It’s absolutely wild to me that so many people are just out here lobbing insults at people who just want their fellow Americans to not choose between paying rent or buying groceries and getting life-saving medical care. WWJD AMIRITE?
Erin Petrey
@erinpetrey.bsky.social
🇬🇧 On hiatus until October 🇺🇸Former Candidate KY-06, Progressive Democrat, Proud Kentuckian 💚Founder, Demanding Data Center Accountability (demanddca.org) Substack: https://bit.ly/3Kn7yNC
Yesterday I posted on Facebook about Buc-ee’s not opening in blue states. This was one guy’s comment:
I’m heading to Europe for a month. NGL I’ll be a little salty if it happens while I’m away.
If ICE is so good at catching criminals, why haven’t they snatched up Matt Bevin?
Me: Measles = bad, Measles vaccine = good MAHA: Measles vaccine = bad, Measles = stop eating Red 40 and seed oils and you’ll be fine
Luigi Mangione pleads guilty. Trump still maintains he himself is innocent despite committing crimes in the public eye over and over again. That’s the difference. The fact that Luigi - who did commit cold blooded murder - has more leadership traits than the President of our country is wild.
The Trump administration is a great time to be really bad at something and still be able to get a really high level job.
If we haven't been reminding you enough, vote because your life depends upon it.
Here we go. I was the progressive candidate in my primary. I lost. But I was also the only Democrat to endorse the winner, who is a centrist/moderate endorsed by the Blue Dogs. Primaries are when you vote your heart; generals are when you vote your head. If we can do it, so can you, Michigan.
Now jalapeños will give me salmonella? We used to be a proper country with a fully functioning CDC and folks in charge of our public health who didn’t think that beef tallow would cure everything. 
RFK Jr. is in Lexington. I knew I felt a disturbance in the force. Friend of a friend spotted him this morning.
“His taste is in his ass.” -My mother on the aesthetic of Donald J. Trump
If even a SINGLE Haley Stevens primary voter refuses to vote for Abdul El-Sayed in November they can never say again that it is progressives who are unwilling to compromise. We’ve been compromising forever. Now it’s your turn to vote blue no matter who. Now let’s elect Senator El-Sayed, Michigan!!!
Haley Stevens’ tweet is giving off such Bobby Newport energy. You know Bobby would take all the AIPAC money. And whine about anything that didn’t go exactly his way.
The Trump administration is out here playing Battleship with Monopoly game pieces using Candy Land rules and then just decided to flip the table by screaming “Jenga!” and insisting they won.
Want to ruin something? Have private equity invest in it.
It’s a shame Mitch McConnell won’t be at Fancy Farm this year to tell us all to pray the gay away and gloat about his role in turning America fascist.
A friend texted me that Mitch McConnell is on eternity leave. And now I, too, am deceased.
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On Monday I sat down with Friend of the Blog Erin Petrey to discuss her recent campaign for the Democratic nomination in Kentucky’s 6th Congressional district. That race was won by Zach Dembo (website...
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There’s a lot of unfounded outrage at Kentucky Gov Andy Beshear on McConnell. The Internet is more concerned with instant gratification over actual political gain. Instead of being mad at the most popular Dem gov in the U.S. try supporting Charles Booker trying to take over Mitch McConnell’s seat?
Just imagine if you took all of the energy that people are wasting on conspiracy theories about Mitch McConnell and put it to work for @booker4ky.bsky.social , who happens to be an actual person running in an actual election for US Senate in Kentucky.
Who else had a 20 minute chat with Mitch McConnell? Talk about anything fun?
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear sent a public letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell requesting a full update on his health, citing weeks of limited information since McConnell’s June 14 hospitalization. Beshear called for transparency about his ability to serve.
I spoke to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes this morning. He told me he supports Medicare for All, a living wage, nationalization of the military industrial complex, a tenant’s bill of rights, equal rights for all, and a Free Palestine.
Posts that have caused the most internet ire in the 36 hours: -Calling out white suprematists for being white supremacists and cowards -Saying we should pay a living wage so folks can afford necessities
Nothing says “fraud, waste, and abuse” more than awarding a “no-bid contract.”