Chris Lay
@chrislay.bsky.social
Villen, lefty, runner, engineer, in that order. Formerly @christopherlay on the former birdsite. Formerly chrislay on Zuckbook. Also @chrislay at extinct pachyderm dot online. Some ville, Mass
Spartz won this district 58-38 (5% going to third party candidates) in 2024.
Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 11m agoIndiana - 5th House Polling: 🔴Spartz: 48%* 🔵Ford: 46% Impact Research / July 20, 2026 (Ford Internal) (Current model result has IN-5 at GOP 52% - DEM 43%) unitedstatespolling.com/p/the-republ...
"[Mass State Police] failed to respond to the vast majority of all requests it received in 2022, 2023 and 2024" and "often fails to answer requests until it is sued." Aligns with my experience. www.masslive.com/news/2026/08...
Mass. judge finds State Police engaged in pattern of records law violations
A Suffolk Superior Court judge found Massachusetts State Police engage in a “pervasive” pattern of violating public records law. The agency has been ordered to develop proposed reforms to improve reco...
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As someone in the Left Foreign Policy Space or, less charitably, the "professional managed imperial decline" business, I think it's important to be crystal clear about the harms currently built in and what risks look like when building something different, even as unstable hegemony cannot hold.
Kelsey Atherton@atherton.bsky.social · 2h agoIt's the global leviathan problem: we know and see clearly the harms stemming from accumulated force and a world built around it, and also, the immediate lose of that superstructure is not the absence of violence but different violence, a different sorting of outcomes. Foolish to mess it up but alas
fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social bonus episode, we are checking back in with the war in Ukraine: www.patreon.com/leftanchor/p...
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Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
stevens doing this right away in a gracious way is good and shows she understands that it's all one team, and everyone else in the establishment is also getting on board we are going to win this race in november
VoteHub@votehub.com · 5h agoNEWS — Haley Stevens has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan U.S. Senate race against Republican Mike Rogers.
correct are you serious about beating fascism or not? get in, we’re beating them in november you can be mad, you can be disappointed, but at the end of the day having someone with D in any and all seats is better than having someone with an R in them
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 8h agoI meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.
I've found in my 36 years in Southie is that these questionable tactics are common in Southie politics, possibly more so than elsewhere. The manipulation of words, accompanied by an old school pile-on. The brash insinuation that "we" respect vets and first responders, you don't.
The Fort Pointer@fortpointer.bsky.social · 2h agoCouncilor Flynn is running with a fabricated falsehood that Cohn disrespected veterans. Another abuse of power, with no concern or calibration. Judge for yourself. Below, the entirety of Cohn's tweet, and his credible explanation in today's Herald.
it was close to 6 years ago that we had @abdulelsayed.bsky.social on to talk about the case for Medicare for all, among other topics. time flies man www.leftanchor.com/e/episode-15...
Episode 153 - Healing Politics with Abdul El-Sayed | Left Anchor
Today we've got Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on to talk about his new book, Healing Politics. We discuss the coronavirus pandemic, health care reform, the experience growing up in an immigrant community, what h...
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the average person could not comprehend what podcasters suffer
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4h ago"Hate to tell you" OK so don't tell us
I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.
King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 18h agoOnly a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...
At the time, medical authorities said "If any of this works, it'll look like we overreacted," and yep, here we are.
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 5h agoMAGA/MAHA sycophants now claim that because mitigation measures worked 6 years ago, this is proof they were unnecessary. The stupid, it burns.
Hopefully this means Dems are feeling pressure to quickly consolidate & let bygones be bygones
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 13h agoBody isn't even cold yet
in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon
“Uber’s strategy recycles an old and ugly script: If a woman drank, if she rode alone, if it was late, if her memory is imperfect, then maybe she is to blame,” Ms. Engstrom said. “But those are precisely the circumstances when Uber told consumers its service was supposed to protect them.” 🎯
being in a situation where you need Literally Every Single Dem on Literally Every Single Vote is a recipe for getting mad at the Dem party all the time because you give maximal leverage to its worst members elect enough Dems and you’ll be less mad! it’s basic math!
if you look real close at culture you'll see that most creators come from middle to upper middle class backgrounds. the poor are written about A LOT. but don't get no chance to speak for ourselves. obviously this creates wonky misshapen caricatures.
It's amazing how many people sign up for a life that was a nightmare satirized by a hundred science fiction stories!
Spoiler: no they don't. But lockup expiry is imminent, so pump pump pump. $SPCX
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 7h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Sweet bleeding Mithras, almost everything is SO MUCH BETTER than it was 40 years ago. Air travel I grant you (with the exception of SMOKING ON PLANES). But medical technology? The availability of so many foods? Air pollution? It's just so much better now.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
