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I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity
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The GOP just hates successful direct to consumer businesses, first was the de minimus exception for shipping, now they kill hemp derived THC, what will they kill next
But like actually where did the political will to take the hemp industry out back and shoot it come from
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The GOP just hates successful direct to consumer businesses, first was the de minimus exception for shipping, now they kill hemp derived THC, what will they kill next
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Indivisible in an email tonight, starting project to primary Senate capitulators:
"At some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over."
"At some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over."
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Indivisible in an email tonight, starting project to primary Senate capitulators:
"At some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over."
"At some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over."
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Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
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It's a funny joke but in 1970 only about 4% of the entire 25-34 year old population lived alone.
What planet do you live on?!
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It's a funny joke but in 1970 only about 4% of the entire 25-34 year old population lived alone.
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Hat trick to @mattyglesias.bsky.social for explaining Senate Brain and why the filibuster is bad
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Hat trick to @mattyglesias.bsky.social for explaining Senate Brain and why the filibuster is bad
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UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
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This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
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The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.
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So with a 50-year mortgage, you're at year 39 before you've paid half your principal, and that's when you start paying more principal than interest. You never start quickly building equity until the last decade.
November 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
So with a 50-year mortgage, you're at year 39 before you've paid half your principal, and that's when you start paying more principal than interest. You never start quickly building equity until the last decade.
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Give it a few years, Texas looking more like Russia every day. You've got an economy that revolves around petroleum, corruption from top to bottom, a perma-executive, oligarchs beyond the law, mafia that own sports teams, terrorist attacks that the government lets happen
For my first piece back from vacation, I blogged about the people who moved from Texas to Russia to escape gay people and then found out living in Russia kind of sucks:
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
They left Texas for Russia to escape 'LGBT indoctrination.' Turns out, it sucks.
Their Texas towns had too much "DEI" and "LGBT indoctrination." So they moved to Russia and became influencers.
www.chron.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Give it a few years, Texas looking more like Russia every day. You've got an economy that revolves around petroleum, corruption from top to bottom, a perma-executive, oligarchs beyond the law, mafia that own sports teams, terrorist attacks that the government lets happen
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Dawg what
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Dawg what
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
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this theory also helps explain why so many moderate Dem pundits are just as pissed at the Senate as progressives are
they may have different ideological alignments but they understand the stakes and the politics here in ways the Senators don't
they may have different ideological alignments but they understand the stakes and the politics here in ways the Senators don't
I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
this theory also helps explain why so many moderate Dem pundits are just as pissed at the Senate as progressives are
they may have different ideological alignments but they understand the stakes and the politics here in ways the Senators don't
they may have different ideological alignments but they understand the stakes and the politics here in ways the Senators don't
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Fighters > Folders
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Fighters > Folders
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Email from @aoc.bsky.social fundraising off Senate Democrats' cave on the shutdown. Says "the interesting part is that when you are an anti-government party, and win an election, you become the government — and you don’t know what to do."
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Email from @aoc.bsky.social fundraising off Senate Democrats' cave on the shutdown. Says "the interesting part is that when you are an anti-government party, and win an election, you become the government — and you don’t know what to do."
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This is what's so aggravating — yes, it was not working in extracting a policy concession but it was working in *driving down trump's numbers and provoking GOP infighting* which is what's important if you take Dem rhetoric about the perils of MAGA remotely seriously.
weirdly honest messaging from the breakaway mod/institutionalist leaders who blew up the party strategy
they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message
they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is what's so aggravating — yes, it was not working in extracting a policy concession but it was working in *driving down trump's numbers and provoking GOP infighting* which is what's important if you take Dem rhetoric about the perils of MAGA remotely seriously.
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It's interesting that this cave absolutely did not come from the consultant type moderates. I agree with these guys on not much but they get "trump unpopular=good"
Instead, it appears to have come from a separate tendency within the Democratic party to just be losers for the sake of being losers
Instead, it appears to have come from a separate tendency within the Democratic party to just be losers for the sake of being losers
This is what's so aggravating — yes, it was not working in extracting a policy concession but it was working in *driving down trump's numbers and provoking GOP infighting* which is what's important if you take Dem rhetoric about the perils of MAGA remotely seriously.
weirdly honest messaging from the breakaway mod/institutionalist leaders who blew up the party strategy
they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message
they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It's interesting that this cave absolutely did not come from the consultant type moderates. I agree with these guys on not much but they get "trump unpopular=good"
Instead, it appears to have come from a separate tendency within the Democratic party to just be losers for the sake of being losers
Instead, it appears to have come from a separate tendency within the Democratic party to just be losers for the sake of being losers
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> Republicans do possibly the dumbest thing ever and allow the shutdown to be defined around the Republicans defending a suicidally bad policy (?)
> Democrats repeatedly try to surrender for no reason (??)
> Republicans refuse (???)
> Democrats surrender even harder (????)
> Democrats repeatedly try to surrender for no reason (??)
> Republicans refuse (???)
> Democrats surrender even harder (????)
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
> Republicans do possibly the dumbest thing ever and allow the shutdown to be defined around the Republicans defending a suicidally bad policy (?)
> Democrats repeatedly try to surrender for no reason (??)
> Republicans refuse (???)
> Democrats surrender even harder (????)
> Democrats repeatedly try to surrender for no reason (??)
> Republicans refuse (???)
> Democrats surrender even harder (????)
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I think this is simultaneously true while also not being a particularly compelling argument to people who saw the Democratic party vehemently oppose Mamdani in the primary then either halfheartedly support him or actively run a racist campaign against him in the general
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I think this is simultaneously true while also not being a particularly compelling argument to people who saw the Democratic party vehemently oppose Mamdani in the primary then either halfheartedly support him or actively run a racist campaign against him in the general
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I cannot imagine a human who is actually convinced by this
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I cannot imagine a human who is actually convinced by this
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At a certain point we have to accept persistent failure as a strategic feature in service to a pyramid scheme.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
At a certain point we have to accept persistent failure as a strategic feature in service to a pyramid scheme.
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[while covering for your colleagues while they lie through to their teeth to their own voters] the key is to move past internal recriminations,
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
[while covering for your colleagues while they lie through to their teeth to their own voters] the key is to move past internal recriminations,
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Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now