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Yeah, Angus King already folded, said he would accept a clean resolution on DHS funding to avert a partial shutdown and give Congress more time to put restrictions on ICE.

Shaheen calls it a reasonable approach.

Oh, God, these guys are such pathetic losers, of course.

And also, Chris Murphy says Democrats are right to deny funding to DHS absent changes that stop the lawlessness and inhumanity.

Changes that Americans are demanding.

Let's talk for a second about what has to change immediately and why it's so important to demand these reforms.

Alec Karakatsanis says, this is a speech designed by someone who thinks you're stupid.

He's explicitly promising to keep the recently triple budget of the DHS Gestapo if there are reforms that, behind closed doors, their lawyers admit are unenforceable, irrelevant, and even harmful.

Adam Johnson wrote about them's proposed reforms, which range from superficial to likely unenforceable to actively harmful...

The grip billionaire-backed anti-abolish groups have over Washington the conscious, conspicuous absence of any attempt to touch DHS's obscene budget.

They are straightforwardly trying to get you on board.

They are literally... Dude, dude, we talk about how incompetent and feckless the Democrats are, but honestly, this is a moment of competence.

You have to also recognize when Democrats are competent, right?

They immediately go out and they do messaging bills, right?

Or not messaging bills, sorry.

They immediately go out and get their third-way neoliberal messaging operations.

They float it to Politico and they say, see, the best kind of messaging here is modest reform on ICE.

Then...

They turn around and have black backdoor meetings about how they're going to demand certain reforms.

This is a moment of competence for the democratic party.