omg I was at an event all day but coming back to see Jamelle quote posting something I wrote is genuinely a huge honor. He was one of the first people I followed on Bluesky 🥹

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · yesterday

pundits are basically bored by the idea that these democratic candidates are not meaningfully behind with black voters and so are trying to conjure a controversy into existence

Isaac Chotiner interview of Nathan Fielder, where Isaac arrives to find Nathan lives in an exact replica of Isaac's childhood home because "I wanted you to feel comfortable."

Important 👇

just to be real clear on this: nobody should have to fear violence against them because of their faith or their ethnicity and it is Bad when they do, not only because of the real threat of violence but because living in fear coarsens you, makes you worse for the world than you could be otherwise

"The loudest person doesn't get to influence basic safety infrastructure that we know works,” Lewis George said. “It's time that we stop believing that everyone has to love an idea in order for an idea to happen. That's not what governance calls for us to do.”

The 51st@51st.news · 2w ago

“Let's get it done” – JLG on transit. More about the presumptive mayor’s ambitious plans from @alexkoma.bsky.social. 51st.news/lewis-george...

question for Blueskiers old enough to remember, was there this level of agonizing over polls before 2016‘s Trump upset? I know social media and poll volume has really increased, but were people dooming in 2012 when it seemed like it’d be a closer election? I was 18 then so I don’t remember

Delia is really up there as one of my favorite people in congress

Truthout@truthout.org · 2w ago

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

love to see it and I semi-doubt this was intentional but I’m very 👀 when I see this post starting with “Folks…”

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

I actually frequently use this as a reaction image at work whenever we think we maybe accidentally messed something up for a client but it turns out we didn’t

Brigit@brigit.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yep, Perdue

sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.

feeling very vindicated re: my long time take that I think Abdul winning (+Angie Nixon winning as a bonus) is very important to AOC’s presidential calculus.

😍😍😍

The more I find out about Troy, the more I like him!

David@davidslosttt.bsky.social · last mo.

This unironically could gain him votes

this thread and the quotes have made me genuinely laugh out loud multiple times. everyone is hilarious

Nick Kodama 🌳👻@nickkodama.bsky.social · last mo.

Hey. If the nyt invited you to be part of a focus group what would you do as a bit?

I’m quibbling in the DSA slack with a ~65yo woman on the definitions of working class and she hit me with the OG Ehrenreich piece on the PMC from the 1970s so I responded with their followup Death of a Yuppie Dream from 2013 where they say the PMC is hollowed out. what a time to be alive 🤩

just saw a podcast clip where Dana Nessel and Abdul are on together and the host point blank asked Dana if she’s voting for Abdul and she said yes and that voting for Mike Rogers would be a betrayal of her values. She answered in a longwinded and annoying way but a win’s a win 🎉

I was positive Taylor Lorenz had done a heel turn rather than just being annoying or having bad takes when I noticed she hasn’t been on the A Bit Fruity podcast for many months when she used to be a pretty frequent guest. Matt B and Kat T are still delights of course!

a NIMBY group really misinterpreted the online posting of what the DSA canvassing event I went to today was for and wrote us a bespoke letter begging us to adopt their NIMBY demands. total cultural victory for Left-YIMBYism that DSA is now a group NIMBYs feel they need to persuade

my new theory of the modern right that hasn’t failed me yet is “everything is psychosexual”

I fucking knew it. Some of my Jewish family is not where I want them to be on Israel but they are all Democrats who would never vote for a Republican in a million years. This had Jewish Republican written all over it.

Many of the “Michigan Jewish Dems” Backing Mike Rogers Are Actually Already Republican Supporters, Analysis Finds

A close look at the signatories reveals many have been involved in past GOP efforts—including “Jews For Mitt” in 2012.

dropsitenews.com

Literacy crisis: everyone is mad at Ed Sheeran, but if you actually read his statement he specifically said he’s not complicit

7 a.m. I wake up and get stabbed. 8 a.m. I go to my corner bodega for a Bacon, Egg, and Cheese. On the way, I get mugged. 9 a.m. I get on the subway and immediately get murdered. buff.ly/puREmHa

A Day in the Life of a New Yorker, According to My Fox News-Watching Florida Family Members

7 a.m. I wake up and get stabbed.

mcsweeneys.net

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oh it’s definitely Bernie. Haley Stevens basically called him a jihadist today

@zneeley25.bsky.social · 2mo ago

who is the white candidate they get the most crazy like this about? I can’t think of one

sorry if I seem weird and intense now, it’s because I’m now weird and intense

i think you can do it by making trump's crimes into true crime. no joke

Pseudotsuga@pseudotsuga86.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve become convinced by the need for large reforms but I have no idea if it’s even possible to do it given thermostatic backlash

"Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all."

today’s update to the “you don’t have to like Hasan Piker at all to see that some electeds/elites are experiencing severe Hasan Derangement Syndrome” discourse