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Congressional Democrats scored their greatest electoral triumph in over 50 years on Tuesday. Here’s why the only logical next step is for all of their leaders to step down.
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I have known Chuck Schumer for 16 years. I worked closely with him and his staff when I worked for Harry Reid. I have a lot of respect for him and have also had my differences over the years.
The job of leader happens mostly behind the scenes. The traits that make a good leader are not the same as what makes you good at social media, etc. Reid was famous for saying off-message stuff—lord knows how he would have fared in the age of social media.
When you’re in the majority, the job is about setting the agenda and passing bills that help people. When you’re in the minority, you’re at the mercy of the majority in terms of the agenda, so the job is mainly to get back in the majority.
By that measure, Schumer succeeded wildly on Tuesday.
He oversaw the biggest Democratic sweep in the Senate since Watergate, recruiting candidates who fit their states and putting them in position to win states many had written off long ago. He was an early believer in Mississippi, for example.
You can litigate this or that decision, and I certainly didn’t agree with them all—but when you step back and look at the big picture there’s simply no way to argue with this historic achievement.
To me, the question of whether Schumer deserves to be reelected as leader after the most dominant performance by Senate Democrats in more than half a century is straightforward, and the answer is clearly yes.
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fun washington post story about scott colom: every time kamala harris called him, one of the women in his life would take the phone and insist on talking to her the whole time
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Lots of people are asking me where to give their money - if you can only do one race, I’d give what you can to @MaryPeltola
Several reasons:
1) It’s a small state, so your money goes further per expected senate vote
2) Direct donations buy 19x ads per dollar than committees due to the unit rule - this also frees up the DSCC and SMP to put their money on states with smaller IE/coord ad price spreads and frees them up to spend more on digital
3) it’s likely going to be close!
It’s not too late! Any money you send today will get spent immediately and will provide real relief to an overworked campaign workers across a bunch of orgs!
secure.actblue.com/donate/mp…
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Stand Your Ground worked for a Black person for once.
The woman who shot and killed a man who was approaching her in the parking lot of a Florida Walmart despite her warnings will not be prosecuted local10.com/news/local/2026/…
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Maybe you need your hand held when I say this, but the roots of the insanity defense date back over 2000 years ago to ancient Greece and Rome and it has formally existed in Western common law for roughly 700 years.
The only insane view here is anyone thinks that shit-testing your significant other into revealing his or her completely normal agreement with the foundational legal principle of mens rea, and finding that appalling, is some sort of admission of anything other than your own degeneracy.
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There are 50 people in the PreCheck line but 15 in the regular line. However — and this is what we must remember — each one of those 15 people is experiencing their first day on earth
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Reporters are the ones who should be the ones investigating whether or not Mitch is alive, dead or incapacitated. Not the governor. Not the Senate minority leader. Not Nancy Pelosi or Hakeem Jeffries.
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See, this is the difference between being Black in America, actually engaging in Black politics, and having to deal with people like you who only discovered oppression when somebody on YouTube convinced you that a small group of people you identify as white, and we identify as Jewish, are responsible for everything wrong in this country.
Let me be very clear: AIPAC does not scare Black people.
AIPAC is not the only large PAC or special interest organization in this country attempting to influence elections and move public policy. That is what special interest groups do. They advocate for the interests and policies their donors support. In AIPAC’s case, supporting candidates who favor continued U.S. support for Israel advances its policy objectives.
You can criticize that. You can oppose their spending. You can oppose U.S. policy toward Israel. And we can absolutely agree that what the current Israeli government has done under Benjamin Netanyahu is wrong and does not serve the interests of all of us.
But what you cannot do is take your opposition to a government, a PAC, or a foreign policy and use it to undermine, demean, or demonize Jewish people living right here in the United States.
And this is where you have Black Americans fucked up.
Some of you weird-ass white leftists have decided that Black Americans are supposed to subordinate our own political survival to your foreign policy priorities. You want us to put another country and another conflict ahead of the democracy we are fighting to preserve in the country where we actually live.
That is never going to fucking happen.
We are going to lock arms with the people in this country who are fighting alongside us, voting alongside us, organizing alongside us, and facing the consequences of this administration in the same communities and the same damn zip codes as us.
When our own oxygen mask is secure, we can do more to help everybody else. But under an administration that some of you helped usher into power, while our rights, institutions, and communities are under direct attack, you do not get to dictate the priorities of Black politics to Black people.
We have been fighting for our freedom on this soil for centuries. We know what our political survival requires.
You do not get to show up now and tell us who our allies are, what our priorities should be, or whose liberation we are required to put ahead of our own.
Don’t try to dictate Black politics to Black people.
We are not the same. I need you to STFU!
You need to ask Hakeem fucking Jeffries and the entire fucking Congressional Black Caucus and fkn Schumer’s old insolent shitty ass why taking AIPAC money is more important than defeating him bc they’e the ones who fkn care more about Israel and taking AIPAC money than defeating him. I’m telling you that I will never vote for ANYBODY who takes money from AIPAC. We’ve always known that Republicans are evil and racist. You need to ask why you have put the rights of Black People in opposition to the rights of Palestinians for fucking AIPAC cash even though it is unnatural and nonsensical. An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Remember? I’m sick of going back and forth with y’all about this. It’s fkn ridiculous at this point.
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America already made daylight saving time permanent once. In December 1973, 79% of Americans supported it and Nixon signed it into law. By February 1974, eight weeks into the experiment, support had collapsed to 42%. The policy never changed. Winter arrived.
Sunrise in Washington DC came at 8:27am. Kids left for school in total darkness, carrying flashlights and wearing reflective tape. When Congress moved to repeal, members cited the deaths of eight Florida schoolchildren in the first weeks of the change.
The energy case collapsed too. The whole point was the oil embargo, and the Department of Transportation concluded the fuel savings were too small to matter. Ten months after signing it, Congress repealed it and Ford put the country back on standard time.
There's a mechanism that makes this cycle repeat: permanent DST is only ever voted on when the sun is up. Polls run in the abstract, votes happen in warm months, and the benefit, a free hour of evening light, is easy to imagine year-round. The cost is concentrated in about 10 weeks of dark winter mornings and only becomes real after implementation. So the policy polls beautifully right up until January.
Today's vote happened in July. The 1974 law passed in December, right before the exact winter that killed it. If this clears the Senate, the first real test arrives in January 2027, when sunrise in Indianapolis comes after 9am.
Sleep researchers have watched this loop for 50 years, which is why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the AMA, and the National Sleep Foundation all back the opposite reform, permanent standard time. Congress just picked the one version of clock reform America has already tried, hated, and repealed.
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Harris won Maine by 7.
Axelrod is a dishonest piece of shit
Lost in the recriminations about Platner is the most essential question that applies well behind Maine:
How did a deeply flawed but gifted candidate build such a devoted following?
It was a vote of no-confidence in policies and a politics that many Mainers feel are failing them.
So Dems, you may not have liked his RXs but you'd better have some real, meaningful answers to these concerns.
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The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT
ALT Pope Leo standing up in an airplane aisle holding a baseball bat
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Origins of Purple Rain,
Purple Rain' was originally written as a country song, and was intended to be a collaboration with Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks.
According to Nicks, she received a 10-minute instrumental version of the song from Prince, with a request to write the lyrics, but she felt overwhelmed by the task.
She later said: "I listened to it and I just got scared. I called him back and said, 'I can't do it. I wish I could. It's too much for me.'"
Prince then asked his backing band to try the song: "I want to try something before we go home. It's mellow."
According to Lisa Coleman, Prince changed the song dramatically after Wendy Melvoin started playing the guitar to accompany the song: "He was excited to hear it voiced differently. It took it out of that country feeling.
"Then we all started playing it a bit harder and taking it more seriously. We played it for six hours straight and by the end of that day we had it mostly written and arranged."
Prince's explanation on the meaning of 'Purple Rain':
"When there's blood in the sky – red and blue = purple... purple rain pertains to the end of the world and being with the one you love and letting your faith/god guide you through the purple rain."
After recording the song, Prince phoned Journey member Jonathan Cain, to ask him to listen to it.
Prince was concerned that it might be too similar to Journey's 'Faithfully', a song composed by Cain which had recently been in the US charts.
However, Cain reassured Prince by saying that the songs only shared the same four chords.
"I thought it was an amazing tune," Cain said. "I told him, 'Man, I'm just super-flattered that you even called. It shows you're that classy of a guy. Good luck with the song. I know it's gonna be a hit.'"
Ladies and gentlemen,
Prince performing a special and an absolute classic song, Purple Rain, live at Paisley Park, in 1999.
Credits for the background information: @SmoothRadio