Dems are playing the game they wish they were playing (chess) and are proposing bold new opening gambits to improve performance. The only problem: we are playing dodge ball (and our opponents are aggressive jocks). If Dems want to play chess, they need to change the rules, not their tactics.

>young, telegenic veteran >affiliated with Bernie Sanders >says they regret past homophobic comments >running against the establishment anyone know what Tulsi Gabbard is up to these days?

AFAIK there was never any follow up about this

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

And here's the ad that has gotten the President crying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pABU...

Re Platner

Bob Murrell (for whom I voted in the primary) has endorsed Aimee McCarron. This follows another endorsement text I received earlier this week from JP Morrell. I think that's all I need. #Nolasky

I just have no words.

Like the Constitution itself, the East Wing is now just a memory.

"As a working class person, it is fundamentally evil to give me food, justice and prosperity," might as well be the slogan of the modern national populist.

If someone is so bigoted that the Democrats need to become bigoted to earn their votes, then that’s not a voter we should try to earn. This should be noncontroversial.

Add "Trans rights are human rights" and this is my manifesto. I will not support a candidate for any federal office who is not vocally committed to all six.

"Scientists probing the boundary between sleep and wakefulness are expanding our definitions of consciousness. Sleep is often thought of as a binary: You’re either awake, or you’re asleep. But scientists say we should instead think of it as a spectrum, with myriad liminal states in between."

"This comes after the state auditor revealed the city's deficit is closer to $160 million, which is worse than the originally projected $100 million." That's $440 per resident, by my calculation. Not chump change for a city as poor as New Orleans!

This is such a powerful mic drop (click through to see context).

It's what the nation deserves by choosing not to timely prosecute a fascist insurrectionist after attempting a failed coup on live TV. The US is over. Its remaining assets will be looted until there is nothing left. The sooner states choose independence, the better.

People outside of deep-Red areas dominated by evangelicals have no inkling of just how deranged and often evil these people are. Johnson is lying for Jesus: to impose Christian sharia on his chosen land while also ensuring that conditions are right in Israel for His Second Coming. Ends, means.

Putting things this way ... 🤔

Lafayette, Louisiana, No Kings, 10/18/25 IYKYK. #WeAreEverywhere

El Salvador

I was a just-out baby gay and Believe was one of my first anthems. That started a love affair with Mother (Cher) that continues to this day. To me, she will always be the #1 Diva.

"If the problem for Kamala Harris in 2024 was the emergence of climate and racial justice groups that boxed her in, then the problem wasn’t with those groups. It was with a party that left space for those groups to emerge by failing to capture the energy and urgency of their members."

I am apparently in the running for best view at the company retreat. #Destin

It's the first really foggy morning of the cool season.

What is the plan when Dems win the House midterm by 5+ points and are still locked into the minority? Or is there a plan? Four years for the regime to consolidate power without any oversight. That's ballgame, and it's not something Dems even have concepts of a plan to address. We're cooked.

If the Supreme Court is going to hear a case from Lousiana about the Voting Rights Act, you’ve got to have a second line.

Exactly what I fear. They'll gerrymander New Orleans – an overwhelming Democratic city – so that Louisiana has zero Democratic districts.

The heart of Covid occasionally feeling like the good ol’ days really doesn’t speak well for our current situation.

A notice from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social. Will run in newspapers across the nation.

“Alito has the opinion”

We can't even have a single day of celebrating a house (Moreno) falling out of the sky on the Wicked Witch (Teedy) before The Wizard (Landry) swoops in with this ominous message ... #Nola #NolaSky

Toby rated politicians on an anti-fascist ("antifa," if you will) scale. The results won't shock you. 🧵

Even Trump is shocked by the complete resistance-less collapse of our storied, ostensibly freedom-loving institutions and elites.

The fate of the free world depends on making sure (especially rural white) voters suffer as much hardship and pain as possible. Don’t just let them touch the stove, Dems should be pouring gasoline on it & locking them in the kitchen.

The candidates for my district's city council seat: an apparent embarrassment of riches. Anyone have thoughts on Friedman vs. McCarron? #NOLA #NOLAsky

One of pitchbot's best in the MoDo genre imo

👀 (we would have absolutely adored Avril A here, by the way)

I can't help but notice the irony that a Trump judge halted the regime's lawless deployment of troops to Oregon while a Biden judge hemmed and hawed and fretted about norms in choosing to permit – "for now" 🥹 —the invasion of Chicago. What are we even doing here?

The quoted skeet apparently got Erin Biba suspended for 24 hours, weeks after she posted it. WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH THIS SITE?

The logic for secession (hard or soft) is overwhelming (and was even before the regime made it impossible to continue ignoring). Free California!

forum wars took over the government. the 10,000-page thread spilled out into the streets. people are getting their doors blown open and hogtied so that nerds can win an online argument. they tanked the dollar and fucked the economy permanently to own you

i am real, real, real fucking done with the idea that coastal liberals owe southerners any kind of patronizing fucking deference.

Omg 🤩 #Anjuna #ABGT www.reddit.com/r/AboveandBe...

I am happy the no kings protest is happening but it is fundamentally insufficient. This isn’t something solved with a civil mass protest once every 3 months. It needs to blow up into something bigger and we need national democratic leadership to organize with these movements and local groups.

No one can tell whenever this very obvious (??) satire is real or satire. That's how warped our reality sensors have become by ... reality. 🙃 Alt-text imagine in reply.

Not at all being absurd fan girl that @jamellebouie.net said he's reading my "Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight" piece in his NYT column. (By which I mean, gahh!! and thank you.) substack.com/home/post/p-...

This is kinda insane (laudatory)

Stealth is not a legitimate strategy for running a government in a democratic republic. And the programs Trumpism is attacking are, in fact, essential to good government in the United States. It's the height of childishness to defund _cancer research_ because "HHS is a Democrat (sic) department".

JFC. It’s like National Lampoon’s Fascist Dictatorship.