Abdul needs to do this work himself. You can't outsource this. It's on him to establish that bond of trust with the voters. Others can help, but the skepticism is real and only the candidate himself can really fix it.

But did you Skeet about Bluesky thinking my ass is AI? 🇱🇨🇺🇸@thepassionittwists.bsky.social · 15h ago

You all make these demands and declarations every election cycle for yourselves. But every time your favorite loses the Black vote it becomes someone else's job to get the blacks in line for them. You never demand that your new hero put themselves in front of Black voters.

"Cool dude, see you in discovery!" is the obvious UNO Reverse card to Trump's attempts to bully organizations by suing them for a trillion dollars. It's a massive indictment of the US system that one after another institutions and major organizations settled and paid bribes rather than play it.

Graham Lanktree@glanktree.bsky.social · 10h ago

President Donald Trump is seeking to stave off a court order that requires him to begin giving the BBC financial details on his business empire by Thursday in connection with a defamation lawsuit he is pressing against the network. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

As I am always saying, you can have whatever sorts of feelings about Chuck Schumer you want but “current Dems are the most procedurally obstructionist minority in modern history” is just a factually true statement

Bill Scher@billscher.bsky.social · 2d ago

Democratic voters are mad at their party leaders because why? washingtonmonthly.com/2026/08/04/d...

This piece is a really good example of ‘Antisemitism as conspiracy theory to explain the world’ at work IMO. It is abundantly clear both that the author has literally no evidence whatsoever for the assertion they keep hinting at, and that they nonetheless see it as just intuitively obvious

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 10h ago

responsiblestatecraft.org/morocco-spai... The quincy institute is getting in on the ‘people are saying the Jews did it’ bandwagon. But don’t worry, they are just asking questions.

I don't remember Sirota taking note of the "incredible feat" of Xavier Becerra beating Tom Steyer despite Steyer spending over $200 million of his own money. Weird.

Honestly Kennedy really should have just waited a cycle, because six years ago he got torn to shreds by the left for supporting every one of their policy planks, but having the audacity to be younger than Markey. Now "I support everything my opponent does but I'm younger" is all you need!

ArgellaStone@argellastone.bsky.social · 12h ago

The really funny thing is that Moulton actually is the moderate that Joe Kennedy III was painted as, but it's gotten less than a fraction of the same discourse and furor that Kennedy got for having the audacity to.. co-sponsor the Green New Deal, support legalizing pot, and forgive student debt?

"I'm a Scrooge Democrat"

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · yesterday

you know i'm starting to think she just hates holidays for their own sake, not even as a woke thing

The problem is that as we're seeing with the Strait of Hormuz, "the USA forfeits its global ambitions" does not lead to a new age of peace and sunshine, but to global recession and instability. The Strait of Hormuz is not the only load-bearing instance of US power backstopping modern economies.

@tupolev22m.bsky.social · 14h ago

I think the traditional answer is actually "forfeit your global ambitions because you can't afford them and voters won't make the sacrifices necessary to restore them," unfortunately

And if your response is, "but I, a person who lives in a wealthy and largely food self-sufficient country, do not like the modern economy" fucking miss me with that. I am not particularly interesting in letting millions of Asians and Africans starve so your politics can be trendy.

Preaching to the choir here, but it is ridiculous that so many Haitians have been legally living here, working, and being valued members of the community for *16 years* without having a straightforward pathway to citizenship.

It gets an actual chuckle out of me seeing people on here say "now the TRUE test is whether the shitlibs can live up to their own words and line up behind El-Sayed!" only for Stevens, Whitmer, every prominent Michigan Dem, the DSCC, etc. to have endorsed El-Sayed before they can finish the sentence.

This is actually a good test for him. The way his campaign has talked about her and radicalized his supporters against her, he needs to figure out how to share a stage with her without the crowd booing. The far left hasn’t figured out how to do this yet. Will be an interesting 2028 test.

Aaron van Dorn@aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 17h ago

Congratulations to El-Sayed and I look forward to seeing Stevens' endorsement in the near future.

*sigh* fine But can Sayed jettison Piker, like, now?

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 19h ago

I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.

honestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · yesterday

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

This post is great to farm some blocks because every other reply to it is an AES supporter shouting about how Corporate Dems need to come crawling on their hands and knees to them, the guys who just won a primary by 2 points and falling.

Vibecession Forever@ghazelleberner.bsky.social · yesterday

I don’t think there’s enough vote for Stevens left but this will be a close result. My hope is that the El-Sayed/DSA/far left contingent don’t get despondent but realize that both factions need each other. It’s time to cut the shit and fight MAGA, not Democrats.

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · 2d ago

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No matter what the outcome is, people need to learn to stop automatically accepting the framing of the loudest assholes. The anti-Stevens takes have always been bizarre. I’m her constituent, and she’s legitimately a very friendly and caring legislator who sponsors a lot of solid bills.

I'm really over people using "climate" groups as just general left wing push organizations, I saw a climate group doing a stunt against a candidate about them not supporting Medicare for All.... like.... what? just be a left wing group, don't lie that you're about the environment

I will say for all the insanely triumphant El-Sayed blowout, El-Sayed by 30 points declarations his campaign was putting out this past week, this is a waaaay closer race than they suggested. Guys, I think you're gonna have to actually try to win over some of the voters you despise.

My observation, especially in the last year, is that the real insidious thing isn’t even the rise of outrageously obvious antisemitism. It’s the complete refusal by many on the left to call it out or do anything about it. After over a decade of calling out every kind of niche reactionaryism.

Dalassa@dalassa.bsky.social · yesterday

Right now there doesn’t seem to be any movement in the US opposed to antisemitism.

Congratulations to @repwesleybellmo.bsky.social on his primary victory in #MO01. Rep. Bell is a leader in taking on Trump’s corruption. JDCA volunteers mobilized to call voters in support of his campaign, and we look forward to seeing him continue to fight for our Jewish and Democratic values.

Good things are possible.

Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · yesterday

DDHQ Race Update (est. 19% in): Missouri US House 1 Democratic Primary Wesley Bell (D): 17,598 (76.9%) Cori Bush (D): 4,539 (19.8%) Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/283940

Cori Bush getting annihilated is outstanding for pretty much everyone who cares about effective representation and fewer cranks in congress Also bodes well for the prospect of ejecting other cranks like Chevalier in the next cycle or two IMO

good bless Virginia Dems, so sensible and normie lib, never gonna lose us votes by nominating odd balls that scare grandma

you know I'm always casually pissed off on behalf of all the trans guys who have to go through hoops and troubles to get HRT meanwhile every low self esteem straight boy over 30 is abusing the shit out of roids in the name of "low T", low something.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

TAPPER: The story says when you were picked up for drunk driving, you have ecstasy in your system. When is last time you used illegal drugs? MILLER: I mean, the last time -- I don't know, several years ago? TAPPER: Two? 20? MILLER: This is testosterone replacement theory. Secretary Hegseth ...

He has no political experience, is hypocritical in his personal and work lives, and all he really offers is a few empty slogans. But he‘s a dude, so let’s send him to the Senate anyway! Stupid. Clown show. Dingus parade. Hate it. No thank you.

Pierce@pierceah66.bsky.social · yesterday

Fox snuck this out yesterday if you’ve been clutching pearls at other Democrats btw. www.foxnews.com/politics/doc...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, it was a massive error for Buttigieg to not run for Senate in Michigan. I understand why he did it, he was concerned about carpetbagger allegations, and he wants to run again in 2028, but ultimately I just don't think it would have mattered.

Pierce@pierceah66.bsky.social · 2d ago

Harris could’ve killed Pete’s political career in that final primary debate she was in & chose not to. Pete is well aware of that. Even if he’s not a top-5 guy for me, he IS talented & intelligent. He is not gonna go low & try to kneecap her because Politico tries to get a negative quote off of him.

I think the Colorado Republican Party should reflect on why their candidate for governor is a compulsive liar and avowed anti-Semite

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 2d ago

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

I know it was to try to get teenagers invested but a 16 year old burnout becoming a small town mobster and getting away with extortion and murder because he inherited a shop front is probably the single dumbest plotline in the series.

ArgellaStone@argellastone.bsky.social · 4d ago

Rewatching Jericho and while a lot of it holds up, incredibly funny that the IRS agent is a rich younger woman who lives in DC instead of a middle aged woman in a beater driving in from Lawrence.

Rick, you should be utterly ashamed of yourself and retract this immediately if you have any sense of decency. It is spitting in the face of every good man and woman who has ever fought for this country to suggest combat service regularly turns people into Graham Platner.

Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...