It’s also worth noting that dem house leadership spoke against it explicitly too. For instance, Hakeem Jefferies, the Dem House Minority Leader, wrote against it before the vote too

The House Republican Child Predator Empowerment Act does not promote fairness and safety in sports.

It will unleash horrific child predators on girls and young women throughout America.

Unacceptable.

https://bsky.app/profile/hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social/post/3lfpl3s35v22s

The Dem House Whip, Whip Clark, made similar remarks on the house floor

While I am here, I will say to make sure to contact your senators on HR 28, regardless of party, so they know how strongly people feel about it and ensure it doesn’t get past the senate filibuster. It can make more of a difference than you might think

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

What are Dems supposed to do here exactly that they’re not already doing. Please elaborate with specifics because I am very very tired of comments like this without any specific critiques. The title isn’t reflecting what they are doing. They aren’t boycotting, they are specifically trying to block republicans from doing anything until the special election where the chamber will become tied

They are already getting in the mud a bit here by trying to stop the session until the special election. They have made a lot of moves here to block Republicans. They swore in dems early so that they could block quorum and they did so in secret to catch Republicans off gaurd, Gov Tim Walz called the special election as soon as possible despite republicans trying to push the date further out, they had the Democratic secretary of state declare no quorum was met so that they have great merit for legal challenges if republicans try and ignore the law, etc.

Edit: also the Minnesota Secretary of State just came out and said they intend to file suit to challange Republicans ignoring his declaration of no quorum and adjournment

https://www.sos.state.mn.us/about-the-office/news-room/secretary-simon-statement-on-opening-session-of-the-minnesota-house-of-representatives/

Article seems to suggest that the government might be trying to make these plans without ByteDance’s knowledge

It’s unclear whether ByteDance knows about the Chinese government’s plans and TikTok and Musk’s involvement in the discussions, the report said. Senior Chinese officials are debating contingency plans involving TikTok’s future in the U.S. as part of larger discussions about working with President-elect Donald Trump, the report added.

A TikTok spokesperson said in an email to CNBC, “We can’t be expected to comment on pure fiction.” X didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

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He already was found guilty on 34 counts by a jury in May. This is about his sentencing

That’s not what the article said. Read the next paragraph. They vote to let it go to the floor where they plan to vote against it there

Voting to print the bill means we have the chance to debate it, challenge it, and vote against it on the record with our colleagues

States laws will matter a hell of a lot. When roe was overturned things immediately fell to the states. That’s the most likely way the court would overturn gay marriage should they go for it

In terms of trans rights that is unfortunately more true lately, yes, though historically any transphobic dems have lost their primaries. We can and should challenge there again

Democrats have made serious effort to codify a lot of marriage equality at state and federal level specifically to try to push back against this kind of stuff

For instance, the federal resepct for marriage act

RFMA officially repealed DOMA and requires the federal government to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages, codifying parts of Obergefell, the 2013 ruling in United States v. Windsor, and the 1967 ruling in Loving v. Virginia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect_for_Marriage_Act

State level intatives have removed bans from many state laws and constitutions such as California

Democrats in Virginia are trying to pass constitutional ammendments to remove it right now that they have a majority in both chambers. They removed bans from the state law already

And so on

Stop with the “both sides” here

Edit: and to clarify if you were reading only the pull quote, the very next paragraph is about how they are voting against this resolution when it gets to the floor

They are already pointing out how it’s a distraction. The media just gives all the preference towards hearing Trump, so you didn’t hear them calling him out

Everyday Americans are fed up with the high cost of living.

Stop the foolishness about Greenland, Panama or the Gulf of Mexico.

Let’s solve the problems that matter.

https://bsky.app/profile/hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social/post/3lfasm4akss2c

What does renaming the Gulf of Mexico have to do with lowering the cost of living in America?

Absolutely nothing.

https://bsky.app/profile/hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social/post/3lf66dkh2uc24

The title of the article is clickbait/ragebait. The actual article content is a little different. The gist of it is more so this:

In place of capping the out-of-pocket cost of just insulin, lawmakers should cap the out-of-pocket cost of all diabetes medications.

https://archive.is/tvVHP

Headline writters are often/usually different people than the person who wrote the article leading to infuriating things like this

Elections are not run federally, they are run by each state which makes it harder for Republicans to be as aggressive as they’d like to be

Mind you they lost a US house seat this cycle even with Trump winning. They have just a 3 seat majority. They would need a gain of +70 seats in the house in a midterm environment to get to 2/3

On the senate side, Republicans would need to pick up 12(!) seats to get 2/3. In the 2026 map, that’s extraordinarily difficult and would require winning extremely deep blue seats. 66 senators is a lot. They would have to win literally every single senate seat up for election in 2026

Assuming they win all the solid red + lean red seats, they would need to defend both senators in North Carolina and Maine to keep 53. Then they’d have to flip the tossups of Michigan and Georgia to get to 55. Then the lean blue Minnesota senate seat to get to 56.

Then the very likely blue seats of New Mexico, Virginia, Colorado, and New Hampshire to get to 60. Then to get to 66, they would need to win the safe blue states of Oregon, Illinois, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, and Rhode Island to get 66

Midterms are usually very unfavorable to the party in power. Even with more stringent voter laws, that would be a tall ask. Flipping safe blue senate senates where dems have state and local control would be insane

And you’d have to flip a large number of state legislature in deep blue states too

Plus 3/4 of state legislatures to ratify which would be another high bar

There’s a reason why there’s so few constitutional amendments

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This isn’t the first time they’ve pulled stuff like this nor will it be the last

Him and Ken Martin (current Minnesota-DFL party chair) are both the two main front runners. Both are generally more progressive and are already getting backing of many state party members

It’s not a given but it’s definitely not a zero percent chance at all

There have been no public forums yet where the candidates have met and taken questions from members of their party, but those meetings are slated to start in the new year. The official election for the next DNC chair will be held on Feb. 1.

This is actually incorrect. There was one hosted by the Young Democrats of America on December 7th with four candidates there answering questions. Is literally listed on the Wikipedia article for the DNC Chair election and the video is linked

Direct link to the video (and cut to the timestamp when it starts): https://youtu.be/Z1sip1hofdk?t=840

I’ve actually hardly heard democrats ever speak like they did in that setting (in a good way). Way more conviction behind what they are saying (as it goes along at least), generally more progressive, and overall more populist

Edit: This story is over a year old. Come on

I added [2023] to the title like 30 seconds to a minute after posting but it seems it was very slow to federate for some reason

Did my earlier edit not federate? I added that to the title almost immediately after posting

Gotta love President Musk’s brave defence of free speech just make sure you don’t want to share a link, mention any competitors, use the word cisgender, or track his private jets

Truly the freest of platforms

What do they expect to accomplish over the next 30 days

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I think you misunderstand what I am referring to. I am referring to the second Johnson speaker vote which was in March and filed by MTG. They didn’t know the results of the election nor did they want to get unfairly blamed for republican dysfunction in said election as often happens

In what world would you even trust Johnson to keep his word

The rules that republicans agreed on let all house members, including dems, call for a motion to vacate the speaker. Only needed a singular representative to do so and given that there were plenty of republicans willing to get rid of him, so they had some leverage over him

And to clarify the House Dems in the original article are talking about his next speaker vote come the start of next year

Don’t post NYPost articles. They are often highly misleading, outright wrong, and generally right-wing garbage

I believe I read somewhere that they got some political concessions out of it and also wanted to actually get stuff done while a dem was the president. Now they have no incentive to help get unless they get something quite good back in return since republicans have a trifecta

They didn’t help on his initial vote in nor did they help McCarthy