Found out that people think Platner already won the Democratic primary. He has not! @andrealaflamme.bsky.social & David Costello are in the race - Primary is June 9th. Also, both the primary & general elections are ranked choice, so a progressive could run in the general without helping Collins.

This is why the Democrats' current obsession with tax cuts is so dangerous. They're paving the way for more extreme proposals like ending progressive taxation altogether. Again, we don't need "Republican lite." We need a party that affirms that paying for the things government does is good.

A tangent here, but I'm not a huge fan of the growing anti-tax sentiment from Democrats at a time when municipal budgets around the country (including here in Massachusetts) are getting absolutely crushed by the one-two punch of falling federal/state aid and rising healthcare and retirement costs.

"It's actually cheaper for me to order out than to cook as a single person" is a lie you tell yourself in your 20s, I know this is the case because it is a lie I told myself in my 20s to order the burrito that I wanted.

Incredibly how many people have convinced themselves of something absurd on its face and trivially disprovable thanks to social media.

>be the JDCA >Hate Abdul El-Sayed >Fixate on defeating him >Tell your fans to split the anti-Abdul vote with Stevens and McMorrow

it would be easier if slop leftists like Lorenz could just adopt 'working-class' and stop pretending to speak for the 'poor'

a medieval peasant's workday started around 5 in the morning and ended at whenever sundown was

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

NEW: A California DA was prosecuting Stanford students for felonies over pro-Palestine protests. Bolts reported back in February that he was fundraising off these cases. Learning this, defense attorneys dug more, & filed a motion to force Rosen off the case for bias. A judge just removed him:

Hasn't even been a year and Zohran's governance is having a massive impact on my family. Our daycare was able to open a 15-seat 3K program because of the 2,000 extra seats the admin funded. Everyone we know got in somewhere they wanted. This is gonna save us almost 50 grand.

Re: the discourse Graham Platner is not “a Fetterman.” The belligerent progressive John Fetterman Pennsylvanians voted for isn’t even the Fetterman we’ve come to loathe. His stroke turned him into an incompetent Trump stooge. Platner’s a leftist with a checkered past, not a brain-damaged MAGA-lite

55 POINTS 55 REBOUNDS 55 ASSISTS 55 BLOCKS

Only a true poaster could demonstrate that the vibecession and burrito taxi discourses were actually the same. substack.com/@besttrouser...

'the middle class really resented the working class doing well because it costs them cheap servants' is very obviously true of the Biden years, it's been confused because the most vocal members of the middle class online somehow wrapped this in leftist language

First candidate for federal office to suggest doing the stupid meme

The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.

Fulton County finally reported most of its votes (it was delayed due to gunshots that shut down voting at an elementary school for hours), and the liberal supreme court candidate Miracle Rankin didn't get close to the numbers that she needed there to close the gap with Justice Bethel. (No AP call.)

Congratulations to progressive New Deal Dems Rep. Summer Lee and Bob Brooks, and to Democratic Socialist Chris Rabb, for winning their primaries tonight!

Special shout-outs to Huntsville 50501 member(!!!) Amanda Pusczek for winning her primary in AL-04, and to David Roth, Charles Booker, Senator Jon Ossoff, & Senator Jeff Merkley for winning each of their Senate primaries!

Thomas Massie has the opportunity to do the funniest thing imaginable: run as a single-issue “prosecute everyone in the Epstein Files” independent in the KY-4 primary. He can still win (or at least go out in a blaze of glory) if he has the courage

I’ll concede to a small sample but based on a recent night out with the rural PA swing voter homies I think Massie going down is a bad look

I liked that he was causing problems for the GOP and to the extent that’s gone I’ll miss that about him. if I lived in Massie’s district I would have been too busy trying to escape to vote

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

As if you didn't already have enough reasons to vote for @chrisrabb.com for US Congress in PA-3—here's one more. Cory Booker is traveling to Philly specifically to campaign AGAINST Rep Rabb and FOR the pro-Israel opponents in the race. Vote for working families. Vote against genocide. Vote Rabb.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

There's no other word for it but degeneracy. Trump's mind has degenerated, his party has degenerated, his government has degenerated, & his cultural movement has degenerated. These are the floor sweepings of politics, placed on the highest pedestal more or less by accident.

Next Dem president should make someone like Raskin AG with the sole mission of implementing Nuremberg 2.0. Once the commissions are wrapped up, they can retire.

legislative term limits bad, legislative age limits good.

He's right—but just to be super clear, that doesn't mean all term limits are bad! Executive term limits are good. Judicial term limits are excellent. But legislative term limits weaken legislatures and empower lobbyists. The legislature is the one branch that shouldn't have term limits.

No no no no no. Legislative. Term. Limits. Are. Bad.

good to see journalists finally holding politicians’ feet to the fire on the issues that matter

there's only one conclusion you can draw from the fact that Loomer's presence in the white house isn't covered as a daily front page scandal by the political media and is instead covered up and downplayed

energy here is so weirdly hostile. She's like "i run it" and hes like "oh so you know so and so" which is normal?

@katie-drummond.bsky.social since i know who runs wired now can you tell me what the idea of this story was

This is what they think, actually

Steyer flubbed this one. As soon as she said “I run WIRED” he should have responded “so you’re management?” and immediately ended the interview to show solidarity with the working class

This is incredibly embarrassing: for WIRED, not Tom Steyer. The job of a governor isn’t to be on a first-name basis with every journalist; it’s to stand up for the rights of everyone in the state & pass meaningful legislation (like CalCare & a wealth tax). Stop making me side with the billionaire!

no I'm on the billionaire's side in disciplining the national press actually

I Confronted a Candidate for Governor On the Biggest Issue Facing California: Can He Show Sufficient Deference to Me, Personally?

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Sure sounds like Trump is trying to make the White House into a fortress for when he refuses to leave office.

Simple from here: 1.) massive economic crisis 2.) Dem sweep in 2028 3.) Public forgets everything and gives the GOP a congressional majority in two years

imo this is isn’t about being wrong about Jeffries and instead about bullying works/Callais broke him finally

I keep telling you: Bari Weiss is extremely bad at the day to day aspects of her job and it’s embarrassing for everyone involved, especially her the Ellisons wanted a propaganda empire, not a laughingstock

i think this is just how it always is. the french revolution wouldn't have happened without spiraling bread prices. the protests that toppled caeusescu were in part because of shortages of cooking oil.

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BREAKING: Acting AG Todd Blanche dodges multiple questions on who would qualify for the Trump DOJ's $1.8 billion slush fund. Asked specifically about Jan. 6 insurrectionists, Blanche refused to rule them out, only saying: "Anybody in this country is eligible to apply."

update for those who don't live in CA: the gov race is so fucked that the #1 Dem in the polls is anti-healthcare & lost a bunch of children, our major newspaper endorsed the lady destined to lose, & the most progressive is a billionaire who draws a nazi symbol on his hand every day for reasons