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Jill L Schneider's avatar

NICK Begich, not Mark

AKLynne's avatar

What Murkowski did just shows once again what kind of weasley person she is. Sullivan is an asskissing Trump supporter, and she knows damn well that Mary Peltola is much better for Alaska and the whole country. So much for that much vaunted "independence" from a proven coward. As for Sullivan, he's a carpetbagger whose family and Koch Bros money got him his Senate seat to begin with. They both disgust me.

kmblue187's avatar

That's good news!

Reader's avatar

With Mamdani as a template, and given the state of the world, imagining it being a challenge for the Dems to gain four senators? Fuck that noise. If they fail, they deserve to fail. Why aren't they right now in Texas rallying the vote? Right now and every day in between. They aren't even controlled opposition. They're just opposition. They're invisible except a nonsense whatever that was yesterday. Eggs were an issue in 2023. TALKING about grocery prices now? Weak tea. Fix the prices. Regulate the greed. Tell us war criminals will absolutely be prosecuted. March in Washington, daily. Them, Congress. Let them march. Do something besides email. And Newsome doesn't stand a chance so let's not waste time or money or ink on him. Even figurative ink.

Biff52 vrag naroda's avatar

Hey, Alaskans! If you re-elect Sullivan and the Republicans retain control of the Senate, there's a chance Greenland will be the 51st state and it's 25% bigger'n Alaska! You gonna stand for being 2nd place?

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Two more Democratic Senators! Woo-hoo!

Kay Ducky's head hurts's avatar

Call it "Seward's Inadequacy"

Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

And with the melting permafrost, it's gonna be... well... soft.

Kay Ducky's head hurts's avatar

And methane-filled, like a certain President's diaper.

Kay Ducky's head hurts's avatar

Late to the party here, but I like the cut of her jib. Will she win? I dunno, but they will scream Fraud! if she does, and she'll be kept out of her seat for a year.

Reader's avatar

Why don't the Dems do such things when they have the power?

Kay Ducky's head hurts's avatar

Because Dems still live in a world where democracy is an ideal, not a hindrance.

Salty Badger's avatar

Peltola's consultants spamming me with 10-20 texts daily since she announced demanding money can fuck right off. I mark em as spam and like the Hydra, two more grow to replace it.

I like her but this insane barrage typical of the tired old DLC bullshit is a huge turn-off.

AKLynne's avatar

I agree about the avalanche of $$ spam coming from every candidate, everywhere...names I've never even heard of. I want to support Mary financially, but January isn't even half over, and I am sick of all the texts from everyone wanting money. I hate it, and I'm very gunshy already.

Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

My cell plan is tiered and the money beg texts have pushed me into higher a higher tier in Nov and Dec and it has not slowed down in Jan. Yeah, its only $10 a month, but that is $10 no Democrat running for office is gonna get and adding $10 to a normally $25 bill is a big enough percentage jump to piss me off.

Reader's avatar

Do block them. Tho I know they keep coming.

AKLynne's avatar

Unfortunately, there's no way to block of all of them all at once. It's one by one by one until you go crazy from it.

Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

I do, but they keep coming from different numbers

Salty Badger's avatar

It doesn’t help, they have thousands of burner or fake numbers.

Kay Ducky's head hurts's avatar

To them, it's marketing and rallying the troops, but they have phones and see how this looks to regular voters, right?

Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

What do you mean regular voters? Campaign advisors only get input from the large donors which is why the party leadership is so fucking weak about standing up to Orange Turd when the regular voters are on the street getting shot in the face by the pigs.

Kay Ducky's head hurts's avatar

This is also why Gavin Newsom (ugh) just promised to veto a millionaire tax in his state. He's running and needs every dime he can PAC

Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

Good luck with that. It is being done as a direct to voters ballot initiative. He can vote against it and campaign against it, but that is all. He has no official power to stop it.

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Dok. I like Peltola, and hope she can do the near-impossible.

Kay Ducky's head hurts's avatar

Do people still say "Word." anymore?

Free beach's avatar

I seriously doubt Maine has learned its lesson.

We keep the promised two term, trump taint licker , roe killer , concerned Collins.

She promises the BIW trump chuds the war contracts for jerbs, all the while right to working them, while they live under union protections.

Free beach's avatar

Hey we aren’t the Alabama of New England for nuthin!

Jeff Frane's avatar

Thanks. Now a monthly contributor to Mary Peltola.

𝕺𝖓𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖉's avatar

I know Evan has something new up, but I’m just gonna stick with this one for now, because happy articles are rare enough that we ought to eke all the happy out of them that we can.

It appears that the interior decorator who relocated the cushion from the cat tree has outed herself. https://substack.com/@ontheotherhand124816/note/c-199406436?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=106di

Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

This is my fluffy, and it shall be my fluffy.

Whale Chowder's avatar

Everyone's a critic.

Reader's avatar

You are not kidding. Gave me tears in my eyes bc the sweetness. A happy creature. 💛

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BREAKING: Louisiana Seeks to Extradite California Abortion Provider

In September, Abortion, Every Day broke the news that Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill had signed an arrest warrant for California abortion provider Dr. Remy Coeytaux, accusing him of illegally mailing abortion pills into the state. Today, the Republican AG ramped up her efforts—making a splashy social media announcement that she’s signed an extradition request for Coeytaux.

“This is not healthcare; it’s drug dealing,” she said. Coeytaux is charged with violating a Louisiana statute banning “criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs,” and faces up to 50 years of hard labor.

Coeytaux is the second abortion provider Louisiana has targeted with criminal charges and extradition. In January 2025, a grand jury indicted New York provider Dr. Maggie Carpenter on felony abortion charges, with Murrill signing an extradition order a few weeks later:

https://jessica.substack.com/p/remy-coeytaux-aboriton-extradition-murrill

SkeptiKC's avatar

....but those black market Viagra tablets those Lousiana fellows have mailed to their home are just FINE, aren't they, you hypocritical harridan.

Kay Ducky's head hurts's avatar

Seeing those commercials is the worst part of having insomnia.

NewLarry's avatar

Upfist for "harridan"!

I absolutely love learning new words, and you seem to know lots of good ones. And I've commented before on your alliterative abilities.

Kay Ducky's head hurts's avatar

English, by way of the French, meaning tired, old horse. Etymology is fun too!

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

*googles her*

Yeah, she's all for that

Elviouslyqueer's avatar

Thanks for solving all the rest of the state's problems so you could busy yourself with this nonsense, Liz.

josephebacon's avatar

Newsom should tell the Louisiana AG to go to hell!

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

California already did. They passed a bill that basically says all these assholes can fuck off with their bullshit the moment they hit the California border.

Dialectic.Detective's avatar

I'm just saying, Alaska joining Canada makes way more sense than America invading Greenland.

AKLynne's avatar

That would be heaven for all of us here.

𝕺𝖓𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖉's avatar

Our so-called aspiring Canadian boyfriend (although I don’t think he’s called himself that recently) declined. Said something about having enough frozen wasteland already…

AKLynne's avatar

That's tragic. Anyway, it's a very inaccurate and unfair description.

clairence's avatar

When will we agree that whistles and shouting aren't getting it done against masked, armed gangs? Do we wait until the takeover is complete to revolt?

noname's avatar

What's your plan?

PuraVida's avatar

Please elaborate.

The Covfefes ASAP!'s avatar

Pammy Jo has got to go

She don't know

The law

Free beach's avatar

For the purposes, she doesn’t have to

Opposite of Oligarch's avatar

I live in NE Minneapolis, two blocks from Central Avenue, a busy thoroughfare that is home to countless businesses owned by, and catering to immigrants. Every storefront and restaurant represents a different community. It’s one of the reasons I bought my house here.

For the last hour, there has been a constant barrage of car horns, shouting and banging coming from Central Avenue. What there hasn’t been is the usual afternoon multilingual shouts of the dozens of kids who play on the supervised playground of the church across the alley from me, the church that also houses an ESL school.

This neighborhood is home to hundreds of kids of all ethnicities, who are trapped in their homes for their own safety, listening to the sounds of literal warfare in their neighborhood. Because of Trump’s bigotry and his followers’ hatred and desire for violence.

I wish I could tell each of those kids it’s going to be okay. It’s not, but I still wish I could let them know most of us are on their side.