going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force

The Trump regime and DOGE are rolling out this playbook to attack Social Security — one of the most popular and effective government programs.

They're deliberately sabotaging it by firing SSA workers and cutting services.

Why? Because they don't want it to work.

millennials will be like i know a banger and it's the reading rainbow theme song. and they're right

I have swallowed my own beliefs and supported establishment democrats for a decade to try and do my part and be as effective as possible in an imperfect system. I cannot continue to support a party who will not learn, will not change and will not fight. @schumer.senate.gov

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

Trump whining that Democrats wouldn't applaud him even if he cured a disease and then a second later bragging about withdrawing from the World Health Organization

Watching our country sink into the abyss like:

Day 1 on the left. Day 2 on the right.

Don't let anyone tell you that pushback is pointless.

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“Move fast and break things’ may be acceptable to someone who owns a business and owns the risk. And if things don’t go well, the damage is compartmentalized. But when you break things in government, you’re breaking things that belong to people who didn’t sign up for that” apnews.com/article/doge...

I tell my cat “I know” when she meows at me but if I’m being honest? I don’t always know

Signed up for the World Health Organization’s emergency newsletters today. I hate it here. www.who.int/news-room/ne...