Graham Platner running an insurgent left-wing campaign and polling at -21 points among working class folks in a race against a calcified establishment Republican is so bleak I can't even comprehend it.

This is not a characteristic of a healthy democracy

oh did he lie to everyone about there being no additional damaging stories again? I am shocked, you are telling me this for the first time

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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We wanted to understand why a Jewish candidate defeated another Jewish candidate in one of America's most Jewish congressional districts. So we talked to three Evangelical Christians at a gun show in northern Idaho.

And, presumably, Meta didn't want anyone jacking their hard work to build something with it.

New: Leaked records show how Dialog, the Thiel-linked private club, secretly grades members by wealth and fame, labels their politics, tracks relationships, and uses algorithms to help decide who should meet, who should date, who sits together, and who gets cut w/ @dell.bsky.social & Yulia Almazova

Iran announces it is closing the Strait of Hormuz to all vessels, including oil tankers.

CENTCOM is still pretending the US attack is “self-defence”. I guess someone will believe it.

New thread: the US is bombing Iran in waves, KAN News reports. The IRGC has released a statement saying it’s about to attack Israel.

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I would really like for outlets to, after stating the government’s allegations, at least mention the fact that the car ran into us. An ICE agent drove into a crowd. Of people. Who were peacefully protesting. And then the government tried to paint us as a lawless mob.

“‘He yells,’ said one MP. … ‘He punches down at caucus all the time.’” Even more evidence that Mark Carney does not to questions or criticism well. He lashes out at his cabinet for the smallest things. No wonder he’s centralizing so much power and has little concern for restricting people’s rights.

I maintain that one of the biggest rhetorical fails the Dems ever made was dropping the "they're being weird" about conservatives. Because the demonstrable reality is that they ARE being weird about everything & it's easy to show how.

in case you needed another reason to vote, kid rock said if the dems take over the government again he will cease to make music. GO TO THE POLLS

Wishing a joyful & reflective Eid al-Adha for all those observing. Let this be a time of solidarity with community & celebration with loved ones. May it also bring hope for a more just, more peaceful world. Eid Mubarak!

Been thinking a lot about this.

🚨Social Democrats senator Patricia Stephenson today introduces a bill to stop ICE deportation flights landing in Ireland, challenge the claim that government can't inspect planes carrying munitions through or over Ireland – as well as penalise illegal weapon flight operators

yikes :(

I thought I'd get maybe 25 replies to this request and use two or three of them. We're now at 1400. The column, which is 4600 words long (blame yourselves), is finished, but this thread should be studied by future historians. No era has ever been as utterly annoyed, as molecularly fed up, as we are

That politicide didn't begin in 1967 but in 1948, and arguably it began earlier but the definitive moment for the transformation of the struggle into one between a colonial state ran by Jews and a colonized people who are Palestinian began as the Nakba began.

“In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like ‘modernization’ and ‘restructuring’ to explain away my departure. Don’t be misled.”

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Steyer could singlehandedly do more good for Californians by using his wealth and influence to get legislation passed so him and his ilk paid their fair share of taxes. Instead he's using his wealth and influence to buy a governorship.

He could use his money to help trans people right now if he wanted to, but instead he's using it to pay influencers to boost him on social media and all out attack ads on his competition. He seems like a guy with good beliefs, but that doesn't override him being a greedy fucking billionaire.

So many people are sharing that Steyer clip about trans people and while yes it is very good, HE IS NOT A POLITICIAN. He is a billionaire with no political experience trying to buy his way into the governors office.

What if taxing the rich works?

"Real Americans"

The HCSO has also been actively trying to fight the creation of a citizen's oversight board, which it just lost the battle on. I hope one of the things they look into is why the HCSO refused to investigate the complaints against Miranda.

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

NEW: A California DA was prosecuting Stanford students for felonies over pro-Palestine protests. Bolts reported back in February that he was fundraising off these cases. Learning this, defense attorneys dug more, & filed a motion to force Rosen off the case for bias. A judge just removed him:

All these groups turned out for Kamala in larger percentages than white women except Latino men & it was only by 2% and even then you must consider the number of white identifying Latino men to contextualize that 2%. This is silly anyway but the problem is white people. You should worry about that.

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

On this day in 1987, the Supreme Court rejected a Black man's argument that his death sentence was a product of discrimination. The Court upheld that racial bias in death sentencing is "an inevitable part of our criminal justice system."

The details in here are horrifying but needed to be made public. Please take care while reading.

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Kevin McCarthy, September 2015: www.vox.com/2015/9/30/94... She had a 66% approval rating in 2011. By the time of McCarthy's quote, they'd chipped away at it into the 40s.

"...and spoke with passion about the important role of Jewish students he had demonstrated alongside." The thing about people who said the encampments were antisemitic is that they like to elide how many Jewish students were involved in them.

Germany, Austria and Hungary continue to block EU action against Israel.

Feels like it’s important to remember that many of the mayors and governors who authorized for those students to be abused and have their lives ruined were/are Democrats. And the most powerful members of the Democratic Party, like Schumer, were the loudest to call for extreme punishments.

"Where are all the campus protestors?" ask the grinning ghouls who cheered on the brutal suppression of campus protests

One more reason to turn push notifications off. 🚨📱⚖️

(The threat of global imperialist war, global warming, increasingly concentrated wealth and extreme wealth inequality hanging over my head) time to punch left

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"Other countries are our property, and we dictate their behavior. You know, like women in marriage."

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Reminder: for over 30 years, the United Nations has overwhelmingly voted to end the embargo on Cuba. This isn’t a contested global issue—it’s a uniquely United States policy, maintained despite near-universal international opposition.