The centrist mandate: Dissipate voters’ energy and urgency, ensure progress be near-invisible, and help fascists regroup. Every single time.
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To understand the midterms, we talked to a handful of decaying men at a Christian Nationalist meeting in the middle of nowhere. None could articulate what their problem is beyond a general objection to taxes they don't pay. All of them are on Medicare and receive Social Security.
He's testing the waters and betting correctly that if Schumer/Jeffries are the leaders, there will be no accountability
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 4d agoBREAKING: Trump announces Stephen Miller will become White House Chief of Staff
The Fascist in Chief is not afraid of the Democratic Party. Why should he be? Deportation and ethnic cleansing are the core of his political project. Miller is the architect of that white supremacist project. Makes sense to draw him closer. Jeffries and Schumer are no match and he knows it.
ICE MUST BE DESTROYED AND EVERY DETENTION CENTER EMPTIED, EVERY DETAINEE FREED IMMEDIATELY THAT IS THE ONLY ONLY ANSWER
House Judiciary Dems@democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 5d agoIt’s time for ICE to take the masks off, turn the body cameras on, and start answering to the American people who pay for their bloated budget.
nobody gives you a sweeping mandate like this because they want you to work with the people they just ran tf outta office
"You really want your taxes paying for poor people to buy steak and lobster?" Yes. Yes I do. And cookies. And cake. And a nice car, and a good place to live, and nice furniture. I want them to have fantastic fun lives. In fact, that's EXACTLY what I want my taxes to pay for.
Seeing lots of opinions about how the Dems should govern and who's getting what job and how the process should work and what roles each should play that all come down to "because that's how it has been done in the past" and I think we need to be done with that because look where it led.
Jeffries and Schumer have been a core part of the regime Americans rejected, of course they're going to say Americans dont want retribution and revenge, theyre the highest profile collaborators on the list of people who voters want vengeance on
If Jeffries is not brought in line, the public will throw Democrats out in 2028.
Hakeem and Chuck got bailed out by us. I hope they get pink slips ASAP. We need flame throwing motherfuckers to make sure we never go through this again. This wasn't an escalation this was new Gestapo and the destruction of USAID we need to make sure no one thinks they can do shit like that
girl are you the 2026 midterm election results because you're coming so much faster than I expected
Moderates repeatedly crossing party lines to endorse and publicly vote for Republicans amidst the most racist and disastrous Republican administration in public memory ought to end the argument that’s it’s the left wing of the party that needs to prove it’s loyalty to the Democratic base.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 7d agoJosh Turek says he didn't vote for a Democratic ticket, and instead voted republican for several races. And yet trans people are vilified for doing the same to him?
the most infuriating thing the Times newsroom does is that they respond to conservative criticism by bending over backwards to address the unfairness and they respond to progressive criticism by lecturing us about how we don’t understand their high minded objectivity
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.i finally got to read this and wow is it a steaming pile of crap. there is one constant in everything the NYT does and it’s this attitude of “we are smarter than you and you are simply too stupid to understand our choices.”
I'm begging people to recognize that Corporate Democrats are going to continue to ally themselves with the Far Right against leftist challengers and their own base as voters demand an actual address of the problems of capitalism. That's where we're heading and the evidence is overwhelming.
What's funny (is funny the word I'm looking for?) is how many stories I see in the big papers about progressive Democrats can't connect with Black or Latino or Jewish voters when all those groups overwhelmingly vote for progressives and it's just white people like Haley Stevens that are the problem
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · last wk.“Her following is huge, and the level of respect from the People of Michigan, especially our African American and Jewish populations, is virtually unparalleled.” bitch what
It’s almost like, had the corporate media spent a bit more time scrutinizing Stevens and her extremist positions, and less time demanding Abdul El-Sayed condemn anything that sounds Muslim-y, things maybe would have unfolded a little differently!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.my god, Haley Stevens is an absolute trainwreck. What is this?
There are a similar number of Native Americans and Jewish Americans in Michigan. I’d love to hear what Native Americans in Michigan think
Yup. It's all the same exact horseshit. People need to wake the fuck up and take a long hard look at just how much Islamaphobic shit there is amongst the Democratic Party leadership and the emeritus dickheads
dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · last wk.Whatever heat Stevens takes today, Nancy Pelosi should share in it. In the last days of a major election, she picked the Israel govt over party. It’s naive to think she didn’t plan to endorse El-Sayed right after attacking him. She was communicating with two audiences. Trump does it all the time.
He’s probably in the same neighborhood as Netanyahu’s kid.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 2w agoNYT: Flávio Bolsonaro, who just fled Brazil after losing a presidential election as he faces multiple criminal investigations there, is staying in Florida on a temporary status granted by Trump and will likely be granted permanent residency www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/w...
Gen Z helped organize and sustain enormous protest movements, including the George Floyd demonstrations and the Gaza campus protests. Depicting them as politically inert erases a substantial & exceptionally well-documented history of youth activism and also just fucking irritates me on their behalf.
gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2w agoYoung people (who of course have protested in RECORD numbers in the past few years, here and around the globe) are being asked to survive conditions they did not create, but somehow their exhaustion is a punchline.
Operation Paperclip 2.0, but instead of Nazi scientists, it's just fascist failsons.
Flavio Bolsonaro leaves Brazil for US after election defeat, source, media say
Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States after his election runoff defeat, an ally of the senator told Reuters on Tuesday, confirming a previous medi...
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In the midst of rancid chauvinism against Arabs and Muslims—coming from the fascist party and often indulged by the opposition party—I pulled a few books off my shelf by brilliant Arab writers and scholars who have expanded my critical thinking and literary imagination. We still get to learn.
That RFK clip is ghastly, but it's totally consistent with the Islamophobia that has been coming out of this administration, including Trump's rhetoric about Abdul El-Sayed. They are all in on the hatred of Muslims because it's a formula that has worked before.
It's baffling to me that some of you are obsessed with strangers on the internet who are saying "this is not good enough" about someone's politics. If you are worried about a candidate's electoral chances and you think that matters, phone bank for them or something.
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