Jay
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The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter.
He's got to go.
He's got to go.
Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:48 AM
The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter.
He's got to go.
He's got to go.
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Damn the soulless Nazis of Trumpism straight to Hell.
January 25, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Damn the soulless Nazis of Trumpism straight to Hell.
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As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
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Criminal tribunals will be the bare minimum, and are the modest response under the circumstances
January 24, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Criminal tribunals will be the bare minimum, and are the modest response under the circumstances
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Talarico: Abortion is never mentioned in scripture. Consensual same-sex relationships are never mentioned.
To focus on those two things instead of feeding the hungry and healing the sick and welcoming the stranger — three things we're told to do ad nauseam in scripture — to me is just mind blowing.
To focus on those two things instead of feeding the hungry and healing the sick and welcoming the stranger — three things we're told to do ad nauseam in scripture — to me is just mind blowing.
January 16, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Talarico: Abortion is never mentioned in scripture. Consensual same-sex relationships are never mentioned.
To focus on those two things instead of feeding the hungry and healing the sick and welcoming the stranger — three things we're told to do ad nauseam in scripture — to me is just mind blowing.
To focus on those two things instead of feeding the hungry and healing the sick and welcoming the stranger — three things we're told to do ad nauseam in scripture — to me is just mind blowing.
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yep, i kind of think you can use supreme court reform as a vehicle through which to do a large, and necessary, expansion of the entire federal judiciary
"Expand the number and types of inferior judicial officers like magistrate judges and bankruptcy judges overseen by district courts, which are also tripled in size," more and more people are saying.
massively increase the number of immigration judges, make them real courts, and give as many people as possible clean in-out decisions within in 90 days is the 'install linux, problem solved' of immigration issues in that the solution is not really complicated, it's just really hard
January 8, 2026 at 12:36 AM
yep, i kind of think you can use supreme court reform as a vehicle through which to do a large, and necessary, expansion of the entire federal judiciary
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If they could do this to Renee Nicole Good, they could do this to you. This is a lawless regime.
January 7, 2026 at 11:41 PM
If they could do this to Renee Nicole Good, they could do this to you. This is a lawless regime.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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My purity test...
Anyone who wants my vote has to explicitly state that they will completely dismantle ICE and pursue all legal means to arrest, try, and imprison or execute every single ICE employee for crimes against humanity. Anything less will not get my vote.
Anyone who wants my vote has to explicitly state that they will completely dismantle ICE and pursue all legal means to arrest, try, and imprison or execute every single ICE employee for crimes against humanity. Anything less will not get my vote.
January 7, 2026 at 5:42 PM
My purity test...
Anyone who wants my vote has to explicitly state that they will completely dismantle ICE and pursue all legal means to arrest, try, and imprison or execute every single ICE employee for crimes against humanity. Anything less will not get my vote.
Anyone who wants my vote has to explicitly state that they will completely dismantle ICE and pursue all legal means to arrest, try, and imprison or execute every single ICE employee for crimes against humanity. Anything less will not get my vote.
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Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
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Cut and dry murder. Arrest the officer right now.
Here are two key frames of the video. (Changed language on the first notation.)
January 7, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Cut and dry murder. Arrest the officer right now.
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Republicans motivate their core voters to show up every cycle and they do. Democrats just assume their equivalent will do the same and spend the entire cycle pursuing swing voters, meanwhile depressing core turnout. Then they blame those core voters when they lose. The cycle must be broken.
What got us Trump was the GOP being a malevolent force for evil and the Democrats at every turn refusing to fire full blast at the right (including before Trump). It’s obviously not all on Harris but a cycle with Democrats assuming the left would just show up without any motivation is a big reason.
They have a point. “She didn’t earn my vote” got us Trump. Like I think it’s good to push against the party for better policy but when the alternative is Trump, it’s too much.
December 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Republicans motivate their core voters to show up every cycle and they do. Democrats just assume their equivalent will do the same and spend the entire cycle pursuing swing voters, meanwhile depressing core turnout. Then they blame those core voters when they lose. The cycle must be broken.
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“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
4. Yglesias instead seems to implicitly argue that politicians should only do what wins elections, virtue be damned. One wonders what he thinks of those foolish 1850s abolitionists. As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable. That ain't this.
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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no, the truth is that without the filibuster centrist collaborationist Democrats and their Republican co-conspirators would have no weapon to stop Medicare for All. no weapon to stop taxing billionaires. this is why they want to keep it. they need it, their corporate capitalist handlers require it.
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
no, the truth is that without the filibuster centrist collaborationist Democrats and their Republican co-conspirators would have no weapon to stop Medicare for All. no weapon to stop taxing billionaires. this is why they want to keep it. they need it, their corporate capitalist handlers require it.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
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the right-wing democrat motto might as well be, "if you promise nothing, you don't have to deliver anything"
Abigail Spanberger takes a swipe at Mamdani, saying "maybe he should be a Democrat" and that his campaign promises are dishonest.
November 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
the right-wing democrat motto might as well be, "if you promise nothing, you don't have to deliver anything"
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires.
shame.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
shame.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
September 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires.
shame.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
shame.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
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The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath.
Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history.
So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.
Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history.
So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath.
Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history.
So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.
Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history.
So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.
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and by the way, the guy they're letting blithely get away with this absolute scandal is also the guy who, just to take one example, just permanently slashed taxes on the wealthy and paid for it with historic cuts to health care and a staggering national sales taxes on coffee and everything else
you really have to step back and admire it: they just released a winking SIGNED love note from the sitting US president to the most notorious pedophile sex trafficker in history, and nothing much is happening
September 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
and by the way, the guy they're letting blithely get away with this absolute scandal is also the guy who, just to take one example, just permanently slashed taxes on the wealthy and paid for it with historic cuts to health care and a staggering national sales taxes on coffee and everything else
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the solipsism of “these guys are nice to me, personally, so they cannot be that bad” is i think the root cause of so many of the elected dems’ problems
July 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
the solipsism of “these guys are nice to me, personally, so they cannot be that bad” is i think the root cause of so many of the elected dems’ problems