Garrett Bucks
@garrettbucks.bsky.social
Writer/Organizer/Hopemonger. Read The White Pages (please) (https://thewhitepages.net). From Montana/now in Milwaukee. "We put on ZZ Top and turned it up, real loud"
If you want people to show up in movement spaces, you have to make the first step as clear and accessible as possible thewhitepages.net/p/our-politi...
Our political movements should be better at organizing than the average megachurch
But we're not there yet
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I actually think that it's really telling that the GOP is already trying to throw everything they can at @francescahongwi.bsky.social and the best they can come up with is that she has said stuff that a lot of people find cringe but that clearly comes from an empathetic and open-hearted place.
There's a lot you can say about this attempt to stage an anti "white replacement" race war at a Midwestern water park, but one of the funniest is all the extremely white torsos walking in front of the camera, very clearly un-replaced.
Brendan Gutenschwager@bgonthescene.bsky.social · 3d agoJake Lang unveils a banner at Cedar Point Shores Waterpark in Ohio reading “Stop Muslim Takeover of Democrat Party!!” and calling for the deportation of American-born U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed
This will prob feed takes that the Wisconsin gubernatorial race is a mess or a dumpster fire or whatever, but what that narrative leaves out is that the consistent front runner, @francescahongwi.bsky.social has run a drama free campaign, stayed above the fray, and built a massive volunteer network.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 6d agoNEW: Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes says that he is dropping out of the Democratic race for governor in Wisconsin.
THIS. Median voter theorists claim people are making "rational" choices arraying themselves on some clear left-right spectrum and picking the candidate(s) closest to them. In reality, we're primates seeking BELONGING - something MAGA offers (to the chosen) & left has neglected for long time.
Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 2w agoWhy has DSA grown? One argument from this research: not just ideology, but organization. Strong membership plus ongoing and continuous participation in social movements creates credibility, committed volunteers, political skills, and durable electoral capacity. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...
Christopher Nolan making me like him more every day
This was a very smart protest strategy in response to the horrific execution-style murder of Corey Ruiz by Madison police this afternoon (shutting down a high profile concert series downtown, with the support of the musicians playing). www.channel3000.com/news/concert...
Concerts on the Square cancelled due to protests
MADISON, Wis.— Concerts on the Square was cancelled on Wednesday night due to protests.
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I'm getting some work done at a bar and there's a bunch of cool, arty Gen Zers dominating karaoke night and I, an old person, would never have guessed their song selection in 1000 years. So far... Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" "Knights in White Satin" by the Moody Blues "Vanilla Twilight" by Owl City
Some might say there are more important news stories out there (those people are wrong) but America's Test Kitchen released their official list of potluck foods for all U.S. states and territories and it is insane. thewhitepages.net/p/a-definiti...
A definitive ranking of every dish in America's Test Kitchen's potluck issue
Not all foods are potluck foods
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Easiest thing to run on since, “it’s the economy, stupid,”. “Meanwhile, President Donald Trump champions the projects as essential to U.S. supremacy in AI, lauding them as “big, strong, bold … Money Machines,” despite criticism of data centers from top Republicans in states such as Florida.“
@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social@keepitbluedems.bsky.social · 2w agoAt an end of camp celebration today, one group performed a song which featured one kid each on cello, ukulele and trumpet. As they set up, I overheard one parent whisper to another "damn, that's like half an Arcade Fire."
Friends don’t let friends vote in primaries like they are prediction markets 🗳️👫
Garrett Bucks@garrettbucks.bsky.social · 3w agoBy all accounts, WI Gubernatorial Election Discourse is gonna hit a fever pitch, so here's my suggestion: Choose a candidate you like, and if you want, make a case for them! Just don't do weird punditry stuff about "electability" and "momentum" and whatever. Boring and dumb, usually.
By all accounts, WI Gubernatorial Election Discourse is gonna hit a fever pitch, so here's my suggestion: Choose a candidate you like, and if you want, make a case for them! Just don't do weird punditry stuff about "electability" and "momentum" and whatever. Boring and dumb, usually.
Is this how I learn that Jersey Mike’s needs me to sacrifice one of my children?
I can't even tell you how many ads featuring guys tinkering with engines I watched to write this piece thewhitepages.net/p/why-is-the...
Why is the answer always more masculinity?
Clocking in for another shift at the gender discourse factory
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Unless you are actually running an electoral campaign, why are you (a REGULAR person) gaming out the views of people across the country who you do not know and will never meet? One of the worst things to have happened in the last 25 years is weird election punditry by regular people.
Political imagination is believing not only that we don’t have to live in a world where government employees murder parents in their cars, but that there could easily be a world where government employees ensure that every family is clothed and fed and housed and loved.
Isn't there something comforting about life's little certainties? You know, like knowing that no matter the horrors of the world, every day the sun will rise and set and The Times will run a column saying that Dems should be more evil to trans people and immigrants www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
Opinion | Three Things Democrats Have to Do if They Actually Want to Win (Gift Article)
It is these issues that serve to reinforce the perception that Democrats are willing to sacrifice the interests of the working and middle classes.
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I wrote this on Friday to make sure I didn’t forget Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. And now, the challenge is to afford Joan Sebastian Guerrero more than just an “and also…” thewhitepages.net/p/the-right-...
The right to take tomorrow for granted
For Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
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100% and entirely applicable to Wisconsin's gubernatorial race! thewhitepages.net/p/the-real-e...
The real electability is the friends we make along the way
What the entire country can learn from Francesca Hong's campaign for Governor of Wisconsin
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Perry Bacon@perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 3w agoHaving Dem primaries become debates about electability is counterproductive, particularly when there is little data backing these claims. But as the base moves left on policy, electability is really the only argument centrist candidates have left. newrepublic.com/article/2130...
Democratic consultants when asked “who do you picture when you hear the phrase “working class”
Pittsburgh graffiti@pghgraffiti.bsky.social · 4w ago
Appreciating that even if this subculture isn’t quite my speed, that it’s so cool that it makes so many people happy! At the renaissance festival.
"Before Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was dead, he was living." thewhitepages.net/p/the-right-...
The right to take tomorrow for granted
For Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
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Love that this essay keeps resonating. I really believe that it's one of the defining political questions of our time!
kottke.org@kottke.org · 4w agoDo you believe that everybody should have fun or that only a few people should have fun? “This is what it means to be entertained in the United States of America in 2026. Want to have fun? Like, the most fun? Get rich, or die trying.” [thewhitepages.net]
ICE shot this man, a loving husband and father of three, dead, for the crime of going to work Tuesday morning. His family's gofundme for funeral/services is about halfway to its goal gofund.me/660ca4364
Donate to In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old, organized by LULAC Institute, Inc.
On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was ta… LULAC Institute, Inc. needs your support for In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old
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If you actually give a crap about movement building, this is literally the last thing you should say to anybody (and that's before even laying on the gender/race dynamic, bc come on, a lot of white dudes in movement spaces don't need extra permission to be like "huh, maybe I AM the savior.").
Huge turnout tonight for a protest over ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday Magnolia Park, Houston. Video is from my colleague Macy Meinhardt, who is not on Bluesky but is on the scene.
"We deserve a politics of class solidarity rather than class fetishism, one that actually respects the full mosaic of working people, rather than falling for the one cool trick of elevating whichever white guy sounds most like a Super Bowl truck commercial." thewhitepages.net/p/we-all-des...
We all deserve so much better
On Graham Platner, but not just Graham Platner
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