Chuck Tee
@chutry.bsky.social
High school ESL teacher and political activist based in Quincy, MA. In my previous life as a media studies professor I wrote three books, including On-Demand Culture and Reinventing Cinema. Chihuahua wrangler.
I liked Cave Caucus initially, but I now think Coward Caucus has a better ring to it.
The cave caucus is giving a presser right now and they’re like “Look we tried to pressure the GOP into extending those tax credits but they just wouldn’t budge! Oh well.”
That’s the wrong damn fight.
That’s the wrong damn fight.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I liked Cave Caucus initially, but I now think Coward Caucus has a better ring to it.
Coming from one of the leaders of Indivisible, this is pretty monumental. But I agree that it’s pretty much the only option.
We tried to show them after the last surrender. There's no sense in trying to convince them anymore. Primaries are the only path to a fighting opposition party now.
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Coming from one of the leaders of Indivisible, this is pretty monumental. But I agree that it’s pretty much the only option.
Remember the 7 million people protesting the GOP a few weeks ago? You’re going to have similar numbers protesting centrist Dems if the Cave Caucus votes to gut healthcare and reproductive rights (among other things).
All of the Dems who vote for a deal where they get nothing show that they fully own the shutdown. Embarrassing
If Dems accept this deal, it will help the GOP cement the following ideas into the public conscience over the coming 4 weeks:
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Remember the 7 million people protesting the GOP a few weeks ago? You’re going to have similar numbers protesting centrist Dems if the Cave Caucus votes to gut healthcare and reproductive rights (among other things).
Call your Senators. Don’t give the Cave Caucus cover to vote for a bad budget bill.
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Call your Senators. Don’t give the Cave Caucus cover to vote for a bad budget bill.
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I've noticed that there isn't much talk here about the current internecine war that is unfolding on the right, spearheaded in large part by Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I know this shit is insane and feels bad. But this is a mistake (1/)
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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There are over 100,000 polling locations in the US. Even if you tried to focus just on blue or purple precincts, you’re talking 50,000 precincts. How many soldiers are you going to station at each location? It’s a massive number.
Let’s not be naive about it. They didn’t take this small-potatoes midterm seriously, but that doesn’t mean plans/efforts aren’t in place for ‘26, especially in light of the results. Putting troops in blue cities is absolutely a plan for ‘26 voter suppression.
November 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
There are over 100,000 polling locations in the US. Even if you tried to focus just on blue or purple precincts, you’re talking 50,000 precincts. How many soldiers are you going to station at each location? It’s a massive number.
We have taken products off the market for being far less dangerous. We also have a clear signal that all the money we’re dumping into AI could be better spent addressing a serious mental health crisis.
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We have taken products off the market for being far less dangerous. We also have a clear signal that all the money we’re dumping into AI could be better spent addressing a serious mental health crisis.
Hot take based on the comments in this thread: People can watch Hallmark movies instead of MSNBC and still be politically plugged in.
The Hallmark Channel has risen from the ninth to the fourth most-watched cable channel in prime time in the last three weeks.
A Hallmark Christmas Movie Just Beat Almost Everything On CNN, MSNBC
The Hallmark Channel has risen from the ninth to the fourth most-watched cable channel in prime time in the last three weeks.
www.forbes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Hot take based on the comments in this thread: People can watch Hallmark movies instead of MSNBC and still be politically plugged in.
This is totally correct. The salaries and hours for state legislators in North Carolina make it impossible for anyone other than retirees, lawyers, and business owners to hold office. I’m sure this is true in many other places.
ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This is totally correct. The salaries and hours for state legislators in North Carolina make it impossible for anyone other than retirees, lawyers, and business owners to hold office. I’m sure this is true in many other places.
Yeah, this looks so cool.
I didn't even *want* to lean on the barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Yeah, this looks so cool.
Terrific political theater. We need more images like these.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Terrific political theater. We need more images like these.
Love this!
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Love this!
This is pretty clever. I considered running once just to be a thorn in the side of our incumbent who was running unopposed.
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
This is pretty clever. I considered running once just to be a thorn in the side of our incumbent who was running unopposed.
This was an important argument for me in Political TV: Parks and Rec was utopian in the best sense. It celebrated government workers as well-intentioned and hard-working in the face of Reagan’s anti-government narratives.
The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.
The reason 30 Rock succeeds years later while parks and rec has aged like a toilet full of milk, is that 30 Rock doesnt shy away from portraying Liz Lemon as an obvious villian with a victim/hero complex, whereas Leslie Knope was played just a straight hero character, even tho she is a neolib shill
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This was an important argument for me in Political TV: Parks and Rec was utopian in the best sense. It celebrated government workers as well-intentioned and hard-working in the face of Reagan’s anti-government narratives.
Mediocre washed up relief pitcher makes one last desperate cry for attention.
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Mediocre washed up relief pitcher makes one last desperate cry for attention.
A great bellwether for what happened nationwide last night. Progressive candidates won sweeping victories in places like suburban Holly Springs, NC, in a repudiation of old-boys club conservatism.
THIS is what North Carolina looks like.
Last night, 21 of Carolina Forward's 28 endorsed candidates swept their races in elections all over North Carolina. They won races for town council, city council and Mayor in big cities, small towns, rural, suburban and urban alike.
LET'S GO!
Last night, 21 of Carolina Forward's 28 endorsed candidates swept their races in elections all over North Carolina. They won races for town council, city council and Mayor in big cities, small towns, rural, suburban and urban alike.
LET'S GO!
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A great bellwether for what happened nationwide last night. Progressive candidates won sweeping victories in places like suburban Holly Springs, NC, in a repudiation of old-boys club conservatism.
This is absolutely right.
Trump declares that Republicans have lost the shutdown. Absolutely zero reason for Dems to cave at this point
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
This is absolutely right.
Yes, so glad to see these attacks fail so badly.
The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Yes, so glad to see these attacks fail so badly.
So good.
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
So good.
One can hope his boots are made for walking right out of New York.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
One can hope his boots are made for walking right out of New York.
Has he moved to Florida yet?
Cuomo’s sobbing in a corner right now, wondering if he should have called in even more sex pests
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Has he moved to Florida yet?
We have a few things to celebrate tonight, y’all. Even my former hometown of Holly Springs, NC, swept out the old guard a few days after the (now former) mayor sent out a flier tying himself and other town council members to Charlie Kirk.
snoop dogg is singing into a microphone while wearing a green jacket and suspenders .
Alt: OutKast “Hey ya!” Alright, alright Gif.
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
We have a few things to celebrate tonight, y’all. Even my former hometown of Holly Springs, NC, swept out the old guard a few days after the (now former) mayor sent out a flier tying himself and other town council members to Charlie Kirk.
An absolute moral and strategic failure.
I had thought most of my naive idealism had been stomped out of me by now, but it’s amazing to me that this level of public animosity could be directed by Democratic leadership toward a sweet and personable young candidate of their own party seemingly exclusively because of his background.
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
An absolute moral and strategic failure.
Dick Cheney ran so Donald Trump could fly.
Dick Cheney dreamt of a unitary executive and now we all have to live in his nightmare.
We have a word for leaders who starve their own people to force unpopular political policies.
November 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Dick Cheney ran so Donald Trump could fly.
It hits on so many levels.
November 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It hits on so many levels.