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Queer pedophilia victim whose story intersects with end of Cold War. Zero, and I mean zero, tolerance for bigotry. Portland miffed Charter Reform, and I'm fighting to fix it.
Impeaching and getting zero GOP votes in the Senate doesn't do anything and may even help Trump. Dems need to do the legwork. Working the Republican initiated Hegseth impeachment through, first this Congress and again in January when Dems are in control, seems like a great start.
If you want to impeach AND remove, you need 11 Republicans to flip. Starting with Hegseth impeachment and building some evidence seems like how you do that.
Jeffries just announced he's supporting the Hegseth impeachment. And he and Schumer have both clearly authorized the multiple committee chairs who have said they plan to start investigations on Day 1.
The 44,606-post record shows mainstream liberals (87.6% Anti) were joined by independent left writers and rank-and-file (<25k) leftists in warning about Platner. It was the 50k+ progressive media and national orgs that backed him 91% to 9% right into July.
I for one am looking forward to America's first Black Speaker.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h agoJeffries gives a "hard yes" to impeaching Hegseth. Re: Dem Congressional leadership, I've landed here: Schumer should take the big electoral win as an opportunity to step down and welcome a new generation (like Pelosi in late 2022). With Jeffries, let's see how Speaker differs from Minority Leader.
Trump isn’t fit for office, and he should resign. All congressional Republicans and 2028 presidential hopefuls should go on the record about whether he’s fit for office
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · yesterdayat least one (1) person understands how this all works
I don't actually have some kind of ironclad loyalty to Schumer or Jeffries, I just think that it's obvious as shit that nobody who wants them out understands what they do. There is not a serious candidate running to replace them. If there were I'd want to hear them out
Lorenzo Salgado was murdered by ICE 4 months ago today. Texans have been adding their “I voted” stickers to his memorial in Houston. I just added mine.
Donald Trump should resign. Congress should demand it. Promoting Stephen Miller after the miderms proves he should go now. A THREAD.
The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 2d ago1. I do not think the president actually believed it Thursday when he said that any attempt to impeach him “would destroy the Democrat Party.”
@repdexteror.bsky.com I know you're getting a lot of calls from racists who don't want to see us elect our first ever Black Speaker, but I know you're going to do the right thing. Congressman Jeffries has been the most successful minority leader in US history and more than earned the promotion.
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I just called. So awesome that we're going to get our first Black Speaker!
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According to all those polls he paid for, El-Sayed was supposed to have won his primary by 20+ points. He got 0.5. Then he founders in the general so much that Schumer has to toss him $67 million just to keep out a win in the mid-single-digits. Fight Agency recruited him, & Platner, & Fetterman.
Like him or hate him (I'm in camp #2) but McConnell was an enormously successful party leader in the Senate.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d agoMitch McConnell was one of the least popular political figures in the country. Through most of his tenure in the Senate, McConnell had one of the worst approval ratings, including from Republican voters. I think of that sometimes when thinking about what makes for a successful Congressional leader.
I can tolerate and even support DSA pols if, like AOC, Mamdani and Raman, they can stand up to their party's bigoted kooks.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d agoNithya Raman just rolled right past the late October demand for a national DSA struggle session and appears on track for a comfortable victory.
This is so good. Before you scream to replace Jeffries, make sure you understand what his job actually is, and how damn good he's been at it. He's a part of the team and is playing his position, and well.
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 4d agoHakeem Jeffries is not YOUR leader. There are actually people leading the resistance well already. He is the leader of 255 incoming Members of Congress, more than half of whom are more conservative than you, than me, and even than Hakeem Jeffries. emptywheel.net/2026/11/05/o...
I’m sorry, are we talking about the same Abdul El-Sayed who needed Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, and Jim Clyburn to pinch-hit for him at the last minute? Who still under-performed compared other statewide Michigan races (e.g., governor), esp. with Black and Jewish voters? In a swing state?
Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 4d agoEl-Sayed outperformed the center-left white candidates the Democratic Establishment prefers above all else: Turek & Brown (both of whom I like, btw). Calling out the bullshit goalpost-moving of the moderate, milquetoast, corporate centrists who learn nothing & will F up everything if we let them.
More and more people are saying Donald Trump isn’t fit to be president and should resign.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 4d agoLike… why not? What is the possible harm in saying that Trump is not fit to be president and shouldn’t be? He’s been spectacularly rejected by voters in a way no previous modern president has, he’s failed at everything, at what point are we allowed to say “He’s gotta go, this can’t wait two years”
Democrats just won the largest House majority of the 21st century. They flipped at least seven Senate seats. And some of you want to fire the guys in charge of the House and Senate teams. You are not serious people.
people are like, "why doesn't this charmismatic speaker I love become a congressional leader" and it's because congressional leader is a job where you deliberately make yourself hated (and where charisma largely doesn't matter.)
Ike nails the strategic failure here, and the 2026 returns back him up completely. I ran all available election data through Gemini Argon to test the theory that progressives "win bigger." Even in a D+13 blue wave, normie and centrist Dems consistently beat the progressive wing on the same ballots.
ike, son of mike@i-bresnick.bsky.social · 5d agoI'm publishing this thread I've been working on for a bit. The polls have closed, the races are called, the wave has crested and so I can safely ask Senator-elect El-Sayed's progressive supporters this question that's been burning in my mind: What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Watching Vance turn on Trump will be my second favorite consequence of this election. Watching it not work will be my favorite.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 5d agoVance is absolutely gonna try to pretend like he wasn’t the part of this administration, and a cheerleader for everything it did.
While everyone is whining that Jeffries is responding to what the most voters asked for, the guy who's in charge of accountability is saying this. Everyone has their role. Figure out what role people play before you whine.
For the first time in her career, Susan Collins is actually concerned. Bye gurl.
