APD said it responded to a call about suspicious devices at the showroom around 8:04 a.m. Monday. The APD bomb squad was called out to investigate.

The devices were “determined to be incendiary” and were taken by police without incident, APD said.

If the bomb squad came in and just walked away with the devices, they weren’t explosive, or at least they knew they couldn’t go off unexpectedly. This feels like evasive language to make whatever the devices actually were sound more scary.

Then they’re going to stop paying taxes you morons!

You don’t have to speculate though. You could look for more information, as another user did, or just agree that it seems over the top and possibly exaggerated. Instead you’re making up scenarios for why an egregious act must have been warranted. And surprise surprise, the actual facts bear no resemblance to what you imagined.

I expect a public case about whether Elon Musk is a Nazi will draw Mangione levels of public contributions for the defendant.

Pardons don’t make the crime they committed legal.

A security clearance does not grant you access to information, it’s a minimum prerequisite before someone else decides you have an active need to know something and then shares the information.

During Biden’s term they got even more judges confirmed. He should have knocked off a few Supremes so he could match him there, but I’m just pointing out that it’s not like Republican terms are particularly productive.

Murkowski? McCain (specifically thinking about ACA)?

The Republicans have been stopped by their own politicians playing ‘maverick’ before. You forget how little got done in the Senate during Trump’s first turn.

Neoliberals neoliberaled.

Not “rather than identity politics”. What about that makes you think they’re not about social justice? They’re dedicated progressives, not class reductionists.

A multi-racial party doesn’t mean you downplay racism, it means the party has solidarity across races. That’s what solidarity is.

https://thegrio.com/2025/03/07/anti-dei-efforts-are-anti-black-activist-maurice-mitchell-lays-out-the-consequences-of-diversity-rollbacks-and-a-plan-for-resistance/

If Democrats wanted to, they could run a candidate against him.

They actually couldn’t really. Bernie wins the Democratic primary in his state then just runs as an Independent. He’s the chosen representative of the Vermont Democratic Party.

My SO and I have joked that while I could never win a local election, if I ran, I might just be able to get within punching range of our shitty representative.

Sure thing, wish for this perfect future where good politicians just spring up organically rather than expect a politician here and now in reality to have any sort of successful plan.

And give me a break with this ‘blame Warren’ crap. When she was leading and Bernie had just had a heart attack, he stayed in rather than bowing out to build momentum. Two egotistical politicians both thought they had the right (or responsibility) to stay in a race to represent their ideas and politics. Warren’s voters definitely 100% would not have made Bernie win, and in all likelihood a Warren polling at 50% still wouldn’t have caused a runway as all the others suddenly decided the economics of M4A was the most important issue for Democrats to spend the entire primary on.

Except now one of these egotistical politicians is preparing people to take over and the other doesn’t seem to have any plan for what happens after he retires or (more likely) dies in office.

That’s the whole thing this is all about. A new party competes against the main party in general elections. Otherwise, whatever the name says, it’s just a caucus. The Democrats already have the Justice Democrats recruiting progressives to run in primaries. They also have the Working Families Party, which is closer to a real party than either the Justice Democrats or the Tea Party, but they still don’t really compete with the Democrats outside of primaries (they go “head to head” in New York, but usually to represent votes for the same candidates).

I’m not from Vermont so I don’t know much about local elections, but as a comparison, Warren has multiple politicians in Massachusetts she’s groomed to have national prominence that could take over for her when she leaves. I can’t think of anyone even from Vermont that’s been involved in any of his campaigns or speaking tours.

I’m not talking about Bernie not succeeding in his campaigns, I’m talking about how he seemingly hasn’t put any effort into grooming a successor for his very own seat in his very own state. That’s not a media problem.

Elizabeth Warren is younger, but if she keeled over tomorrow there are multiple good politicians she’s groomed to rise up in Massachusetts. If Bernie dies (or just retires) we’re probably going to get some well funded neoliberal like the other poster said.

The Tea Party ran in Republican primaries. They aren’t a new party.

I like the Working Families Party because it focuses on the economic disparities rather than identity politics.

The WFP is awesome, but this is definitely not their politics. And they’re awesome precisely because they don’t act that way.

This headline (if it were to be believed) is meant to comfort us, but instead just reminds me a drunken Fox News anchor is running the department as they’re saber-rattling against a major military force.

Historically is doing a lot of work there. Remember the 2020 primary? Because like half the early primary was moderates looking for a better candidate than the default pick. His events were weakly attended and his fundraising was mediocre.

But more importantly, not all help is beneficial. Once you’ve got enough stink on you, being a public face of the party isn’t necessarily helping it. I still maintain Nancy Pelosi, with her stock trading, billionaire heiress weddings, kente cloth kneeling, and left punching was a drag on the party. She reminded a lot of people about their negative opinions of the party every time she was in the headlines.

And I think Biden’s the same. He’s weak, old, delusional, and status quo, and above all he’s heavily responsible for our loss. The more the party props up old leaders just because they were leaders, the less it speaks to being able to make the changes needed to win.