Turns out “socialism” just means a Democratic idea Republicans haven’t adopted yet.
And that's another issue. Even the most "independent" poll will have SOME sort of angle, and a ton of them don't even TRY to filter out the bias of those who composed the poll.
Very strange. The link in the final sentence goes to a polling database, updated the day before this article was published, that includes a poll showing El-Sayed up 6 points. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...
One other thing: The three major pillars of Trumpism/MAGA/right wing populism are tariffs, cruelty toward immigrants, and America First/destruction of international alliances. All three have proven utterly catastrophic and have been roundly rejected by the public. This is the story of the moment.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h agoIt's a big, underappreciated story in US politics that Trump has absolutely wrecked the traditional GOP advantage in three key areas: Economy, immigration, national security. Things really are different for Trump this time. Check out our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2143...
Obviously, South Korea failed to buy any of Trump’s crypto.
Reuters: US SUPREME COURT REJECTS RENEWED TRUMP REQUEST TO HEAR APPEAL OF $5 MILLION VERDICT IN FAVOR OF E. JEAN CARROLL
Here's the subpoena HSI sent to get SEIU MN's financial records bc they murdered Alex Pretti. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
One of our main duties as citizens in a free society is demanding the best from our elected representation, and doing so at a volume and frequency befitting the level of damage their action or inaction causes
The U.S. president frequently threatening to bomb various countries—adversaries, partners, whatever—is bad. The fact that they react with “sure, buddy, whatever” is bad. Throwing away international credibility to posture for a domestic audience and assuage the president’s feelings of inadequacy.
Republicans win the White House, enact trickle-down tax cuts, and collapse the economy. Feel like we've been here before? Here's why it keeps happening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoEbmltMIk
How Does This Keep Happening?
Republicans win the White House, enact trickle-down tax cuts, and collapse the economy.Feel like we've been here before?
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ICE entered a small Maine town searching for someone with a removal order. Instead, an officer killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero—who officials admit was not the target. With no body-camera footage, furious protesters are demanding the truth. #Biddeford #ICE #Justice
ICE Kills 26-Year-Old Who Wasn’t Even Its Target—Then Furious Protesters Flood a Tiny Maine City Demanding Answers
Joan Sebastian Guerrero was reportedly on his way to work when federal immigration officers surrounded the area near his Biddeford home. He was not the person they had come to arrest. Minutes later…
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The US-Iran MOU officially expires today (though it's been dead for weeks). Today was not only the date when ship traffic through Hormuz was supposed to be back to pre-war levels (the opposite happened)) they were supposed to have a nuclear deal too (why anyone believed that, I don't know).
"One of the things that I think we need to remember about impeachment is that it is meant to shine a light on corruption—but it is also meant to shine a light leading forward to show people what our ideals are, what we expect of people who take oaths of office to the Constitution ...
Apparently communism will be prevented in USA by a president who does what he's told by a North Korean Stalinist.
One side swears to eliminate journalists, immigrants, DEI, academics, socialists, LGBTQ, feminists… The other wants healthcare for all Both are responsible for a divided America thehill.com/opinion/whit...
Why Americans now hate each other more than ever
Recent polling and sociological analysis suggest that the United States is experiencing a severe generational decline in trust and a rise in mutual contempt driven by economic and political incenti…
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"The wrong kind of American: The Trump White House needed me—until the fact I am trans became public." In @theatlantic.com (gift) By my @lawfaremedia.org colleague @juliacurlee.bsky.social . www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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What kind of idiot would look at north and South Korea and think that North Korea is a better ally?
Trump signaling that the US will not be a strong partner in the defense of South Korea does not make us safer It’s another foreign policy blunder of great proportions and will have a chilling effect freer globally for years to come Republicans own this and it’s just appalling Vote them all out
Let me be direct: I don’t believe you want CNN and CBS News to tell it straight down the middle — I believe you would turn them into OANN if that’s what it takes to get the movie studios you covet. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...
My open letter to David Ellison
You argued that the American people have misjudged you — that they are wrong about what is in your heart and mind. I want to be clear: I don't care what you think or feel. What I care about is your ac...
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Back in May, our reporter Suri Crowe directly asked the Pentagon how sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln could be running out of food. Their response? They pointed us to a series of TWEETS calling reports of food shortages “false” and “FAKE NEWS,” then said they had nothing else to share.
Sure, let’s betray S Korea because of course in Trump’s America, we prefer alliances with oppressive, murderous dictators who flatter Donald.
Erin Brockovich: "If Data Centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"