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Obviously mainline Dems understand their main objective to be restoring a civil, stable right wing of bourgeois government. But even by their standards it seems incredibly naive to attempt that by unadorned return to a previous completely unstable status quo.
Leader @HakeemJeffries announces Democrats’ agenda starting on Day One:
—Launch new oversight efforts to crack down on Trump’s corruption
—End Trump’s war of choice in Iran and lower gas prices
—Reverse Trump’s Medicaid cuts
—Reverse Trump’s SNAP cuts
—End the Trump tariffs to lower prices
—Extend the ACA tax credits to lower health care costs
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Frantz Qanon retweeted
The way to end the war is to build a political constituency for the MOU already negotiated by the US and Iran. That means overturning sanctions. Simply walking away does not end the conflict
There's a behind-the-scenes debate going on among civil socity/NGO/antiwar groups in DC over how hard to push to end Trump's war immediately. One letter currently circulating -- backed by Win Without War, MoveOn, NIAC, Indivisible, and J Street -- had included a line that set off alarm bells with groups that want to take a hard line against the war. It read:
“We, the XX undersigned civil society organizations, urge you to respond to this mandate by voting down any defense authorization or defense appropriations bills that would continue funding this disastrous war or increase Pentagon funding beyond the already outrageous $1 trillion that the White House pushed through Congress last year...If Trump continues the war into the new year, we further urge returning members to prioritize and pass legislation expressly defunding this war early in the new Congress.”
The problem there is the "if Trump continues the war." Opponents of that language argued there was no reason to give Trump November and December to wage war, and it should be forced to an end now.
Also, the government won't be funded by a defense appropriation bill, but by a CR that has to pass on or before Dec. 11.
Sen. Chris @VanHollenForMD and @RoKhanna have said the fight should be had in the CR.
After I reached out for comment, I was told that that particular line is being stripped out of the letter. Several of the signatories said they support pushing hard now to end the war, not waiting until January. NIAC spokesman Ryan Costello said NIAC interprets "defense appropriations bills" to include the CR.
"We want immediate action to end this war. Anything less is unacceptable," Costello said.
Matt Duss, executive director of CIPA, one of the signatories, emphasized his support for the more aggressive approach proposed by Van Hollen. “Congress needs to use every tool it has right now to stop this war,” he said. “We want everyone to be going all the way.”
Frantz Qanon retweeted
This is basically where the US seems to be at, in the sense that party loyalty is done and/but people remain invested in electoral politics as a primary, increasingly-failed way to express their displeasure with The State of Things. Bad time to invest in DSA IMO.
Frantz Qanon retweeted
This is such nauseating dickriding of one of the most contemptible pigs in office today. Here's the actually important parts:
« With his massive majority, Jeffries may no longer need to win over the crop of incoming Democratic socialists decrying current leaders for failing to meet the moment, though that dynamic will still be a major feature of the speaker’s vote in January.
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That means Jeffries will need to limit the whims of his insurgent left. Democrats are unlikely to vote to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement or enact Medicare for All, for instance. His allies say he will seek to avoid votes, wherever possible, on policy relating to Israel. »
Everything will change so long as everything stays the same.
New - House Dems had an enormous night. Now, people close to Hakeem Jeffries say he plans to use his speaker's gavel to go BIG and bold in 2027, super charging a new era of Democratic populism
edition.cnn.com/2026/11/03/p…
if she wasnt so evil you'd almost have to pity her. zio handlers clearly encouraged implicit endorsement but didnt realize they were working with a true believer impulsive enough to actually strap on the vest.
Anderson Cooper asked Haley Stevens maybe five or six times what changed her mind about Mike Rogers from yesterday, and the mode of her different non-answers is “I was just trying to help.”
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if i hired someone to kamikaze mar-a-lago, or to look like they were trying to, and they missed by over five miles i would really want a refund
if you guys are gonna devote your lives to parapolitics please at least think of some more compelling conspiracies
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Frantz Qanon retweeted
its becoming apparent most peoples idea of socialism is basically this
I mean isn't that just a description of what it means to not be able to think? An inability or unwillingness to take in multiple pieces of information, consider them against each other, and parse them into a meaningful conclusion?
feel like an underexamined reason people are addicted to LLMs is less that they can't think but that they're overwhelmed by choice and just want a "definitive" option handed to them with the aura of "authority/analysis" (from the training data or whatever) behind it
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very literally a completely legal act to target armed soldiers of illegal occupation. ah well, better dump some more city money into elbit.
I’m grieving the deaths of the two Israeli soldiers killed in Hebron today, and praying for the full & speedy recovery of those who were injured.
I’ve spoken out loudly this week against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which imposes violence on a daily basis, and I will continue to do so. But violence is not the path to ending it — or to achieving safety, freedom, and peace for both Palestinians and Israelis.
And neither is collective punishment or ethnic cleansing of an entire neighborhood, or punishing millions of people for the criminal act of two, which Netanyahu has promised to enact in response.
I’ve seen a lot this week and I’ll have more to say about in the coming days (I’m on my way home shortly). There is a path to ending this excruciating cycle of violence. It starts by insisting that every life is sacred, that everyone is created in God’s image.
For now: Shabbat Shalom, to everyone who believes in the hard work of making peace & justice a reality, for everyone.
it'll be thrilling to see what divorced suicidal ex-special forces guys do with this after turning it into a VBIED
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Frantz Qanon retweeted
I’m hearing rumors that OpenAI has an internal model dedicated specifically to Marxology. It’s already uncovered three new epistemological breaks and developed a radical new interpretation of Capital chapter 1. Watch this space
under-reported aspect: despite PPB having no Flock cams of their own the suspect was found using ALPR data, probably the Flock cams at a home depot two blocks from where he was killed. Seems PPB has a contract with flock for their data service or access to it through US Marshals
news from Portland this week: the police made a big deal about mourning their heroic K9 who was killed in a shootout with a suspect (and on his last day before retirement, classic cop move).
now it’s come out that—well, you can guess whose bullets hit the dog
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PPB does have five vehicle mounted ALPRs. Maybe its a total coincidence this all happened within a few hundred feet of some of the only Flocks in town, but itd be nice to get some clarity @portlandmercury @OPB any clues?
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