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/

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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

If you want something more hands on, work on local races this year. They are how we can fight back

Elections are run at the state level in the US. Even for federal offices

Many states have elections this year even despise it being an off year

There are special elections today in Virginia thay will determine who controls the state legislature. If dems remain control, they can block a lot of the Republicans governors attempts to disenfranchise

There are special elections in Minnesota on Jan 28th to determine control of one house of the state legislature

There is an election that will determine control of the Wisconsin state supreme court on April 1st. The more recent Progressive control has lead to Wisconsin getting fair maps as the gerrymandered maps were overturned. We are going to want to keep it that way and build further

There are special elections for various US house members like to replace Matt Gatez on April 1st. Should we win any suprise flips, it will be even harder for Republicans to get things through congresss with their already tight 3 seat majority

And so on

Here’s a frequently updated spreadsheet with various at home volunteering options

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jxO8g7q9VO3ZMAABcrvR7PMyX4Yl6dgIYhD3eRTKk1M/htmlview

EDIT: also on another note, consider running for election yourself. There are various small local positions around you that often go uncontested. Here’s one group that helps progressives run for local office https://runforsomething.net/

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

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

That’s not what they are doing right now

I’m also going be real that this is also the least of my concerns for a platform. If they make some people change their handle that don’t need to, it really isn’t a massive deal in the grand scheme of things. Especially since when handles are changed on Bluesky, all the references to that handle also change because they have a constant ID for all accounts. Impersonations leading people to scams is a much larger issue

? Did you read what the article? The change here is pretty minor and just reserving the @name.bsk.social if they verify with a domain to something like @domain.tld

Now, users that verify their account by linking their domain name get to automatically keep the default @username.bsky.social username

Not exactly the same comparison. This would be far more blatant capture for the Supreme Court. The natural born citizen requirement is much more cut and dry. There were still some non-partisan legal people who genuinely thought Trump shouldn’t be disqualified (though many many disagreed with them)

The Supreme Court does pass on insane legal ideas sometimes even if they allow plenty of horrible stuff too. Like in 2023 in Moore v. Harper, they ruled 6-3 against the Independent state legislature theory. Though on the flip side their presidential immunity ruling was indeed insane

Not constitutionally no. He doesn’t meet the requirement to be president which requires you to be born as a US citizen

Edit: also it seems like Johnson was moreso making a jab at musk in his comments about the difficulty of the job - rather than actually making him a genuine offer

Amending the constitutional is a much higher bar than people think it is. You’d need way more than just a fetterman here or there. Keep in mind still had 38 republicans vote against his and Trump’s second version of the bill

It requires 2/3 of congress, and 3/4 of state legislatures

Assuming he loses zero republicans, this you would need:

67 in the senate meaning you’d need 14 dem senators

290 in the house of representatives meaning you need 70 dem reps

And in state legislatures, he’d need 38 of them to ratify. Republicans only have a trifecta in 23 (it’s unclear if governors can veto ratification or not), they have both state legislatures in 28, and it’s split in Alaska, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and we’ll see about Minnesota with some legal challenges.

If we assume no governor vetos nor any republicans going against it, that’s 28. Then let’s imagine in those split states you convince them all, that’s 33. Keep in mind each state has its own list of people you’d need to convince, not just one person here

Then in the other 5 you’d have to be talking about states with dem trifectas where it’s hardly going to be politically popular to bend to Musk

You would need on the order of at minimum of 100+ dems in congress and state legislatures to pull that off assuming governors don’t veto / ruled that they aren’t able to. And also assuming that all republicans go for it at all levels of government, and that dems in other states with republican legislatures don’t use procedural tactics to slow down ratification, etc.

Listen to his “ahaha” at the end

https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3ldw2c76xre23

Yes, but: Hagerty pushed back on Democrats’ assertions that Musk is pulling Trump’s strings, saying Trump is “clearly the leader” of the Republican Party.

A good sign of being the leader is constantly having to say you are the leader