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13) I think Dem leadership still suffers from frame drag. They think it's the 90s. Trump is dismantling the powers of Congress. They have to rise to that moment and demand big things.
Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same.
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Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
13) I think Dem leadership still suffers from frame drag. They think it's the 90s. Trump is dismantling the powers of Congress. They have to rise to that moment and demand big things.
Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same.
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Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same.
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Full argument is here:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Trump Humiliation Worsens as Fresh Info Reveals Scale of GOP Losses
The results showed that Democrats don’t have to choose between attacking Trump and highlighting the economy. In fact, they are often inseparable.
newrepublic.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Full argument is here:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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Some have suggested Zohran's success is rooted *only* in cost of living. But he also ran hard against Trump's authoritarianism/ICE raids. He ran the most explicitly pro-immigrant, pro-cosmopolitan campaign in memory.
Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Some have suggested Zohran's success is rooted *only* in cost of living. But he also ran hard against Trump's authoritarianism/ICE raids. He ran the most explicitly pro-immigrant, pro-cosmopolitan campaign in memory.
Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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So I have a Friday story for you. It’s one I promised to tell before. The themes are “seek help when you need it” and “communicating with family is important” but also “pay attention to how your coms work.”
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October 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
So I have a Friday story for you. It’s one I promised to tell before. The themes are “seek help when you need it” and “communicating with family is important” but also “pay attention to how your coms work.”
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From the paper that brought you Watergate…
October 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
From the paper that brought you Watergate…
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NEWS: Federal prosecutors indict Kat Abughazaleh, congressional candidate, county board candidate Cat Sharp and Dem committeeman Michael Rabbitt over September Broadview protest
October 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
NEWS: Federal prosecutors indict Kat Abughazaleh, congressional candidate, county board candidate Cat Sharp and Dem committeeman Michael Rabbitt over September Broadview protest
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It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol
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Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?
October 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?
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Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
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BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well.
youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...
youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...
Pritzker calls for Trump to be removed from office
YouTube video by NBC Chicago
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well.
youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...
youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...
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If Koch-funded "news" outlets like the "Daily Caller" lie about things as provably false as this, what else are they lying to you about?
September 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If Koch-funded "news" outlets like the "Daily Caller" lie about things as provably false as this, what else are they lying to you about?
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In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
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This chart just blows my mind.
September 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This chart just blows my mind.
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly today, President Trump said climate change is a “con job” and climate scientists are “stupid people” — and he called green energy and immigration a “double-tailed monster” that is destroying Europe.
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September 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly today, President Trump said climate change is a “con job” and climate scientists are “stupid people” — and he called green energy and immigration a “double-tailed monster” that is destroying Europe.
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It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know.
Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/
Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/
September 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know.
Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/
Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/
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I’ve been getting the kinds of emails you get when someone like Dan McLaughlin or Erick Erickson decides to talk about you on Twitter: stuff about my mental health, the standard racial stuff about my kids, the panoply of demi-literate abuse one expects from their mediocre followers.
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September 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I’ve been getting the kinds of emails you get when someone like Dan McLaughlin or Erick Erickson decides to talk about you on Twitter: stuff about my mental health, the standard racial stuff about my kids, the panoply of demi-literate abuse one expects from their mediocre followers.
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moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
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It is quite incredible how all these new groups are defined by all the good things they *won't* do.
Have some fucking principles and talk about what you do believe in.
Have some fucking principles and talk about what you do believe in.
trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism
September 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It is quite incredible how all these new groups are defined by all the good things they *won't* do.
Have some fucking principles and talk about what you do believe in.
Have some fucking principles and talk about what you do believe in.
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Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.
You're welcome
You're welcome
September 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.
You're welcome
You're welcome
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FYI here are my receipts on Chris Cuomo calling Jan 6th an insurrection back in 2021 which he told me tonight on air he ‘never’ said. I told him I had checked his Twitter 🤷🏽♂️👇🏽
September 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
FYI here are my receipts on Chris Cuomo calling Jan 6th an insurrection back in 2021 which he told me tonight on air he ‘never’ said. I told him I had checked his Twitter 🤷🏽♂️👇🏽