Was just coming here to post this. Literally all a Texas Dem running for statewide office should do is point to this and yell loudly and often how they're all fucking like this.
Most of the show’s additions have been solid improvements on the game, but man what the fuck was the point of having Ellie wash up on Scar island for a quick little execution scare? That was dumb as hell.
SCOTUS overturned Humphrey's Executor tonight on the shadow docket to let Trump fire members of independent agencies without cause, with a special "oh well it's different, don't ask us how" carveout for the federal reserve.
They were the two that publicly took the blame, but there were a few other senators who wouldn't really comment on it one way or the other much and probably secretly opposed nuking the filibuster too. Coons comes to mind, but I think it's safe to assume that most of the Dems who teamed up with Schumer to back the GOP's continuing resolution earlier this year would've been against it.
I know I’m a little late to the party, but I think the elimination of Pepfar alone can and will ultimately be viewed as similar to the Holodomor.
Part of Rex is beginning to realize that we’ve all been right about how bad this all is and another part of him is rebelling against that and lashing out.
He doesn’t have the strength to join with liberals though, so he’ll ultimately go full Nazi and blame it all on the left.
I don’t mind certain Dems using him as a medium. I think Pete could do it. Bernie could too, though I don’t trust him not to mostly bash Dems which ultimately isn’t helpful. But most Dem officials Rogan would be openly hostile to and they wouldn’t know what to do with that.
Bari Weiss and Bret Weinstein call themselves liberal.
When Joe says he's for shit like universal healthcare he's lying. He's never in his life lifted a pinky to advance that cause. He just knows that pretending to break from the right on a few issues is useful. Weed is the only issue where he genuinely disagrees with the mainstream Republican party and he doesn't even really care if they legalize it because he knows they'll never arrest him for possession.
Rogan has never been progressive, get the fuck out of here with that nonsense. He was a libertarian, which means he likes weed, and he didn't used to have a problem with gay people because he was around Hollywood folks all the time. He's been firmly right-wing though for the last 5+ years though, which tracks the shifting politics of most libertarians, because they don't actually care about liberty for anyone but themselves and they're stupid enough to fall for a thousand different and often contradictory conspiracy theories.
The problem is many of those people all genuinely believe we're very near the end of days and that we don't need to worry about preserving anything for the future.
Ossoff is good, which makes him joining the Dems crypto-friendly group such a fucking disappointment.
There are some issues it's fine to break from the party line on. But the crypto bill he just voted for isn't one of them.
Booker followed up his impressive (sort of) filibuster, in which he acknowledged that he'd been inadequate in opposing the rise of Trumpism, by returning to behaving just like he's always behaved. If anything, that revealed the hollowness that's at the core of so many of our current Democratic officials. They think the one-time stunt is all that's needed and can't even begin to understand how just doing the stunt one time and then going back to business as usual just makes them look worse.
Ryan Cooper and David Dayen at The American Prospect are pretty good, as are the crew at Liberal Currents (Samantha Hancox-Li and Paul Crider primarily). Also some of the better left-of-center BlueSky guys recently started a podcast called Normal Men that's mostly pretty good political/cultural talk from a progressive viewpoint, though it's still new and mostly more punditry than wonky stuff.
Ezra Klein isn't horrible, but he's kind of dumb in ways he will never recognize because his job depends on him not recognizing it.