no matter the margin this is one of the worst, most disgraceful campaigns in the modern history of the democratic party. abdul can't say it because he has to make nice with these racist freaks so I fucking will.
bree 🇨🇦
@goose.ski
you can’t kill me faster than i can — i’m a journalist. ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
it's kind of funny that you used to get books like these from conservatives during the Obama era
Rural voters in most of Michigan: I'm not voting for a Muslim Rural voters in the Upper Peninsula for some reason: Democrat by choice, Yooper by the grace of Allah
Recreating the Frasier apartment in Blender. Making decent progress 🍷
On current numbers that’s $88.01/vote for Haley and $9.85/vote for El-Sayed.
Trump saw the disconnect between the Republican voter base and the Republican funding base, drove a wedge, took over the party, and then the Presidency. Democrats need to do something similar.
islamophobia is nuts because it can make you look at the most electable candidate by a country mile and then say “nah, not him. i’m voting for that weird bitch with the shark jaw who seems kinda slow”
Dr. Ashok Karra@akarra.bsky.social · 14h agowhat a lot of people are calling electability is straight islamophobia. there is simply no way to stop where the united states is going with this level of islamophobia. it will get worse before it gets better at this rate. we're not able to agree that "camps for kids" is wrong.
thank you michigan for not fucking this up despite your very concerted effort to try to anyway
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 11h agoGoodnight
what i’m saying is that el-sayed is the real fiscally conservative choice
bree 🇨🇦@goose.ski · 10h agoif you care about politicians spending money efficiently and effectively it’s very clear on that basis alone that stevens is comically incompetent
a white woman spent 60 million dollars on anti-arab and islamophobic tv ads and still lost bro, the american dream is dead
GET READY FOR MMMMMMELTDOWN MMMMMAUGUST WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK THAT ITS LIKE WE NEVER EVEN LEFT
Hotep Kevin Nash@homunculusdick.bsky.social · 11h agoBig Mad.
Black-crowned night-heron scared the death outta me perched as he was up high, and staring unblinkingly into the middle distance with those ancient carnelian eyes 🪶
the funny thing about people in the western world being angry at sikhs for taking all the trucking jobs is that people in India are also angry with them for taking all the trucking jobs. It's not you. It's what we do. We are the Truck Guys.
no not at all. american politics are a madness rune and michigan politics are worse
An interesting piece out from @democratictheory.bsky.social. One of the things Mamdani’s campaign & admin does that is replicable & good for democracy beyond policy is to broaden opportunities for civic connection & tell increasingly layered stories of peoplehood w/ “the people” being New Yorkers.
Mamdani’s Mending Story: Rescaling Democratic Peoplehood in an Age of Interregnum | Democratic Theory | Cambridge Core
Mamdani’s Mending Story: Rescaling Democratic Peoplehood in an Age of Interregnum
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I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.
Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 14h agoOne way to be safe is to never write an electability take
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
Ramen Weather now. 🍜 Cuddle Weather later. 🥰
essentially every decision AIPAC has made this year they have made not just wrong but maximally wrong
btw if you’re ticked at AIPAC for whatever reason them spending a maximum amount of money to barely lose is ideal, 10/10, just as a pure matter of don’t-know-ball and forward outcome for them as an organization. this cycle has been catastrophic for them purely in terms of inputs and outputs
Did Republicans literally just vote for the white sounding name here?
The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 14h agoSeems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
extra funny to have apparently fled the US for fear of democratic backsliding during the last trump presidency only to return to the US after “fleeing canada”, and to oklahoma of all fucking places in the US, during… another trump presidency