my fault that you now have contracted that disease and are experiencing those symptoms, right?

Because the alternative to the GOP is [waves hands] is what we have now.

It's MAGA. It's white supremacy, it's the denial of evidence, and it's populism at its basest form.

If a conservative party does not exist, it'll be created. And it'll look like this.

He gained control over the White House because of his ownership of Haliburton and how crucial they were to Bush's nation building efforts in Iraq.

It wasn't that Bush listened to him, it was that Bush NEEDED him to keep the quagmire going.

The nation building started in earnest in 2006.

This is the same problem Hegseth has.

He apparently never received the "difference between being in command and being a leader" course that's taught at the military academies.

So he keeps demanding people treating him like a leader, when in reality he's only in command.

@schumer.senate.gov getting the Republicans to separate the DHS funding bill is a massive legislative win for Democrats, but our fuckwit "progressives" won't see it.

Hey @akivamcohen.bsky.social , someone heard your message this morning.

That's part of the problem.

The other part is those moderators are being pressured to turn the debates into reality TV because of ratings.

The other OTHER part is that competent and effective government is boring, and people don't tune in every day.

We've incentivized chaos and corruption.

But does it really?

The closest thing we heard to a cogent plan from Trump was "ideas of a plan" for healthcare, and we then flattened that, compared it against Harris' actual plan, picked her plan apart at the seams until both plans looked similar, and then expected voters to tell the difference.

We combined a demand for Presidents to prmoise treats with the impossibility to remove them if they lied to gain power, and we're now somehow shocked that the WWE cutout turned reality TV host turned sleezy businessman won the election?

The voters practically rewrote the rules to demand it.

But part of this has to do with the idea that policy matters in a Presidential election, where it's the place it matters the least.

A President can't make policy, only execute what Congress allows them to.

Presidents control militaries and nukes and their cabinets, not policies.

Restore patience as a civic virtue

Democratic action is slow not because it is weak but because it is designed to outlast moods — including righteous ones

Authoritarian movements move fast because they burn fuel they don’t intend to replenish: trust, restraint, legitimacy

It's almost like throwing a temper tantrum in November and letting the polls show that the voters wanted more immigration enforcement was a mistake.

Also the funny thing about the LR act: it's actually hurting Trump's ICE.

Its become quite the double edged sword.

No, that's the only leverage voters decided Democrats should have the next two years: trading votes on judges for votes they can't stop to get Republicans to vote with them on things that they can.

Now if voters weren't such feckless cowards and would demand the Republicans actually do their jobs..

Thats because after the Republicans blocked his removal, Republican judges blocked the collection of evidence, Republican judges blocked and delayed indictments, Republican justices gave him immunity - voters blamed Democrats and pardoned him.

Voters set him free after Biden indicted him.

Glad to hear it.

Too many activists who are taught never to celebrate a small victory because doing so decreases motivations (and donations) towards their goal of a BIG victory, which is always JUST far out of reach to be domiciled only in the realm of aspirations, which means it never needs to be detailed.

Hopefully the doggos are well.

I think 2008 is going to be my "Blackwater" date.

Basically if you met Epstein outside of his lawyers office after 2008, there's pretty much no excuse that's justifies it.

He asked me where this is in the Constitution, and then blocked me.

Pretty sure Art III Section 2 where it grants that "

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made," covers his question.

Art III Sec 2.

"The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made"

Or, more simply, the judiciary determines whether a law of the United States is valid or not.