She wants to rip ICE apart.
Also, she directly challenges the ineffective leadership of the current Democratic party.
This is going to be great.
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She wants to rip ICE apart.
Also, she directly challenges the ineffective leadership of the current Democratic party.
This is going to be great.
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Who are the wives of former governors he’s talking about?
Oh yeah, this will be great! About a week before the election, on another blog, someone was worried that the polls were too close. I said nope, we all know Tafoya is a lightweight. I called for Flanagan to win by 10 points, and I nailed it. (Best/closest political prediction I’ve ever made)
I’m still pissed she isn’t my Governor right now, but I’m foine with her as my Senator. Now we just need Peltola in and we’ll have a Native American caucus…
I really do hope Shumer is not the next majority leader. It looks like a fight is coming. I’m pulling for Senator Van Hollen to be the leader.
https://emptywheel.net/2026/11/05/on-congress/ – this is a good read that Jeffries has been more effective (and IS being effective now) than he’s been given credit for.
Examples
* his success in unifying the Democratic members of the House is one of the key reasons Johnson gave up on trying to enact more of the Trump/MAGA agenda into law and instead just kept suspending the House (this includes the constant pressure on the Epstein files)
* He’s already formed working groups of the new caucus that are co-led by a progressive and a moderate (e.g., healthcare is lead by AOC and Terri Sewell) so the bills can be written in a way that address all concerns before they go to the floor.
* He’s partly responsible for Alabama’s gerrymandered district still electing a Democrat after all.
Granted, Schumer just sat on his arse while the Senate had no bills to vote on, rather than using that time to publicly make a case or a critique…and his silence kinda demoralized many Senators into also not talking as much as they should have.
ICE has to go.
They aren’t law enforcement.
They are a right wing bunch of thugs whose mission is to terrorize the American people.
The terror worked and it didn’t.
We are all afraid of ICE. We also aren’t afraid enought to not fight back and we outnumber ICE by around 344 million people. We also pay their salaries, unwillingly at this point, through our taxes.
Just to be clear – Records first. No just sudden, “You are done, go home, and please don’t destroy your records.” Nope – get every single freaking record of ICE’s operations. Names, places, dates, etc. Then suspend the damn lot of them, place the names of those people on do not fly lists, THEN shut it down, and tell the lot of them to sit down, shut up, and wait for the determination as to which of them are going to be just jobless, and which of them will be spending time in prison for gross violations of people’s constitutional rights, breaking national laws, and even possibly international ones. Maybe the ones that where not just stupid, and following what they thought was valid law, can spend the next how ever many years together in the new prison they bought with tax payer money. They thought it was good enough to detain people, even if no one else did, so.. should be good enough for them right?
acroyear @ # 4 – one key insight in that post by Marcy Wheeler is that
Progressives will have to keep up the pressure more than ever.
Kagehi @6: Definitely the right approach. As eager as I am to see ICE dismantled, they all have to answer for their crimes, and we need records to do that in a court of law.
When we are destroying ICE, don’t forget the worst of the lot.
It isn’t the clueless thugs who thought killing unarmed civilians was a good idea. They are murderers and deserve to be tried like any other killers.
The worst of the lot though, are their leaders.
They set up the whole program and enabled all the abuses of ICE; the murders, the arrests of 500 US citizens, the concentration camps where dozens or hundreds have died, the 3 year olds in a court without a lawyer and expected to face a judge, the fake ICE judges, etc..
Don’t prosecute the small fish and let the big fish go.
That would be Stephen Miller on down, the head of DHS, the heads of ICE, the heads of the concentration camps, etc..
This is what we did with the Nazis at Nuremberg.
1) Schumer must go! He is incapable and a murderous zionist. And, h jeffries has already signaled that he won’t do anything to redress all the tRUMPist destruction.
2) Ice must be destroyed. But, it is still terrorizing this nation:
Outcry After Ice Violently Detains Us Citizen Walking to High School: ‘I Thought They Were Going to Kill Me’ Jackie Botts, Guardian UK
https://www.rsn.org/001/outcry-after-ice-violently-detains-us-citizen-walking-to-high-school-i-thought-they-were-going-to-kill-me.html
It will be VERY difficult if tRUMP’s veto threat is viable. But, this nation MUST nullify all the zioinist, crapitallist, xtian terrorist, rtwingnut plutocratic destruction that came into greater prominence with the tRUMP covid plague.
imback @1
He is making snarky remarks about Gwen Walz, who is the wife of Governor Walz. She supported Angie Craig’s bid for Senator, but Craig lost her primary to Flanagan.
Nobody seems to hold a grudge over it, so I’m not sure why he felt the need to throw shade?
From #7
What strange logic. America is far more liberal than both political parties, as evidenced by all the independents and Republicans who decided to join the Dems in voting this evil clown show out of power.
95% of counties swinging left is a damn mandate for social democracy. Medicare for all is one of the first things the Dem should get done. Let the mushroom veto it all he wants, and by 2028 it can be the top issue.
I saw a sobering statistic today. Trump’s approval rating is 38% But the Congressional Democrat’s approval rating is 37%..So There is a big problem for the Democrats. On one hand they now have both houses in their control, so they have to perform. They have to deal with Trump’s corruption, lawlessness, and utter incompetence. But they have to solve our economic issues. High energy prices, high inflation, destruction of family farms, and on and on. Plus dealing with Iran, Israel vs Hamas, Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine. All of this will be a tall order. Meanwhile, Trump is threatening to use his veto powers as president as a weapon. Failure will see America in a very sour mood come 2028 if the Democrats can’t succeed. This is going to be interesting to see how this all goes.
Tethys @11, thanks for the clarification!
The first order of business has to be initiating multiple congressional investigations into Trump et al. Congress can do that on day one. Addressing ‘affordability’ won’t be possible without some negotiating with the administration, and a good deal can only be reached if investigations are underway.
@3: I already wrote to my senators urging them not to support Schumer.
Relevant Guardian news article linked here :
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/29/infinite-thread-xxxxi/comment-page-3/#comment-2315902
Repeated for the Democratic politicians in the back. The blue wave happened despite such a low approval rating. Continuing as if nothing happened is not an option. Listen to what voters want, not what your donors want if you want further gains.