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Cuellar’s primary was this week - are you advocating to replace him with a Republican who would vote the same?

He was primaried this year too and won - at this point you have to hold his voters responsible.

That’s an insult to Cynthia McKinney.

Is butter considered too feminine now?

I know this will probably have asshats in my mentions again, but periodic reminder that everything happening now has a precedent. And that precedent is closer than slavery, internment, boarding schools, Jim Crow...it is the very modern school to prison pipeline. It is the last 40 years of policy.

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Imma try and keep this short, but this is what i think is importantly historically. The 1960s civil rights laws and decisions were not technically "new legislation." it was a restoration of what already was.

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Yes they did. A significant percentage of Trump supporters wanted this. And we have to deal with the fact that those people cannot be won over and focus on mobilizing everyone else.

No, we need trials, reforms, laws and a couple of Constitutional Amendments to make sure this never happens again.

Because the evil doers founded the country, have been leading the country and constantly reinforce that those values weren’t intended for everyone. That foundation has to be unmade before you can redefine anything.

Harris’s ground game sucked because Biden, the DNC, and Democratic donors put no money into it going into 2024. She couldn’t manufacture something that didn’t exist.

Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961: “Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1967: “The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”

"But I know that Justice is Indivisible. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The "he's gonna cancel elections after he invokes the insurrection act" conversation—as if there's some natural path from one to the other—is driving me fucking bonkers.

And there aren’t billionaires and multimillionaires funding it.

This is why the approval ratings for the Democratic Party are in the toilet. This kind of spineless, cowardly response.

That and it’s the NPCification of the tech bros. They don’t see the complexity of humanity, just inputs and outputs.

Please ask the AI of your choice what the US healthcare system is like for someone who is low income and uninsured. Then ask what it is like for someone who is on employer owned insurance. Since listening to the educated responses here is probably too hurtful for you.

You know why

The issue with the cuts isn’t the headcount, it’s how they excised entire segments of government. They are redistributing the headcount and bloating as they see fit.

I find it difficult to take your take seriously when your definition of “woke” is based on the strawman that the right made it into and doesn’t factor that part into your analysis.

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

The only reason I know how much organizing is happening in certain parts of the country and how effective it’s been is because I know the people who are doing it.

I think that’s where the changed media landscape comes in. With reduced local media, overall corporate capture of mainstream national media and the increased reliance on paywalls, it’s not as easily visible. Where it is visible, it treated as location specific or pushed aside for the next story.

Senate is slightly more possible - the field is crowded but no dominant person. That said, it will be an expensive race and Kemp already has his pick.

Governor makes no sense - it is a crowded field, an expensive race and there is already a Trump favorite as well as a candidate that Trump hates.

It is definitely a long shot - her district is so red that they used it to gerrymander another district.

Dems briefly held a Senate seat in AL because the Republican candidate was a pedophile, but Epstein isn’t a winning issue? The usual suspects are protecting their friends.

What’s the point of electing Democrats if they are bad at politics? He can’t convincingly explain a tattoo, how is he going to navigate a shutdown?