William Easley
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"[T]he fact that Biden, an honorable man trying to implement a practical agenda, was about as unpopular a president as Donald Trump actually isn’t easy to explain, and is absolutely insane and really depressing...." GREAT piece from @perrybaconjr.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2029...
Voters Hate Trump. Good. But Democrats Should Take No Solace in That.
It’s great that voters have turned against Trump. But they turned against Biden. They keep turning against presidents. Here’s how Democrats can deal with that.
newrepublic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"[T]he fact that Biden, an honorable man trying to implement a practical agenda, was about as unpopular a president as Donald Trump actually isn’t easy to explain, and is absolutely insane and really depressing...." GREAT piece from @perrybaconjr.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2029...
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Data from the 30 cities with the most murders in 2024 shows the roughly 20% drop in murder persisting through October (only available through August in Phoenix).
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Data from the 30 cities with the most murders in 2024 shows the roughly 20% drop in murder persisting through October (only available through August in Phoenix).
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The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
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these protections, to the extent they exist *at all*, seem to be a corrupt disgrace that attempts to reify the Senate as an exalted aristocracy immune from the law of the land...and these protections seem broad as hell
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
these protections, to the extent they exist *at all*, seem to be a corrupt disgrace that attempts to reify the Senate as an exalted aristocracy immune from the law of the land...and these protections seem broad as hell
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I am kind of sitting here mouth agape as I realize that the thing that really got eight Democrats to cave was a provision which provides backdoor criminal and civil immunity to them personally by making it functionally impossible to ever investigate the Senate
read the actual bill text and this is quite literally a provision designed solely to impede civil and criminal investigations into United States Senators and their staff. www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I am kind of sitting here mouth agape as I realize that the thing that really got eight Democrats to cave was a provision which provides backdoor criminal and civil immunity to them personally by making it functionally impossible to ever investigate the Senate
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fiddling with the antenna is oddly charming tho. i grew up in the era of cable, i never had to do such activities. so whenever i futz around with it mumbling “ah heck” or “gosh darn it” i feel like a polish grandmother
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
fiddling with the antenna is oddly charming tho. i grew up in the era of cable, i never had to do such activities. so whenever i futz around with it mumbling “ah heck” or “gosh darn it” i feel like a polish grandmother
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What sucks about dragging Imane Khelif into the transgender sports thing again and again is she so dearly and articulately wants girls (especially Muslim girls) to feel strong and like they, too, can box. And we keep making her thing about our own anxieties and fears.
“This is a response to something entirely unrelated”
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
What sucks about dragging Imane Khelif into the transgender sports thing again and again is she so dearly and articulately wants girls (especially Muslim girls) to feel strong and like they, too, can box. And we keep making her thing about our own anxieties and fears.
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If we were really going to "run the government like a business," Costco is the actual model we'd want to follow.
Let's again stipulate that the government is not a business & the whole idea it should run like one is a dumb category error. But if anyone was actually serious about running the government like a business & eliminating waste, the model would be Costco & not a single person/firm from Silicon Valley.
Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
If we were really going to "run the government like a business," Costco is the actual model we'd want to follow.
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Far cry from any “they did da free trade and gave mah job screwin on da lug nuts at da Ford factry to a Mexican”, this will always be neoliberalism’s greatest failure point
Or at least tied with the Grand Ruskie “Who Needs A Constitution Just Deregulate And Privatize LOL” Fuckup
Or at least tied with the Grand Ruskie “Who Needs A Constitution Just Deregulate And Privatize LOL” Fuckup
my dorky/predictable/religious/existential answer is humanity’s comforts are cool, but without the dreaded M E A N I N G…we aren’t feeling it, shoutout Vic Frankl
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Far cry from any “they did da free trade and gave mah job screwin on da lug nuts at da Ford factry to a Mexican”, this will always be neoliberalism’s greatest failure point
Or at least tied with the Grand Ruskie “Who Needs A Constitution Just Deregulate And Privatize LOL” Fuckup
Or at least tied with the Grand Ruskie “Who Needs A Constitution Just Deregulate And Privatize LOL” Fuckup
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co-conspirator pardons are themselves an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy and thus inherently invalid
Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
co-conspirator pardons are themselves an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy and thus inherently invalid
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Primary them all and let the wine moms (laudatory) sort them out.
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Primary them all and let the wine moms (laudatory) sort them out.
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I personally do not think maintaining federal employee jobs should be priority number one when more and more parts of the federal government are being used to institute a police state
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I personally do not think maintaining federal employee jobs should be priority number one when more and more parts of the federal government are being used to institute a police state
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any democrat who does not want to catch shit for this can demand chuck schumer's resignation from both leadership and the senate over it.
what’s remarkable about this is that there are zero winners at all, one of the biggest lose-lose deals I can remember
the Dem cavers will catch incandescent shit for it
the rest of the Dems will catch collateral fury
the big R win is… jacking everyone’s health care costs ahead of midterms
the Dem cavers will catch incandescent shit for it
the rest of the Dems will catch collateral fury
the big R win is… jacking everyone’s health care costs ahead of midterms
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
any democrat who does not want to catch shit for this can demand chuck schumer's resignation from both leadership and the senate over it.
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For the WE LOVE CAPITALISM crowd, I can't overstate how big a problem the current healthcare system is for actually starting a business. I would have NEVER started this company if my wife wasn't working in health care in 2020 (and had that sweet heath care industry insurance).
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
For the WE LOVE CAPITALISM crowd, I can't overstate how big a problem the current healthcare system is for actually starting a business. I would have NEVER started this company if my wife wasn't working in health care in 2020 (and had that sweet heath care industry insurance).
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anyone who is not willing to take the risk of gambling with starvation in order to save our system of government has no place in the Senate, and those who decided that they couldn't play a game with those stakes have not necessarily done anything wrong. they just have to leave.
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
anyone who is not willing to take the risk of gambling with starvation in order to save our system of government has no place in the Senate, and those who decided that they couldn't play a game with those stakes have not necessarily done anything wrong. they just have to leave.
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I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis.
I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.
Full statement:
I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.
Full statement:
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis.
I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.
Full statement:
I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.
Full statement:
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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 12:41 AM
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.
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I don’t have a Democratic Senator (rip) so I’m gonna need you to call for me and all of us in red states!!
November 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I don’t have a Democratic Senator (rip) so I’m gonna need you to call for me and all of us in red states!!
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Itd be the exact same dynamic of "sure you can have a vote on DC funds"--which did happen tbf!--and then promptly got disappeared by Johnson in the House
Fun fact, let’s say Thune does give Senate Dems a vote and doesnt whip against ACA subsidies, Speaker Johnson has no intention of ever holding a vote on it
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Itd be the exact same dynamic of "sure you can have a vote on DC funds"--which did happen tbf!--and then promptly got disappeared by Johnson in the House
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I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
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 9:04 PM
I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
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 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
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Genuinely wild
- #Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa & Foreign Minister @AsaadHShaibani playing basketball with @CENTCOM Commander Admiral Cooper & @CJTFOIR Commander BG Kevin Lambert.
November 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Genuinely wild
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it’s genuinely so beast mode that voters in virginia saw these jay jones texts leak and elected him by 7 point and then flipped the seat of the republican who leaked these texts to a democrat lmfao
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
it’s genuinely so beast mode that voters in virginia saw these jay jones texts leak and elected him by 7 point and then flipped the seat of the republican who leaked these texts to a democrat lmfao
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Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun strijd tegen racisme binnen het leger – werden zonder toelichting verwijderd.
www.nrc.nl
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
This announcer in the IU game is losing his mind
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This announcer in the IU game is losing his mind