Less a fluke, more of a pattern lately. Dems have been overperforming in most special elections since Trump took office again. Sometimes by a couple percent, and frequently by 10-20%. Only a handful of underperformances
For instance, they also flipped a Trump+21 distict in Iowa. They won by 5 points too
Will it hold up in the longer term? That's much harder to say, but it's not just one special election that's been a large upset
Probably
And yet some Republicans were actually already warning about potentially losing this district before the election
Dems are pressurable. Republicans are lot harder to pressure
Elections decide who you have to work with
They alone won't fully fix things, but they can set the stage for progress
It's going to take both voting and directed pressure to change things
Call your local & state officals about this. The federal government does not run elections. It's the state and local officals that do even for federal office. They are the ones who chose to follow or not follow a blatantly illegal order
Trump is threatening to pull unrelated federal funding if they don't, but he's been pulling funding for many states anyways for zero reason. Make sure your local & state officals know you'll have their back if they don't bow down
Removal requires 2/3 in the senate meaning 67 senators need to vote yes. There are only 53 republicans
Even on the shutdown stuff with Schumer actively pushing for voting for the CR, they only got to 62 not 67. Would be even harder to convince them to vote for a judge impeachment comparatively
Still call your senators and let them know not to vote for it, but it highly unlikely they would have the votes
Hi, just wanted to check in here. Are you familiar with the concept called "hyperbole" and a "figure of speech"? Figurative language is a thing that people use sometimes, and some people say that perhaps he is using that here. Many people are saying that you can say things like this and still imagine worse
Perhaps if you have other issues with him, those should be expressed rather than just taking a statement like this super literally
Pro tip: if you change the x.com to xcancel.com you can make the link use a twitter mirror and not give Musk revenue if people click on the link
It's from the signal groupchat of top Trump officals discussing Yemen strikes that the Atlantic Editor in Chief was somehow accidentally added to
Fun fact, if you click on the article, the subheading tells you even with their paywall
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
Also if you were to go to
You can read the full article
Yes, they are making it harder, but that's not a good reason not to not try at all - which is what they appear to be suggesting. For some areas sure it's harder to tell who the owner is and such, but that does not apply everywhere. It's not super difficult to figure out if you are boycotting Target or not
I think the bigger issues right now is just that lot of people forget how it often takes a while boycotts to work. For instance, people boycotted the Montgomery busses for 381 days before they were desegregated
Yes, boycotts shouldn't be the only tool we use, but we shouldn't just give up before trying and never use it all
So never even try to do anything? Absolutely not
Don't spread defeatism for them
Organized boycotts can work
Even if there's no criminal charges, at least there are some groups that just filed civil lawsuits about the record keeping laws they broke
And note that Pardon powers do not apply to civil cases - only criminal ones