They saw a candidate they could sell and make money off of. That’s it. They saw a product and an opportunity to profit, and everyone else got screwed. Every shred of talk about a movement was branding.

Need to be super clear to folks that there is a growing class of “progressive” political consultants with elite backgrounds that are cashing in on antiestablishment sentiment amongst voters, and their payday isn’t at all about your concerns. slate.com/news-and-pol...

in fairness, Dodger Stadium was built by forcibly dislocating a working-class Hispanic community in Chavez Ravine and eradicating their homes to appease a rich New Yorker, so the Dodgers aren't entirely wrong about following tradition

HE’S RIGHT EGYPT WAS ROBBED

Hats off to nearly 1,000 @seiuhcpa.org hospital workers at Mount Nittany Medical Center who are ready to go ON STRIKE for the first time in over two decades for wages that keep up with inflation! The health system’s $400 million expansions are evidence it can invest more in staff. #CareIsEssential

if historical precedent holds, Norway beating England means that Haaland wins the Clacton by-election and becomes PM

most hilarious game of the wc so far. thank you usmnt

a king leopold-level of belgium murderousness

Buffalo remains 🤌

The diehards are going BlueAnon

it once again bears repeating: that platner is even a candidate is because this guy, who was run out of Pittsburgh for recruiting/managing multiple candidates accused of DV/SA, who himself has allegations against him, recruited platner he should be blacklisted until the end of time

on a journalistic note it’s worth observing that the NYTimes fucked up an incredibly difficult story so badly that a survivor of sexual assault felt compelled to go to a completely different publication to have her story actually told

“purity tests are killing the left” - some guy who spent all of 2024 yelling at people for doing GOTV for Kamala Harris because of her genocidal policies when you say credible rape allegations against a Senate candidate are disqualifying

absolutely this the worst elements of the left are the loudest online and are completely absent in doing any kind of organizing or work of any meaningful sort

if the “purity test” of “not a rapist” is “killing the left” I’m cool with letting it fucking die, actually. I think what it actually does is sort out the small but vocal minority of people who claim to be on the “left” but think racism is over/will be solved by raising minimum wage.

Platner should lose endorsements from the @aflcio.org at every level along with every affiliated or unaffiliated labor union and if that isn’t in the works as we speak, it’s an absolute disgrace

The consultants who bailed him out after his original team left should take a big old break from politics, too. No vetting, gaslighting supporters, trashing other staff and trying to walk the line on SA denial while sounding progressive. Gross.

once again worth mentioning that this is the asshole that recruited the other asshole platner

Reminder: there is no excuse for smearing women who come forward about sexual assault. It doesn’t make you righteous because you agree politically with the abuser.

graham platner is an asshole, the people that recruited him are assholes, the people that defend him are assholes, and the people playing politics instead of saying this asshole needs to go away are assholes

I stand by the wisdom of the pit

i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.

Some people got so anti-establishment-democratic-party that it led them to defending absolute shitheads instead of questioning the entire system of stanning politicians

who else is looking forward to yet another round of 'male acquaintances channel their secret contempt for women through a loudmouthed defense of graham platner'

The appeal is under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium) Each of the 23 sui iuris churches will weigh in on the suspension before it is sent to the bishop of Rome for a final signature. All proceedings are in Latin, the court language of Greek Byzantium

i truly have difficulty seeing why some Americans can’t understand why the fifa thing is kind of annoying for everyone else?

pretty sure that being proprietary about English language vernacular is both silly on the face of it and also kind of doing a little bit of nationalism

the funny thing is that even the most rabid marxist academic would probably spend a not-insubstantial time grumbling about other marxists instead of engaging in this level of absolute glazing

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

sure, it’s AI and not the steep decline in Xbox sales and revenue losses

Thousands turned out to protest AfD in Germany this weekend at their annual conference — www.reuters.com/world/thousa...

Elon Musk backs AfD in Germany fyi - they are pro Russian oil & gas, against climate or environmental regulation & for “remigration” — large-scale deportations of migrants, including some people with legal residence or citizenship… www.dw.com/en/far-right...

“our core voters are looking for a particular kind of candidate, so naturally we should be convinced that a completely different type of candidate would in fact be better”

You're the preeminent print news outlet in America, if not the entire world. So it's crucial that, on a routine basis, you report on the actions and feelings of "some"

there are a small number of writers I will repost before I’ve had a chance to read what they’ve written based on absolute trust that what they have to say will be worth considering, and @ashihipar.bsky.social is one of them

for @newrepublic.com, wrote about the oft mentioned crisis in higher education and how unions can help save the sector & by extension academic freedom and democracy in America. newrepublic.com/article/2112...

extra credit for working "whilst" in there

everything — LITERALLY EVERYTHING — I have ever learned about Olivia Nuzzi has been against my will I never asked for this

Mexico has the opportunity to do the funniest possible thing tonight

i have long thought that one of the obligations of advancing a critique is to point toward a better solution, and if you’re not doing that, it’s a bad critique

strongly agreed and would add that the "alternative less critique" mode of talking online (both social media and publications) fits in here for me. if I'm going to a town that has one restaurant and no grocery store I don't know what or who the Yelp reviews are supposed to be for

crowdsourcing notable American right wing converts to Catholicism (besides JD Vance) that balk once they realize it isn’t what they thought it was

“we can lower the temperature by conceding to the core of one side’s political agenda” isn’t the genius idea you think it is

my hot take as a cradle catholic and open socialist is that although Catholicism fits uneasily with the American political left it is wholly incompatible with the American political right

imagine being vice president and being confused, in the year of our lord 2026, about whether the Catholic Church gives a shit about your temporal authority

There’s a technical term for “the most senior Catholic in the U.S. government.” In the Church, they call that a “layperson.”

bro you don’t really get Catholicism do you

the really breathtaking thing about current democratic leadership is how bad they are at politics, even to the point of harming their own self-preservation you’d think some concessionary noises would be due given the voter tidal wave hitting them, not doubling down

taylor and travis should donate money to all the bars and restaurants in the MSG area who were forced to close down during a super busy tourist/world cup weekend because of their stupid wedding