With all due respect, if YOU'RE pleased with her relative silence since the end of the campaign (Note, I didn't say complete silence--well aware she signed onto a speaker's bureau, as is her right, no complaints) and with the advent of our country crumbling more & more each day, that's cool.
Am I allowed to say their parade makes Trump's recent military shenanigans look like something pulled together by a weekend news anchor who'd spent the week leading up to the parade standing in front of a mirror, posing like Napoleon?
There's a lot of intellectual real estate between "Hey! Never mind my doomsday predictions of the past few months! We'll be ok!" and "We didn't get the result we wanted, so now's the time to push up our sleeves and make sure Trump doesn't get what HE wants: the end of our fragile democracy." Peace.
Trump's top choice for NYC mayor is the same as Congressman James Clyburn's. Here's what the former civil rights leader said about Trump's #1 guy: "Andrew Cuomo has the experience, credentials, and character to not just serve New York, but also help save the nation." Dem leadership in action.
Trump's top choice for NYC mayor is the same as Congressman James Clyburn's. Here's what the former civil rights leader said about Trump's #1 guy: "Andrew Cuomo has the experience, credentials, and character to not just serve New York, but also help save the nation." Dem leadership in action.
If only meter or even mile were also verbs...
That photo is sickening and will haunt that gentleman's grandchildren.
Sherrilyn Ifill has a great substack on this as well. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/emergency-...
"Literal generations doing nothing" but also Dems love bringing up the $35 month insulin cap (it's in this thread) which was the result of years of Bernie calling big pharma to account, taking folks to Canada to buy insulin, etc. YOU may not like him, but there are reasons he's popular w. millions.
"We have to defeat Trump and his attacks on democracy" was their number one "policy." After warning us every day that democracy was in danger, she said "We'll be ok!" the day after she lost. Haven't really heard from her since. Stacey Abrams lost & keeps right on fighting. Fundamental diff'ce.
Not sure I've heard anyone call him the "meidas touch to winning." What I did hear on this thread was that if he hung out with Mamdani, Mamdani couldn't win. Calling that assertion into question is in no way making the claim that he's the "meidas touch" to an electoral win.
Duly humiliated. Of the three things I, and millions of other Americans, apparently lack, emotional intelligence is the most wounding. Will do better as I engage on social media to not throw out generalizations, cast aspersions, or otherwise show my lack of said emotional intelligence. 😁
Oh lol, I guess we're not catching each other. "Bernie is not only helping here [in NYC], definitely repelling many"--so, is he helping or hurting? And then somehow there are things called facts which refute my "other interpretation" which is unnamed. You know what? Bluesky is having a weird day.
They say we have to "know our enemies so we can defeat them" but I haven't been able to force myself to listen to her since I saw her in the Salvadorean torture unit looking like a high school mean girl at 50. This country has so much to atone for.
Not sure what's going on in this section of Bluesky; I left Twitter and came here months ago because it seemed, well, wiser, but one comment about Bernie and suddenly I feel like I'm back on X. To be fair, wisdom and grammar aren't in any way synonymous, or even related.
Truth. It was the Southern Strategy...has in fact been around since Bacon's Rebellion begot the birth of whiteness in the House of Burgesses and then the Slave Codes of 1705, which were designed to give whites what WEB DuBois called the "psychological wages of whiteness."
Sorry for the confusion--I didn't mean "only in NYC." I meant "only helping [and not hurting] in NYC." I saw immediately where I wasn't clear when you posted--thanks for the prompt!
I mean....
Has he thought about slightly anglicizing his name and running for office in Texas?
Girl you hate unions. Wal-mart workers won't forget you when they DON'T get vacations, paid or otherwise; when they DON'T get safe working conditions; when they DON'T get weekends off or any retirement benefits whatsoever. We remember your silence, and we remember your support of John Tate.
That wasn't your question. You asked how many ppl has he endorsed who have won, which is the question I answered. Now you're shifting to talk about ppl he endorsed who won, and then lost--literally thanks to AIPAC. Not sure why you're sarcastic/aggressive, but I'll leave it here. Peace.
I'd never heard of him but apparently many others have. :)
It was a serious question. He's endorsed lots of people who have won, and a couple who didn't--including Hilary Clinton.
Bernie's drawing big crowds and Maine's his backyard. Mamdani hangs with Bernie and that's only helping him in NYC. Genuinely curious why you think Bernie's a negative. If Collins has proven surprisingly resilient; if she wins agn, not sure we can see it as a "hangs with Bernie" issue.
You're right about Republicans in Congress always stealing our money and threatening us w. another "financial control board." And yeah, placating is only obvious thing NOT to do with Trump.
ahahahaha has he ever been to America lol? We've been on our individualistic "Be Like Mike" for decades.....it's almost like he didn't own a team where he, the owner, became a celebrity simply for owning the team.
Black and Brown coalition!! ❤️
Most of our budget is locally funded (property taxes, etc). Trump/Congress can take away our Home Rule but that's gonna be a legal fight, but more to the point, every time Bowser gives in to him, he demands more, so he'll probably try the Home Rule thing BECAUSE she capitulates so readily.
Lots of ways this doesn't quite hit the Trumpesque-ness of it all, but the last sentence is the deadest of all dead giveaways.
I'm not sure she's more exposed than other mayors. What's the downside to resisting him as far as legally possible? Just not sure capitulation to Trump ever produces anything except disgust on his part, followed by total domination.
Bowser could say what Brandon Johnson and Brandon Scott have said. She didn't have to capitulate so fully--in fact, she could've resisted. Talking about "crime is down thanks to Trump" is like thanking Mississippi for the Black Codes.
If you can invade a neighbor and murder thousands and a key hegemonic ally is like, "It's the murdered people's fault because their president didn't wear a suit or something," then what won't you do, knowing you can get away with it?
Thank you. The slaveowners weren't interested in Africans' souls and Trump's not interested in what Black ladies in Chicago want. Yesterday's slaveocracy and today's oligarchy use the premise of helping Black folks in order to destroy them. Their common goal? World-dominating amounts of money.
I'm either dying laughing or just dying, I can't tell.
"Also, he's not only definitely not a narcissist but I've talked to my uncle's ghost and he INSISTS they rename the Kennedy Center after Trump."
This is pure genius. As it was, we had "leaders" constantly insisting that "reforms" would work (reform = incremental) and so they were like "No new Africans! We're doing it big!" in 1807 & ofc the result was selling folks "down the river" and kidnapping free Black folks in the North. Brutal.
America's Democratic "leader" Chuck Schumer would definitely sit for a debate with Samuel Cartwright, put on by Southern slaveowners, about exactly how many slavecatchers are necessary to "prevent lawlessness." "Schumer says he wants to defund the slavecatchers!" "No, I don't!" cries Chuck.
The right will get some California taxpayer to sue based on "b-b-b-ut my tax dollars!" and a court will stay the police protection pending appeal and the appeal will eventually wind through the courts and SCOTUS will be like "Well, not on the merits of the case but on procedural grounds, we say...."
"...one of the foremost voices and advocates and experts..." hehehehe like his boss, he has absolutely nothing to say so he just says words, any words. PLEASE CONTINUE SPOKESMAN-ING, SM; YOU'RE DOING GREAT!
genius ❤️
If everyone you know has managed to dissociate from a society enmeshed, embedded, and birthed by racial capitalism & none of your friends, acquaintances, associates, co-workers, neighbors, etc are greedy or want fame, congratulations. (People are "greedy" these days bc poverty is a death sentence.)
Isn't there a maximum allowable number of shitty deeds one person can do? Somehow, Lindsey G. keeps going over the allowable limit.
Please tell Muriel Bowser this is how you do it. Her capitulation just made it harder for every Black mayor in the country, giving cover to Trump to occupy Black-led cities under the guise of lowering crime.
"I'm not surprised the polls are bad;the media is misrepresenting the bill." "Actually the polling on individual pieces of the bill show overwhelming support." "I don't believe the polls, they can be manipulated." The whiplash of anti-intellectualism gotta be giving him Biblical-strength headaches.
If Republicans really felt that way, they wouldn't violate Black Americans' 4th Amendment rights to stop and frisk based on "we gotta get guns off the streets."
The ref would've stepped in if a Black woman had shown that level of aggression--verbally aggressive, finger pointing, etc--to a white woman. Would never have been allowed to continue. Meanwhile, journalists over here just straight lying, just like they did on Serena.
Good points. Also, the person he most gets compared to is Hitler.
While HRC showed us that you can take corp$, offer favors, and lose anyway--not because the working class/working poor are suddenly apathetic (they were very interested in voting for Bernie during primaries & came out in record numbers)--but because they viewed HRC as apathetic to their interests.
Yes, the Republicans took mad corp money. By playing the same game, Democrats had to pay the piper as well: take corporate money, give corporate favors. Because this is opposed to working class interests, they stopped voting. Bernie showed us Dems can make up the $$$ thru small dollar donations.
The occupation is in my city already and we're taking matters into our own hands because the Dem leadership refuses to help us. I think that's the point of folks' opinions on an elected leader/HJ: as voters, we gave them the job they asked for, which was to represent/lead us, but they're failing.
Civil War. Red states sending troops to occupy blue states. This was always Heritage Foundation's intention: nothing less than full capitulation to racial capitalism and the Lost Cause ideology.
The historical trajectory reveals that Dem leadership began taking corporate money in the 70s, lost voters, particularly working class, and has continuously lost voters since. Voter apathy wasn't a failure of the voters; it came with the realization that Dem leaders had abandoned them.
"Concepts of a plan." 🤔
You have enough characters available to say what happened, not just what didn't happen. Accusing ppl of ignorance while refusing to take a minute to inform them--& simultaneously dogging out Bluesky--feels like a commonplace on "that other site" & precisely why this site was created.
"...as Trump intensifies crackdowns on crime, homelessness, and undocumented immigration..." Read this twice to make sure it says what I thought it says. He's cracking down on political dissent, hoping to create the enemy he wants so he can vanquish it for his increasingly uncomfortable supporters.
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Giving his supporters the giant middle finger re. the Epstein files again. First, Ghislaine gets moved to a cushy little puppy-training-program-for-prisoners minimum security camp, now this. Seems like only Tucker still cares lol...
Isn't it the case that historians can often see a pattern and predict the next terrible thing, but not because they lack a moral compass?
Respectfully, it seems like you're saying it's good to say "I'm surprised" but somehow not good to say "I'm not surprised." Like, "I'm hungry" vs. "I'm not hungry." Your post feels vaguely like "I'm condescendingly suggesting you sound condescending."
She's giving Joker
Are they even police?
If the Dems did this to a conservative, regular old white militias would come with their arms. That's why Dems don't do this shit, but we gotta start.
When your housing costs, credit card interest rates, grocery prices, and wages move up or down, it's Wall Street.
Respectfully, what happens in the NYC mayoral race has always impacted the political landscape, because of NY's importance in the world economy.
With all due respect, if by "the right" you mean the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa, the only way he could win is if there were no opposition on the ballot at all--and even then, the write-in vote would probably sink him. This divide is real and growing, and has everything to do with Dems.
The murder rate of the New York Times, effectuated not by bullets but language, needs to be studied. I.e., the Guatemalan & Chilean coups, followed by mass murder and genocide(s), greased into action and consent by the NYT. Also, millions of Africans, & today Gaza. theintercept.com/2025/07/30/n...
A lot to think about here. For starters, why were 250 Venezuelans immediately deported to CECOT but many others are kept for months in private prisons? IOW, why spend billions on new prisons, instead of deporting? Seems like 21st century human trafficking for $$. www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...
I wish his mom would call more often.
"Nobody really thought about it" might be overstating it. I personally know lots of ppl who thought about it & wondered about Clinton and Trump's roles, among others. The trafficked victims deserved our thinking about it, and we did.
All this activity by Dems to release the files makes me wonder why they didn't do it when they held the cards? Heard it's bc Trump folks wouldn't believe it if it came from Dems, but if there's actual illegal acts from Trump, cldn't charges have been pressed? Guess it's just a little unclear to me
I know Kamala Harris would want us to save as many dogs as we can! All it takes is 1 repost to find him a foster!
I hope you're right. The history of this country worries me, though, and part of that history is that folks are willing to lose friends for money. Poverty's a real fear for many. Also, the internet becomes their community; they may just opt to stay inside and chat with like-minded friends.
Monday, a man shoots up the bldg housing the NFL, critically wounding one NFL executive. NYPD says the NFL was the target. In a burst of generosity, NFL commissioner Goodell "encouraged employees to work from home Tuesday." And that, my friends, is capitalism. www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/29/s...
God help us all.
Ahhh Trump the discerner, yes
Sarah Huckabee Sanders 2.0
Could be wrong, but I think knowing their names isn't going to bring us relief. Cops who murder are on video, but nothing happens to them because if anyone touches an agent of the state's repressive system, the hammer comes down, quickly and with great purpose. The same will be true for ICE.
Blitzer: What color are the dots on your shirt? Rep. Eric Burlison: I was wearing a different shirt last week. Also, when it turns out DJT visited Epstein Island, don't let them answer "What's your reaction to Trump visiting Epstein Island?" w "Trump did not give Putin Ukraine's war plans."
You know, I feel like I've been having a really good faith conversation with you but now you're like "your accusations of illegality are wild" w/o acknowledging what's up. Now you're using 4 ?s like I'm a kid. It's all good. I can recognize the Dems' illegal shit, as well as the GOP's. Peace.
Imagining all the adults triggered by this display of gatekeeping all the fun bc kids like me were selfish little shits on the playground
My cat ran under the sofa when I put that in front of him. Yours is a soldier.
This pretty much sums up a country founded on cognitive dissonance and the manufacturing consent of racial capitalism, the ism that began with slavery and continues today with "BRING BACK STOP&FRISK OF INNOCENT BLACK PPL TO STOP THIS ONE MASS KILLING THAT WE NORMALLY TRY TO PIN ON MENTAL HEALTH."
"what Trump didn’t know in 2020 is what he is now doing in 2025." Am I misreading this? Sounds like: "Trump knew it was against the law but is now spinning it like he never said that, and also Newsom is an expert spin man." Why would Trump & his lawyers say it was agnst the law & then do it himself?
"wild"?
"Enough due process"? Did SCOTUS actually make that ruling? Would love a link if you. have time. If that's true, we're all gonna be extremely screwed now that there's a thing called "enough" when it comes to due process. Like damn, I thought we had actual rights in this country, at least on paper.
"Misled." This is why you lost subscribers (yes, incl me).
Yes, and also a metaphor of some kind for the mess our country is in.
Don't follow British politics closely enough, but do remember being happy that Labour had finally taken the reins. Immediately, Starmer began playing Bill "Watch me beat the right by outdoing them" Clinton, looking and sounding like a conservative's conservative. How did this happen?
Even where the officer acted unlawfully, it goes on, the individual has no right to challenge it. So the actions are in fact unlawful, but bc they stripped them of their right to challenge it.... Slave Codes of 1705: any white can kill a slave; slave/family has no right to press charges.
The article says this: "Individuals placed in expedited removal generally have no right to challenge their deportation in federal court, thanks to jurisdiction-stripping provisions in the 1996 law which created the process. This means that even where an immigration officer acted unlawfully..."
Synopsis: Trump said it would be breaking the law to do X, then did X. Just one time when he's broken the law. That's why so many of his actions end up in the courts--not bc he's a victim, imo, but bc he's breaking laws but SCOTUS will back him. Bc the law is a tool www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/11/p...
You didn't answer, but with the exception of sheriffs throughout the post-Civil War South arresting Black folks without cause and then leasing them back to plantations/mines (convict leasing laws), I don't know of any similar arrests to what we're seeing. Am willing to read some links, though.
He's breaking the law by not applying due process, then when asked, said there are different standards for due process. But the Constitution says differently. You said in an earlier post that he's not arresting ppl any differently than others have, and I asked for examples of masked, unidentified LE
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/.... "Trump said, 'If people come into our country without documents, there’s a different standard [for due process].'” All people in the US, regardless of their immigration status, have due process rights, based on the US Constitution and decades of court decisions.
Guessing this is parody but damn, why you gotta nail the Jesse Watters' hysteria? 😂
It may be that we're in different news sections of this divided country and you don't read what I read (Trump breaking laws) and I don't watch Fox News (Trump follows the law) or read the Washington Times. We're working from different sets of facts, and this is getting us nowhere. Enjoy your day.
I really don't want to argue. ICE agents are filmed rounding up people and deporting them without their day in court. If we look up "due process," we can see that due process isn't being given.Do these arrests by masked men look familiar to you? I'd like to see similar arrests by earlier presidents
Emil Bove has said Trump's admin may sidestep judicial decisions but Bondi says she doesn't believe he said it. Then, she files complaint against judge who said he's afraid Trump may sidestep judicial decisions. Also, Trump sidestepped judicial decisions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Wait, is it 62 seconds or 2minutes 53 seconds?