Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

You are one member of a larger coalition. That coalition has a process through which it decides who will lead it. “If you don’t decide to support my guy, I will leave the coalition” is behavior that will destroy the coalition, weaken yourself, and ultimately lead to worse outcomes than participating

PiS i Konfederacja chcą Rosji Rosja to system trucizny , kuli i strachu . Brytyjskie MSZ potwierdziło : Nawalny został otruty . Głosowanie przeciw SAFE , to głosowanie przeciwko polskim żołnierzom . Kto nas obroni, jeśli sami nie chcemy się zbroić ?

[Note: Neither national nor local NBC reports linked to the opinion, so I am presenting it this way, but the local affiliate, KING-TV (K5), did report the news of his release and included an interview so I am linking to that.]

The man, Greggy Sorio, was released on Friday, per local reporting: www.king5.com/article/news...

A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of a man who had been in immigration detention due to "objectively unreasonable failures of care that more likely than not resulted in permanent disability, including the loss of his toe and part of his foot."

This is insane. It’s not some kind of character test for you. The point is that most people, poor and otherwise, aren’t tracking their personal finances precisely - this is well-known, extremely established fact - and as a result are unable to reliably notice very small aggregate changes in price.

This is why I’m so fixated on the economy-and-inflation stuff. Rather than admit we misdiagnosed the problem, we keep vaguely acknowledging that something seems off, waiting a few months, and rediagnosing ourselves with it, because we really really want that to be the disease and not something new.

Allow me to suggest that lying to yourself about what actually happened - the working class did great 2021-24 - is a great way to keep walking into the same traps!!

People mentally cannot accept or grapple with a world where progressive economic policies do not magically make everyone love you

Progressives: “Sure, we were completely wrong that improving the station of working-class people would result in electoral gains, but that’s just because, on a deeper level, we were correct that everyone is furious about wealth inequality” America: *elects a billionaire backed by Elon Musk*

There are very few things I believe more strongly than this: If you orient your politics around things that you know are not true, or don’t care if are true, whether because it sounds good, or you think it’ll impress people, or any other reason, you are planting the seeds of your own destruction.

It’s extraordinarily dangerous twice over: we convince ourselves that we can be popular by enacting the exact policies that just failed to make us popular, AND we alienate people who gambled on our policies by refusing to acknowledge they enacted them

Then in 2025 as inflation went even lower, they were… even more miserable about the economy! There’s just not any hard material indicator that remotely matches public sentiment here, and at some point we should ask if the public is getting its sentiments from some other source.

The idea that people were thrilled with the economy in 2021-22 when COVID supports were still in place makes no sense because people were very miserable about the economy in 2021-22. Then in 2023-24, when inflation subsided, they were… still miserable about the economy.

If the economy in 2021-2024 was “the best it’s been in decades”: A. That’s very good! B. Someone forgot to tell Americans, who thought it was worse than 2009

this started a holy war, so let me state a very plain and direct argument for this the democratic primary is when we decide if we get to have things be good or mid the general election is when you decide if you dislike nazis

Ma’am, this is a chart for Canada

The reason people are concerned about lefties saying “I won’t vote for a moderate Dem” isn’t because they want Newsom. It’s because lefties keep not voting for moderate Dems! I think all the scolding about it being years til the primary would hit a little harder if WE DIDN’T JUST GO THROUGH THIS

This. Precisely this. Serious people don’t threaten to vote third party, because it’s a tantrum. I don’t like Newsom at all, I think he’s an amoral opportunist. But JD Vance is quite literally a man who gets his ideas from neo-Nazis. He’s a white supremacist fascist. It’s an easy, easy choice!

People who think their only political tool is withholding their vote are people who haven’t bothered to engage in politics. It’s not a real tool, it persuades nobody of anything but to ignore you. Almost anything else you did would have a better chance of achieving your ends.

Speaking as someone who has many, many complaints about the Democratic Party, “letting them lose” when they’re in a contest with an actual fascist party isn’t very smart. Nor is it remotely fair to say they’ve adopted far right policies on trans rights, immigration, or abortion (??).

This is why healthy democracies don’t have competitive fascist parties - because it turns elections into Russian roulette. The dilemma isn’t “the same party has to win every time for us to be safe” but “the same party has to LOSE every time.” The fascist party is the danger

Yes, the most exhausting thing about the far-left is responding to their completely fictional version of the Democratic Party (one that is not, for instance, one of the most visibly pro-trans parties on Earth). And where they believe punishing America with fascism is justified by Dem failures.

Literally no one here is doing that. You’ll notice that a lot of the people claiming they’ll never vote for Newsom are saying some pretty crazy stuff about Democrats in general. We’ve seen this movie before - this isn’t some tactical anti-Newsom feint, they’re dying for a reason to sit things out.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t criticize Dems - of course not - but acting like “a mediocre Dem versus an actual fascist” is a tough choice is extremely unhelpful for people trying to build a broad united front against fascism.

The left attacks create a permission structure for non-voters. “Eh, they’re all the same anyway.” Same thing happened in 2000. It contributes to the miasmatic discontent with candidates that drives low-info voters to make terrible choices.

The problem is that letting absolutely nutbars build huge followings poisons the entire environment even if you, personally, do not interact with them. This is PRECISELY what has gone wrong on Twitter - the far right has massive social gravity even if you don’t talk to it.

Bluesky needs better moderation. The level of crazy bullshit, wishing death on people, speading lies, vitriolic comments, dogpiling, etc on here is way too damn high It would be a real bummer if the site becomes unusable for all but the most troubled and troublesome people

Biden was the most economically progressive president since LBJ at least, he pursued a full-employment economy at huge political risk, it worked spectacularly. And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular

Well I don’t like all the fascism and pedophilia, but at least he’ll be good for cryptocurrency right, how’s that going

so uh what’s going on with socialist reddit

He has said this about every election since 2016, has always been heavy-handed in implying he will under no circumstances concede. An aspiring dictator from the beginning, he hardly ever pretended to believe in democracy. I’ll never understand why so many people averted their eyes from the obvious.

The leftism of Nina Turner isn't being a "swing vote," it's being a hostage taker. Swing voters are either deeply cross-pressured, driven by unusual motivations, or low-information. Nina Turner leftism is neither of those. It is high information hostage-taking to achieve coalitional minority rule.

political malpractice that this chart hasnt been seared into the brains of every single american through advertising and social media

Part of the issue here is that people should not be seeking emotional support from a chatbot, which suggests that we should not be programming them to provide it at all, rather than figuring out the best answer for them to give when it is asked for.

the modern right is pathologically obsessed with gender in a way that has absolutely no analogue on our side

God the gall of @jaketapper.bsky.social lecturing that Minneapolis small business owner about the meaning of the word "concentration camp" while people are being crammed into poorly resourced buildings by the thousands and shuttled off never to be heard from again

Convinced that the prestige reactionary centrists are cranking that "The Illiberal Left!" dial up to 11 in the hopes that their readership will be rage baited into forgetting that their entire foundational claim - that leftist excesses are the "real" fascist threat - has been thoroughly discredited

Gender affirming treatment has an astonishingly high rate of satisfaction. You probably already know this, but I feel like we need to repeat it over and over.

One of the funniest things I've seen on this site in some time

It’s probably a huge bummer for a lot of people who have been doing this lifestyle Activism stuff for years and a bunch of uber-normies in crisis come out of nowhere and just spontaneously demonstrate textbook anarchist praxis

wait she also transferred her assets to her son in law to prevent the family of the victim getting any restitution in a civil suit??? yeah I’m sorry, but lock her up and throw away the key. sick, sick human being

call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again

there are no mastermind villains. every single one of them is sending 4th grade level emails to World's Most Famous Sex Criminal from their work account

the problem being faced by the court is that it is fundamentally political and therefore cannot escape the stink of our modern politics regardless of how it maneuvers or postures itself

this feels like desperation. the leaks from the court are the product of its unpopularity and internal strife, not the other way around. you can't save your public image by shutting the public out.

a distressingly common bluesky experience is posting “This is conspiratorial nonsense” and having many people respond with, essentially, “ok but I believe it”

the allegation is that Thomas raped a 4 year old as part of a scheme involving the FBI, CIA, and the mafia. Anita Hill’s testimony makes you think that happened?