DanSternCardinale
@dsterncardinale.bsky.social
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Biology professor, politics junkie, YIMBY, nerd. Unions FTW. I do anti-bad-science-and-Christian-Nationalism on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@creationmyths
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If you still have a Cooling or Games account there or whatever, you’re funding this.
This is quite a hed/subhed.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.
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Fight the urge to go dunk on trollish USG accounts; it's like mud wrestling with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it. Instead, focus on picking Bluesky fights like Alf intended: by willfully misunderstanding skeets from people who actually agree with you entirely
Rs getting rid of the filibuster would be a HUGE win for Dems.
If GOP wants to abolish the filibuster over this, awesome. It helps Rs way more than Ds. It’s also a central reason for loss of faith in government over the last 25 yrs. Rs can reopen the govt tonight if they want. If they want to do it to make sure 15 million lose their health care that’s on them.
“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”
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If GOP wants to abolish the filibuster over this, awesome. It helps Rs way more than Ds. It’s also a central reason for loss of faith in government over the last 25 yrs. Rs can reopen the govt tonight if they want. If they want to do it to make sure 15 million lose their health care that’s on them.
“And that’s why we nuked it twice in the past month.”
They shouldn’t!
Why should congressional Democrats participate in negotiations with Trump at all?
Trump: "I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut ... I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity."
“which she depicts as a theocratic menace to secular government and liberal freedoms”

Uh…yeah? That’s what it is?

I noped out at “A more unifying approach”. NOPE. Fuck right off with that. No unity to be found with people who think some *other* people don’t have rights or shouldn’t exist.
Look at this Nazi asshole. He’d put on a grey uniform and goose-step down Pennsylvania Avenue if he thought he’d get away with it.
Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"
And this is why no Democrats should vote for ANY budget deal with Trump. He'll just illegally violate it anyway. So screw 'em. Republicans have a trifecta, figure it out.
We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.
OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...
Excellent message. Stick to it. No votes, period.
This is good! More like this.

Now they need to stick to their guns.
Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
National Dem leaders will be making excellent, data-driven arguments about how Trump will continue to increase healthcare costs as his goons drag them to prison after the show trials.

The degree to which the national leadership is disconnected from the actual state of the country is astonishing.
...is this a thing we can do? What are the other nominees? How many can get in?
IT'S BIBLICAL THAT'S WHY

No seriously this is government of, by, and for Christian Nationalists. It's not more complicated than that. These are people who think the world is 6000 years old and Noah's Ark is a real thing that happened.

I wish I was joking.
Yes, “go big” is the play here. “We’re not helping you fund your illegal activities. Stop, all of it, immediately, or figure out how to fund it on your own.”

That’s the only good play for Democrats.
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I think people should be alarmed now because waiting until they consolidate enough power to carry out the desires he’s voicing now is a bad idea.
Send it and leave town. Make them either cave, or get rid of the filibuster.
"And since Trump has shown his willingness to illegally violate funding mandates, we won't vote for ANY bill without automatic triggers that cut off pay and funding for specific departments and personnel who act contrary to the clear text of the bill."
"When the administration has no regard for the law, taking away their money is the only way to stop their crime wave. We're not providing a single vote for government funding without an end to kidnappings by masked thugs and the military occupation of cities Trump doesn't like"

Not that hard!
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So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.

These two gotta go.
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If a shooter’s politics are hard to pin down, he’s a leftist

If a shooter’s politics are right wing, he’s hard to pin down
Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.”

Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?

www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...
Man in custody after 3 killed, at least 8 injured in shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, officials say | CNN
A 40-year-old man is facing murder charges after allegedly pulling up on a boat to a waterfront bar in North Carolina Saturday night and opening fire, killing three and injuring at least eight others.
www.cnn.com
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the first admin certainly had some of this, but this time around, it’s just this fucking whiny crybaby bitch shit from every member of the cabinet all goddamned day long. fucking loser ass presidency.
oh my god lol -- Trump calls for UN workers to be arrested because his escalator didn't work yesterday
They all need to go and be replaced with people 20 years younger.
We're angry bc the D leadership sucks. They suck at strategy. They suck at communication. They regularly cave on values the party they claim to lead stands for. They go after a democratic socialist mayoral candidate harder than a fascist president.
Not just over Mamdani.

I agree with @brianbeutler.bsky.social that Schumer and Jeffries and D leadership greatly underestimates the backlash that is building against them. The CR/budget/shutdown lack of fight, the Charlie Kirk day of honor support: the D base is angry at the D leadership.
axios.com Axios @axios.com · Sep 16
Scoop: Democratic leaders face growing revolt over Mamdani
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As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women.

The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.