@jasonmgunning.bsky.social
Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.
So Democrats get:
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The president doesn’t have a constitutional right to impose a tariff because he doesn’t like a foreign country’s TV ad. I know this doesn’t matter to the dictator in the White House, but I thought I’d point it out in case we ever start following the Constitution again.
Trump Announces Tariff Increase on Canada Over Reagan Ad Spat
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The president doesn’t have a constitutional right to impose a tariff because he doesn’t like a foreign country’s TV ad. I know this doesn’t matter to the dictator in the White House, but I thought I’d point it out in case we ever start following the Constitution again.
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It was the easiest, one question, open book test in American history. And we are all suffering due to their failure. I will never forget, and never forgive the people who did this to us.
October 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
It was the easiest, one question, open book test in American history. And we are all suffering due to their failure. I will never forget, and never forgive the people who did this to us.
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I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’
Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE.
A rogue fascist agency.
Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE.
A rogue fascist agency.
October 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’
Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE.
A rogue fascist agency.
Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE.
A rogue fascist agency.
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Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
September 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
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That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
August 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
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"They said militarizing the nation's capital is a distraction. No, it is not. It is the core of the fight. They were saying the Putin summit is a distraction. No, the liberal world order and a free Ukrainian people hang in the balance. This is not a distraction. It is the fight."
August 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"They said militarizing the nation's capital is a distraction. No, it is not. It is the core of the fight. They were saying the Putin summit is a distraction. No, the liberal world order and a free Ukrainian people hang in the balance. This is not a distraction. It is the fight."
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Zelenskyy: "I told President Trump and all our European allies that Putin is bluffing. He's trying to push before the Alaska meeting on all directions of the front. Russia wants to occupy the whole of Ukraine. This is his wish ... he does not want peace."
August 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Zelenskyy: "I told President Trump and all our European allies that Putin is bluffing. He's trying to push before the Alaska meeting on all directions of the front. Russia wants to occupy the whole of Ukraine. This is his wish ... he does not want peace."
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Trump still doesn't get the difference between political asylum and insane asylums: "We have people from mental institutions, insane asylums even. That's a mental institution on steroids."
July 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Trump still doesn't get the difference between political asylum and insane asylums: "We have people from mental institutions, insane asylums even. That's a mental institution on steroids."
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I do not care.
You are morally conflicted? You think our orders are illegal, unethical, or immoral? Resign. Consult with qualified counsel and lawfully blow the whistle.
No one is making you do this. You're agreeing to do this.
You are morally conflicted? You think our orders are illegal, unethical, or immoral? Resign. Consult with qualified counsel and lawfully blow the whistle.
No one is making you do this. You're agreeing to do this.
“The frustration isn’t yet producing mass resignations or major internal protests, but the officers and agents described a workforce on edge, vilified by broad swaths of the public and bullied by Trump officials demanding more and more,” Nick Miroff writes.
Trump loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable.
A “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out and morally conflicted.
bit.ly
July 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I do not care.
You are morally conflicted? You think our orders are illegal, unethical, or immoral? Resign. Consult with qualified counsel and lawfully blow the whistle.
No one is making you do this. You're agreeing to do this.
You are morally conflicted? You think our orders are illegal, unethical, or immoral? Resign. Consult with qualified counsel and lawfully blow the whistle.
No one is making you do this. You're agreeing to do this.
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My sense is that the 22 agencies that were combined into the new Department of Homeland Security in 2002 generally functioned better before the combination. Isn't it worth seriously considering whether it's time to do away with DHS and disperse its various functions back to DOJ, Treasury, etc?
July 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My sense is that the 22 agencies that were combined into the new Department of Homeland Security in 2002 generally functioned better before the combination. Isn't it worth seriously considering whether it's time to do away with DHS and disperse its various functions back to DOJ, Treasury, etc?
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Hours after ICE became the highest federal law enforcement agency in America history (and likely in world history), the Supreme Court lifts the last obstacle to ICE deporting people to any random country around the world, even in conflict zones or where migrants are enslaved.
Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor & Jackson (and a rare concurrence from Justice Kagan), #SCOTUS "clarifies" that its 6/23 ruling staying a district court's injunction against third-country removals *also* applies to the district court's later order requiring a remedy for those already removed:
www.supremecourt.gov
July 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hours after ICE became the highest federal law enforcement agency in America history (and likely in world history), the Supreme Court lifts the last obstacle to ICE deporting people to any random country around the world, even in conflict zones or where migrants are enslaved.
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Sotomayor's response, footnote 11.
![The majority insists that the constitutionality of the Citizenship Or
der will come before this Court eventually and that, when it does, the
Government will obey this Court’s resulting opinion with respect to all
newborn children. Ante, at 25, n. 18. Why? The majority is sure that
the Government will honor its oral-argument promises to “‘seek cert’”
when it “‘lose[s] one of ’” its pending appeals and to “respect both the
judgments and opinions of this Court.” Ibid. (quoting Tr. of Oral Arg.
50). The majority’s certainty that the Government will keep its word is
nothing short of a leap of faith, given that the Government has adopted
a plainly unconstitutional policy in defiance of this Court’s precedent and
then gamed the system to stymie this Court’s consideration of the policy’s
merits. In any event, the Government’s promise is cold comfort to the
many children whose parents do not file a lawsuit and whose citizenship
status remains in flux pending this Court’s review.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f4d76fjna5nxqsy2fu6cgmp3/bafkreifntseah76yzenezor2mzrldzi4woyn7aczbswoudhyh3nlkzt5mu@jpeg)
June 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Sotomayor's response, footnote 11.
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I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
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It’s true, as many have suggested, that if they can do this to Sen. Padilla, they can do it to others.
I’d only add that they already have been doing this to others.
A mass deportation regime, sooner rather than later, becomes contemptuous of civil liberties and basic decency.
I’d only add that they already have been doing this to others.
A mass deportation regime, sooner rather than later, becomes contemptuous of civil liberties and basic decency.
June 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It’s true, as many have suggested, that if they can do this to Sen. Padilla, they can do it to others.
I’d only add that they already have been doing this to others.
A mass deportation regime, sooner rather than later, becomes contemptuous of civil liberties and basic decency.
I’d only add that they already have been doing this to others.
A mass deportation regime, sooner rather than later, becomes contemptuous of civil liberties and basic decency.
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"Mass deportation" is the excuse and trigger for authoritarianism. As it was always intended to be.
June 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"Mass deportation" is the excuse and trigger for authoritarianism. As it was always intended to be.
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Whether it's liberals putting fliers on the windshield of Chris Cillizza's Tesla or conservative zip-tying toddlers and sending them to torture prisons, both sides could use a lesson in basic civility.
June 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Whether it's liberals putting fliers on the windshield of Chris Cillizza's Tesla or conservative zip-tying toddlers and sending them to torture prisons, both sides could use a lesson in basic civility.
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Trump still hasn't figured out that insane asylums and political asylum claims are different things
May 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Trump still hasn't figured out that insane asylums and political asylum claims are different things
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Today is the day we honor those who died overseas stopping the same thing many of you are ignoring here at home--fascism.
May 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Today is the day we honor those who died overseas stopping the same thing many of you are ignoring here at home--fascism.
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As the Trump family scams pile up, it is hard to imagine anyone more obsessed with grifting money from feeble-minded people.
by L. Ron Hubbard
by L. Ron Hubbard
May 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
As the Trump family scams pile up, it is hard to imagine anyone more obsessed with grifting money from feeble-minded people.
by L. Ron Hubbard
by L. Ron Hubbard
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🔥 DAMN! — @benniegthompson to @kristinoem: “I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify.”
May 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🔥 DAMN! — @benniegthompson to @kristinoem: “I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify.”
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Imagine if when we invaded Iraq, three years in we only took a sliver of the country at the cost of 800,000 men.
Would the conventional wisdom be that we are winning? No? Then why do some think Russia is?
Would the conventional wisdom be that we are winning? No? Then why do some think Russia is?
April 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Imagine if when we invaded Iraq, three years in we only took a sliver of the country at the cost of 800,000 men.
Would the conventional wisdom be that we are winning? No? Then why do some think Russia is?
Would the conventional wisdom be that we are winning? No? Then why do some think Russia is?
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He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
April 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?