Raising Keynes
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A father, ally, optimist/cynic who desperately wants to figure out how we can move our country/world to be kindler, gentler, and more equitable.
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I keep trying to figure out how to express this, so I am going to try an analogy. I feel like we are spectators at a slow speed, train, wreck, pointing and highlighting the stupidity of the situation. We need to help stop the train wreck and make sure train wrecks don’t happen in the future.
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@padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov
Let this be a clarion call. You are either with the abhorrent 8 and corporate donors or you are with your constituents who wanted to toe the line. We need fighters, not log rollers. If we don’t hear repudiation in the strongest terms, we will know.
Let this be a clarion call. You are either with the abhorrent 8 and corporate donors or you are with your constituents who wanted to toe the line. We need fighters, not log rollers. If we don’t hear repudiation in the strongest terms, we will know.
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
@padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov
Let this be a clarion call. You are either with the abhorrent 8 and corporate donors or you are with your constituents who wanted to toe the line. We need fighters, not log rollers. If we don’t hear repudiation in the strongest terms, we will know.
Let this be a clarion call. You are either with the abhorrent 8 and corporate donors or you are with your constituents who wanted to toe the line. We need fighters, not log rollers. If we don’t hear repudiation in the strongest terms, we will know.
@padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov
Let this be a clarion call. You are either with the abhorrent 8 and corporate donors or you are with your constituents who wanted to toe the line. We need fighters, not log rollers. If we don’t hear repudiation in the strongest terms, we will know.
Let this be a clarion call. You are either with the abhorrent 8 and corporate donors or you are with your constituents who wanted to toe the line. We need fighters, not log rollers. If we don’t hear repudiation in the strongest terms, we will know.
New in PN: Cue the rebellion
"The unfortunate conclusion to the shutdown is going to fuel a rebellion within the Democratic Party, one that has already begun but will only get stronger. And despite all the justified disgust now being expressed at Dems, in the long run it will be good for the party"
"The unfortunate conclusion to the shutdown is going to fuel a rebellion within the Democratic Party, one that has already begun but will only get stronger. And despite all the justified disgust now being expressed at Dems, in the long run it will be good for the party"
Cue the rebellion
The Democratic base is enraged at their party's capitulation — and that's a good thing.
www.publicnotice.co
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
@padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov
Let this be a clarion call. You are either with the abhorrent 8 and corporate donors or you are with your constituents who wanted to toe the line. We need fighters, not log rollers. If we don’t hear repudiation in the strongest terms, we will know.
Let this be a clarion call. You are either with the abhorrent 8 and corporate donors or you are with your constituents who wanted to toe the line. We need fighters, not log rollers. If we don’t hear repudiation in the strongest terms, we will know.
@padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov
Let this be a clarion call. You are either with the abhorrent 8 and corporate donors or you are with your constituents who wanted to toe the line. We need fighters, not log rollers. If we don’t hear repudiation in the strongest terms, we will know.
Let this be a clarion call. You are either with the abhorrent 8 and corporate donors or you are with your constituents who wanted to toe the line. We need fighters, not log rollers. If we don’t hear repudiation in the strongest terms, we will know.
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
@padilla.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov
Let this be a clarion call. You are either with the abhorrent 8 and corporate donors or you are with your constituents who wanted to toe the line. We need fighters, not log rollers. If we don’t hear repudiation in the strongest terms, we will know.
Let this be a clarion call. You are either with the abhorrent 8 and corporate donors or you are with your constituents who wanted to toe the line. We need fighters, not log rollers. If we don’t hear repudiation in the strongest terms, we will know.
This post seems especially cogent for today.
The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.
Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.
Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This post seems especially cogent for today.
Truth bomb!
One of two things is true:
1. Chuck Schumer genuinely felt this is a bad deal, so he voted against it, but he couldn't keep Senate Dems in line because he's a lackluster leader.
OR
2. Chuck Schumer orchestrated the shutdown deal w/ retiring Dems because he's a bad strategist and got rattled.
1. Chuck Schumer genuinely felt this is a bad deal, so he voted against it, but he couldn't keep Senate Dems in line because he's a lackluster leader.
OR
2. Chuck Schumer orchestrated the shutdown deal w/ retiring Dems because he's a bad strategist and got rattled.
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Truth bomb!
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Please then vote Schumer out as Minority Leader. Or else this is just all talk. Put your words into action.
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Please then vote Schumer out as Minority Leader. Or else this is just all talk. Put your words into action.
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Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.
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The cowardice to not stand up for the people will be the death knell of the Democrats and democracy. It is truly beyond my comprehension.
Trump and MAGA…that’s not what will “kill” us off.
If democracy dies…it will result from our own decision to commit “suicide.”
This is an example of the suicidal attitude I’m talking about.
Resilience is what determines whether democracy survives. Without that nothing else meaningful happens.
If democracy dies…it will result from our own decision to commit “suicide.”
This is an example of the suicidal attitude I’m talking about.
Resilience is what determines whether democracy survives. Without that nothing else meaningful happens.
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The cowardice to not stand up for the people will be the death knell of the Democrats and democracy. It is truly beyond my comprehension.
It was an unmitigated betrayal. We DESPERATELY need to move away from being beholden to donors and representing constituents or there really is no difference. We need to start by primarying each of the abhorrent eight.
Democrats were overwhelmingly united on their shutdown demands.
Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.
Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.
Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.
Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.
Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.
Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It was an unmitigated betrayal. We DESPERATELY need to move away from being beholden to donors and representing constituents or there really is no difference. We need to start by primarying each of the abhorrent eight.
They abandoned the party, and worse, the people
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
They abandoned the party, and worse, the people
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Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways:
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways:
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.
Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.
Just your daily reminder that the last time the Republican shut the government down was to defund the ACA and this time they are refusing to fund the ACA and Medicaid so they can give a $1.1 trillion tax cut to the richest Americans. I simply don’t understand how this could be any more clear cut.
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Just your daily reminder that the last time the Republican shut the government down was to defund the ACA and this time they are refusing to fund the ACA and Medicaid so they can give a $1.1 trillion tax cut to the richest Americans. I simply don’t understand how this could be any more clear cut.
The smell of onions and mustard will haunt that brave, brave agent for years to come. Thoughts and prayers.
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The smell of onions and mustard will haunt that brave, brave agent for years to come. Thoughts and prayers.
So Cuomo said he would leave New York if Mamdani won and Dershowitz said he would blow his brains out on national television. I’m pretty sure both of them were lying. And I have to wonder, if we can’t trust politicians and lawyers who can we trust?
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
So Cuomo said he would leave New York if Mamdani won and Dershowitz said he would blow his brains out on national television. I’m pretty sure both of them were lying. And I have to wonder, if we can’t trust politicians and lawyers who can we trust?
And maybe, just maybe, people actually realize that Democrats are holding the line to lower cost and provide healthcare to lower and middle class families while Republicans want that money to go to the top 1%
I guess the plan to have Mike Johnson lie in shutdown press conferences every day for 3 weeks didn’t work out.
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
And maybe, just maybe, people actually realize that Democrats are holding the line to lower cost and provide healthcare to lower and middle class families while Republicans want that money to go to the top 1%
That there’s any question at the Supreme Court level that “they were mean to me in an ad so I’m going to raise their tariffs 10%” is directly counter to the constitution and represent presidential overreach is unfathomable to me and a sign of just how far the Supreme Court has fallen.
#econsky
#econsky
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
That there’s any question at the Supreme Court level that “they were mean to me in an ad so I’m going to raise their tariffs 10%” is directly counter to the constitution and represent presidential overreach is unfathomable to me and a sign of just how far the Supreme Court has fallen.
#econsky
#econsky
Random thought: I just saw samples being offered of Irish stew. It made me think of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. IYKYK
November 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Random thought: I just saw samples being offered of Irish stew. It made me think of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. IYKYK
I resemble this comment.
November 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I resemble this comment.
Democrats cannot be both the big tent party and the purity test party. I understood the anger at Sinema, but never at Manchin. Having a Senator in a solid red state caucus with the Democrats 95% of the time was an incredible gift that’s so many on the left pissed on.
October 30, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Democrats cannot be both the big tent party and the purity test party. I understood the anger at Sinema, but never at Manchin. Having a Senator in a solid red state caucus with the Democrats 95% of the time was an incredible gift that’s so many on the left pissed on.
Maryland, New York, Illinois are you listening? Is this thing on?
#gerrymandering #Redistricting
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
#gerrymandering #Redistricting
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun calls special session to consider new congressional map
It's unclear whether enough Republican lawmakers will support the mid-decade redistricting effort that Trump has urged them to pursue.
www.nbcnews.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Maryland, New York, Illinois are you listening? Is this thing on?
#gerrymandering #Redistricting
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
#gerrymandering #Redistricting
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Of course they are
October 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Of course they are
OK, I wanna hear from the seven Republicans who still claim they are fiscally conservative. You ok with the President pocketing $230 million of taxpayer money because he’s butt hurt?
I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.
October 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
OK, I wanna hear from the seven Republicans who still claim they are fiscally conservative. You ok with the President pocketing $230 million of taxpayer money because he’s butt hurt?
