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we have a mostly unknown, relatively unpopular politics streamer without particularly compelling views (he is hot tho) and for reasons I really struggle to grasp both sides of an internal Democratic Party debate seem invested in elevating him to a defining factor in party identity and positioning

Musk’s plant using illegal gas turbines is actually bad. Pharma companies doing patent stacking is actually bad. Condemning and being against either of those things does not require you to endorse conspiracy theories because they are real things.

Man those are some stupid fish

ya i mean i think this is honestly a clear depiction of the actual dynamic in the white house right now. 50% chance he agrees to whatever you ask him, 50% chance he gets the drill out bsky.app/profile/stev...

“We’re closing the strait to open the strait to win the war to open the strait that was open until we started the war that closed it and that’s why we are threatening to help Argentina steal Britain’s penguins.” I pay taxes to fund this.

lol. Absolutely not. Goodbye, US products.

It's kinda bizarre to me, for example, that it took trump for Democrats to get serious on gerrymandering. Republicans haven't been doing more gerrymandering this decade than they did in the 2010 cycle! And yet California never considered repealing the commission

It's not *exactly* true that trump is only different from the other Republicans in his tone, but it's closer to true than a lot of people seem to think

Why can’t we rely on Canada, did our government do something that alienated them

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

Frankly, I think the best argument for Ford actually being one of the least scrutinized premiers in the country is that a heavily-scrutinized premier who’s this bad at crisis comms could not possibly have lasted eight years and counting.

just to be clear, the ideal outcome of all this is that the GOP realizes that gerrymander wars are at best a wash for them, and agree to back national anti gerrymandering legislation.

So, instead, we get endless made-up bullshit stories about poor little Okies in Michigan or Kentucky upset about the factory jobs going away under Nixon and Hillary Clinton doing Tumblrspeak so we don’t have to acknowledge that “para continuar en Español, oprima 2” made them crash out genocidally

Acknowledging the stark, ugly truth that the Republicans basically had no good reason to do what they have done for the last 11 years and have lapsed into vast collective psychosis over totally immaterial and utterly depraved delusions is terrifying, and as such most commentators simply do not do it

I would say every person living between the Mediterranean and the Jordan has the right to be governed by a sovereign government for which they have the right to vote. I am agnostic on whether that takes the form of one state, two, or a confederation. It is clear who has that right and who does not.

You should be disgusted that you betrayed yourself and everyone else, Kathryn! He was a wolf in wolf’s clothing. apnews.com/article/trum...

A network of inauthentic YouTube channels posing as Albertan voices is spreading misleading content about separation and U.S. annexation, reaching tens of millions of viewers, according to a new report. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... #Alberta #abpoli #Canada #cdnpoli

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

Virginia votes TODAY on a referendum that would enable Democrats to redraw the congressional map for 2026 in response to new Republican gerrymanders in other states. The map targets 4 of 5 Republicans & aims to elect a 10-1 Dem majority. Interactive map+data: davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap...

I just genuinely dont know how we havent already arrived at the conclusion: if there's a debate. we have to act like its a US problem

Trump's always wanted to kill the ayatollah and he was ready to kill something, wasn't exactly hard for any 3rd party, Israeli or American, to point him like a loaded gun.

I think "Trump got fooled into doing something he wanted to do by being assured it was easier than everyone else said it was because he was high on that Venezuela win" is pretty cohesive.

SCOOP: McGill University's on-campus doctors are now refusing to prescribe hormones to trans youth and adults under age 19... if they're U.S. citizens. They claim liability issues, but this isn't the first time U.S. EOs have interfered with Canadian doctors. My report: celeste.lgbt/en/2026/04/d...

Good example that Hasan Piker is both just genuinely ignorant and also a campist, which works to amplify and deepen the aforementioned ignorance

What's wild here is, lets say Patel's psychotic claim is true: It means 9-30+ different high level FBI sources, who work with Patel most days all coordinated a series of lies to take down their boss and put their jobs on the line for it. That's just as bad from a leadership perspective.

if Ds control congress, pass shit like that. you could pass a clean dreamers bill if Ds win midterms, I'm pretty sure. just do that.

btw, I was never a huge fan of his subsidized store plans, not bc I hate them or anything but because margins are pretty thin in general and grocery stores already sell most staples at cost or even a loss to get people in, but the degree to which anyone with a wiki page loses their mind is profound.

California seems to be very good at mixing the worst urges of western cowboy libertarianism with micromanaging progressivism. Like, I should have a god given right to build in wildfire zones, but also it should be illegal to build tall buildings in Santa Monica

Every couple years we count how many people want economic and racial justice and they always say very clearly that they don't. More than any other group they don't want those things.

It really seems like some apologists/fans of Trump’s war with Iran fundamentally don’t understand that we attacked them. bsky.app/profile/crai...

Weird, Iran was at the negotiations table *before* Trump illegally blockaded them, and the blockade actually drove them away from negotiations. Some of us predicted this, but not all of us!

But it's not conspiratorial behind the scenes control, and if you portray it that way you just *are* buying into and spreading an anti-Semitic theory of the world.

Israeli policy is clearly murderous and warmongering too, to be clear, and Bibi has his own mad agenda of ethnic cleansing and regional superiority through military tyranny. So it's not like I am saying they were not actively aiding and abetting the militarist elements in the US.

It's silly and wrong to act like Trump was gonna be committed to pacifist foreign policy before the Israelis blackmailed him. And, yes, it is in fact anti-Semitic. For one thing, there's evidently a section of the American military establishment who have been gagging for war with Iran for decades.

A lot of people are still in the denial about how much the median Democratic voter, the median Democratic volunteer, and the median Democratic activist has shifted on a variety of issues. Well here's the handpicked candidate of Chuck Schumer being booed, about Gaza, at the Dem convention.

mamdani is a social democrat which is a type of socialist which is a type of liberal

Bouie’s theory of Trump as fetish onto which the median voter (incredibly derogatory) can project their insatiable desire to consume shit remains undefeated

There are a bunch of centrists and centre-right types who basically believe it is the moral duty of the left to save conservatism from itself.

And it’s not like we don’t already have literally every conservative with a spine! Like, we’ve somehow got Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney onboard. That would’ve been unthinkable 20 years ago!

We provide immense subsidies to rural areas through redistribution and industrial policy, which all of the white rural areas resist kicking and screaming because wind and solar is a Chinese plot to trans their kids who don't talk to them.

the thing to remember is that by the time FDR takes office the depression had been going for three years and the hoover administration looked like a bunch of do-nothing assholes. loudly and visibly saying "we are working to fix the problem!" was meant to bring some calm to the storm. it worked!

I don't think Mills is an apologist for apartheid or genocide. Her problem is she's not conversant on what's in front of the Senate while running for the Senate. It's fair to want to focus on governing, but when you are maybe down 20 you do not have that luxury, & every missed opportunity stings.

this is just a lie. Ds in senate just voted 40 to 7 to restrict aid to Israel. For the first time basically ever, there is a visible, stark partisan divide on Israel. Erasing that doesn't help Palestinians. It does help anti-establishment grifters like Cenk Uygur though.

like, if you want to help Palestinians right now, one really clear thing you can do is vote in D primaries, and vote for Ds in general elections. A D unified govt in 2028 is very likely going to condition aid to Israel and stop funding a lot of their shit.

If Mills had been sitting there with 65%+ approval, if she was truly exceptionally popular, then you could make the case it was justified. But instead Schumer & co. went all-in on a governor in her late 70s who barely cracks 50% approval on a good day.

like, he says, "we should tax the rich because they should pay their fair share." he says, "we need make life for the working class better." he doesn't generally say, "the elites have formed a conspiracy to immiserate you"

Joseph McCarthy lived in a time where it was impossible to go to large coastal cities in America without tripping over a Communist plant of some sort. However very few of them seemed to attract his interest. This was because rolling back the New Deal was really his agenda, and Cold War a pretext

It would be overall great if a reporter were to ask her campaign for clarification after providing her with a basic correction of the facts