For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again. Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...

r/Maine seems very pro-Platner despite all that has come out about him Saw a comparison there to Warren being a Republican for years before being a progressive I just feel skeptical that there isn't some red line we should draw on literal Nazi iconography. But yes, Janet Mills also seems awful.

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Remain perplexed by the niche of people on here who will readily admit that Israel is extremely far right, prefers Republicans, and has been committing mass murder in an arbitrary manner for a long time now but who still insist the bear hug was a reasonable policy suite.

I will never vote for this ghoul. (This is not an invitation to reply with "I'll vote for him in the general.")

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

CNN chief Mark Thompson met privately with the White House last week. The next morning, he urged the network to ease up on its coverage of Trump's East Room demolition. The scoop from @nataliekorach.bsky.social in @status.news www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...

Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.

... is speaking "clearly and slowly" not a DEI strategy for better communication? Disabled folks or anyone who's just having some issue hearing at that moment matter, feels very weird that the training I'm looking at doesn't think it's relevant.

Nicely timed to me working at a new office and going to a corn maze tomorrow sigh

CW: SA - i hate to be on my usual fucking bullshit but it really needs to be said that these are rape threats. they also stripped her and filmed her.

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

Some express skepticism that this is the case but here is former Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch saying this more or less, that Israel will be able to regain its image and that the Democratic Party can maintain its stalwart pro-Israel stance so long as the GCC bails Israel out.

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

The Republican Party is defined by spending their days trying to impose suffering on other people.

There isn't a single piece of generative visual media technology that is worth the evil it unleashed into the world. The text generation and charts, graphs I will relent on, there may be some narrow useful applications. Not talking about ML of course. But the images, the videos... pure evil.

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen newrepublic.com/article/2013...

This is outrageous. For so much of the world, including for many, many American Jews, Israel has completely and forever lost its credibility. Not only does the genocide need to end, but Netanyahu and others need to face human rights prosecution and the apartheid must be abolished.

Anecdotes observed today: Bloomberg 2020 supporter lifelong "Boomer" - aged Democrats who are completely affirming of trans rights, especially for children who don't feel safe at home and who have preferred pronouns at their schools, etc.

Swing voters aren’t confused or undecided. They’re asleep

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To be clear, saying you're going to "avoid politics" is an INCREDIBLY political statement, especially in an age of fascism.

I know we didn't want more white men, especially not older and rich, but Pritzker/Van Hollen 2028 is, uh, looking rather nice right now

At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”

This piece gets at something that I've been struggling to articulate: We've seen this exact push-pull before. When Republicans were out of power in the 1990s they invented "political correctness" to pretend they were being censored. Then they went right back to censoring once they had power again.

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Virginia GOP returning to form after forcing a candidate on their voters who wasn't a clown in 2021

Mussab Ali, candidate for Mayor of Jersey City (not located in Virginia), has made it to my TikTok. I think his campaign will be one to watch. Only Graham Platner (running for US Senate) in Maine, Zohran Mamdani, AOC, and Bernie had shown up for me previously.

GOP lawmaker said trans people “harm” children. He just pled guilty to child porn charges. - “Every accusation is a confession" keeps ringing true day by day. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/gop-...

"According to ChatGPT" people are the only people on the planet who could ever induce me to listen to "what the wind is saying."

What kind of person could possibly support ICE? The kind of person who supports ICE:

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

I know people keep saying that "Fight" is nonideological within the Democratic Party as some sort of encouragement/rallying cry to all, but I still don't believe it! All the high profile moderates clearly have their heads in the sand, and the folks on the left are making noise. What am I to think?

the senate is an evil place

agree; the don't-fight-numbers-fuckstein types like ezra [probably] know that they're about to get jettisoned in the blue tea party and are desperately trying to negotiate away their pending irrelevance

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

this really is the entire thing we’re doing “the jewish question” with trans people it’s really that, not much else, and american jews owe it to themselves to see their experiences in discrimination against trans people

i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat

As per usual: no mention of political violence against Democrats. The armed man near Kavanaugh’s house who turned himself in becomes an “assassination attempt” while the actual assassination of Melissa Hortman not mentioned. Attacks on ICE facilities are political violence but not attacks on CDC.

Cuomo also appointed the Republican judges who overturned NY's gerrymander attempt in 2022, which cost the Dems at least 3 seats, enough to have kept the Dems in control of the House after the midterms.

Joe Manchin singlehandedly blew up Biden's welfare agenda and caused child poverty to ~double. Andrew Cuomo literally conspired with Republicans to give them control of the state Senate

for all the flapping about Uncommitted during the primary it has always been the Blue Dog centrist types who are most disloyal to the party

Important note: RFK Jr. is a known sexual predator. He says you shouldn't believe women.

The idea that the Uncommitted movement called for people to withhold votes from Biden/Harris in the *general* election rather than the primary is one of those load-bearing falsehoods that it seems impossible to disabuse people of. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/n...

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...