I've been following Matthew for a little while and I'm constantly impressed. He has great insights into everything influencing elections, from polls to media to messaging. Hope you will check him out, and maybe some of you can help out.

This seems, uh, important.

if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners

Don't trust a New York Times reporter. Don't talk to a New York Times reporter. They are the most ambitious journalists on the planet and will do anything to get the story their editor wants. The truth doesn't matter to them, only getting the story their editor wants so they can move up.

Please read. I'd like to move to a system where voting is required. It should be a crime to impede voting in any way.

It's unconsciounable incompetence that there is nothing remotely similar on the left to TPUSA or to the Federalist Society. Meanwhile, the right wing has like 5 other organizations just like TPUSA. We can copy Republican professionalism without copying their deceitfulness.

What doesn't seem right to me is that these ICE getaway cars still have all four wheels, and the tires are fully inflated. Also they seem to have gas in their tanks. It just doesn't seem right.

If Congress has not appropriated these funds (it hasn't) the Anti-Deficiency Act makes it illegal to accept private donations to offset a funding lapse. ONLY Congress has the power of the purse. Not POTUS. Not Anonymous LLC. Every story here too should put "illegal" in the headline. Every one.

If ur a musician & signed away the rights to ur songs in publishing/record deals in the late 80s/early 1990s, it’s time to get them back. Under U.S. Copyright Act, authors have opportunity to kill licenses/assignments made to 3rd parties during a 5year window starting 35 yrs… see next post

Yes, we do need to know why our "law enforcement" officers protected the law-breakers instead.

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

The frog is a miracle. Funny and lovable absurdity faces off against murderous, obscene absurdity. The frogs will win!

Everyone involved in habitat restoration uses glyphosate. Everyone trying to reclaim ecosystems and eliminate invasive species uses glyphosate (carefully, and according to directions). It's the best solution currently available.

Feeling entitled? Bored? Losing your moral compass due to the privileges of modern civilization? Instead of another yoga retreat, try a Kavanaugh stop! Once you've been randomly brutalized, kidnapped off the street, and held without access to counsel, you'll say goodbye forever to that pesky ennui!

"...effective messaging can shift public opinion and electoral outcomes..." This should be tattooed on the forehead of every Dem politician and strategist. I'd make it "effective, consistent, and frequent messaging" because even when they stumble on an effective message they change it or drop it.

Under the Desk News issued a video about the connection between real estate management companies and these "immigration" raids (The Chicago raid wasn't about immigration. Something far more sinister drove it.). I decided to look up what's happening with propery management companies. 🧵 ...

This is how the Trump administration roots out waste and fraud: By defunding the people who identify actual waste and fraud.

This is an excellent piece overall, but this pull quote is 💯^💯.

Pic of the new replaceable bulb for the Torch 2. No more throwing out the entire fixture each time the bulb dies (Yes, it's nuts, that's how basically all Far-UVC emitters work, yes, the industry likes it this way). It should really drive the price of Far-UVC through the floor.

I keep on telling people that PBS is the one to save, not NPR.

Val and I checked repeatedly because we simply couldn't believe no national or local news organizations covered this letter from 18 AGs in support of trans youth care and against FTC overreach. If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.

This shutdown, and all the bad things that are going to happen because of it, was planned & premeditated by Trump and his lackeys. The Republicans have already left town, they don't want a deal. I don't like Schumer and Jeffries either, but put the blame where it belongs! And that's with Trump.

great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie

"And they are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith, so they let themselves be used, over and over, in an endless attempt to find reasonable common ground with political forces bent on division."

BREAKING: Florida cop treated for autism after exposure to tylenol during traffic stop

Long read but worth it. "To avoid being sidelined just when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence."

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

Brilliant. #Everythingishorriblebut

Superb.

And the Clio goes to...Ken White!

Even this framing from PSA sounds deranged, there is no worthy “debate” over trans rights. Trans people deserve full rights and equal protections and freedom under the law full stop. There is no reasonable other “side” on this issue.

This is a real work of art in the Youtube Video Essay genre. Funny, witty, hates the people I hate and genuinely insightful. Highly recommend. youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...

I used to follow Jain on the bad place. In the early days I enjoyed his insights and arguments. These days I wonder whether he is completely committed to destroying progressive goals at any cost, or he's stumbled onto a clientele who pay handsomely to be told what they want to hear. Or both?

“You must have the best job in the world!”  Our Rewilding Manager Sara hears this phrase all the time, from people both in and out of the rewilding world. It’s also why she was featured in ‘Joyful jobs’ by Positive News magazine. 🧵1/4

not once have I heard a single one of these Foreign Policy Experts explain how blindly enabling Israel is good for the United States in any way, even hyper cynically

I will say it again. No one is covering the GOP's redistricting scheme as closely, with as much context and analysis as Democracy Docket. Its team of 20 works around the clock to provide you independent pro-democracy news and information. Support their work by signing up today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

Do not feed the beast.

Trump take hospital

Great thread with many interesting questions

The world is very bad, but I found a squirrel that looks like Napoleon

This guy is smart and funny af

Beautiful! Don't think I have ever seen a cat sit on command before. Most pet owners underestimate: 1. How much their pets need and depend on them. 2. How motivated their pets are to contribute to a thriving community, even if that community is just the two of them.

a new cartoon for monday morning, as is my wont www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

If we keep hoping Dem leadership is going to save us, we are truly lost. Our energy is better spent in other ways. Any other ways.

This is the social policy equvalent of trickle-down economics: patently false logic that just won't die because its adherents get what they want from it

Another grim but necessary read from @sifill.bsky.social

Clowns are scary, especially when they're running the government. So listen to this and at least have a laugh at them.

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