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seeing a lot of people talking about borders and thought i'd cut right to the quick: we have duties to those we share our lives with, those we share our communities with, and those we share this existence with. the only role of the nation is to blind us to these

"Fuck moving forward. Screw coming together. We are going to hire a team of prosecutors so large it needs its own building, fund them so well they have their own helicopters, and instruct them to go after everyone who broke the law from the White House to individual ICE agents."

it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are

My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time.
No more hiding behind election terms.

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I realize that my primary job is helping people sort out their romantic lives but... good god damn at some point I'm going to need to write a VERY long diatribe at how elevating romance to being more "important" than friendship is why so many folks are single and miserable.

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

The problem is why would we trust you and your colleagues to fight united with us and the working class when you continue to bend the knee at every turn?

You can't even keep your caucus on the same freaking page and we're all going to suffer for it. But sure, lecture us about unity.

nobody's interested in kayfabe when they can't afford the admission

I wonder if any future historians who write about this moment in time, will make a note of Trump being savagely booed by tens of thousands of people literally at the same time that 8 Democrats bent the knee.

And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term.

In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

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they’re playing in our faces because they know millions of us will still shuffle our feet and avoid each other’s eyes while we Lesser of Two Evils our way into hell.

no. no. fuck them. fuck this. no.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

[through gritted teeth, visibly trembling] I must strive to maintain a sense of whimsy

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

My god but the Democrats will always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, won’t they?

Somehow @schumer.senate.gov & company saw America rally behind them a few days ago & decided “well we can’t have that can we?”

Primary Every Democrat It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.

Chuck Schumer is about to lose his job (positive).

Claiming that getting a vote destined to fail as a win is an insult to everyone’s intelligence

even if they’re really dumb enough to cave, the amount of real-time rage being generated at the dem leadership is inspiring.

if the democracy stays conscious just long enough for another election we’re going to get 10,000 zohrans in every city, every state, and also the white house.

I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

It’s because they want to stop the progressive Democrat victory momentum last week in its tracks because they can raise more money as perpetual (controlled) opposition to Trumpism

Nothing would be more in character for the current Democratic party than to look at the victories of Tuesday and immediately surrender

The regime despises poor people, yes. And importantly it does not fear poor people as a political force. It's important to take both of these together to understand what they are doing with SNAP. They do not believe that they will incur lasting political costs for their current actions.

It would in fact be throwing 10s of millions people out in the cold without any clothing. Again, how would this make sense to the Democratic party???

If they give up on those ACA subsidies, they aren't ever going to get them back

One of the many problems with the elected leadership of the Democratic Party right now is that most of us have no idea why they are doing what they are (apparently) doing. Why would they cave *right now* for essentially nothing? What is the logic, even if it's dogshit logic? Totally unclear. 1/2

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I think a lot about the leaked signal chat, in which it was clear that folks were claiming presidential backing without any evidence. That’s how our government is running. People lying that they’ve talked to the president.