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Same batname different bat channel, not going anywhere here as long as I can keep losing Elmo money.
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In a D+13 year this indicates some real defection imho
Jewish Electorate Institute/Mellman post-election poll of 800 Jewish voters:
69% voted for Democratic candidates.
25% voted Republican.
28% of Jewish Dems said they voted for Israel critics despite strong disagreement, citing other factors. Since 2024, Jewish Democratic voter support for Democratic candidates has declined,
albeit modestly. It stands below the levels recorded during the Democratic wave in
President Trump’s previous midterm election. The Mellman Group
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BAAJA is moving ahead! Thank you to everyone who sent emails over the weekend!
The fight isn’t over yet, though: help us keep pressure up for the final votes in the senate by continuing to contact your Senator!
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Hakeem Jeffries just announced that he's going to push for tighter chip export controls on China in the wake of the NVIDIA espionage scandal (which Trump initially chose to ignore).
Welcome news as the admin is derelict on standing up to Beijing.
politico.com/live-updates/20…
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73-25 final tally to advance on BAAJA. Not indicative of where folks land on final passage, but that’s a big vote to start
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it’s pretty telling that whenever they have to choose between the degrowth strand of environmentalism and labor, the American left always throws labor under the bus
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I find it fascinating all the people touting ~economic populism~ as the key to political success have nothing to say about the BAAJA divide and whether Dems will side with affordability and labor allies or degrowth green donors.
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10% is so fucking low lol. terrible idea
Let’s cap credit card rates at 10%. Take action on affordable housing. Protect rural hospitals. End price gouging.
Democrats have the bills ready.
@SenWarren says now it’s up to Trump to work with us and get things done.
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environmental groups are opposing a bill that independent modelers say cuts power sector emissions 6% by 2041 and saves $350 billion, and that exempts transit repairs from review, because it also lets other people build things. the theory of change is still a lawsuit
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The distinction between pastoralism and environmentalism is a very important one
A lot of anti-abundance ideas come from a sort of aesthetic pastoralism
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The fantasy that Hispanic voters are primarily motivated by immigration rather than economic issues is convenient for other members of the coalition, but it’s clearly untrue.
slowboring.com/p/the-rise-of…
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Gentlemen, please know the difference between Chinese models you train and Chinese models that train you
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Or trade. Almost every candidate running in tough races in red and purple campaigned on repealing Trump’s tariffs. See, e.g., one of Annie Andrews’ campaign stickers: 13/
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“Leftists are better at winning” flopped within 36 hours so they flipped to “actually the winners were leftists” but that also flopped so now six days after the election they’ve pivoted to “let’s get people angry at the guys who just won tough races.”
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Of the seven Democrats who flipped senate seats, one supports the bill.
It’s not going to pass.
What is the point of platforming a bill that will divide the new caucus rather than writing health care legislation that will pass?
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Article somehow manages to miss the fact that he publicly wrote multiple articles that defended and explicitly supported the 10/7 attacks
Ahmed Moor, a Gaza-born Philadelphian, is John Fetterman’s first 2028 challenger ebx.sh/YzAaeW
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The Senate votes on BAAJA today(!!!), and it's worth noting how broad & strong support is: unions, every major clean energy trade group, investors, public & private power, rural co-ops, transit, governors, counties, & the people who've run national economic & security policy. 🧵
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A major divide next year in the early 2027 Dem presidential primary is going to be on whether the Biden Admin failed only bc of Biden’s personal health and Gaza or if it also had problems with its domestic agenda.
Gov. Pritzker is centering himself cleanly in the first camp.
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🚨 Former CIA Director David Petraeus says Russia has suffered 1.5 million killed and wounded in its war against Ukraine — more casualties than the United States suffered in all of World War II.
Petraeus warns that Putin could eventually reach a point where Russia can no longer recruit enough soldiers to replace its losses.
And those sent to the front receive inadequate training. As Petraeus puts it, they’re treated almost like human cannon fodder.
Putin promised to restore Russia’s greatness. Instead, he’s sacrificing an entire generation to preserve his own ambitions.
How many more Russians must die before Russia asks what they’re actually dying for?
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Bernie Sanders thinks we don't subsidize wealthy seniors enough. And he'd use up nearly all potential tax-the-rich revenues to give them trillions more.
