@steve@s.yelvington.com2025-11-24 17:51:18
@steve@s.yelvington.com2025-11-24 17:51:18
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-10-24 14:29:01
Democratic candidates can win Rust Belt voters by … attacking the Democratic party
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/09/democrats-rust-belt-economy
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-25 02:40:43
Former Sen. Doug Jones launches Democratic bid for Alabama governor (Bridget Bowman/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/former-sen-doug-jones-launches-democratic-bid-alabama-governor-rcna245737
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p124#a251124p124
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-25 02:43:00
Marc Elias, a prominent Democratic election attorney, has not shied away from standing up to the Trump administration, and has been targeted for retribution this year multiple times as a result.
He’s one of scores of lawyers the Trump administration has named in executive actions,
joining a list that includes big law firms and attorneys who worked for people Donald Trump considers his opponents.
Elias has for decades represented high-profile Democrats, including the president…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-11-25 06:35:02
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Auilding A Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
🔗 #postdemocratic
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-10-25 04:59:53
"In case you hadn’t noticed, the current Democratic Party is dysfunctional if not dead."
#mamdani
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-10-24 11:56:12
I tried to reach the last owners of Versailles to see how having such an opulent palace while your people starve worked out… but they seem not to be able to reply.
https://apnews.com/article/east-wing-white-house-ballroom-demolition-b60f…
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2025-10-25 14:01:10
The illusion that Europe had better democratic processes and laws was shattered by their unequivocal support of the genocide in Palestine.
I used to nod vigorously when a righteous European politician made progressive statements. But it turns out, it was just the tool they reached out for to advance their crass goals.
An inch more tasteful than Trump, but Trumpian at their core.
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-23 00:05:21
"Perry, a former Army National Guard brigadier general and combat veteran, said in an interview on “The Chris Stigall Show” last week that Democrats in Congress don’t care about the Constitution or the nation’s defense and suggested they only join the military when they want to run for office. "
Perry's comments roil Democratic veterans - Roll Call
https://rollcall.com/2025/10/22/perrys-comments-roil-democratic-veterans/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-23 20:10:48
Trump says he canceled plans for a "surge" of National Guard to San Francisco after speaking to "great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others" (Kate Rogers/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/trump-san-francisco-national…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-10-24 08:00:04
dnc: DNC emails (2016)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Democratic National Committee, in the email data leak released by WikiLeaks in 2016.
This network has 2029 nodes and 12085 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dnc
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-25 07:39:42
Generative AI as a catalyst for democratic Innovation: Enhancing citizen engagement in participatory budgeting
Italo Alberto do Nascimento Sousa, Jorge Machado, Jose Carlos Vaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19497
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-24 04:57:39
Six million people exercised their democratic right to protest,
and Trump’s response was to giggle and express a wish to bury them in feces.
At best that’s juvenile; at worst it’s an ugly attack on the democratic spirit.
Either way, it’s bizarre, jarring, and extremely divisive.
You’d think journalists would want to talk about it.
And yet, for the most part, the mainstream media has shied away from the story.
The Sunday shows hardly mentioned it.
…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-24 03:40:45
ActBlue, a payment platform for online donations, is increasing its investments in left-leaning media and content creators through grant-like sponsorships (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/21/2025/actblue-quietly-sponsors-p…
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-11-22 17:47:40
The Right Can’t Figure Out What to Do With Zohran Mamdani https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-democratic-socialism-trump-conservatives/
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-11-25 09:31:47
I have long lived by the principles of community, voluntary cooperation, and decentralized member-driven governance. Before knowing the term anarcho-syndicalism, I often imagined unions as truly democratic organizations, where delegates are elected and revocable at any moment, rooted in direct workers’ self-management and direct participation in controlling economic and social life, independent from both state authority and capitalist ownership.
Discovering anarcho-syndicalism about a…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-11-25 16:27:12
I guess the Internet Archive is now a for-Proffitt...
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115611174274779543
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2025-10-25 02:32:22
Worth a follow and support. One of the handful of folks I followed over here from the old place. Fresh insight is in exceedingly short supply these days. @… https://mastodon.so…
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-25 12:26:52
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[4/9]:
- Generative AI as a catalyst for democratic Innovation: Enhancing citizen engagement in participat...
Italo Alberto do Nascimento Sousa, Jorge Machado, Jose Carlos Vaz
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-12-24 16:00:04
dnc: DNC emails (2016)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Democratic National Committee, in the email data leak released by WikiLeaks in 2016.
This network has 2029 nodes and 12085 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dnc
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-25 17:37:49
👍 Sanders, Warren Help Form Senate Democratic ‘Fight Club’ Challenging Schumer’s Leadership | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-warren-senate-fight-club
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-24 19:10:43
19 Democratic-led states and DC sue over Trump gender-affirming care crackdown (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5662431-lawsuit-challenges-trump-transgender-policies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p50#a251224p50
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-10-21 17:12:40
One way to reduce the violent rhetoric in politics is for Trump to stop pardoning criminals.
• https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/pardoned-jan-6-rioter-accused-threatening-us-democratic-leader-jeffries-2025-10…
@steve@s.yelvington.com2025-10-23 21:23:15
There is no US city that more effectively displays the importance of immigrants to the story of America than San Francisco.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/national-guard-deployment-immigration-raids-10-23-25-hnk
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-24 16:30:45
Federal judge Mary McElroy has blocked the Trump administration’s
attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling on Monday solidified a win for the coalition of 12 attorneys general
that sued the administration earlier this year after being alerted that their states would receive drastically reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-24 07:16:33
Trump-appointed judge: DHS must restore disaster grants to Democratic states
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/24/trump-ice-dhs-fema-grants-states-sanctuary-city-ruling
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-10-22 15:13:34
This "executive order" system simply has to be removed from the US political system. Why is it even a thing? It's clearly not democratic...
#UsPol
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-23 19:01:34
GOP senator blocks Democratic bill to pay all federal employees during shutdown (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5569758-ron-johnson-chris-van-hollen-shutdown-pay-bill/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p104#a251023p104
@bthalpin@mastodon.social2025-12-19 23:16:44
RE: https://alis.me/x/fries-and-all/
That is such a good line from Krugman: "MAGA hates Europe for its freedom"
A mostly social democratic, broadly democratic system where there is some element of limitation on capitalism to maintain worker, consumer, environmental p…
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-11-08 17:30:38
In Canada, the CBC might be the kind of entity to help run / coordinate “public service social media” as described in this Tech Policy Press article https://www.techpolicy.press/public-service-social-media-as-a-democratic-safeguard/
With interop…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-25 00:06:24
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says
“all orders” from President Trump are “lawful orders,”
and troops have no right to question him.
Leavitt’s comments came as Defense Secretary
Pete Hegseth weighs court martialing former astronaut, retired Naval officer, and now-Democratic
Senator Mark Kelly
for his role in a video that the right is claiming to be “seditious.”
Unfortunately for the White House’s arguments,
there have been illegal…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-25 04:01:17
Pentagon Probes Allegations of Misconduct Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly (Joseph De Avila/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/mark-kelly-senator-pentagon-probe-10060a16
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p127#a251124p127
@MichaelLondonSF@mas.to2025-10-14 09:16:55
Public Participation NOT a barrier to UK infrastructure projects. Dr Dan Durrant lunch time lecture on a (failed) attempt to amend the P&I Bill. UCL 4 November https://www.ucl.ac.uk/events/events/2025/nov/lunch-hour-lecture-buildin…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-24 10:20:48
Trump-appointed judge: DHS must restore disaster grants to Democratic states (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/24/trump-ice-dhs-fema-grants-states-sanctuary-city-ruling
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p3#a251224p3
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-09 21:44:51
If they cave, the Democratic Party is done.
If you have Democratic senators, please, I urge you to call them and tell them to keep the pressure on Republicans going and not reopen the government until ACA subsidies are in place.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-16 16:32:53
Your reminder that Trump openly threatened the citizenship of Zohran Mamdani.
✅ Trump ramps up attacks against Zohran Mamdani | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-communism-attacks-nyc-ma…
@rasos@fairmove.net2025-11-20 20:42:19
#Politik und wie sie eine Post-Demokratie implementieren. Und
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-17 23:45:53
Senate Republicans share an AI-generated video falsely depicting Chuck Schumer saying on camera comments he made in a print interview on the government shutdown (Thomas Beaumont/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/schumer-art
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-24 03:50:40
Federal judge says Trump administration must restore disaster money to Democratic states (Kimberlee Kruesi/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-sanctuary-city-trump-fema-9c441d9cbe953a8ecd78123f0fe8a64e
http://www.memeorandum.com/251223/p112#a251223p112
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-12-12 09:39:04
"this that makes it necessary for the United States to do something to avoid the civilizational and democratic disaster that is unfolding in Europe." — @…
I'm REALLY going to take issue with this. Yes, it's true that Europe faces challenges. But it is not Europe which faces civilizational or democratic disaster. This is classic pr…
@seav@en.osm.town2025-10-18 22:39:18
Content warning: uspol, maine
#TIL about the campaign of Democratic Graham Platner to unseat Republican Susan Collins as Maine Senator in 2026. He reminds me a lot of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign and I wish him well!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_P
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social2025-11-06 13:03:43
If you are listening to the "Fulltime #Nix Podcast", maybe reconsider that choice.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-a…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-22 09:00:03
dnc: DNC emails (2016)
A network representing the exchange of emails among members of the Democratic National Committee, in the email data leak released by WikiLeaks in 2016.
This network has 2029 nodes and 12085 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dnc
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-11-11 21:51:53
You can hate me all you want, but when it comes to Zohran Mamdani, the reality is clear. He is a democratic socialist running as a candidate within the Democratic Party. Ultimately, by participating in the Democratic Party’s electoral system, he is operating within and effectively supporting the framework of American capitalism and imperialism.
The two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, are fundamentally aligned in preserving the capitalist system that m…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-19 00:27:08
Democratic senators propose gun tax credit reversal
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5656018-democratic-senators-gun-tax-credits/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-23 14:08:31
Among those who joined Jeff Merkly
on the Senate floor was
Cory Booker, who said:
“We are seeing a time now that if we do not ring the alarm bells,
more and more Americans will be hurt by a president
who is acting more like an authoritarian leader than a democratically elected executive.”
Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal likened Trump’s partial demolition of the White House East Wing
to layoffs and funding cuts he has ordered across the government.
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-10-07 16:55:17
🌹 New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream
#politics
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-11-20 16:40:59
Confirming he wants to kill members of Congress and plans to give the military more illegal orders.
Source links:
https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/33937
http…
![Screenshot of 2 posts by Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump:
November 20, 2025, 10:21 AM
SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!
November 20, 2025, 9:17 AM
This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP??? President DJT
[quote post]
Washington Examiner @WashingtonExaminer:
November 19, 2025, 10:00 PM
Democratic veterans in Congress urge service members to refuse unspecified unlawful orders
washin…](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/583/008/806/819/225/original/21f7594f1058c87a.png)
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-20 19:05:42
Speaker Johnson continues to resist swearing in Democratic Rep.-elect Grijalva (John Parkinson/Reuters)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/speaker-johnson-continues-resist-swearing-democratic-rep-elect/story?id=126680953
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p88#a251020p88
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-10-19 12:56:45
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-23 01:36:13
The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 along party lines on Thursday
to scrap rules that required U.S. phone and internet giants to meet certain minimum cybersecurity requirements.
The FCC’s two Trump-appointed commissioners, chairman Brendan Carr and his Republican colleague Olivia Trusty,
voted to withdraw the rules that require telecommunications carriers to “secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications.”
The Biden administ…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-21 01:41:00
Exclusive: Trump appointee inspired by conservative media outlet to push for probe of Democratic congressman (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/trump-appointee-inspired-by-conservative-media-outlet-push-probe-democratic-2025-12-20/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p61#a251220p61
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-17 02:55:08
NV progressives urge Republican governor to tank Democratic movie studio bill | News From The States
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/nv-progressives-urge-republican-governor-tank-democratic-movie-studio-bill
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-20 17:21:02
Democratic veterans in Congress urge service members to refuse unspecified unlawful orders (Mike Brest/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3892669/democratic-veterans-congress-unlawful-orders/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p62#a251120p62
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-20 14:15:27
Amid deepening threats to pluralism and free expression, support for innovative civil society organizations that counter digital authoritarianism and build democratic infrastructure is key to carving out a freer future
https://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.so…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-20 16:46:00
Trump calls for Democratic lawmakers to face trial for 'seditious behavior' (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/20/congress/trump-democratic-lawmakers-sedition-00661504
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p58#a251120p58
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-16 12:10:46
Elizabeth Warren and two Democratic senators write to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and more to investigate AI data centers' role in rising electricity costs (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/busines
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-21 18:45:46
Eric Swalwell, a seven-term Democratic US representative known for his pugnacious and persistent opposition to Donald Trump,
announced on Thursday night he will run for governor of California.
“This great state needs a fighter and a protector, someone who will bring prices down, lift wages up,” Swalwell said.
“So I came here tonight, Jimmy to tell you and your audience that I’m running to be the next governor of California.”
Swalwell’s announcement comes shortly after…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-10-17 12:28:51
An intelligence assessment style-ish write up on the US by purported former professionals in the Intelligence Community (IC) who call themselves collectively The Steady State. Executive summary and scope statement seem like clear thinking.
https://steadystate1.substack.com/p/ac
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-21 14:53:13
“Some States With Democratic Governors Are Posting Partisan Shutdown Messages on Official Websites” - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=152666
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-22 06:58:51
What the movement sorely needs is a bipartisan imprimatur.
There must be Republicans who still believe in the democratic values that Bush voiced in his second Inaugural, 20 years ago.
“Did our generation advance the cause of freedom? And did our character bring credit to that cause?”
Their continued silence puts sand in the movement’s gears
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-21 16:19:40
‘Why Do You Continue Unlawfully Detaining US Citizens?’ Democratic Lawmakers Ask ICE | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/can-ice-detain-us-citizens
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-22 16:07:57
Elected leaders can tackle some of the biggest problems facing the nation
— energy supply in the age of artificial intelligence and affordable health care amid surging prices
— despite the partisan dysfunction stalling governance at the federal level.
As chairman of the Western Governors' Association, Utah governor Spencer Cox and governors from Arizona, Idaho, Hawaii and Montana explored solutions to these challenges during discussions withq Donald Trump's top advi…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-17 19:50:57
Fox found its culprit for high grocery prices following Democratic election victories -- Joe Biden (Craig Harrington/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-found-its-culprit-high-grocery-prices-following-democratic-election-victories-joe
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p95#a251217p95
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-21 23:11:14
Arizona’s attorney general is suing to force the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, to swear in Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who won a congressional special election in September.
Grijalva was elected on 23 September in the southern Arizona district that her father, Raúl Grijalva, held until his death earlier this year.
Kris Mayes, the Democratic attorney general in Arizona, had promised to sue if Johnson would not let Grijalva get started on her work. She sent a letter to J…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-22 13:55:55
Democratic senator protests Trump's 'grave threats' in marathon overnight floor speech (Rashard Rose/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/politics/jeff-merkley-senate-floor-speech
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p34#a251022p34
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-22 00:09:55
Over the past quarter-century, political, legal and economic changes have reshaped the relationship between wealth and political power in America.
Economists say wealth is now more concentrated at the very top than at any time since the Gilded Age.
The tech and market revolutions of recent decades have created riches on an unprecedented scale.
Changing norms on executive compensation and lower-tax policies under Republican and Democratic administrations have helped insul…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-16 17:55:56
Trump diverts anti-terror funds from Democratic strongholds to Republican states (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-diverts-anti-terror-funds-democratic-strongholds-republican-states-2025-10-16/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p67#a251016p67
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-21 23:20:52
'I'm not a secret Nazi': Maine Democratic Senate candidate addresses tattoo (Joseph Gedeon/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/maine-graham-platner-tattoo-democrat-senate
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p131#a251021p131
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-17 23:56:14
It’s definitely a long shot.
But Rae Huang, a 43-year-old community organizer, minister and dues-paying member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America,
is making her move, throwing her hat into the ring for mayor of Los Angeles.
The virtually unknown candidate is the deputy director of Housing Now California,
a coalition that fights displacement of tenants at the state and local levels.
Huang, who announced a campaign launch on Sunday, i…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-21 04:48:44
The ranking Democratic members of two congressional oversight committees
announced on Monday that they had started an investigation into reports of misconduct by federal agents during immigration arrests across the country,
focusing on the detainment of American citizens.
The investigation, a joint effort between the House Oversight Committee and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations,
will inquire how long American citizens have been held and whether the…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-16 01:25:44
Trump Admin Intensifies Military Probe Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, Launches Command Investigation (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-admin-intensifies-military-probe-against-democratic-sen-mark-kelly-launches-command-investigation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p123#a251215p123
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-19 11:55:36
It's 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/democratic-campaign-ads-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p5#a251019p5
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-21 14:40:11
“How do we move forward in a way that everybody feels like they’re being engaged, they’re being heard and they’re understanding that elections have consequences?” she asks rhetorically.
“You have to come out and vote. You lose your voice if you don’t come out to vote.
One of the problems that’s happening right now is people are fearful and that’s how dictatorship begins. That’s how authoritarian regimes start.
They create this chaos and then this fear and we cannot be fe…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-18 03:50:49
Furious progressives swarm Schumer's job as Democratic leader (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/18/schumer-democratic-leader-senate
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p168#a251117p168
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-20 23:05:42
Democratic senators fear getting 'hammered' after 'No Kings' for ending shutdown (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5561362-liberal-base-backlash-democrats/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p130#a251020p130
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-19 23:30:31
Ro Khanna says this Epstein 'document dump does not comply with' law to compel full release of Epstein files
“The justice department’s document dump this afternoon does not comply with Thomas Massie and my 'Epstein Transparency Act',”
Ro Khanna, the California congressman who co-wrote the law requiring full disclosure of all of the government’s investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by Friday,
said in a video statementposted on social media.
By way of …
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-20 17:51:03
Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick indicted (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/20/sheila-cherfilus-mccormick-indicted-democrat-fema
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p71#a251120p71
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-21 12:40:44
Enraged Democratic candidates turn on their own leaders (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/democrats-primary-congress-house-anger-candidates
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p19#a251021p19
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-13 17:46:54
Democratic lawmakers repeatedly called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign
as they confronted her on Trump’s immigration crackdown during a heated House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday.
Congressmember Delia Ramirez, announced that she would begin taking steps for her impeachment.
The Department of Homeland Securityis “operating as a criminal organization” under Noem’s leadership, Ramirez tells Democracy Now!
“She thinks that she is above…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-20 00:08:10
Mike Johnson’s refusal to swear in Adelina Grivalja for this long
—much less communicate with those on the other side of the aisle
—is a failure of leadership and a stunning betrayal of basic democratic principles
https://bsky.app/profile/theswprincess.bsky.so…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-19 22:28:35
Less than 48 hours after joining Bluesky,
the White House has already become one of the most blocked accounts on the social network.
According to ClearSky, which tracks Bluesky blocking stats,
the White House account is blocked by around 91,000 accounts, while being followed by only 10,000.
The only account that’s been blocked by more Bluesky users belongs to Vice President JD Vance, who joined back in June.
While the various new government accounts hadn’t qu…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-11 22:36:02
4 GOP senators break ranks to vote for Democratic extension of ObamaCare subsidies (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5644661-republican-senators-democratic-obamacare-bill/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p127#a251211p127
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-08 03:44:36
Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into its 38th day.
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-18 23:40:15
Marchers in downtown San Francisco were estimated to be around 500,000,
surpassing the number who participated in a similar march in June, said Michelle Gutierrez Vo,
the president of the California Nurses Association, an organizer of the event.
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi marched along Market Street with the crowd, wearing a broken crown.
At a rally after the march, Joan Baez reveled in the large turnout.
“You look beautiful,” she said.
“There are many hu…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-16 02:05:52
Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-irs-investigations-left-leaning-groups-democratic-donors-612a095e
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p157#a251015p157
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-12 21:50:13
Much as white southerners acted like the election of a black man as mayor would be the death of the city as they had long known it,
white New Yorkers are now acting like the election of Mamdani will be the death of NYC.
Some of it is religious bigotry,
some of it is class panic,
but all of it is as unfounded as the reaction to the first black mayors a half century ago.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-19 16:24:48
Suddenly, Trump’s effort to rig the 2026 midterms with corrupt gerrymanders appears in trouble.
A panel of judges just blocked the GOP gerrymander in Texas, which had added five seats.
In Indiana, Republicans currently lack the votes to redraw their congressional map.
Trump is angry about all this.
He lashed out at Indiana Republicans, threatening primaries and calling one opponent “weak” and “pathetic.”
So is the scheme dead?
-- No.
Several as…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-15 14:05:51
Blue States Are Setting Up a Shadow Public-Health Alliance to Counter RFK Jr. (Betsy McKay/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/rfk-jr-hhs-democratic-public-health-alliance-6a6a7e28
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p37#a251015p37
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-09 00:35:45
Rep. Jasmine Crockett enters Democratic primary for U.S. Senate (Gabby Birenbaum/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/08/jasmine-crockett-texas-senate-democratic-primary-2026/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p135#a251208p135
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-19 16:50:58
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday doubled down on his criticisms of millions of protesters who joined Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies across the nation,
decrying the peaceful demonstrations as evidence of
“a rise of Marxism in the Democratic Party.”
https://www.politico.co…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-08 20:20:42
Jasmine Crockett launches campaign for Texas Democratic Senate primary after Colin Allred drops out (Jack Fink/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/jasmine-crockett-texas-senate-democratic-primary/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p102#a251208p102
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-18 02:15:24
Four Republican lawmakers have signed onto
a Democratic-led discharge petition,
which aims to force a vote on a bill to restore tax credits for millions of Americans who receive health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Thot credits are set to expire at the end of this year, unless legislation can be passed to extend them.
Ordinarily, the speaker of the House of Representatives can block legislation from being considered.
But a discharge petition,…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-09 02:10:56
National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/national-guard-poised-enter-chicago-trump-calls-jailing-democratic-leaders-2025-10-08/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p166#a251008p166
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-18 16:36:40
A coalition of patriotic groups is again leading a day of mass demonstrations across the US to protest against the Trump authoritarian onslaught.
The coalition spearheaded a previous attempt #NoKings protest day in June,
drawing millions to the streets to speak out against Trumpism on the same day Trump held a military parade in Washington.
Today JD Vance is predictably holding a military…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-07 18:10:37
Democratic lawmakers press for transparency over 'double tap' strike (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/07/second-strike-democratic-lawmakers-demand-transparency-00679899
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p33#a251207p33
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-05 04:32:18
If the November 2025 election was a referendum on President Trump, the Democrats have a lot to celebrate tonight.
Democratic candidates swept key races:
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic socialist, beat Trump-endorsed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a historic election for New York City mayor.
Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a 46-year-old Democrat who previously worked as a CIA officer, beat a Republican candidate to become Virginia governor.
Rep…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-04 19:49:01
Senator Murphy:
It’s pretty wild that the corruption is so brazen, is so transparent.
Vought sent out this tweet yesterday saying, I’m canceling energy projects in the following states, and listed the states.
And every single one of them is a state represented by two Democratic senators.
And the one Democratic senator who voted for the Republican continuing resolution
—that senator’s state wasn’t on the list.
So, you know, it’s just there for everybody to s…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-07 16:10:50
Trump's threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-threat-invoke-insurrection-act-escalates-showdown-with-democratic-cities-2025-10-07/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p53#a251007p53
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-17 05:43:41
Two Democratic senators have announced that they will attempt to block any pending civilian nominations before the Senate
in response to what they describe as the Trump administration’s “failure to provide a briefing to lawmakers” on the release of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Ben Ray Lujšn of New Mexico, who both sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act,
said in a statement on Tuesday that “there can be no business as usual …