Chris Floyd (Empire Burlesque)
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This is in Mississippi—the state with the largest Black population by percent.
Nearly 4-in-10 Mississippians are Black. Yet we have "Confederate Heritage Month" and "Confederate Memorial Day."
Oh, and our 8 statewide elected state officials look like this.
Nearly 4-in-10 Mississippians are Black. Yet we have "Confederate Heritage Month" and "Confederate Memorial Day."
Oh, and our 8 statewide elected state officials look like this.
April 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is in Mississippi—the state with the largest Black population by percent.
Nearly 4-in-10 Mississippians are Black. Yet we have "Confederate Heritage Month" and "Confederate Memorial Day."
Oh, and our 8 statewide elected state officials look like this.
Nearly 4-in-10 Mississippians are Black. Yet we have "Confederate Heritage Month" and "Confederate Memorial Day."
Oh, and our 8 statewide elected state officials look like this.
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They have convinced themselves that ratifying the Musk coup, stripping Murray of her appropriations leverage, and betraying their Constitutional oaths is the only viable electoral strategy for Senate Ds for 2026.
March 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
They have convinced themselves that ratifying the Musk coup, stripping Murray of her appropriations leverage, and betraying their Constitutional oaths is the only viable electoral strategy for Senate Ds for 2026.
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Just so you know Democrats are voting to defund the public schools attended by the kids of their own overworked and underpaid staff
SCHUMER just now: "While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse."
March 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Just so you know Democrats are voting to defund the public schools attended by the kids of their own overworked and underpaid staff
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if AI theft of copyrighted works is "freedom to learn," then surely me stealing a truck is "freedom to travel"
March 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
if AI theft of copyrighted works is "freedom to learn," then surely me stealing a truck is "freedom to travel"
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Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyer Ramzi Kassem breaks down the shaky legal grounds the Trump administration is using to prosecute the Palestinian activist, including a rarely used legal provision “enacted primarily to target Eastern European Jewish Holocaust survivors."
March 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyer Ramzi Kassem breaks down the shaky legal grounds the Trump administration is using to prosecute the Palestinian activist, including a rarely used legal provision “enacted primarily to target Eastern European Jewish Holocaust survivors."
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Russell Vought and Elon Musk are making congressional decisions on funding the government irrelevant by their own lawless actions, including the firing of 700,000 federal workers and impoundment. It’s a government shutdown by other means.
The Other Government Shutdown Happening This Week
Russell Vought and Elon Musk are making congressional decisions on funding the government irrelevant by their own lawless actions, including the firing of 700,000 federal workers and impoundment. It’s a government shutdown by other means.
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March 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Russell Vought and Elon Musk are making congressional decisions on funding the government irrelevant by their own lawless actions, including the firing of 700,000 federal workers and impoundment. It’s a government shutdown by other means.
At some point, people will have to realize this about the Democratic leadership: they just don't care.
This is correct. In addition to all the other grave consequences of this bill it essentially defunds a big chunk of local DC government.
I don’t think enough attention has been put on how services for DC residents are going to be destroyed they have to find 1$ billion dollars in their budgets from schools, police, fire, parks etc
March 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
At some point, people will have to realize this about the Democratic leadership: they just don't care.
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This is correct. In addition to all the other grave consequences of this bill it essentially defunds a big chunk of local DC government.
I don’t think enough attention has been put on how services for DC residents are going to be destroyed they have to find 1$ billion dollars in their budgets from schools, police, fire, parks etc
March 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is correct. In addition to all the other grave consequences of this bill it essentially defunds a big chunk of local DC government.
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Even just holding out for a few days, making speeches, giving interviews (on Fox hopefully!) getting the word out.
Get some attention so that people will hear the other side!!!
If they have to relent down the road, so be it. But take a risk! We are in a crisis!
Get some attention so that people will hear the other side!!!
If they have to relent down the road, so be it. But take a risk! We are in a crisis!
March 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Even just holding out for a few days, making speeches, giving interviews (on Fox hopefully!) getting the word out.
Get some attention so that people will hear the other side!!!
If they have to relent down the road, so be it. But take a risk! We are in a crisis!
Get some attention so that people will hear the other side!!!
If they have to relent down the road, so be it. But take a risk! We are in a crisis!
Next up: Schumer switches to the GOP: "As a centrist, I believe in working within the system. And our system is now a Unitary Executive state. I think I can be a moderating influence on my new colleagues as our beloved country navigates this tumultuous passage to our new national paradigm."
No Dem Senator has to follow Schumer here. This is a weak stategic move driven by fear and learned helplessness. Don't follow him. He's leading the party into irrelevance and helping Trump and Musk in the process.
Call your Dem Senators and ask them not to join Schumer's surrender tomorrow.
Call your Dem Senators and ask them not to join Schumer's surrender tomorrow.
SCHUMER just now: "While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse."
March 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Next up: Schumer switches to the GOP: "As a centrist, I believe in working within the system. And our system is now a Unitary Executive state. I think I can be a moderating influence on my new colleagues as our beloved country navigates this tumultuous passage to our new national paradigm."
If Schumer brings only nine or 10 Dems to vote for closure, then he must resign as leader, because he is clearly acting against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of his caucus. He is no longer leading them; he's opposing them.
Don't take this as gospel. It's not official. It's a very knowledgable source's best understanding of the situation. This persons likely Yeses on cloture are. Schumer, Hassan, Peters, Durbin, Schatz, King, Shaheen, Fetterman, Cortez Masto and Gillibrand.
March 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If Schumer brings only nine or 10 Dems to vote for closure, then he must resign as leader, because he is clearly acting against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of his caucus. He is no longer leading them; he's opposing them.
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a thing about this list is that it passes the CR with the votes of safe seat and retiring Democrats, in an attempt to protect frontliners not from general-election threats but rather their own primary electorates.
schumer's protecting them from you, not the general election.
schumer's protecting them from you, not the general election.
Don't take this as gospel. It's not official. It's a very knowledgable source's best understanding of the situation. This persons likely Yeses on cloture are. Schumer, Hassan, Peters, Durbin, Schatz, King, Shaheen, Fetterman, Cortez Masto and Gillibrand.
March 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
a thing about this list is that it passes the CR with the votes of safe seat and retiring Democrats, in an attempt to protect frontliners not from general-election threats but rather their own primary electorates.
schumer's protecting them from you, not the general election.
schumer's protecting them from you, not the general election.
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This is the key takeaway I think. If we are gonna slide into authoritarian rule, I would have preferred someone to have taken a swing on the way down at least.
March 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This is the key takeaway I think. If we are gonna slide into authoritarian rule, I would have preferred someone to have taken a swing on the way down at least.
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lol holy shit i'm reading the wiki for Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) starring Ronald Reagan and look how close a chimp came to altering the history of the entire goddamn planet
March 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
lol holy shit i'm reading the wiki for Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) starring Ronald Reagan and look how close a chimp came to altering the history of the entire goddamn planet
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🚨BREAKING: Trump just issued a blanket ethics waiver for the crypto mogul he appointed to oversee crypto & AI policy, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.
David Sacks remains listed as a partner in a firm that invests in crypto & AI companies.
David Sacks remains listed as a partner in a firm that invests in crypto & AI companies.
Trump Issues Ethics Waiver For His AI/Crypto Czar
The White House granted the waiver to David Sacks a month after Trump fired the director of the independent agency charged with enforcing federal ethics statutes.
www.levernews.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
🚨BREAKING: Trump just issued a blanket ethics waiver for the crypto mogul he appointed to oversee crypto & AI policy, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.
David Sacks remains listed as a partner in a firm that invests in crypto & AI companies.
David Sacks remains listed as a partner in a firm that invests in crypto & AI companies.
It's dustbin of history time for Schumer, and the entire Democratic leadership. Way, way past time, in fact.
March 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
It's dustbin of history time for Schumer, and the entire Democratic leadership. Way, way past time, in fact.
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I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.
March 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.
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This is disrespectful to every Black, Hispanic, a woman who served and gave their life to this country!
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Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans
The Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.
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March 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is disrespectful to every Black, Hispanic, a woman who served and gave their life to this country!
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No alternative bill. No amendments to spare the people and children of DC from utter immiseration. No even symbolic standing up to a baldly fascist administration. Everyone to the left of Hitler should be somewhere between deposing Schumer and building a new party. This is bullshit.
March 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
No alternative bill. No amendments to spare the people and children of DC from utter immiseration. No even symbolic standing up to a baldly fascist administration. Everyone to the left of Hitler should be somewhere between deposing Schumer and building a new party. This is bullshit.
I think we shouldn't be so hard on Chuck. He is faithfully serving his constituents, as he always has. It's just that his actual constituents are the same oligarchs and corporations that benefit handsomely from Trump's destruction of all fetters on their greed.
He's a weak man and a fool. This was one of the big arguments by the vote Yes Team: The moment will be more ripe in September. There's a good chance that's right, politically. But by September the federal government will be unrecognizable.
Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.
March 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I think we shouldn't be so hard on Chuck. He is faithfully serving his constituents, as he always has. It's just that his actual constituents are the same oligarchs and corporations that benefit handsomely from Trump's destruction of all fetters on their greed.
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it really is insane to imply you get treated better in schools for being trans when every queer and trans person i know in school was relentlessly bullied or trapped in the closet for how they might be treated
March 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
it really is insane to imply you get treated better in schools for being trans when every queer and trans person i know in school was relentlessly bullied or trapped in the closet for how they might be treated
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i cannot believe that this is his argument, i legit thought hed at least argue trump would just seize power and never give it back but this is so goddam spineless and fucking pathetic i cant believe this is what they just put out i am so fucking mad
March 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
i cannot believe that this is his argument, i legit thought hed at least argue trump would just seize power and never give it back but this is so goddam spineless and fucking pathetic i cant believe this is what they just put out i am so fucking mad
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Schumer says it would be worse with a shutdown since DOGE would have free rein to do whatever they want. How would that be any different than it is now? He doesn't seem able to explain that.
March 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Schumer says it would be worse with a shutdown since DOGE would have free rein to do whatever they want. How would that be any different than it is now? He doesn't seem able to explain that.
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Who is the Democratic coalition at this point? People who don’t like Republicans in theory but prefer having Republicans in power to the prospect of fighting Republicans even the slightest amount?
March 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Who is the Democratic coalition at this point? People who don’t like Republicans in theory but prefer having Republicans in power to the prospect of fighting Republicans even the slightest amount?