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One thing I've learned over the last week is the that the Right is terrified of consequences for what they have done.For four years they reveled in an orgy of

No seriously...how *do* you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook?We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction

So...people are talking about the GOP ballot boxes in California as a GOP vote fraud thing. But it's not. It's a *bonkers conspiracy nut* thing.This is a story of Republicans

A lot of Democrats fail to understand why it's so important to expand the courts. It's about WAY more than even just Roe v Wade, the ACA, LGBTQ rights, or

One of the peculiar dynamics of the American Problem is that U.S. conservative leaders don't represent or care about cities.They don't care if cities burn or grind to a halt

The American People did not elect a Republican Senate. Senate Republicans represent 153 million Americans. Senate Democrats represent 168 million.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1307751620462157834 It's funny watching all these

just because it needs saying again: there is no material benefits policy offer Democrats can promise or even implement that will change this.We could implement M4A/GND/UBI (and we should!) but

A bunch of Plandemic idiots are making "only 6%" a trending topic, because per CDC only 6% of COVID victims had no other comorbidities.Dear idiots: If someone has diabetes and

One takeaway is that Donald Trump has been incredibly lucky. For over three years, he floated along on Obama's economy with no major external crises.Two crises later, and the country

For millennials, the problem is primarily *housing.*It's not complicated. Home prices soared exponentially to benefit boomers while wages stayed flat. Now millennials can't afford homes.Of course we're angry about that.https://t

A little background on #CA25, why you should care, and why you shouldn't listen to brand-builders ignorantly trying to grind an ideological ax over it. I'm a CA Dem Regional

Literally zero persuadable voters care about Pelosi's freezer. Zero.Pelosi is rich. So was FDR. We live in a society. She has a nice fridge. Nobody cares. psssst....none of you outrage