Aaron Huertas
@aaronhuertas.bsky.social
Carpenter and woodworker. Democracy and unions liker. Building and fixing things: capehenlopencarpentry.com. Writing and editing: aaronhuertas.com.
so long sweet prince we will always remember you for having bad politics and trying to make up for that by speedrunning an impeachment vote until Jeffries bullied you into not doing that
Politico@politico.com · 4h agoThanedar becomes latest incumbent to fall to a progressive challenger
Gotta go on record now saying exactly how many rallies you want the defeated candidates to speak at before you accuse them of sandbagging when a bad poll hits on October 22nd.
Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 3h agoI encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
⚠️ Democrats in array: Schumer, Gillibrand, and Whitmer coalesce behind El-Sayed
Today on Volts: What should local officials do when a data center comes calling? With Saleem Chapman, I walk through @climatecabinet.org's comprehensive blueprint: what to require of them before they're built and when they are running, so that they benefit communities, not just investors.
What should state policymakers do about data centers?
A conversation with Saleem Chapman of Climate Cabinet.
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El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
It’s called called. Now every second that passes without a full throated, genuine and hearty endorsement is, of course, a dangerous threat to party unity that will only help our opponents.
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4h ago‼️ AP calls it for El-Sayed
Yeah primaries are weird elections and polling them is objectively more difficult than general elections. Polling remains the best tool we have for assessing the electorate in real time and I’d love it if all my political opponents stopped relying on it.
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 7h agoWhat is truly "shocking" about the polling miss in Michigan is that it is completely average for a primary "The expected error on the margin between two primary candidates in a race for governor or U.S. Senate is a whopping 13.0 points." blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/2026-texas...
Primary polling is often harder than general election polling and of course no one has invented Polling But Always Accurate yet.
Even AIPAC supporters should want the org to dissolve and rebrand at this point, which they’re sort of lurching toward through shell PACs.
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 6h agobtw if you’re ticked at AIPAC for whatever reason them spending a maximum amount of money to barely lose is ideal, 10/10, just as a pure matter of don’t-know-ball and forward outcome for them as an organization. this cycle has been catastrophic for them purely in terms of inputs and outputs
It is very very hard for a sitting president to mess with elections.
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 24h agoDOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
McMorrow did the right thing by dropping and immediately pledging to endorse the winner. Really hard to say how the 4% here would have voted if she had dropped earlier. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Not specific to MI, but something I like to see when progressives win primaries is hiring staff and consultants from the losing campaign. And of course you want to see that in the other direction, too. A significant part of "party unity" is keeping people employed and refraining from sandbagging.
(Not a dunk.) “Finished” election results often take weeks or arguably months after counts are formally certified and voter rolls are updated. The transparency around near-live precinct-level results is hard to argue against. CA’s long counts are an interesting counter-example.
Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 15h agoIt would be rad if we didn’t have minute-to-minute coverage of elections and just reported results when they were finished. This exasperated, hyperventilating theater is good for ratings but also just bullshit.
William Lawrence wins the Democratic primary for Michigan’s 7th congressional district, @nbcnews.com projects. He will face first-term Republican Rep. Tom Barrett in this key swing district.
not now sweetie daddy's screen-grabbing people who used Dearborn as an insult to demand they embrace party unity
How do you do fellow society and rights enjoyers
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 20h agoWhether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm
in the Québécois version of King of the Hill (“Henri pis sa gang”), Boomhauer is named Papineau and sounds like this
Charitably, “MAHA” specific types include some chud grifters but also include some people who have a naturalist fallacy view about food and meds and some of *those* folks can shift to scientifically valid public interest work.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d agoThere is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.
Her performance really stuck with me. Full range of horror in one film. Really carries the whole thing and at times it’s genuinely unsettling far above and beyond the practical effects they used.
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 22h ago“‘Obsession’ came out at a time when people were starting to believe my generation had lost its love for cinema. Now there’s undeniable proof that younger generations will, in fact, go to the movies.” — Inde Navarrette (Source: variety.com/lists/young-...)
I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.
Chris Suellentrop@suellentrop.bsky.social · yesterdayTurns out @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social knows a lot about ancient epics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Some days I don’t need cardio because I’m carrying 34 boxes of LVP down some stairs.
Every day a head of state has refrained from ordering a nuclear strike is a small miracle.
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
I know there are only 175 real people on here, but I really like all of you.
Congressional resolution to take turns suplexing this guy through a table. newrepublic.com/post/213934/...
Max Miller Shared Inappropriate Photo of Their Daughter, His Ex Says
Republican Representative Max Miller appears to have made the mistake while trying to clear his name of all the other abuse allegations against him.
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