Crimedog
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You might be thinking, wait, didn't Dems win virtually every election held this year? You're forgetting that in DC, "Democrats are flailing" is not a comment on empirical reality, it is a kind of core ideological truth, a load-bearing pillar in their weltanschauung.
Opinion | Why Democrats keep flailing
Voters aren’t rejecting government. They are rejecting leaders who can’t run it effectively.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
You might be thinking, wait, didn't Dems win virtually every election held this year? You're forgetting that in DC, "Democrats are flailing" is not a comment on empirical reality, it is a kind of core ideological truth, a load-bearing pillar in their weltanschauung.
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Every time CNN or another network do this “Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing” disclaimer, Dems or left-leaning pundits should light them up and say “uhh, excuse me, Dana, but Trump is very much accused of wrongdoing.”
Trump is demanding that GOP side with him over Epstein's victims, Rep Ansari tells me. She had a harrowing exchange with one victim who recounts how her mom had cancer and he exploited that.
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Every time CNN or another network do this “Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing” disclaimer, Dems or left-leaning pundits should light them up and say “uhh, excuse me, Dana, but Trump is very much accused of wrongdoing.”
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The SNAP program is wildly over-engineered to prevent fraud. Like the food stamps that came before them, EBT accounts are only good for certain groceries. You can’t even buy a hot meal.
A universal basic income system with regular money would be better, but more susceptible to this ugly rhetoric.
A universal basic income system with regular money would be better, but more susceptible to this ugly rhetoric.
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The SNAP program is wildly over-engineered to prevent fraud. Like the food stamps that came before them, EBT accounts are only good for certain groceries. You can’t even buy a hot meal.
A universal basic income system with regular money would be better, but more susceptible to this ugly rhetoric.
A universal basic income system with regular money would be better, but more susceptible to this ugly rhetoric.
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A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.
A reminder: The perpetrators in the Epstein files are Oligarchs, and so are the ones protecting them.
November 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.
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Democrats ran a variety of candidates in 2025, who tailored campaigns to their constituents—all anti-Trump, but offering different economic specifics based on their locales.
It was a big tent approach and did well with voters everywhere. Presenting that as infighting is an effort to generate drama.
It was a big tent approach and did well with voters everywhere. Presenting that as infighting is an effort to generate drama.
This NYT framing is ludicrously overstated. Sure, there are primaries. But if anything, the results showed a lot of Dems that there's a way to unify the factions around anti-Trump and affordability politics (as I try to argue in the piece/thread below).
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Democrats ran a variety of candidates in 2025, who tailored campaigns to their constituents—all anti-Trump, but offering different economic specifics based on their locales.
It was a big tent approach and did well with voters everywhere. Presenting that as infighting is an effort to generate drama.
It was a big tent approach and did well with voters everywhere. Presenting that as infighting is an effort to generate drama.
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Will people notice they are still in the same place?
Mysteries of the universe...
Mysteries of the universe...
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Will people notice they are still in the same place?
Mysteries of the universe...
Mysteries of the universe...
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As with Bernhard Goetz in the mid-1980s, juries are sympathetic towards Subway vigilantes.
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
As with Bernhard Goetz in the mid-1980s, juries are sympathetic towards Subway vigilantes.
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I'd say that Trump's all-stick-no-carrot style of despotism rather broadly connects the democracy and the economic argument; anyway if you're not out there saying that authoritarianism makes us all financially poorer off, maybe politics isn't your thing
The bizarre media narrative that Dems must choose between anti-Trump and affordability politics reflects a broad reluctance to accept that Trump is really unpopular. The way forward is a fusion of the two. They are often one and the same. 8/
(h/t @jamellebouie.net)
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
(h/t @jamellebouie.net)
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I'd say that Trump's all-stick-no-carrot style of despotism rather broadly connects the democracy and the economic argument; anyway if you're not out there saying that authoritarianism makes us all financially poorer off, maybe politics isn't your thing
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social The real winner of the Virginia’s Governors race? Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social The real winner of the Virginia’s Governors race? Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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Jeffries: "The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That's the reason they refuse to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva."
November 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Jeffries: "The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That's the reason they refuse to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva."
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More Democrats should get more combative with the media, in particular by calling out questions that have an unspoken premise of "GOP voters are realer Americans than you," or in this case, "the president can break the law if voters in a city choose a mayor according to their own preferences."
In the 1st question of his brief interview with Mamdani. Anderson Cooper reports Trump’s strongman threats to punish NYC if the Mayoral candidate is elected, as if he gets to select where funding goes according to his whims, & then asks whether voters will find it “worth the hassle” to vote for him.
November 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
More Democrats should get more combative with the media, in particular by calling out questions that have an unspoken premise of "GOP voters are realer Americans than you," or in this case, "the president can break the law if voters in a city choose a mayor according to their own preferences."
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the thing you should learn from this is the media hates democrats
Under Dem presidents, Dems endlessly debate whether prez dares tout good econ news out of fear of seeming "out of touch." Trump makes up horseshit about creating "record" jobs and media never calls him "out of touch." Let's learn from this.
Exchange on this point:
newrepublic.com/article/2024...
Exchange on this point:
newrepublic.com/article/2024...
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
the thing you should learn from this is the media hates democrats
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Democrats should commit to expanding the Supreme Court and ignoring all of Donald Trump's pardons issued prior to charges. It's what Republicans would do if the roles were reversed.
Reminder that while Todd Blanche is threatening to arrest Democrats, he's also one of the officials who decides whether to hand $230 million in taxpayer money to Trump, which he very well may do. That should secure him that pardon if he needs it.
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
October 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Democrats should commit to expanding the Supreme Court and ignoring all of Donald Trump's pardons issued prior to charges. It's what Republicans would do if the roles were reversed.
More like this please.
Absolutely no one did not foresee this as a consequence of the (increasingly-aptly-captioned) Trump v. United States ruling.* Corrupt judges enabling corruption.
*Facially anti-Constitutional and so legally null and void.
*Facially anti-Constitutional and so legally null and void.
Great points from @leahlitman.bsky.social explaining how conditions for Trump's $230 million heist were partly created by SCOTUS, the immunity decision, and unitary executive theory. Trump cited immunity ruling in docs seeking this money.
So much packed in here:
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
So much packed in here:
newrepublic.com/article/2022...
October 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
More like this please.
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Because bigotry is confused with patriotism and because these “patriots” are seen by the press corps as the only authentic Americans. Everyone else, and I mean this, is second class.
"When Democrats or liberals question the morals of Trump voters, the press treats it as a major scandal. But Trump expresses a desire to cover protestors with feces — essentially saying that anyone who disagrees with him is shit — the media is barely willing to talk about it. Why?"
Trump shits on America. Why doesn’t the media care?
For many news orgs, Trump’s fascist coalition is uniquely legitimate.
www.publicnotice.co
October 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Because bigotry is confused with patriotism and because these “patriots” are seen by the press corps as the only authentic Americans. Everyone else, and I mean this, is second class.
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It has been a tough morning for my Chauncey Billups bobblehead
October 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It has been a tough morning for my Chauncey Billups bobblehead
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You are both right on the correct synthesis: Dems should have more “moderate” policy positions and take fewer and higher salience ones, but also be more aggressive about resetting political institutions and establishing a more effective government with fewer veto points.
October 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
You are both right on the correct synthesis: Dems should have more “moderate” policy positions and take fewer and higher salience ones, but also be more aggressive about resetting political institutions and establishing a more effective government with fewer veto points.
The woman who told you to believe Lance Armstrong now wants you to believe Bari Weiss.
This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
www.theatlantic.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The woman who told you to believe Lance Armstrong now wants you to believe Bari Weiss.
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I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.
September 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.
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If you strongly believe in a cause, then you have to take the steps necessary to advance the cause and not just steps that express how you feel.
September 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you strongly believe in a cause, then you have to take the steps necessary to advance the cause and not just steps that express how you feel.
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It's a failure of Dem messaging and a sign of weakness that Steve Bannon has no problem just coming out and saying this. The president is not The President. He's just a confused old man who goes on TV to air his grudges. Stephen Miller is The President, and he's the one pushing this hateful agenda.
Hey @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social,I asked Steve Bannon directly if he thinks Miller will now unleash the state on groups that describe ICE as "authoritarian," and he said: "Yes," adding that Miller is "in charge." cc @mcopelov.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2009...
newrepublic.com/article/2009...
September 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It's a failure of Dem messaging and a sign of weakness that Steve Bannon has no problem just coming out and saying this. The president is not The President. He's just a confused old man who goes on TV to air his grudges. Stephen Miller is The President, and he's the one pushing this hateful agenda.
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sorry to report my finest work remains relevant
September 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
sorry to report my finest work remains relevant
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90% of elected Dems do not know how to fight, do not want to fight, did not run for office to fight, and are not smart enough or principled enough to fight. They entered office so they could fiddle with policy and feel important, they want to hide until it blows over, and will find excuses to do so.
September 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
90% of elected Dems do not know how to fight, do not want to fight, did not run for office to fight, and are not smart enough or principled enough to fight. They entered office so they could fiddle with policy and feel important, they want to hide until it blows over, and will find excuses to do so.
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I think this may be what they're worried about ...
Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th...
Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th...
Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama?
Let me connect a few dots for you that may be a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I think this may be what they're worried about ...
Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th...
Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th...
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There are people in public life clearly and accurately stating the danger to America at this bizarre moment. Those people need support from every Conservative and Liberal American who find our Constitution worth preserving.
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
September 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
There are people in public life clearly and accurately stating the danger to America at this bizarre moment. Those people need support from every Conservative and Liberal American who find our Constitution worth preserving.