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Well now, that’s an actual play by the Democrats, I’m a little surprised. Of course the Republicans have to vote against it because they have to protect President Smooth Brain, but this then drags out the story over another news cycle when Trump is desperate for people to stop talking about it.

Now, all this means nothing because the base will eventually get to “it’s ok for Trump to have raped those girls because he was saving them from the evil Democrats who would have done worse” but at least there’s a small moment where I can imagine things matter.

Golly, I can’t understand why younger generations aren’t having more kids.

You may be confusing democratic socialism and social democracy. They are similar in their short-term goals, but democratic socialist have fundamental economic reform as their long-term goal, while social democrats just want to curtail the social problems of capitalism.

We need like a hundred more Mamdanis and AOCs.

This is why 62% of Democrats say they need new leaders. The neoliberals (and their billionaire backers) are afraid of losing power while the ground-level party is already shifting. I’m not convinced that splitting off the progressives will be productive in our current electoral system. By the time the Democrats die off the fascists will have abolished elections. Instead I envision an outcome similar to the political realignment the GOP just finished, where a growing progressive caucus gains enough traction in primaries to force concessions from the party leadership until the neoliberals are all but pushed out entirely.

Yep, he is a Democratic Socialist which is actual socialism, unlike Social Democrats who are still capitalists.

So we revealed the limits of our precision strike capabilities to our adversaries all over the world and didn’t even achieve our mission objective? Nice move, Trump. Maybe you could reveal more of our sub locations while you’re at it.

Hopefully this heralds the realignment of the Democrats back towards a pro-worker party. Neoliberalism has failed this country for 35 years.

Quomo is a comically bad candidate and Mamdani is a very good one so I don’t think we can expect results like this in every primary. If progressives can keep finding highly qualified people I think we have a chance.

This already sort of happened in Texas where the state claimed that cities like Houston had “failed school systems” then appointed right wing toadies to run the district. In several schools they eliminated libraries, replacing them with Discipline Centers. They also make life hell for teachers or just fire them outright and replace them with unqualified ideologues.

The Republicans will definitely use that same process to deprive state and local governments of their autonomy.

Alt National Park Service is not credible, they are basically a left-targeting qanon. The organizers of the protest say they had 5 million people in attendance.

It was a hilarious piece pointing out the right problem (aging out of touch and feckless leadership not representing the people) while claiming that progressives are the real enemy they need to be standing against. Just peak NYT op-ed material. So we can see what the billionaires are worried about.

It was the first protest I’ve ever attended.

It won’t be the last.

The question is whether the California National Guard will follow Trump’s orders or Newsom’s orders in a situation where a court has ruled that Newsom is who they currently work for.

They claim he didn’t identify himself, but the video shows he clearly states “I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have questions for Ms. Noem”

Republican congressthings clearly have the same data on their internal polls, which is why they felt it safe to kill the dumpster-fire bill Trump tried to ram through.

Newsome isn’t progressive and is a very pro-corporate neo-liberal. My opinion hasn’t changed, but somebody needs to stand up to Trump and it might as well be him, even if it’s just an opportunity for him to posture for a 2028 run.

LAPD doesn’t report to the governor, their authority comes through the city so they report to the mayor who does not work for the governor. LASD also does not report to the governor, they report to the sheriff who is elected and does not work for the governor.

Crooks don’t like being told on.

He was only off by a little less than a trillion dollars.

Oh good, more fucking DARVO from our conservative psychopaths.