He got his votes with the help of: Democrats joining Mr. Schumer in voting to move it forward were Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Gary Peters of Michigan, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen, both of New Hampshire. Senator Angus King, the Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats, also voted yes.
Peters is retiring and should not have voted this way. No idea about why Schatz voted this way. CCM, Hassan, and Shaheen are from purplish states
I wonder if Schumer really has the votes for cloture: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/senate-cloture-vote-tally
Rand Paul is a no. Klobuchar and Warock came out as nos. There are possibly the votes from the no position list but also the chance that last nights firestorm changed opinions.
1. Newsom is a better governor than he gets credit for but this podcast is not endearing him to anyone likely to vote in Democratic Party primaries. But for the podcast, I would have considered him a strong contender.
2. I think the candidate will be a governor, almost certainly male.
Pritzker, Beshear, and Walz are probably looking at running
Yoy
u can’t negotiate with Trump times 1 trillion. Columbia University tried to negotiate with Trump regarding the 400 million in cancelled grants. Trump is demanding complete capitulation
“This revisionist history that says, `We could have done without the lockdowns,’ is dangerous,” said Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, founding director of Boston University’s Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases. “You would have faced even more deaths and even more hospitalizations in a shorter period of time, which would have debilitated our health care system.”
But while the impact of lockdown policies is still being studied, new research paints a troubling picture of the immense collateral damage inflicted by them.
The measures increased poverty and wealth disparities, spurred a dramatic rise in adolescent anxiety and depression, contributed to a surge in fatal drug overdoses, and led to devastating learning losses in schoolchildren, who have yet to recover, according to scientific studies. As of last spring, the average American student remained half a grade behind pre-pandemic levels in both math and reading, according to a recent report card on pandemic learning loss.
This article doesn't seem to say what you think it says: "While the scientific community is still divided over how effective lockdowns were, those who publicly criticized the measures during the pandemic have gained the political upper hand. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, who co-authored a manifesto against lockdowns, is President Trump’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s largest funder of biomedical research with a $48 billion budget. And Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has described lockdowns as an attack on the poor and middle class.
“We are long overdue for a reckoning on the lockdowns,” said Stephen Macedo, a political scientist at Princeton University in New Jersey, who co-authored a book due out later this month that calls for a national inquiry into the lockdown measures. “What’s become increasingly clear is that a lot of what we did was irrational and based on fear, and we didn’t think through the profound costs.”
The article is basically cranks with pet theories have an advocate in the WH now.
The new "welcome" banners at the Kennedy Center: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5edd3bce3018801024d27100ccaa594662e094734c9eb5b1633ecfd5430b93cb.jpg
To be slightly fair, I have seen people no position is not a yes or a no and I think most of them will vote no for cloture but we are still rudderless.
A big problem here is that the Democratic Party does not really have a base and every constituent group of the Democratic Party considers itself the true base. To the extent the Democratic Party has a based, it is probably black women of a certain age and/or the dreaded In This House winemom.
Ever since I was a college student, the most liberal parts of the Democratic Party insisted they were the real base and they seem to light their hair on fire every time a Democratic politician does something they dislike. Now this part is the terminally online.
You can see this on bsky every time a Democratic politician announces "we can't just be the party of no, we have to be for something."* Will Stancil** and others will run around in circles screaming and refuse to realize that Slotkin probably has half her voters telling her that she needs to be for something.***
*This does seem to be pathological and my guess is that it is because they don't want to be Republicans who just say no.
**To his credit, he did attempt to run for office so he puts his ideas into practice.
***Though my understanding is that 2/3rds of Democrats at least now want a total wall of no from their electeds. Democrats have gotten better on this but not completely. There are too many Senators being wishy-washy about the CR which allows Musk and Co to proceed with their rapid and rabid cuts because they are demoralized and think any concessions will just be ignored.
ICE arrested a pro-Palestinian protestor with a Green Card and his precise whereabouts are not known currently: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/nyregion/ice-arrests-palestinian-activist-columbia-protests.html
University of Michigan Professor Don Moynihan has a good run down of the chilling effects going on against dissent currently: https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/real-chilling-effects
"Normally I record the classes I teach. It gives students who miss class a chance to catch up. I also make space in my classes to talk about what is happening in government right now. A couple of weeks ago, students asked we keep the discussions, but stop recording the class. They worried about any record of their words that might be viewed as criticism of the current administration, and somehow weaponized against them."
"Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a full week after his wife died from hantavirus in their New Mexico hillside home, and he may not have been aware she was dead because he showed severe signs of Alzheimer’s disease, authorities revealed Friday."
And here comes the CDC planning a study on the link between vaccines and autism again. Bye bye childhood vaccine schedule: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-plans-study-into-vaccines-autism-sources-say-2025-03-07/
You should have stayed at home yesterday
Ah-ha, words can't describe
The feeling and the way you lied
These games you play
They're gonna end in more than tears some day
Ah-ha, Enola Gay
It shouldn't ever have to end this way
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On “Open Mic for the week of 3/10/25”
He got his votes with the help of: Democrats joining Mr. Schumer in voting to move it forward were Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Gary Peters of Michigan, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen, both of New Hampshire. Senator Angus King, the Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats, also voted yes.
Peters is retiring and should not have voted this way. No idea about why Schatz voted this way. CCM, Hassan, and Shaheen are from purplish states
"
I wonder if Schumer really has the votes for cloture: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/senate-cloture-vote-tally
Rand Paul is a no. Klobuchar and Warock came out as nos. There are possibly the votes from the no position list but also the chance that last nights firestorm changed opinions.
On “Posing, Posturing, & Positioning: 2028 Democratic Presidential Candidates”
1. Newsom is a better governor than he gets credit for but this podcast is not endearing him to anyone likely to vote in Democratic Party primaries. But for the podcast, I would have considered him a strong contender.
2. I think the candidate will be a governor, almost certainly male.
Pritzker, Beshear, and Walz are probably looking at running
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/10/25”
Yoy
u can’t negotiate with Trump times 1 trillion. Columbia University tried to negotiate with Trump regarding the 400 million in cancelled grants. Trump is demanding complete capitulation
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There still seems to be some robust debate over whether a shut down helps Trusk because it slows down the Courts.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
Schumer/Gillibrand seem convinced that allowing cloture is the lesser of two eviks
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She would be pretty if she wasn't buggin insane with bad politics
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/jewish-protesters-flood-trump-tower-to-demand-activist-mahmoud-khalils-release
URL says it all!!
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“This revisionist history that says, `We could have done without the lockdowns,’ is dangerous,” said Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, founding director of Boston University’s Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases. “You would have faced even more deaths and even more hospitalizations in a shorter period of time, which would have debilitated our health care system.”
But while the impact of lockdown policies is still being studied, new research paints a troubling picture of the immense collateral damage inflicted by them.
The measures increased poverty and wealth disparities, spurred a dramatic rise in adolescent anxiety and depression, contributed to a surge in fatal drug overdoses, and led to devastating learning losses in schoolchildren, who have yet to recover, according to scientific studies. As of last spring, the average American student remained half a grade behind pre-pandemic levels in both math and reading, according to a recent report card on pandemic learning loss.
"
This article doesn't seem to say what you think it says: "While the scientific community is still divided over how effective lockdowns were, those who publicly criticized the measures during the pandemic have gained the political upper hand. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, who co-authored a manifesto against lockdowns, is President Trump’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s largest funder of biomedical research with a $48 billion budget. And Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has described lockdowns as an attack on the poor and middle class.
“We are long overdue for a reckoning on the lockdowns,” said Stephen Macedo, a political scientist at Princeton University in New Jersey, who co-authored a book due out later this month that calls for a national inquiry into the lockdown measures. “What’s become increasingly clear is that a lot of what we did was irrational and based on fear, and we didn’t think through the profound costs.”
The article is basically cranks with pet theories have an advocate in the WH now.
"
As far as I can tell, Democrats are putting a lot of pressure on their Senators
The House CR passed on nearly party line votes with Massie and Golden switching sides
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Zelenskyy agreed to a 30-day ceasefire deal brokered by Saudi Arabia (!!!!). Russia responds by firing rockets into Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/11/ukraine-russia-us-peace-talks-moscow-war-latest-live-news-europe
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DOE guts itself with illegal terminations of 1300 employees: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-education-department-firings.html
"
The new "welcome" banners at the Kennedy Center: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5edd3bce3018801024d27100ccaa594662e094734c9eb5b1633ecfd5430b93cb.jpg
"
To be slightly fair, I have seen people no position is not a yes or a no and I think most of them will vote no for cloture but we are still rudderless.
"
https://www.westernstandard.news/watch/watch-trump-refers-to-canada-us-border-as-artificial-line-in-latest-call-for-annexation/62988
We might try very stupid things with Canada is an increasing possibility.
"
A big problem here is that the Democratic Party does not really have a base and every constituent group of the Democratic Party considers itself the true base. To the extent the Democratic Party has a based, it is probably black women of a certain age and/or the dreaded In This House winemom.
Ever since I was a college student, the most liberal parts of the Democratic Party insisted they were the real base and they seem to light their hair on fire every time a Democratic politician does something they dislike. Now this part is the terminally online.
You can see this on bsky every time a Democratic politician announces "we can't just be the party of no, we have to be for something."* Will Stancil** and others will run around in circles screaming and refuse to realize that Slotkin probably has half her voters telling her that she needs to be for something.***
*This does seem to be pathological and my guess is that it is because they don't want to be Republicans who just say no.
**To his credit, he did attempt to run for office so he puts his ideas into practice.
***Though my understanding is that 2/3rds of Democrats at least now want a total wall of no from their electeds. Democrats have gotten better on this but not completely. There are too many Senators being wishy-washy about the CR which allows Musk and Co to proceed with their rapid and rabid cuts because they are demoralized and think any concessions will just be ignored.
"
Multiple Myleoma does not really go into remission and generally people can beat it for 10-15 years before it gets you.
"
Kevin Drum died on Friday after a long battle with cancer
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ICE arrested a pro-Palestinian protestor with a Green Card and his precise whereabouts are not known currently: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/nyregion/ice-arrests-palestinian-activist-columbia-protests.html
This is bad.
"
University of Michigan Professor Don Moynihan has a good run down of the chilling effects going on against dissent currently: https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/real-chilling-effects
"Normally I record the classes I teach. It gives students who miss class a chance to catch up. I also make space in my classes to talk about what is happening in government right now. A couple of weeks ago, students asked we keep the discussions, but stop recording the class. They worried about any record of their words that might be viewed as criticism of the current administration, and somehow weaponized against them."
On “Open Mic for the week of 3/3/2025”
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/investigation-advances-into-gene-hackman-s-20207912.php
"Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a full week after his wife died from hantavirus in their New Mexico hillside home, and he may not have been aware she was dead because he showed severe signs of Alzheimer’s disease, authorities revealed Friday."
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As a Jewish person, I think this is extremely bone-headed and more likely to increase anti-Semitism than anything else.
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Today's euphemism for recession/depression is "economic detox" https://thehill.com/homenews/5182666-us-economy-government-spending-detox/
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And here comes the CDC planning a study on the link between vaccines and autism again. Bye bye childhood vaccine schedule: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-plans-study-into-vaccines-autism-sources-say-2025-03-07/
"
You should have stayed at home yesterday
Ah-ha, words can't describe
The feeling and the way you lied
These games you play
They're gonna end in more than tears some day
Ah-ha, Enola Gay
It shouldn't ever have to end this way
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