People who were are really mad about clyburn endorsing Biden will be like “I’m not actually mad about his Biden endorsement I’m mad about 2021 redistricting” but it’s pretty obvious they think clyburn killed Bernie’s momentum when actually lost people just liked Obama’s charismatic VP.

“Make the democrats better with my organization that has refused to endorse the democratic candidate for president 3 cycle in a row” Yeah man I get that we sometimes have to make unsavory compromises to stave off the worst case scenario, why can’t you?

Stop saying you know “how to sharpen the stick better” a lot of members of both these groups couldn’t point the stick in the correct direction for like a damn decade.

I think the thing I dislike about the terminal online centrists is the same thing I dislike about terminal online leftists. They’re all just kind of stuck wrecking solidarity out of arrogance while every normal politically involved person can correctly identify the enemy.

Gonna be honest I get similar vibes when a Bulwark type is like “the only people who can effectively fight republicans are former republicans.” It is perilously close to saying “I was right to be a republican while you were a democrat (your whole life).”

lmao

I’m seeing a lot of people reference this out of the belief that clyburn was protecting the one Black congressional seat in SC when there could’ve been too. There seems to be some evidence of this. But now there’s going to be ZERO, so how close were they ever really of winning a second seat?

I think there are lots of progressives or further left people who are not like this. And this type of “leftist” is extremely overrepresented online. There are lots of flavors of this internet poison (MattY centrism for example) but they all have e a unifying theme which is “we really hate the Dems”

Generic Ballot Polling: 🔵 Democrats: 50% 🔴 Republicans: 41% RMG / May 6, 2026

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

John Roberts will retire someday as one of the worst, most destructive Chief Justices in the nation’s history

He is perhaps one of the most consequential and worst parts of the Trump admin

A LOT of leftists are former republicans who have found a niche that allows them to still hate the democrats but philosophically while not practically have better politics.

For context the abbot is celebrating the confederacy destroying Jim clyburns district in South Carolina because he hates Dems more than republicans despite being a “leftist”

dril isis tweet etc

The thing is the NYT likes republicans and is excited at the prospect of them “being back in the game”

The gold, 22-foot Donald Trump statue definitely isn’t a false idol. You can tell because Trump’s pastor friend said of the new statue at his Doral golf course, “Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf.”

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

Biden wasn’t hiding from them. He was showing his contempt for them. I think we can now see why it was justified

What is it about political service that people think it should be unpaid

Do something within your control. Have registered to be a precinct capitalism for your party? That’s infinitely more productive than complaining about “squishes” again.

Particularly the “feckless Dems” brand of posting. I’m so sorry you did not get relief from your instant anxiety but also you have no idea what possibly comes next within even 6 hours of news like this breaking. Take a breath. Don’t fed post.

Bluesky is probably the worst place for processing bad news from both a mental health standpoint and a “within the realm of reality” stand point. There are good exceptions to this. But generally I’m finding that I do not enjoy the discourse when stuff like this happens.

Stop posting like you are in the Civil War, you are literally waiting on the microwave to finish your burrito

Packaging stupid ideas as some hidden truth the public can’t see is a formula used by con artists for millennia. Cynically driven contrarianism is a key trait of the dumbest rubes and the simplest marks

like, the court *does not want to be understood*, and the evidence for that is in everything they do and in the way they do it, and changing that is *entirely* within his power, but being understood isn’t what he wants, it’s being quietly obeyed

Posting metaphorical scalps does actually resonate a lot with the public and I’m glad more democrats are doing it.

“The Dems stopped”. They didn’t. Y’all just got bored & still want to go to holiday parties & the media wanted to keep their higher ratings. Thats why you had a mediocre answer on the View get wall-to-wall coverage & the largest Medicare expansion in decades from the same appearance get 35 seconds.

I don't think that's true, actually.

People will still be passing around this falsehood as gospel truth when I'm on my deathbed

Except he never stopped

It is pretty wild to think that Donald Trump started a war dumber than the Bush

Everyone has the same advice but mean completely different things when they say it, mostly because they do not talk or live like regular people:

Making sure you understand how cool I am, I’m not like other democrats . I actually hate them and only begrudgingly admit that voting for them is the most partial way for center-left politics to advance in the US.

Generic ballot (Marist poll) Democratic 52% (-1) Republican 42% (-2) (Shift from March) maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/presid...

Me dunking on Jamie Harrison on Bluesky, accomplishing things, changing the party, moving our priorities forward. This will Chang things

This is the political philosophy of Matt Yglesias and David Shor. It’s a total flop. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

relentless poll chasing + contempt for your political base + a total absence of principle or vision = political disaster www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

Yeah I think that's exactly it and my beef with popularism in general, it's not that's its centrist, it's that it's nothing, just utterly devoid of any principle

Leftists will shit all over Kamala Harris for campaigning with Liz Cheney but tell Captain Totenkopf "LOL DO TUCKER."

I’m solemnly warning democrats that things are now actually serious. I have issued this solemn warning everyday for the last 9 years believing I am the only person in the world who understands the stakes.

There’s this whole group of smart boys wanting us about how the democrats need to take things seriously and like buddies Abigail Spanberger, who spent most of 2022 panicking that Dems were saying”abolish the police too much”, has become a scorched earth liberal.

They’re going after a Democrat who took the threat seriously, stop pontificating about whether or not the Dems have the guts to go for it. They do and things like this harden that resolve. Stop warning everyone with your social media posts and start building he capacity to make this possible.

Stop saying “we have one chance to fix this or American democracy is gone forever” it’s not true and it also ignores that this work is going to be a project for our entire lives. Do we need to win? Yes. We always need to win and we need to win multiple elections in a row.

Because it’s not about outcomes it’s about arguing with people onlien

We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

Nice of winter to show up for one single day this year.

The ob/family doc that delivered my first kid did group OB appointments with a different discussion topic each week for like 8 weeks. Way better than leaving people to look up woo nonsense online.

Bsky, the app of overthinking it