ergopraxis
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Liberal of the Kantian variety. Legal, moral and political philosophy. He, she or they are all fine. An it only to my friends. 🌐🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴
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"The negotiators argued that Republicans’ “flat refusal” to move on Democrats’ earlier proposals made clear that “this is the best possible offer we could secure.”"
Noted position of leverage: Being INSANELY unpopular & refusing to feed people whilst cutting their ability to travel during holidays.
Noted position of leverage: Being INSANELY unpopular & refusing to feed people whilst cutting their ability to travel during holidays.
Who are the Democrats voting for the government shutdown deal? | CNN Politics
A group of Democrats and one Democratic-aligned independent have helped clinch an agreement to end the government shutdown, saying they had secured a vote on the Affordable Care Act subsidies at the c...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
"The negotiators argued that Republicans’ “flat refusal” to move on Democrats’ earlier proposals made clear that “this is the best possible offer we could secure.”"
Noted position of leverage: Being INSANELY unpopular & refusing to feed people whilst cutting their ability to travel during holidays.
Noted position of leverage: Being INSANELY unpopular & refusing to feed people whilst cutting their ability to travel during holidays.
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idk which possibility is more damning for Schumer
either
A) he helped orchestrate the fold
OR
B) he genuinely opposed the fold but was so incompetent that he was unable to stop the splinter group from folding
either
A) he helped orchestrate the fold
OR
B) he genuinely opposed the fold but was so incompetent that he was unable to stop the splinter group from folding
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
idk which possibility is more damning for Schumer
either
A) he helped orchestrate the fold
OR
B) he genuinely opposed the fold but was so incompetent that he was unable to stop the splinter group from folding
either
A) he helped orchestrate the fold
OR
B) he genuinely opposed the fold but was so incompetent that he was unable to stop the splinter group from folding
Polanski's public speech and presentation seems to have really improved lately. Finally someone in the backwater island monarchy is putting the brakes on this asinine rightward drift. Love to see someone finally defend basic liberal positions --on immigration, trans rights, gaza, firmly.
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Polanski's public speech and presentation seems to have really improved lately. Finally someone in the backwater island monarchy is putting the brakes on this asinine rightward drift. Love to see someone finally defend basic liberal positions --on immigration, trans rights, gaza, firmly.
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"We don’t need a mass movement. We just need enough people who are willing to step up, change the narrative, and help to create the opposition party we so desperately need." (from March) www.liberalcurrents.com/its-time-for...
It's Time for a Democratic Tea Party
Enough is enough. We need leaders capable of resisting the rising tide of fascism.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"We don’t need a mass movement. We just need enough people who are willing to step up, change the narrative, and help to create the opposition party we so desperately need." (from March) www.liberalcurrents.com/its-time-for...
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if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader
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this thing happens when, if you look at what Dems have done recently and the predict an outcome based entirely on their own actions, people call you a doomer and get mad.
don’t hate me bc Dems doing deeply predictable Dem shit gives off doom vibes. hate them!
don’t hate me bc Dems doing deeply predictable Dem shit gives off doom vibes. hate them!
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
this thing happens when, if you look at what Dems have done recently and the predict an outcome based entirely on their own actions, people call you a doomer and get mad.
don’t hate me bc Dems doing deeply predictable Dem shit gives off doom vibes. hate them!
don’t hate me bc Dems doing deeply predictable Dem shit gives off doom vibes. hate them!
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the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
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even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people
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why
why would they have to come to the table
why would they have to come to the table
Hassan: With the government reopening shortly, Republicans now finally have to come to the table. Or make no mistake, Americans will remember who stood in the way.
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
why
why would they have to come to the table
why would they have to come to the table
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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It was utterly infuriating to think Senate Help-a-Dictator-Out-Dems are so clueless they don't understand what voters want. It's even worse knowing they do and decided to vote to sell us out anyway.
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM
It was utterly infuriating to think Senate Help-a-Dictator-Out-Dems are so clueless they don't understand what voters want. It's even worse knowing they do and decided to vote to sell us out anyway.
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"Our constituents want us to take this vote" really tracks well with shielding anyone up for re-election from taking this vote.
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
"Our constituents want us to take this vote" really tracks well with shielding anyone up for re-election from taking this vote.
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When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza
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Listening to these 8 Dem Senators explain their vote convinces me that they are either idiots or liars. Either is plausible.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Listening to these 8 Dem Senators explain their vote convinces me that they are either idiots or liars. Either is plausible.
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the gop never had fucking leverage. the gop starving people to death en masse is not a thing that they can survive doing
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
the gop never had fucking leverage. the gop starving people to death en masse is not a thing that they can survive doing
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
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Senate Democrats are like “with your donation of $25 or more, we will help Donald Trump kill you”
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Senate Democrats are like “with your donation of $25 or more, we will help Donald Trump kill you”
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Expel the yes votes from the party and cut off all their access to fundraising, then remove Schumer from leadership. Anything less is mealy-mouthed coward bullshit.
As this vote moves to the House, I stand with Democratic leadership as they refuse to rubber stamp the full-scale Republican assault on Americans’ health care and I am proud of the majority of Senate Democrats who opposed this vote.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Expel the yes votes from the party and cut off all their access to fundraising, then remove Schumer from leadership. Anything less is mealy-mouthed coward bullshit.
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if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
My take on the shutdown is that you should actually not finance a government that is currently refusing to seat one of your congresspeople and is likely to attempt a coup within a year, even if they give you everything you ask and beg for it in apologetic tones, which, note, they also haven't done.
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
My take on the shutdown is that you should actually not finance a government that is currently refusing to seat one of your congresspeople and is likely to attempt a coup within a year, even if they give you everything you ask and beg for it in apologetic tones, which, note, they also haven't done.
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if dems are going to do whatever their corporate donors want, then don't bother texting us for money anymore
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
if dems are going to do whatever their corporate donors want, then don't bother texting us for money anymore
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The Dem base wants the shutdown to continue because it’s the only time we’ve felt like our electeds were representing us: trying to squeeze the GOP instead of squeezing us to accept concessions; directing their anger at the Republicans instead of at their own voters for wanting them to resist
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The Dem base wants the shutdown to continue because it’s the only time we’ve felt like our electeds were representing us: trying to squeeze the GOP instead of squeezing us to accept concessions; directing their anger at the Republicans instead of at their own voters for wanting them to resist