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Apparently, @massdems.bsky.social Platform Committee thinks the response to this monstrous administration is to give in to bad faith centrist defeatism in our party platform. While I am unable to attend the convention, if you can, sign up for this effort to tell them no to rolling back our values!
Well, he's not a genocide denier, soooooo
JFC, making his point for him...
Rural people are the most coddled people in this country while cities are demonized. Cities, where all of america's wealth, everything important is made, and where all it's culture reside while some dying shithole in the middle of nowhere full of stupid racists is called real america. Nauseating.
Germany has specific laws against Nazism. They aren't some totalitarian hellscape because of it.
But it's always like this. Democrats try to do the right thing. They fall short, like humans do. Everyone teams up to shit on them. Republicans don't even bother pretending. They lie, they smear, they destroy lives, they get people killed, & they face NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.
And then those hate groups get power and eliminate that free speech. Yanno like now how the admin is bullying universities and corpos into compliance? We must adjust our tolerance to ensure these people never see daylight again.
The paradox of tolerance is applicable and all political actors should know about it.
The correct answer to a citizen of Klansville, Alabama saying they feel like the country is leaving them behind is âgood.â
Possibly thinking of Perkins? That's the one I know from the 90s.
Dennys definitely has more American cache than a restaurant chain that barely exists in the Northeast OR Pacific coast...
Isn't a poi t against both those countries that they never had a history of democracy, though? Like I think most people in the US generally believe in democratic principles and that they have some say. That going away wouldn't sit well with 70% of the population, I'd say. But I'm an optimist.
Maine governor is a good one!
Whatâs wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are âstunnedâ by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
There's. Only. Two. Parties. If you don't vote for the better one in the general, you are handing the bad guys a win. How do you ppl not understand that it's not a "pick the perfect person" contest?
That's sad sack quitter talk. They do in the primary and popular vote totals matter to rebuke terrible opposition policy proposals; a massive wave sets the narrative that bad faith media uses to frame support one way or the other. And you're telling me there's no other candidates for office? Please.
If "the left" wants to present a good candidate for 2028, they certainly can, and if that person loses, and they take their ball and go home, they deserve said blame. Two party systems require a vote for the better of two options. And that's always the Democrat. Sorry, but that's PoliSci 101.
Yeppppp. Wrote a bunch about this! open.substack.com/pub/amandali...
Not necessarily. Her voice and advocacy matter in the face of the neighborhood NIMBYs and businesses that oppose bus lanes and things like the E Line center lane redesign in favor of parking (which I have already heard in Mission Hill) who will be talking to the MBTA in meetings.
It's time for the Massachusetts legislature to FINALLY legalize red light cameras in the Commonwealth #AutomateSafeStreetsMass bsky.app/profile/theb...
Honestly I'm happy to see these dimestore Klansmen reveal their actual agenda to the world. The conversation used to be "that's not what they meant"/"you're reading too much into it" We all see you. These are motherfucking bigots and you're either with them or actively opposing them.
I'd just say wait until he releases more policy positions and see who else challenges before hitching any horses up. Senators have a lot of power and it's hard to bounce them once they get in...
Fair
Careful. PA got its blue collar guy, and that has turned out swimmingly...
"I trusted the expertise of the guy from education bastion *checks notes* Louisiana"
#Boston council approves protections for outdoor workers on city projects on hot days www.universalhub.com/2025/boston-...
Kinda like the state he's from...
Great set by Booty Vortex at the harbor! Boston is great, folks.
"i wish i could hurt them" is a perfectly normal feeling to have about the people who voted for the army occupying your cities
Name one sitting R Congressperson that has consistently voted against Trump in the current term. Former semi-independents Murkowski and Collins have been sycophants in the Senate.
*Eric Trump has entered the chat*
I love my party (see bio) but decorum has been more important for their leadership since time immemorial. I think that's a semi-genuine fear of a fickle, uninformed electorate in areas, but even the dark blue reps disappoint sometimes. Like Chuck and Gillebrand are Senators for life if they want!
Why are there no Henry M. Whitneys among our monstrous billionaire class...?
Bostonâs MBTA plans to eliminate the only section of its rail service thatâs currently shared with cars, the southern section of the E Line. The agency will build a dedicated, center-running transitway on Huntington Ave thatâs also usable for the buses along the route.
When the rich looked back at history and saw the utter dominance their predecessors had, they worked night and day to get society back to that point. New England sea captains, Southern plantation lords, Western extraction capitalists. That's their ideal.
Everything the rich have ever wanted is being delivered, a further weakened labor movement, a gutted regulatory regime, a public sector being strangled in a puddle. The rest was hokum invented by academic scribblers searching for a logical rationale for the rich to be more dominant.
one sign that the âunitary executiveâ is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
Mission Hill, we're getting a huge upgrade! Be evangelists for this great project! Boston's best neighborhood thanks you, @mbta.com
Chris Rufo: "I'm a racist who hates universities, which is why I'm destroying universities and persecuting minorities." sage journalists: "How can we ever know his true intentions?"
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Dem consultants suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I hope something amazing has happened."
Why does being a reporter require acting every moment like a naive infant, unable to see patterns, unable to learn anything from prior facts, as though being the guy who fell off the turnip truck every single day constitutes âobjectivityâ rather than idiocy or childishness?
The famous negotiating mission flown by the Enola Gay.
This country...
The only threat at Union Station is the Bojangles to my cardiovascular system. Bring it to Boston, dammit!
The Trump cult, obviously. I'm not quite sure how to explain that this is funny...
What are you talking about? This is parody.
And in red represented areas, a lot of Dems are frustrated by incompetent state parties like Florida, Missouri or Ohio, and again, say the Democrats are bad as a result. Only long term involvement at the local level changes that.
This is completely nuanced. When ppl (esp. in blue areas) say they don't like the Dems, they mean the milquetoasts like Schumer, Jeffries and for some reason lump in centrist media dildos as Dems. When asked about their OWN reps, they are favorable.
"Dems can turn things around by holding up people who are working hard on this issue & succeeding. Brandon Scott talking about how he actually brought down crime in Baltimore is more effective than the blathering of 'strategists' whose answer to everything is that Dems should act like Republicans."
If DC was safe enough for John Quincy Adams to regularly swim naked in the Potomac and own a goddamn alligator in the 1820s, it's safe enough for everyone in 2025.
A great response. Please consider volunteering in the next few weeks to re-elect our fantastic incumbent Boston Mayor @wutrain.bsky.social. An example of someone that appreciates the coolness of urban life. www.michelleforboston.com/volunteer/
people like me would complain a lot less about jeffries or schumer if they regularly punched at the right or right wing media. instead they hide almost 24-7 and when they do "attack" it is limp focus group stuff disconnected from reality
and also, an executive order banning mail-in voting has the legal authority of a social media post
If people took authoritarian threats seriously, they would crawl through broken glass to vote against it. They don't.
Because the Congressional leadership is both lame NY centrists afraid of any populism that might frighten their Wall Street and machine friends.
Reporter: Whatâs going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president? Newsom: I hope itâs a wake up call for the president. Iâm just following his example. If you have issues with what Iâm putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what heâs putting out
Looks Like I'm Boston Drivers Most Hated Bicyclist. www.massdailynews.com/2025/08/16/m...
Newsomâs messaging is spot on: "UCLA is not going to sell their soul like Harvard or Brown or Penn or Columbia."
We can't talk about what's going on without talking about the deplorable state of law enforcement in this country and Democrats can't do that until they discard reflexive rhetoric like "Of course we have to respect the police." No we don't! Not when they act like this! And you should say it!
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
popularism, from what I can tell: 1. by âdo popular kitchen table stuffâ we mean âget more conservative on social issuesâ 2. âlook at the numbersâ means âfollow my gut instinct and personal biasesâ 3. this is the only possible strategy and if it doesnât work Dems are doomed forever
But, if journalists had to actually push back against rich people, whose cocktail parties would they attend? Check and mate.
once you notice that people simply do not believe that republicans have agency or any responsibility for the actions they take, you see it everywhere
Agreed. Hesitant to use a trivial example to add, but anytime I hear a self-described nerd say "sportsball," my hackles go up. Feels very preformatively superior. And there's a Venn diagram of these folks, I think...
We even reject the men with these qualities! Every time I have seen Michael Dukakis walking to work picking up a piece of litter or when taking his class, I thought to myself, "This man dedicated himself to the public good, and we said, nah."
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
I saw someone call OH, Ice Florida, and from an outside perspective that seems hyper accurate?
CT still has a lot to answer for in making many of us aware that Joe Lieberman exists...
One of the reasons our society has proven so brittle is that Trumpâs political opponents are unwilling to target collaborators and sycophants for opprobrium, only Trump himself. The Republican Party has adopted the far-more-effective strategy of attacking anyone and anything Dem-aligned.
What do pearls turn into when they are clutched this hard?
"Separated bike lanes reduce collisions and save lives." It's really that simple. The research is ample. But our leaders and, sadly, our neighbors have chosen to ignore all that to coddle drivers and protect parking. Deaths like those of John Corcoran and Minh-Thi Nguyen are policy choices.
Like, Elon would be less dangerous if he was only 20% as rich and would suffer no actual negative impact in terms of daily living. This is why the economic damage he does is no concern to him. He has fuck you money, and he is fucking us. I donât care he canât buy me a pony if we split his wealth.
Haha, I didn't know! I, too, think it's an important and interesting election! My worry is a lot of folk On Here seem to think it's the only one worth talking about w/ consequence. I want his type broadcast in every mayorship (feel my Boston incumbent started the trend, but I will defer smugness, đ)
the thing to take from Cuomoâa politician who was supposedly invulnerable and had control of every aspect of Albanyâhaving a flailing campaign is that all of these assholes are really paper tigers who only thrive when their opponents are also cowards.
The fact is none of this gets reposted because folks On Here get off more by being contrarians...
I donât much like Jeffries, but: jeffries.house.gov/2025/06/17/h...
Also: www.nbcboston.com/news/local/f...
Maybe because that's true? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
That would be "cringe" like voting in/volunteering for/posting about a local election that's NOT the NYC mayoral race...
Every single one of those members of Congress have tons of Bsky posts about the bad stuff the administration is doing, there's just no left wing equivalent to the right wing and centrist reactionary media machine amplifying them. They can't force WaPo, CBS and NYT to be better at journalism...
They are messaging on it, but they donât have an ecosystem of friendly pundits and influencers to disseminate their messaging like the right does. No one gets engagement by reposting what Patty Murray says, so people donât.
This particular problem would require Connecticut assholes to not be Connecticut assholes...
Dear @massgovernor.bsky.social, stop giving us tax breaks and start giving us a 21st century government. Hell, a proper 20th century transit system would be great, too!
There is the actual Democratic Party, which for better or worse is a mostly ordinary liberal political party and then there is the âDemocratic Party,â a synecdoche for everything that annoys you online.
This is Kevin Sorbo erasure. đ
About two dozen provider organizations have stopped offering gender-affirming care in response to Trumpâs threats. But not all hospitals are complying in advance. Boston Childrenâs Hospital recently issued a statement saying it would continue care. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/bost...
I have a half-baked theory that recent elites looked back at their historic counterparts and saw how they utterly dominated the masses, they have strived to return to that past.
What are you talking about? They had so many volunteers in PA that they didn't have anything to do for some of them! Ppl who don't get the stakes stayed home rather than sack up and do their civic duty.
The reason people would justifiably get mad at Chappell Roan saying âI donât support Dems anti trans policies eitherâ is because she was making something up that didnât exist in order to maintain the social currency that âboth parties badâ still holds for low info and shallow cynical people.
Celebrities and artist renditions of an idyllic past are pretty. News at 11.
He should know since he's probably a doctor, right? ...right?
People like living in Massachusetts because we have good public services. We will not have good public services if we do not have robust tax revenue. Why do corporations hate society?
Why does Boston have a housing crisis? Because even a building like *this* has to go to the @landmarks.boston.gov and have a public meeting about its demolition. Among countless others before units get built on a major road in a dense, transit-rich neighborhood... Insanity. We need to do better
While the radicalization of young men is largely seen for what it is, the insidious campaign targeting young women isnât positioned as indoctrination. Itâs a lifestyle, an aesthetic, andâmost dangerouslyâa perfectly good and feminist choice. jessica.substack.com/p/princess-t...
Once again, my fellow nerds, I am begging you to remember that giving into bullies only guarantees they'll be back. You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.
OPINION: "The choices made today could determine whether Philadelphia becomes a national model for sustainable urban mobility â or a case study marking a heartbreaking collapse of public transportation in one of Americaâs great cities." â Sylvie Gallier Howard and Maurice Jones
