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She said “I’m the last thing standing between you and the apocalypse,” and she wasn’t wrong. She was right about everything. #HillaryWarnedUs
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He lost the popular vote twice and underperformed Romney's vote percentage in both 2016 and 2020. Had the media done actual, hard hitting coverage of him the first time and Comey didn't decide to play God, he probably loses that race and is written off as a political footnote.
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Hold on, folks. Can we talk about Hakeem Jeffries for a second?
He spent four years in the minority with no gavel, no subpoenas, and no committee chairs. And he still got results. He forced the vote on the Epstein files, and it passed 427 to 1.
He forced a House vote on extending the ACA tax credits, with three Republicans signing his petition. He forced a vote to restore union rights for a million federal workers.
He helped get Ukraine aid through. And he ran months of war games to prepare for every dirty trick this regime might pull on the midterms.
Three days before the election he told a rally: “One of the first things we’re going to do is run Pete Hegseth out of town.” That doesn’t sound like a guy without a spine to me.
He’s said “accountability” in dozens of speeches. The subpoena power arrives January 3rd, and you’d better believe he plans to use it.
I get it. We’re all hungry for hearings. So am I. But responsible leaders don’t promise revenge on camera, they build cases that hold up.
Speaker Emerita Pelosi made the job look easy, because she was insanely good at it, and she is precisely who has showed him the ropes.
That job seems hard as hell to me, and that's probably why whenever "popular" Democrats are asked if they want it, they're like "Nope. And I will be voting for Leader Jeffries."
An overwhelming majority of Democratic members of Congress plan to back him as Speaker, but he hasn’t even been sworn in as Speaker yet. Let him do the job before we cut him off at the knees.
Republicans would LOVE it if Democrats did their dirty work for them, knocking out our FIRST Black Speaker of the House in history.
JFC, even the horrible, lying jackass Mike Johnson got TWO FULL YEARS, and he accomplished NOTHING for the American people.
Affordability. Accountability. That’s what the MAJORITY of voters asked for, and he’s laser-focused on both.
Give the man a chance.🙏💪
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Congressional Democrats scored their greatest electoral triumph in over 50 years on Tuesday. Here’s why the only logical next step is for all of their leaders to step down.
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I don’t think you even understand the level of cheating via gerrymandering & voter suppression the OH GOP has engaged in since we elected Obama twice! Those were the headwinds and we pulled this off anyway!
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Too many people online treat politics like it's a fantasy football league. They don't appreciate all of the constraints and practicalities (many of which we don't even know about!) that will determine who is chosen as majority leader and speaker.
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Kenan Thompson has been an SNL cast member longer than Hakeem Jeffries has held elected office
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I’m a progressive, but I think different subsections of the Democratic Party do different things very well, and the best version of the party moving forward takes a little bit from each of them.
This will vary by state, district, etc. but this is my ideal blueprint for the national party heading into 2028:
— “Name the enemy” progressive economic populism around billionaires, mega corporations, affordability/cost of living, etc. (à la Mamdani/Bernie/AOC)
— “Root out corruption root and stem” and litigating the case about how Citizens United is poisoning our country (à la Ossoff)
— “Love thy neighbor” empathy and tolerance on trans issues (à la Talarico/Hamilton/Warnock/Beshear)
— “America First, but not in a racist/assholic way” around things like tariffs, foreign wars, and spending our tax dollars at home instead (à la El-Sayed)
— “Reclaim patriotism and the American flag” (à la Ryan/Deluzio)
— “Get shit done” (à la Pritzker/Shapiro)
— “Humanely but effectively secure the border, treat immigrants with dignity & dismantle ICE” (à la Pulido/Gallego)
— “Protect our kids from preyed on by Big Tech” (à la McMorrow)
— “These data centers better pay the fuck up” populism (à la Hinojosa/Hong/Lawrence)
— “Let’s regulate the fuck out of these AI companies so we don’t all die” (à la Bores)
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There are a lot of great potential 2028 candidates. I am going to try to keep my powder dry & behave myself. As I've said elsewhere, I am considering on keeping my preferences to myself, though you might still be able to divine them.
My number one piece of advice to all candidates AND their followers on the internet: You're welcome to feel however you want about Harris, but always show her respect.
Really, it should be the "rule of the road" to show respect to all candidates (perhaps with some exceptions; like if Tulsi or RFK run, lol). It's particularly important with regards to Kamala Harris.
Respect is what she deserves, as a woman who served as VP of our country and ran a historic campaign in 107 days, pulling out all the stops to save our country.
If you don't like her for whatever reasons, feel free to criticize on the concrete level. But if you descend into "WHY is she RUNNING?!" or anything of that ilk, the disrespect will backlash onto whatever candidate you're associating with.
This is how misogyny, racism, and their intersection work: You disrespect one leader in a way that is perceived--rightly or wrongly--as disrespectful and other members of that group will feel disrespect as well. In this case of Kamala Harris, this includes women, especially Black women, who form the base of our party.
You don't want Ossoff associated with disrespecting Black women. Or Buttigieg. Or Newsom. Or anyone else. And you can argue with me all you want about what you're "allowed" to say/do. That won't change the truth of my argument: you will hurt your own candidates.
Overall, I hope we all try to behave ourselves. Again, myself included. The 2019-2020 primary was ridiculous. There have been other ridiculous primaries recently as well. We've got a lot of great candidates and we should all fight together to keep them "clean."
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I have a history PhD from Oxford and try to support all of my historical claims with strong evidence, particularly when regarding the president of the United States.
But based on a comprehensive review of 250 years of American history, it is simply irrefutable that Donald Trump is by far the most corrupt president in U.S. history when it comes to using the office to enrich himself and his family.
Here are the facts, and why there isn’t even a close second.
Trump’s own federal financial disclosure reported more than $1.4 billion in 2025 income from family crypto ventures, including about $635 million from his meme coin and nearly $800 million from World Liberty Financial. Reuters separately estimated that the family added at least $2.3 billion to its fortune from crypto ventures after Trump returned to the White House.
The clearest example of how Trump used the office came in May 2025. The 220 biggest holders of his meme coin were invited to dine with the sitting president at his private golf club. The coin jumped more than 60 percent when the dinner was announced. To get a seat at the table, you had to buy and hold a product that made the president money. Trump turned access to the presidency into a sales pitch.
The foreign dealings raise an even more serious question. Four days before Trump took office, an investment vehicle backed by a UAE national security official agreed to pay $500 million for nearly half of World Liberty Financial. The Wall Street Journal reported that $187 million of the initial payment was directed to Trump family entities.
Trump is clearly not the first United States president to be guilty of corruption, but the size and scale of his malfeasance put him in a league of his own.
Under Ulysses S. Grant, whiskey distillers and federal officials pocketed money by cheating the government out of liquor taxes. Under Warren Harding, Interior Secretary Albert Fall took bribes in exchange for leasing federal oil reserves. Richard Nixon had a personal tax scandal, but his defining abuse of presidential power was the Watergate cover-up, an effort to protect his hold on office. LBJ’s political connections helped turn a small Texas radio station into a family broadcasting empire.
By September 2025, less than eight months into Donald Trump’s second term, he and his family were roughly $5 billion richer than they had been around the 2024 election, according to Forbes. In comparison, a reasonable estimate is that all 44 other U.S. presidents combined added about $250 million to their wealth while in office, adjusted to today’s dollars. That puts the Trump family’s gain at about 20 times the estimated combined total for all other presidents over the course of two and half centuries.
The election results were, at least in part, a clear repudiation of this staggering and historically unprecedented corruption. Congress now has a mandate to investigate, follow the money, pursue the recovery of all ill-gotten gains, and enact enforceable safeguards so that no president can ever again use the White House as a vehicle for personal enrichment.
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I have been screaming to ANYONE who would listen that OH is artificially red because of voter suppression & gerrymandering and look SUSTAINED! We figured out how to work around what we were up against and BLUE HOO!
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Young Black women in rural Mississippi are trying like hell to make sure no ballot gets thrown out unfairly in the Scott Colom race. They are DMing friends and chasing down people who need to verify their IDs. My story (gift link) on the phenomenon: wapo.st/4AbqTpg
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The weird thing about Rubio is he escapes ANY accountability in the press for the entire world basically being on fire right now even though he's the first SOS/NSA since Kissinger. Just does absolutely nothing in either job but gets kid glove treatment in the press.
Scoop, w @humeyra_pamuk @JonathanLanday:
Rubio told a big gathering of State Dept politicals last week that they need to avoid conflict of interests, stop freelancing and tighten up their act
Comes as many, including Guilfoyle, have been forced out
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What the fuck, @NewYorker?
I was looking this essay up to teach it and ... why? Did you not already have a summary from 1996?? What are students supposed to think of this? That's it's okay to scrape, summarize, and get the main takeaway of a piece of writing without consent??
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Allen, you are right on target. I asked a WH kitchen contact about this two hours ago & just heard back. Apparently, this was brought up to him on Thursday. He said “oh thats great”. This is TRUE. It’s a four seasons total landscaping situation. Again THIS IS TRUE.
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Play this clip nonstop as long as he’s the chief of staff. I’m sure this will go down well with the working people of the United States.
