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They’re advocating a slippery slope argument. If you add three, then I’ll add three, and then the next person after that will add three.

I don’t see that being realistic and I would hope any such expansion would have a phased-in approach to make it more palatable and fair, and less likely to be stopped or altered.

Asked about working with the president, Schumer told reporters, "We’ll see if he will actually change his ways and join.”

That’s all he said, according to this opinion piece.

Where we’re going we won’t need polls.

It’s only 25% counted, and probably mostly blue counties with that big a disparity. Once it’s 90%+ then celebrate or start biting your nails.

“Someone said something dumb. Read our article about how Twitter reacts!”

I can’t wait until this form of “journalism” is dead.

Don’t feed the trolls. When you argue with a troll, you are entering a competition to see who has more free time. You will lose, because you have a life and the troll does not. Do not EVER respond to trolls.

I’ve been saying this about Trump since 2014. Shame nobody followed that advice up to this point, and likely never will.

Transcript: https://slate.com/transcripts/M0xLYVRoVy9IZ2M1SW9UdTdtUk8wUFF3OWZjVmNxUFYxTDdhU2ZYa1lhcz0=

They really need to have someone review those; there are numerous errors that frankly make it hard to follow. How hard is it to pay an intern $100 to listen to the audio and correct the machine transcript? Ugh.

Redlib is struggling because Reddit put their public json feeds for threads behind a log-in. Sounds like some instances are logging in on the server, but then that makes public instances a lot more susceptible to rate limiting.

That’s stopping a lot of automated data access, but not the same as blocking all access behind a log-in.

Don’t pass funding bills, up to and including a government shutdown, to halt the war financially.

People are calling them chicken already, buy few seem to recall the last shutdown - longest ever - didn’t materially stop anything, either, as everything else is deprived of money to the priority of defense.

Yet another mastabatory dogpile on dems. Not that it’s undeserved, but I fail to understand what this achieves other than perpetuating animosity.

But it’s a charade when the 1% are getting massive tax cuts at the same time. Still a net loss to the 99% getting checks, but WEEE $5000! 🙄

The vote the two Democrats defected on is known as a rule vote. Typically, members of the minority party stick together to oppose these kind of procedural votes, which the majority party needs to bring bills to the floor.

Democrats are particularly irate given that one of the bills that can now be brought to the floor is a Russian sanctions bill that President Donald Trump himself has championed.

While some Democrats support the Russia sanctions bill, they said they were not willing to back a GOP rule — and cross party leadership — to get that result.

“I’m proud to represent one of the largest Ukrainian communities in America — people who have lost fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in the fight to defeat fascism,” Gluesenkamp Perez said on X, adding, “My vote today gets us one step closer to enacting these sanctions into law and I look forward to voting tomorrow to cut off the flow of Russian oil money fueling this war.”

Unless fatally flawed – highly likely for anything Trump supports – then don’t we want sanctions here? I get wanting to deny a W for the opposition, but having one or two be the bad guy so everyone else can look unified while plenty probably support the thing sounds like politics. Stupid politics, but this is the age in which we live.

So this is what we’ve come to? “It’s just a prank, bro” and everyone is okay with it?