After 20 days of siege at Yorktown, General Tim Kaine ( @kaine.senate.gov ) decides to give up and surrender to the British instead.

How is it that the only people Democratic Senators like @kaine.senate.gov will stand up to is their own constituents?

The fact that Democrats will throw government workers, poor people who need food, people going broke for healthcare, people subjected to gestapo-style raids, etc, under the bus because of ONE fucking weekend of flight delays tells you everything you need to know about what they stand for.

We knew from the Bible not to trust Kaine

@kaine.senate.gov

We can't recall @kaine.senate.gov, so how do we get him to step down?

I can't take 5 more years of this.

@whstancil.bsky.social @gelliottmorris.com

Interesting back and forth on the inflation topic. What are good references to look at?

Citizen: Mr Trump, what will we do about the poor immigrant asylum seekers?
Trump: Are there no prisons?

The big distinction between Kimmel getting fired and, say, any of the examples from "woke cancel culture" is that the latter came _from the people_ through collective use of rights (such as purchasing/boycotting). Kimmel's firing comes _from the state_

Huge difference.

Don't both-sides this.

“I've gotten a lot of good on-the-job training over the last 200 days,” Vance said in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY on Aug. 27, when asked if he was ready to assume the role of commander in chief.

Trump may not be dead, but he is clearly overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation. You can tell from his bruised hand, from his swollen ankles, and from his lack of social empathy

MAGA Murder Bill

So, a few things I have not seen much coverage of about this plane g(r)ift:

1. How insane of an opsec disaster this would be!
2. As an emolument, it needs to be approved by Congress, not AG. Please don't accept the framing that "she approved it"
3. How insane of an opsec disaster this would be!!

Somebody please Photoshop Pete on the toilet, texting on his phone.

Question: how many people (in politics, journalism, media, business, etc) that have caved to Trump/Musk have dirt in their Twitter DM history that they don't want to be released?

Why doesn't anyone ever talk about the fact that Musk is almost certainly reading those people's private messages?

So, is the plan to just destroy everything (social security, Medicaid, FAA, weather forecasts, consumer safety, environmental safety, on and on) and then, when people riot, declare martial law?

The extent to which the phrase "Fraud, Waste and Abuse" is now uttered is crazy to me. Yes, those things exist. But it's now just a sleight of hand trick.

Also: journalists and Dems should not simply parrot this phrase, since it accepts their framing. It hides what they're actually doing!

Democracy dies in darkness. I just didn't expect that it'd be Democrats turning the lights out.

Put another way: @whstancil.bsky.social is right. Democrats need to realize that the biggest power they have, even in a minority, is to turn a giant, non-stop spotlight on the Trump/Musk coup.