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I'm sorry.....
You can't say you have defensive concerns about Teruaki Sato... turn around and sign Alec Bohm
You're full of garbage
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BREAKING: HELL YES! Nevada Governor-elect Aaron Ford throws his full support behind abolishing the Electoral College with the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
The blue tsunami could end MAGA forever...
“I didn’t initially support it frankly because I hadn’t done enough research on it, but I have researched it and looking at the electoral college, understanding the, frankly, racist underpinnings of it in the first place leads me to believe that we need to get rid of it,” said Ford. “Not only for that reason but because we’ve seen several times now the person who wins the popular vote not win because of the electoral college."
The Constitution gives states the power to control their electoral votes and how they're allocated during presidential elections. Currently, almost every state gives its votes to whoever wins the state.
In practice, that means that a candidate can win the national popular vote but lose the election because smaller states exert an imbalanced influence on the outcome. For example, Wyoming has a population of 577,000 people and 3 electoral votes. California, which 39.5 million people call home, gets 54 electoral votes. Essentially, that means a vote in Wyoming is 3.8 times as valuable as one in California.
States that join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact agree to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote, not just their own state. Under this proposed system, a state could go red on the map, but if the Democrat wins the national vote, they'd still get that state's votes.
18 states plus D.C. have already joined the NPVIC, but it doesn't trigger until the member states have a combined 270 electoral votes, the number needed to win the White House.
Thanks to our party's overwhelming success in the midterm elections, Democrats have seized control of the state legislatures and governor's mansions in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. If all five join, it would push the compact over the 270 threshold.
This would transform the American political landscape and make it much harder for the Republican Party — which is an increasingly unpopular organization — to ever win again. It would incentivize presidential candidates to campaign in every state rather than devoting all of their attention to a handful of swing states.
The Electoral College is fundamentally undemocratic. It's time to hurl it into the trash for good!
Please ❤️ and share if you support abolishing the Electoral College!
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This post by Robert Reich who has 1.4 MILLION followers has been suppressed to the point of near lethal oxygen loss. Of course Elon is against overturning Citizens United. His fear is palpable. Please RT
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Dear Leader Schumer,
Allow me to congratulate you and your colleagues on last week’s election results, and please know how much I appreciate your central role in dramatically and historically expanding the Senate map for the Democratic Party.
It is significantly due to your efforts that the Senate will remain in Democratic hands for years to come, and I am certainly grateful for those efforts.
Back in March of 2025, I started an online petition calling on you to step down as Minority Leader. It accumulated tens of thousands of signatures. I wrote several pieces outlining why I felt you are not the leader we need in this moment. I spoke to numerous journalists and made it clear the party needed a change.
I am not writing to you now with a demand that you step down.
I know that such a demand would be rather moot. I can count votes. I know you already have the votes you need, and the next several weeks will presumably be a matter of triangulating on who gets a pass to publicly oppose you for political cover.
You only need as many as 29 votes to win the caucus (half of 56 plus one), and you only need 51 votes in the full Senate to take the gavel. That means up to 28 of your colleagues get a pass during the caucus vote and up to five get a pass in the full Senate.
Passes will be given to senators who publicly opposed your leadership during this past cycle and senators who need some breathing room in this next cycle and senators who need to mollify their personal bases of support.
Adding them all up, the bloc of Democratic senators opposing your continued tenure in leadership is still quite a bit short of the magic number. The math is clearly on your side.
So, no, I am not writing to demand that you step down because I understand your relationships within the Senate Democratic Caucus are so strong that it would be rather a waste of time to pressure them into opposing you while clear, alternative candidates have yet to emerge — and it remains to be seen if any will, despite the sabre-rattling on display over these past several days.
Those relationships have largely been built on the respect and admiration your Senate Democratic colleagues have for you. Given your prodigious fundraising and the fact that you personally recruited five of the Democrats who flipped seats last Tuesday, I can’t say I’m surprised your colleagues have held fast on this.
So, no demands here.
Instead, I have a request, Sir, and I would like for you to consider it in good faith.
I want you to imagine for a moment how the Democratic Party will look ten years from now in your wildest dreams and what it would take to get there.
By then, you will be just shy of 86-years-old. I point that out as neither a critique nor a disqualification but as a genuine concern.
My concern is based on optimal timing. Tuesday was a political victory of rare size, perhaps one I may not see again in my lifetime.
It feels as though we have been handed a golden opportunity to change politics forever in service to working class families, and I can’t help but wonder if we’re thinking far ahead enough to take advantage of it.
I fully expect we’ll win the White House in 2028, and I have no doubt we’ll remain in control of the House and the Senate. When that governing trifecta arrives, will we know for certain we have a full tank of gas to get done what needs to be done?
Sir, I have to ask: would it not make more sense to pass the torch now and give the new leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus two years to get fully comfortable in that role, so that they can hit the ground running in 2029 without breaking stride?
Without needless and distracting speculation over their possible retirement or the state of their health?
In this moment, you have the chance to entirely shape the direction of this country for generations to come just by ensuring that there is a core leadership team ready-to-go in transforming our nation after Trump has left the stage.
My concern really isn’t so much what you personally can accomplish over the next two-to-four years but the opportunity cost of not ensuring full strength in our leadership over the next ten years.
In rallying support for a successor right now and giving them the enormous advantage of a two-year head start before that trifecta, you would be sending a clear message to the country: the enduring health and future vibrancy of our democracy—and the change needed to ensure it—is far more important than any one person.
Juxtaposed with the strident and destructive narcissism of Trump, your example of generational transition—service before self—would guarantee the confidence of the American people in knowing there is only one political party that truly has their best interests at heart.
I am asking you to do whatever it takes to ensure the Democratic Party is at its strongest ten years from now.
I think that’s a fair request.
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Link to full piece available here for easier sharing: charlotteclymer.substack.com…
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In 1944, thousands of Japanese on Saipan hid in caves, sure the Americans would torture them if they came out. Many families chose the cliffs instead.
An 18-year-old American Marine from East Los Angeles walked up to those caves at night, alone, and called to them in Japanese.
His name was Guy Gabaldon. He was a Mexican American kid who had grown up partly in the home of a Japanese American family, the Nakanos. That is where he picked up his Japanese. When the war came, the Nakanos were sent to internment camps. Their twin sons, Lane and Lyle, joined the U.S. Army anyway and served in the 442nd.
Fifty years later, he still said it plainly: "These were Americans."
On Saipan, Gabaldon was a scout with the 2nd Marine Regiment. Right after landing, he slipped off on his own and came back with prisoners. His commanding officer, Capt. John Schwabe, threatened him with a court-martial for leaving his post.
The next night, he came back with about fifty.
After that, they let him go out alone.
He crawled to the cave mouths in the dark and promised the people inside water, medical care, and that nobody would hurt them. Night after night, ten or twenty at a time, they followed him out.
On July 8, by his own account, about 800 came out in a single day. Schwabe remembered that day too. It was the day they tagged him the Pied Piper of Saipan.
Not everyone listened. At the cliffs, he begged a mother not to kill her child. He watched her throw the baby and jump. He was still talking about it fifty years later.
His Navy Cross citation says that on Saipan and Tinian he brought in "well over one thousand enemy civilians and troops."
Schwabe recommended him for the Medal of Honor. He received the Silver Star. Sixteen years later, after Hollywood made a movie about him, the Navy upgraded it to the Navy Cross.
He died in 2006 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
I am Japanese. Those caves were full of my people, frightened, starving, and certain that the Americans were monsters.
An American teenager walked toward them in the dark and offered them water.
On this Veterans Day, Japan should know his name.
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It’s great to have a good result despite all the dark money. Now let’s use the result to get rid of the dark money.
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Hakeem Jeffries accepted campaign money from Palantir. Palantir is behind ICE and Flock cameras.
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"I don’t want Jared Kushner to be investigated because he’s the president’s son-in-law. I want him investigated because he’s potentially laundered and embezzled $2 billion dollars in funds from the governments of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. I don’t want Stephen Miller investigated because he’s a racist ghoul who’s at the center of the Trump brain trust. I want him investigated because he’s a racist ghoul who has violated the due-process rights of millions of people and, potentially, directly violated court orders. I don’t want Pete Hegseth investigated because he’s a toxic psychopath who is unqualified to lead America’s military forces. I want him investigated because he’s a fucking murderer who needs to spend the rest of his life in jail, either in this country or The Hague." thenation.com/article/politi…
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Teams are stealing pitching and catcher coaches from the Yankees
You know why??
Because the Yankees are good at that....
You know what teams haven't stolen from a Yankees this decade??
front office people
Absolutely right.
Everywhere you look, there are opinions on Tuesday’s midterm election. On the left, it’s gleeful jubilation and on the right it’s elegiac dirges. So, here’s my take on it.
I believe the One Big Beautiful Butt-kicking happened because most Americans are angry about the four Cs: Costs, Cruelty, Chaos, and Corruption. And rather than focusing on the issues that matter most to ordinary Americans, Trump – with the acquiescence of this Republican sycophants – started a new war in collaboration with Benjamin Netanyahu, tossed around tariffs and drove up prices for consumers, turned federal law enforcement into his personal Gestapo, embraced America’s enemies and maligned America’s friends, and enriched himself and his oligarch allies while working class Americans saw their financial situations worsen. Millions of Americans who supported Trump in 2024 felt that he abandoned them and the promises he made, and to paraphrase Howard Beale’s famous line in the 1976 movie Network, they were mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
I rarely agree with Ted Cruz, but his post-election assessment of the midterms was spot on: “2026 was not simply a blue wave; it was a blue tsunami. It was an ass kicking. It was not simply a bad 2006 midterm election. It was a Watergate-level repudiation.” I’ve seen some on the right trying to downplay the outcome by claiming that Republican voters just weren’t motivated and stayed home rather than going out and voting. Cruz dismissed that notion saying, “the problem wasn’t turnout. Instead, our voters – Republicans, Libertarians, Independents – showed up and voted, and rejected our candidates, voting Democrat instead.”
Republican Mayor of Oklahoma City David Holt summed it up well: “A political party that is morally and intellectually bankrupt deserves the rebuke of the American people. It’s now time to make America good again.”
So, Republicans have some soul searching to do as they decide how to revamp their imagio in the wake of the repudiation of Trump and the extreme MAGA agenda. I wish them good luck with that.
Democrats deserve to celebrate. I wouldn’t have bet 50 cents on the outcome of Tuesday night. It exceeded the wildest expectations of even the most optimistic progressives. But the celebration needs to end soon because now the hard part begins. I hope Democrats aren’t deluding themselves into thinking that the millions of people who voted for Trump in the past and voted blue on Tuesday fell in love with the Democratic Party and are now wedded to it. The majority of Americans still loathe both parties; they just loathe the Republican Party under the domination of Trump more. If Democrats want to keep these swing voters in the blue camp, Democrats have to demonstrate that they understand what matters to the majority of Americans and will do something about it.
Democrats have to prove that they are capable of doing two things at once and keeping both in balance.
First, there has to be accountability for the excesses and abuses of the past two years. And that can’t be the blind retribution and cruelty that Trump has employed; it must be focused and deliberate. I believe the failure to hold Nixon accountable after Watergate and Obama’s “look forward, not back” policy that gave impunity to Bush and Cheney for their post-9/11 abuses gave rise to the notion that Trump embraced that those at the top can do whatever they want with no consequences. Accountability needs to be fast, firm, and fair, so Democrats need to get on with it as soon as the 120th Congress is sworn in.
At the same time, Democrats have to deliver on the issues that matter to the majority of Americans. That means using the power to conduct oversight hearings and the power of the purse to take actions that will bring down costs. It means taking action to address wealth and income inequality. It means making affordable healthcare available to all Americans. It means making amends with our allies and tightening the screws on America’s enemies. It means revising our wasteful fiscal approach and addressing our 40.5 trillion dollar national debt. It means tax policies that are fair to all and not tilted in favor of billionaires and big corporations. It means shoring up Social Security. It means getting the government out of places where it doesn’t belong, like locker rooms and bathrooms.
So, for now, celebrate, but put it to bed soon and get on with the tasks that are in hand. Do it well – and that’s a tall, tall order – and I suspect you’ll be celebrating again in 2028. Do it poorly and you’ll be as sad then as Laura Loomer and Franklin Graham are now.
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