I was out canvassing for Spanberger in LYH all day long yesterday. That was my way of commemorating Charlie Kirk’s memorial. And somehow, no one had it on their TVs. Missed the whole thing. Hallelujah!

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in the primary debates there were basically two debates happening on the same stage: one between Fulop, Baraka, and Sweeney, who knew the details of state government reasonably well, and one between Sherrill and Gottheimer, who only knew soundbites

The West Wing is deeply flawed but "I'm tired of working for candidates that make me think that I should be embarrassed to believe what I believe" still really hits home

donald trump is bad relative to 'we gave every convicted felon in the united states a slip of paper with a number on it, drew one of those numbers at 8 PM on the first tuesday in november, and declared the winner our new president.'

they probably call it “coming out” because they think it exposes liberal hypocrisy or whatever, not realizing that their girlfriends would probably also stop dating them if they came out as exclusively attracted to men after several months in a monogamous heterosexual relationship

mikie bringing up red flag laws to stop suicides among veterans is a really good point that i've genuinely never heard another democrat say

"Jack will tell you whatever you wanna hear" is actually a good line that she should emphasize more, because it *works* on that greasy old Italian

honestly though as "ugh" as I am about McBride doing a classic Delaware Moment it's kinda fucking me up seeing AOC almost break kayfabe for a second to all but openly go "yeah I think we should cut her specifically a little more slack because she's trying to avoid getting assassinated right now"

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aoc mad enough about the soft charlie kirk yes whip from jeffries to come back to bluesky after a two-month hiatus

This Three Kingdoms Live Action Remake is a gift that keeps giving

Happening this week, starting tomorrow: Utah’s legislature is meeting to adopt a new congressional map after a court order. All five draft maps would transform a safely GOP seat into a swing district that’d be very winnable for Dems.

how did libs get the f-35 in the national divorce

Everything is within hand grenade range if you’re not woke.

Andrew Cuomo does not care one iota about Palestinian lives. Or Israeli lives, either. He cares only about himself, and whatever he thinks he needs to say to win.

The dragon in question

rho are you familiar with Gaumata the Magus?

“every time you fuck up and then fix it, thousands of people will remember the fuckup forever as evidence that you’re fundamentally evil. fixing it will be forgotten instantly and retconned into someone else’s moral victory over your fundamental evil” sure is an incentive structure of all time

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

I in part blame Obama for this, goes along with how he basically put Dem-aligned organizing on life support

My honest reaction to that information

Fuck Chevy Chase, but the Francisco Franco bit was an all-time banger of 20th century comedy

After seeing what major corporations are willing to tolerate from Trump without a peep, I'm literally never taking them seriously when they complain about a left/liberal economic policy ever again.

outdoing teddy roosevelt

He looks like Buckley lol

honestly this is a great book but i also have the mental image of a guy in a boston accent going "hey, i'm respecting my ancestors here"

As an aside, if you're not tuning into @sarahtaber.bsky.social 's videos and posts, you're missing out, I think. Her insights on who actually lives in rural America (American farmers are mostly not poor!) and why the think what they do are really valuable.

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I presume it was him mixing up the Cambodia-Thai flare up with Armenia and Azerbaijan

i hear what you're saying but "then i will face god and walk backwards into hell" is one of the best sentences english has ever conceived and i sometimes forget its about getting banned from the zoo for hollering at the monkeys

Imagine cooking on this level

Every mf wants to talk about being exposed to ideas that are challenging and distressing, no mf wants to be exposed to ideas that are even mildly irritating

Persecuting Christians: Me being able to buy a hamburger unmolested Not Persecuting Christians: This, apparently Fucking Republicans.

I agree it’s good to convert voters. The thing that DC Dems can’t seem to get into their thick skulls is that kumbaya listening sessions convert no one. What converts people is creating a social penalty for stupid beliefs and ideas

Also where the fuck is the Mark Warner primary?

Before we go down the usual “what could have Dems done,” there were national security avenues to review the sale - Chris Murphy tried to do it, after the fact! It’s very clear that Dems mostly just didn’t care - they told reporters as much through the entire saga.

Like all else aside it is necessary for cause to precede effect

This is why it was completely insane for Dems to laugh off the Twitter purchase. We created a forum with practically every single political and media elite all in the same room together hearing the same things, and then we turned it over to a far-right oligarch

The goal of democratic politicians should be to make Trump have the approval rating as the clap

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

one of just FOUR states that are electing statewide officials this November two D-vs-R races in the swing state of Georgia, of all places.

What the hell: I've filled in ALL of the above counties/cities PLUS the additional ones listed here... bsky.app/profile/sams... ...which makes it look like so...D+10.7. As @samshirazi.bsky.social is pointing out, none of this means much of anything yet.

people will yammer about whatever bullshit goes on with the scumbag ivies and no one cared about the destruction of new college, which was a far greater tragedy

Do distinguish between the marginal and average Trump voter. There are folks on the margin you can peel off. The hardcore MAGA types are a lost cause though.

I think I have a slightly different angle: we need some people who voted for Trump to feel _shame_. It should be reintegrative shame (they are people who are capable of good, but did a bad thing that needs to be accounted for, and remedied), and not disintegrating. But we don’t need flattery.