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You could really distill the authoritarian project of the last decade as one of mass social disinhibition.
This doesn't end with Trump, it doesn't end with his removal from power or his death. He's reorganized half of the political nation in a fascist-authoritarian mode, disinhibiting the worst among us to resume the most disgusting & evil traditions of belief & action in our country's history.
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
You could really distill the authoritarian project of the last decade as one of mass social disinhibition.
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Use Rule IX for an impeachment vote. When it fails, do it again. And again. And again. Deny every unanimous consent. Appeal every point of order including ones you just made up. Make every vote be recorded. Be unruly and disorderly. Call Johnson a scumbag traitor on the floor, and then keep going.
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Use Rule IX for an impeachment vote. When it fails, do it again. And again. And again. Deny every unanimous consent. Appeal every point of order including ones you just made up. Make every vote be recorded. Be unruly and disorderly. Call Johnson a scumbag traitor on the floor, and then keep going.
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He already sent a lynch mob to chase Congress out of the Capitol and it was a skin-of-their-teeth miracle they didn't manage to get their hands on any of them.
It's a big deal, but shouldn't be framed as shockingly new. It is his longtime position that murdering his political opponents is good.
It's a big deal, but shouldn't be framed as shockingly new. It is his longtime position that murdering his political opponents is good.
November 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
He already sent a lynch mob to chase Congress out of the Capitol and it was a skin-of-their-teeth miracle they didn't manage to get their hands on any of them.
It's a big deal, but shouldn't be framed as shockingly new. It is his longtime position that murdering his political opponents is good.
It's a big deal, but shouldn't be framed as shockingly new. It is his longtime position that murdering his political opponents is good.
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conceding to far right ideas about the structure of society is conceding to a zero sum vision of the world, and more importantly giving voters a choice between two zero sum visions, where one is half hearted and the other is full throated. is it really a surprise then they choose the latter?
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
conceding to far right ideas about the structure of society is conceding to a zero sum vision of the world, and more importantly giving voters a choice between two zero sum visions, where one is half hearted and the other is full throated. is it really a surprise then they choose the latter?
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"Do the Democratic Party's flirtations with a social welfare state prevent them from having a tent big enough to include moderate Nazis? Read The New York Times Opinion to find out."
November 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"Do the Democratic Party's flirtations with a social welfare state prevent them from having a tent big enough to include moderate Nazis? Read The New York Times Opinion to find out."
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SCOTUS: “the First Amendment prohibits government officials from relying on the threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion to achieve the suppression of disfavored speech”
TRUMP: My FCC Chair will make ABC reporters stop asking me about Epstein
TRUMP: My FCC Chair will make ABC reporters stop asking me about Epstein
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
SCOTUS: “the First Amendment prohibits government officials from relying on the threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion to achieve the suppression of disfavored speech”
TRUMP: My FCC Chair will make ABC reporters stop asking me about Epstein
TRUMP: My FCC Chair will make ABC reporters stop asking me about Epstein
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“things happen” when it’s someone that annoys them but when it’s charlie kirk it’s terrorism
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“things happen” when it’s someone that annoys them but when it’s charlie kirk it’s terrorism
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2 things that I can't stop thinking about wrt MTG
1. Even After calling democrats the violent ones, notice how MTG didn't get scared and talk about needing security until she pissed off the gop
2. Despite the violence & misogyny from the gop, she has shown no signs she's willing to leave the party
1. Even After calling democrats the violent ones, notice how MTG didn't get scared and talk about needing security until she pissed off the gop
2. Despite the violence & misogyny from the gop, she has shown no signs she's willing to leave the party
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
2 things that I can't stop thinking about wrt MTG
1. Even After calling democrats the violent ones, notice how MTG didn't get scared and talk about needing security until she pissed off the gop
2. Despite the violence & misogyny from the gop, she has shown no signs she's willing to leave the party
1. Even After calling democrats the violent ones, notice how MTG didn't get scared and talk about needing security until she pissed off the gop
2. Despite the violence & misogyny from the gop, she has shown no signs she's willing to leave the party
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Trump is not tough on crime. He reassigns expert law enforcement in areas like child sex trafficking (imagine that) to immigration enforcement where their skills aren’t as relevant, making us more vulnerable to crime
“Homeland security agents investigating sexual crimes against children…have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown…hampering their pursuit of child predators…efforts to combat human smuggling and sex trafficking have languished…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
The Department of Deportation
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Trump is not tough on crime. He reassigns expert law enforcement in areas like child sex trafficking (imagine that) to immigration enforcement where their skills aren’t as relevant, making us more vulnerable to crime
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53 NYT articles by Maggie Haberman about Hillary’s emails, 48 about Benghazi, not one about Trump’s mafia ties or Epstein.
Tells you everything you need to know.
www.citjourno.org/maggie3
Tells you everything you need to know.
www.citjourno.org/maggie3
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
53 NYT articles by Maggie Haberman about Hillary’s emails, 48 about Benghazi, not one about Trump’s mafia ties or Epstein.
Tells you everything you need to know.
www.citjourno.org/maggie3
Tells you everything you need to know.
www.citjourno.org/maggie3
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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Epistemic violence against sexual abuse accusers—smearing them as deluded, crazy, or incompetent—is something rapists know works, and they conspire to do it.
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Epistemic violence against sexual abuse accusers—smearing them as deluded, crazy, or incompetent—is something rapists know works, and they conspire to do it.
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I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
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Gonna be a different version of Booker breaking the filibuster record and then voting for the thing he was delaying for the rest of their lives
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Gonna be a different version of Booker breaking the filibuster record and then voting for the thing he was delaying for the rest of their lives
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Nothing better underscores that Dems have no values or beliefs than the fact that they called every issue except ACA subsidies a distraction and then proceeded to fully capitulate on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Nothing better underscores that Dems have no values or beliefs than the fact that they called every issue except ACA subsidies a distraction and then proceeded to fully capitulate on ACA subsidies
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They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
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We gave them the victories they’ve been asking for and they turned around and gave up as soon as it was convenient. The carrot days of the Democratic base are over. Time for the stick. They’re not afraid enough of us. We can fix that (with votes).
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
We gave them the victories they’ve been asking for and they turned around and gave up as soon as it was convenient. The carrot days of the Democratic base are over. Time for the stick. They’re not afraid enough of us. We can fix that (with votes).
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Dem pols really have 0 fear of their base and that kinda has to change.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Dem pols really have 0 fear of their base and that kinda has to change.
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Dems have not adjusted to treating their own base as a primary audience for messages. Messaging still targets a quasi-mythical swing voter.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Dems have not adjusted to treating their own base as a primary audience for messages. Messaging still targets a quasi-mythical swing voter.
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Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
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That’s just it. In the Democratic Party, the question isn’t moderate or leftist right now. It’s whether or not a dem understands that the old political playbook for dealing with the right is obsolete.
One point worth emphasizing here: The punditry has been saying Sherrill (and Spanberger) represent the sane centrist wing of the party versus the left. Well, okay, but here Sherrill is urging more fight. Again, the results show that anti-Trump + affordability can *unite* the party. This shows how.
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
That’s just it. In the Democratic Party, the question isn’t moderate or leftist right now. It’s whether or not a dem understands that the old political playbook for dealing with the right is obsolete.
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
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We’ve only ever asked them to try. They won’t even do that.
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
We’ve only ever asked them to try. They won’t even do that.
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you can see why fascism is so popular when the other option is The Loser Party That Loves Losing
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
you can see why fascism is so popular when the other option is The Loser Party That Loves Losing
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The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.