trans rights is a bridge too far, the dems want the antisemite who spent her time screaming at school shooting survivors

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

E.g. on point 1: the consultant class fondly remembers the "6 for '06" plan of moderate policy ideas Dems ran on in their successful 2006 midterm campaign. But what actually caused the bottom to fall out of GOP polling was the Mark Foley scandal in September which has been basically memory-holed

Chat is it good or bad for their coalition that republicans are polarizing the US Conference of Catholic Bishops specifically against them?

"If you have a water view, Bruce Harrell might be for you!"

Seattle mayoral update: with under 4,000 votes left, Katie Wilson is still winning daily batches by bigger and bigger margins per day, almost at 70% now. With a 1346 vote lead now, Katie Wilson is, barring something totally unforeseen, the mayor-elect of Seattle, Washington

Tuesday saw a seismic shift on the Susquehanna’s west bank Ancestrally Republican Cumberland County didn’t just vote for Democrats at the top of the ticket, it also elected Dems to 3 county-level offices Thread on the RECORDER OF DEEDS race and its State House implications (1/9)

accidentally photographed what could reasonably be viewed as my magnum opus

someone should write about this www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

your basic idea is that an Indian Muslim whose father was expelled from Uganda for being Indian and whose maternal grandparents lived through the violence of the Partition, on the wrong side of the border, is predisposed to believe that countries have a right to maintain an ethnoreligious majority

SEATTLE POLITICS: i made a mayoral election tracker. TL;DR: can katie wilson overturn an 11,000 vote deficit? well she gained over 17,000 votes as the lower-turnout primary unfolded, so theoretically yeah probably. but if she doesn't reverse the trend tomorrow or Friday, she's probably hosed

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Joe Biden was Israel's best friend in the Democratic party and he trashed his own legacy for them, they'll never have it that good again

that seems like unalloyed cope it's unfathomable to me that Israel will meaningfully recover among under 40s especially if the base makes outright pro-Israel positions a liability, putting aside whatever horrors Israel does in the meantime

Dick Cheney never got to live to see the release of Europa Universalis V

Politics, like war, is about results, and immensely talented people who fail bear the weight of that failure. George McClellan's brilliant prewar career did not absolve him of his failures in the military high command he chose. As in war, in politics of this severity, when democracy is on the line.

spent the entire day working on my car, including having it in two separate garages including a dealer service department, and then immediately went home and took a half hour nap

The right has correctly identified the professional-managerial class as the class with the most revolutionary potential in the current period and have directed all their energies to destroy it before it becomes aware of itself and its own power

Democrats: Important to pick the precise dollar amount of minimum wage increase that’s most popular lest everyone get mad at us Republicans: hahah yes, a Gatsby party at the president’s luxury resort at the exact moment benefits expire for millions!! Voters: I like you roughly the same amount

I was shocked that I saw only one other 40-something Brooklyn dad wearing the same costume as me.

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I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

there were five other people indicted along with Kat Abughazaleh. Brian is one of the Broadview Six. This is what the administration is. This is the kind of resistance it can’t tolerate.

The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended

Ironically, linguistic diversity, multiculturalism, deep cross-cultural and interreligious economic ties, muddled lines and concepts of local/regional/global sovereignty, are much more "traditional" and historically rooted, than the 19th-century racist ethno-nationalism of the "Based Trads"

Illegal as shit, ADA violations must be prosecuted at al levels, bunch of GS-14s need to be out of a job, etc etc But using what sounds like MILCON to pay BAH is a level of insanity even by this thing's standard that might actually wake up the appropriators, it's a whole different subcommittee!!

Literal ship money lol

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

Chicagoans are starting to do exactly this.

there are going to be a lot of stories in the next couple weeks about the generosity of ordinary people in helping their fellow Americans and all of them will be wonderful and none of them should be necessary we don’t have to have a government this cruel and capricious

Whatever happened to laboratories of democracy? Frankly a big part of the cluster we find ourselves in is that we are about 8 different countries locked in a horrible mutually abusive polycule. I have been to Nebraska. I have no interest in being subject to the desires of the people in Nebraska.

The idea that Democrats should adopt nationally popular but locally unpopular positions in locations where they have supermajority control of politics makes no sense. That's exactly where you should implement correct policies that the rest of the country nonetheless dislikes!

What does "Democrats should drop these ideas" even mean? Drop them from what? Where? For whom? How? Why?

the death penalty was 9 points under water in Maryland in 2007 and we abolished it in 2013. Should we reinstate it for the sake of the national Democratic Party's brand?

From Tressie McMillam Cottom's column today: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

The really tragic thing about this is that it’s only a matter of time before Trump starts insisting that he does, in fact, have the authority to appoint the NFL commissioner.

I think one can say Kat Abu’s campaign has been a good use of time and money regardless of the end result in 2026

just no way you can say this shit and not take the blame

you will note that the latest report, like all the reports, spend no time dealing with with the media environment or attention economy. (it also weirdly treats political choices as untethered from events)

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

Look, I obviously agree Dems should be willing to take more fights. But the idea that Biden could have changed things if he’d done more to reverse “worker backsliding” is delusional. He oversaw some of the greatest material gains for US workers in decades. And those workers DESPISED him for it.