BREAKING NEWS: ELECTIONS STILL MATTER!!! CUT THE NIHILISM AND GET TO WORK!!!!

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

We did not find evidence of millions of people receiving Social Security benefits on behalf of people who would be 110 years old or older.

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Because the president is a psychopath, because the vice president has the spine of a jellyfish, because the people of this nation are terrorized, the state of the union is strongly fucked up.
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One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

I've been saying, the best way to get rid of Musk is to drive a wedge between him and Trump. Get 1 million people to send letters to the White House addressed to "President Musk," thanking him for all his good work. That would drive Trump insane.

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

Wars end, dictatorships end. We have a future. Everything you do or don't do matters. Choose faith, hope, collective power. Do whatever you can, where you are, with whatever you have. You matter and together our voices will make a difference.

always rock toward hope, if you lose, you haven’t lost anything you weren’t already gonna lose, but despair can beat you even if you have a chance to win

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

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This Speaker vote should remind all of us that literally nothing Republicans try to do will be easy, or a foregone conclusion. And often, they are going to have to come to Democrats to enact anything at all. We have lost power but we are not powerless.

Be furious be angry but despondency is what they want from us. And be very suspicious of people on the left who say “we are cooked” or whatever. Imagine the civil rights movement, or suffrage, or any movement for change, hitting a roadblock and just “saying well we are well and truly fucked now.”

Men would rather replace mature liberal democracies with fascist kleptocracies than go to therapy

The key to preventing the worst kind of legislation from passing is to pressure vulnerable swing district GOP House members. All it will take is one or two defections! The GOP House majority is smaller than ever. Let’s paralyze it.