"Like there is a great leftwing story here that Jacobin just misses." Funny how much this happens when your main priority is trashing Dems rather than advocating for the actual success of leftwing politics.

Dave Weigel is everything wrong with political journalism: social media “persona”, pompous, blames Dems for not being progressive enough (see: more money for teamsters), also Dems for being too progressive (see: pronouns in emails), just plain dumb.

Huh….weird that Dave doesn’t promote this over here as well I wonder why that is

Every time anyone makes fun of or criticizes Chapo someone jumps in the replies to defend them and then immediately pivots to “wow lol ok obsessed much” I’ve never listened to these idiots. All I know is that they like to giggle about them, they hate AOC and did Assad+J6 apologia.

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

The teamsters are a very clear example of how the alleged problem with "the groups" pushing Dems to take unpopular positions is a self-solving one. They made demands, got bailed out, and didn't deliver votes. They get back of the line. Their bet is probably no dem will ever win an election again.

is this bad?

I had eggs burrito taxi avoided

So real for this

Crack your eggs on a flat surface counter and not on the edge of a bowl or counter and you’ll avoid egg shells when cooking (this is for everyone)

Remember, "I was just following orders" is not a defense, it's a confession.

Get an ebike and replace as many car trips as you can with it

Feeling tired might order a burrito taxi But I’ll probably just make eggs

Service unions > trade unions fight me

That’s right.

Imo theyre cowards if they dont. Let's make sure everyone knows that if donald trump doesn't make these Hard Choices, he will be a coward

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

attn tim apple

Northam won by 9% in 2017

It’s really funny how Chapo DSA tankie idiots spent Trump’s entire first term talking about how “akshually Bush was worse” but it was because they like Trump and not because they could point to things like “he politicized the DOJ to bring charges against Dem candidates before the midterms.”

Folks it’s “Katrina” but worse and some how they’ve been the luckiest admin with no major natural disasters after gutting our entire capacity to respond to natural disasters.

That’s right

Ken Klippenstein is a reprehensible motherfucker. Yeah, he has semi-reliable sources (not *reliable* ones). He is terminally irresponsible in his reporting and glues a bunch of suppositions and penumbras into shit designed to give people anxiety attacks.

I think people should stop pretending we are in Germany 1932 and consider that we are actually in “Worse 2005” which means we will probably be in “worse 2006” and then “worse 2008” Which sucks but also lead to wave elections that transformed American politics.

“I’m suspending the 1st amendment!” “No you’re not.” “Ah well nevertheless”

I have significantly curbed my social media use (please clap) and tbh it’s been very good for perspective. Not being on the apps means I just experience the news. And Trump isn’t really doing anything that makes me think “authoritarian consolidation is imminent”

A moot reposted this and all I have to say is FDR and Lincoln both had to face an election during a war

Chief Justice Roberts is letting Trump break the law and freeze nearly $5 billion in foreign aid. The Court is quickly losing all legitimacy. They're a rubber stamp, bought off by right-wing billionaires, allowing an authoritarian to take over the country. apnews.com/article/supr...

Juvenile analysis “guys investing money in housing want to make money on investment” is not an own the idea of YIMBY rezoning is about being able to add housing and the primary rival of both market rate housing and literally any other housing are the people insisting no one else live in cities

😤

It’s funny because like Bennet has explicitly stated his run as governor is to fight back against Trump more effectively than he can in the senate. But irony poisoning gets more clicks. It’s funny to also see pollsters repeatedly assess that Dems negatives will not correlate to a loss of support.

Much like most apocalypticism this isn’t entirely true. There’s a huge culture push to densify and integrate more cities. And we could say 2016 and 2024 were this movements apotheosis, the rurals have sign their own death warrant. Embracing south spells nothing but doom for those who choose it.

You are cooking the southernfication of the rurals is the skeleton key to understanding U.S. politics

You were all sleeping on Narcolepsy back in 1998, not me though I’ve always had taste.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.

I think it’s fine to criticize Lakshya and Yglesias because they say pretty dumb things regularly. But why is it that universally “thing online I don’t like” are all ascribed to the party? This isn’t what I think! It’s not what my crazy governor probably thinks!

What’s funny is Colorado republicans used to have real power in our state and would make fun of the woowoo health nuts in Boulder. Now the Republicans have no power and they’re all woowoo health nuts living in Castlerock

Slightly diminish a book Mid-level Manager of the Rings

Built different 😤

It is absolutely insane to me that so many people can read MLK’s appeal to the white moderate and not understand that it was not a piece of political resignation but engaging in political persuasion should require a refresher lesson on “author’s purpose”

I like to remember that the united states wouldnt exist if we hadn't imported a man who was too homosexual for the Prussian army to whip our army into shape. We paid him in twinks

It brings me no pleasure to say I agree—tho teachers unions have always been rude or die even when it was fashionable for democrats to criticize them—so I’d like everyone to keep that in mind for reconstruction 2

It’s crazy how everything was so much better in the time when I was old enough to start having my own preferences but not old enough to have any serious responsibilities.

I think the guy whose career had gone from working political campaigns to now doing kitchen remodels should be instructive about how seriously to take his analysis

I think an important context to this is that Red States continue to elect republicans by large margins and in the swing states where this is not true they have not been able to successfully stifle democracy as much as they assumed (see WI and soon NC)

all this Nazi posting on main is because they have a massive morale problem and they only have one reference for state propaganda

The funny thing about guys like Aaron Huertas is he admonishes democrats “consultant brain” but he used to be a democratic consultant

We can easily win the public health debate but it won’t be on terms of “well the experts say” it will be on terms of “they want to kill your children so they can drink weird milk.”

Will Stancil isn’t a “do something” guy, he’s a “post more” guy. He ran for office, it’s very admirable. But his posts don’t seem to demand much beyond that. Not exactly praxis tho.