I'm finally digging into the cross tabs underlying the @searchlightinst.bsky.social memo telling Dems not to talk about climate change. It surprised me, but may not surprise you, that the memo lies about what US swing voters actually said in the polling. Let's have a look, shall we? 🧵

this is a common way the mainstream media distorts public opinion — e.g. during the fight over obamacare they would consistently report that had 60/40 disapproval but not note that much of the disapproval was from democrats who wanted the law to be *more* left wing

100% agreed

I think something Dems should try is asserting that the reasoning is *required* for orders to be binding in the face of unfavorable shadow docket rulings

Graham Platner's collapse is an indictment of what Twitter has done to people's brains, and a major W for this platform and the general idea of "not spending time in Elon Musk's sandbox" slate.com/technology/2...

One of the things you need to understand about chud brain is it isn't downstream of Warhammer 40k and videogames, it's downstream of youtube videos and streams about Warhammer 40k and video games

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

And the Maine primary lesson for establishment Dems is “harness that energy for vengeance or someone you like a lot less will harness it instead”

evelyn normielib is real and she is coming to a primary near you I cannot count the number of conversations I’ve had with normal offline liberals that would be TOS violations over here

shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term

it's not popular to say on here but dems on the hill are rapidly waking up to this (It's just not as noticeable because it presents itself in being shitty during what should be bipartisan decorum milquetoast hearings instead of saying what kind of TOS violation they're gonna do to ICE or w/e)

Last June, Rep. Stevens voted with Republicans to thank ICE “for protecting the homeland.” Michigan deserves a real Democratic fighter like @abdulelsayed.bsky.social who will hold Trump’s thugs accountable instead of praising them.

Worth mentioning that essentially any bona fide sex difference that is something that actually needs to be accommodated is not a problem under Title IX

This is footage of ICE handcuffing a 26 year old father after murdering him in broad daylight. We cannot look away. Abolish ICE. Abolish qualified immunity. Hold these murderous thugs accountable.

absolutely despicable. this is already one of the most putrid genres of written statements. and this might be one of the worst examples of the form

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

Pretty fascinating data from Echelon showing that economic conservatism is only getting 36%. There are now 17% who claim to be socially conservative and economically liberal. Populists at 0%.

a friendly, charming, personable moderate who can talk with little old ladies *and* twenty two year olds is, nine times out of ten, going to beat a bomb-throwing leftist who can't hold a conversation, but the reverse of this is true, too, and neither side wants to hear it

De-Sejmify the American Government

it's hardly the worst sin of the Senate but a system of mandatory congeniality and formal friendliness only works if the body sees itself as unified in opposition to the rest of government; as it stands presently we get eulogies from opposition for their good friend, Part Of The Problem.

So the only way to make it happen is if you somehow convince those very liberal city folks to, of their own accord, vote for politicians who will tell them to eat shit to placate people who hate them and their values, all for the benefit of hypothetical electoral gains for the broader coalition.

As a parent, I believe he's gonna win reelection w Baath party numbers.

we have issued an arrest warrant for Diarrhea

Dead Senator discourse is one thing here, on my Facebook a casual acquaintance who's right of my friends list average is crashing out about civility and calling everyone making jokes members of the DSA

Saw a meme of GenZ baffled by how pre-internet travel worked, and realized we’ve crossed an enshittification threshold where IRL services that once seemed outdated, like travel agents, now seem luxurious: “You meet with a human expert who plans out your whole trip with you” sounds incredible now tbh

Lmao

I believe the right has genuinely held principles and those principles are evil.

1B/yr EACH budgets for NEA, NEH, IMLS, and 2B for CPB to revive them would be a meaningful investment into making America a sustainable enterprise going forward.

the hack Republicans discovered is that by rigging the judiciary you can not only essentially stay in power despite losing federal elections but you can sabotage the other party's president and undermine him in his own coalition

Much like the relationship between the Copperheads and Reconstructionists today, the issue isn't the ideological flavor of policy so much as it's *doing policy*. Basic Good Politics 101 is then talking about it. This shouldn't be hard for anyone to grasp but alas

A values system that views Pete Buttigieg’s time at McKinsey as disqualifying, but Graham Platner’s time at Blackwater as not, has beclowned itself regardless of the subsequent scandals.

The American Republic is a group of people from everywhere with the hope that things could have been better than what the Old World offered. Eventually, what the New World said it could offer, and even what gravity said was possible. Losing hope is losing the single most American characteristic.

Solid view for the next few days

The "Mamdani hates Italians" stories seem like they're going to be much healthier for society than the antisemitism angle. It's funny on its face and it takes the wind out of the sails of all the worst actors

what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”

Ok you know what fair

Discovered the scientific name of the common jay just now and knew immediately what I must do

There's a lesson to learn here about wearing an empty plate carrier that doesn't fit well and can be used as leverage in a fight that this dipshit absolutely will not learn.

one way to trump proof the future structure of govt is to make a lot of agency court-like institutions into actual courts with actual article iii judges

I feel like its 2021 and I'm telling conservatives 'you can just say fuck Joe Biden, its okay I do too about a third of the time'.

I had this haircut in 1997

Holy shit, this is even more insane than I thought. Of course there's a demand ceiling for durable products you fucking idiots. Once you have an Instant Pot, you don't need another Instant Pot. ai-2040.com/supplements/...

Listen, the gender piece of the Platner story is massive and right at its heart. It's also his undoing. But I think people also need to understand that the obsession with Israel/Palestine as a political issue is also a massive part of what blinded people here. People need to reckon with it.

The best slow pitch events are the home run derby ones with shaved bats, dudes in their 40s just launching nukes at a minor league park. I fully endorse this.

This is a good theory I hadn't thought of tbh

When the weather gets hot, please take special care for the goths in your life. With their floor-length coats, platform shoes, and velvet capes, it’s hard for them to thermoregulate as we do.

The quick resegregation of higher education is particularly pronounced. In 1951, in the case of McKissick v Carmichael, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals compelled the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law to admit 4 black students. In 2025, they admitted 5. law.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

Bibi has been PM for 19 of the past 30 years. At some point he stopped being an aberration and started being the Face of Israel. And that face is a partisan Republican who openly rat-fucks Democrats and was bigoted to Obama (and Harris). Not a surprise liberals have shifted.