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  • Yes, Public Opinion Still Matters … Even More Than Before

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  • I think the failure of a lot of elected Democratic party members to offer a contrasting vision to the Republicans has been at least as harmful

    Like, when the Republicans were out there saying "immigrants are killers who will eat your dog!" and Harris responded by promising to make it even tougher to apply for asylum and create new criminal penalties for people who just crossed the border it didn't make anyone think she was the reasonable compromise choice, it just made a lot of voters think "huh, the Republicans must have a point about these immigrants if even the bleeding heart liberals are ready to get tough on them."

  • Pam Bondi Warns ‘Deranged’ Judges: ‘We Are Coming For You’

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  • That state judge was bailed out on her own recognizance within a few hours of being arrested, which had to require the federal court system her case landed in to move extra quickly, so I think they're calling the bluff and dodging punches alright

    Of course, it's a fucking disgrace that nobody with the legal authority to do so is throwing any punches back or doing enough to help the people who don't have the social status judges do dodge the punches this administration is throwing at them, but I think at least judges are going to try to protect each other and the power of the judiciary in general

  • Pete Hegseth’s Personal Signal Chat Phone Number Is All Over the Internet

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  • This question but non-sarcastically

  • Trump is suddenly bleeding independents. A brutal new poll shows why.

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  • I like your pants

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  • [rips blunt] The dissonant design philosophies between the text and the image emphasize how technological progress guided by an uncaring market will gradually create greater psychological distance between people over time

  • Trump is suddenly bleeding independents. A brutal new poll shows why.

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  • There was a different AP/NORC poll (arc) released the same day that showed this basic dynamic but with the partisan ratios even more out of whack

  • Trump is suddenly bleeding independents. A brutal new poll shows why.

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  • not a homogeneous group.

    21% of

  • Trump is suddenly bleeding independents. A brutal new poll shows why.

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  • Almost as stupid as Gavin Newsom saying deportations were a distraction from tariffs and Dems shouldn't talk about them because Republicans were strong on that issue

  • Trump is suddenly bleeding independents. A brutal new poll shows why.

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  • Trump is suddenly bleeding independents. A brutal new poll shows why.

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  • Biden's DOJ: People will respect us for being non-partisan

    People: See, if Trump did any real crimes he'd be in prison but he's not because Biden's DOJ was just playing politics

  • Dem Senator Says Party Needs to Stop Attacking ‘Oligarchy’ and Focus on Losing ‘Woke’ Reputation

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  • Off the top of my head - she said she's more than "just an AOC," said Rashida Tlaib was supporting terrorism when Tlaib asked the Biden administration to stop funding Israel, said multiple times in interviews that the Green New Deal could never pass because it had controversial ideas like universal healthcare, said multiple times in interviews in 2020 during the height of the George Floyd protests that she would never ever support defunding the police, and on and on. She constantly signal boosts Republican talking points about progressive lawmakers and progressive policy ideas to tear them down and only then turns around and says "Hey Michigan, if you don't want to deal with a Republican party that went completely insane around 2020* I guess you're stuck with me!"

    *I forget the exact details, but MAGAts purged their party's leadership for some "say the quiet parts through megaphones" types and then there was some sort of scandal with their finances, so MIGOP has been a barely functional shell of itself for a few years now

  • Dem Senator Says Party Needs to Stop Attacking ‘Oligarchy’ and Focus on Losing ‘Woke’ Reputation

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  • And if this article is the first you're hearing Slotkin's name (like apparently a lot of people in here who are defending this piece of shit for some reason), you should know she's a massive piece of shit whose whole brand is whining about whatever progressives are doing or saying. If AOC had gone on a "No Kings" tour Slotkin would be saying that she's alienating people who think the British royal family are cute or whatever.

  • Dem Senator Says Party Needs to Stop Attacking ‘Oligarchy’ and Focus on Losing ‘Woke’ Reputation

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  • Nah, this headline gets it right by ignoring Slotkin's transparent spin

    Slotkin voted for the Laken Reilly act and hasn't ever said shit about the CIA being held accountable for torturing people, so she doesn't want to "fucking retake the flag" in any way that isn't just a new reign of terror for brown people

    The negging about the word "oligarchy" (which she was happy to use against wealthy Russian assholes who support Putin up until very recently) is continuing a very long tradition of her being against whatever AOC is doing at the moment. She can't come right out and say "I don't like her policies" because those are popular and that would be political suicide, so she's just focusing on AOC's rhetoric and playing to Republican talking points about progressives being the out of touch ones.

    Slotkin is a toxic divisive piece of shit who's bad on policy, bad on politics, and drags the whole Democratic party's image down whenever she wants to advance her own career.

  • Dem Senator Says Party Needs to Stop Attacking ‘Oligarchy’ and Focus on Losing ‘Woke’ Reputation

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  • Cash donor checks and subjugate all poor people equally regardless of their race religion gender sexuality or ability status

  • Canadians Reject Gavin Newsom's Plea to Keep Visiting California Over Deportation Concerns: 'I Don't Want to Be Plucked Off the Street'

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    As California Gov. Gavin Newsom rolled out a lawsuit Wednesday challenging Trump’s sweeping tariffs, he had little to say about the Abrego Garcia case when asked about it.

    “This is the distraction of the day. The art of distraction,” Newsom, a potential 2028 presidential contender, said of Trump invoking MS-13 to justify his actions. “And here, we zig and zag. This is the debate they want. This is their 80-20 issue, as they’ve described it.”

    While noting that the government needs to abide by court orders and the rule of law, Newsom added, “It’s exactly the debate they want, because they don’t want this debate on the tariffs; they don’t want to be accountable to markets today.”

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  • Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters”

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  • If they spend weeks convincing you that you should do it, give you money or other resources to do it, or so on, then it can be entrapment.

    Things like that should theoretically help you make an argument for entrapment, but it's no sure thing

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  • I don't understand your aggressive tone

    I can understand people being furious about seeing the progress fascism is making in our country. I think the aggression is a bit misdirected in this particular case, but I get it.

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  • You're calling the kettle black in the middle of the cookware aisle here, we're all "keyboard warriors," you just don't like this one's opinion

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  • If he'd tried to forcibly secure Garcia's release that would very likely set off an insane chain of consequences we haven't made adequate preparations for. Like, if nothing else, Van Hollen would be a fugitive from the American government at that point because there's no way any American court would let a Senator start doing commander in chief stuff like that.

    Want to see a politician that really goes the extra fucking mile and stays the fuck there until they leave with him

    I tend to agree, but we need all the votes in the US Senate we can get right now, so I think Van Hollen's a bad person to do this. A quick online search tells me there's a decent margin in the Maryland state Senate though, so one of those lawmakers could camp down there and keep pushing this.

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  • Every single photo and video from CECOT is staged

    So if Van Hollen couldn't have taken any photos or videos without the prison guards' interference that's all the more reason not to make and share sanctioned propaganda for them like these photos were.

    Doubters would be asking for real proof

    Again, for reasons already discussed these pictures are not proof of anything and if anything only serve to make Van Hollen's statements seem less credible and make any doubters seem more reasonable. I think I still believe him, but the gullibility displayed here by sharing this misinformation is incredible.

    If he was talking to a stuffed corpse, once he leaves El Salvador, there's nothing stopping Sen. Van Hollen to say so

    I guess I'm less cynical than you are, I'm willing to assume Van Hollen's statements from El Salvador weren't pure bullshit and provide proof that these photos don't, but if people are arguing that his statement was coerced somehow then we really didn't get anything at all from this trip other than a propaganda win for the fascists who are going to use these pictures to argue that CECOT isn't that bad.

    I don't know what you would want from the Senator

    I want him to not be duped into sharing fascists' propaganda. Going to El Salvador and meeting with Garcia and sharing a statement about that meeting and what he observed during it was good (actually, in spite of the harm he did by sharing those misleading photos I'm still grateful to the Senator just for giving Garcia a friendly face to talk to), but sharing staged photographs and not realizing that those pictures are going to be used by fascists to dispute his statements and drown out all the long boring detailed reports from human rights NGOs about conditions at this prison that the average American never reads was bad.

    I think his heart was in the right place here, he just did a boneheaded thing accidentally at a time when we really need everyone to be on their A game.

    e; One other thing I want from the next person who's able to secure a visit with Garcia - bring his lawyer and spouse with you so they can meet with him as well