Her 2020 campaign wasn’t actually that good. She started with the same boost of optimism and then fell apart once she started defining specifics and every other statement was walking things back. She flamed out for a reason.

I agree with your statement here though. She had all the momentum and tools to win and flubbed it through actual choices, not some inherent insurmountable challenges.

If only our opponent hadn’t made a choice detrimental to us!

Yeah, these numbers don’t really convey much without a family size and location, so they kind of just become engagement bait.

In Honolulu, a family of 4 is considered “low-income” (80% of adjusted median income) at $129k. $76k and they can qualify for housing assistance.

To state the obvious, but Bondi is the one with all the files. If she wasn’t already investigating them it wasn’t because she needed a public leak to know who and what was in them.

That title was really confusing until I realized Trump also had an enemy with the last name James and they didn’t mess up saying James Comey.

AOC will never be Senate Leader. That’s not on offer whatever path she takes.

I don’t think calling for resignation or not has anything to do with the Epstein files, but the same collective action problem that made few people publicly call for Biden to resign even though most Democratic voters wanted change. The people who decide these things aren’t the voters and if you call for an establishment leadership figure to be purged and they aren’t, you’re in for a load of shit from them.

Like with Biden, Bernie and AOC also probably expect any replacement to be the same type of person playing the same sort of games. Schumer is particularly bad at politics, but his replacement won’t be someone who might displease donors.

Using “undercover” as if he’s concealing his employer in order to take on the mob rather than attendants at a carwash.

Another recent change was Trump pushing for the filibuster to be removed. The establishment could just claim it was because they need it to stop him so they should never stop him enough that he would make Republicans do it, but it could also be seen as a freedom they don’t want to have should we get a Democratic trifecta in the future. Being able to say “I want to do good things, but shucks the system stopped me” is a valuable tool for elected officials.

Immigration enforcement comes AFTER someone has been convicted of a crime. ICE cannot investigate whether a crime has occurred.

Threatening to call the gestapo on anyone is a shit stain act, regardless of whether you’re legitimately angry at their actions. Don’t be a shit stain.

They really aren’t. That’s just something that racist shit stains jump to.

If someone is doing (what you think are) illegal things to you, regardless of their citizenship, you call the police, the organization that deals with enforcing the law.

“When Congress voted” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

No, it really isn’t. That’s a press release. Or the Truth post Trump made.

News filters for worthy events, explains mechanics, and adds other context to help its readers understand why this thing is worth knowing and what it might mean.

So it’s the caviest of caves, without even giving the Democrats anything. Are they worried that they were winning too much?

Addressing Zhou’s allegations that Renner threatened to call ICE on her, Singer alleges Zhou “had been relentlessly harassing and threatening my client with hundreds of unsolicited and unwanted messages.”

In response to an allegation, something that doesn’t respond to the allegation at all. At least unless “she deserved it” is supposed to be a response to threatening to call ICE on a foreign born person.

Teen Vogue. Which is being shut down, presumably because it did good work.

I’ll add that to my $5,000 DOGE dividend. Why do news outlets report what he says when he’s obviously lying?

Seems like he was fired for the Islamophobic nature of the comments, not being hyperbolically opposed to Mandami. Or maybe more realistically he was fired for publicly talking back to his boss, regardless of content.

Rules can’t criminalize anything. The thing they’re thinking of is “laws”. Which haven’t changed.

This is not to say they won’t arrest people. It’ll just either be for a law that already existed that we were just assuming they wouldn’t abuse, or it will be an illegal arrest to hopefully be quickly booted from court by a judge.

Expiration of the credits is at the end of the calendar year. It hasn’t happened yet.

Closer in an absolute sense, but not in a Price is Right sense. One year brings the subsidies to after the next election, when there’s no active pressure to apply. I don’t know why the Republicans didn’t jump on it immediately, this is a giant gift to them.