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  • If no lefty-backed politician is making waves like this - if it continues to be silence and sneering, then yeah. Probably.

    So where are they? We got three years, but that’s like - two hours in political time. I hope someone’s making plans but everytime I ask, I get one of these answers:

    • *crickets*
    • oh, so now we have to have a plan?!
    • we have a plan, but we’re not going to tell you about it.

    Ok then.


  • Hey, we’ll have none of that talk here. People need go starve over the holidays so that nothing will happen. If you’re going to just, what, feed everyone, get fed jobs, and pay back from the fascists and make sure this specific cruelty won’t happen for another year to also let the premiums skyrocket?

    No! Everyone must starve, not have jobs or back pay and premiums skyrocket! That’s why you’re getting downvotes - people want maximum pain for nothing not for something!

    Oh also now everyone has no shutdown-travel-cancelled reason to not spend holidays with stupid MAGA family members. Boooooooo! Dems bad!


  • You fucking pinheads - SNAP is getting funded - for the whole fucking year!

    The fascists are going to show their asses on health care which - yeah no shit will fuck a bunch of people up, most of them in red states - and then in January they’ll shut it down again and no one will lose food benefits again.

    Plus the GQP will have burned the red states hard because of course they will, and presuming we all live til midterms everyone’s going to be really ready to be done with these incompetent fuckwits.

    What the fuck is this bullshit?

    Goddamn, just post to c/conservative or head in over to redstate.com for this take and lick it up directly ffs. Fucking Intercept here with all your hot takes and zero useful context. “Look! People being fucked over by politicians! Democrats evil! You can’t trust anybody! Surely the revolution will begin soon, yes comrade?” Garbage.


  • Assuming the bill gets passed in the House, it would still require approval by the Senate and to be signed into law by President Donald Trump. Senate GOP leaders have not guaranteed they would hold a vote in their chamber.

    But Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), the co-sponsor of the bill with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), told reporters Wednesday he believed “40 to 50" Republicans would join Democrats in supporting the bill in the House.

    “If we get that kind of overwhelming vote, that’s going to push the Senate, and it’s going to push for a release of the files from the Justice Department,” Khanna said.

    Trump officials are still waging an intense pressure campaign to get at least one of three House Republican women to remove their name from the discharge effort, according to two people granted anonymity to share private conversations. If that push is successful, it would complicate efforts to get the measure on the floor in the first place, as Republicans are more likely to vote in favor of the legislation itself than they are to sign onto a discharge petition seen as an outwardly antagonistic gesture toward leadership.




  • On Wednesday, US district judge Jeffrey Cummings ordered the justice department to produce a list showing which of the 615 possible class members are still in custody by 19 November, the Chicago Tribune reports.

    According to Cummings, he would allow the members’ release on a $1,500 bond as long as they have no criminal history or prior removal order. The ACLU of Illinois said that the order will mean the immediate release of 13 people who have been detained by federal officials.

    As part of Wednesday’s order, Cummings also prohibited the government from pressuring detainees to agree to voluntary deportation while their cases are pending, the Chicago Tribune added.

    . . . “In addition, more than 600 additional individuals may be released in a week on bond or ankle monitoring, while the parties determine if their arrests violated the consent decree,” Garcia added, referencing a 2022 consent decree that had been previously established concerning warrantless arrests in the Chicago area.