This is a central (and often ignored) point about the vibecession. It wasn't "econometrics (economy good) loses to personal experience (bad)." It was "personal experience (economy good) loses to perceptions about the broader situation (bad)"

Azure@spicycurry.bsky.social · 3h ago

Don’t think that was the problem

A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 23h ago

This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

Adam Bonin@adambonin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Incredibly disappointing ad from Mary Peltola (D-AK) saying she neither supports "kids getting surgeries to change genders or men in girls bathrooms." Yes, flipping the Senate is essential and can stop bad laws and bad judges from happening, but she can do it without my support from the lower 48.

A useful way to think about it is to imagine a republican candidate saying one thing that you liked, agreeing with you on exactly one issue. That would totally work, right? Donald Trump announces he’s for one thing you are also for and then you vote for him. See how stupid it sounds.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d ago

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

Republicans know that too, but they also know this is something they can make Dems flinch and equivocate about, which makes them look overall weak and indecisive. They did it with immigration last cycle, they did it with gay marriage 20 years ago. The only way to win is to tell them to eat shit

John Cluverius@johncluverius.bsky.social · 2d ago

I have to keep saying this. Trans rights are very unpopular on face but extremely sensitive to persuasion and question wording. In other words very few people care deeply about them, one way or another. Electorally, there is no advantage or penalty for Democrats to take one way or another.

mmygod

the nintendo shamecube@futuresushi.bsky.social · 4d ago

Jeopardy gonna be huge today for fans of one specific Jeopardy bsky post

the first thing Democrats should do in 2029 is to tax the sale of voting dual-class stock according to its percentage of the total control of the corporation rather than its book value

"Democracy is bad, we should have an autocracy instead" isn't the incidental outcome of other inchoate populist impulses. It's what they sincerely and consciously believe, it's a real ideology and they know symbols matter as a reenforcing affirmation of a polity's governing ideological commitments.

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d ago

Florida GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar to Trump: "Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far ... The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today"

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

“why do you refuse to respect right wing scholarship?!” i demand, waving around the chart i made up

Andrew Jacobs (he/him)@drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 5d ago

lol at this chart and the disclaimer

i see a lot of debate around this issue that takes it for granted that supporting trans rights (especially in the sports context) will hurt you electorally. it’s worth highlighting that that’s just not what the data shows.

Your family is psychically vulnerable to President Carter’s wandering spirit. He can enter minds and infect them with thoughts of solar panels. To prevent this you can make or buy a specially designed net to ensnare his ghost, and it’s also a piece of art that brings both protection and beauty.

“The Ivies produce as many mediocre people as intelligent people” is one of those truths that the US culture can’t handle. We have too many prominent alums, and too many desperate parents hoping those schools will make their kids lives easy. But the results are clear— all kinds of mid wits

Materialist Gnostic@walmsley.bsky.social · last wk.

if your threshold for success is getting in to an ivy you've kind of already fucked things up for your kid

Great conversation with @thomaszimmer.bsky.social about fighting the far-right in Germany, the rest of the Europe and the United States. newrepublic.com/article/2152...

those who trade their liberty for cheap gas shall have neither liberty nor cheap gas

Patrick De Haan@gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING: diesel history is about to be made. $6/gal nationally — never seen before, days away, it's now in the pipeline, unavoidable.

My impression is this is pretty typical, and its another thing that persuades me that... to be honest... The Cosmopolitan Way Of Life is simply superior. The people throwing the authoritarian temper tantrum are simply those ignorant of its benefits.

Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Blake Butera told me batters keep eating his closers so I asked him what he does and he said he just gets another closer and I said it sounds like he’s feeding closers to batters and then Screech started crying

My great uncle was a jesuit priest in remote India in the 50s, and he wrote a book about his time there. There was a tiger causing problems near the villages, and he had no luck hunting it with his rifle. So an elder in the village - one of the only people who knew how - set up The Great Tiger Bow.

Abbaetha: Large Parsnip Split-Level@abbaetha.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is not how we fought lions unless stuff was going very wrong. We got a bunch of us together and we all got sharp, long sticks and we poked the murder kitties from a distance. Before we could do that we went to the trees.

This is the most quisling shit I’ve seen in a while. genuinely remarkable that you could culture war people into actively cheering for their own autonomy and dignity and privacy being stripped away.

Zach D Roberts@zdroberts.bsky.social · 3w ago

I love how Texas has quickly become everything they used to mock about blue cities. They love cucking for the boot now.

the tide is turning folks. it’s a month late and a trillion dollars short, but it’s turning. even Trump can’t stop it

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w ago

China's net greenhouse gas emissions *fell* this past quarter. Why? Because rapidly expanding electric vehicle use is putting a serious dent in oil demand. We could do that too. But we're not. We have the slowest EV update in the developed world, thanks to Trump.

“Steinem made my life better. Yes, my life as a cis hetero male. I couldn’t have my career and my life without the professional women I’ve learned from, worked with, and worked for.” — Elie Mystal @elienyc.bsky.social Ditto.

I think one reason Mamdani is using non-traditional media is because traditional media isn't covering substantive government stories The two reporters on this topic cover the Mamdani administration but mostly from the perspective of conflicts. Too much theater, not enough substance.

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Mr. Mamdani is a master of new media... But as mayor, he has also been able to use taxpayer funds to create a sprawling network of hundreds of friendly influencers to boost his priorities, provide positive depictions of his administration and enhance his popularity."

He ran the kind of government that US centrists fondly envision, and as a result, he was a total failure, everyone hated him, and no one will miss him.

Former UK Prime Minister Starmer Steps Down From Parliament

Former UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is leaving British politics after deciding to step down as a member of Parliament.

bloomberg.com

Life hack: When writers suck, do not read them. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-can-ig...

You Can Ignore the Bad Pundits

One easy trick to make yourself smarter.

hamiltonnolan.com

you see, no one has standing when it comes time to sue the president because he is a very special birthday boy

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w ago

Breaking news: The Supreme Court said construction can continue on the White House ballroom. The justices found that the historic preservationists who challenged the project had not suffered the direct personal harm required to bring a lawsuit.

it’s deeply embarrassing that they keep trying to come up with a comprehensive definition of “wokeness” when the actual definition is “lib shit that annoys me”

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have to admire his ability, after all these years, to come up with a definition of "woke" that is even dumber and worse than anything that came before.

Google did not have to change Google Maps to comply with Trump's order. This is a choice they are making, pretending that they are removing themselves from controversy while actually inserting themselves in the centre. There are any number of procedural hurdles they could invent to slow-walk this.

when centrists tell you that we shouldn't pack the courts, what they are actually saying is "black people shouldn't be allowed to vote."

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 3w ago

another way to put it is that the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act are no longer permitted to enforce the 14th Amendment. they are banned by the "14th Amendment." the Civil Rights Era is dead, its accomplishments annihilated.

The default judgment rural voters will make when this happens is that it must be the Democrats' fault. But that isn't written in stone. Which is why Dems must do something they never do: Go to rural America and attack Republicans. Not just listen and express empathy, but ATTACK.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rural hospitals closing or shutting down key departments like obstetrics will be one of the biggest stories of 2027. Democrats need to make it one of the biggest stories of the next two months.