Reupping my post on What Comes Next, bc I factored the Hegseth impeachment in there pretty early. emptywheel.net/2026/11/04/w...
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Legendary potty mouth!
Legendary potty mouth!
One of the untold stories of the Blue Wave is how @abreezeclayton.bsky.social started the work of rebuilding the party across the state in 2023, as a 25-year old, by recruiting people who KNEW they were going to lose. This year, those people won.
Note: This happens after Harmeet did NOT participate in some arguably criminal stuff to disenfranchise people like her who are naturalized citizens. And it comes after the rabid racists said people who look like her don't belong in the US, much less in the Trump admin.
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Dhillon Plans DOJ Civil Rights Exit After Democrats’ Sweep (1)
Hakeem Jeffries is not YOUR leader. There are actually people leading the resistance well already. He is the leader of 255 incoming Members of Congress, more than half of whom are more conservative than you, than me, and even than Hakeem Jeffries. emptywheel.net/2026/11/05/o...
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Stan Woodward Confesses He Hasn't Reviewed the Broadview 6 Case Closely emptywheel.net/2026/11/05/s...
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This is the math that people need to understand: Hakeem Jeffries is actually to the left of half of this (enormous) caucus. Progressives make up just half of it.
Jeffries: I am going to prioritize an urgent emergency in healthcare and meanwhile M4A champion AOC is in charge of figuring out how we improve on healthcare. Weirdos: He DOES NOT represent us AT ALL!!!!!
Reminder: JUST YESTERDAY, he described funding Medicaid and ACA subsidies as a short term fix and then--THIS IS PUBLIC--said he had put AOC and Sewell in charge of figuring out where to go from there. You weirdoes spinning yourself up about are all whining abt AOC being entrusted w/this.
It would be really useful for people who know better to not promise that Congress can prosecute (as opposed to impeach) people. It is a VERY difficult problem to solve, how to prosecute the villains. Congress can be a big part of laying groundwork. But they can't prosecute.
They caught the election fraudster and -- please try to act surprised here -- it was a white former Mike Lawler intern. eu.lohud.com/story/news/c...
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Aidan Rowan, Rockland GOP operative, faces ballot fraud allegations
Lots of people On Here insist Schumer and Jeffries had nothing to do with the size of Tuesday's shellacking. NYT has a (conveniently timed) story covering some of that. You don't have to believe this, but understand many people in Congress understand it. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/u...
Relish WSJ tears! Murdoch's rag ends by blaming Trump: "owing to Mr. Trump’s second-term descent, a generation of conservative state reform is in peril and young political leaders are out of office." www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
As I note in this vid and this post, Tom Massie still plans on impeaching Whiskey Pete next week. And because right wingers want to claim ONLY Iran is why they got ass-handed, they're sort of interested in scapegoating Whiskey Pete. emptywheel.net/2026/11/04/w...
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Bennie Thompson didn't just order Markwayne to preserve docs, he demanded the backlog of requests by December 2. democrats-homeland.house.gov/imo/media/do...
Incidentally, among the people we're THRILLED were elected to the Senate yesterday, there's a 69-yo (Cooper) and a 73-yo (Brown).
Imagine how fun it'll be for @raskin.house.gov to subpoena everyone Trump has pardoned, from Roger Stone to that corrupt Venezuelan guy who paid Habba $50M to find out what the quid pro quo was.
Trump wants the GOP to use reconciliation to fund his ballroom and arch but it's not clear the sore losers want to come to work anymore. [The rest of the article provides important background on funding and NDAA.] www.politico.com/news/2026/11...
A Christian, a Muslim, and a Jew Enter the Senate Peterr reflects on the faith of yesterday's winners. emptywheel.net/2026/11/04/a...
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Don't forget that Thiel spoke against the war. Yeah, JD is trying to position for a POTUS run. But that run will be at the behest of Thiel.