This is so wrong The reason “Trump didn’t steal the elections” is because we & the pro-voter coalition stopped him EIGHT times over the past 21 months Here’s how: a thread (1/x)
"People like Susie Wiles are a terrific example of how something as bad as Nazism actually happened." On the pod, @swin24.bsky.social and me on the darker story behind the Wiles mess: People like her know how lawless the Trump project is but are going along anyway: newrepublic.com/article/2045...
I guess now we know who would have been tricked by the multiple Dans Sullivan thing in AK
Is Chuck Schumer exciting? No. Does he take risks? Of course not. But do his experience and acumen make him EXACTLY the man democrats need to most effectively wield this unprecedented mandate? Jesus christ, no
the nyt is a fascist newspaper, operated and made by fascist, publishing fascist propaganda for fascist reasons
Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · yesterdayDisgusting of NYT to describe the most criminal conduct of ICE and the massacre of boatmen on the high seas this way: “Mr. Miller has been the driver of the president’s most muscular actions” Muscular? Despicable spin. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/u...
There’s still something so depressing and disheartening about how there is almost no congratulatory or prideful discussion among Democrats of electing the first Muslim senator in history because their entire narrative has been wrapped around if he hurt more important peoples’ feelings doing it
Thinking once again about how Democrats decided their message going into 2024 was "actually we hate immigrants more than Republicans". We need a lifetime party ban on anyone making campaign decisions that year.
david shor is basically advancing a set of ideological claims under the guise of empirical analysis, which is why there is no set of facts that will get him to rethink his views.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d agoAre we just totally making shit up now?
1/ Dear dozens of new economic populist members of Congress, You’ll face fast pressure to deliver economic results. How to do it? Subpoena CEOs. A shocking amount of time, they'll change what they are doing long before you pass a bill or actually cut off their federal funding. So:
you'd think that given the election results, mainstream outlets might look for Black columnists from the south or Hispanic columnists from the southwest to explain the outcomes, rather than looking for the same conservative white men who they've been using as go tos for the past decade.
I've said it before: even if you were 100% on board with every other thing the Trump admin does, the appointment of this guy should have been a dealbreaker. for anybody. the damage he has done to the public health, domestically and globally, will take generations to repair.
Maggie Astor@maggieastor.bsky.social · 2d agoSCOOP: Half of RFK Jr.'s appointees to the US Preventive Services Task Force were allowed to keep investments in pharmaceutical and other medical companies that make products affected by the task force's decisions, according to documents I reviewed.
Erick Erickson called Michelle Obama a “Marxist harpy” and Justice Souter a “goat fucking child molester” and that is who @nytopinion.nytimes.com has platformed as the person calling for a return to normalcy for the GOP
Erickson does this every few years, he was in the @nytimes.com lamenting the end of civility and decorum in 2017, and then back to screeching about throwing Democrats out of helicopters a year later. You'd think people would get bored.
Leah Litman@leahlitman.bsky.social · 2d agoPlatforming *Erickson* as a normie Republican to lament how the GOP was taken over by weirdos? After Renee Nicole Good was killed, Erickson tweeted "An AWFUL (Affluent White Female Urban Liberal) is dead.... Progressive whites are turning violent. ICE agents have the right to defend themselves."
It is funny that Elon Musk spent nearly half a billion on losing candidates this cycle, but tbf Mike Bloomberg spent an **entire billion** on his extremely failed run for president in 2020 and even so his net worth went UP from $60B to $100B in the six years since. There should be wealth taxes.
Talarico received more early votes than Paxton received in total That race was over before the polls opened yesterday
I appreciate Texas going blue, but I’m still not going to even pretend to like that song until they seize SpaceX and throw Elon in prison.
ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · 4d agoYou all have to pretend to like "Choosin' Texas" for one hour
Gotta break police unions. The interests of public workers are never gonna be 1:1 with that of the public and that’s mostly fine, sometimes they’ll win sometimes they’ll lose, but you cannot tolerate this shit from a paramilitary organization.
Joey Scott@joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 3d agoLos Angeles Police Protective League official and LAPD officer Jamie McBride told NBC today: “If Nithya Raman becomes the mayor, the city needs to prepare for Armageddon. She won’t have to defund the police. Police officers will just leave the department.”
Oh, hello! I didn’t see you there. Anyway “healing the nation” by doing nothing has not only never worked, it also always sends the message to evil people that the only consequences they will ever face for selling out their own country will be mild inconvenience
look I’m stoned so I’m gonna be real nice and gentle okay? Everyone who told us it was fine for democrats to run anti-trans ads if it helped them win because “we can demand better after they win”? You better be on that phone to your electeds’ offices every single day. It’s your shift now.
lol I just remembered he had the midterm convention in Texas
When MN Demss gained a 1 seat majority in the state senate this is what they did. YOU. ACQUIRE. POWER. TO. USE. IT.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d ago"Now is not the time for-" i'm gonna stop you right there, it's the time for EVERYTHING
This congress has one job and it’s dragging all these oligarchs and authoritarians to hell until they can’t do damage anymore. Before you fix the house you put out the fire. Before you put out the fire you apprehend the arsonist
THIS. Gerrymandering blocked Dems from gaining unified control over state government in GA, NC, TX, and maybe OH. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans live in those states. Many House races remain uncalled, but my very prelimiary estimate is gerrymandering cost Dems 2 dozen seats—only NC’s map fully fell apart
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 4d agoI said this on @nativelandpod.bsky.social but I'll repeat it here: A dangerous narrative is going to be "the GOP gerrymandering didn't work." NO. It worked GREAT. We just OVERCAME it. But we'd have even MORE seats, and different candidates could have won those seats, without the gerryamndering.
Really, really important for Democrats to understand that if we allow "enforcing the rule of law" to be redefined as "getting even" we are cooked.
MS NOW@ms.now · 4d ago"The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is now poised to become the next House Speaker, says that Democrats will focus on affordability concerns and not retribution after their midterm wins.
Every metric in Texas including but especially the victory margin in his own race shows Talarico coulda won without throwing trans people under the bus. Every politician that did that, it’s a choice they made because they believe some people are expendable.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 2w agoTalarico is on record as willing to compromise when it comes to the rights of trans people. This is important because we have played this game for decades now where the world’s most spineless liberal is defined by their enemies regardless of how much they compromise values & people. So don’t.
When someone violates the law, we don't refer to the state investigation and/or prosecution as "getting even" with the lawbreaker. We call it accountability with due process.
MS NOW@ms.now · 4d ago"The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is now poised to become the next House Speaker, says that Democrats will focus on affordability concerns and not retribution after their midterm wins.
“I’ll smoke him by 7. Bet on it.” is going to go down as an all-time political line.
he needs to be in jail for the rest of his life for murder along with the entire chain of command involved in executing those people in the caribbean
Adam Gurri@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 4d agoI don't want Hegseth to be fired I want him to be impeached, removed, and barred from holding future office www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...