it’s been interesting to watch the myth of 2024…warp…in certain places. Fnak 2024 election survey data shows double digit declines for Harris in Latin and Asian votes, but a whole swathe of people got convinced that Palestinians and Bernie Bros scuttled the effort. Not true!

Snowden St.@snowden.st · last mo.

people forget that AOC and Bernie were some of Biden’s strongest warriors while he was running in 2024, and among the quickest to endorse Harris. This is because the Biden admin was the most pro-labor in decades. They were gonna go to war for Lina Khan! We were on this website together y’all!

"Thomas Smith" is a name engineered in a lab to beat "Amir Hassan" in a Republican primary

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 14h ago

Seems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.

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They're already in the comments LMAO

Good Ol' Tom has been at it for the last hour. The Platner comparison is vile but the kind of stuff you just have to expect from a Reaganite piece of shit.

It's also not lost on me that the candidate with the most actual skin in the game regarding the Temple Israel attack IMMEDIATELY and unequivocally endorsed Abdul El Sayed. Mallory's children are Jewish and her family attends TI.

No, I don’t think so

Obviously polling gave us a very distorted view of the race but it’s extremely funny seeing Haley Stevens portrayed as some gritty underdog despite an 11:1 spending advantage and the backing of the entire Democratic establishment lol

A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

Chuck Schumer eat shit

Democrats endorsing the Democratic nominee as soon as they're nominated is good and more Democrats should do it more often. (Not that my "endorsement" matters, but AES absolutely has it and we should do everything we can to ensure he keeps Michigan's Senate seat in D hands this November).

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 11h ago

Body isn't even cold yet

Yes, each one is backed by an electorate shot through with ignorance and prejudice but really, there's three men in this world who have led the charge in making the world a worse place. Shitty man theory of history.

No matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 16h ago

30,000,000 dollars

way closer than expected, but an Arab leftist besting 70 million in outside spending is an Arab leftist besting 70 million in outside spending: a political earthquake and a new dawn 25 years after 9/11

When is the last time there was a decently big polling miss but leftishly (ie the further left candidate beat polling)?

I know this sucks for AES supporters but I do want you to imagine what it would be like to see Stevens close to 3-4 points at 40 percent and then make absolutely no progress over the next 20.

30,000,000 dollars

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

NEW: Voters have rejected Republicans' scheme to unseat the Kansas Supreme Court's Dem-appointed majority and overturn abortion rights. Amendment 1 would have let the GOP replace the system of a nominating commission, gubernatorial appointment, and retention elections with direct partisan elections

Two more GOP amendments go down to crushing defeats, both in MO. #4 would have made future ballot initiatives impossible to pass by requiring winning a majority statewide *and* in each congressional district. #5 would have eliminated the state income tax.

An Israeli court has temporarily blocked a plan, cooked up by far right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, to construct a moat full of crocodiles around a notoriously abusive prison that holds Palestinians, over concerns that the crocodiles would be harmed or mistreated.

Only Animal Welfare Raised in Israeli Debate on Crocodile Moat for Palestinian Prisoners

A judge temporarily blocked the plan over concerns about “the expected harm to the crocodiles.”…

truthout.org

GREEN bananas, you say? Very suspicious indeed

onion person@junlper.beer · 20h ago

suspiciously green bananas is sadly one of the funniest things i’ve read in awhile

And AIPAC's specific move—of stating that criticism of their political spending is actually an attack on all American Jews—is extremely dangerous, because it explicitly aims to make American Jews as a whole responsible for whatever AIPAC does.

Also, if you are a cis person and you actually think this is about trans people, I'd be happy to inform you that it's not. Conservatives want to police gender for everyone. It's the skeleton key to their entire political project. It won't just affect trans people. It'll affect you, too.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.

If the major questions doctrine doesn’t put a stop to this it— [holds earpiece] —we’re now hearing that the Supreme Court has stayed the injunction after all.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

I kinda prefer BelGioiso Parmesan to real parmigiano reggiano

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 2d ago

What is your favorite example of when the cheap version of a product is legit better than the expensive one?

One of my favorite statistics about the US commercial real estate market is that 8.5% of all commercial office space in the United States is on the island of Manhattan, which, at 23 square miles, constitutes 0.0006% of the land area in the United States.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2d ago

Official data was released today, and after adjusting for inflation, American office construction has fallen to the lowest level since 2011 It's down nearly 60% since the onset of the pandemic and 15% over the last year alone

A deal as enforceable as RFK’s promises to Bill Cassidy

GOP holdouts say they will back Blanche's attorney general nomination after striking deal over fund

Two Republican senators who threatened to block acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s bid to lead the Justice Department say they will vote to advance his nomination.

apnews.com

Also, claims of hypocrisy are useless. To a Schmittian, punishing "enemies" for the same thing "friends" benefit from is not a contradiction, it's praxis. Equality before the law is not a value: the law begins with friend/enemy and enemies should not be treated as equals

Hmm… it looked better in the NYT recipe card