Absolutely disgraceful performance. In all my years as a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals, I have never seen a group of players so lazy and pathetic. I'm taking my fanhood to Cincinnati where it looks like they know how to run a baseball team.

When will you do a roundtable with the residents of east and south Dearborn, who went out to the polls at a higher rate than they did in 2022 and 2024, and voted almost 95% for the first Muslim US Senator ever?

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

In deep-red Texas, conservatives are trying to make sense of what just happened to their longtime Republican stronghold. We visited a men’s bible study as they gathered for the first time since the state flipped in the midterm election.

As @marimanoogian.bsky.social noted: We’ve secured the border.

But the point is that in the eyes of many of her colleagues, Meitner was a woman and a Jew first, and a superior scientist second. Her career suffered for it.

Physicist Lise Meitner was born #OTD in 1878. She discovered fission in uranium with Otto Frisch, and was the first person to understand both its mechanics and its implications. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Atomic Heritage Foundation

A blast from the past

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/

The descriptions of Miller as "a fiery hard liner" or "a controversial aide" or "immigration hardliner" are disgracefully evasive. He's a white supremacist, full stop.

Its crazy but true that Ted Cruz is the only elected statewide Republican right now

Texas Democratic Party@texasdemocrats.bsky.social · 5d ago

Not a single Democrat has won statewide in Texas in 32 years. Until last night.

I am so fucking tired of "seeking justice" being framed as "getting even." Arresting and/or impeaching people who are legitimately guilty of actual crimes is not revenge. It is justice. Innocent people should be released from detention and guilty people should be in prison. Again, that is JUSTICE.

Here's my suggestion for day 1: reinstate the ACA subsidies. That's it -- don't try to fix everything. Just fix that. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @liccardo.house.gov, here's the entire text to get you started. It fits in two skeets. Dare him to veto it. .

Best thing I've read about the election so far is Brian Beutler's piece urging Democrats to fully understand their mandate. "The public wants an end to the scourges of tyranny. Deliver it." @brianbeutler.bsky.social

Don’t Read The Mandate Down

No one wins a historic realignment election because inflation is slightly above trend. The public wants an end to the scourges of tyranny. Deliver it.

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Why Hasn’t Abdul El-Sayed Accomplished Any Of His Campaign Goals Since Winning 2 Minutes Ago?

this came to me in a dream

RESULT: Voters in the town of York, Maine, approved a measure yesterday to ban automated license plate readers, including Flock surveillance cameras.

I haven't seen the full demographic analysis, but I'll betcha that the fundamental core of this election was the resolve of the Black, the South Asian, and the Hispanic refusal to out up with this crap any longer. The Black and Brown folks have spoken. Hear them roar.

As Scott Colom, who may just become his state’s first statewide elected official since Reconstruction, put it during his campaign: “Mississippi matters.” Any governing coalition that realizes that Black and brown people matter, and that we all rise and fall with them, can do incredible things.

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Tom Lumberjack@knilb.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have said many times since January 2025 that if things can be done without consequences then they can be done and the law doesn’t matter. I don’t want Congress to get even, I want them to make the law matter.

Sen. Warnock was just asked on CNN if Dems will focus on costs *or* corruption, and he responded "We can walk & chew gum at the same time." Hell yes, that is the message.

Just want to say this out loud: the Democrats who bus-tossed trans people gained nothing and rode the same exact anti-corruption / affordability wave everyone else did, including Democrats who stood their ground on civil rights. There is NO EXCUSE for caving into bigotry against trans people.

The White House is a crime scene. Accountability is not retribution.

MS NOW@ms.now · 5d ago

"The American people don't want us to get even; they want us to get things done on their behalf." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is now poised to become the next House Speaker, says that Democrats will focus on affordability concerns and not retribution after their midterm wins.

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

QOTD: What car did you learn to drive a manual transmission in?

Bikepedantic@pedantic.bike · 6d ago

QOTD: What car did you learn to drive a manual transmission in?

I respect Sen. Schatz, but I 100% disagree with him here. Even if we win the midterms, Democrats have far to go to win back the trust of working people. If Democrats don't understand that, we will sleepwalk into President Vance 2028. No one in America thinks the status quo is working.

A timely reminder that methane matters: 👉 Over 20 years, methane traps ~80-83 times more heat than CO2 👉 Over 100 years, it still traps ~27-30 times more heat than CO2 Reducing methane emissions is one of the fastest ways to slow near-term warming. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump says government to ‘terminate’ Biden-era methane emissions rules

Critics warn of climate danger as president in Texas claims change will save companies and consumers billions

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It's tempting to look forward to Tuesday hoping that we will really be getting past all this. But we are going to be in chaos until at least January.

one of the best comics i've ever seen, by Lynda Barry. And I think she made it on 4 post-it notes she stuck together. It's a haiku in the form of a comic.

Mark Truesdale@marktweedale.bsky.social · 2w ago

Name a piece of comic art that occasionally wanders into your head unannounced and makes you smile. #comics

broke-ass Bob Castellini still finding a way to be one of the top MLB owner donors this cycle hmmm

Roger Cormier@themetsnewsletter.com · 2w ago

According to Front Office Sports, Steve Cohen donated $39,000 on midterm campaigns this year. Mostly Democratic ones. Giants owner Charles B. Johnson has donated the most money by far out of any MLB owner, spending $2.6 million, all on Republican campaigns. frontofficesports.com/article/mlb-...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Dolores Huerta, United Farmworkers co-founder and civil rights icon, has died, her family says.

Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”