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Senior Advisor, Senator John Fetterman | Former Fetterman COS, Harry Reid Deputy COS | Author, Kill Switch @LiverightPub | Against fascism | 90s dad

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Adam Jentleson

14 days

if you can't be in a coalition with people you disagree with on some issues, you can't build a coalition big and broad enough to defeat trump and repel the rise of anti-democratic forces in the US.

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Josh Marshall

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for all the chatter abt Fetterman being the new sinema or Manchin this article notes one single issue -Israel - and makes clear he is still 100% with all his signature issues. See people in comments saying he’ll embrace filibuster next. But that’s just the made up Manchin thing.

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Adam Jentleson

6 years

Trump is not a la carte. You don’t get to pick what you like about him - like judges & tax cuts - and pass on the hateful, violent rhetoric. If you support him & help maintain him in office, you’re supporting the whole package: the hate, the division and the stoking of violence.

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5 years

Louis CK is a good reminder that when people with power ask for respect it’s called “civility” and is sacred, but when people without power ask for respect it’s called “political correctness” and is the butt of jokes.

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1 year

John Fetterman just asked the Silicon Valley Bank CEO if there should be work requirements for CEOs who crash banks and dear reader, I almost fell out of my chair.

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4 years

One of the best things about Elizabeth Warren is that men of all ages and positions in society assume they’re smarter than she is, and then we all get to enjoy what happens next.

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Adam Jentleson

6 years

The first thing all Dems need to do is get a firm mental grip on the new rules. McConnell annihilated every norm of the nomination process to deny Garland a hearing or vote and steal the Court for a generation. If you play by the old rules, you're playing a fool's game.

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6 years

The women for Kavanaugh are mostly men.

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6 years

The carpool has arrived

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Adam Jentleson

5 years

Absolutely no one likes Paul Ryan yet somehow no one has ever written a story about whether he’s likeable

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5 years

Paul Ryan leaves office with a 12% favorable rating.

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Or maybe they’re just a human being who doesn’t deserve to be shot dead for no reason. The idea among white people that a black kid has to earn their humanity by being a poet laureate or something is part of the problem.

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Aaron Rupar

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Joe Biden: "We've got to recognize that kid wearing a hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate and not a gangbanger." 😬

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5 years

I have never understood how McConnell has managed to dodge this photo. Look at that smile.

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4 years

Elizabeth Warren is out here saving the damn election.

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4 years

For fuck's sake, just say he lied.

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The Associated Press

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President Trump inaccurately says an AIDS vaccine exists while predicting a coronovirus vaccine by the end of 2020, and falsely accuses the Obama administration of making no effort to stop abusive policing, an #APFactCheck finds.

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If Democrats win both Senate seats in GA, it’s going to be hard to explain why they should promptly re-empower McConnell by seeking small-ball deals with him instead of getting rid of the filibuster and passing Biden’s big, bold agenda. Biden has a mandate. Time to use it.

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Bernie complains about MSNBC for months, to no avail. Warren gets Chris Matthews taken off the air. Bernie complains about billionaires rigging the system - Warren ends Bloomberg. Now picture this, but with Trump and the policies most important to you. Choose your fighter.

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Adam Jentleson

6 years

You bought this, Mitch McConnell. You bought this, Paul Ryan. You accepted the hate, the incitement and the “globalist” dog whistles because they came with the tax cuts and the judges. You bought the whole package and you thought it was a good deal.

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Adam Jentleson

4 years

PSA: it’s 2019. There is no excuse for reporters and editors not to have a professional level of awareness of how readers consume news. If you don’t put pivotal information - like the fact that the $2M was over 30 years - in the headline and tweet, you’re misleading readers.

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Matt Viser

4 years

NEW: Elizabeth Warren made nearly $2m as a consultant for corporations and financial firms while she was a law professor, according to records from her campaign. The payments don’t fit neatly with her current brand as a crusader against corporate interests

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Adam Jentleson

1 year

Productive morning with Senator Fetterman at Walter Reed discussing the rail safety legislation, Farm Bill and other Senate business. John is well on his way to recovery and wanted me to say how grateful he is for all the well wishes. He’s laser focused on PA & will be back soon.

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5 years

[whispers] what if all our assumptions about electability are exactly backwards

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The fact that Kavanaugh was a sloppy, aggressive drunk as a college kid isn’t disqualifying. The fact that he’s lying about it as a grown man asking for a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land is. The problem isn’t the drinking - it’s the perjury.

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3 years

If you are not willing to reform the filibuster and expand the court, you are not willing to do what it takes to win this fight. If we keep playing beanbag while they play hardball, the results will be more of this. It's that simple.

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4 years

Rick Santorum just interrupted Gloria Borger to explain that Pence did not Interrupt Harris

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4 years

Elizabeth Warren released a coronavirus plan in January.

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Ben Shapiro

4 years

Trump's comments on the virus in February/early March sucked. This is undisputed. It is also true that nearly every major Democratic public official and large swaths of the media were also unserious about covid until late February at the earliest.

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5 years

Tom Cotton once held up a highly qualified Obama nominee named Cassandra Butts for 820 days, until she died unexpectedly, in order to cause "special pain" to President Obama. His office did not dispute this characterization of his motives.

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His terribleness is a bit under the radar, but Tom Cotton is one of the worst GOP Senators by far. Up there with Cruz, Graham and McConnell.

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The March of Dimes helped McConnell recover from childhood polio. They oppose his health care bill. But he refuses to meet with them.

@vicehealth

VICE Health

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Mitch McConnell refused to meet with the group that funded his polio recovery

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Stop using us Jews to launder your racism and bigotry. You’re not standing up for us, you just think you’re clever. It doesn’t work: the racism shines right through.

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Steve Daines

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Montanans are sick and tired of listening to anti-American, anti-Semite, radical Democrats trash our country and our ideals. This is America. We’re the greatest country in the world. I stand with @realdonaldtrump . 🇺🇸

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Adam Jentleson

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Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows are showing why authoritarianism could happen here. People like them will use all their power and sacrifice any principle to protect their leader if he or she is a member of their party.

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Mueller is practically begging Congress to do its job.

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Warren got married at 19, got divorced with two kids, remarried, and built a career on her own in a male-dominated field. She has lived real life. Anyone who thinks she’s “elitist” or “unrelatable” is telling on themselves.

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Wow ok emotional moment at Warren’s town hall in IA. A young woman asks if Warren ever had anyone in her life who she looked up to who didn’t accept her. Warren says: “My mother” recalls when she couldn’t make her marriage work and her mom’s disappointment

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1 year

🚨 New data dive finds the PA debate HELPED Fetterman. This is what we said at the time. But many reporters were uncomfortable seeing a man struggle so they bought Oz’s spin. Actual voters, who understand struggle more than most political reporters, had a much different reaction.

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Drew Linzer

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An incredible look at the PA-Sen race based on daily tracking of Fetterman & Oz favorable ratings by @Civiqs that we can now release. That "disastrous" debate? In reality, it helped Fetterman and stalled out Oz's improving favorable ratings. @kerryeleveld

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4 years

This is a Copernican moment. Democrats are realizing the old ways no longer apply. Our democracy has tilted to minority rule by white conservatives who are imposing their will on the diverse majority. That’s unsustainable and it is Dems’ responsibility to rebalance our democracy.

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

Manchin is setting himself up to be Mr. Gridlock. He's putting himself on the hook to deliver 10 GOP votes on everything. When he fails, as he will, he'll be the one blocking broadly popular policies that improve people's lives & which Dems must pass to hold the majority in 2022.

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Adam Jentleson

5 years

“Warren can’t win” is becoming “Warren’s only winning because of [insert external force].” Maybe check your assumptions & consider the possibility that a working class woman from Oklahoma who became a national figure by fighting for working people may just be really good at this.

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Adam Jentleson

5 years

The goal of impeachment is not removal. This is a straw man. The goal of impeachment is impeachment: to apply Congress' strongest-possible tool for holding a POTUS accountable for crimes. The process educates the public and shines an extremely bright spotlight on his crimes. 1/

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3 years

President Biden & Democratic leaders deserve tremendous credit for not letting the Collins gang water down the aid package. Hard to overstate what a watershed that could be. It was never a foregone conclusion & sticking to their guns took a lot of guts. Now lets play it forward.

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Warren is electric in person and connects with crowds like this every day yet she rarely gets the slobbering “charisma” coverage that seems to be reserved for her colleagues who are more... what’s the word?... male.

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5 years

Warren is getting a standing ovation and the largest applause of any candidate today #WeThePeople19

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Having spent countless hours listening to McConnell & years working with his office, I'd like to offer a few thoughts on tonight's news. 1/

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3 years

Pelosi should do this, but for real. Doing it by “unanimous consent” means any one member can block it. The House should actually bring a clean $2k checks bill to the floor, pass it and send it to the Senate. Do it with the intent of getting people more aid, not just as a stunt.

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Nancy Pelosi

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Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the President wanted for direct checks. At last, the President has agreed to $2,000 — Democrats are ready to bring this to the Floor this week by unanimous consent. Let’s do it!

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Adam Jentleson

5 years

Today's NYT: someone called Bret Stephens a bedbug so he googled "Jews as bedbugs" to reverse-engineer a column calling his critics Nazis, forgot to clear the search and declined to note that the citation did not substantiate the anti-Semitic connotation he based his column on.

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southpaw

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I just followed Bret’s own link. What are we doing here?

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4 years

If a whistleblower filed a formal complaint with an Inspector General about women in prison camps getting forced hysterectomies but the victims were predominantly white women, there would be a lot more coverage.

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Adam Jentleson

4 years

Trump has no plan to stop the coronavirus as it spreads across the globe. Guess who has a plan... and had it three weeks ago?

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Warren Offers Infectious-Disease Plan Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has announced a plan to prevent, contain and treat infectious diseases as a new viral illness spreads in China.

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Adam Jentleson

5 years

This. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. That was a mob of white kids taunting, jeering & heckling a smaller group of Native Americans. "Defusing" would be stepping aside, not staring down. The rush to recast the obvious is sad but predictable.

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Don't Doubt What You Saw With Your Own Eyes

Two days ago, video was posted online that pretty much everyone who saw immediately recognized for what it was—footage of white teens taunting and harassing a Native American elder named Nathan...

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3 years

Folks, this is a BFD: BIDEN: "I want to get things done. I want to get them done consistent with what we promised the American people. And in order to do that, in a 50/50 Senate, we’ve got to get to the place where I get 50 votes...

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2 years

Collins is the single senator who did the most to ensure that Roe was overturned. She was the lynchpin that made this possible. This is the defining feature of her legacy and will impact far more people than anything else she has ever done. Nothing else is remotely close.

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Sen. Susan Collins on SCOTUS/Roe: “This decision is inconsistent with what Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh said in their testimony and their meetings with me, where they both were insistent on the importance of supporting long-standing precedents that the country has relied upon.”

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

All roads lead to eliminating the filibuster. There is no "one weird trick" or super-savvy workaround. The path forward is clear: bring popular policies to the floor. If Republicans block them, eliminate the filibuster. The public will judge Democrats on what they pass, not how.

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Jeff Stein

3 years

NEWS: Senior Dems - including Wyden & Sanders - pulling plug on "plan b" to tax mega-corporations as backdoor minimum wage hike. Administrative, practical challenges loomed large. Will seek other ways to pass $15/hr - but the path forward for now unclear

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Pelosi told Trump that if he doesn’t re-open the government he can’t deliver the State of the Union in person but he’s welcome to deliver it in writing and I’m dying and it’s time once again for us all to appreciate and be thankful for the GOAT 🤣🤣🤣

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5 years

Despite what the headlines say, Pelosi is not asking.

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3 years

Unless there are consequences for those involved, all these speeches are just hot air.

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6 years

The pro-gun side is asking Americans to accept the risk that their kids will be murdered at school as an acceptable price to pay for some hobbyist owning an AR-15 because he thinks it's cool.

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3 years

These two changed the arc of history, and if anything that's an understatement.

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3 years

Good afternoon to these two, for no reason in particular.

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@mikejason73 The assault weapons ban expired.

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Adam Jentleson

6 years

There's no procedural silver bullet. The most important Q is whether Ds have the will to fight against overturning Roe v. Wade in an election year where women are driving Dems' strength. They have 49 votes - McConnell can only lose 2 incl McCain. Lock down 49 & fight like hell.

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5 years

Democrats won back the House and decided not to impeach, sending the message that Trump is basically fine.

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The Hill

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Trump averages highest approval rating of his presidency in second quarter

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People often ask me what Reid would have done differently. Hypotheticals are hard: would he have been able to get Manchin and Sinema? Idk. But on one thing I'm confident: the minute he realized the Dem agenda hinged on a 50/50 majority, he would have replaced the Parliamentarian.

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Adam Jentleson

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Ford: Brett Kavanaugh tried to rape me Grassley: HERE ARE THE TERMS UNDER WHICH I WILL HEAR YOUR STORY Ford: Can you give me some ti- Grassley: ANSWER ME BY FRIDAY MORNING Ford: The thing is, I'm getting death threats and had to move my famil- Grassley: OK FRIDAY NIGHT

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Adam Jentleson

5 years

Respectfully, this version of history reads Warren out of her own life story. Warren was appointed by Reid to run TARP oversight, where she built a national reputation for holding banks accountable. She came up with the idea for the CFPB & fought for its inclusion in Dodd-Frank.

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

The question of whether to reform the filibuster boils down to whether we want a functional government or a dysfunctional one. This is how the Framers saw it. This is why they opposed the filibuster or anything like it, and why they created the Senate as a majority-rule body. 1/

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Adam Jentleson

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In 2011 Republicans used the debt ceiling to cripple Obama and impose trillions in cuts. Today, Dem leaders agreed to lift the debt ceiling for the remainder of Trump’s presidency but reimpose it in 2021, when Republicans could again use it to cripple a Democratic president.

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Donald J. Trump

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I am pleased to announce that a deal has been struck with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy - on a two-year Budget and Debt Ceiling, with no poison pills....

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Everyone loves the woman once she's not trying to take power away from men anymore.

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Adam Jentleson

4 years

Trump’s entire life has taught him that he can say whatever bullshit he needs to say to get through the day, and no one - not the press, not law enforcement nor anyone else - will eve really catch up with him. Now he’s trying to bullshit his way through a global pandemic.

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Adam Jentleson

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The only rational takes on Abrams are that she’s a supernova who massively outperformed anyone else who would’ve run, that she needs to be a huge part of Democrats’ future and that our institutions *must* make recruiting & nominating more candidates like her their top priority.

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

Democratic presidents have won the popular vote in seven of the last eight elections and Senate Dems represent 41 million more Americans than Republicans despite holding the same number of seats. We are a center-left country where conservatives are boosted by electoral welfare.

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Sam Stein

3 years

In a comment sure to infuriarate a few folks..... Manchin to CNN: "This is not a center-left or a left country. We are a center -- if anything -- center-right country."

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Right about now, I’m feeling pretty darn glad it takes 50 votes to confirm a SCOTUS nominee instead of 60.

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3 years

As the dust settles on Democrats' downballot failures, it's becoming increasingly clear that the attempt to throw activists under the bus is a panicky attempt to cover for inexplicable, systemic failures by Democratic leaders and campaign committees.

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Shane Goldmacher

@ShaneGoldmacher

3 years

Sara Gideon ended her losing campaign for Senate in Maine with $14,810,136.25 in the bank

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Adam Jentleson

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This comes down to leadership. Senate Dem leaders could take a stand and station one senator on the floor at all times to object, forcing McConnell to jump through interminable hurdles & produce 51 votes - twice - for each nominee, likely resulting in fewer lifetime Trump judges.

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Sahil Kapur

6 years

And here it is: Senate just cut a deal to fast-track votes starting at 3:45p today on 11 nominations—including SEVEN Trump nominees to be district court judges.

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Harry Reid tried to warn you. He shouted it from the rooftops. This is the letter he sent to Comey in OCTOBER.

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Adam Jentleson

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EXT. A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM PARTY 1: "We should have free and fair elections." PARTY 2: "Sorry but any election can only result in our party winning and we will use the government to enforce this." PARTY 1: "Actually that's fascisim." PRESS: "Why is Party 1 being political!?!?!"

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They’re chanting “build the wall” to a man whose ancestors lived here long before theirs arrived. The wall isn’t about immigration, it’s about white power.

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Adam Jentleson

5 years

Kavanaugh should be impeached.

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Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not. (Published 2019)

Deborah Ramirez’s Yale experience says much about the college’s efforts to diversify its student body in the 1980s.

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Adam Jentleson

6 years

What we’re witnessing is the free American press trying to be fair to a dictator.

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

The dissonance of appealing to comity while threatening rampant obstruction if he doesn’t get his way reveals how McConnell has always used lofty notions and appeals to tradition to cover for his crass power plays. He knows Dems can take away his power and he’s off his game.

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Leader McConnell

@LeaderMcConnell

3 years

Today, I made clear that if Democrats ever attack the key Senate rules, it would drain the consent and comity out of the institution. A scorched-earth Senate would hardly be able to function. It wouldn’t be a progressive’s dream. It would be a nightmare. I guarantee it.

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Adam Jentleson

6 years

The second thing is to lock down all Dem votes. When Gorsuch was confirmed McConnell had one more vote than he does now (Luther Strange). Locking in all 49 Ds as nays shifts the focus to Collins, Murkowski, Flake and others and gives McConnell no margin for error.

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

How about some accountability here? Moderates got their candidate, passing over multiple candidates of color to rally behind a guy who lost two of the three times he ran for VA GOV. He ran the race he wanted. Punching left is a reflex. Time for mods to take some responsibility.

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Heather Caygle

3 years

Dem members are already texting me blaming progressives for “debacle” in Virginia

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Adam Jentleson

7 years

When Trump goes down remember that Ryan and McConnell knew but stayed silent. They put America at risk to chase tax cuts for millionaires.

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Adam Jentleson

4 years

Katie Porter who represents a red district but defined herself as a progressive fighter against corporate power is cruising to re-election while establishment centrist darlings like Max Rose and Donna Shalala got crushed.

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

Dems should pay close attention to the elation they're feeling after passing the ARP combined with the off-balance defensiveness Republicans are showing. We should draw these threads together and ask: what happens if we just keep passing popular policies on a majority-vote basis?

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Matt Whitlock

@mattdizwhitlock

3 years

Wouldn't hurt for dear friends in the media to point out that this is crap from groups who wanted to kill the filibuster even before this bill. Republicans bent over backwards to get involved in the process on this. Democrats excluded them because they only needed 50 votes.

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

We’re at an interesting moment where “moderate” members of Congress (who also happen to be leading recipients of Pharma💰) are trying to derail a moderate POTUS and his extremely popular policies, while progressives are pulling out all the stops to keep Biden’s agenda on track.

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Adam Jentleson

5 years

Senator Reid comes out in favor of House Democrats opening an impeachment inquiry: "It’s not the right thing to do nothing." More Reid: “Why make Trump a hero by saying ‘they couldn’t impeach me?’”

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Harry Reid changes opinion, says Pelosi-led House should open Trump impeachment inquiry

In an exclusive interview with USA TODAY, former Senate majority leader Harry Reid said the House should open an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

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Adam Jentleson

2 years

@mikejason73 It's fascinating how many of the replies go to cultural causes. We have been conditioned to over-emphasize secondary and tertiary causes, when the primary cause is the expiration of laws that kept guns like AR-15s off the streets.

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

The filibuster was not part of the original Senate because the Framers knew exactly how it'd be used- they saw McConnell coming. The filibuster represents Calhoun's vision, not Madison's. Calhoun wanted a Senate where the minority could block the majority.

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Adam Jentleson

5 years

House Democrats fundamentally misunderstand what they are up against. While they’re dithering over whether to impeach Trump for crimes we know he committed, Trump is weaponizing the entire Executive branch to invent criminal charges against his enemies.

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Trump Gives Attorney General Sweeping Power in Review of 2016 Campaign Inquiry (Published 2019)

In a directive, the president ordered the intelligence agencies to cooperate with the review and gave the attorney general the authority to unilaterally declassify their documents.

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

People *want* to tax the rich. It's not some disadvantage Democrats have to work around. It's a political opportunity we can lean into.

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Sahil Kapur

3 years

Buried in the new Morning Consult/Politico poll is an eye-popping statistic: Voters by a 2-to-1 margin prefer a $3 trillion infrastructure bill that includes tax hikes on $400K+ and corporations over one that excludes those tax hikes.

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Adam Jentleson

4 years

It’s important to see this clearly: this story describes crimes against humanity committed by white supremacists operating at the highest level of the US government. The fact that they’re people friendly with denizens of the DC bubble doesn’t change that.

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‘We Need to Take Away Children,’ No Matter How Young, Justice Dept. Officials Said (Published 2020)

Top department officials were “a driving force” behind President Trump’s child separation policy, a draft investigation report said.

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Adam Jentleson

2 years

Fetterman has been taking questions live and unedited from the PennLive ed board for half an hour now, still going. He's giving smart, funny, eloquent answers to tough Qs. But hey let's talk more about how he uses captions to aid his stroke recovery because that's what matters.

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Holly Otterbein

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2 years

Fetterman’s interview with the PennLive editorial board is currently being livestreamed.

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

David Brooks says Democrats “should absolutely kill the filibuster” if Republicans go into obstruction mode, which they already are. Folks, this is real.

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Adam Jentleson

4 years

I'm a lifelong Democrat. I'll enthusiastically vote & work hard for Dems up and down the ballot this year. But the history books will write that a president colluded with a hostile foreign power to win election, that the evidence was there, and that Dem leaders just... let it go.

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

As opposed to what?

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Steven Dennis

3 years

McConnell guarantees "NIGHTMARE" for Democrats in the Senate, grinding the chamber to a halt, if Democrats ever nuke the filibuster.

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Adam Jentleson

2 years

This is false. The filibuster as we know it did not exist in the early Senate. The Framers favored majority rule and created rules to allow senators to cut off debate when it became obstructionist. The Senate was majority-rule well into the latter half of the 20th century.

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Chad Pergram

2 years

Manchin on the filibuster. Says it's been "The tradition of the Senate here in 232 years now..we need to be very cautious what we do..That's what we've always had for 232 years. That's what makes us different than any place else in the world.

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Adam Jentleson

6 years

Ok everyone time for some game theory that’ll advance a unified explanation of the entire universe of Trump/Russia/Collusion/Stormy D/Emoluments/Corruption scandals - *if* you can manage to stick with me. Ready? Buckle up, here we go: Trump doesn’t have any money. 1/1

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Michael Avenatti

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6 years

After significant investigation, we have discovered that Mr. Trump’s atty Mr. Cohen received approximately $500,000 in the mos. after the election from a company controlled by a Russian Oligarc with close ties to Mr. Putin. These monies may have reimbursed the $130k payment.

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Adam Jentleson

5 years

Every one of our candidates can beat Trump. Vote for who you like, not who you predict some mythical voter in a diner in rural Michigan will like.

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Ryan Struyk

5 years

New 2020 head-to-heads in national Quinnipiac poll just out: Biden 53%, Trump 40% Sanders 51%, Trump 42% Harris 49%, Trump 41% Warren 49%, Trump 42% Buttigieg 47%, Trump 42% Booker 47%, Trump 42%

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

Today's mess on the floor should be a warning: a second reconciliation bill will be a quagmire. Biden's policies are very popular. Bring them to the floor under regular order. If Republicans block them, it forces the question of whether to give up, or end the Jim Crow filibuster.

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Adam Jentleson

6 years

Here is Senator Reid’s response to @realDonaldTrump today.

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

This is literally the opposite of what you do. When you have a system that is not working effectively, you fix the system.

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Sahil Kapur

3 years

. @kyrstensinema on why she supports the filibuster: “The reality is that when you have a system that is not working effectively... The way to fix that is to fix your behavior, not to eliminate the rules or change the rules, but to change the behavior.”

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Adam Jentleson

4 years

Reporters: when a politician can play you by shifting his tone from day to day - and when you rush to credit him for that new tone rather than hold him accountable table for a manifestly incompetent federal response that will cost American lives - are doing your job well?

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Adam Jentleson

4 years

Hey maybe we should have nominated the woman who predicted the last crash, predicted this one and has the most comprehensive plan known to humankind to fix it?

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Adam Jentleson

6 years

The old white men running Judiciary act like they have the power, then Ford shows them they don't. Then the old dudes spend a few days trying to re-establish that they do, indeed, have the power, then Ford once again reminds them they don't. Wash, rinse, repeat.

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Adam Jentleson

3 years

Someone just pay this man twice whatever he is getting from fossil fuel companies, already.

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Adam Jentleson

5 years

After 27 kids aged 6-7 and their teachers were murdered in Sandy Hook, a bill to expand background checks got a bipartisan majority of 54 votes in the Senate - and failed, because of the filibuster. Gun control will never get 60 votes. Nuke the filibuster or accept this world.

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Adam Jentleson

2 years

To put the KBJ hearings in context of white conservative grievance: When Robert Bork was given a fair hearing, was not filibustered, and failed because he could only get 48 votes on the floor, a generation of conservatives launched a grievance industry we’re living with today. 1/

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Adam Jentleson

5 years

I saw this happen. It was so impressive.

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Adam Jentleson

7 years

First & foremost, what we're witnessing is an unprecedented, full-blown rebellion by Republican senators against their leader, McConnell. 2/

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Adam Jentleson

4 years

Biden was not my first, second, or... look point is he was not my choice. But he's going to be our nominee and we have to beat Trump. There's a great debate to be had about the agenda if we win. But first we have to win: the WH, the Senate and statehouses with 2020 redistricting.

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Adam Jentleson

8 months

among many many other things, you showed hunter biden’s penis in a house hearing so please spare us the self-righteous bullshit

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸

8 months

The Senate no longer enforcing a dress code for Senators to appease Fetterman is disgraceful. Dress code is one of society’s standards that set etiquette and respect for our institutions. Stop lowering the bar!

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