“If we ban sports betting, the people at those companies will lose their jobs” good

It's things like this that evoke old Twitter where no one yet everyone knew what was going on at once and it very quickly became very fun to be part of it all

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d ago

Gwen, search the word "bitchmade" Trust me.

Democratic turnout for House primaries in a majority-Black Tennessee county surged to the highest level in a decade Thursday, the latest sign that redistricting may be energizing Black voters across the South.

Voter turnout surges in Tennessee after Black-majority district is erased

High Democratic turnout for House primaries in Shelby County, which includes Memphis, is the latest sign that redistricting may be energizing Black Southern voters.

washingtonpost.com

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

considering how well things are going in new york, the lesson here is clear: fuck these people

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2w ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

I’m definitely going on a list somewhere for this

Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 2w ago

I cannot boost this enough. The lack of local journalism is at the root of so many problems.

Matthew Moore@matthewrmoore.bsky.social · 3w ago

The cost of losing local journalism is more than just a metaphorical one. A group of finance professors found that fewer local reporters are leading to higher municipal borrowing costs for local governments. Thanks to @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social for chatting - www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-...

VAR gonna be pissed it can't take that goal now! #Egypt

dude fuck FIFA and going back and litigating potential fouls. This shit is so stupid and looks so much like fuck collusion

lots of rumors swirling ie mitch mcconnell and botched rib removal surgery. no need to be first, if its true we’ll find out in due course

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

Dansby Swanson is feeling froggy lately. @obviousshirts.bsky.social

Because the Tea Party was opposing a qualified and reasonable Black Man, while Dem Socialists are challenging centrism--the dominant political ideology of the well-educated and well-compensated.

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party

My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Lander on comparisons between his flank of the Democratic Party and the Tea Party: "We're joyful about what it looks like to deliver. That is very different energy than what the Tea Party brought. We want to build something, not just break something."

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

If you wanted people to be less hostile to "AI" then you should have had a different group of liars trying to push it than the ones behind the metaverse, crypto, driverless cars, NFTs etc. "Sorry but we're only so gullible!"

All these right wingers who converted to Catholicism in adulthood were just shopping around for an ideology that justified their pre-existing instincts and prejudices. If you convince them that Catholicism means peace and charity they'll just drop it and keep shopping.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Mamdani is bewilderingly good at this. I'm always shocked by his expectations for his audience -- he assumes you are smart and compassionate and sensible, and that feels great

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 5mo ago

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

A lot of messaging from politicians right now assumes you are dumb, mean, selfish, gullible, and racist, with the memory of a goldfish, and that does not feel so good

@taniel.bsky.social I know you don't live/die by polling at Bolts, but wondering if your team or anyone has seen any actual polling on the SAVE America Act. I keep seeing this "80% approval!" but it's either White House or Heritage accounts purporting that. Feels like BS, for obvious reasons.

i see we have entered the “get mad at Democrats about unilateral Trump action” phase of the thing and, whatever makes you happy I guess most of the criticisms are correct and almost all of them are irrelevant

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

There's been a lot of discussion about the echoes of the civil rights movement in the protests today, with people obviously drawing comparisons between the strategies, tactics and coalitions that were vital then and are still vital now. But this post has me thinking about a different echo ...

Randi Mayem Singer@rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I suspect right now Stephen Miller and the other nazis are meeting to discuss how a place not as “nice" or "peaceful” as Minnesota will provide better oxygen for their lies and goals of martial law.

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 7mo ago

They are wounded and flailing. Press the advantage.

Matt Shaw really beginning to doubt his "Jews will not replace us" poster.

unless Dolly Parton is on there I don't give a fuck. some of us are normal and don't develop parasocial relationships with politicians

I envy people who have the ability to separate themselves from what's going on every day from what they need to accomplish every day. My brain just gets stuck in the infinite loop of insanity with no means of escape other than to shut it all down

So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.