Snow Burrow

@bostonjerry.bsky.social

Celtics fan, aspiring Jeopardy contestant, founder of #SandwichSky.

it’s cool that if you turn on ESPN nowadays you’re fairly likely to see the 24th best QB in the NFL discussing the lab leak conspiracy with a man in a tank top

The question isn't what this primary tells us about the future, it's what it says about the *present*. And the answer is that even though 100% of party leadership, donors, consultants, and AIPAC are maniacally opposed to candidates like El-Sayed, Mamdani, etc... at least 50% of party VOTERS aren't.

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 5h ago

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski only vote no when they know that Republicans have enough votes to pass a bill or confirm a nominee without them. Neither of them has EVER been a "no" that actually changed the outcome of the vote.

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

Its hard to explain to older gens (especially boomers) why we dont have homes, new cars or feel safe about retirement. You have to hand hold them and force prices in their face to make it click. Even then they tend To believe we arent working hard Enough.

Abdul El-Sayed has won, NBC News says. And there are other wins for the left in Michigan: —William Lawrence wins his U.S. House primary. —A DSA-backed candidate is leading a Democratic incumbent for state House. —Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of Uncommitted, leads for state Senate.

Assigning/publishing a "Black voters are uninformed" piece in a state where a LARGE number of white voters chose Biden in 2020 before switching to Trump in 2024 is a WILD choice, but it's the type of thing white lefty pundits think when they've never actually spent any time with regular Black folks.

That New Republic article is EXACTLY what a lot mfers on here (Black and white) sound like when trying to admonish Black voters with labels like "centrist" and "establishment".