Ben K.
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Strongly encourage the GOP to run with "just cook at home you stupid poors" as their general election message
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4h agofor reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
I think it’s fairly simple and hyperlocal: Zohran Mamdani does not respect New York machine politics.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 29m agoMust admit that I don't really understand what it is about Mamdani that made Schumer deem him essentially persona non grata. (I do get that El Sayed is a *senatorial* candidate, so the stakes for Schumer are more direct).
Did you know that a Haim sister wrote the score for One Night Only?
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy He's wearning Number Forty Five, it's Spencer Arrighe- **gets yanked off stage by a comically large cane*
MLB Jersey Numbers@numbersmlb.bsky.social · 2h agoRHP Spencer Arrighetti will wear number 45. Last worn by RHP Tommy Nance earlier this season. #BlueJays
This is going to be a slow burn story that gets people more and more angry the more they hear about it. Some asshole billionaires are blowing holes in the Moon, a thing everyone loves.
To resolve my bribery scandal, I'm going to offer other bribes
George Pearkes@peark.es · 3h agooh it's getting real *INFANTINO OFFERS MOROCCO WORLD CUP FINAL FOR SUPPORT: TIMES
Live Nation, making $30 billion a year, refuses to spend a few million dollars a year powering an outlet that informs people when concerts and shows are happening. What a sick and twisted economy we have.
I can’t describe how mad it makes me that it is broadly acceptable to be explicitly wildly islamophobic in allegedly center left politics across basically the entire ~~west~~
"The Madden brothers aka Good Charlotte fired almost everyone from REVOLVER Magazine, BrooklynVegan, and Alternative Press"
This actually might just be defamation. Abdul El-Sayed might have a legitimate defamation case against his Republican opponent.
I finally realized something that's gotten genuinely worse in the last 40 years: The New York Mets.
I think this is an extremely online take that is divorced from the actual democratic primary electorate. I am willing to bet that Michigan democrats have positive favorables of both AES *and* Stevens, and that is why it was close
Kerr Avon ♨️@kerravon.bsky.social · 4h agoThe margin being this close suggests a lot of Democratic primary voters in Michigan *did not* see AES as "like most Democrats." This is cope.
Three of the most unpleasant looking mutants you've ever seen in your life: You wouldn't want a doctor in charge, would you?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
Interesting polling results on Hakeem Jeffries written up in the @newrepublic.com today. It continues to be obvious that most Democratic voters would like leadership to reflect their anger and desire to fight against Trump in ways that Jeffries (and Schumer) do not newrepublic.com/post/213993/...
How Popular Is Hakeem Jeffries Among Democrats?
Welcome to The Blue Book! Today, read about a new poll, Republicans attacking Francesca Hong over Thanksgiving, and more ...
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Democrats used their final moments ahead of Todd Blanche’s nomination vote to remind the committee of numerous reasons why Todd Blanche should not be permanently promoted—but apparently all Republicans heard was a bunch of “whining.” trib.al/YuqLwOk
The framing of these Democratic primaries by many news orgs is "how did the party let these radicals take over?" instead of "what is going on in the country and the world that leads so many people to vote this way?"
Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%
This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
How did the Trump Administration make an actually good thing happen? Oh, they missed deadlines set by the court
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7h agoCongratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
If you don't want the Sikhs driving the trucks, get a CDL and drive a truck yourself. Otherwise shut the fuck up.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 7h agothe funny thing about people in the western world being angry at sikhs for taking all the trucking jobs is that people in India are also angry with them for taking all the trucking jobs. It's not you. It's what we do. We are the Truck Guys.
He paid off traitors because he wants to create more of them. His plan is to overthrow democracy and enslave us
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 6h ago🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
My extremely lukewarm take is that if you, a private wealthy individual, were willing to work with Eric Adams, you shouldn't be a part of the Mamdani Administration's power structure.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 17h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
It’s a direct attack on rule of law from the highest levels, aimed at permanently ending US Constitutional democracy and imposing a dictatorship. Always has been. Anyone who tries treating it as something else—as if they’re dealing with mistaken impressions rather than lies—gets egg on their face.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h agoIt's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
A party full of the grossest people you can imagine. The blood will be on their hands when Miller kills someone.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h agoMike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.
