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I'm a crazy far-leftist who wants healthcare for all and no war. In a saner world, they'd call me a centrist.

[Vastleft @vastleft]

The difference between the Mafia & the big political parties is that no one is dumb enough to say "I'll work from within to fix the Mafia."

[Vastleft @vastleft]

@BostonSatire "Bipartisanship" that pushes Democratic policy away from its base's needs and values is Dems' political religion, because it perpetuates the idea of Washington legitimacy. The GOP has no such predilections.

[Vastleft @vastleft]

@BostonSatire Somewhat ironically, career liberals are generally more fixated on institutional norms than conservatives are. Ivy League, NYT, even anti-liberal bastions like Reagan and McCain become so publicly venerable, professional liberals can't help but salute them. 1/2

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@samhaselby https://t.co/Ln9W9wFoFG

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Anyone else unimpressed with tropes like “gets things done” or “change you can believe in,” because *what things* are done, and *should* one believe those changes are worthwhile and liable to happen?

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@LukewSavage

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@empireburlesque The thought that a “resistance party” would speak this way! And then they ran a presidential campaign on Liz Cheney’s endorsement.

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

DEMOCRATS WON!

[Vastleft @vastleft]

The impulse to whipsaw between generally well-placed concerns about what Trump and company will do and victory dances at their reliably temporary and meaningless setbacks is so weird to me.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

LIVE: Mary Trump RESPONDS to Courts DESTROYING Trump https://t.co/KoYt1lsUMR

[Vastleft @vastleft]

@coopersjake And now we know.

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Breaking: Trump signs Executive Order renaming the helicopters to White Hawk.

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Breaking: Trump signs Executive Order renaming the helicopters to White Hawk.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

We don’t yet know the names of the 67 people we were killed, and you are blaming Democrats and DEI policies and Air Traffic Control and, seemingly, the member of the US military flying that Black Hawk helicopter. Don't you think you're getting ahead of the investigation?

Trump: “I don't think so at all…”

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@katiebird There is barely anyone in today’s national media or government who will say otherwise.

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Alternate-reality premise: America in which the GOP’s “opposition” party didn’t take Bill Clinton’s Reaganesque “the era of big government is over” tack.

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@LukewSavage For some definition of “principled,” yes.

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Rubio confirmed with 99-0 vote.

“What do you call this act?”

“The Resistance!”

https://t.co/eZ2nhdHJig

[Vastleft @vastleft]

Grover Cleveland's Q-Rating will never be higher than today.

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Every highly paid Democratic consultant: "Clearly the party needs to stand for even less!" https://t.co/RnXDJQ2HS1

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@DougKyed If not for losing the ad revenue, they could just go ahead and give the Chiefs a bye all the way through the Super Bowl.

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@BostonGlobe

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To quote the old Toyota ads: “You asked for it, you got it.”

"In my view, we need a strong Republican Party. We need a Republican Party that's united."
-Joe Biden

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Biden: "I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape"

[Vastleft @vastleft]

@BostonSatire Minister: “Should anyone present know of any reason that this couple should not be joined in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace.”

[Felger violently raises his hand]

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@NairYasmin @nytimes See also: https://t.co/vtMuNKeMGM

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Implicit in most arguments re: mistreatment of "innocent" people is approval of that treatment being applied to those seen as less innocent.