no matter the margin this is one of the worst, most disgraceful campaigns in the modern history of the democratic party. abdul can't say it because he has to make nice with these racist freaks so I fucking will.
Chad
@bchadhill.bsky.social
NOLA. Xennial. Democrat. Anjunafam. He/him 🏳️🌈.
New Orleans DSA has officially reached 600 members. Every new member is another person who believes in a more democratic, more just, and more equitable New Orleans. We're proud of how far we've come—but we're even more excited about what's next. 🌹 #neworleans #socialism #leftist #dsa
I wrote about There Will Come Soft Rains last year ( a year too early). The date wasn’t always 2026 but we still have time to sit and think with the story open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
There Will Come Soft Rains
Living in the future of the past
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Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · yesterday"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
“The story is one of systemic failure: how an enormous strategic objective—regime change—became an executable mission without the political level, the IDF, and the Mossad ever genuinely agreeing on what it was…” Must-read piece by Nadav Eyal about decision-making in Israel leading to the Iran War:
Exclusive: The Warning Netanyahu Got Before the War
An in-depth look at Roaring Lion — the war aim Israel never made public, the intelligence assessment that failure could push Iran toward the bomb, and what the Mossad told the Kurds
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If the Dems paid scholars like Jacob rather than slimeballs like Matty for advice, we would be much better off as a nation 🧵
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d agoI know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/
Many worthy answers have been offered to this question but I've yet to see Little Earthquakes --> Under the Pink --> Boys for Pele.
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
They’re married now! Perhaps everyone on Bluesky already knows this; if the reader isn’t, then they get to be one of today’s lucky 10,000. www.inverse.com/input/cultur...
The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos
Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.
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This shouldn't stop until every single genocidal orc responsible for Bucha or Mariupol is burning in hell.
NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 4d agoRussian media claimed that Russian Aerospace Forces commander Alexander Chaiko was celebrating his birthday at the Moscow restaurant where an explosion killed 3 people and injured 15. Chaiko commanded Russia's Eastern grouping in 2022. #Russia
This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. statuskuo.substack.com/p/just-for-s...
Insightful 🧵 I think I agree with OP 100%, but I do wonder what (if anything) separates this attitude from Luddite-ism? Would we be arguing against the Industrial Revolution ~150 years ago?
There are approximately ten Russians in the entire world who are not gutter trash orcs. This one, who escaped Mordor because he was so revolted by his own kind, sends video greetings to the human garbage he left behind.
Natalka@natalkakyiv.bsky.social · 5d ago‼️ Worth watching: A Russian man explains to his former compatriots why they bear responsibility for what’s happening in their country.
If you cannot accept that what Trump has done over the last year and a half is starve Ukraine of air defense, and put off any new aid for as long as possible, so Putin can terrorize Ukraine from the air for as long as possible--you cannot accept reality.
This is a really interesting look from inside DSA about the schizo nature of that organization. I suspect a lot of potential members, outside of jurisdictions with well-known "sane" chapters, stay away because they fear their local chapters are dominated by hammersickle tankies.
Jason Linkins@dceiver.bsky.social · 6d agoI’ve been thinking that the successful and pragmatic DSA organizers are going to have a big split from the national LARPers and I am not alone nathannewman.substack.com/p/the-sane-n...
Pedocon theory explains ~99% of the Republican Party but we should probably make room for a theory to encompass the self-loathing closet cases like Moreno who would sell their souls for a taste of power. Garbage humans, garbage gays.
Michelangelo Signorile@msignorile.bsky.social · 6d ago“Moreno won’t call for the resignation of Miller, his son-in-law, accused by Moreno’s daughter of domestic abuse. Is it MAGA loyalty, or is it Miller’s threat to uncover something about the senator?” www.signorile.com/p/is-rep-max...
Trans rights is 🔝1️⃣ for me. It's my only brightline issue (aka "purity test"). I will not vote for a Dem who is not openly/fully supportive of LGBTQ equality, and I will not be shamed into the "blue no matter who" crew into violating this principle. Dem Inc should proceed knowing that I am not alone.
ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · 7d agotrans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry
It's only a matter of time until we experience the type of economic depression that we long thought was a thing of the past 🧵
Jesse Eisinger@jeisinger.bsky.social · 6d ago1. We have a slowing economy with rising costs from energy & AI investment 2. A compromised Fed 3. A world that lacks faith in the U.S. and is looking to sell dollars and Treasuries when it can 4. A president who has repeatedly flirted with defaulting on U.S. debt 2/
These images have become intolerable—a disgrace for the allies who claim to be "9-10x economically stronger than RUS" and say they are fighting "shoulder to shoulder" with AFU. We must provide them with closer support. IMO, It is also our war. SkyShield, Taurus, Scalp/S-Shadow >500 km etc.
I'm not sure how the attempt at an autoglope is supposed to fail this time. The courts? The military?
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · last wk.No idea how this ends, although my instinct is 'calamity breaks the logjam' with the calamity in question either being an economic meltdown or a failed attempt at an autogolpe (perhaps after the midterms or perhaps in 2028). Because calamity seems distressingly possible as an outcome.
If there ever was a photo people wished was prophetic
🚨🚨🚨 With the confirmation of Clayton, Trump has loyalists in place at the power agencies who will work to enable his election subversion schemes for 2026 and 2028. They're not incompetent, and they're putting loyalists in beneath them. The threat is far greater than in 2020.
I would hope that Iran is not stupid enough to attack Ukraine. Trump may be constrained not to bomb the shit out of Kharg Island, but Ukraine is not.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · last wk.Iran considered firing a ballistic missile with a small warhead at Ukraine, probably one of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, in response to Ukraine strike against an Iranian ship in the Caspian sea earlier this week.-NYT