Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
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Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
Quant popularists like David Shor who want us to call fascism a "distraction" are using poor pseudoscience methods. Their messaging won't work in the midterms--and even if it did, ignoring fascism risks not having free midterms at all. My latest at WaMo: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/01/f...
More mouth gape, more evidence of strokes
Convincing argument that Trump is having strokes bsky.app/profile/blus...
People who have lived through abusers recognize this pattern. "It's my fault. If only I had placated him somehow." It's not that X is just rotting Dem elected/staffer brains on propaganda, it's also doing abuse conditioning to get Dem leaders to blame themselves for MAGA's depredations.
The right wing is going to convince themselves in a week that hormonal contraception is what's making women liberal and that banning it will lead to a permanent Republican majority
Their concerns are documented in hundreds of federalist papers, histories, written debates, letters and exegeses. They're publicly available for you to read, and they don't say what you seem to think they do.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
The vast bulk of this is going to be government employment, which used to be a huge ladder to stable lives for Black women but under Trump has become affirmative action for white MAGA men.
one thing Rudy Giuliani is always going to do is defensively announce a weirdly incriminating detail with his whole chest as though he sincerely believes it exonerates him
The founders weren't really focused on that at all? They were focused on how to form a non-monarchic government that could accommodate Southern slavers, defend itself from invasion, and not descend into despotism.
Not "not matter" but "actively do harm" in the aggregate. And that's a key issue but by far not the only one in the broad acceptance of the fictional MAGA cinematic universe.
They may well be but they're not voting for liberals or socialists no matter how much you focus on "working class issues." Politics is far more tribal (and in their cases, nativist.) A lot of leftists have a hard time accepting that because Marx says it shouldn't be that way.
Corbyn certainly did and campaigned in Tory areas where he got demolished. All the Bernie people convinced that his win in WV meant he was going to carry MAGA states certainly did. So, maybe look up.
Except for all the people who have
Also I have a beef with DSA's IC being a walking Russia propaganda platform but that's a different issue.
I don't have a beef with Democratic Socialism, I have a beef with people who are so desperate to prove Marx true that they make politically stupid decisions, such as, Jeremy Corbyn focusing his campaign on hardcore Tory districts because they're white working class
This is the right take. Trump (or vance) *will* send ICE goons to intimidate people at polling places. We just need to do our work and vote them out en masse anyway. And I expect we will.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
I have signed an executive order directing Valve to finally finish the plot of Half Life
Look, wasn't me arguing that Bernie winning the WV primary meant the white working class was ready for socialism. That was a bunch of DSA types.
As a catch all. Leftists think that MAGA types are temporarily blinded socialists. That's even worse.
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Trump is absolutely going to try to use the military and ICE to take control of voting sites in the name of "election security" and they're going to try to intimidate people out of voting. The executive orders about mail voting and voter ID are geared toward funneling voters to armed checkpoints.
WHY IS PRITZKER SEEMINGLY THE ONLY DEM POLITICIAN THAT ACTUALLY GETS IT
This right-wing post about bread is a microcosm of the entire immigration debate, when you think about it. You can find wonderbread anywhere you go. What she's upset about is that anything besides wonderbread exists on the shelves in plain view and that other people like it.
I don't think most liberals realize the degree to which Fox News and the Republican Party exists to propagandize exurban and rural communities into believing that American cities are warzones
What I find really charming about this is that when the butterfly is upside-down it looks like a polyphemus moth. I don't know if that's intentional or not but it's really striking.
As the US distributes plans to turn Gaza into Abrahamic Bioshock and sends warships to Venezuela, I hope that Ryan Grim and his ilk are contentedly soothing themselves about their "anti-imperialist" choices
"Insane" does not begin to describe the amalgam of fascism, techbroism and despotism that united to create this idea
Alabama man haz sad
SEC! SEC!
Hey @sickoscommittee.org need to find the Bana fan who just flipped off the ABC camera and make him famous
ESPN has been shoving Arch Manning down our throats for the better part of a year so watching him be shut out for 57 minutes was gratifying. SEC! SEC!
This is especially the case when you will have a dozen options to choose from that are better than Newsom in a lot of ways. This is not a situation where the Dem nominee is being held hostage to change positions. This is people telling you "do not make that choice." You have plenty of time to listen
It is very good actually that trans people are staking out the position very early that Gavin Newsom is a nonstarter for them. If the Democratic Party nominates Newsom, you can't expect trans people to be active in the fight to help. Maybe you don't care, but that's entirely legitimate for them.
Seeing the lead strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign saying Democrats need to abolish ICE and nationalize SpaceX should be a wakeup call to Chuck Schumer. But it won't be.
Never Trumpers understand what we're up against Base liberals understand what we're up against Socialists understand what we're up against (but often blame base liberals and believe MAGA are just dispirited socialists) The only people who don't get it are senior Dem leadership and consultants
Hmm, looks like being RFK curious didn't work out well for Bernie
Schumer: "Trump's death is an effort to distract you from rising prices. The Baileys aren't fooled and you shouldn't be either"
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Goner or gooner? Place your bets
Anubis is all "what's this motherfucker made of? Lead? I can't even lift it!"
Singing the songs of dead men
Swan Lake
Good day for @aprilglick.bsky.social back at it tomorrow
That whole second set was an exercise in brutality from 0-2 on. Completely unstoppable
Zohran Mamdani is the happiest politician in America, his whole campaign is about how New York is awesome and can be even awesomer. Meanwhile, there has never been a politician in history who talked as much about what a shithole he thinks America is as Donald Trump does.
This is the intersection where I live. My building is literally in the photo. Normally, this intersection is crowded with people and lined with street vendors, food stalls, you name it. It's a bustling thoroughfare. Not any more. It's a ghost town.
You're a huge asshole and you're putting the people I know that are vouching for you in a real tough spot. Have fun!
Outright authoritarianism from Matt Stoller, carrying water for Trump's firing of Lisa Cook by dismissing concerns of "process liberals" and arguing that independent agency heads shouldn't exist so that elections have more meaning. Matt wants to elect kings, until we don't have elections.
Stick to polling then. Hopefully you're better at that than basic civics
You are literally destroying your organization's reputation in real time and are seemingly proud of it
Have you considered not opining with trolling confidence on subjects you don't know anything about? The joke's on you for making a complete and total ass of yourself and your organization
Cabinet Secretaries and Judges can absolutely be impeached just like the GOP did to Mayorkas. You might want to stop this before people lose confidence in your employer
Somehow the Senior Director of Polling at Yougov doesn't remember the MAGA impeachment of Mayorkas
Of course this is a channeling of Luthen's monologue from Andor, which is one of the most influential and inspirational TV shows out there of any genre
100 percent on the right side of every social issue you can name. I know, it sounds too good to be true.
Every word in this story from @anamariecox.bsky.social is gold, absolute gold, a fantastic writer piecing together a story with banger quotes from an amazing candidate
I absolutely love Graham Platner's description of Andor. This is why I love Andor and Rogue One. It captures the dirtiness of what it means to be an insurgent and a rebel. This guy gets me.
This shit is dumb, seeing as how most "liberals" are vocally disappointed in Jeffries and Schumer for not standing up enough. If you're interested in actually building an anti fascist coalition you don't do it by being a fucking asshole to your coalition partners.
The system was explicitly designed, on purpose, to have bureaucrats to make decisions about monetary policy and interest rates. You can like that or not like that, but Vance is lying his ass off.
Schumer and Jeffries, on the way to the firing squad: "this execution is not being done in a bipartisan manner and I urge you to work with our Democratic colleagues to ensure fair representation in the rifleman corps"
If you fed that dynamic into a polling aggregate, the polls would say that we're out of touch, when really, all we want him to do is shut the fuck up or stop coming over, at a minimum.
Example: in my extended family we have someone who talks shit about unions, Obama, and various other people every time he comes to the house. Can't help himself. He would never want to cut off family over politics, but the rest of us are sick and tired of his constant harassing bullshit.
Yeah, this is because racist uncles want to spew racist shit at Thanksgiving dinners and still be welcome in the house, and non-racist nieces want nothing to do with that, so that creates this dynamic.
What? Neoliberalism is an ideology. This is about campaign strategy
I actually thought his name was Eugene for years
I meant member of course. Elected school board member. Robert is the constituent.
This response Robert received from his elected school board constituent is beyond insane to me at first glance. He got called a racist misogynist for asking specific policy questions related to school closures. If I missed something here, please let me know? Because this is crazy.
This is straight up evil, and Dems need to stop message testing, stop trying to thread needles, and call it what it is: straight up evil.
Hey Matty Y this one's for you
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
As a side point, right-wing intellectuals are all a bunch of deeply weird and at least mildly depraved people, and if there were actually any honest coverage of how bizarre these people are and how much influence they have, our politics would be different, but media pretend it's all normal.
I wish it had been retired but it hasn't. My wife was age 37 when we had our first, and yeah, we heard the term "geriatric pregnancy" throughout the process.
Two celebrities get married and these guys are all "hopefully it triggers a baby boom among the white race"
Apologies to any Man U fans but holy shit
Content creators are not a new media advertising platform for scripted messages. They're creators. It's literally in the name. Pay them to do what they do.
Trying to force content creators to follow your focus grouped messaging will a) destroy your relationship with creators, b) create distrust between creators and audiences, and c) annihilate the entire purpose of the thing in the first place. I don't understand why Dems are so dumb about this stuff!
A content creator is a media startup and messaging test in a box. When you fund a creator, you are not only funding media reach, you are also funding professional message testers whose bottom lines are dedicated to figuring out how to build content that permeates
The right, by contrast, is not afraid to go off script, or not to have a script at all. That allows them to find things that capture the imaginations of their audiences and allows creators to do what they want to do and see what strikes gold. That idea terrifies Dems because we're control freaks.
This entire thing is worth reading but my grand unified theory of Dem messaging incompetence is this: Dem consultants believe the public is not aligned with their actual values and therefore only the most carefully controlled and scripted messages will win. It is a politics of fear.
If you group the war in Ukraine together with "US-funded endless wars like Iraq and Afghanistan" you honestly deserve to be accused of being either a) an idiot, or b) a stooge for Russia, or maybe c) both, and in any case, you shouldn't be writing for a progressive publication with morals and values
Graham Platner's response to the Ukraine issue is perfect. The real question is, what the hell was the prospect's interviewer (Austin Ahlman, apparently)? doing categorizing the invasion of Ukraine with other "US-funded endless wars"? Did the Prospect pick him up from the Quincy Institute or what?
Supporting creators is not the problem. Creators should be supported. The problem is that this has the relationship to the audience completely backwards. They want to pay the creators to spread the messages they want, as opposed to finding and supporting aligned creators to influence the public.
Just remember, guys! Donald Trump the Peace President is the true lefty anti-imperialist choice! Don't vote Dem, whatever you do.
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
this stuff is such a disgrace. a free citizen of a free country should be ashamed to engage in it.
Bernie is praising Trump's mob-boss shakedowns. Warren is posting about bipartisan bills for military equipment repair. Meanwhile, my school is missing kids whose parents are too scared to step outside their houses. The old guard is increasingly not getting it. We need new leaders.
They are kidnapping people off the streets. Kids are afraid to go childcare in DC. DC is under occupation as they are looking to zero in on Chicago. And here is Elizabeth Warren today posting about - checks notes - “bipartisanship” Why are Democrats so bad at this? Why so tonedeaf?
The Dem candidate in tonight's Georgia special election also over performed by 20 points and is headed to a runoff but it's so beet-red that's only good for 40 percent of the vote. Still!
Red-state Republicans who are eager to take on blue turf to ram through new mid-decade gerrymanders at Trump's behest *might* want to reconsider. Or maybe not! Up to them, really.
I handwrote so many essays in Blue Books in college. This is q good thing.
There vouvoyer, tutoyer, and in PEG's case, va te faire foutoyer
It'll be funny watching all the MAGA chuds screaming about how Travis needs a prenup
Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition
The thing that all aspiring dictators try to do eventually is ban opposition political parties. Stephen Miller is trying to lay the groundwork for that.
Trump is canceling a wind energy project that's 80% complete while electricity prices spike, flushing potentially billions in investment down the toilet for no reason. The stupidity of this action is glaring, @ryanlcooper.com writes: prospect.org/environment/...