Cass
@caveatofcass.bsky.social
Grishaverse and Dodgers fan. Democrat. Central Valley entity.
Everyone insisting she's wrong should nut up and list the Republican Senators they think would join in to successfully impeach Donald Trump.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 3d agoKamala Harris: I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea. I was in the Senate for the last go-round, and the votes aren’t there. I think after the election, we all have to just also agree that our attitude has to be to get stuff done…
Kamala Harris knows this and she is telling people that in advance so they won't get their hopes up thinking the newly seated Democratic Senate will be able to *literally* remove Trump from office and toss him in jail. She is smarter than you because she knows this and you should shut up.
If we impeach Donald Trump in 2027 he is not going to get removed because you will not get a dozen Republican senators to agree to do so, you just won't. And when that fails to happen people will not credit us for trying, they will scream at us for doing nothing but a strongly worded letter. Period.
Fun fact: I didn't even know people were being fucking stupid about Garland today. I logged on *just* to complain about this SVU episode because it's relevant to my studies.
Cass@caveatofcass.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is the same exact strain of absolute moronic stupidity that has people *convinced* that Merrick Garland was dragging his feet about Trump, rather than the unpleasant truth that he was running at breakneck speed. Standard money laundering cases take *seven fucking years at best*
It always bothers me when people insist that the same 6-3 SCOTUS that invents constitutional law out of thin air to protect Trump would have totally let the DOJ throw him in prison if Biden had just picked a prosecutor who moved faster.
From the piece: if Garland had convicted Trump in 2021, "As a convicted felon, he would never be able to hold public office again." Remind me, was Trump a convicted felon in November 2024?
Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 4d agoWhy the road to American fascism was paved by Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
You'll be shocked to learn that the Roberts Court freezing the trial for 7 months and inventing presidential immunity out of whole cloth gets zero mentions in the entire piece.
Cersei Trannister 🏳️⚧️🏴☠️🦋@qadishtujessica.inanna.app · 4d agoHuh, what ever happened with that trial? Did some higher court step in?
The Hard Hat Riot is the single most important and consequential independently organized labor action in post-Gilded Age American history but the entire left-of-center has deliberately chosen to completely forget it because of how utterly embarrassing it is to us
The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag
Waldo@waldo42.bsky.social · 5d agoSomething happened in the 70's that crystallized politics (and many other topics) into a new set of assumptions and priors. It gave rise to Reaganism and completely crushed New Deal Socialism; Dems that eventually reemerged were and still are centrists scared of their own shadows.
“a farmer doesn’t like a handout” is the funniest thing i have read today
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4d agoTennessee farmer's fuel bill was $20,000 for just 2 weeks: "I wish they could see what it costs us to plant a crop and what we are getting paid... A farmer doesn't like a handout. He would rather have a fair market."
"Average federal official gets indicted by Trump's DOJ 3 times a year" factoid is actually just statistical error. Indictments Comey, who lives in a cave and gets indicted daily, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
The latest SVU episode (on a CSAM ring) is so aggressively bad and so aggressively counterproductive to what good practice is in stopping, mitigating, and catching sex traffickers that the fact that it aired in 20fucking26 is outrageous
I don't talk about AI much because quite frankly I don't spend much time thinking about it, but: AI has genuinely use cases, financial crime and anti money laundering enforcement being a major one, because humans simply *cannot* handle the sheer volume. So no, it's not fine.
Gretchen Leigh 🇨🇦@gretchenleigh.zone · 2w agoI've come to the conclusion it's fine to just be blanket anti-AI right now. We can have the nuanced discussions about local models, limited usage, etc. later. It's simply not possible to have those discussions right now. The current emergency is AI as fascist movement. We need to fight that.
"The party left me. I used to be a Democrat, but know that Obama has made fun of Trump for making the White House look like a dictator designed an over-the-top chain restaurant I favor starving African children and bringing measles back"
The Cheesecake Factory is where teenagers go when they want to go on "fancy" dates. No adults think that "The place where Penny worked while living as a struggling actress on the Big Bang Theory" is an actual nice and fancy restaurant. Christ.
Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 6d ago"The party left me. I used to be a Democrat, but know that Obama has made fun of Trump for making the White House look like a dictator designed an over-the-top chain restaurant I favor starving African children and bringing measles back"
Look the only person I can conceivably buy thinking the fucking Cheesecake Factory is a fancy joint is my dad's brother, and that man once had a woman kick him out of bed because his feet were black from all the dirt on them. So like. Consider the source.
Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 6d ago"The party left me. I used to be a Democrat, but know that Obama has made fun of Trump for making the White House look like a dictator designed an over-the-top chain restaurant I favor starving African children and bringing measles back"
"Like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory" is a GOOD one holy shit
Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 6d ago"The party left me. I used to be a Democrat, but know that Obama has made fun of Trump for making the White House look like a dictator designed an over-the-top chain restaurant I favor starving African children and bringing measles back"
Obama: 'Drain the swamp' -- the only thing they drained is the Reflecting Pool because some no bid contract got it all messed up. And then they tried to blame it on this 3 time Olympian! You remember that? Said he vandalized it!"
But you illustrate the problem with coalitions with white people who don't consider white nationalism a political and moral threat. They aren't motivated to work against it and don't care about our vulnerability in the face of it.
If you need to be compelled beyond voting against the Klu Klutz Klan because of their vileness and motivations I think it says a lot about you.
Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
HPV vaccine means young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
bbc.co.uk
Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · last wk.Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
so it turns out Amy Acton's abusive mother is also a kitten murderer
Amy Acton’s Estranged Mother Killed Kittens, Court Records Show
Donna Arthur, the estranged mother of Ohio Democratic gubernatorial nominee Amy Acton was convicted of animal neglect after she left kittens in a hot car.
mediaite.com
i have a deep emotional need at this point for vivek ramaswamy specifically to eat shit harder than anyone has ever eaten shit before in the history of eating shit in November
I can’t believe a woman gubernatorial candidate who was raped as a child by her stepfather and whose mother lost custody of her minor children as a result has to respond to an attack ad calling her a liar. It is, as far as the literature I know an actual unprecedented low in modern politics.
The moral rot is top-to-bottom in the GOP. But let’s focus on the more specific issue here: Trump and his party like rape. Whether it’s child abuse or campus sexual assault, they think rape is ok. Maybe they even think it’s funny.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
cannot possibly sufficiently emphasise that the object of this conversation is discussion of Acton having been raped as a child it's not JUST rape they're defending, OR just pedophilia, here
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.JD Vance: "When you're mean to Amy Acton, she sics the American media and of course the Democrat Party operatives all across the state of Ohio after you. But I think a person who is more worried about whether somebody says something mean about them, that person can never serve in the gov's mansion"
According to the Vice President, a woman is not fit to serve as Governor of a state unless she can take a few insults regarding her child sexual abuse like a good sport
J. C. Cantwell 🌻@segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · last wk.cannot possibly sufficiently emphasise that the object of this conversation is discussion of Acton having been raped as a child it's not JUST rape they're defending, OR just pedophilia, here
this is why “hold your nose and vote for her” is offensive; if you think affordable housing is one of the most important issues for portland — and the portland DSA council reps all claim it is — you aren’t getting a better ally at the governor level
David Welton@davidwelton.bsky.social · 2w agoOne of the best governors in the country on housing reform: bendyimby.com/2026/09/21/2...
this is incredibly lurid and demeaning and gross, but, on the bright side, i appreciate that donald trump is determined to ensure that jon husted loses with absolutely nothing left of his dignity
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"