Danny Blinderman
@dannyblinderman.bsky.social
Post-doc at UVA: Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy. Ph.D. @ the University of Michigan. I study APD, constitutional change & democratization. Proud former member of GEO-3550. Semi-retired Jewish organizer. Thaddeus Stevens was right.
Hong represents the heart of Madison, but has a moderate platform on guns: red flag laws, background checks, no assault weapons ban. She clearly understands the need to appeal to a broad coalition. But if you are willing compromise on *guns* to win, you should be able to say "thanksgiving is nice".
after Hong wins she should go into a two-week intensive hyperbolic time chamber training retreat with Zohran somewhere in forests of Northern Wisconsin
For people who need a reminder, *this* type of language and imagery is anti-semitic. Saying "free Gaza" is not.
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterdayDepicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
leftists, as primary season reaches its crescendo remember: This women is your friend. She fights for freedom.
She needs to lock in and copy the Zohran playbook immediately. The leftist political project cannot afford a choke job in such a pivotal race.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayFrancesca Hong was asked last night by Kaitlin Collins if she still believes Thanksgiving should be canceled. Her answer was not 'no.'
Interested in tinkering with his would-be palace. Not interested in the welfare of the country.
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · yesterdayScoop: Trump has ordered workers to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad new WaPo photos show how past work was removed over weekend Trump is contemplating changes to White House lawn's slope, raising bigger Qs about project and cost
"Blow through all your ammo in a strategically foolish gambit that makes you look tough briefly" is like a parody of what people thought Hegseth and Trump would do, and yet...seems like that's what happened!
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · yesterday"US has used 'virtually all' PrSM and ATACM munitions" we are out of ammo www.reuters.com/world/us-has...
I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/
I saw Ohtani, that world soul, stare out over the mound. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, atop the mound, reaches out over the world and masters it.”
whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d agoProsecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job
If this is really true, I feel like you were not that motivated to protest in the first place. www.jta.org/2026/07/31/i...
Zohran Mamdani has made it impossible for liberal Zionists like me to protest Netanyahu's UN visit - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jews who want to rally against the Israeli prime minister now run the risk of appearing to align with New York's anti-Israel mayor, writes a former and aspiring protester.
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It's especially galling that Haley Stevens is portraying herself as the great protector of the Jews in her campaign against a Muslim candidate, given that in 2022 she beat a wonderful Jewish Congressman in a costly primary in part by accusing him of being insufficiently pro-Israel.
@thejrocktv.bsky.social · 6d agoShe knows she’s losing so she said let’s just go mask off.
Just this year, 40 military officers have been forcibly removed from those promotion lists. Over half of them are either women, or people of color. There seems to be a pointed effort to get rid of people who are not white men who are on the promotion list by merit.
leftists, as primary season reaches its crescendo remember: This women is your friend. She fights for freedom.
The AAUP is proud to endorse Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in the Michigan Democratic primary. Dr. El-Sayed is a fierce champion for debt-free & tuition-free higher education & will be an invaluable ally for academic freedom & higher education as a public good in Washington.
My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
I'm always a little skeptical of the "New York-centric media explains everything" theory but the asymmetry in volume of coverage received by Zohran and Francesca Hong is making me a believer.
I do believe we would not be seeing margins like this were it not for Zohran. Everywhere around the country young people are like "damn we need a Zohran"
Democracy, pluralism and political contestation produces better results than autocracy. www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Even at War, Ukrainian Society Keeps Presidential Power in Check
Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly changed course after street protests, in contrast to Vladimir Putin’s one-man rule in Russia.
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Julie Menin opposing increased taxes on the rich while also backing huge one-time payouts to city employees that NYC can barely afford feels like someone more interested in creating a fiscal crisis they can exploit to beat Zohran in a primary than to govern NYC well. McConnell circa 2010 coded.
An example of a bunch of disfunctional dynamics. It was horrible that some senators gave in to bigotry and refused to vote for Mangi. But as soon as that happened, the Biden administration should have pulled the nom and put forth someone else to make sure the seat was filled.
Bill@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · last wk.Remember when they wouldnt confirm Mangi to Third Circuit, and Bove got to fill the seat instead?
Martin gets the criticism (fair enough), but the state party chairs and delegates who elected him over Wikler shouldn't escape scrutiny either. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
Inside the Phone-Throwing Drama at the Troubled, Broke Democratic Party
The Democrats should be well positioned to make gains in this year’s midterms. But inside party headquarters, every week brings paranoia, worries about money and, on occasion, emotional eruptions.
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This is autocratic of course, but it's striking how navel gazing and inward it is. Prioritizing narrow fights over bespoke topics rather than any effort to make life better for the broad public.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w agoBreaking news: President Trump ordered the installation of signs outside the Smithsonian National Museum of American History that warn of “inaccurate” exhibits and direct people to “accurate information regarding America’s history.”
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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What was frustrating about the Ezra Klein interview with Morris Katz is he didn't really press Katz on the disjuncture between Platner's ascetic (normal working class guy) and the reality: that he was a rich private school kid who had achieved little and was dependent on his parents financially.
As Israeli government officials rush to blame Mayor Mamdani for a horrible antisemitic attack yesterday, remember: after the far deadlier 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, the Israeli government rushed to absolve Trump of any responsibility, despite most American Jews blaming him for it.
RFK rose to prominence on a "socialism of fools" platform of pretending to oppose corporate drug and healthcare providers. Now in power, it's clear he's just in hoc to the same corporate interests, except his paymasters sell snake oil instead of real medicine.
Paul Bleicher@pbleic.bsky.social · 2w agoAstonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
climatecoloredgoggles.com
