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

Q: Stefanik has called Mamdani a 'jihadist.' Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist right now? TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person

This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year

this insistence that she is some preternatural journalistic talent is going to drive me insane

1. Since I get asked about this: I think this is both a reasonable position and one I deeply disagree with — bc it's not a standard we apply to other political terms. E.g., you'll get different answers if you ask folks to define "liberal" too — but we still use it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

Someone in the house should introduce an impeachment resolution against RFK

Socialism is good, actually. We deserve Representatives with the courage to say so. bethfordemocracy.com

A point I think we should grapple with more thoroughly is that today, many dont believe in democracy at all- so many people reject the idea that people are capable of governing themselves. Democracy is a radical idea, and we need to get people back onboard with its foundational principles again.

Beyond the obvious tech illiteracy, this kind of sentiment about jurors is anti-american and antidemocratic. One of the few principles that has persisted from the 18th century to the 21st in America is that the people are capable of reasoning, and are guided by some kind of moral sense.

Talking with old people is legit awesome basically 99% of the time

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Andy Harris's safe district exists as it does primarily because former no. 2 ranked House Democrat Steny Hoyer doesn't want a majority-minority district he could lose in a primary

It's time for those left at CDC to reevaluate whether staying at the agency is in the public interest.

No, House Democrats should not vote for a resolution that cynically conflates communism and socialism. For one thing, don't give the GOP the power to define important terms. For another, pay attention to your voters. news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...

And a common argument is "oh well we can't stop this!" but I'm sorry that's a lie. These companies could take their free-to-use LLMs offline. We could have a strong social bias against using them. It could be grounds for immediate dismissal from university, instead of offered to students for free

somehow the crown we threw in the gutter is going to be waiting for us to pick it up when we're able

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

Count Dooku was a good man and he deserves a full pardon, everything you hear bad about him comes from Antifa

I do kind of feel for the reps like Velázquez, Evans, Nadler, Schakowsky, and Watson Coleman who are deciding to retire in normal ways at normal ages in a clear signal to their equally old but generally more centrist colleagues, who are still stubbornly not retiring

Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States: - Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party - Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children - Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats Those are just factual statements.

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.

Giving this a signal boost because apparently the Brewers had already quietly signed JB Bukauskas to a second minor league deal in 2025 when I asked when they were going to sign him again. bsky.app/profile/mass...

Like a lot of franchises what I really want from any additional books or movies is for the characters to discover a ruined Statue of Liberty and go “It was earth! It was earth all along!” even if the books never indicated it would be elsewhere

the media can't save him because unlike the Mueller investigation, they aren't the ones keeping it in the headlines. they can't get bored with it. it has happened mostly in spite of them.

the thing is, Democrats are taking the House. they will have a huge mandate to make everything all Epstein, all the time, until the GOP cries uncle. if the seal is broken on protecting Bill, and it sure seems to be, there is no downside even for chickenshit Democrats

Leo has agreed in principle to throw out the first pitch at a new White Sox stadium. “Schedule permitting.”

These platforms advertise themselves as revenge porn generators, it’s sic

It really smacks of gender how "we" keep talking about AI as transformative for workflow and its impacts on GDP but no major outlet seems interested in it's use for the generation of nonconsensual porn

Holy shit. It is confirmed that Melissa had the 252mph hurricane winds taking the record from Typhoon Megi in 2010 with 248mph winds. news.ucar.edu/133047/recor...

Interesting results from the Marquette poll. A quarter of young people believe political violence can sometimes be justified. Republicans are most likely to say political violence is a very big or moderately big problem.

Was curious, so looked at how the newly drawn UT-01 voted in the 2020 Dem Presidential primary. May not be 100% exact, but close enough. Bernie: 39.58% Warren: 17.31% Biden: 16.48% Bloomberg: 14.17% Others: 12.48%

save it for november 20th buddy, we won’t be tolerating microaggressions like this on our holy day

sen. warnock gave a very good speech yesterday at georgetown and it was a reminder that this guy is, i think, a presidential caliber talent whether or not he wants the prize www.youtube.com/live/xty8iKG...

Here's the problem: imo, this theory really only works if you think Roberts is particularly attached to Trump as a political figure or MAGA as a movement. He's really not. John Roberts number 1 priority is, has been, and always will be killing the VRA. Followed by his legacy and esteem.

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

In an interview with Church Times, the Archbishop of York Cottrell talked about his visit to occupied Palestinian territory and for the first time ever publicly calls Israel's system of control over Palestinians an apartheid regime. Cottrell also says Israel has committed genocidal acts.

fwiw the R vote share in this poll is consistent with consensus. The difference between this poll and other polls is that they pushed leaners and leaners essentially all broke Dem. that doesn’t seem all that unrealistic to me right now

one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)

Nuclear power sucks. For decades, they've promised better reactors just around the corner. Existing reactor tech is far more expensive than solar/wind, hence the push to deregulate: they want to squeeze out profitability by doing a slipshod job and they don't care if that causes a couple Chernobyls.

Stories about the death of Eden Knight have dropped to the second page of search results for "Michael Pocalyko," behind all sorts of generic fluff about his business and some novel he wrote. I do no know whether some concerted SEO effort was involved, but here's a link.

Anne Hidalgo is one of the most courageous mayors in history. They sued her. Said she was attacking Parisian heritage. Said she would make traffic worse. And yet she persisted. She seized an opportunity and delivered.

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

It is genuinely insane how bright and distracting car lights are now

There used to be a ghost in my bedroom back when I first lived in Spain. He was so angry, it just radiated anger in the room. He kept coming back until I'd learnt enough Spanish to talk to him and explain, and then I never woke up to his presens again. But do I believe in ghosts? Nah... Maybe?

do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”

I legitimately think none of them have read it, that the first MAGA FBI guy who opened the "Every day really was another wonderful secret" evidence folder visibly aged twenty years and went 90% nonverbal and now they treat it like the Ark of the Covenant

i went and got the most obviously scared shitless screengrab. he looks slightly more terrified before this but it's got motion blur, this is the first frame of his whole face after he learns that isn't blurred he looks u n h a p p y

right, and the thing about selling out on abortion is that, really, is ezra klein selling anything out himself? no, he's selling someone else out.

I mean it's not this simple but a handful of policy elites really did drastically reengineer our urban fabric in ways that were popular in the immediate term and created massive social dysfunction beyond that.