I’m also trying to find some details on this, but at least these few things:

One, the Khanna-Massie bill was introduced weeks ago. That matters. Its a big difference. It could have stopped all of this from happening.

I know that the Blue-MAGA bill gives Trump a month? So its giving him carte-blanche and kicking the can. You could interpret it as a form of “continuing resolution” for war for one month?

The Khanna-Massie bill stops Trumps ability to wage this war now.

Its early, I’ve not been able to get into the details. Basically, we had a tool in the pipeline to stop this, it was intentionally stalled by Democrats. Now they’ve introduced a new thing, that doesn’t do the thing being introduced to muddy the water around what the thing is.

[@[email protected] sam and emma are discussing the difference here, now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRaSiYeZGtY]

Yeah, so a group of 6 Democrats, core components of the Blue MAGA coalition, introduced a competing War Powers resolution, in an effort to muddy the water around the original War Powers resolution introduced by Khanna-Massie.

The Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution was introduced two weeks before Trumps assault on Iran. This bill would have stopped Trump in their tracks with regards to Iran. Democratic leadership prevented a vote on this bill in time to stop what Trump has now done. The political interpretation of this was that because the US going to war with Iran was what Israel wanted, Democratic leadership supported what Trump was doing.

Now, 6 Democrats have introduced a separate war powers resolution, which is practically toothless, and which effectively confuses the two bills. The newer bill is a joke.

At the end of the day, its clear that the Blue-MAGA coalition and Democratic leadership support Trumps war in Iran. They want to be able to “appear” to be resisting Trump while not having to commit to anything that would actually limit Trumps ability to make war.

Only the progressive & anti-interventionist Republican caucus actually oppose war in Iran.

[Edit: to be clear, I know this is a totally different Senate bill]

Whose?

The Khanna Massi bill or that false flag bill the Blue MAGA coalition introduced.

Thats wild.

Sounds like the administration is claiming they didn’t have the agency to make a different decision. God where have I heard that before…

You can not “vote harder” a candidate into office. If you have fallen back to that as a strategy, you’ve already lost.

Yeah I’d need to look closely at the districts demographics and citing characteristics. Seeing Kat on stage for the debate, I think she came across as a little green. Which doesn’t bother me, but there was a defensiveness in their tone that neither of the other top candidates had.

I might dig into the district a bit further later to look at the districts demographics. Ill ping you if I get around to that.

Abughazaleh

Be careful putting all your hope on this campaign. Kat’s tied for second, not a distant second, but a solid second. She’s well ahead (90%+) with 18-35’s. But I do think she’s a long shot after looking into the polling (the only polling on this race). I’d put the probability of Kat victory at 20%.

Poll was conducted via

The poll reached voters through text-to-web messages and automated landline calls using “interactive voice response,” or IVR.

It was about 22% land line, 77% text to web. Now I’m always a bit dubious of “polls of likely voters”, because they almost exclusively rely on whatever cohort voted last election. But we work with the data we’ve got, not the data we want.

Something striking is that Biss is not as far ahead as we might expect them to be. I think its going to be tight on election day, tighter than what this poll suggests.

If you look at the cross tabs, Basically, Biss voters split between Kat and Fine as second choice, and all Fine voters break to Biss, and all Kat voters also break to Biss.

Basically, the least popular candidate to Fine voters is Kat, and the least popular candidate to Kat voters is fine. The electorate is very split in this race, and Biss is the benefactor of this. Likewise, there is substantial splitting on the DSA vote. Bushra got the DSA endorsement, not Kat, and that might have been the killer. There is clearly some local infighting happening here, where DSA leadership didn’t like Kat or some such (maybe they view her as a primadonna). Regardless, almost all Bushra voters break to Kat, and they are one of the only candidates where most of their voters break in such a specific way.

If this were typical times and typical campaigns, i’d say Kats done and Biss is going to win this. However, key issue I identified early: this is a poll of “likely voters”. Polling based on this kind of sampling suffers from a “the past is the future” assumption. One thing has been clear about Kat’s campaign is that its not traditional. If Kat has been focusing on building votership into the primary, as in, recruiting unlikely voters to engage, then these results are actually very positive for her, because polling will always underestimate that strategy.

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2026/02/24/roundtable-poll-biss-leads-by-single-digits-over-abughazaleh-fine-in-congressional-primary/

Why are text posts suddenly a thing

I mean they are litterally breaking a momentum for a blue wave which has never ever been at the scale this one the potential for.

With good leadership Dems could be heading into something so big the Republicans wouldn’t be able to to come back.

But instead weve got these two

From days before this action occured:

Top Dems reportedly work to sabotage bill to stop Trump Iran war

https://asiatimes.com/2026/02/top-dems-reportedly-work-to-sabotage-bill-to-stop-trump-iran-war/

Tucker and Owens any time you see them doing anything, think “this is in preparation for 2028”. They’ve got a far better read than Trump’s.

Democratic leadership worked to block a vote in this for 2 weeks

I’m being cynical and sarcastic. I don’t actually take this lightly. There was an article not but a few hours ago about Trump basically having a deal hammered out.

Rumor around the water cooler was Trump was close to a deal.

I wonder how many US schools were just expended to blow up Iranians

Because they didn’t realize how many idiotic left leaning reactionary centrists Americans there are.

ftfy.

Back in 2024, Kamala Harris and the Democrats struggled to convince voters that a second Donald Trump term would constitute a serious threat to democracy.

I don’t think anyone in the political space failed to recognize it as an existential threat; its that Harris didn’t campaign as if it was an existential threat.

If it was such an existential threat, why would you actively disenfranchise your base?

If it was such an existential threat, why would you say things like “I would do nothing fundamentally different than the current administration”, when the administration was DEEPLY unpopular?

If it was such an existential threat, why did you spend 1.5 billion dollars trying to court voters which you have never been able to get, specifically by elevating some of the least popular voices within their own party (eg, Liz Cheney and Republican voters)?

Nothing about how the Harris campaign operated beyond selecting Walz as VP demonstrated that they recognized Trump as an existential threat to Democracy. Voices were, in the course of the campaign, CLAMORING, for them to do better. They didn’t listen and they chose the approaches they did.

Shove it up your ass. We tried to save the Democrats from themselves in 2024 and people like you ran static interference so that the Dems could run on “more of the same” and ultimately lose the election.

The oil companies spent a generation teaching you that it was individual people making individually better choices. They did this to keep the same old status quo going while you blame your friends and neighbors for not recycling hard enough.

And just like before, the propaganda woks on you, where you blame those who control almost nothing in the electoral system, and give those who have all the power in the electoral system a pass.

History isn’t going to remember your insistence, that “voters” just needed to do better, kindly. You were wrong about how elections work, and it handed the nation to the fascists

No I’m not. I’m making the point that neither candidate was anti-genocide, and that Democrats lost because they thought they could bully their voters into voting for a genocide. Someguy3 things voters are like a horse you can just buggy whip into doing what you want, and I don’t agree with that.

I’m probably the most vocal, most persistent, and most consistent voice on lemmy who has been saying exactly what the recent news around the DNC 2024 post-mortem is also saying: Democrats could not win as a pro genocide party.

You can go through this comment thread and find my main points: https://lemmy.world/post/43468718?sort=Top

Here’s me making that argument 2 years ago: https://lemmy.world/post/18568674?scrollToComments=true

I mean look at this banger:

I argue, and have argued, and will continue to argue, that you can-not move electorates over the course of an election cycle. Elections are 4-12 month cycles. That’s not enough time to change the hearts and minds of millions of individual people. I think its electorally illiterate to blame voters for how they voted. Your job in politics is to understand what voters think and feel, and why they think and feel what they do, and adjust your campaign and strategy to operate with in the real conditions of an electorate.

Any one trying to paint the election as a binary, or trying to operate their rhetoric on individual commenters or voters, instead of the actual person who could make the necessary changes (eg, Biden or Harris), they are apologists for genocide, and at this point, I consider them to be as pro-fascist as MAGA.