I do not condone or endorse The Atlantic or Jonathan Chait. This is for educational purposes. Expose yourself to the opposition to learn they're strategies. Abolishing the Senate is something more people would get behind if they knew more about it. There is alot to learn by studying the views of the political opposition to use to our advantage.

Cross-posted from my substack. Image edited in photopea. Data comes from the IRS.

U.S. Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-New Jersey): mejia.house.gov

Video is July 14, 2026 by Meet The Press NOW on NBC News. Here’s the full 9-minutes on:

* NBC News website: ‘We need to abolish and replace ICE,’ says progressive Democrat after deadly shootings - July 14, 2026 (NBC News website)

* YouTube: ‘We need to abolish and replace ICE,’ says progressive Democrat after deadly shootings - Meet The Press NOW | NBC News NOW - July 14, 2026 (YouTube)

From the description: Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-N.J.) joins Meet the Press NOW to react to the fatal ICE-involved shootings in Texas and Maine. Rep. Mejia also discusses the future of the Democratic Party and says, “there is nothing off the table or on the table” when it comes her support for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries as speaker if Democrats take back the House.

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It's Primary Election season in the U.S.:

* Primary Election Dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News :~:~: Upcoming Dates: July 28: Georgia (Special) and South Dakota (Runoff) ~:~:~ Aug 4: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, Washington, California (Special) ~:~:~ Aug 6: Tennessee ~:~:~ Aug 8: Hawaii ~:~:~ Aug 11: Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, Wisconsin, Alabama (Special) ~:~:~ Aug 18: Alaska, Florida, Wyoming ~:~:~ September dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News

* Candidates (all States): U.S. House (Dem Primary only): Ballotpedia (HouseDems) :~:~:~: U.S. Senate: Ballotpedia (Senate) (select “List of Candidates”) :~:~:~: State Execs (Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, SoS, and more): Ballotpedia (State Execs)

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U.S. Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-New Jersey): mejia.house.gov

Video is July 14, 2026 by Meet The Press NOW on NBC News. Here’s the full 9-minutes on:

* NBC News website: ‘We need to abolish and replace ICE,’ says progressive Democrat after deadly shootings - July 14, 2026 (NBC News website)

* YouTube: ‘We need to abolish and replace ICE,’ says progressive Democrat after deadly shootings - Meet The Press NOW | NBC News NOW - July 14, 2026 (YouTube)

From the description: Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-N.J.) joins Meet the Press NOW to react to the fatal ICE-involved shootings in Texas and Maine. Rep. Mejia also discusses the future of the Democratic Party and says, “there is nothing off the table or on the table” when it comes her support for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries as speaker if Democrats take back the House.

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It's Primary Election season in the U.S.:

* Primary Election Dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News :~:~: Upcoming Dates: July 28: Georgia (Special) and South Dakota (Runoff) ~:~:~ Aug 4: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, Washington, California (Special) ~:~:~ Aug 6: Tennessee ~:~:~ Aug 8: Hawaii ~:~:~ Aug 11: Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, Wisconsin, Alabama (Special) ~:~:~ Aug 18: Alaska, Florida, Wyoming ~:~:~ September dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News

* Candidates (all States): U.S. House (Dem Primary only): Ballotpedia (HouseDems) :~:~:~: U.S. Senate: Ballotpedia (Senate) (select “List of Candidates”) :~:~:~: State Execs (Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, SoS, and more): Ballotpedia (State Execs)

* Voter Info (all States): Register To Vote :~:~:~: Voter Registration Status:~:~:~: Find Your Polling Place :~:~:~: Valid Forms of ID :~:~:~: Absentee & Early Voting :~:~:~: Become a Poll Worker ~:~ Links go to the National Association of Secretaries of State website. When you select a State, it takes to a .gov page on that State's SoS website.

Founded as the Atlantic Monthly in Boston in 1857, The Atlantic is a venerable American publication with a distinguished record of literary and cultural criticism and political reportage. Today the magazine is distinguished by the intensity of its Zionist distortions of the past and present of the Palestine conflict.

The Atlantic’s palpable pro-Israeli bias should come as no surprise as its editor-in-chief since 2016, is Jeffrey Goldberg, who is a citizen of both Israel—where he served as an IDF prison guard—and the United States. Goldberg is a staunch Zionist and is quick to equate criticism of the Israel lobby with anti-Semitism, as he did in a notorious review published in The New Republic on Oct. 8, 2007, in which he directly linked the book by the distinguished political scientists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2006), with Osama bin Laden’s brand of virulent anti-Semitism.

Goldberg at the helm of an influential liberal magazine with a circulation of almost half a million readers is bad enough, but it gets worse. Goldberg has brought in as a regular contributor Benny Morris, an Israeli historian turned propagandist whose implacable hostility to Arabs—as Goldberg himself once put it—“sometimes leads him to inflammatory conclusions,” including Morris’s lament that Israel’s founder David Ben-Gurion failed to carry out a “full expulsion—rather than a partial one,” as he could have “stabilized the State of Israel for generations.” (Goldberg, “No Common Ground,” New York Times Sunday Book Review, May 20, 2009)

Per ZirafaMedia: ***22 U.S.C. § 7423 is why an active ICC arrest warrant doesn’t stop Netanyahu from prancing around NYC as a free man. Signed in 2002–just one month after the ICC was created…intentionally built to shield American troops from potential (anticipated?) war crimes prosecution — it even authorizes US military force to free any American the International court detains… also known as the “Hague Invasion Act.” Today that same immunity shield covers US allies, not just American troops.***

Trump and his cronies are stereotypical snake oil salespeople and con-artist grifters. That is the reactionary/regressive sphere summed up - Just a bunch of "leaders" that are hustling fools.

The Democratic Party/DNC is on their knees for the billionaire class. They refuse to do profound and inspiring policy pushes because of the big donor demands to keep the status quo that they profit from and even the problems associated with it.

That all being said this U.S. November General Election may bring the Democrats taking control of the House and possibly even the Senate. Most importantly we will have Democratic Socialists now in the mix.

Maybe in 2028 we get a Democratic President that is half way Progressive.

Is this earth shattering positive? Of course not.

It is a hell of a lot better though then this dark, depressing, dystopian trajectory controlled by some of the most Ultra Rich Powerful Bad Predatory Actors imaginable.

These next few years of elections are going to set the tone for a decade or more after. They are a big fucking deal.

Your vote MATTERS! Please, when the time comes, GO VOTE!

Even if you think it doesn’t matter, even if it’s raining, even if you have to ask someone for a ride, or even if you have to walk, please, please, PLEASE try your best to get out there and vote! You can make a difference for change, even if it doesn’t feel like it right now.

I read a post on here a while ago (I don’t know how long ago) about how someone decided to show up to an in-person DSA meeting and everything was so disorganized and no one understood what was being said or what was going on.

I read in the comments that apparently there are 3 letter organizations trying to sabotage meetings by being disruptive and off topic and it was pretty well received on here that the feds are actively trying to disrupt meetings. I can’t find the original post of this but I read that the OP left the DSA after that meeting. Just wondering is this true? I feel like this should be talked about more.

A highly respected company that is extremely entrenched in law schools everywhere is a major driver with ICE. LexisNexis is marketing itself to ICE as a way to stalk and harass undocumented people. It operates at every law school in the country, and it also operates at many firms. I think people should know. LexisNexis is no longer a "legal research" company. It is a stalking agency. https://btlj.org/2026/05/how-lexis-and-westlaw-fuel-ices-deportation-machine/