They had their opportunity to shake up the party/leadership on their own terms. They didn’t do that. Now it’s being done for them. It’s inverting the relationship they think they have with their base, which is confusing so many of them.

Has this been done

Free advice to elected Democrats: If you believe Diana DeGette was "a staunch progressive" post-, maybe, 2001, you are in a right-wing bubble, and are in serious danger of an unexpected primary fight. bsky.app/profile/davi...

If incumbents want to sneer at primary voters, they'll probably keep losing. Serious "No, it's the children who are wrong" energy here. www.axios.com/2026/07/01/m...

Like saying, “how were the nazis racist? Germans and Jews were both European!” Well they didn’t see it that way, obviously bsky.app/profile/shar...

they want to put you on the same train cars with the rest of the queers get with the program you moron

"Please groypers come back, I'm starving here."

Sorry I was absent from my job as the Baby Healthcare Slasher. I had depression for reasons that I’m sure are entirely unrelated to that. Anyways back to my job giving everyone infectious diseases and driving teenagers to suicide.

they are against children receiving sexual education of any kind because it is possible for such education to give children tools to defend themselves against sexual abuse, which they want to continue to be able to do.

the american conservative movement is against children identifying as trans because closeted kids are easier for them to sexually abuse. they are on favor of mandatory genital inspections for children to play sports because they want as many larry nassars as possible.

That's right.

It’s so telling that the Democratic Party establishment is more engaged to fight the socialist wing of the party than their fascist opposition (who are actually their friends behind the scenes)

people yell at you if you say this but i think being bisexual opens you up to a level of discursive abuse that would get you omega cancelled if you applied it to any other group. for whatever reason litigating bisexuality is fair game to everyone except us and sorry but i don't want to

That's the USMNT we know and love 😂😭

the democratic rank and file is being arrested for posting newspaper articles and getting 50 year sentences for distributing zines and democratic leadership is more concerned with their friends getting primaried than any of it

I was wondering if this was "fetish for being yelled at" stuff and then I saw the "tier list" and started cracking up. That heat must be driving those people bonkers. He's bored out of his mind! bsky.app/profile/jame...

Sorry but it does not protect anyone, the healthcare clause is needs closing. The NHS are now authorised to do conversion therapy and anyone who can say they are a therapist can perform conversion therapy. As with everything Philipson does it is meant to cause harm to the LGBTQ+ community.

My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party

say what you will about the last 24 hours of discourse, it's awfully nice of the worst sclerotic elements of the democratic party to so clearly prove all their critics right so quickly

I think about all the people who would describe themselves as "new deal democrats" if given the very same New Deal in it's entirety today would scoff and think "oh no, this is much too far, we can't do this!" How the hell do you think we got it in the first place? no thanks to Liberals like that.

i have been saying this for years, but one thing politicians and journalists don't understand (or pretend not to) is that people don't have to be concerned with "gaza" as some sort of niche political cause to have reacted in horror watching the events and the way the political-media class reacted

Throughout my childhood, organisations like the UN, Amnesty and Doctors Without Borders were held up as moral exemplars of the liberal ideal. You can’t just suddenly abandon those commitments, on a dime, and expect people not to experience the whiplash and observe why you’re doing it.

We don't have moderates you dummy. What you consider extremism is what a normal functioning society envisions for itself. Doing our best to be fair to one and all. That's something to strive for, and it's not extreme in the slightest.

"WE LOVE LIFE AND OURSELVES!" "WE CAN GOVERN!"

I'm so fucking tired of hearing that trans kids need to eat shit. That we need to let lawless bygones be bygones. That data centers get all our water and we just need to adjust to the future. That the Supreme Court is static and we just need to sit there and not have rights.

1998-2015 “You’re too political” 2015-2020 “They can’t do any of those things, you’re naive and paranoid” 2021-2024 “He lost, We can put the politics down now, ok?” 2025-present “Hey so I know you’re into politics and like… what’s even happening right now? I asked grok and…”

excited for the Democratic party to mutter, shuffle their feet, do nothing then pretend this never happened & ignore it if they win in '28 as always, happy to be wrong but doubt I am

(Someone attempts to "explain Liberia") (Diane Yap's political party): "We just fired that liberal professor and shut down their university department". bsky.app/profile/maxd...

NEW: Vessel captains crossing the Strait of Hormuz will have to answer "our riddles three" Iran's foreign ministry says

It's sort of interesting that the perspective on much of the populist right is that Starmer was an ultrawoke superlib, because that in itself basically invalidates the whole political strategy that McSweeney et al cooked up for him. That they'll always think as much is pretty much the whole problem.

Low-key liberal accomplishments coupled with high-profile policy concessions to the right and aggressive conservative virtue signalling — this is exactly the strategy moderates have recommended for Democrats here, of course. Didn't work too well. Maybe some lessons there.

"Oh no, no, it can't be that. All of us pundits spent years calling him a genius and 'Forensic' for doing that, so it *absolutely cannot* be that." bsky.app/profile/andr...

The epitome of "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.": bsky.app/profile/spig...

The unanimous bipartisan consensus in American foreign policy is that Israel needs to have the right and ability to launch airstrikes on any target they wish within 500 km at any time for any reason, and that this is a foundational bedrock for achieving regional peace and stability.

Democrats should make 2 key points. 1) The illegal war in Iran has been a blunder & we are worse off than before it started. 2) There’s no good way out of a bad war. We should reject the talking points of those who cheered it on & want to drag us back into it. When you're in a hole, stop digging.

I see Israel has at least *one* reliable lackey left in US Congress bsky.app/profile/schu...

Ignoring the fact this is not how the money works re: Iran, Democrats love to post "with all the wasted money we could do all of these things that we also do not support."

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

If we lived in a reality where government (and businesses) didn't actively persecute people for left-wing political activity (or even having left-wing opinions), I might be okay with #5, but we don't live in that reality. bsky.app/profile/dunc...

takes a true comic genius to survey the media landscape in 2026—with blogs basically nonexistent and all the other outlets in the hands of zillionaire fascists on explicitly revanchist missions—and be like “what today has that 2005 didn’t is liberal PC bias in the media”

“Supporting Israel shouldn’t be a litmus test for local races!” Buddy after three years of genocide, supporting Israel is a litmus test for whether you are ensouled or not.

You can say the most vile shit imaginable about the places that produce most of the nation’s GDP where most Americans live but the second you so much as breathe disdain for massively subsidized flyover exurbs You Have Done A No Growth, How Dare You.

One thing that is so fascinating about transphobia, is how weirdly concentrated it is among the rich, the press, and the entertainment industry. People try to paint bigotry as a middle america poor person thing... but transphobia is highest among people who's entire life is image

We're SO excited to be partnering with JVP Baltimore and Baltimore Artists Against Apartheid to host this year's Queer Cinema for Palestine! Tickets and full accessibility information are available at the link below. We hope to see you there! gbdsa.org/events/qc4p-... JUNE 20 6-8PM 2640 SPACE

it's not merely that billionaires, let alone a nazi trillionaire, are a moral and ethical failure of society, it's that they are an active and present danger to society, a form of unchecked power that directly threatens everyone and everything, devastating humanity by whim and flight of fancy

i have absolutely fucking had it with 100% of all of this shit. gambling websites, lies, cryptocurrency, rampant corruption, lies, deep fakes, lies, plagiarism, devaluation of expertise, lies, bile, abuse, violence, bombs, genocides, lies, plutocrats, oligarchs, and lies. fucking enough. rules time

Oh okay, for sure. bsky.app/profile/resn...

the worse someone is willing to act in public the more our system rewards them