But also just increasingly weird that a huge part of their recent electoral success relies on a bunch of influencers/scam artists who have no interest in this white nationalist project. Not to mention growth with Hispanic/Black/Asian voters.
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But also just increasingly weird that a huge part of their recent electoral success relies on a bunch of influencers/scam artists who have no interest in this white nationalist project. Not to mention growth with Hispanic/Black/Asian voters.
The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team
"Be loud for America" goddamn somebody cooked there
resign you useless sack of shit
Newsom sucks shit, he's the Democrat's Ron DeSantis, and he will never be president
AOC has done something similar tbf, and some other progressive congresspeople, but she doesn't have the power to follow through on it like Pritzker does
god what kind of loser behavior is it to pretend a press release and saying this shit on national TV is remotely comparable
Democrats of this day and age are just...really bad at making their own news like this bsky.app/profile/kest...
the man is no socialist but I will follow the guy or gal who shows themselves best made for the moment without throwing marginalized members of the coalition under the bus to do it and right now that's JB.
Pritzker's already demonstrated more creativity and initiative than most of congree combined by breaking this news himself
Hakeem and his attack dog Andre are mad because not only are New Yorkers desegregating their neighborhoods, but we have leaders like Jabari Brisport, Phara Souffrant Forrest, and Zohran Mamdani who builds bridges between race instead of keeping people divided
Hakeem Jeffries and his advisor are part of a cohort of racist Brooklynites who thought that their neighborhood & Central Brooklyn would forever be an ethnostate, and will never forgive White, Latino, and mixed race residents for breaking that fantasy. That's why they cry about gentrification a lot
Really setting up a "who must go" meme here hakeem
Trump et al. have basically created a zugzwang situation for left/liberal Jewish academics and students, forcing them to choose between tolerating actual instances of antisemitism they encounter vs. Trump co-opting their legitimate complaints as a pretext to stifle academic freedom and cut funding
You don't hear Trump threatening Texas Governor Abbott about invading the state with National Guard troops. Here's proof Trump threats to send troops to fight crime in Chicago is politically motivated only against blue states. Shootings and homicides IN TEXAS, Labor Day weekend 2025: #politics
Mayor Brandon Johnson: The the president is the last person who cares about violence on Chicago's South and West sides. "There is too much violence in Chicago not because we have too many immigrants but because we have too many guns."
I guarantee you in 2026 and 2028 we will see more "How could Democrats do this?" about farm subsidies, factories, and rural hospitals than "How could Trump do this?"
Of course, and it will do this while ignoring the fact that they voted to close their own hospitals, destroy their ability to send and receive affordable post, and basically wreck every public good they benefit from.
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
every single day Pritzker is out here telling his fellow Dems that they have lost the plot and it’s depressing how refreshing it is
Adam Serwer most vindicated man of the Trump Era
I believe the current term is Special Military Operation
God he rocks so hard.
red plenty, but one of the things we use the government for is cascadian abundance 90% of left-centrist discourse is about whether moderate abundance synthesis has been tried and failed (it has and it did)
Gimme that cascadian abundance I’ve always wanted to live inside rejected Magic the Gathering artwork
Dark Abundance:
smanatha's ai-generated vision of economic reform --remove artificial scarcity of genuine goods, like housing --increase state capacity --subsidize inputs (energy, education, immigration) --state investment bank --capital controls
Tag urself. I'm the mysterious floating cooling tower in Cascadia
dark abundance has such insane hitler particles
RED PLENTY IS TOTALLY A GREAT NAME FOR A ROCK BAND
Remember when those of us on the countering authoritarianism side of academia started publicly talking about the dangers of the “abundance agenda”? This is why. “Dark abundance” is just neoreactionary techno fascism for moderate centrists. The fascism of this is staggering.
I think it's unfortunate that "abundance" got claimed by centrists because the top two in this graphic are great - but that's the problem, there's some reactionary shit further down, especially the "moderate" and "dark" ones. We should not be shopping this around outside the liberal-left coalition.
Magnifying glass.
Missouri is a cautionary tale of what Illinois would look like if Chicago was stripped for parts.
Yep. More people died of the flu last winter than Covid. I never thought that would happen.
it’s not like *good* that we have a new plague unleashed upon the world but it’s pretty clearly in a different phase
Maybe unpopular take but I think "during COVID" is fine! Death data show a clear acute phase from spring 2020 until spring 2022. Since then deaths have steadily trended downward and this winter fell below flu deaths. You can take COVID seriously and still talk about the worst of it in the past tense
I wouldn't be as nice as Michael is being here personally, but he makes a very important point here. COVID is now at the status of "serious addition to the arsenal of viruses humans have to routinely face," and that's a real medical problem like the others.
i thought he was in a baby bjorn
anyway it’s shocking that no one was able to predict that when the George W. Bush administration gave itself unreviewable powers to murder and imprison people, those powers were eventually going to get used intentionally on noncombatants
think about how rotten your soul has to be, how broken your moral compass, to think drag queen story hour is a sign of social decay but snuff films of war crimes is exemplary, stand out, should be shared far and wide. these people are sick
fucking obscene and I do not blame certain centrist types getting really mad at how little certain people care
Be loud for America
Lots of ways to be loud for America. Go find yours. Fly your flag. Tyranny shall not prevail.
"Be loud for America" is indeed a good rallying cry. Especially with MAGA trying to claim sole-right to the flag. My mother-in-law quilted a flag banner for protests. When she posted a picture of it on FB, my MAGA aunt told her anti-Trumpers don't get to carry flags. So, MIL marched with it anyway.
pre-10/7/23 it was pretty much unquestionable that Biden had the best foreign policy record of any president of my lifetime, save maybe Clinton. post-10/7, it still might be the case, but man if that's not an argument I really want to be making anymore.
coherence matters in policy, especially ones justified on moral grounds. if you're saying "we must defend Ukraine from aggression" while sending bombs to Israel to murder children and journalists you sound (and are) completely full of shit and it deflates the entire project
an immensely frustrating part of Biden's grotesque approach to Gaza was that it gravely discredited an otherwise a fairly solid foreign policy approach. arming Ukraine, ending the Afghan war, stopping a coup in Brazil, patching things up with the EU, etc, and then he impaled that for Bibi
The dirty little secret is there has been zero American casualties and thus the public doesn’t care and won’t punish Trump politically
it probably is. my first instinct was 400,000 but that may be more like what it looks like at the end bsky.app/profile/nixo...
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
Funnier than any joke we could write
sure does feel like every time I see this man in front of a microphone lately my response is “thank fuck someone besides us is finally saying it”
Killing "only" 1 in 40 Gazans rather than 1 in 10 is not a difference that I would consider exculpatory.
There's an old tweet of mine talking about how all the things I said in support of the biden admin turned to ash in my mouth as he kept signing off on arms shipments
I'm sure that there are leftists who never gave Biden credit for pulling out of Afghanistan but even hate sinks like the Chapo hosts were defending him in the summer of 2021. He did get that credit, in a way he didn't for the drone drawdown, but he set it on fire for Netanyahu.
(it's just that the broad left has a lot of cultural clout but not much electoral clout on a nationwide scale, as you know)
The elected left in Congress were some of Biden's biggest shooters when it came time for him to get shuffled off-stage for Harris last summer.
My take as well. The “Russia is a victim of NATO imperialism” weirdos are loud, but they’re a distinct minority and they didn’t vote for him in 2020.
And after it was abundantly clear that it was costing him politically. Tough to forgive the key players in the Biden administration for hating Gazans more than they loved American democracy.
we were sending Israel shit they didn't need but Ukraine desperately did! madness!!
And notably, the antiwar movement is historically and currently not actually a left-wing formation in any real way. It's always had large segments that are libertarian and/or fascist.
Some of the "anti-war movement" people gave him no credit, but like, progressive veterans groups and the broader movement left orgs were all on board with "our expectations were low but damn has he cleared them" until October 7's aftermath.
The left was broadly quite friendly to Biden until he started handing piles of arms to Milosevic in a kippah.
like i'm sorry I was sympathetic to the 'left didn't give Biden credit thing' until 2024 and at that point it's just whataboutism for genocide
'i could do nothing but send bombs while 200,000 people died' is not going to be a convincing argument
when we finally get estimates of the dead in Gaza it's going to be numbers horrifying enough that even habitual Biden defenders might finally shut up
it's a shame that Biden's enabling of Israel's genocide made any possible salience of this go up in smoke
10% seems like a massive undercount considering how long the israelis have been doing everything they can to kill every single man woman and child in the strip.
I'm not a 'citing the GHM statistic is genocide denial' guy at all, it is the *verified* death toll, it's just also not realistic for what the people of Gaza have endured for almost two years
200,000 is probably an undercount for the genocide, however long it lasts until the population is expelled, but it'll do for now. the Gaza Health Ministry has absolutely no idea who is alive or dead in large swathes of the enclave, nevermind the mass graves
If money in Politics was everything, tom steyer would be president and amy mcgrath would be a senator
Correct. No one is going to do this for us.
I feel like if we say, we have to primary everyone, we *personally* have to be willing to recruit people/give money/campaign for primary candidates. Like there is no organization to do politics for us, it really is just us
Unfortunately you have to primary everyone, not just because they don't have what it takes to fight, but because they don't have what it takes to rebuild. Last thing you want is them to win by default and then tread water until the next Trump comes to power
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For over a century, the dream was denied and buried and treated as a dangerous joke. But it was not forgotten, and now you have schoolchildren writing poetry about him and Tommy Lee Jones playing him in a blockbuster movie. Because the cause endures.
There is something about the Negro Civic League gathering here in 1918, at a time when segregation was at its peak and Stevens a forgotten nonentity, that makes me want to cry. Because the cause endures, even after death.
The wheel turns, and it crushes us, but it turns again, and the fight was not worthless merely because it was lost. Because the cause endures. EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR
Researchers at Texas State University examined 189 drownings and found no evidence of the “Rainey Street Ripper” — a rumored serial killer in Austin. But conspiracy theories aren’t easy to squash. Skeptics online have turned on both police and the study’s authors. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/02/n...
new puppy checkup day. he has been diagnosed with being just too much
pritzker declares an emergency to deal with criminals and occupies sxsw, let's go
I haven't hit "follow" on an account this quickly in a long, long time
I really want to see the legal rationale/justification for blowing up some randos on a boat in the Caribbean. While I know the USA (sadly) has a long history of doing similar things, it doesn't make it right. We cease to even have ideals when we no longer question living up to them.
And to be clear...they are legislative leaders not party spokespeople even though they are thrust into that role by circumstance. And that is unfortunate because those are different skillsets.
The sooner everyone recognizes this man as the leader of the Democratic Party, the better
Trump lives and looks pretty much normal by his standards
yeah man, they loved germans in the 1840s and italians in the 1890s. couldn't wait to welcome them in.
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
Is it possible to hit a baseball more purely than this?
it's got to be kind of a trip to be one of the 700 or so best people in the world at your profession, probably the best of anyone you knew growing up and into college, the elite among the elite at your calling, and then watch this guy outperform you, like, exponentially better than you ever could
I think we’ve all somehow gotten used to him so sometimes it’s good to sit back and reflect on how insanely great Shohei Ohtani is at baseball
Shohei hits a homer off Chandler at 120 MPH, gets hilarious reactions from everybody involved.
Ohtani, Alcaraz, Biles - all show people
the incredible thing about Shohei Ohtani is that other baseball players react to the things he does on the field the same way little kids in the stands do truly one of the most magical athletes we've ever seen
But what if you start off your complaints with “electorally speaking”
Trump MAGA declares war on the last outposts of nature in USA USDA Moves to Rescind Roadless Rule Protecting 45 Million Acres of Wild Area eos.org/research-and...
strange. fabric doesn't normally fall like that across an arm.
