David Beard
dwbeard.bsky.social
David Beard
@dwbeard.bsky.social
Co-host of The Downballot podcast and contributing editor at The Downballot. Labor staffer, he/him 🏳️‍🌈
You can see how the House Dems are almost unanimously opposed to this b/c they have the luxury of the House GOP being solely responsible for passing legislation.
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The best outcome would have been the elimination of the filibuster but GOP Senators understand that the filibuster is much better for them than for Dems. This fight, like so much of our modern system of government, is about the cost of allowing the filibuster to run wild.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Politically, the landscape is shifting too:

🔴 Nearly all platforms have become more Republican
🔵 But they remain Democratic-leaning overall
🏃‍♂️ Democrats are fleeing to smaller platforms (Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon)
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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One of the major problems of our age is that Ezra Klein ascribes to Charlie Kirk a shared commitment to a free exchange of ideas which Charlie Kirk manifestly and expressly did not hold.
September 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM