the worst strategic mistakes of everyone in the party for the last several years pretty much all come down to a delusion that the overwhelming majority of the party is with them and that their opponents are just annoying people on twitter

Not entirely sure what to make of the person on a local Facebook group who has used Google AI to write a planning objection to a data centre.

Please for the love of god if you are a progressive campaign: BUY TV ADS

lol eat shit

i support [$democratic_candidate] for [$public_office] and believe that their politics is a perfect fit for [$state]. I would drag my [$genital] over [$harmful_object_or_substance] to vote for [$democratic_candidate] this fall.

Keith@mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 17h ago

I support the winner of the Michigan Democratic primary as the future senator from Michigan.

"I do not forget...the precursor of our own Washington, without whose example our Republic might have failed, the great William, Prince of Orange, founder of the Dutch Republic...was publicly branded as 'a perjurer and a pest of society'"

Jacob@iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 2d ago

I am fully in the camp, by the way, with the idea that the Dutch Revolt, English Civil Wars, and Glorious Revolution constitute an early part of the process that includes the American Revolution and French Revolution. I think it’s useful to take this long view on the origins of Atlantic liberalism.

I am fully in the camp, by the way, with the idea that the Dutch Revolt, English Civil Wars, and Glorious Revolution constitute an early part of the process that includes the American Revolution and French Revolution. I think it’s useful to take this long view on the origins of Atlantic liberalism.

"Manwë Súlimo, a second Tree of Valinor has been struck by the spear of Melkor and drained of its light by Ungoliant."

Bill McKay@mckay4senate.bsky.social · 2d ago

Getting in trouble for my incredibly tasteless fanart of the destruction of the Two Trees that is clearly based on 9/11

at some point we're going to have to regulate media platforms

Scott McGrath@smcgrath.phd · 2d ago

🧪 Medical professionals are losing the attention war on YouTube. In a 3,958-video sample, independent creators produced the lowest quality content but captured the highest viewership using exaggeration. #MedSky

Madame President,

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

I just want to maximize GDP as a dead eyed technocrat and grill

This is why flying is bad now. People will say they want full service airlines and wax nostaligic about the golden age of jet travel (when it was unaffordable), but revealed preferences are that people choose the lowest up front price option when spending their own money.

The Senate is important, but state legislatures are just as big and, as the post notes, these races are a lot more effective use of your dollar.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3d ago

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

The way Europe has been content as a matter of policy to permit desperate people to die in the oceans and deserts of its borders is genuinely so blackpilling

thinking, about my long-past relatives, who, 163 years ago to the date, during the battle raging around the family homestead in Gettysburg PA, coaxed the Confederate brother back (with the promise of pussy, of course) and proceeded to beat him to death :) raise a glass in their memory, if you would.

Welcome back Kaiser Wilhelm

Micah@rincewind.run · 4d ago

the president of the united states regularly goes on incredibly embarrassing unhinged posting sprees full of AI slop and somehow the entire political system just reacts like the This Is Fine dog

Or tl;dr is the failure state we are in is not that the pardon power is too broad, but that congress as an institution has failed.

They like Trump and want to help him.

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

CNN's Richard Quest sat down for a slice of "ugly pie" with the owner of the MidPoint Cafe on Route 66 to see how her business is doing amid concerns about affordability across the US.

it’s not something i doom about because i can’t control it anyway, but we are going to be very, very lucky if we make it through this admin without a major mass casualty event

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is a crisis of federalism. Tim Walz is asserting as fact that Iran attacked water infrastructure in Minnesota and several other states. And Trump is saying it's Minnesota's own fault they were attacked as part of a war he started.

The Green Bay Packers are the only properly owned team in the NFL.

june ash eden, kafka’s favorite failgirl@kafkaesquities.bsky.social · 6d ago

in full seriousness: we need to rip out by the roots the entire league model that uses team ownership to shake down and hold municipalities hostage. billionaire wants to fuck off out of their town? fine, but those teams are community cultural assets and they stay.

the person most likely to be lenin is not anyone talking about how cool lenin is, it is will stancil

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6d ago

31. The people who would actually be revolutionaries are out in the world doing stuff, not sitting at hone talking about it

AOC needs to run, everyone simply needs to get over themselves

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 6d ago

God I am so, so ambivalent about this for so many reasons.

And that's not even mentioning the whole "Keeping the genocidaires in power in the Ottoman Empire" thing.

WSJ AI-Powered Office Fish Vending Machine@njstopwonk.bsky.social · 6d ago

I mean that’s where the worst part comes in, Willy was shuffled out by Hindenburg and Ludendorff who essentially created a totalitarian dictatorship that nominally kept Willy for legitimacy. A German victory means giving those two absolute dominion over Europe which frankly would be apocalyptic

love a 19th century caliber Drunk Baseball Injury. "Frequent tavern partisan "Ol' Sour Oats" Bader ran afoul of the constabulary when he teetered out of a Low Establishment, commandeered a Penny-Farthing and drove it directly into the fire-wagon, which ran over his foot. The amputation is scheduled

Danielle Blake SUPPORTER OF ARSENAL FC, CHAMPIONS@abradacabla.bsky.social · 6d ago

So, Harrison Bader having a “scooter accident” with an already injured foot easily met the clown threshold, the details make it a five ring circus.

Congratulations to Scott Colom on becoming Mississippi's first Black senator since my esteemed colleague Hiram Revels.

TheValuesVoter@thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 6d ago

Trump is 14 points underwater in Mississippi according to The Economist. And 4 points negative there even if you limit it to just the people who bothered to vote in 2024. It’s not as absurd as it might sound. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Please read the article.

for perspective this is literally Herbert Hoover territory

Gay ISIS Brony@rainbowdaesh.bsky.social · 7d ago

IIRC the last time anyone seen numbers like this was Hoover in 32 with something like 75% of his voters not regretting their decision to vote for him in 28. FDR prevailed 472 to Hoovers 59.

"can't believe the reach this guy has!!!" i whine as i furiously repost him to everyone i know and quote seven posts from my friends doing the same with "ikr????" hmm, i wonder why everyone on this site has to have an opinion about his thoughts outside the 100k who pressed the button to hear them