Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism. bsky.app/profile/larr...

SNAP has too many (poor shaming) strings attached. Just do universal basic income.

I still find it remarkable that the Queens Democratic Party refused to endorse Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral nominee who currently represents western Queens. Every other Democratic county party in NYC – Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, even Staten Island – endorsed Mamdani.

I hate rom-coms, especially those involving a love triangle

Erika Kirk: “No one will ever replace my husband, but I do see some similarities of my husband in JD”

My "no, no, there's nothing to see in the Epstein files, drop it!" t-shirt is raising questions ...

jeb was up in the clouds appealing to national review republicans while trump was talking the language they see on fox every day

The era of “you’re all under a moral obligation to elevate the worst stances and treat them as acceptable” has not produced good results, but if we do it even more, maybe the positives will start to appear.

Every day, Mike Johnson blatantly lies right to the faces of the Capitol Hill press. And every day they just take it.

WTAF! Opening fire with kids in the car! If this isn’t grounds for termination, nothing will be!

Kristi Noem promises to terrorize kids this Halloween www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

We need more selection for people who understand language, rhetoric, and media.

Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.

i don’t think you can maximin vote share with polls and spreadsheets, and i think it is a problem that the most prominent and influential political commentators right now are more devotees of data than experts in narrative

this is a bingo. democrats allowed the "data" people to take over when their most successful candidates - obama, bill clinton - were the emotion people. hell, even joe biden was no wonk. biden was at his best as "regular joe."

Decency dying in stenography. Fishermen were murdered on taxpayer dime.

there are a lot of clueless people in the democratic party ecosystem who are in positions of power because they latched on to bill clinton and barack obama, who dont know a fucking thing about winning elections. theyre in control.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

NC has a lot going for it but like much of the South there's always been a large minority that longs for a "Christian" theocracy.

Johnson is hands down the smarmiest SOB in Washington, and that's a highly competitive field.

Once again, the Senate, also run by Republicans, remains open. This is solely an effort to protect the pedophiles and sex traffickers in the Epstein Files.

“They think that they’re tough. They have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore. We are so much more hardcore than they are.” --Stephen Miller speaking to Memphis police earlier this month.

same way they oppose abortion but say "my body my choice" about vaccination. its not about a coherent ideology. its just about owning the libs. if you try to make it make sense youll go mad.

joe klein still joe klein-ing

sometimes on social media they make those of us in the "do something" camp sound like some weird fringe and everyone is super duper happy with the establishment. fake news!

Hoo boy

they dont need to lie they just need to sex up the truth

And they are still to this day, in this day, chasing bipartisanship SMH

Instant deal breaker, anyone who is anything less than totally opposed to Musk is wrong, full stop.

She’s running. youtu.be/cYy2_JPYqZM?...

ro khanna is definitely on the 2028 aint it list for me

The Democratic party and allied political action committees have given more than $1 billion to right-wing media. That's far more than Elon Musk or Sheldon/Miriam Adelson have given to Trump. This is outrageous. And it must stop.

2) Republicans use polls to shape strategy, not to shape their positions. Public opinion is malleable. Most people don't have firm opinions. Republicans shape the river. Democrats chase the currents--and it hasn't worked. @anatosaurus.bsky.social has written on this also

By doing this, pro-democracy donors can help their activists build careers and livelihoods. This is critically important. Republicans make it easy to have a career spreading their ideas. Democrats do not. This is unsustainable for thousands of people. They give up and quit politics forever.

Need to understand why retirees are fighting like hell against NYC attempt to herd us into a medicare advantage plan in lieu of traditional medicare? @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

"Rednecks" unite!

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇 1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK 2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves 3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

today i spoke to students at CUNY graduate school of journalism and the professor started things off by quoting my own words to me: “tom homan is a bitch.” a landmark moment.

Useless organization.

One of my core beliefs about journalism is that nobody knows a damn thing and good journalism should be more about educating people about important things than about the daily minutia that mostly doesn't matter at all. (As I've said before, it was a mistake to call it the "news")

Mamdani's actual campaign is about making NYC affordable and livable for its residents, but in the eyes of the worldwide punditocracy what he ACTUALLY wants to do is impose sharia law and declare jihad against all infidels because, well, you know. An awful lot of ugly bigots telling on themselves.

the "trump should really get some credit" media cycle was fourteen times louder than the follow up "this wasn't really ever a ceasefire" media cycle

Republicans pass tax cuts for Elon Musk and Sean Hannity but tell poor families to starve and die

What is the point of the opening anecdote, especially the focus on Mamdani's "near-perfect Creole elocution" of Haiti? And why was his pronunciation more important than the substance of what he said? Would Peters have made such comments about a student of the history of other parts of the world?/2

A few years ago I clipped video from a documentary of Jeremy Peters being chummy with Steve Bannon as Bannon congratulated him on the release of his book. Anyway, Peters is the NY Times top reporter on the conservative movement. 🤷🏽‍♂️

it's curious how our consolidated corporate media and brunchlord pundit class' only consistent solution for Democrats' problems is to be more right wing funny how that works

just play along with me at home: any time you read journalism on U.S. politics, polling, or electorate's beliefs, see if it makes ANY mention of the U.S. public's news and information diet, or that ANYTHING AT ALL might be a bit rotten in the way the U.S. public gets informed on the issues

U.S. journalism and punditry completely ignores the fact that the U.S. electorate belief system --including their belief of what Democrats stand for -- is shaped predominately by a massive right wing propaganda network across AM radio, broadcast TV, cable news, and the internet.

Due process really no longer exists in this country