all of this stuff to me reads like the sports fan who refuses to acknowledge that there's another team trying to win that can make its own choices that their team has to react to.

i think this basically gets to @jamellebouie.net's point. this is a document that is attempting to solve a perception problem by doing policy. but biden made economic policy--IRA, CHIPS, BIF--absolutely central. every national dem has been running away from "abolish the police" for years!

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

I've been thinking about this. Low oil prices plus tariffs plus a decline in Canadian and international tourism must be absolutely fucking Alaska up, and I would not want to be the executive walking into that.

Yes but moreso they don't like whoever was in charge during a global pandemic. Bad vibes, need to burn it all down to get rid of the bad juju

Even if we accept that "reliable and authentic centrist" was the trick, racism and misogyny have a lot to do with whether you are perceived as a reliable and authentic centrist.

7 years ago, 11 people were murdered in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. We remember their lives, stand with the survivors, and continue to combat the hateful ideology of white nationalism.

big, stupid, annoying graphics and softballs interviews with dems that are like “why are you so awesome, senator roomtemp s. milk?” along with the dumbest boomer three minutes’ hate for trump every hour on the hour

Eat a dick J.B.

It's a fucken "let's remember some of the worst guys in NYC politics" voltron

Once again, people view "public disorder" (including visible homelessness) as the same thing as crime even though they're totally different issues. We can solve this with aggressive housing policy, and trying to solve it with cops will make it worse.

and because i can imagine the bad faith reading of this, what i am *not* saying is that everything about the extant democratic party is hunky dory other than its total absence of a communications/propaganda infrastructure. what i *am* saying is that this absence puts a hard limit on reaching voters

'brain-damaged narcissistic idiot' is in fact pretty close to the average swing voter in the U.S. so this is good

This sort of article essentially amounts to "Mamdani was in Muslim political circles, and so were people we consider bad." And Jews should not engage in this sort of "six degrees of separation" campaign, because it is often used to link all Jews to pro-Israel activists. nypost.com/2025/10/25/u...

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

Fuck that's hot

NYC: Vote YES on ballot props 2-4. We at DSA' Social Housing campaign @housethefuture.bsky.social support them to move affordable and social housing along at the city AND state levels.

michal kalecki bosses choose pain over workers' demands to keep power in-hand

Fundamentally you need people to trust you, and microtargeting your policy positions like this is a way to sound fake and corporate.

Haha yes, hahahahaha, yessss

We love our nightmarish garrison state rapidly experiencing an ethnic outbidding spiral don't we folks

I think this is actually a perfect metaphor for the prevailing Jewish establishment strategy of fighting antisemitism right now, which is primarily to name and shame people — and then ask them to work with you to better understand Jews and antisemitism

*wet fart noise*

Oh my fucking God Brad wyd. But also let's go?

"i took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, found it difficult, and badly understood what i was being asked to do" is not a great sign

Black candidates regularly win quite white Democratic districts, because white Democrats are overwhelmingly racial liberals now.

This is insane. “There’s no world where I could accept a loss of black representation—certainly not a voluntary gift of black representation—so that the Democratic party could win,” Preston told me."

Jake Tapper you little bitch, come out here and explain why it's not a big deal that the President is talking about how taking the Montreal Cognitive Test is "very hard".

Approximately 230,000 of the 500,000ish Covid deaths under Biden were vaccine refusers. Biden did as much as he could to encourage and mandate vaccinations, to the extent that conservative courts pushed back and rolled back many of those efforts.

A non-Jewish Italian lady speaking for Jews is actually anti-Semitic and not the nonsense she’s spewing here.

knew immediately this would have an abysmal 'to be sure' paragraph

do you think that the literal whole-of-society effort by right wing to link immigrants to crime might have played a role here? perhaps more than a brief spike in actual crime (that was not even committed by immigrants to any large degree)

Boy this is fucking terrible.

Love that a pack of unelected fascists are running the executive branch while the president is the republican equivalent of that Spanish king who would wear like sixteen pairs of gloves at the same time.

A congressional district office usually has about the same infrastructure and space as, you know, a storefront H&R Block. I do not think those would be easy to convert to viable food pantries at the scale needed, especially since they would still need that office space.

The modal failure mode for Zohran is "nothing he proposed gets done other than a rent freeze and some meaningful street use changes," and while I hope he does much better than that, that would make him the second-best mayor of the century.

We could feed every American for less than what we spend on our military. It isn’t a question of resources. It is a question of priorities.

I love that Kathy and ASC look like they're having a ball and Heastie looks like he's about to end it all

Like it's just...there's no place for this in our community. You can't go on stage with these guys.

Guys like this should genuinely be forced out of their synagogues. Just insane, heinous racism.

There are two options here: (1) we will break them such that they spend the rest of their lives swearing up and down that they didn’t say or believe any of this; or (2) they will destroy America

"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

I'm fundamentally glad I committed suicide by mod over there.

The mainstreaming of blatant Protocols-tier antisemitism is one of the worst aspects of this era.

You know there is time to get someone without a Nazi tattoo and who isn’t 77. The sad part is the amount of political capital defending him instead of finding another alternative.

This piece quotes Brad Lander saying, “In the same way that I tried for many years to get liberal Zionists to be open to anti-Zionists in their institutions and midst, I want to get anti-Zionists to not treat everyone who does believe in two states like a racist.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

one thing a lot of radicals don't want to grapple with is the the state monopoly on violence exists because the median subject of the state prefers it over the alternative. the goal of the peaceful protestor is to make that person very uncomfortable and willing to reconsider, not overpower the state

Did the thing. If you can spare a dime, do the same where you can

putting aside the failures of Starmerism as a solution, the circumstances that created a near wipeout event for the Tories in the UK after 13 years of terrible governance might be instructive