Enlightened Despotist in Name Only
@edino.bsky.social
A true DINO. (In reality a progressive incrementalist.) Math and board game fan. Phila, PA Tax the rich.
If you’re still trying to sabotage presumptive democratic candidates on Thursday following a Tuesday primary, you deserve to get blocked by everyone who actually cares about who holds a majority in Congress.
I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.
Going to be crucial for him to keep repeating this, so that everyone understands. Ignore the haters, sir! Speak your truth!
FOX: What's your big message on the economy? TRUMP: Tariffs have been incredible
Regardless of how it turns out NO HE DIDN’T. It’s like saying I have more fingers on my left hand after counting 8 digits from left to right with a ring finger and a pinky still to report.
I think a lot of people have severely overreacted to very early returns in this MI-Sen primary. But I’ve kept my cool, because I always believed DemocraticCandidate would win in the end and my plans to support DemocraticCandidate through November remain unchanged.
i support [$democratic_candidate] for [$public_office] and believe that their politics is a perfect fit for [$state]. I would drag my [$genital] over [$harmful_object_or_substance] to vote for [$democratic_candidate] this fall.
I support the winner of the Michigan Democratic primary as the future senator from Michigan.
Depicting 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.
every single time this happens the next reporter should ask the same question. and then the next. and the next. he’s not going to cut off access. he craves attention too much for that. call his fucking bluff.
Trump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
You actually don't, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to slavery
Max Miller is the platonic ideal of a MAGA politician lies, blackmails, beats wife & daughter (& previous GFs), blames Democrats for everything, takes zero responsibility for anything, drives drunk, gaslights his ex & says she has mental illness Oh also ask him what he did on January 6, 2021
New in PN: The right-wing bubble seals in the GOP with Max Miller "When you become the party of Fox News, you become a party whose candidates have no idea how to exist outside of Fox. That's why the GOP's fascist propaganda may, for once, be not a life raft but an anchor when the blue wave hits."
Sen. Bernie Moreno (paraphrased): On second thought, now that it's clear this is making me personally look awful, I say domestic abuse, lying about it, and failing basic standards of character like that has no place in the Republican Party, except at the top, and some other places too. Thank you.
senator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.
Braindead online leftists will sometimes (but not always) choose absurd hasty generalizations over actual arguments.
Liberals will always choose fascism over socialism.
When I offered my amendment to kill this slush fund, Republicans said we should accept Trump's word that it was dead. We knew they were wrong. This is why. Even in the middle of an illegal war, with prices rising, Trump wants to send your tax dollars to criminals & save his sweetheart tax deal.
After she lost, a lot of people were saying “oh I hope she learns from this, she still has a lot to give” etc. I hope these people now notice that she has instead refused to endorse the candidate who beat her and begun spewing lies blaming AIPAC, who actively opposed the winner!
Politics aside, do people believe federal government gas stations with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/b...
Trump promotes ‘Freedom Fuel’ stations that sell cheap gas. How they’re able to do so is unclear | CNN Business
President Donald Trump is heralding a new chain of gas stations that are selling gas for $3.479 a gallon, well below both market prices and wholesale costs.
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Concerned that Ron Johnson may be watching too much Briana Joy.
Ron Johnson claims the the "injection injured" are committing mass suicide
Covid is simultaneously a nefarious Chinese bioweapon designed to kill millions and "just the flu." It killed millions because the deep state suppressed knowledge of the true horse paste cure and also killed nobody while millions died from the unnecessary evil vaccine.
He asked about policy specifics and got a lot of fair and interesting replies. You responding like this just makes me glad you won't be a congresswoman. Left-wing policy actually needs people who will be willing to crunch the numbers instead of post.
I have never seen someone so flummoxed by the concept of feeding people lmao
and then the Lord spake, saying, "get thee to a community theater production of Beetlejuice, and have thy boyfriend fondle thee most vigorously. spare not thy vape pen also, regardless of contrary signage"
Rep. Lauren Boebert insists that public Christian worship events are necessary for America to experience revival: "I don't think that Jesus ever called for any Christian to pray only silently or to keep their faith hidden only in the prayer closet."
Because of a suboptimal musical score and because of other reasons, God’s Not Dead 2 didn’t win Best Picture at the academy awards
RFK Jr: "Because of Dr Fauci's leadership and other reasons, we had the highest mortality rate from covid of any country in the world" #OtherReasons 🙃
The claim "fish do not cause earthquakes" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that large fish cause seismic activity.
I’m sorry what
What we need is political journalists who understand anything about the law or politics, not the same self-satisfied ignoramuses declaring “I would simply make republicans lose” and then basking in their own perceived genius.
If Andy Beshear does not push this to a conclusion that either has him appointing McConnell's replacement, or McConnell reappearing, Beshear will be out of Democratic politics. We need rabble-rousers, not the same quiet, proper Dems who keep losing.
This Yahoo fantasy baseball update is an apt encapsulation of the State of Things in 2026 bc there’s no commentary about the awfulness of a dude literally breaking his balls it’s just “well this [objectively horrific] thing happened, and in related news a guy will be coming up from AAA”.
Bluesky knew the strait of Hormuz, Graham Platner, and AIPAC democrats were all cooked months before the experts did. Meanwhile Twitter was convinced Spencer Pratt would win and the Odyssey would bomb. Which site is the not-real-life echo chamber again?
extremely funny to me that analysts whose entire job is to think about these possibilities are only now catching up to Bluesky Consensus
The number of nominally Democratic commentators who want to effectively give the GOP another Senate vote -- who are *furious* at Beshear for NOT giving the GOP that vote -- bc something something "fighting" is mind-blowing. It is the apex of a truly toxic brainrot that is going to destroy us all.
It’s been over a week since @govandybeshear.bsky.social called on Mitch McConnell to disclose the state of his health There has been no credible, transparent response Beshear should call a #KYSpecialElection Anybody who has a problem with that should talk to Supreme Court Justice Merrick Garland
North Carolina, bc it’s the home of Duke University, the awful rival of my favorite basketball team (the University of North Carolina).
Indiana. Worst place in the US.