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Call them and keep up the pressure then. They have been getting a flood of calls these past few days and notably have started to really up thier action in turn

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

AOC got into office by successfully primarying an establishment dem. Plus Fetterman is burning a ton of bridges compared to the person AOC primaried

It's hardly some hopeless endeavor

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Slight correction, the 800k figure was a figure for new cases in a year (including ones that are no longer pending). Total pending cases is still pretty close at around 1.1-1.5 million depending at which exact time period you're looking. That's total pending cases

Here's it listed in a congressional report

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12492

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

There aren't that many asylum claims in total. In 2024, there were 800,000 pending asylum claims

Media coverage about immigration is wildly skewed from reality

They commit fewer crimes than US citizens on average. Even the Right-wing CATO institute found undocumented immigrants were 37% less likely to be convicted of a crime

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1237103158/immigrants-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-us-born-americans-studies-find

They pay more in taxes on average than they recieve from any government services

https://www.cato.org/blog/fiscal-impact-immigration-united-states (again a right wing source)

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Yep, and they're already making demands, but its in March, and note dem power is limited there. Reconciliation allows budgets to pass without a filibuster, so dems only have power if Republicans infight. There's decent odds of Republicans infighting like the other prior times, so Dems still are planning to use their votes to get some protections against Trump's actions

In a letter to House Democrats, Jeffries hammered the administration for issuing an order — since rescinded — to freeze federal aid that Congress had previously allocated. Jeffries suggested Democrats will oppose any federal spending bill that doesn’t explicitly prevent Trump from freezing, slashing or otherwise altering those programs, including Medicaid, which saw its services disrupted amid the chaos over the freeze.
The Democratic leader said he’s already delivered the message to House GOP leaders that, absent those assurances, Republicans will be on their own to prevent a shutdown.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5123216-jeffries-government-shutdown-trump-orders/

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Fighting in courts and grinding congress to slow way, way down is what they have the power to do federally. They don't have any majorities in either the house or senate

They can try and go in to stop people physically - like what they also just tried doing by entering the building

What specific action from them do you have in mind that they have the power to do?

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Not actually performative, it's one of the few things they really have power to do without republicans support. They can drag specific types of nominations out to end to taking something like almost a year to get through all of them. And take up limited senate floor time for other bills, legislation, etc in the meantime

There are hundreds of nominations they need to get through

My understanding, is that historically, the minimum debate times thresholds for nominations have been waved away via unanimous consent - especially for minor positions. If one senator objects, then you have to go the whole time

Another thing they can do is force quorum calls to waste time counting people present. Usually quorum is assumed

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

This is one post in a live thread so maybe something got weird there

The gist of it is that after speaking to around 100 protestors, various dem senators and house reps tried to get into the building. They got inside technically but ended up being blocked at the main entrance

Unsure if they are still there

They spoke about how insane Musk & Trump's plans are and how they plan to fight in courts. I believe they also spoke about plans slow down senate nominations with the procedural tools they can (or that might have been said outside of the protests)

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Yeah - like everything ICE is doing on top of their recent fires

Glad to see people in solidarity here pushing back

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Ken Martin is no perfect angel, but he'll make progress a lot easier than the previous chair. He helped elected reps who got a fairly progressive agenda through in Minnesota with a one seat majority

Paid family leave, free breakfast & lunch for students, free community college for families making <80k, guaranteed paid sick leave, banned companies from holding mandatory anti-union meetings, etc.

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

It kind of reads the opposite of a hit piece to me, but it might have been intended as one

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Oops fixed the title

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

If you're looking for a scramble, things like tofu scrambles can be pretty good! Usually that's with firm tofu rather than soft tofu, but you absolutely can use soft tofu as well. It can also be seasoned a million different ways. Here's one example recipe (with firm tofu)

https://www.noracooks.com/tofu-scramble/

Soft tofu will have a different texture than firm so you can try recipes for both and see what you think. (EDIT: Note that you generally don't want to substitute one for the other because of that texture difference so look for recipes that specifically call for using firm tofu or specifically call for soft/silken)

Soft/silken tofu can also be used as a binder too and replace dairy / eggs in various recipes. Like I've made a chocolate mousse with it before and it didn't affect the taste. Had some friends and family try it and they both didn't know there was tofu in it and also were surprised to learn it was vegan

https://aseasyasapplepie.com/silken-tofu-chocolate-mousse/

There's a also some vegan cooking & baking communities here on lemmy if you want other inspirations. Here's one that's pretty active !homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org and here's another that's a little less active but has recipes for it all !veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

Related note: There are some good vegan eggs out there to give a try!

If you want something that cooks and bakes like eggs there's stuff you can by like Just Egg

For baking there's a million things you can use that are pretty cheap. For instance, Aquafaba is the leftover water from cooking chickpeas or the water in the can if you buy it canned. Acts like egg whites and can be used as a binder for baking

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usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

In any case that would bode well for the US house special elections in April + whenever the NY house seat special is called. Enough republicans have resigned to moved into the admin to give us a slim chance to flip the house before the midterms

A flip like this in Iowa puts odds of it flipping into a real possibility. Also worth noting that Dems in Minnesota had a 14% overperformance in a special on the same day

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 2y ago

States and localities will make the good chunk of the resistance. Make sure to pay attention to every single local election

Multiple states have statewide and local elections this year