DDHQ's mandate is to make the call before anyone else; it's gotten them into trouble before and will continue to do so until they shape up.

OMG thank you. A bunch of dipshits have wildly over-indexed on this and the Lynn Cheney thing, when not one voter out of a *million* knows who all those people are or what happened.

Oh wow, who could have foreseen that cynical nihilist conspiracism would have ended up here, what a shocker.

The American people as a whole are in a weird place where they're simultaneously hyper-cynical and totally dismissive of the notion there are like 18 different psyops going on to undermine their belief in the concept of society.

One of the best things about sports is the weird idiosyncratic histories of teams, each one has a a story, many of which doesn’t start with their current city. For example LA ‘Lakers’ are called that because they’re originally from Minnesota, and Boston, a normal city, has an NFL team that is evil.

This is an irritating website to be on when democrats do something that’s not perfect but basically fine because the two relations people have to the party are OUR PERFECT FIGHTERS TRY SO HARD, ONLY TO BE STABBED IN THE BACK and THE FECKLESS COWARDS HAVE LEFT US TO DIE ONCE AGAIN

A medievalist being an absolutely raging, frothing-at-the-mouth antisemite is so funny. Like yeah, dude, congratulations. You really got into the headspace

Anti-woke messaging is a net negative among Democrats

Seattle City Hall right now, where students from around the city have gathered after a mass walk-out to protest ICE:

Nightmare blunt rotation made up entirely of sleep paralysis demons.

New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced

as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.

there will not be “swing states” in november. there will be, depending on national conditions, anywhere from 25 to 75 competitive House races. they will be in states led by republicans and democrats, and the key voters will likely be people who swing between the parties.

one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.

Every few months there's a story called like EVIL GENIUS? STEVE BANNON'S SECRET MASTER PLAN TO RULE THE WORLD REVEALED and you look inside and it's always about how Steve Bannon called them up to tell them he's an evil genius and that he has a secret master plan to rule the world.

i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Yeah I warned about this in Bluesky's early days. I saw it as a novel approach to the problem but worried about how it would be achieved at scale--outsourcing moderation to the users in any fashion rarely works well outside of cellular, forum-like structures. And even then...

Yeah, composable moderation seemed like a great idea but there’s two giant problems: 1) scale 2) trust Neither is solved and neither is, I suspect, solvable.

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

voters have incoherent beliefs and preferences about immigration. they, of course, literally voted for this. they also did not understand anything about it, so they actually hate it. and the hard part is getting them to think that the thing you are doing is the (nonsensical) thing they want.

This is my thing, yes criticize Dems and call them. But run your Republican Congress critters ragged right now. Make it impossible for them to have a moment of peace.

As always, the answer to "what should I do if I'm worried about Rs loudly announcing their aspirations to try & ratfuck elections?" is go volunteer to be a poll worker or an elections observer. That is, if you actually want to so something beyond just wallowing in despair & untreated anxiety online

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working. This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose. Let me explain & offer some advice.

“burn the entire democracy down and start over” is an opinion equivalent to “apocalyptic times are good because the rapture is coming and I’ll go to heaven” in that it’s a way people give themselves permission to do none of the complex and difficult things that would make things a little better now

I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable

I am once again begging people to learn anything about governments east of western europe

It is perhaps notable that it is 3D printed whistles and not 3D printed gun parts that are making a collective difference in actual community resistance.

Unhelpful distortion and binary thinking. That book says no such thing. It’s more like, nonviolence was the public strategy that won the moral and legal war, armed self-defense was the private reality that kept the organizers alive long enough to win it.

this "heritage American" thing needs to be stamped out and verboten by the end of Woke 2.0 it's blasphemy against the founding principles of this nation and should not be tolerated in polite society

it's by no means a new phenomenon but it's exceptionally gross how the entire Republican Party is in agreement that the three million Americans living in Puerto Rico are not really American

Side note: None of the spending bills passed in the "minibus" had any anti-trans riders. This includes the bill that funds the Department of Health and Human Services www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.

boy the discourse on this website as of late has been a real dumpst… OH GODDAMMIT

[looks around] you know? tonight? words to live by

A lawless administration putting the entire federal legal system under incredible strain www.fox9.com/news/federal...

the petliner... yay

"Presumably, the PLA is a super smart organization full of highly wired Chinese technocrats who’ve been thinking very hard about all of these problems." yeah sometimes you can, uh, really tell that Tooze isn't a China expert.

I’m starting to think spending twenty hours a day getting egged on by other hyper politically engaged mentally ill people isn’t good for any of us.

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Also, I see this is why the discourse about PR has come up. But the solution to this shit isn't to stop loudly reminding people that we're citizens, *especially* because of everything going on right now.

there are technically complex aspects of politics where you should give appropriate deference to those with expertise: protesting is not one of them, it is definitionally something done mostly by amateurs when successful. the appropriate response to someone trying to pull rank like this is dismissal

Who among us would not launch a thousand ships for the sake of Lupita Nyongo

*raises hand timidly* Um...hi. I'm Puerto Rican, and I care? So do my Puerto Rican parents and sister? It's trivially easy to dismiss that sort of thing when "being American" isn't something they're trying to take away from you, with profound consequences. And, we do *want* our citizenship.

the persistent ability of certain american leftists to forget that north vietnam was like, a real country with a real military and not a band of Fremen guerrillas will never stop driving me insane