Overall a pretty compelling essay and I think it's unfortunately exceedingly likely that someone like Blinken will be waxing poetic about how Gaza was so complex and so unbearable in documentaries about the genocide in 25 years

i've compared Warren to Newsom and Biden to Stalin, any more alienating parallels I can draw?

honestly it finds its sharpest modern echoes in Joe Biden making American liberals defend the indefensible in Gaza in the desperate hope he wasn't the monster his detractors said he was

it's genuinely heart-breaking to me that Stalin had American communists doing protests in front of the White House against Lend-Lease until he was suddenly the newest beneficiary

That’s actually a really good trap question with no good answer and several catastrophic ones.

Stalin did more to undermine the global cause of socialism and waste the revolutionary moment than anyone else, the Trotskyists aren't wrong about that.

is it just me or are the stalinists especially restless the last week or so

I love winning, personally.

This is a very, very bad decision from one of the two Reagan judges left on the Fifth Circuit, joined by one of the two most extreme Trump appointees on the court. And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...

Also, frankly, I cannot stand that people who are to the "left" are still on the Nazi pedophile social network that is the only major news source whose viewers, readers, or users still have a net positive view of Trump. Why are they hanging out in the Nazi bar?

if national DSA can't handle the contradictions and tensions of supporting Zohran they never had a prayer of keeping AOC onside and frankly I think their 'dirty break' dreams are utterly delusional because you have to *build the party first*

more addressing the other site than anything I've seen here, but Zohran never once promised to spearhead a class-struggle mayoralty or be absolute in his anti-zionism and if the DSA left was going to condition their support on such they should have said so instead of claiming his victory as theirs

CT filing deadline isn't until july btw

I'm wondering if DeLauro might have just made herself extremely vulnerable to a primary

Bad votes where Krishnamoorthi is out of step with the house democratic caucus: Doesn't sponsor M4A Genius and clarity acts (crypto) A bunch of other crypto bills Investigate South Africa's actions? Block Biden from relieving Iran sanctions Some defense funding bills

workshopped slightly: like Newsom, Warren is speaking *directly* to her base voter, to an extent that is such a wish fulfilment exercise that it makes the unwary think 'surely this could work on people who aren't me'. see also: Ron Desantis, 2023-24

this might be the first time I've seen Jeffries genuinely angry at someone besides the left, this statement was *not* workshopped to hell and back

Put Robyn Kelly into The Contraption at once the only person stupid and unreasonable enough to run against explicit warnings of Pritzker and other high level IL Dems - Underwood, Casten etc all stayed out

is it Too Soon?

Yess haha yess

Mejia remembers The March Treason

normie lib House Dem: I think the Senate caucus needs to take a hard look at the direction it's taking, Analilia Mejia: CUT OFF PEEPAW'S BLOOD PRESSURE MEDS I'M READY

the OG Tea Party's impact on the Senate goes way beyond Cruz, Lee, and Paul if they don't throw so many races to moderate incumbents (a species that does not exist in the current GOP)

doubt the Dem Tea Party at your own peril, it's not that saying this stuff is popular (though it is) it's that people who say this stuff are reaching the point of saying 'fuck it' and running themselves

this is a real post by mejia btw, a democratic congresswoman said that she wishes to cut schumer's healthcare in march 2025

Texas Democrats: "Mr. Talarico I have a PROBLEM with you, I am NOT mediocre, check yourself before you wreck yourself 😎" NYC Metro Democrats:

is mejia the most dark woke congressperson???

AIPAC and the New Jersey machine spent a staggering amount against a moderate liberal who they felt had personally slighted them and just succeeded in clearing him out of the way of the movement progressive in the race. I want to send them a thank-you card.

Inject this into my veins

Good drop for Mejia. Margin is 676 votes. Still unlikely to be called for days

Mejia's going to win just because a lot of those votes will go to neither of them but it's likely to be a nailbiter

it's so, so, so frustrating how they act like people applying for asylum are subject to removal proceedings. that is not the law!!!!

god it's going to be so fucking funny when the post-Trump GOP tries to make an 'experience' argument against AOC using *Vance* it will be pure uncut Gender and I don't think it's going to work

there's a certain irony that Strange is in this moment trying to find the only one possible way to victory but the one he identifies requires a monumental, ruinous defeat

Fun fact- if you take AIPAC money you can’t get an Indivisible endorsement in your primary.

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Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) are leading a bill aiming to limit immigration authorities from using facial recognition technology.

Republican primary voters after throwing away Sun Belt senate seats with terrible candidates in prior cycles

no better evidence that Stephen Miller is acting president, even mostly cooked Trump's way fucking savvier about stuff like this

Beefing with a five year-old should be an impeachable offense for the stain to the national honor alone. It's frankly pathetic.

Kind of silly to criticize the most swing state-specific thing about the campaign when the shift toward Trump was smallest in swing states

the Trone-Alsobrooks vibes intensify

a Squad member from Glen Ridge. lmfao.

Wait what's the second most racist thing you've seen out of this White House then

this is one of the areas I am pretty doomerish on - I'm not even sure when Dems have oversight power next year they are going to stop turning away electeds from the camps with no consequences

the proper president for such a thing is AOC btw, we want full nightmare realization

oh no I just had a cursed thought: Newsom is the Warren of 2028: a favorite of partisans who are convinced they have a much broader appeal when they don't

a significant part of the value you add by being a high information person on bluesky is demonstrating for the peanut gallery when the rest of the left is trying to become the Green Party, ie, badly informed and suited only for creating problems