New: Bernie Sanders to unveil $4.4 trillion tax on America's ~1,000 billionaires, saying it would pay for:
— Medicare to cover dental/vision/hearing
— Teacher pay at $60K/yr min.
— $3K/person checks (under $150K/yr)
— Universal childcare
— Housing expansion
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
As an aside: the most influential Dem consultants all believe the best electoral strategy is to adopt a hostile posture towards the Dem base in the hopes that might convince this person to vote for Dems.
They get really mad if you say that won't do anything except depress lean-Dem turnout.
The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter.
He's got to go.
Damn the soulless Nazis of Trumpism straight to Hell.
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today. ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
Criminal tribunals will be the bare minimum, and are the modest response under the circumstances
Talarico: Abortion is never mentioned in scripture. Consensual same-sex relationships are never mentioned.
To focus on those two things instead of feeding the hungry and healing the sick and welcoming the stranger — three things we're told to do ad nauseam in scripture — to me is just mind blowing.
yep, i kind of think you can use supreme court reform as a vehicle through which to do a large, and necessary, expansion of the entire federal judiciary
If they could do this to Renee Nicole Good, they could do this to you. This is a lawless regime.
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
My purity test...
Anyone who wants my vote has to explicitly state that they will completely dismantle ICE and pursue all legal means to arrest, try, and imprison or execute every single ICE employee for crimes against humanity. Anything less will not get my vote.
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
Cut and dry murder. Arrest the officer right now.
Republicans motivate their core voters to show up every cycle and they do. Democrats just assume their equivalent will do the same and spend the entire cycle pursuing swing voters, meanwhile depressing core turnout. Then they blame those core voters when they lose. The cycle must be broken.
“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
Not the slightest shred of reflection on the sort of censorship the Ellisons would impose on WB. No queer representation, minimal diversity, one of the biggest movie studios co-opted to churn out conservative cultural propaganda. Maybe don’t support conservatives just because you like movie theaters
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
Igor Bobic @igorbobic g ... Angus King says GOP threat of ending filibuster contributed to decision to end shutdown: "I know that this was not an idle threat or negotiating ploy; he meant it and a growing number in the Republican caucus agreed. No filibuster and we'd be facing a nationwide abortion ban, voter suppression laws and, quite possibly, the elimination of the Affordable Care Act itself with no tool to stop it."
no, the truth is that without the filibuster centrist collaborationist Democrats and their Republican co-conspirators would have no weapon to stop Medicare for All. no weapon to stop taxing billionaires. this is why they want to keep it. they need it, their corporate capitalist handlers require it.
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
We cannot afford a divided and weak opposition party when an authoritarian is invading our cities, terrorizing our communities, and corruptly self-enriching at the expense of the rest of us. We want to celebrate a Democratic Party that fights back. But after this latest surrender, the next step is primaries and new leadership. We get the party we demand, and we intend to demand one that fights.
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 282 (Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined) H RES 719 YEA-AND-NAY 19-Sep-2025 10:53 AM QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution BILL TITLE: Honoring the life and legacy of Charles “Charlie” James Kirk Yeas Nays PRES NV Republican 215 4 Democratic 95 58 38 22 Independent TOTALS 310 58 38 26
95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires.
shame.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath.
Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history.
So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.
and by the way, the guy they're letting blithely get away with this absolute scandal is also the guy who, just to take one example, just permanently slashed taxes on the wealthy and paid for it with historic cuts to health care and a staggering national sales taxes on coffee and everything else
the solipsism of “these guys are nice to me, personally, so they cannot be that bad” is i think the root cause of so many of the elected dems’ problems
“They ended my ability to even apply to med school. Everything I worked for is gone.”
Trump’s cuts are slamming doors on future doctors—forcing students out of medicine and into debt they can’t escape. Only rich white people will be able to attend med school. #ClassroomsNotCuts
Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.
