I have been trying to think of a way to express this succinctly and I think it is: Between Chris and Chuck, only one of them worries that the Dems won a bit too big this year (both House and Senate), and I don't mean because the newbies might vote Chuck out.
Jeffries would also be much happier with a smaller majority.
I am stupid about these things, but there is something very wrong if Microsoft breaks somethng and computers globally stop being able to do basic things.
In the old times, you company's email server might have broken, but not All (ok a lot) Email Everywhere.
That was by design.
Can't route everything through one leaky tunnel.
In no way will I hand to Pete here - he doesn’t get a trophy for not doing the wrong thing - but I will hand it to whoever managed to get him to go against every impulse he had.
Hegseth awards medal to soldier who reprimanded him and aides at Arlington Cemetery
I thought that guy's career was fucked. And it still might be, when no one is looking, if Pete is still in charge for awhile.
Really the first test of "are you willing to do anything."I hope everyone takes a good hard look at this picture. Trump’s under-construction ballroom is now bigger than the rest of the White House. Much bigger. The contrast says everything you need to know about this President and his priorities.
— James E. Clyburn (@repjamesclyburn.bsky.social) 12 November 2026 at 00:15
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I admit I haven't been following the details of all of this very closely, but Jensen Huang just resigned from everything.
Big balls on that guy.
wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 11 November 2026 at 19:55
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Dem solidarity with Omar has been less than perfect. It is the kind of thing they should be screaming about daily, if only out of a sense of self-preservation.
Federal prosecutors filed a felony charge earlier this year against a man who briefly served as a bodyguard for Representative Ilhan Omar in what his lawyer described as an unusual gambit to obtain incriminating information about the lawmaker.
The case against the bodyguard, Abdullahi Mohamed, who was accused of lying to a government official under oath, provides new insight into the Justice Department’s efforts to build a criminal case against Ms. Omar, a Minnesota Democrat who last week won a fifth term in Congress.
"Efforts"
Mr. Mohamed’s lawyer, Bruce Rivers, said that prosecutors spent months trying to turn the bodyguard into an informant to bolster their case against Ms. Omar. In a move he described as shocking, Mr. Rivers said that prosecutors repeatedly told him and Mr. Mohamed that the investigation into Ms. Omar was “100 percent being run by 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,” the address of the White House.
I long appreciated the Al Franken joke which went something like: I like Ted Cruz a lot more than most of my colleagues, and I fucking hate Ted Cruz.
How exactly he managed to lodge in himself in as the senior senator from Texas is a bit of a mystery, but I suspect keeping that job depends on the state being reliably Republican.
He certainly isn't going to overperform other Republicans running for statewide offices in 2030. Maybe he won't need to, but he has to be a bit nervous!
Sure, Ted, you're the guy for the job.
Sen. Ted Cruz believes he is the person to help retake Texas for the Republican Party following historic wins by Democrats in the midterms.
Cruz announced a new Austin headquarters for Saving Texas, a nonprofit organization with ties to him, Axios reported.
Stephen's gonna reunite the incel army.
Stephen Miller wants to use his new role as White House chief of staff to win back young and minority men who helped elect President Trump in 2024 but swung toward Democrats in the midterms, two people familiar with the administration's plans tell Axios.
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His priorities will sound familiar to Trump watchers: eliminating what the administration considers "woke" policies from colleges and workplaces, lowering prescription drug prices, and rooting out government and health-care fraud.
Absolutely twitter-brained.
My amateur but not entirely clueless opinion is there was never any chance of stopping Jeffries from becoming Speaker, but there was/is some chance of stopping Schumer.
That isn't a comment on who deserves it more/less, just on the dynamics.
As for the merits, there is one simple case against Chuck which isn't a comment on his skills or even his age: he's been Leader for 10 years and maybe that's enough?
I remembered that in 2004 both Kerry and Bush did interviews with Dr. Phil, who asked both of them if they spanked their kids.
