Most members of Trump’s cabinet bring enough political spectacle they could each run their own travelling circus.

This is orientation week. Some political commentators I listened to were talking about how this is supposed to be the time where more senior folks try to brainwash the newly electeds to fall in line with the Democratic Party™ way of doing things, like catering to donors and “showing unity” in the face of an assault on democracy itself.

So it’s no surprise, but all the more important to keep reaching out to your electeds if you’re American, even if you live there but have no voting rights, to help them keep their resolve if they are trying to stand against leadership, or help convince them to move against them.

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What if Democrats manage to investigate and refer evidence to state criminal trials (so they are safe from pay-to-pardon) all of Trump’s corrupt appointees, and let Trump pick more corrupt people to repeat the cycle, like flies to a piece of crap?

Why is my company’s cybersecurity training limited to simulated phishing emails and online courses?

Maybe next year’s cybersecurity budget should include some for hot-looking models (of every gender).

To quote him directly: “You gotta be able to walk and chew gum at the same time”.

Y’all aren’t looking at Gov. Shapiro’s position from where he stands. PA government is going to get to work, now that PA Senate Republicans have been kicked out of the majority for the first time since the 70s. They have lots of progressive legislation on deck, and going by the gov’s and state leg leaders’ post election speeches they’re prepping to get lots done.

From that POV what the state would want first and foremost from the feds is money put/restored towards food security and healthcare supports so that they don’t have to dig through emergency reserves to cover what Trump and Republicans took away in 2025.

He literally said in that article he wants Democrats not to forget to hold Trump and his cabinet accountable for crimes. Yet people ITT are acting like he didn’t say anything about it and wants Congress to ignore the issue altogether.

It can’t be either/or,” he said. “It has to be both/and.”

I want to make clear that I support trans people participating in any recreational activity, I support their rights as much as anyone, and that this initiative throws a burden on all female children for the sake of a punishing a few, the competitiveness argument is totally based on assumptions and prejudice not backed by fact-based evidence, the issue is pushed by conservative culture war propagandists, and all that.

That all said, I don’t think most WA voters who voted for I-638 did so because they hate trans people, or think they shouldn’t exist as people. Hateful and spiteful people do exist but they are a minority. Rather, on this specific wedge issue, again based on flawed prejudice pushed by conservatives, opinions seem more to be framed around something similar to why 40 year olds can’t compete in an Over-50 bracket of a tournament.

The “unusual voting pattern” is people actually realizing that Republicans suck, for once.

Oracle is circling the drain, here’s hoping Ellison is flushed away by it.

I expect Google, Nvidia, even Intel to survive through this, Anthropic might still for a while but days at the purported 1T dollar valuation are numbered.

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I was talking with awareness of the context of the primaries. Stevens was the DNC favourite but she was still evidently an Israel bootlicker and didn’t perform well at the debate. El-Sayed got pre-primary endorsements from UAW and has had strong individual and collective support from labour union members. Not to say Piker didn’t help signal boost the campaign a lot, just to say Senator-elect El-Sayed would have never gotten through the primary without him is not necessarily true, there were many axes of support that converged and primary voters also compared the quality of candidates directly. And El Sayed used the fact that gobs of cash were being lobbed into the race to defeat him to his benefit.

I’m just tempering the argument that Piker is the primary or sole reason why we got the result we did, it’s a whole bunch of factors, a bunch of rural faces got eaten between the ICE raids, more new wars and gas prices, Republicans primaried particularly shitty candidates because they were measured by their fealty to Trump. It’s a bit of No Kings rallies driving people to vote as tangible action against this admin, and finally it’s the Mamdani effect where sewer socialism, left-wing populism that purports to go beyond ideology to focus on making a tangible difference for everyone while enshrining rights for the underprivileged.

I don’t think Piker was that instrumental in how good the Democrat campaigns were this time…

But I do credit him for getting into Republican media talking heads’ heads and living rent-free, to the point that they put out a thirst-trap photo from his IG on the jumbotron at the RNC Trumpapalooza.

REPORTER: Speaker Johnson, you’ve announced that you aren’t running for House leadership next year, can you provide us a few words as to wh-

JOHNSON: Sorry, I’m not aware, I haven’t read anything on that 🏃‍♂️💨

Tbf, the title is talking about the interstate popular vote compact, which is state legislation to assign electoral college votes according to the popular vote result, if the signatories have a collective majority of them. So technically this isn’t landing on Schumer or Jefferies’ desk at any point.

But yes to your point on Citizens united repeal and stock bans and just cautiously optimistic that Jeffries/Schumer will allow anything to change.

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It’s clear to me Michigan voters also don’t regret ditching you as a Senator candidate.

Yimbyfornia can’t come soon enough

I’ve specifically excluded Trump from Trump and his cronies because the Supreme Court 1/3 appointed by him as it stands will stump for him until he leaves, so IMO it’s most effective use of time to address the corruption around him, and let court processes play out as they would.

Robert Mueller’s tried investigating him Jack Smith has tried investigating him, I think Smith should bring charges against Trump with Congress’ backing based on evidence he has that he claims proves wrongdoing beyond a reasonable doubt.

I won’t be upset if they try filing articles of impeachment, but all you Americans try to find me 11 willing Republican senators to back that idea. In the meantime, all the points of the list deserve more attention in my opinion.

Yeah to sum up my opinion for Dem caucus members is vote-shoo-to-Schu-no-matter-who at this point lol. If no one volunteers, then they would best end-run around any stall attempts by him or his backers.