Category Archives: Democrats

There Is an Invective Gap

Posted on September 19, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

One party uses demonizing words much more often in Congressional newsletters. Guess which party? Here’s enemy: Anyway, in an era of fascism, Democrats really need to close the invective gap. There’s far worse that might need to happen before this … Continue reading →

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One Bad Thing About Fighting Fascists Is What You Have to Do to Stop Them: Thoughts on a Possible Shutdown

Posted on September 17, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

I hope I’m wrong, but I think this is correct (boldface mine): Much of what I’m about to explain comes from general reporting and observation over recent weeks but also a report this morning from Punchbowl. The gist is that … Continue reading →

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How Congress Plans to Undermine D.C.’s Home Rule: A Story in Thirteen Bills

Posted on September 10, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Last week, House Republicans, which is to say, fascists, unveiled a set of fourteen proposed bills to further deny the residents of the mainland colony democracy. One of the bills, H.R. 2693, the District of Columbia Electronic Transmittal of Legislation … Continue reading →

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Pritkzer Understands the Moment

Posted on August 28, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

A while ago, I discussed how too many people still haven’t really internalized that the Republican Party, which governs at the federal level, is a fascist organization. One Democrat who does understand this is Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who emphatically … Continue reading →

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We Need to Start Making Shutdown Demands

Posted on August 26, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Because, as some asshole with a blog has discussed, the Democratic leadership plan is to do very little to obstruct Trump. Here, in no particular order, are some ideas I’ve gleaned from various places: The total restoration of all impounded … Continue reading →

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The Elimination of Federal Funding for NPR and PBS Provides an Opportunity for Democrats

Posted on July 21, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Last week, Republicans passed what was called the recissions bill, which among other things, eliminates all federal funding for PBS and NPR, including the local affiliates. This is awful, but there is an opportunity here, if Democrats are willing to … Continue reading →

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Grok and Antisemitism: It’s Time for Democrats to Leave Twitter/X

Posted on July 10, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s also time for decent people in general to leave too, but I’m getting ahead of myself. If you haven’t heard, Grok, X’s LLM (which should probably be called a Large Hitler Model) had a long outburst of antisemitism last … Continue reading →

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Material Reality Versus Propaganda ‘Reality’

Posted on July 9, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

The relative importance of material reality versus propaganda, as Brian Beutler notes in this bit about immigration, is something professional Democrats need to wrap their heads around (boldface mine): I think it’s definitely fair to say Biden and Democrats underestimated … Continue reading →

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An Inability to Accept a Fundamental Change in the Existing Order

Posted on July 3, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

I had a conversation with someone in their 80s last week, and what we kept coming back to was that the world he had spent his entire life in had changed. He wasn’t referring to technological change–obviously technology was different … Continue reading →

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Senator Gillibrand Is Very Bad at Her DSCC Chair Job

Posted on July 2, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

As Trump manages to get closer to massively expanding ICE and creating his own personal force of ICE goons, head of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, Kristen Gillibrand has decided to spend much of the past week boldly crusading against … Continue reading →

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