🗣️ Say it louder for the people in the back: We need to give up on nostalgia for the past. Donald Trump has decimated the government in some profound, irreversible ways. The only way forward? Building something newer and better, Marc Elias says. Watch below👇 https://demdock.com/4w4O9mk

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Very enjoyable.

David Daniel@daviddaniel.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.

I, like many of you, have been contemplating our predicament since election night. We are in a losing war for our democracy and I'm not sure we collectively know who our true adversary is. It's not the voting blocks...white women, Latinos, Gen X. It's not MAGA. It's not even Trump. 🧵

Reminder that "mandates" are a social construction, not some empirical fact about election results www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2008/10...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Not even close to a landslide - Trump might not even get 50% of the popular vote

Trump's victory wasn't a landslide by any definition, and you should be skeptical of the political project of anyone who describes it as such.

Kurt Andersen@kurtandersen.bsky.social · 2y ago

A 1.5% popular vote win--or as it'd be called anywhere else, a win--will put his margin at #50 among all 55 presidential elections in which the popular vote winner became president. And his electoral college margin is #43 among all 60 presidential elections. Not a landslide victory.

Here's VP Harris' new ad on Trump's insult of Detroit. "Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she's your president." He should be so goddamn lucky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPgQ...

Like Detroit | Harris-Walz 2024

YouTube video by Kamala Harris

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Went out last night to see the Perseus meteor shower and received a bonus.

This isn't a partisan or ideological take. The parties are profoundly asymmetric. Doesn't matter if you are a liberal or conservative. It's just true.