If the report is to be believed, mostly people in manufacturing.
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If the report is to be believed, mostly people in manufacturing.
Parent: "You're turning our kids into Gay Marxists!" Sociology Professor: "Buddy, I can't even get them to read the syllabus!"
I already beat another guy who cut Medicaid, gave tax breaks to billionaires, and hounded multiple women who accused him of sexual harassment — might as well debate the one actually calling the shots.
More than half of Twitter traffic is bots, way higher than other platforms. This is why Elon's baby is valued at $5-9 billion vs $2 trillion for META. The fact that Twitter is so demonstrably irrelevant yet writers keep grasping at straws to convey something different says a lot
RFK Jr. has been beating the charges (hundreds of them!) for longer than most folks on here have been alive… ..and this Senate hearing is a masterclass. This wayward white man using big words, aggressive posturing, and projection to sail through this thing. Historic. And DEADLY.
They picked up 41 house seats in 2018 and plenty of those maps were very GOP friendly.
Right now the GOP can probably squeeze 10 seats out of their states without risking any losses, but CA alone can squeeze 5 back, MD, NY, NJ could squeeze out 2-4 more. People really dramatically underestimate how many marginal GOP seats were carried by Trump cycle voters.
Dem cowardice on the summary execution of the alleged Venezuelan drug runners is reminding me of Dem cowardice during the run-up to Iraq when Dem leaders were so terrified of appearing weak on national security that they refused to make the obvious moral and political choices.
Ahmari is too inconsistent, he might be a Socialist in 5 years.
Very true.
See... I get that, but I also get the weirdo vibes from Severance.
I truly believe that electing a transphobic Dem could have the same effect that electing a transphobic Labour party in the U.K. had: the worst possible outcome where being anti-trans is a consensus view bsky.app/profile/park...
Only Feingold in the Senate had the balls to stand up to Bush on that.
The single greatest campaign in the 21st century and we ignore its basic structure in favor of whatever the hell Jeffries aides are telling him about peach prices.
So I should criticize Harris or I shouldn’t? Seems as if she triangulated to defeat even at the DNC, which ignored Palestinian voters in favor of jingoism.
If you’re conflating relief that Biden had dropped out and a few songs at the DNC with ‘Yes We Can’ I don’t know what to tell you. Obama embraced movement politics… Harris… did not.
Obama defeated the Clintons in 2008 by running on Iraq and optimism and the Dem Consultant class just… forgot?
I know we’re all having fun at this being a death notice but the reality is either something very serious (Taking over Chicago, attacking Venezuela) or banal (Announcing a line of Trump monster truck rallies)
Vaxxed?
Alternatively:
(guy who's about to invent fermentation) nah i bet it's still good
As a straight white guy, can I just say this is all so embarrassing. I see literally thousands of my peers turn into blobs of Jell-O when forced to encounter (Blacks/Latinos/Gays/Women) and not be deferred to and I just am sitting here like... I don't need to be coddled, I'm a big boy.
Unfortunately, the US system doesn't have firm enough safeguards to prevent this without the next D president unilaterally seizing Trump's assets - which paradoxically makes things worse. We need substantial constitutional reform and we needed it a decade ago.
The BLM protesters weren’t looking for CDC guidance before demonstrating against getting murdered by police, hope this helps
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he'll send ICE to intimidate us. if i see an ICE agent at my polling place i'm going to walk right past him.
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
So now you work for the post office?
Ok, but we are talking about Wisconsin Supreme Court where the Liberals have won the last 2 races by 11 points.
Ashley Hinson seems like the most obvious choice for the GOP.
She saw the writing on the wall and decided a nasty campaign only to lose by 12 points wasn't worth it.
Honestly, speaking for myself, AI has been a massive time suck at my job. I have to constantly review other folks work for ChatGPT garbage AND I'm always adding like 3 extra clicks to my Microsoft and Google tasks to turn off AI when it's a distraction. The practical use cases are very narrow!
So... what you're saying is... your story... got stuck in the cloud?
Imagining an alternative universe where President Harris activated the California National Guard and sent them to Idaho to clean up Boise's parks. I'm sure the good citizens of Idaho would act calmly and rationally in that instance.
The commitment to bipartisanship among Democrats in Congress is not permeable by rational argument. The Republican Party backed a president that tried to steal an election and incited an attack on Congress. They were in physical danger. Nothing has changed. What more can words do?
What's a JD Vance supporter I've never heard of that
"I can tell you right now... I don't want Indiana"
basically. guy who thinks he's a political genius by trying to steal a march on the far right on crime and immigration when in reality he stumbled ass backwards into a majority and didn't have any clear idea what to do with it
superb piece by @interfluidity.com drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/08/20/t...
What I'm looking for in the 2028 primary is someone who will put Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem in jail, and so far, that's Pritzker
Increasingly of the mind that the "distraction" rhetoric comes from a deeply-rooted belief that what we're witnessing is merely a form of dictatorial cosplay. The problem which is apparently invisible for some reason is that even assuming this were true, laughing it off is unacceptable.
"I'm speaking to you from the White House in 2025, but the message is timeless: Avoid the Noid!"
"I'm speaking to you from the White House in 2025, but the message is timeless: Avoid the Noid!"
I'm speaking to you from the White House in 2025, but the message is timeless: Avoid the Noid!
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
Christine Whitman was governor of New Jersey in the 1990s, when Trump's brain froze.
Somehow everyone over the age of 30 managed to get through high school without a phone in their hand during school hours and it wasn't a secret plot to censor anyone.
They didn't attempt a violent coup because of the left. They aren't destroying US science & academia because of the left. They're not embracing open racism & nazi ideology because of the left. They are adults, making choices, doing things of their own volition, and they bear the responsibility.
Funny how this doesn’t apply to Trump in the slightest.
Weird how little interest there is in this story after all the media concern (in retrospect very well justified) about Biden's health and mental state
Since we're all talking about David Shor's flawed methodology today, I looked him up. Again, we have Democrats relying on another self-taught data "scientist" with only a bachelor's degree in an unrelated subject. Maybe start hiring actual social scientists for sound methodology? There are many!
Dems aren’t saying this shit with any regularity, but the average GOP congressman sounds like a lunatic. Explain to me why they win if you need to be perfect in your speech 100% of the time.
The one thing Americans love is politicians who only regurgitate what’s positively received in an organized focus group setting!
The newspeak enthusiasts are annoying to a subset of pundit. Those pundits think they speak for average Americans, but they themselves prefer polices (like deficit reduction) most voters ignore or despise.
Neither are the people you’re talking to on Bluesky.
Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.
I think it’s more the fault of the conservatives who vote for dictators but your mileage may vary.
Thank you for your attention to these matters!
So weird how so many of supposedly liberal MSNBC’s go-to voices for political commentary are Republicans. So, so weird.
14 years ago, Yessenia Ruano fled to the United States. She applied for asylum and went to Milwaukee. She became a teacher's aide, gave birth to twin daughters, and bought a house. Little by little, her life expanded. But last November, the policies all changed: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
these people were like designed in a lab to make me angry bsky.app/profile/atru...
We have concentration camps and the federal government taking over cities run by their opponents. But the problem is leftists saying the wrong words!
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
MKE! The train goes to Milwaukee AND Chicago direct from the airport.
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
No, tax laws you don’t like, proposed or passed through the normal democratic legislative process, aren’t anything like illegal fascist extortion
i will never vote for gavin newsom under any circumstances
And the era of digital prohibition begins. Politicians will censor the web “for the children” but won’t lift a finger to stop kids from being murdered in their own school.
I’m not only mad at the blue maga types insisting that we have to get behind Newsom but also the lefties on here being like “we don’t have to litigate the 2028 primaries so far in advance.” Clearly we fucking do.
Btw, I remember there being some anxieties around folks expressing their opinions during primaries. Besides being nowhere near a presidential primary at the moment, now is in fact the time for people to express certain lines they expect candidates not to cross. Protect trans folks.
Also a surcharge on your electric bill for the 9/10 wind farm you still have to pay for but isn't generating any energy. As Long Island residents about Shoreham nuclear power station.
Would suggest recurring treatments for a chronic condition that they are hiding.
There's one by us that I see from time to time and what strikes me is how *cheap* it looks. Like, the thing is smudged and tarnished and dinged and warped and scratched to hell... It looks like a baking sheet that's been dropped a dozen times. Who thought this would look cool?
Ignorance is Strength, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery.
You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton’s house not because you love John Bolton but because you’re opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics
Very few National Guard members will be grateful for the opportunity to be yelled at, spat on, forced to stand around in the sun and humidity, and then eventually ordered to shoot people they have no issue with because they volunteered to help during foreign wars and natural disasters.
The Fugitive Slave Act was so hated in the North, it actively drove a secession movement "in the North" in response. Also, shit like this happened: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_...
Uh... I think you dramatically overestimate this country's openness to Trump sticking around... maybe 80/20 he loses given the fact that Americans HATE being told what to do for long.
Well, they know where the piggies eat the slop.
Also elected dems
Huss was fantastic in Halt and Catch Fire.
Why can't he just say: "The Democrats will lower electricity costs."
To be fair, if we had 51 Liz Warrens those things would all change overnight.
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
You’re telling me this guy is not a more desirable guy to promote than Gavin Newsom
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IHOP is surprisingly good and reasonably priced. Cracker Barrel always felt dirty… too much junk around collecting dust.