Denis McLaughlin
@mcldenisj
Current: Politics for AFT | Past: Comms for Democrats, ACLU-FL, PA AFL-CIO | Recovered
Unfortunately 48 hours after I had this done, I’m realizing I missed the opportunity to put “Pledge allegiance to your hand, your team, your vibes” on my back
4 trips to the nursery, 2 trips to Home Depot, spread out across 2 weekends, I am officially done with this. Way over budget (had a bit of a shadow appropriations process on that). But mostly content with how it turned out! 😓
Me omw to send my third itinerary revision in a week to the travel folks
This is how you know you’ve picked up a good hobby and decent community along with it.
Timeline cleanse: final hardscape for the fish tank. 36 gal bow front Stocked w/ amano, nerites, and mystery snail pH 6.8 Ammonia 0.25ppm Nitrites 0.25ppm Nitrates 20ppm Will add fish to our community tank once the nitrogen cycle completes!
Obligatory tank update. Excuse the haze—substrate is still settling. Will update again once it’s cycled and we have our first fish!
That press conference in the aftermath of the US strike on a sovereign nation—without any forethought to what comes next other than “we’re going to run the country for now”—is giving Dubya
Also rather disheartening to see the amount of bootlickers carrying water for them over there. Special hattip to Matt Yglesias who boldly proclaimed: Populism is the answer to our problems…until it asks billionaires to give something up.
The call is coming from inside your office, Senator. www.cnn.com/2025/08/02/p...
1. Coercive treatment doesn’t work. 2. You can’t arrest your way out of a housing crisis. 3. All of these people are about to get kicked off Medicaid because of his cuts so who does he think is paying?
Shit like this is why people do not trust Dems. Shit like this is why people say “both sides are the same.” Shit like this is why Democrats lose elections handed to them on a silver platter.
Everyone responsible for these policies must be held to account. And countries that accept these people should be sanctioned during the next Dem administration.
Some Dems would rather align themselves with hate and bigotry to “expand the tent” than actually work with people who want to center working families.
I am begging people who donate to candidates to consider donating specifically to winnable races—below is not one of them. There ARE competitive races out there! And we SHOULD challenge everywhere. But not every challenged race is winnable and you’re wasting your money! See also: Amy McGrath
Apparently ICE thinks asking for a warrant is “assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer.” That seems suboptimal
Just going to point out that “temporarily detaining” people for the purposes of transferring to civilian LEOs is definitionally “taking part in civilian law enforcement.”