He never saw the sexual abuse going on because he’s Gym-Pants-on-Head Jordan.

I’ll just put it out there, that it was the Chuck Schumer who, as the leader of the DSCC in 2006 endorsed Bernie Sanders and helped ensure no other Democrat challenger would appear on the ballot to split his vote. So Schumer hasn’t really been outwardly anti-Sanders over the decades they knew each other since his time in Brooklyn.

I still think that at present he stands to just rot in the Senate leader’s chair ala Mitch McConnell, and this moment calls for change and a movement away from the age-old familiar practices in order to meet it.

Roberts’ Corrupt Court: The Constitution didn’t say nuthin’ about free rhetoric!

The Liberal budget, delivered on Thursday, has set aside $11.2 billion over the next four years in a bid to end homelessness in the next 10 years.

It’s an echo of the promise then Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson made in 2008 — and was ultimately unable to fulfil.

Speaking in Winnipeg on Friday, Robertson, now federal housing minister, said he didn’t have the right tools at the time.

“We did not have the support,” Robertson said. “As a city, we set the goal — the federal and provincial governments were not co-ordinating, were not investing in the scale that was needed to solve the challenge in Vancouver.” […]

Ottawa’s plan targets homelessness prevention, expanding access to housing and funding new mental health infrastructure. Components include more support for unhoused veterans, helping low-income people cover rent and building new mental health and addiction treatment facilities. [Article continues.]

How long til it becomes the Temp-ermanent-orary Foreign Worker program?

Most members of Trump’s cabinet bring enough political spectacle they could each run their own travelling circus.

This is orientation week. Some political commentators I listened to were talking about how this is supposed to be the time where more senior folks try to brainwash the newly electeds to fall in line with the Democratic Party™ way of doing things, like catering to donors and “showing unity” in the face of an assault on democracy itself.

So it’s no surprise, but all the more important to keep reaching out to your electeds if you’re American, even if you live there but have no voting rights, to help them keep their resolve if they are trying to stand against leadership, or help convince them to move against them.

Showing chest cleavage: 👍

Showing the word for chest cleavage: 😱

Canada’s largest private-sector union.

What if Democrats manage to investigate and refer evidence to state criminal trials (so they are safe from pay-to-pardon) all of Trump’s corrupt appointees, and let Trump pick more corrupt people to repeat the cycle, like flies to a piece of crap?

Carney is a businessman, he’s cutting Canada’s tax bill in future years through tax loss harvesting! Smart!

Why is my company’s cybersecurity training limited to simulated phishing emails and online courses?

Maybe next year’s cybersecurity budget should include some for hot-looking models (of every gender).

To quote him directly: “You gotta be able to walk and chew gum at the same time”.

Y’all aren’t looking at Gov. Shapiro’s position from where he stands. PA government is going to get to work, now that PA Senate Republicans have been kicked out of the majority for the first time since the 70s. They have lots of progressive legislation on deck, and going by the gov’s and state leg leaders’ post election speeches they’re prepping to get lots done.

From that POV what the state would want first and foremost from the feds is money put/restored towards food security and healthcare supports so that they don’t have to dig through emergency reserves to cover what Trump and Republicans took away in 2025.

He literally said in that article he wants Democrats not to forget to hold Trump and his cabinet accountable for crimes. Yet people ITT are acting like he didn’t say anything about it and wants Congress to ignore the issue altogether.

It can’t be either/or,” he said. “It has to be both/and.”

If there are roads that could use a subway, an LRT, and a SkyTrain stacked on top of each other, it’s Yonge Street, Bloor St and Danforth Ave.

I want to make clear that I support trans people participating in any recreational activity, I support their rights as much as anyone, and that this initiative throws a burden on all female children for the sake of a punishing a few, the competitiveness argument is totally based on assumptions and prejudice not backed by fact-based evidence, the issue is pushed by conservative culture war propagandists, and all that.

That all said, I don’t think most WA voters who voted for I-638 did so because they hate trans people, or think they shouldn’t exist as people. Hateful and spiteful people do exist but they are a minority. Rather, on this specific wedge issue, again based on flawed prejudice pushed by conservatives, opinions seem more to be framed around something similar to why 40 year olds can’t compete in an Over-50 bracket of a tournament.

Somehow, I’ve been getting the sense he’s a few bricks short of a load.

100% agreed and I share the same concerns.

For Schumer and Jeffries to be replaced, at least one Democrat in each chamber has to raise their hand to run against them, I’m watching for that over the next few weeks. If no one does, then Democrats more or less have to work around the two lesders if there’s any hope of getting beyond the status quo.

From bits and pieces of news interviews with senators, I reckon that that is referring to what Congress should do in the very short term as soon as they’re in power.

• Stop tacitly authorizing the war in Iran
• Minimize the fallout from the trap Republicans set in their 2025 bill that drastically reduces healthcare funding due to frontloaded budget imbalances they induced.

I think Medicare for all has a shot at happening but the very first thing is to try to stopgap what Republican holes they can within days of assuming office.

Wow, I’m always impressed by the amazing amount of labour solidarity from the police force, if only they weren’t agents of capital to be used against labour, I’d have more sympathy…