Thought bubble: Sanders's most successful disciples are (for the most part) women and candidates of color like Zohran Mamdani, Claire Valdez, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, et al. Meanwhile, some of the ones that didn't pan out were white men (John Fetterman and Graham Platner).

Gallego the kind of guy you take restaurant recs from in order to have a list of all the places that have salmonella in the salad

vichyiste scum

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

all the host countries are out so now you can take our land, these are the rules ⚽️

Graham Platner’s history of sexual assault proves he does not belong in the US Senate. He belongs on the Supreme Court. by Susan Collins

If you read just a few comments on any article about Graham Platner it should become crystal clear why victims don’t come forward earlier. The level of cruelty people direct at victims is gutting

her political instincts are unmatched (maybe Mamdani)

AOC not getting behind Graham Platner looks like a chess move now.

Maine voters (derogatory)

If Pence had the courage, Trump probably would not have seen the sunrise on Jan 7 as a free man, but also that Mike Pence would have been a fundamentally different person

President Trump advocates for birthright citizen

I can’t describe how big of a deal this is. For years, #ActuallyAutistic women got ignored because of this stigma and #ActuallyAutistic men were seen as not having empathy.

Tinpot dictators think that if something is the most of something that makes it the best. So we have "so many fireworks we turn our nation's capital into an air pollution disaster". Just as to celebrate its 20th anniversary Tajikistan built a flagpole so high that heavy winds tore the flag apart

It’s irked me for a little while that people talk about 2016 as if three consecutive terms of the same party isn’t a rarity in US political histoty

i think a big issue is that people tend to view elections as purely a product of campaigns instead of being driven by more structural factors such as incumbency, the party system, or growth/inflation

So much of this stuff is just designed for a different generation. in that it relies on the audience instinctively “knowing” that socialism is totalitarian and hostile to American values.

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

This is expressly the party for people who didn't like that Die Linke wouldn't let them be racist

"More people would support me if I lied about every issue."

I don’t know perfectly where to draw the line. But for Trump my clearest and maybe biggest red line is January 6th and election denial. Support a candidate who tried to overthrow an election should be an insane taboo far outside the bounds of reasonable politics. I wI’ll judge you for it!

it is in fact racism

I think the fear being stoked here is more Camp of the Saints-y - third worlders now can fly to JFK and breed so they have anchor babies

The best thing you can do to win rurals is to make them not rural anymore (see eg area surrounding Bozeman, 2008-2024 trends)

What can they even claim anymore? Free markets? Free trade? National Security? Free speech? Anti-big government? Who on the right actually believes in that now? They’re all ex-Republicans or libs.

one thing i find funny is that the founding generation would likely have been very enthusiastic about, say, muslim immigrants and intensely skeptical of all the catholics

I don’t understand what this is supposed to achieve. It won’t move the needle on the number of asylum seekers, they all need to be housed, so this just limits the government’s options, and for what?

Yeah, I hate to say this is true, but it is. Four justices agreeing is a signal that this is now the benchmark for any conservative jurist. “No more Souters” will turn into “no more Barretts.”

[several loud incorrect buzzer noises in quick succession, really just a sudden cacophony of BZZZZT BZBZBZBZBZZTBZZZT]

5-4 on maybe the most straightforward question ever put to the test in postwar history is genuinely an abomination. Destroy the Court.

I can’t bring myself to be too celebratory. This should have been a 9-0 slam dunk. My main takeaway is that there are currently 4 votes to undo a longstanding constitutional guarantee that 15 years ago seemed beyond any serious question.

NGL. 5-4 has me shook just in terms of the extent to which conservative elites are willing to burn it all down. I mean obviously, as a trans woman, I dislike being openly despised. But this is flirting with breaking down the fundamental political settlements that keep society from collapsing.

Cool that James Madison envisioned everyone having a rocket launcher but the authors of the 14th amendment explicitly stating their intentions doesn't count for some reason.

My honest belief is that the dissenters should just be fully disbarred. You cannot sincerely believe the 14th Amendment does not contain birthright citizenship. To hold this is to be either so dishonest or so incapable of analysis that you cannot practice law.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

I do think that the Dem political establishment bobbled the court issue in 2016 bc they were concerned that it would turn out R voters more than their voters. In Sanders's defense, he brought up the court at every pro-Clinton stop of his that I covered.

OBAMACARE ENROLLEE: ahahaha I have decided to scam the government by paying thousands upon thousands to an insurance company and receiving nothing in return. But will Dr. Pillhawker see through my evil plans?

Market crashes 36 seconds into AOC's administration when she says "um" in a really annoying way

One of those cases where people drive themselves crazy trying to harmonize the ostensible justifications given What's actually going on is, of course, that the Court thinks the Constitution requires and enshrines white supremacy

the world in 3-4 election cycles if the increased competitiveness of D primaries leads to every faction in the big D tent dramatically increasing both the depth and breadth of their political organizing:

There are legitimate concerns about antisemitism and other forms of bigotry with Darializa Avila Chevalier, for whom I wouldn’t have voted. By conflating her with Brad Lander, a proudly Jewish guy, the ADL is making those concerns harder to raise and easier to dismiss.

Anglophones always act like Welsh has a bizarre orthography, like Gaelic has a bizarre orthography, like Polish has a bizarre orthography, when in real life they could get around this with the simple realisation that not all languages pronounce the letters of the Latin alphabet the same.

no amount of price hikes could ever make me feel FOMO about an xbox console

I also don’t think it’s posturing. I think they’ve all absolutely cooked their brains.

This is how CCM people sound when they talk about worship music

Dems have performed better in years they ran left—06, 08, 18—but that’s likely because those were also strong turnout years. The best evidence shows progressives don’t outperform moderates, or vice versa. A reasonable read is that progressive primary wins reflect an energized base.

I think all the NY dems that lost to the DSA deserved to lose because they lost to the DSA, their whole thing is supposed to be how they run the party and they don't lose to the DSA

Cette glorification des tueurs de masse est tellement irresponsable. Les médias font partie du problème. Au lieu de parler des victimes, on glorifie le tueur. Les médias devraient toujours parler du tueur et non pas le nommer. Et aussi ne pas montrer sa photo partout.

ya i'm sorry "i backed cuomo in the primary, hey why is the guy cuomo beat running a challenger against me" is just a "sucks to suck" issue