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The newest marginalized identity category is "publicist"
PSA to @nytimes @GQMagazine @VanityFair your freelancer @viajoshhunt is publishing hate tweets about publicists who are an essential part of the publishing ecosystem. He is attempting to erase an entire workforce that is vital in delivering news, fact checking and event happenings for the sake of… his own agenda
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There are now more than twice the number of Blue Dogs in Congress than Justice Democrats. It brings a tear to your eye 🥲
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How come this guy gets no respect from the people who agree with him about everything and share all his preferences on factional disputes and there’s all this sweaty desperation to get someone else to run for president?
Why not Ro?
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They did the meme again
A top Biden administration economic official is pitching Democrats on a low-down-payment proposal to bring millions of new homebuyers into the market, as incoming congressional leaders take stock of affordability measures that might help them notch early legislative wins bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
This stuff is all kind of chickenshit. If these senators want a challenge to Schumer one of them is going to have to run against Schumer.
SLOTKIN says Dems should withhold quorum if Schumer runs for leader unopposed until he presents a clear plan that members have a voice in
“Whoever wants my vote is gonna have to show me a concrete plan that's definitively different.”
Adds she doesn’t believe the divide is progressives vs. mods but “team fight vs. team flight”
Several people telling me that Van Hollen is challenging Schumer. He is? Show me where he announced that?
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Just rephrasing “voters are mad about inflation” as “voters are mad about affordability” doesn’t change the fact that the policy implications are in the direction of austerity and neoliberalism, the inverse of mass unemployment pointing toward “New Deal for X” politics.
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a certain kind of environmentalist will tell you we have ten years to decarbonize and then defend a review process that uses seven of them. the planet is on fire, please submit written comments before the close of the 90 day window
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For one, Mr. Vice President, as a very conservative lawyer friend just texted me in reply to your query: "You can’t just summarily execute alleged drug runners by blowing them up with cruise missiles."
Has Pete Hegseth committed impeachable crimes? The question is absurd and the answer is: obviously not.
Like so much of Congress, impeachment has become a ridiculous show that stands in for actual policymaking. Congress has so many tools for registering its policy disagreements. Rather than use them, they're going to try to impeach Pete Hegseth. They did the same to Donald Trump. Legislation is hard. Impeachments are easy (and ultimately, inconsequential).
The irony is that legislators are most angry at Pete on the issues where he's most correct: repositioning forces away from Europe/Ukraine and reorganizing the general officer corps.
This isn't about Iran, this is about the fact that Pete took on the bureaucracy at the Pentagon.
The states without an income tax are generally very attached to not having an income tax, and I don't think it's a good idea for Dems from the Northeast to weigh in and tell local Dems to fight for an income tax.
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In the House Republican Conference meeting this morning, Washington State @RepBaumgartner exhorted his colleagues in the room not to leak what's going on in the meeting to reporters.
He recommended they hold House Republican Conference meetings in a SCIF.
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If Rep. Cory Mills R-FL shows up to vote in order to defend Hegseth, that would make some news. Mills has not voted on the House floor since July 23.
I will be supporting our @SecWar as he’s done an amazing job returning our military to its full strength and living the warrior ethos!
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Nevada Dem Rep Susie Lee introduced her nephew, Rep.-elect Sam Forstag, the only Democrat in Montana’s two-person House delegation
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oh a queer vegan college student activist in western mass was annoying? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite soe noir?
Me: In retrospect, the leather jackets should have been a sign.
@bendreyfuss: Stop.
Me: He was dressing like a CEO who cheats on his wife.
Ben: How dare you?
Ben would also definitely fuck the Chinese spy; he should not be CEO of NVIDIA either. centralairpodcast.com/p/supe…
