Incredibly specific question time: if you were an not-rich (ie, no private car) person traveling from Tehran to Paris in the early 1920s, what means of transportation would you take out of Iran? And would you pass by Kermanshah? Thank you for any ideas!

Her going direct to camera and just saying something along these lines absolutely would have worked as a 30s

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.

the biden administration suspecting and proving that homan would take a bribe and then being unprepared to take the next step and just letting him walk away with $50k for doing nothing is so on the nose it just doesnt feel real

My whole freaking life this country has been mainly governed by shitty right wing ideas, but most everyone thinks the problem is we're too polarized or too divided.

Super not the main point I guess, but was this shot in the Bell Labs building? AKA Lumon Industries World HQ?

this one held up great

They are trying to use him as the flashpoint for a deranged Great Awakening. And because they are in a weird bubble, they don't understand how bizarre and offputting it is to normal people.

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

All the establishment Dems & pundits who are going around telling you how f'ing pragmatic & realistic they are *do not understand voters* and are counseling strategies doomed to fail.

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

everything is idiotic and completely insane. thank god i have two contiguous plans of protracted grass touching scheduled today.

something something political violence

One thing that's absolutely f---ing unbearable on this site is that if you dare to point out that Trump is not actually successfully oppressing all of us on every conceivable front, that not *all* is irretrievably lost, a parade of doomers materializes to denounce you. It's counterproductive. Stop.

Something the popularists still, somehow, don’t understand is that you need to run on issues that are popular WITH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OPEN TO VOTING FOR YOU. If they are defintely not voting for you, sure, make an argument, try to convince them. But their opinions really don’t matter electorally!

How to actually expand the tent.

Keep in mind that this is taken from a Disney production, one that just this week won an Emmy. It may sound vaguely apropos. youtu.be/KYnE2Mxayco?...

If it was possible to pick up Republican voters at scale by being more moderate and representing the center of politics, we would've won 2016 & 2024, and 2020 would've been a massive blowout creating a Congressional supermajority. It doesn't work in a polarized electorate!

I forgot about this one. Trump’s brain is so cooked he can’t keep reality vs movies and TV shows apart.

this exists it is called thinking

The data as best I understand it doesn’t really support this. It’s not so much that there’s a big cohort of flaming racists. But there is a big cohort of voters who are very susceptible to status threat based attacks, particularly when there’s either no countermessage or Dems actively make it worse.

Progressives should just embrace popular ideas is exactly the kind of thinking that convinced many progressives to support the Iraq War. And many of the same people who are advocating “popularism” today did, in fact, support the Iraq War

See it’s the 11 dimensional tripe half axel frontside reverse popularism

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

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The Heritage Foundation is going after me this morning calling me a terrorist because I am accurately stating what they are intending to do. Michael Knowles at CPAC explicitly called for the "eradication of transgenderism." I'll continue to speak the truth of what is being done to my community.

Yup. I started out protesting the Iraq war, realized it wasn't doing shit, ran through this exact math in 2003. It's why I became involved with the Dem party then, and involved in the media hellscape post 2016. Protests are still good but we need to build more on ramps into deeper engagement.

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that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

I'm wondering if the online brainrot on the right helped tip them over into thinking they could just get away with pressuring Disney to fire Kimmel. He's one of the biggest names on TV, period. We forget how many normal people watch TV! today.yougov.com/topics/enter...

I think what we're seeing today is the culmination of decades of work by Republicans to deliver this very thing. It's the reason the Federalist Society and the Rs to put so much emphasis on loading the SCOTUS with conservative justices who would endorse giving an R president a free hand.

Thank goodness. Finally. Just when you thought we were running low on rich white guys generating elaborate parables about why rich white guys are so awesome and everyone else sucks. So philosophy. Much reasoned debate. Ben Shapiro is Doing Politics the Right Way.

If you don't have haters, who's going to be your waiter at the table of success? Gotta plan ahead.

And the landmark political science film The Empire Strikes Back

How I went from an e-bike hater to a believer

I just called Disney+ to cancel my account and had the most joyful interaction with an operator who was laughing the entire time about how many people had canceled today. I can only imagine how it feels to spend an entire day witnessing how many people want to stop fascism.

The GOP is no longer the party of "small gov't," even tho that's how many voters still vestigially think of them. There's an opportunity for Dems to say something like "they use big government to do bad stuff that hurts people, we use gov't to do good stuff to help people. That's your choice."

From 2018. Sigh. danancona.com/2018/01/09/p...

"Forward thinking and adaptable Republicans advance a modern understanding of 1st amendment protections while staid, rigid, and stubborn Democrats defend the status quo" god we are so cooked

I still can't believe a large segment of Red America looks at this pampered crybaby, slathered in orange makeup with his cotton candy combover, doing his little dances to the Village People and going on endlessly about his passion for interior decorating, and thinks "now *that* is an Alpha Male"

For all the freaking out about moderates leaving Dems, +3pp more voters who ID as Dems ID as moderates in 2024 (26) as in 2020 (23)! This is the 7pt scale. Meanwhile Rs are 16% moderate. Ds are 20% more moderate than Rs! David Shor puts one slide in a deck and boom, everyone is confused. It's wild.

Ok what’s really freaky is how exactly much the quotes in here sound exactly like Stephen Miller

Really enjoyed this timely and insightful conversation about the path forward with two dear friends... bsky.app/profile/wayt...

This is a really intriguing poll but the writeup doesn't quite do it justice, and they sorta half-bury a negative finding. I get it, writing these things up for maximum impact is very difficult! (I just happen to be awesome at it.) Couple thoughts on this and the challenge.

It doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.

Simon is an old friend of ours, we met nearly two decades ago doing donor organizing. We disagree on a few big-ish things but agree on a LOT more. He's a great guy and this interview feels like something very needed in this moment. Please give it a listen - and share vigorously and aggressively!

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".