When I was in high school it was illegal for me to get married

in the year i was born one-third of the country did not think my parents should have married

enough murcs law to fuel the easter sea board for a decade

A man was functionally cured of sickle cell last week.

When I was born spousal rape was legal. Consensual sodomy and gay marriage were not. The deaths of Brandon Teena & Matthew Shepherd when I was a teen/college student demonstrated that being publicly, visibly queer would probably get you killed. None of those things changed due to Republicans.

How does someone start believing that we were in a more progressive place in the early 80s than now? Like...how could you possibly believe that? At the same time we were voting for Reagan by double digits? Really?

Huh? This is just not true.

The polls seem to be showing a diminished wave for democrats, is this people just enjoying summer? Is polling broken? Do we have more evidence that momentum is slowing or not?

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The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.

Republicans took people's health care away to give tax cuts to billionaires

Are we ready to talk about how gentrification is mostly good

“We gotta keep the local economy stagnant” is completely bananas

Slopulism and endorsement from a guy who has never had an competitive election

whoever got Ossoff to hit the gym and start wearing tight shirts might have saved the republic insane how much more aura he has nowadays

Anyone watch episode 19 of love island?

There’s probably a pride parade today or tomorrow! You should go!

Ok I finally understand the food shrimp discourse and you guys, let’s all go outside for a little today

It’s crazy how many cities do not have a complete sidewalk network! When we talk about “walkable neighborhoods” it is quite literally step 1!

and i’ll say this: building new sidewalks and creating a safe walking environment in lower-income neighborhoods is no small thing!

I remember being a part of a campaign that a college professor described as “an army of door knockers” and having been to several of those events it was like 28 people. The thing is that the volunteer turn out was a sign of energy among engaged voters who spread the word in a lot of different ways.

This is funny because door knockers are more sign of campaign enthusiasm than an actual ability to GOTV. The flop sweat is also incredible because like this rise is going to see several good candidates come from the DSA and also some really bad ones. The good ones will rise and the bad ones won’t

I will vote for a platform of de-Trumpification. It needs to be a scorched-earth removal of every hateful symbol.

ok, hear me out Michael Bennet becomes CO Governor Appoints Christian Braun to the US Senate Clears $125M in cap space for the Nuggets over 5 yrs They sign an elite point guard and win two more titles in Joker's window

Based on the scope, complexity and probably all the shit we don't know about the system (and all of it bad) - this doesn't seem outrageous in the slightest. I suppose if you have no idea how much a massive software overhaul costs it sounds bad.

Minnesota attorneys have a long history of supporting housing desegregation.

Brent crude drops another 11% on news

These guys are such caricatures of themselves it's incredible

Like the DNI was doing the bidding of a literal cult in Hawaii the entire time she was in congress…like wtf was she doing the last 2 years is a question I’d like answered

one of the things a democratic house majority should do in 2027 is a deep audit into exactly how much trump has spent on renovations, who authorized the spending, what budgets it was allocated from, and whether any of it was even legal

Woke segregation is a stunningly common belief among segments of the low-info/low-trust left, and I kinda hate it I'm ngl.

They’re already calling Phil a mediocre choice (so lol now the lesser of two evils is ok) because he’s going to govern as he campaigned a terrible centrist who is going to make sure no rent control bill* ever makes it into law. *their literal only policy for housing

denver DSA may get these wins. They’re going to crow about their rise and then they’re going to pee their pants and cry like babies when they’re candidates make fools of themselves in office and blame the “establishment” when Kiros lasts one term and Phil Weiser “disappoints them” as a centrist

A lot of the people behind these campaigns are also shameless liars and careerists who see these wins as their next opportunity for career advancement and nothing to do with policy.

Melat Kiros comes from two social cliques for which I supported candidates in previous cycles (CDebaca for city council, Anderson for School Board and Epps for state legislature) each one of these candidates had a much celebrated victory and then when on to make a mockery of themselves in office.

Hickenlooper, easily our most centrist business oriented member of the CO Dem delegation with the most confirmation votes for Trump nominees, is going to coast victory while Bennet, the guy behind the super dole and childcare tax credit, may lose to guy who wants to let Cherry Hills block apartments

This is the story of the CO primary, Denver DSA and Labor going all in on Phil Weiser who has signaled a return to deference for NIMBY city councils to block housing while also not agreeing to help unions, as well as Melat Kiros who is going to implode upon winning while ignoring the senate race.

I think it’s a bummer that one of my formerly favorite posters believes every rage bait Axios and Politico article is an actual genuine leak from Hakeem Jeffries and/or Ritchie Torres

my hot take on zohran is i like the guy but there’s about 7 million times as much ink spilled about him than could ever be warranted by a mayor, because all of our media live within 2 square blocks of each other in nyc and have had their brains destroyed by Online

Well yeah, if Watergate happened again it would have gone off without a hitch because no one would have known about it until a year later when Woodward and Bernstein's book came out.

Pretty humiliating for DSA-LA tbh.

They’re saying it’s a Dem Tea Party, they’re saying if I’m tired of do nothing democrats I should join the DSA www.latimes.com/california/s...

IMHO, CA's left being so trash compared to NYC is due to SF leftists defending turf when YIMBYism started gaining traction up there coupled with a guy in LA stealing money meant for people with AIDS and funneling it to anyone willing to say that single family zoning was revolutionary praxis.

I don’t think you’re really beating the allegations that it was all just for show if you’re mostly fine with the Republican Party being in power doing genocide in Africa, shooting refugees and fishers in the Caribbean and stripping people of SNAP

It is kinda crazy that with Israel more emboldened than ever with essentially the full backing of the Trump admin expanding its violence that there’s still tons of people doing the “I won’t vote for democrats the party of genocide” So your plan is to what then? Interrupt meetings for ever?

bluesky stop falling for axios anonymous source ragebait challenge: impossible

More like the Ass-preme court imo

I do think it’s funny that Hasan seems to have taken GLHM criticism that he should dress better.

Way too many people thinking that it’s as easy to build things as it is to destroy them and that trumps unconstitutional actions are now permanent.

“Mutual aid hubs” bro touch grass