Progressives have beaten back $65 million in AIPAC money, winning a U.S. senate seat and are on track to win 2 Michigan congressional seats but Politico claims it wasn’t good enough. The DC bubble is alive and well. 🤦♂️
Alex Morash
@alexmorash.bsky.social
Weekly anchor on Queer News Tonight. Former editor-in-chief of Options Magazine, and Media Matters economic researcher. Day job as a research director for a worker advocacy org.
Today if you live in Michigan you have a tough choice. Do you support a war crime apologist who can’t break ahead after $50 million has been poured in to lift her up, or do you vote for a doctor, a professor of medicine and public health who advocates for Medicare for all? So tough. 🤷♂️
Talk of Harris in 2028 is so odd to me. It’s not just her 2024 loss. She is of the past. Shifts in the Democratic Party are real and permanent — bigger than policy or messaging. A generational shift in power is happening. Few Democrats that held office before this year will survive it.
Kamala Harris plots her next act — and keeps 2028 in play
For now, her focus is on voting rights and the midterms. But her eye toward artificial intelligence and women’s issues could inform her next steps.
politico.com
This is how the president of the United States talks about his own country.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
They keep saying the boomer retirement is upon us and will create all these job openings. The first time I was told boomers were going to retire en masse over the next 5 years and open up all these jobs was in 2006, 20 years later I am still waiting.
How the baby boomer retirement "tsunami" will impact the job market
An exodus of older and foreign-born workers from the labor force appears set to alter the employment landscape in the U.S.
newsweek.com
Not shocked by this. Establishment Dems are useless and increasingly disliked by voters of all stripes. The progressive/DSA/get stuff done Dems are far more dangerous to the GOP. How do you counter someone like Mamdani who is actually making government work again?
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2d agoLeaked memo shows Republicans privately see Francesca Hong as "uniquely dangerous" in the general election & that “more moderate and establishment Democratic alternatives would likely produce lower base motivation and depressed turnout": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/will-franc...
Leaked memo shows Republicans privately see Francesca Hong as "uniquely dangerous" in the general election & that “more moderate and establishment Democratic alternatives would likely produce lower base motivation and depressed turnout": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/will-franc...
Will Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed Get Elected?
Washington's plan to block them
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Another day, another Democratic primary outside NYC where corporate establishment Democrats have lost control of the party. The party is changing. By the end of this year dare I say people might actually proud to be Democrats again.
Wisconsin Dems are in chaos over their governor race, despite Tony Evers’ efforts
So far, the governor’s bid to resurrect a moderate seems to be helping democratic socialist Francesca Hong.
politico.com
Politico really is missing the moment if it thinks Elissa Slotkin is the future of the Democratic Party. Slotkin and her ilk are the past. The future is not a party that ignores human suffering or worker rights.
This Senator Has a Very Midwestern Plan to Save the Democrats
The Michigan senator says her party has a lot to learn about Midwestern nice.
politico.com
Well Alex Viddman’s wife attacked Rep. Angie Nixon over her clothes and shoes. Will the establishment call this dog whistle out? Oh wait, they only care when it benefits their candidates. We see you.
Every now and then, some liberal blocks me for my anti liberal posts (I’m a socialist we have real differences). So I go into clearsky to find to put on my Blue MAGA bots list. I’m always amazed at the lists people put me on. Apparently, I’m labeled a liberal, leftist, MAGA, Nazi, elder, troll.
When that audio of Ken Martin whining to David Hogg that the kid somehow ruined his term as chair, I knew the guy was not cut out for the job. (Also so said it was a staffer leak, and the shoe throwing confirms it.)
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last wk.This has all been very embarrassing. Martin can’t raise money, can’t keep money, and can’t unite the base under the “big tent” he likes to talk about. trib.al/dkIKZS8
A liberal cares for social justice the way a corporation cares about you: Only when they think they can use us.
The Left Is Rising, So Centrist Dems Are Cynically Woke Again
The Democratic establishment said it was getting rid of the grating, cynical style of wokeness it blamed for its 2024 loss to Donald Trump. Then the Left began winning primaries, and those same Democr...
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You know who the Dems should really take advice from? Karl Rove! Apparently he has a problem with the 1792 French Revolution (you know the one modeled off the American Revolution). The WSJ is just trolling now.
Reading that El-Sayed referred to DINOs like Fetterman as ogres and you just need to put one of their heads on a spire, well… I’m so proud of you sir. Go get em!
El-Sayed comes under fire for 'ogre on a pike' leaked comment
The Michigan Senate candidate saw immediate backlash from within his own party amid a tense primary that has divided progressives and moderate Democrats.
politico.com
Another day, another economist publishes a report calling into question everything we heard about AI job loss. It’s almost as if it was all hype to make investors hot with hope of eliminating decent paying office jobs. Nice to see oligarchs are easily swindled.
AI Was Supposed to Put White-Collar Professionals at Risk. Instead, Another Group Is Shrinking Fast
An economist found some of the occupations most frequently labeled vulnerable have continued growing.
inc.com
Let’s be honest, South Carolina’s going first cause DNC members think it will help more Joe Biden’s win. I’m not convinced. Voters are changing and only a fool thinks younger Black voters are identical to their parents and grandparents. The whole party is up for grabs. Assume nothing. 🌹
Putting South Carolina First Could Mean Less Power for Black Voters
The party's latest calendar overhaul risks an unintended consequence for the voters it sought to empower.
politico.com
Rahm Emanuel is part of a growing list of delusional establishment Democrats who think they have a shot at running for president. They don’t get it. It’s not their party anymore.
I heard some claims of boomers retiring and using their vast hoarding of wealth to buy bigger nicer homes after their kids had grown. Jacking up prices and pushing out families. I thought it was just absurd internet chatter, but apparently I was wrong.
I saw the video, she was pepper sprayed for … Not using her indoor voice. We live in a violent authoritarian police state, and no I’m not talking about just Florida. We as a nation have to get our act together.
Right-wingers mock trans student tased by UCF police after demanding not to be misgendered
University police found a student in an argument with juveniles on campus and ended up pepper-spraying her multiple times.
advocate.com
Ghost jobs are an attempt by employers to distort the market and give the illusion the job market is harder than it is. Yet the writer thinks the solution is skills assessments. Such entitlement to think applicants should each do a multi hour assessment for every job they apply to. It’s absurd.
I want to thank both the GOP and the Democratic Establishment for helping DSA grow and prosper. 🌹
gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2w agoTexas Republicans doing recruitment for us.
DSA has gone from being called a gang of kids to now being called a bunch of cronies — implying they are entrenched. Mamdani has been in power for 7 months.
Another day, another member of the Democratic establishment claiming DSA standing up for people over corporations and capitalism is an attempt to “fundamentally dismantle our system of government.” The problem is you, not DSA.
So besides assuming the evil Republicans are all secretly gay is homophobic, no one cares what Hunter Biden thinks. Oh and btw, when Joe Biden was president Hunter took up painting. People paid tens of thousands for his paintings. All really above board. 🤦♂️
Hunter Biden calls out 'closeted gay mafia' of D.C. Republicans
The former president’s son said in an interview that this “closetocracy” was “the biggest problem in America.”
advocate.com
if the democratic establishment is so good at their jobs why are we currently led by donald trump, mike johnson, john thune and john roberts? and if the leftists are so powerful they threw those elections (they didnt) why can't the genius establishment stop them?