As @marimanoogian.bsky.social noted: We’ve secured the border.

politics aside, Republicans just can't compete with blue state BBQ

To be absolutely clear: This was another Y2K situation. Lots and lots of people worked diligently for months and years, at great cost, taking hours away from their friends & family, to make our elections a bit more free and fair. Voting was still threatened! It still took record-breaking turnout!

Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is so wrong The reason “Trump didn’t steal the elections” is because we & the pro-voter coalition stopped him EIGHT times over the past 21 months Here’s how: a thread (1/x)

I'm so glad Haley Stevens self immolated. There's long been a feeling on the left that dems would rather lose than win with a leftist. Seeing the entire institutional democratic party circle the wagons around Abdul should be a good reminder that dems really really do want to win.

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com · 2d ago

Rep. Jim Clyburn, Rep. Haley Stevens’ former mentor, said he would support expelling her from the House Democratic Caucus after she backed a Republican. https://www.washingtonsun.com/congress/jim-clyburn-haley-stevens-mentor-expel-democratic-caucus

Getting mad online at Ken Martin, who I blame both for the Dems not winning enough and also because I assume he’s the boss of the party that I loathe.

"Trump is going to steal—" they can't even steal an election in Mississippi, The State That Steals Elections

Lorenzo Salgado was murdered by ICE 4 months ago today. Texans have been adding their “I voted” stickers to his memorial in Houston. I just added mine.

My dad just forwarded me this email he sent to @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social. (Posted with his permission.)

Still giddy about this. Come January there will be zero Republican governors anointing themselves imperator wardens of the holy southern border. No national guard stunts, no meme bussing, no Prigozhin-esque rants about asylum seekers in front of a platoon of state troopers.

I don't pretend to know anything about political strategy, but when it comes to restraint my instinct is that the GOP will cry regardless of what the Dems do, so you may as well give them something to cry about.

JS is a real sicko

Unless RFK Jr. is interested in spending the next two years in front of Congressional committees, he should go ahead and resign now.

MattY and David Shor would have told you would have needed to run someone to the right of Attila the Hun to won some of the places we did on Tuesday and really we did with just mostly normie libs

he started the popularist movement because he is a racist

Fischer 🛠️🚇@fischer.bsky.social · yesterday

david shor started the popularist movement because circa ~2020 he had a model that showed that showed democrats were essentially guaranteed to permanently lose the senate majority, literally projecting that republicans would get a 60 seat supermajority this year

Here’s the problem: There is SO much criticism of Democrats on the internet, there is no such thing as something small. It is 24/7. It is non-stop. It is being done in good faith, bad faith, by republicans, by leftists, by democrats, by state actors, by journalists. The scale is unfathomable.

Nothing will ever be funnier than Cohn just saying this explicitly last year. VA-GOV (2021): R+2 VA-GOV (2025): D+15

Sagittarius A*@sagastar.bsky.social · 2d ago

thats right

everything being gender, I sort of expect miller will not have the patience or fortitude to do a lot of what Wiles was probably doing to hold things together

Text message from Sarah McBride in response to Stephen Miller becoming the White House Chief of Staff is only one word. "FAFO." I asked if it was ok to post it and she said "yep." thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/sarah-mcbr...

the Senate Republican women are going to try to exchange pleasantries with her in the hallway and Andrews is just going to glare and shake with rage

Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️@usili.bsky.social · 2d ago

I got this shared and I must win this because holy shit how is she even the Senator from South Carolina now???

Oh okay. So Trump wins a plurality and it's a complete sea-change in American life that requires every media outlet, educational institution, and corporation to alter their entire identities. But Dems sweep an election with the largest margin since Watergate and there's no mandate to do anything.

Washington Post Opinions@postopinions.bsky.social · 3d ago

"If Democrats lurch far left on policy, the voters who gave them an enormous victory on Tuesday will probably be strongly tempted to switch back to the GOP or stay home in future elections." Read more from the Editorial Board: https://wapo.st/4z0x1j8

It would have cost Jared Golden absolutely nothing to call 17 year-old Jose Adalberto Herrera's mother when he got abducted by ICE on his way to work because his uncle (driving the car) got stopped by police Jared Golden chose to not exhibit moral leadership. That's why his constituents were fed up

Joe Wrote@joewrote.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ezra Klein's post-election analysis doesn't shout out Bernie Sanders or AOC, but does glaze centrist darling Jared Golden — who is retiring because his constituents hate him.

Stephen Miller has blood on his hands.

I wonder who Morris Katz wants to make the next senate majority leader

There's a reason why my book implicitly treats left-YIMBYism as a successor ideology to the New Deal: Roosevelt understood that economic growth isn't inherently corrosive to egalitarian politics. In fact, growth is going to be one of the preconditions for building social democracy here.

Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 4d ago

Socialist-urbanist mayors in NYC, DC, Seattle, and now LA. The people demand the woke growth machine, and we should give it to them.

It's possible I'm being a hopeless optimist but I am hopeful that this race will help folks on the left recognize that racism is something that some people actually believe in. Racism can't be turned off with M4A & is in fact something that needs to be dealt with if you want to enact M4A.

Nied@nied.bsky.social · 3d ago

The funniest part of this subplot is leftists have said for 10+ years that running a sufficiently leftist candidate will neuter appeals to racial grievance, but now that one of their candidates was the subject of these attacks it's "I don't think you shitlibs realize that Republicans ARE RACIST!"

lmao ok

Red Star DSA@redstarcaucus.org · 2d ago

Red Star condemns the NPC’s betrayal of DSA’s principles and democracy by refusing to enforce R22, which is binding on the entire organization. We hold that the DSA-LA endorsement ought to have been revoked and Nithya Raman herself ought to be expelled. Read our full statement below:

speaking of Blexas, I think Hinojosa and the downballot sweep is actually a significantly bigger deal than Talarico (who is, to be sure, a big deal) if they can deliver, if they can convince Texas that voting blue was the right call and they should keep doing it, the whole country changes

Good lord