Listen, everyone knows if you want to be a senator in Texas you have to do this

It’s remarkable how entitled businesspeople feel to the time of political executives. You heard the same whining about Biden, how they just *had* to support Trump because mean ol’ Biden sent an aide instead of meeting with them about crypto or AI personally.

You’d think they’d as least spring for “general secretary”

Can someone explain the beef between a particular kind of left wing person and Buttigieg? I get they don’t like liberals generally but they seem to really hate him in particular

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Mob media making people think these guys were anything other than awful is a tragedy

One bit about Jefferson that people don’t always know is that his friend and Polish Revolutionary War veteran Tadeusz Kościuszko left assets in his will for Jefferson to pay to free and educate all the people he was enslaving and Jefferson refused to be the executor of the will and didn’t do it.

“Proposing a Constitutional Amendment to never pass legislation except 10,000 page omnibus bills ever again”

Last abused worker to stop working gets their passport back!

My memetic tendrils reach further through the online politi-sphere

He’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit

A million dem strategists just breathed a sigh of relief when he didn’t take the bait about “what does your victory mean for democratic socialism across the country”

I’m glad we avoided cuomentum discourse

For the love of god can we build housing instead?

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if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

It’s a repost Obama kinda night folks

Mine eyes have seen the glory.

Liberalism good.

One of liberalism’s first insights is that the king sucks because he arbitrarily makes life worse and more expensive

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Cuomo winning would have been substantively irrelevant but would have been an enormous moral victory for the fucking piece of shit alliance.

Vibe shift

Total Evelyn Normielib victory tonight folks

Don’t say that name around me

I love how this little doodle has breached containment from the video I drew it for so much It’s always a jump scare when I see it pop up

So much discourse could be better if we stopped taking those “do you feel x party is too liberal/conservative” polls at face value. Saying someone is “too liberal/conservative” is for 99% of people just a different way of saying “I liked the other party better”

the two main online opinions on Bernie re: Abundance are like “the left has bent the knee to us” vs. “Sanders dismisses it platitudes”, which I think are both wrong and annoying, whereas my read is “these are necessary but not sufficient”, which IMO is the standard, non-gas-leak left-YIMBY view

It’s hard to tell what things he thinks are politically wise and what he things are actually correct. Does he actually believe we need economic growth rather than reducing emissions or does he just think voters need that?

Lmao I’m not sure I’d be cheering about this

Bluesky libs watching this clip

Guys like this use these weird abstract analogies to avoid saying what they’re actually saying, which is that “nazis are our allies”

In an alternate universe this is the premise of a Wall Street Journal version of those “we went to a red state diner to find out why they don’t like democrats” articles

I wonder what could possibly make the culturally conservative Christian small business owner veteran who owns this barber shop to be unreachable. The world may never know.

One of the things that prevents AI from being more useful to me is that it’s wrong all the time

If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.

I think the deciding to win crowd would benefit from engaging a bit more with the question of “What does it mean to be a Democrat?” What unites the hypothetical candidate who can win in a Trump+15 state and the AOC wing?

It’s true that voters have preferences. It’s also true that voters can change their preferences and priorities. The popularists would’ve had democrats say nothing about El Salvador. Because democrats *did* point out how cruel it was, it hurt republican approval on immigration.

Everyone who makes money on housing understands that strict zoning and politicized permitting is good for landlords and bad for tenants.

The republicans want to keep the filibuster, which requires working to get 60 votes in the senate, and also their maximalist policy agenda, which should be unacceptable to all democrats. They hold the power and can remove the filibuster to pass whatever they want, but they can’t have it both ways.

Can we just call it the professional class? The “managerial” part of it never seems to come up in discussions about PMC anyway.

Some people gotta stop dooming about their pet policy being unpopular in that WelcomePAC report Public opinion is not a static and unchanging thing. Just look at voters opinion on immigration before and after Trump took office.

Doesn’t Wikipedia require using secondary sources specifically to avoid subjects of articles defining themselves and to ensure that the subjects of articles are notable enough to have an article? Plenty of things to critique Wikipedia for, but this policy seems to make sense to me.

Cameron Kasky is running for Congress, bulwark people my DMs are open if you need a new zoomer <3

100% this

It’s interesting that the Deciding to Win report seems to want to go back to 2012. Why? 2nd term unpopular Republican president. doesn’t this feel more like a lead up to a 2008 moment?