Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

People really want a parliamentary system where one doesn’t exist

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means. Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years

So Democrats get: 1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays 2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail 3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts Those all seem like wins for the GOP.

On the 36th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it seems Chuck Schumer is determined to follow suit.

The serendipity of the feed strikes again.

The serendipity of the feed strikes again.

This is superb

One way to explain why prisons are so big & bad in the US is that weak feds didn't create a post-68 (de)industrial policy, so unregulatable, austere states built racist solutions to structural problems. Now the racist solutions are pursued by fully funded, unregulatable federal cops and prisons.

Of the three presidential campaigns against Trump, two (2016 and 2024) made elaborate appeals to centrists at the expense of their relationship with progressives, and only one (2020) prioritized efforts to bridge the gap with progressives, however impermanently. The latter approach won.

Helpful stuff from @gelliottmorris.com.

MAGA Communists were onto something, he's also doing The Great Leap Forward with his economic policies and Cultural Revolution with his education policies www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-t...

If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE

🧵 This is trending on Korean socials

It’s worth considering how an Andrew Cuomo mayoralty would objectively be a disaster and everybody knows it—especially his backers. But they don’t give a shit about the day after, only thwarting the rise of any potential alternative. A striking demonstration of the nihilism of the political centre.

The poster for the film about this game just dropped

This is an excellent point. Zohran ran a textbook campaign that the centrists are always talking about, just talking about rent control and free buses and cost of living, and the centrist Dems tried to make it all about Israel/Palestine and other identity issues (his Muslim faith) to smear him.

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

No words.

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

"Clown car with tank treads" is spot-on genius.

One of the best of us. We owe the congresswoman a gundam.

This is savage and I love it! LMFAO!

Every dude posting about Robert Redford

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

100 percent this. There is never a context in which a campus shooting is anything other than horrifying.

I am amused that Mamdani is seen as a raving communist for suggesting mid-tier FDR type reforms and there's an actual Eugene Debs dude running for Senate in Maine and he's not freaking out anybodyyyy oh yes. Shit. He's white. Sorry, I just got it. Go about your business.

It’s funny when gun lovers try to explain their affection for the weapons by citing a “gun culture” in their place of origin and family history. Oh honey. I will see your *squints* Mid-Atlantic & raise you one literal old West with all the shootouts and whatnot. I was taught not to romanticize 🔫

Congrats to the nominal opposition for being to the right of *Bill Kristol* on Trump assualting DC

Trump struggled to walk in a straight line as he went to greet Putin

“I see the bad moon arising I see trouble on the way” - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Some people keep saying "AI isn't just probabilities, AI understands," and then AI puts a toilet next to the office desk, both of which are in the kitchen with no sink. This is not something an entity would do if it "understood" what those things are.

If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized. If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.

This is the post America needs right now! 👇

This much has seemed clear to me since at least November 2016, and one way to understand the past decade is that nominally liberal elites have been desperately dithering to avoid this obvious conclusion.

Dems will lose my vote over going anti-trans and it's not because I'm a single issue voter. Being anti-trans is so often a dead canary for literally every other kind of bigotry it's not even worth entertaining. And on top of that it's anti-science as trans health is backed by numerous studies.

Buried in Columbia's agreement/bribe with the Trump regime (and not reported by the news) is a section which agrees to segregate trans women from women's housing, sports, and bathrooms. Functionally, trans women are no longer welcome at Columbia University.

Omg. Nsfw.

1974:

This. A hundred million times thus. You let a narcissistic, pedophilic billionaire outflank you on populism. Twenty sixteen should have been the damn wake up call.

“Mr. Patel, we have a two page tweet from the president on Epstein…”

striking and telling that Zohran can do the "this is all a distraction from the horrible bill they're passing in Congress" bit better than any of the establishment Dems can.

bruh

For 6 months, Dem leaders have downplayed or refused to frontally address many of Trump's worst abuses by saying those are "distractions" from the Dems focusing on economic issues. But as Trump's tax bill is being voted on, Jeffries is attacking a Dem ...over a phrase that Dem doesn't even use.

Also the entire news media. There's really not that many Democrats on the anti-Mamdani beat but curiously virtually all of them are getting prime slots on cable news shows as if they speak for all Democrats. It makes you think!

As an experienced rural organizer, these are the three things I would talk about on repeat in rural communities: Medicaid and schools and jobs. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

I agree.