gabriela dickson la rotta
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wasn't really an issue in the election but low key important that with spanberger as governor D.C. will be bordered by two states whose national guards are led by democrats
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
wasn't really an issue in the election but low key important that with spanberger as governor D.C. will be bordered by two states whose national guards are led by democrats
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i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
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The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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“tom homan is a bitch” is a winning message
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
“tom homan is a bitch” is a winning message
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centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
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rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
September 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
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I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.
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Fuck every Republican and Democrat who voted for these amendments.
Multiple Amendments from Nancy Mace targeting trans people have been added to the NDAA.
14- Tricare ban
15- Military sports ban
16- Gender marker on forms ban
17- Bathroom ban
A handful of dems flipped on some of these, with the most flipping in sports.
14- Tricare ban
15- Military sports ban
16- Gender marker on forms ban
17- Bathroom ban
A handful of dems flipped on some of these, with the most flipping in sports.
September 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Fuck every Republican and Democrat who voted for these amendments.
Adeel Mangi deserved so much better.
This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
The Two-Pronged Attack on a Muslim Judicial Nominee
How the smearing of Adeel Mangi became a bipartisan exercise.
www.newyorker.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Adeel Mangi deserved so much better.
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We need to start talking about the fact that Gavin Newsom is unelectable.
July 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We need to start talking about the fact that Gavin Newsom is unelectable.
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This is how everyone should respond to Stephen Miller.
In response to White House staffer Stephen Miller’s comments, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said: “If we wanted a white supremacist’s opinion, we’d ask. But we don’t. So we won’t. Also, Minneapolis is great.”
Watch: Senior Trump adviser dumps on Minneapolis, prompting retort from Mary Moriarty
Stephen Miller’s comments are the latest in a recent string from Trump loyalists targeting Minneapolis.
bit.ly
July 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is how everyone should respond to Stephen Miller.
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It has a very real chance of failing—and *even if it passes with changes* it still has to go BACK to the Senate to get voted on AGAIN. And it barely made it through the first time
This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets
This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets
If you just look at social media instead of news sources, you might believe the “big beautiful bill” has passed already.
It hasn’t. It still needs to go through the House, where it has a strong chance of failing — so yes, feel as sad and angry and scared as you need, but PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS.
It hasn’t. It still needs to go through the House, where it has a strong chance of failing — so yes, feel as sad and angry and scared as you need, but PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS.
July 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It has a very real chance of failing—and *even if it passes with changes* it still has to go BACK to the Senate to get voted on AGAIN. And it barely made it through the first time
This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets
This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets
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wow I wonder if there’s any other evidence of animus from NYPD towards members of New York’s Muslim communities and whether that has any impact on their actual and perceived safety and whether *that* is something worthy of discussion by our elected officials and paper of record
June 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
wow I wonder if there’s any other evidence of animus from NYPD towards members of New York’s Muslim communities and whether that has any impact on their actual and perceived safety and whether *that* is something worthy of discussion by our elected officials and paper of record
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"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.
slate.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
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The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
June 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
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the whole "six unelected crazy people tip us a few steps closer to the apocalypse every june" routine is not getting any more fun the longer it goes on
June 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
the whole "six unelected crazy people tip us a few steps closer to the apocalypse every june" routine is not getting any more fun the longer it goes on
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This is insanely radical. The government could announce a blatantly unconstitutional action such as ending birthright citizenship and strip people of their citizenship unless they each individually sue. Class actions are possible but they could take weeks to months to certify and seek relief.
June 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is insanely radical. The government could announce a blatantly unconstitutional action such as ending birthright citizenship and strip people of their citizenship unless they each individually sue. Class actions are possible but they could take weeks to months to certify and seek relief.
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Super-quick take while reading the ruling:
This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling).
*That's* the import.
This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling).
*That's* the import.
First #SCOTUS ruling today is birthright citizenship.
Justice Barrett, for a 6-3 majority (with the three Dem. appointees dissenting) holds that universal injunctions are only appropriate when necessary to provide "complete" relief to parties, and stays these injunctions insofar as they go further:
Justice Barrett, for a 6-3 majority (with the three Dem. appointees dissenting) holds that universal injunctions are only appropriate when necessary to provide "complete" relief to parties, and stays these injunctions insofar as they go further:
www.supremecourt.gov
June 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Super-quick take while reading the ruling:
This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling).
*That's* the import.
This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling).
*That's* the import.
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If New York Democratic Party elected officials don’t get fully behind the Democratic nominee for mayor, they should all be run out of politics.
June 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
If New York Democratic Party elected officials don’t get fully behind the Democratic nominee for mayor, they should all be run out of politics.
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Also? I want young, hungry progressives to target every fucking centrist in the party who isn’t willing to bring the fire to this moment that we deserve.
June 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Also? I want young, hungry progressives to target every fucking centrist in the party who isn’t willing to bring the fire to this moment that we deserve.