I think it's fair to say that the base of the Democratic party is Black people and Jewish people. White leftists... not so much.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 3d ago

I hate this headline. This needs to be very clearly stated: American Jews have ALWAYS favored democrats. We are one of the strongest Dem voting blocks in the country. 88% of Jewish women voted for Kamala. 75-78% of American Jews *always vote Dem*. And yes we’ll do it again as we always have.

Kennedy isn't a fucking idiot, although he is. He is a malicious liar and a malignant narcissist on the scale of Trump. These two and Musk were made for each other.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

You should know by now that Blanche will be confirmed as AG on a party line vote, except Susan Collins will vote no.

The brains are so cooked out there. No matter what Democrats do, they will always fail in the eyes of some people. Republicans killing the filibuster is how we get the SAVE Act, which will completely fuck up the midterms. Let's keep that bullet for when we have a trifecta.

Don Kronenberger@donkronenberger.bsky.social · 3d ago

So sad that the Democrats are caving yet again on a CR complicit with this vile, corrupt, lawless, patrimonial regime. Instead, make the GOP kill the filibuster so that Democrats are in position to carry out a Third Reconstruction if democracy survives to ever see a Democratic majority.

I mean... yeah. Holy fuck this guy.

FoxyMoonRocks@foxymoneybags.bsky.social · 3d ago

Maybe the dumbest part of this is that it’s so unnecessary. He could simply not align himself with dirtbags like Piker and Halper and he wouldn’t lose a single vote. Shit like this can definitely cost him votes though. It’s all risk, no reward. Just horrible judgement.

There is a decent chance that leftists/DSA will cost Democrats at least two senate seats this year. Catastrophic if true.

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · 3d ago

Michigan - Senate Polling: 🔴Rogers: 46% 🔵El-Sayed: 43% 🔵Stevens: 44% 🔴Rogers: 42% EPIC-MRA / July 31, 2026

Shocking. The reality is the US cannot realistically engage in an all-out war with Iran. I just hope people in his orbit can keep pulling the lunatic back from the brink.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4d ago

BREAKING: President Trump claims Mideast allies have reached parameters of a deal to end the Iran war and says U.S. will hold off on new strikes.

I mean, it's not like there aren't competent young people out there to hire. It's just that not a lot of them are conservative, because nothing in the conservative pipeline these days values competence.

E.J. Fagan@ejfagan.com · 4d ago

Senior Republican congressional staffer on trying to recruit new policy experts: “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”

This is not a sustainable situation. It is suspicious, to say the least, that much of Republican policy is basically civil war incitement.

Cascadia Journal@cascadiajournal.bsky.social · 6d ago

"In 2025 Washington state paid $69.3 billion more in federal taxes than it received back in funding." My latest for #Cascadia Journal: www.cascadia-journal.com/as-feds-hold...

Who would have thought that Maine wouldn't have the worst Senate Democratic primary this year...

This same article has been written countless times, with the same framing. Never once has it contained a scintilla of evidence for an actual lab leak. This has to be one of the longest running cons in mainstream media at this point, right up there with Donald Trump being a "businessman".

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d ago

And here is the same Alex Jones bullshit appearing in Rolling Stone. Unbelievably embarrassing to publish this.

It is unfortunate but perhaps symptomatic that some of the best PH and Covid coverage these days comes from WSWS. Chakravarty is a gem.

Nancy Malek@n95anaesthetist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Must-read interview: "A convergence of crises." On the compounding repercussions of failing to learn the right lessons from COVID. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

This is Grade A trolling. Beshear knows what he's doing, and obviously knows that McConnell can't, in fact, do any of these things, but also that he won't resign or his staff/family won't let him resign. Goal: make Republicans look bad inside Kentucky, and I hope it works.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · last wk.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear in new letter to Mitch McConnell: "It has now been 43 days since news of your hospitalization. During that time you have cast zero votes... I am calling on you to directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign."

The stark evil of Republican policies, politicians, donors, and voters is so profoundly abhorrent that our media will both (a) do backflips to ignore and both-sides every aspect of it, while (b) taking it so deeply for granted that only Democrats ever have the agency to do good.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.

Everyone wants to yell at Democrats or "the left" but the plain fact is that Republicans are the only ones with the power to immediately save us from this nightmare. Every day they choose not to do so.

I wouldn't vote for this bill for a number of reasons. One is Section 219, which disproportionately benefits Israel over the US and doesn't seem like a good idea or in our national interest. But... it's definitely not "merging parts of the military" and it's disapppointing to see AOC Glonzoing.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2w ago

Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.

My man here is abandoning a foolish campaign promise that his fans touted for months and promised us he would implement. I was expecting at least some leftist disappointment in the comments, but... no. Odd.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

This is the basic problem. We "go home" and Iran has free rein to toll Hormuz at their discretion. One might of course argue that this is still the best alternative available to the US, and ... one might be right.

🇺🇸 RULE of LAW made AMERICA GREAT@mke-voter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why would we have to send troops? Much like Putin in Ukraine, we could just go home & not lose any more troops. 🤷‍♂️

And here we go, Platner was the Establishment candidate and Schumer's best buddy probably. Sanders and Warren and all the leftists who loved the oyster boy never existed. Senator who?

Jeffrey Epstein has learned his lesson. - by Susan Collins

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Is Susan Collins the grande dame of the Epstein class? Financial disclosures show that Susan Collins was taking checks from some of the men named in Epstein Files. meidasnews.com/news/more-do...

I mean, this has been an issue since the First Council of Nicaea...

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 2w ago

TreeSize’s evolution illustrates the growing subscription economy, particularly the software industry’s fixation on recurring revenue.

This is quite possibly the most anti-strategic "do something" trend we've seen... so far.

Tim Hannan@timhannan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Andy Beshear is demonstrating why voters are pushing out incumbent democrats. What a pathetic response to covering up McConnell’s death. “I haven’t heard anything”. Dude get off your fucking ass and go down to the hospital. Cause a fucking scene. We’re tired of this shit.

Corrupt, incompetent... or both I guess. Not great.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2w ago

The FDA now says that Taylor Farms finding is a false positive. What a mess.

I will just say that Lamine Yamal is massively overrated.

We're going to run out of munitions for no good reason, and then... le deluge.

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump has ordered US CENTCOM to open "the gates of hell" upon Iran after US casualties in Jordan, US officials tell NPR. Another US official tells CBS News tonight's US attacks will be much more extensive and larger than previous nights.

Stancil is correct here. One of the major casualties of the Silicon Valley dream becoming a fascist nightmare is a collective loss of techno-optimism. Being optimistic about science and progress is a good thing! The alternatives are sooo much worse.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 3w ago

part of the problem here is that the emotional appeal of narratives of decline is hardly restricted to the political right, but these narratives are fundamentally reactionary and revanchist in nature and ultimately produce a mass politics that tends to heavily advantage the far right

I think about this a lot, but it was never possible without more votes. Not just in the senate, but from actual voters.

Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 3w ago

Not using the Dem trifecta of 2021-23 to pack the SCOTUS, add states and aggressively prosecute Trump and prominent Republicans for the Jan 6 coup plot was a national disaster on the scale of Andrew Johnson's handling of Reconstruction. We might get one more chance to fix things, but it's not 100%.

The amount of casual anti-semitism loose in the noosphere right now is ... alarming.

Matthew Eadie@mattheweadie.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Republican nominee for retiring Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s congressional seat:

Miller calling his opponents untermenschen is pretty on the nose.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

LLM tech isn't special enough for anyone to end up with lasting dominance. The inevitable outcome of LLMs is open weight models on commodity hardware, running locally or hosted at low margin with freemium payment models.

Rude Law Dog@esghound.com · 3w ago

hat tip to @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social who compared AI to solar panels. Bad news for American dominance if this trend continues

The thinking here is simple: inflict pain until the recipients capitulate. Very Putin and very Trump, and it will likely escalate as the Iranians refuse to back down on Hormuz. I'm a little surprised the US military is going along with this, but given recent officer purges I guess I'm not surprised.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3w ago

More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.