Eric Lee

It would be great if countries would stop electing guys who would have a high likelihood of being in prison if their respective countries hadn’t elected them.

The argument here appears to be that by allowing hollow-eyed ghouls to abuse insider information so they can profit from death, they're also giving the people who are about to be bombed a heads up, and this is some kind of public service?

Teen Sex Comedies used to be a thing.

And looking back, half the jokes are just sexual assault.

Genuinely, attitudes towards gay people and women have massively improved in ways that are hard to see unless you look at these sorts of cultural time capsules.

The Platner pattern of getting caught doing something Nazi-adjacent, huffily disavowing it and then doing another wink-wink nudge-nudge signal to the extreme right is pretty much the Trump 2016 playbook

In St. Paul, Minnesota, Hennepin County deputies brutally assaulted peaceful anti-ICE protesters.

Well now isn’t that some horseshit? Being fucking trolled by the US Department of Education.

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May you, too, be blessed with small pleasures today.

I am closely monitoring the ongoing military operations in Iran. International military actions have a direct and profound impact on Maryland’s families and communities.

I served in Afghanistan and I’ve seen who pays the price when Washington rushes into conflict.

I have been over-cooking my omelettes, so this morning I finally gave up on front burner for the back simmer burner. And lo and behold, success! I just couldn’t keep the heat low enough on the front burner.

The situation in Minneapolis: even though the ICE presence in the city is greatly reduced, and national attention has moved on, a huge portion of our population remains essentially in hiding, devastating the schools and economy. In particular, much of the education system remains in crisis

Obama reaching a painstakingly negotiated deal with Iran to prevent war, and Trump ripping it up and making the war happen, is the starkest contrast between the progressive and conservative worldviews there is.

Progressivism accomplishes things. But conservatism is "manlier".

Between GenAI (especially WRT its weaponized uses against girls and women) and legalized betting (think: Polymarket), I think I understand the Temperance Movement a little better.

“Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”

~George Orwell

I’m still furious about when he was asked about something like his favorite philosopher, and he said Jesus Christ, because that was such a cop-out non-answer. Of course that scores points with people he needed, but it means nothing.

It really bothers me when I tell people this they're like "Who is John Thune?"

And like I think Thune should be as well-known as Schumer. He is the Senate Majority leader. That man should never know peace.

Fetterman said a lot of shit during his campaign that he turned out not to mean, and Platner’s defensive attitude toward his *many* scandals is why people are reminded of Fetterman and worry he might be lying when he says things like this.

I’m pretty sure the Minority Leader in the House has no power to bring about a vote on anything. One of the difficulties with being in the minority.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Genuinely.

My bet is they don’t, because I don’t think this belief is actually that widespread, certainly among those elected and seeking elected office.

This right here. I keep hearing accusations without names. There are primaries, midterms, off year elections, and a whole other set of Presidential primaries where we’ll get to see if any Democrat who would run a campaign that sacrifices trans rights is even successful in becoming a candidate.

Under Biden-Harris, we had cut children’s poverty in half, only to have the policies that did that struck down by Republicans.

Meanwhile, you look at Minnesota, where when we were able to get the governor’s office and both houses of Congress, we were able to get free lunch for students, we were able to make a positive material impact in people’s daily lives in a real way.

And building and guarding our institutions takes time and not letting Republicans come in and break it again. We had good things moving under Biden, and now look at what we get to scrape back from.

You’re letting voters off the hook entirely too easily.

And I think we get angry and a bit reflexive because we believed that by not unilaterally pulling relations with Israel, we still had bargaining leverage with Netanyahu, regardless of how much good faith he was actually operating with.

And what about when
Palestinians asked us to vote for VP Harris, understanding that
Trump would be materially very much worse for them?

not for nothing, but every damnable fool who told us On Here and elsewhere that Kamala Harris would be the one to send our sons & daughters to die in a useless war across the world should be ruthlessly hounded away for good reason from any discussion about any of this—or politics generally, tbh.

Senator Schumer released this statement on President Trump's strikes on Iran.

My statement on President Trump’s strikes on Iran: