Jefferies: "we're not here to get even" Me: "excellent messaging to differentiate dem investigations from what Trump is doing" Bluesky: "how dare you"
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goddamn, Will Stancil really can pack a lot of voters into his Honda Fit
Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · 9h agowww.startribune.com/minnesota-el...
“Are you going to impeach?” I think is actually a trap question by the media who want to paint Democrats as out for “revenge.” I suspect a proper answer would be “we will be providing long absent oversight of the executive branch and if we find evidence that warrants impeachment we will act.”
Revenge and retribution is what Trump did. You can understand why dems want to separate what they want to do from what Trump does.
Shoshana (ABOLISH ICE)@shoshpd.bsky.social · 2h agoSeriously. I need people to stop crashing out over what Democrats are saying about not seeking revenge or retribution. They are absolutely going to go after the corruption and wrongdoing. They’re just going to call it accountability and tie it to how real people’s lives were made worse bc of it.
People who claim to be marketing geniuses continue to demand dems use messages that are really dumb
1) when was that unthinkable 2) its not probably in the top 10 reasons we won (still not a bad thing to do but just saying)
Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social · 2h agoNew op-ed from Sen. Elizabeth Warren in TIME: Why Democrats Won the Midterms "Not long ago, trying to flip a seat from red to blue by promising to raise taxes on the rich was considered unthinkable. But Democrats did just that—and won."
The amusing thing about Musk saying Blue Texas will motivate him to build data centers in space is that “data centers in space” is a magnificent bit of bullshit, so he’s either desperately bluffing or has reached critical mass in buying his own bullshit.
Senate held the trial too, although he was barely acquitted
Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman@kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 14h agoFUN FACT: In 1876, just as the House was poised to impeach America's Secretary of War* William Belknap, he resigned. They impeached him anyway. So if Hegseth is thinking a quick exit could save him from being called to task by the House, there is that precedent. bsky.app/profile/rgoo...
LONDON (AP) — London jury convicts Russell Brand of rape and sexual assault.
I suppose this is a warning to dems about doing this1 themselves past 2028 but Id say going into it, still gerrymandering them into the ground
Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc)@purrtah.bsky.social · 13h agoOh my god Indiana woulda had maybe only 1 GOP Rep if they gerrymandered
We need that convo between the colonel and dryer. Zola from captain America except its about the dem midterm strategy
Taegan Goddard@politicalwire.com · 3h agoThe Blue Wave Hit Everywhere https://politicalwire.com/2026/11/05/the-blue-wave-hit-everywhere/?ap=b
Massie going rogue is nothing new, but adequate Republican support to begin his Hegseth-impeachment effort would be.
Hegseth Might Get Impeached Even Before New Congress is Seated
Massie Will Launch Hegseth Impeachment as GOP Tries to Figure Out Its...
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"The MAGA movement looked at Texas as their own private law firm, which happens to have been publicly funded, which I would call corrupt,” the incoming Democratic Texas Attorney General Nathan Johnson told me. “My approach will be quite different.”
Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 18h agoNEW: MAGA's own private law firm is going to be run by a Democrat. I talked to Texas Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson, who plans big changes that will have nationwide implications: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
I know you won the Super Bowl by 6 touchdowns but did you consider that had you done things differently you could have won it by 7 touchdowns
QuadCityPat@quadcitypat.bsky.social · 4h agoLeave to the Democrats to not be able to bask in the glow of this blowout for more than 8 hours before complaining about all the stuff they didn't get done perfectly. Perfect is the enemy of good and will be the party's undoing
Leave to the Democrats to not be able to bask in the glow of this blowout for more than 8 hours before complaining about all the stuff they didn't get done perfectly. Perfect is the enemy of good and will be the party's undoing
A few months ago on a podcast, Jamelle Bouie tried to explain the history of the term woke and its use by black people. The writer of the piece below was so annoyed that he would not go along with her with “woke is dumb” narrative that she kept interrupting him.
Jesse Myerson@jessemyerson.bsky.social · 16h ago🥴
you know, there is an argument for using median, but man that Justice Democrats line sure is an argument for using the mean here instead
Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 12h agoMore evidence that the moderate-vs-progressive electability debate, driven mostly by centrists, was a distraction. Progressive or moderate, it didn't matter in 2026, as has been the case for a decade. A wave is a wave.
I'm curious about the explanation here about why DSA would over-perform but their close cousins in the CPC would underperform. The DSA sample is so small it is possible it is just that the candidates good enough to make it through to the general with that label were exceptional.
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 12h ago
Trump apparently unaware that he ran on a deport everyone platform
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 13h ago1. The Wall Street Journal reports that after First Lady Melania Trump complained about people she knew getting deported, the president would tell aides that the architect of his aggressive immigration campaign, Stephen Miller, had gone too far.
I suppose the alternative read is to believe them and that they are arresting U.S. citizens on purpose
ProPublica@propublica.org · 13h agoThe Trump administration says that “DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake.” But that is precisely what is happening. We've cataloged every case we can find of an immigration agent holding a citizen during the current administration.
Folks: Peggy Flanagan did NOT win Klobuchar's seat. She won Tina Smith's seat. So Klobuchar's will become vacant and she gets to name a replacement, as will Marsha Blackburn.
I have a feeling referendums like this sound good to people until they realize that, yes, it applies to their kid too
Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 14h ago🚨A ballot measure in WA state just passed that will require all kids who want to play on girls’ sports teams — trans or not — to have a dr verify their sex. Japayal & Glusenkamp-Perez united in opposition to it, calling it “invasive.” A conservative hedge fund manager & Trump donor bankrolled it.
I think the point is that you don't go around saying you will get revenge because then it just sounds like you're doing it for fun or feelings which makes you sound like Trump
PMC Vanguardist@tylerboschert.bsky.social · 17h agoThis is the most obvious "yes, and" in American political history. The great gift the MAGA right has given us is that even-handed enforcement of the law *is the mode by which we will get revenge*.
I feel like they set themselves up by famously associating with a villain who famously gets his ass kicked.
samantha riedel@samanthawrites.net · 18h agoThe GOP on 11/3 vs. the GOP on 11/4
Wow. When the Texas trans youth care ban went to the Texas state supreme court, it was not a 9-0 decision. It was 8-1. Debra Lehrmann (R) called the ban "cruel" and "unconstitutional." She will be joined by 4 dems in a 5-4 court. There is a chance every anti-trans measure could fall in Texas.
