Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
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Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
When you see the wealthy Twitch streamer attacking the Democratic Party 24/7, remember: he's the nephew of the guy who took millions from Republican Buddy Roemer to create a Youtube channel he later used as a platform to found Justice Democrats, the group who vowed to overthrow the Democratic Party.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait. Is this real?
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Whet Sabato means is that the media are not going to report the truth and instead repeat what Republicans say and sensationalize high profile crimes, and pundits like Sabato will go along.
Someone please kill me right now.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh go take a hike.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
They are afraid to. Trump and his circle threaten the press. Biden like other presidents did not. The press repaid Biden by hounding him about his age. The press are cowards concerned about access and, ultimately, feathering their own nests with book deals and better compensation.
Remember last week, when Jake Tapper was urgently warning about the purported dangers posed to the nation by an aging former president, who has not been in office for months.?
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
I verify only if I don’t trust the person posting something! Thank you.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
(Evergreen Jake Tapper comment here.)
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Working title: Original Recipe
It never happens with GOP, but too damn often in our party folks try to build themselves up by tearing Dems down. You can demand better from us without pissing all over the house we’ve built together. I’m sick of it. If you make a name for yourself by trashing the party, I’m calling you out.
1. Why are we passing shit from Twitter around? 2. You know that those shipments being stopped are small-package mail, right? If we really were facing a 40-country embargo Trump would be screaming about it, because that's actual Destroy the Economy Shit.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.
Good job Chuck, this is the kind of thing you should post on this website specifically
I'm not sharing the face of the child being interviewed after today's school shooting. I am going to point that showing his face is highly unethical even if parental permission was obtained, because we know from prior mass shooting events that survivors and their families are harassed by deniers.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder if he’ll make a genes commercial.
Period.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
The mainstream media will call any Dem candidate a liar or just hysterical for repeating Trump’s actual words.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Glad to see the Times give their “glow-up” to someone good, for once.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
They better pay a fare.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
It wouldn’t shock me at this point if he funded segregation academies.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
I think Andrew wants to have a show on Fox. We’ll see.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
They have the power.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Amen to that. Applies pretty generally.
From Robert P. George of Princeton, the conservative activist behind these conservative centers on college campuses. When ideology drives your work as a scholar, you end up saying stupid things like this. paw.princeton.edu/article/what...
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
So the term the post is using is “crackdown.”
Some nattering nabobs were shocked by Friday’s FBI Bolton raid to realize that Trump actually is a fascist after all But he spent all of 2024 telling America exactly how he’d be a dictator- and now is keeping that promise My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
In DC we’re banging pots every night at 8:00 for 5 minutes until the military leaves and the occupation is over
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Talk to your friends at the Bukwark who share every Third Way language-police BS post, and then get back to us.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Nick Clegg needs to take a long look in the mirror.
Front page of the Post now.
You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
National Socialism.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess it’s back to mob fights at IHOP for poor James.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
They’re lawfaring the wrong people!
someone alert these americans that third way said you shouldn't speak like thi
You'll never believe what the convicted sex trafficker seeking a presidential pardon said www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
This is sarcasm.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social)
Liberals need to stop policing speech and police their own speech.
I actually agree that Democrats should refrain from using most of these. And they already do! When was the last time a Senator said 'heteronormative'? The bigger problem is that orgs like Third Way are reinforcing this false, right-wing narrative. Dems can't stop doing something they're not doing!
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Who is policing language here? Third Way.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social)
Fuck these people. And fuck me for being an idiot who gave them any money. If you’re LGBTQIA it’s now on the unspeakable list.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Sarah, it also lists LGBTQIA. That’s who I am. Screw these Third Way assholes. The last relevant thing I remember them doing is backing a sunset provision in the ACA.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
LGBTQIA is on this “don’t say” list. That’s who I am. I want to be clear because I have donated to you: you are endorsing this shit from Third Way? I’m a centrist. Proudly. But they are full of shit. The last relevant thing they did was propose a stupid sunset provision in the ACA. Just back away.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Open-face turkey with gravy. Mmm.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social)
Last time I heard about Third Way they were advocating for a sunset provision in the ACA.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you for using the term “reactionary centrist.” The corresponding term on the left might be something like “purity leftist.@ We need people who can deal with being in a coalition, who vote, and vote democratic.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe it’s a coverup. Maybe not. There’s no reliable reporting confirming Trump has a terminal illness. But why say something that is so clearly a conspiracy theory that you have to go to Alex Jones as a source? Or just make fun of them, but please don’t buy into it yourself. Love the pod.
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
New York Times reporters repeatedly witnessed bribes being passed out to Chinese-language reporters at Adams campaign events, but said nothing until another outlet broke the story of one of their reporters being offered a bribe. Why? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
David Brooks, fascism apologist. People who choose fascism aren't responsible, the decadent left made them? The Nazis tried that excuse too. Now as then, it's based on lies. All US media sources were not produced by leftists. That's insane. Fox, Rogan, Daily Wire, etc., not to mention Elon Musk's X.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s almost as if Target shoppers switched.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
You sound like a psychiatrist.
Bootlicker Law www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Physicians rely on anecdote?
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Covered in glory at Vanderbilt (pretty sure they ran him off).
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Devo and the Pretenders invented punk rock?
Bullshit. I knew when Joe Biden said “we,” he meant all of us. I know because he spent a lifetime showing us. I know when Kamala Harris says “we,” she means all of us. I know when JB Pritzker and Michelle Wu and Lauren Underwood and Jasmine Crockett say “we,” they mean us all. Just stop.
Today was the deadline for the DOJ to turn over Epstein file materials subpoenaed by the Republican-led House Committee on Oversight. Guess what.
American Eagle releasing their Sydney Sweeney 14-Words fantasy without knowing this masterpiece was in rehearsals...it's beautiful.
ProPublica identified 95 Facebook pages that regularly post made-up headlines designed to draw engagement — and, often, stoke political divisions. The pages, most of which are managed by people overseas, have a total of more than 7.7M followers. (Published Feb.)
Shari Redstone is one of the villains in America's democratic decline.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
The discussion is real. The Dyson sphere thing sounds impossible.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m not sure “support for universities” generally is salient. Support for science may be when specific cuts are highlighted.
Oh look, the contrarian leftists are now centralizing around "gerrymandering to fight back against Republican gerrymandering is wrong". Surprise surprise. Fight Back, Do Something, No Wait, Not That, Wrong Rock.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok F this Chris.
In fact, little Marco did stop.
This is exactly--and I mean exactly--how Holocaust deniers have long discredited the Final Solution being a concerted effort & high-level order. "The Jews in the camps all died of typhoid outbreaks"
By voting to keep Mississippi's social media age-verification law in place even though he believes that it *does* violate the First Amendment, Justice Kavanaugh's opinion last Thursday bespeaks a flatly inconsistent approach to how he is voting on emergency applications. Me in today's "One First":
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Let the man have his bath.
For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views. Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social)
Yascha Mounk is pretty quiet.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
A sensible centrist Democrat. It’s time for others to come around.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
But just like the U.S. with Trump, the government is Israel until they vote them out.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Skipping Baltimore and Wilmington wouldn’t hurt.
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
I want to congratulate the neocons at the Bulwark for kneecapping Joe Biden starting with Afghanistan. Focus on your soulmates on the Republican Party. They have the power to stop this.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
“Democrat” party is a dead giveaway.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Extremely homophobic- comments about monkeypox and AIDS on LGBTQ site posts, I regularly get called gay slurs when commenting on history sites. Reporting these comments gets an immediate reply that the comments do not violate community standards.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
It is created for the purpose of people sharing it in outrage.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s irrelevant like the Daily Beast.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Me know that not real money!
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
“The chair is against the wall.” This reads like code.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
I Connected: Anti-trans, New York Times, bigots, and TERFs.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
All of them are in the bag for Trump.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social)
The flattery of a dictator is a disgrace. So is this menu of baby food.
Ace post
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
He saw that menu and was bored.
Joel Levi (@joellevinyc.bsky.social) reply parent
Mamdani will win. And peope on *either side* can “backlash” if their preferred candidate loses the election, but the loser had better concede and ask their supporters to respect the results.
This denunciation of "elites" comes from a former New York Times columnist and current Atlantic staff writer who ventriloquizes low-income Black communities in the District instead of asking them how they actually feel about Trump's invasion. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
It is legitimately insane that the NYT has now published FOUR separate articles taking seriously this half-baked proposal that is opposed by literally every single person who has thought about it for more than a second
PIN THIS TWEET: - Rent control ≠ rent stablization - Neither rent control or rent stabilization have ever been means tested - Literally every apartment built before 1974 is subjected to either rent control or rent stabilization, unless it was deregulated in the 1990s I AM LOSING MY MIND