lol

Imo, another big reason is that democrats broadly, and people on bsky specifically, trust mamdani. We believe that he shares our values. Incumbent democrats burned that trust a lot over the last few years, to such an extent that we demand greater shows of loyalty than we do of Mamdani

Trump is a diehard believer in human inequality. He sees the wealthy as superior, yes, but even more than that, he sees people with charisma — "stars," people "out of central casting" — as a kind of unofficial Elect that walk among the rest of the hoi polloi. He reacts to ppl accordingly.

think sharon's nailed it. you can see the fascist press (they literally did not invite a single mainstream outlet from print or cable news!), in real time, realize he is not actually an ideological ally and is not interested in doing the type of performance they seek

New York Dems basically fucked us in the House and gave us some tremendously bad leadership, but, on the other hand, the two leading lights of the future of the party have made their careers destroying them

The strategy of stacking this press gaggle with idiot right wingers has totally backfired.

this is basically proof that if there was a different set of Scheming Viziers whispering into his ear, they could've done a proper fascist program that includes carrots and giveaways to their base, instead of the all-stick version that's destroying them

Trump doesn't like the mean, nasty press asking his friend these gotcha questions

he is giving the conservative press absolutely nothing lmao they all came here with gotchas and trump fully doesn't give a shit about them

basically zohran is hot and trump defers to hot guys every time

trump just patted zohran on the arm and said it was fine if he calls him a fascist

Zohran cucked Trump in less than an hour, adjust what you think political strength looks like if you don’t think it looks like him

they only invited far right media so every question is intended to insult Zohran, but Vance isn't there to be a little provocateur so Trump's just ignoring the jabs because Zohran's his friend now

zohran turned on the smile and trump decided they were best friends

trump is talking about how happy he for zohran and how he's going to help him lmao

doesn't even have the basic comedic sense to say "but i repeat myself" come on

okay but it literally won't do this because markets exist and offshore rigs take years to lease and build and it's not actually profitable to do so in the vast majority of american waters (other than the Gulf, maybe, which they won't allow because florida republicans don't want it)

this is a good interview and fairly surprising transparency from a sitting US senator

traitor

it increasingly feels like the only reasonable explanation is: - the grand jury formally issued no true bill, regardless of handwritten notes from later in the day - [UNEXPLAINED TWO HOUR GAP] - the second indictment was never voted on - Comey never actually indicted

note: the "witness" saying this is a psycho repeat-congressional-loser conservative activist, Christine Bish, who was conspiring with Pulte/Martin to set up Schiff. so, uh, grain of salt!

feel like this validates my "this is happening because it's hard to fire Kelly Hayes due to 28 U.S.C. § 546" theory

saw @gpetersen.bsky.social randomly on here, clicked through to find a surprisingly compelling blue collar progressive campaign for NY-02 that doesn't seem to be falling into the "so blue collar means conservative" trap either

"He doesn't even know what he's looking at, he has no idea what's going on..." [lengthy pause] "... with the kickoff rule"

what is this guy talking about? thanksgiving is cheaper than ever

this comes up in opioid treatment too: they used to call drugs like suboxone "medication-assisted treatment" and now doctors have to push back because, no, the medication is in fact the treatment itself. They'll literally say "we don't call diabetic use of insulin medication-assisted treatment"

I think it’s good that Dems are competing re how aggressively they can denounce Trump

he does have one thing in common with jerry seinfeld, being a pedophile

not prepared for Jojo Angela

i don't think that's accurate. they think it's a good hate symbol.

The other members of the quadumvirate (Stephen Miller, Russ Vought, and, currently, SOUTHCOM) have not assented to this policy, so it is not valid.

he actually wants to hang OUT with them. common mistake

Economists of all professions should understand that complex systems (like the economy) fail slowly and then all at once. So we have the current slow ongoing deterioration and an economy that has made a huge leveraged bet on a industry that doesn't make $ and has no theory of how to do so (AI).

It's not so much that I want economist to say the economy is in shambles as wanting them to use a system analysis to take the "deteriorating but pretty slowly so far" to its logical conclusion. Don't know *when* but its clear that the current trend is accelerating and is not a stable equilibrium.

oh right it is literally a career prosecutor appointed by the court because they refused to get a real USA confirmed by the senate

gotta admit i literally do not understand how this is possible given the present DOJ. did they somehow fuckup and nominate a US attorney in Maryland that would actually enforce the law

Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆

okay but they're right, it doesn't even make sense to have proconsular authority when that's an *extension* of your consulship, anyways this is why Zohran can never govern

bsky: wow liberals hate the left liberals: attaining proconsular authority over a province before having served a term as consul or even just praetor is unheard of. has she even held a position as quaester or aedile? no?? the gods will surely be displeased by this

the funniest thing about it is still that trump thinks no one says "groceries" anymore and comments on it literally every time he mentions a grocery store

"We should just stay silent and trust the people who have as a profession allowed purges of extremely qualified personnel and obviously illegal strikes to happen without any public pushback to do the right thing, which we are assuming they are doing quietly in the background."

Chris Murphy, one of the most boring white guys in the Senate: "it's time to pick a fucking side"

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Buzz Grambo is the most Star Wars name I've ever heard. I love everything about this.

I’m howling.

also "i can drink 20 ounces of coffee and it makes me want to go to sleep"

Look at broader measures of unemployment—including people who want a job but aren't in the labor force or who are working part-time but want a full-time job—and the labor market is nearly in the worst place since the pandemic.

life is a fucking RNG and -- due to genetics, environmental factors, and sometimes just simple bad fucking luck you end up disabled. all things being equal you *will* be disabled at some point before you die simply due to the ravages of old age

i remember when i got a telehealth diagnosis and the psychiatric nurse was like "just call around to all your CVSes/Walgreens and ask if they have Adderall and let me know" like that was a totally reasonable thing for a patient to do to get their medications