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Mets fan from New Jersey. Wide Awake.

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peter@ourapartment.bsky.social · 5h ago

I support Van Hollen as Majority Leader for several reasons (and have for over a year now) but above them all is that the online discourse if Schumer hangs on will be absolutely toxic

Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · 18h ago

In this election, Americans called on us to unrig an economy rigged against working people & fueled by political corruption. To deliver, we need new leadership. This isn't about any one person – it’s about answering that call. That's why I’m running for Senate Majority Leader.

Daniel Gilmore@gilmored85.bsky.social · yesterday

What you gotta understand about the ownership and leadership of the NYT is that they are furious that Democrats won big last week and that 2024 wasnt the durable sea change against social liberalism they had hoped for

Andy Elrick@andyelrick.bsky.social · yesterday

Just won the Kentucky Derby by 12 lengths. There was only one other horse in the race and it sh*t itself and ran head first into a wood chipper. An autopsy is immediately performed on the winning horse.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · yesterday

Senator-elect Scott Colom: There were times that I couldn’t get donors to answer the phone. I kept the faith. When I did my first town hall in Jackson, Mississippi, less than 10 people showed up. I kept the faith. That's a tradition of our state. There’s so many people that have faith in Mississippi

zoot car@bookhouse.bsky.social · 2d ago

I will go on record to say that I think Schumer has done a great job on 2.5 of the 4 major responsibilities of a Senate Maj Ldr: vote wrangling, fundraising, and some recruiting (he got Brown & Peltola to run and was an early MS believer.) I am convinced he shouldn't be leader now, tho:

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 2d ago

Though I’m not terribly interested in debating it, as a true centrist my view on congressional leadership is -Keep Jeffries -Ditch Schumer Largely because of both technical process of choosing the two seats & their constitutional duties

Nathan Goldwag@goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 3d ago

It's not a hill I'm prepared to die on either way, but the reason to do permitting reform now is that nobody is actually going to like it so you might as well quietly push it through during a lame-duck so you can focus on building renewable infrastructure in 2029 instead of fighting about it then.

peter@ourapartment.bsky.social · 3d ago

something i’d really like to see the incoming congress talk more about is how they will deal with Russ Vought, a rogue criminal fascist who acts like congress doesn’t exist.

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 4d ago

The @seattletimes.com has ZERO stories about the hate attack on children celebrating Diwali at the Seattle Center Armory; white supremacists have been attacking South Asians in Washington for >100 years. Their front page currently features a story about... Chappelle making a joke about Charlie Kirk.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Jeffries: "Stephen Miller is a stone cold racist. His track record speaks for itself. And I've got zero interest in working with that kind of individual."

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5d ago

one of the funny things about this election cycle is people taking victory laps for their preferred faction or policy, when evidence seems pretty strong that voters were mad as hell about trump and were willing to support a quite diverse coalition across the center-left against him pic unrelated--

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Nathan Goldwag@goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 5d ago

One of the insane conventions of contemporary American politics is that you're supposed to pretend that a massive, multi-state apparatus of terror and discrimination that dominated our politics within living memory is completely irrelevant to anything today.

Kevin@reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 5d ago

James Chaney's daughter is alive to vote for Scott Colom—and, at 62, young enough to still be working as a nurse. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/u...

On Tuesday morning, Angela Lewis got off her overnight shift as a psychiatric nurse, drove to her polling place in Meridian, Miss., and then sat in the parking lot and prayed. That morning, she asked that God's will be done; the day before, she said a prayer of thanks to her father, James Chaney, one of the three civil rights organizers murdered by Mississippi Klansmen in June 1964, days after she was born. It is because of people like her father that she could vote at all. The man she had come to vote for on Tuesday was Scott Colom, who now appears to be edging toward becoming the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction.