Why don't you just tell your owners they don't need reporters since your paper can just reprint whatever Trump says? Never taking a word ya'll say seriously again lmfao
Why don't you just tell your owners they don't need reporters since your paper can just reprint whatever Trump says? Never taking a word ya'll say seriously again lmfao
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
This is a sobering--and depressing statistic. Sizable layoffs in the federal government are likely contributing to the increase in unemployment among Black college graduates. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
Anti-cosmopolitanism has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken people to the evils of rootSS
The programs expiring was definitely bad. The Biden Admin deserves blame for not putting up a real fight on those, but the politics for it were bad! And frankly the popular support needed to make these things happen wasn't there. Hello, most people hated the pandemic and were mad about inflation!
like objectively it was a complete break from as far as fiscal and monetary policy went. The biden admin was terrible at communicating and leading, there's that, but there also wasn't really any popular effort to support these things.
What this term taught me is that many of the people most obsessed with workers' economic interests don't seem to understand or want to understand things like... the levers different bodies of government have for managing the economy
The real story, which is barely discussed, is that education & healthcare & service jobs are what have revived places like Bethlehem, Pittsburgh, etc. Not manufacturing & pretending we can roll it back to the 1950s. And guess what Trump/the GOP are destroying, while claiming to help these places?
It’s so boring ppl can’t just admit they don’t feel like leaving twitter cause it’s an established platform they have a following on. Like it’s not that big a deal. Whatever. But stop acting like we all have to pretend it’s some honorable thing to resolve your cognitive dissonance lol
Sad but at least they’ll get their Coke with cane sugar! They can enjoy!
People are scared of the fascist GOP. I think those who say these things know exactly why what they’re doing agitates and scares people.
It worked until people stopped caring bsky.app/profile/uber...
They don’t care. They live entirely off the feeling of self righteousness they get from other ppl begging them to care about consequences
“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink
So much of the left wing media ecosystem depends generating outrage from this narrative, unfortunately.
I want anyone who is in the business of comparing Bluesky and Twitter to go read the replies under this same post Pritzker made on Twitter. You know what you're going to see.
Yes. They act like every Democrat is Joe Manchin. It's not helpful for anyone (except the fascists...)
...And I don't even think most of those types have a problem with critiques of the Democratic Party! It's that the most visible left-wingers make those critiques ***the beginning and end*** of their politics that really alienates base Democrats.
Your article was so eye-opening on this. Back when I was more on the antiestablishment left, I was surprised to work for a more normie Dem org and find that everyone was generally progressive, liked AOC/Bernie, and didnt have any particular hostility to more progressive policies.
ok. liberals voted for mamdani and leftists clearly arent immune to losing elections lol
And they’re desperately trying to pivot to the kitchen table rhetoric that’s ostensibly supposed to speak to people’s “real” concerns.
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Or rather that throwing certain segments of the working class under the bus is the path to prosperity for the volk.
This is not a defense of Jeffries, who sucks, but it’s even more offensive the way Bash just completely frames the issue in a way favorable to Trump. In that kind of communication environment you see why Dem leadership is bullied to be a certain way
this is the endpoint of online activism around Palestine being a form of rank consumerism
Yeah no they were killing plenty of innocents then too. Which is bad
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
Here’s Tim Walz, day before the election, still doing it and using fresh examples: www.thelist.com/1704780/tim-...
There are 2 narratives of her campaign: 1) she spent every day campaigning with Liz Cheney and discussing her love of the IDF while screaming at Tim Walz to never say ‘weird’ 2) she ran a radical left wing campaign exclusively on trans rights and saying “Latinx” Both of them are 100% fictional
I distinctly remember numerous occasions where people would say, "Why did the "We're not going back" chants stop?" and I could turn on MSNBC and see a clip of Harris leading one of those chants from within the last 24 hours
What some folks are missing about this is that it’s not that Twitter is going to make every leftist into a Nazi. It’s that it makes you believe that the worst ppl in the world are everywhere. It brings out the darkest parts of your personality, your most nihilistic view of the world.
A not-insignificant number of left wingers do as well, unfortunately.
Could just as easily say that we *had to double down* on promoting the positives of the vaccine as a reaction to the right's incessant propaganda undermining vaccines and public health measures as people were dying...but things are never framed that way.
Rainbow flags are identify politics but right wingers trying to nullify other peoples' marriages isn't. These people act like politics began with Obama's election.
This is the point where Marxist class analysis and the role the 2 parties each play in our capitalist system really clarifies things.
it’s really not hard to tell who actually cares about mass death and suffering abroad and who just likes to use the destruction of brown bodies as a political weapon against their perceived enemies
Weird how this never came up during the election www.businessinsider.com/trump-have-b...
Another is that, the instant Democrats run on a platform of permanent checks/larger child tax credits/huge increases to SNAP/etc., the entire political media & the Abundance & Kitchen Table Issues & Do A Popularism crowds will say, "...but not like that" & laser-focus on THE DEBT & SOCIALISM & such.
Fucking loser
Mamdani on Cuomo: "I don't need to do much to make the governor appear extremely dislikable."
Many are enmeshed in a social context that flatters this behavior and labels anyone who points out the contradictions as heretics who “support genocide.”
As someone whose main aim in political engagement is to reduce suffering for as many vulnerable people as possible, I find this cold rationalization kinda horrifying. While I still ID with the left ideologically, I have had to reevaluate certain things after witnessing this.
I say this as dispassionately as possible bc I actually do emotionally understand why Gaza was a red line for folks. But how does one reconcile that red line with allowing trump to take power and harm millions more while Palestinians still suffer? The answer is a resounding “not our problem.”
In my discussions with left abstentationists, my main observation is that they feel emboldened to wash their hands of any agency. They claim they were forced to campaign for a Harris loss despite fully understanding the harm that would result to the movement and people they claim to champion.
Replies to this are nuts
I encountered this asking my generally center-right parents about the attacks on vaccine and the science & research cuts. They want to believe the GOP that it’s all for “efficiency” but on some level seemed to understand that’s bullshit. Just not ready to admit it.
I encountered this asking my generally center-right parents about the attacks on vaccine and the science & research cuts. They want to believe the GOP that it’s all for “efficiency” but on some level seemed to understand that’s bullshit. Just not ready to admit it.
I’ve said before, and we say again: anxiety is really severely under diagnosed in men.
something to note here is that this is basically anathema the idea of representative democracy. schumer is from a very blue state, he should be very left wing. if he can't be because of people in North Carolina, that is saying that New Yorkers don't deserve their own representation
Narcissism of small differences. Both the far left and center left libs encompass similar demographics and policy preferences, but the far left indulges RW narratives about libs being politically and economically elitist despite that being totally out of sync with reality.
Seeing some allude to this but it is striking how, like, practically the entire political spectrum sees center left liberal/progressive views, primarily in urban areas, as illegitimate.
The “you’re not being nice, good luck earning MY vote” schtick is so pathetic at this point
The assumption that the goal was ever "saving money" betrays zero understanding of this political moment, or of the political goals of movement conservatism over the past several generations.
The refusal to fully acknowledge that the terrain has shifted and that Trump’s authoritarianism is uniquely dangerous has put DSA/the left behind the curve unfortunately. They are emotionally stuck in the late 2010s.
it was a total reactionary refusal to actually understand the state of the class war under Biden
This was the actual axis of debate on "is the economy under Biden 'good'" was about. "Is it good or bad when the labor market is right but inflation is moderately elevated?" Maybe you were too stupid to understand that is what the actual stakes were but the bosses werent
AIPAC already lost Valerie Foushee and now they are losing a rep they literally just got elected in 2024.
We organize people, primary the ones doing harm, put pressure, direct action etc. Ceding power to Republicans to do even more harm is not a solution I’ll accept despite how badly some want me to.
Yes, she’s a coward at best.
I accept the 2024 election was not going to move the needle on it, as you said above. Will you accept that Harris losing has has had dire consequences for the American working class and the global south?
To me you don’t seem to understand. The votes OBVIOUSLY aren’t for Dem politicians, they’re to stop the harm that is currently being inflicted on vulnerable people around the country by the fascist GOP. If those costs are acceptable, I wish the abstentationists would own it instead of lying.
Almost two years of hand wringing, excuses, and hemming and hawing about this from most elected Democrats and most of the mainstream media as the crime of the century happens in slow motion.
Both voters and politicians have agency. If making a moral point that saved 0 Palestinians was more important, the large amount of collateral damage be damned, then that is a choice certain voters made.
Ok. I’m not the DNC lol so I’m not here to “sell” anything. I’m someone who cares about unions and people having healthcare. For me, saving millions from losing their health insurance and stopping these attacks on unions was worth checking a box one morning.
The reason the Dems are a failed party is because they have collectively decided that the best policy for any issue is a halfway compromise between a good idea and fascist bigotry, rather than fighting for any sort of coherent ethical framework
Biden was committing genocide in Gaza, but any basic look at political conditions demonstrated that the 2024 election wasn’t going to be a tool we could use to fix that, except MAYBE by limiting some damage by electing Harris. Now we’re in a deeper hole on EVERY front
I’m sorry, really, but I just can’t get over the left fervently campaigning to produce this result, and when pointed out the collateral damage on issues like labor could only say “Dems are just as bad bc Biden rail strike” It’s not even about ideology for me, it’s the total dishonesty & stupidity!!
Seriously one of the dumbest political takes I have ever read.
It's so reactionary but feeds into vaguely left wing cultural grievances.
They would've had a field day!
Rural communities too.
This about covers it.
I am still so angry about Biden’s TOTAL absence during that debacle. Complete abdication of responsibility.
Airport lounges’s main offering seems to be providing a space for those who want to feel separate and distinguished from the “poor”
This came immediately to mind "Jeffries’ political operation even has a nickname for those talking up threats to the House minority leader back home: “Team Gentrification.”" www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...
Crazy use of "genocide" aside, I'm really interested in how the word "gentrification" has increasingly been weaponized in reactionary ways. Maybe some folks have written on this?
love this
Why do yall always act like random posters are high ranking officials from the DNC or something lol
Another case of folks (willfully at this point) misconstruing descriptive vs prescriptive claims
They're literally like "foreign sounding last names weird me out and scare me"
Yes. My non-MAGA center rightish relatives are convinced Dems are just as corrupt, if not more. They won't bother defending Republicans morally.
this vote is quite literally a binary litmus test on whether any Dem senator is possibly worth a shit or needs to be yelled at until they quit
He’s far from the worst Democratic Senatoe, but I’m increasingly galled by Booker. Giving a long filibuster then voting for Kushner, taking pictures with Gallant in front of a Frederick Douglass portrait, crying over Democrats not standing up for what’s right and then voting for arms to Israel…
BREAKING: In a First, Majority of Democratic Senators Vote to Stop Arming Israel 26 Democrats joined Bernie Sanders in his effort to end certain weapons' sales to Israel - but were blocked by 70 pro-war senators, including every Republican present. Here are the details, from Prem Thakker:
🚨 Senators will vote tomorrow on whether to stop US weapons packages for Israel over starvation in Gaza Key: -Whether the bid gets > the 19 votes among Democrats & allies a similar bid won in November 2024 (only 15 this April) -If the seeming MAGA shift on Isr translates to any Republican votes
Thinking this + the Biden admin genuinely trying to take on corporate America through the CFPB, DOL, FTC is by far the most underrated driver of what’s happening rn. If we had an actual left that cared about anything more than hating on liberals you’d think they’d notice this.
"If you don't do things perfectly there's no point in you having done them at all; in fact, it's worse than having done nothing" is one of those things that kill any and all progress, and it's wild to see it proliferate online.
The irony of course is that these are often the same people pulling the "Do Something Even If It Fails Because At Least Something Is Being Attempted". It's *exhausting* watching people pingpong between these two extremes.
And then half the time when those things do get attempted and it makes no difference, they are among those who are completely unaware it happened
want to know what could get more young people into the trades? a massive DEI transformation of these industries, that’s what
And in addition to the DoL I'd add that big business was pissed at Biden's CFPB and FTC for what they saw as government overreach policing corporations in favor of consumers. I think a lot of left wingers miss this story in their rush to deny there was any kind of progressive economic policy push
environmental protections are girly
Cancel culture is when girls do it. When boys do it then it’s just daddy getting people into line.
To go further this all reads to me like they’re basically laundering a right wing narrative for left wing audiences. It’s confusing to me bc Warren seems pretty clearly laser focused on economic issue but I guess we’re dealing with cultural grievances and not actual policy
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