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They're arresting Members of Congress.

Perhaps a sternly-worded letter is in order.

Or, perhaps, it's time to play some damn hardball with the DOJ.
May 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Even FOX News is talking about Make Life Better. It’s a simple mission rooted in who we must be as a party and as a country.

If you’re in office and not making people’s lives better—get out of the way.
May 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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To mark Trump's 100 days in office, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tonight will read into the congressional record 100 reports of his corruption. www.huffpost.com/entry/elizab...
Elizabeth Warren Marks 100 Days Of Trump By Reading Aloud 100 Reports Of His Corruption
The Massachusetts senator plans to read into the congressional record dozens of cases of Trump using the presidency to benefit himself personally.
www.huffpost.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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for context, the last time Columbia students were so mad at the school they seized a building, no one was expelled, and the school was so sorry it canceled classes for the rest of the semester and the Grateful Dead came and played in the center of campus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Co...
March 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer.

"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.
March 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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I refuse to vote for Republicans’ slush fund bill that grants Trump and Elon Musk permission to continue rigging our government and our economy against the middle class.

It would greenlight even more chaos and more cuts to critical programs.

Hell no, I cannot support that.
March 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Good. No appeasement.
axios.com Axios @axios.com · Mar 12
BREAKING: Senate Democrats left a private meeting saying there aren't enough votes to advance the short-term funding bill that passed the House yesterday
Senate Democrats embrace hardball on government shutdown
"There are not the votes right now to pass it," Sen. Tim Kaine said.
www.axios.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Yo @durbin.senate.gov, no one is picking up your Senate phone and you don’t even have a voicemail. Vote no on cloture and the spending bill or I will do whatever it takes to make sure the next Senator from Illinois has basic constituent services set up during business hours.
March 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Ah shit it turns out the problem with conservatism is that conservatives are all evil
February 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Katie Britt publicly says she supports DOGE & trump - privately she’s busting her ass begging for her state to be given exemptions because she knows her state will suffer BIGLY
February 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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February 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."

(gift link)
Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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As Congressmen are telling their constituents that Elon Musk and his software geeks have read-only access, they actually have had full access. They lie based on lies by Musk. Would you want a kid called “Big Balls” checking out your Social Security check?
February 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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is the goal merit or is the goal segregation?
Pete Hegseth's DOD has decided to recruit at an NRA event rather than a Black Engineering event.

www.military.com/daily-news/2...
February 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Is there anyone out there that is mapping any delayed or cancelled federal payments ? Would be really interesting to see which towns and cities are going to be hit
February 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details

Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.
February 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
December 14, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Who will be the new DNC Chair.
November 21, 2024 at 4:01 AM