It’s official: @abdulelsayed.bsky.social wins the Democratic Primary for Senate! The People Prevail Over Corporate Profits Once Again!
if people are just showing up to the polls with their thumb up their asses can we just have some socialists named liberty whiteguy guntruck or something
The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 15h 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.
Perhaps the most breathtakingly racist election result since David Duke won the primary for governor.
The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 15h 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.
I can afford better things *right now*, it’s just that if I lose my job and can’t afford medical bills I will be regretting those purchases. I’d be willing to bet that anxiety borne out of lack of societal safety net drives this more than preference
Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 2d agoLike, you cannot fully understand what the system does and why it works until you understand there is a very real preference among a very real portion of the population—mainly people who CAN afford better things and simply choose not to buy them—for inexpensive things with a known quality deficit
I have no dog in this fight (haven’t seen the movie and don’t really care to), but Stephen King hated Kubrick’s interpretation of The Shining. One can have a different vision of a work without it necessarily being a slight to the source material or other interpretations, especially btwn mediums
Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 21h agoSimply do not understand this new definition of film criticism where your opinion counts less the more you know about the source material.
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
suspiciously green bananas is sadly one of the funniest things i’ve read in awhile
the dude is great at this. can’t wait for the meltdowns tonight
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 23h ago“My guy wants to put a data center in your backyard either to give himself gender-affirming care and make a muscle video, or to portray me as a…hero?" Abdul El-Sayed reacts to Republican Mike Rogers' AI ad showing him, Mamdani, AOC, and Bernie as communists inside a Trojan Horse:
Today's Prospect Patriot is Frances Perkins. She saw the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory go ablaze in 1911 and her life changed. "The New Deal was born that day," she said. 22 years later she'd be America's first female cabinet member. prospect.org/2026/08/04/a...
Frances Perkins: The Architect of Social Security - The American Prospect
In her words, Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet secretary, ‘came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common workingmen.’
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I could beat any high school basketball team on the planet by simply asking them to each place a nintendo switch 2 sized wager on me. It’s sad that women dont have that same hustle.
Sonicscrewdriv4@sonicscrewdriv4.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat sort of delusional BS is this??? www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...
Texas Republicans know this is the year they lose unless they take active measures to suppress the vote. So that's what they're doing.
Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 23h agoLon Burnam, a former state lawmaker representing Tarrant County from 1997 to 2015, was carried out of the room by four sheriff deputies, who held him by his hands and feet: fortworthreport.org/2026/08/04/t...
less disrespectful than most of the media produced about 9/11 tbh
CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 24h agoOh my god I think I found the video.
if you are gonna come in my replies to wild out, don’t just make up positions for me to have so that you can rage. I have plenty of bad opinions you can criticize fairly. We could have an actual conversation. Imagine that
J.D.@hillsider.bsky.social · 2d agothere are actual problems that RFK speaks to so yeah I don’t see why it’s a problem to try and address those while simultaneously showing he’s a grifter. Even progressives are going to have to try and pick up some misinformed constituencies and not just say fuck off to everyone who falls for a con
there are actual problems that RFK speaks to so yeah I don’t see why it’s a problem to try and address those while simultaneously showing he’s a grifter. Even progressives are going to have to try and pick up some misinformed constituencies and not just say fuck off to everyone who falls for a con
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d agoThere is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.
Adobe is so cool. I’ve always wanted to listen to a 12 minute podcast deep dive about my AT&T bill, and now I can. The future is here
Leaked memo shows Republicans privately see Francesca Hong as "uniquely dangerous" in the general election & that “more moderate and establishment Democratic alternatives would likely produce lower base motivation and depressed turnout": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/will-franc...
Will Francesca Hong and Abdul El-Sayed Get Elected?
Washington's plan to block them
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They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...
Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November
County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.
fortworthreport.org
Only took a week or two for the right to move from “protecting women’s sports” to “no need for women’s sports, actually” post-BPJ. You might view this as a betrayal to the girls they were supposedly protecting, but the real betrayal is to their most loyal soldiers: volunteer child genital inspectors
Heritage Foundation now targeting women's sports after SCOTUS' anti-trans sports ruling - LGBTQ Nation
Project 2025's architects say that Title IX and women's sports harm men's sports and "feminine graces."
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Cant reply but: if politicians are ok with shooting babies overseas, even a selfish person has to wonder if that politician actually has anyone’s back. Yeah, those babies are brown and far away, but that’s not leagues more abstract than the average voter is to the average corporate politician
MuchMore2Learn@muchmore2learn.bsky.social · 4d agoIMO the civilian death toll in Gaza is horrifying & settler violence in the West Bank inexcusable. I also think the Palestinians have been intransigent & unrealistic for too long, that the PA is corrupt and Hamas are terrorists. What bothers me is the excessive salience of the issue (to some).
meanwhile your government is blaming democrats. it's pretty incredible! muslamic hordes of persians are finally doing the right wing fever dream of attacking on US soil and the reactionary zionists in charge are blaming tim walz or whatever. wild stuff
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d agoBreaking News: Water supplies in at least seven U.S. states were targeted by cyberattacks that officials say appear to be the work of Iran.
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
Democratic Socialists’ bus benches remain, city mum on next steps | Port City Daily
WILMINGTON — The handmade bus benches installed by the Wilmington Democratic Socialists of America have highlighted a problem nearly everyone agrees exists: most Wave bus stops have nowhere for riders...
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I’ve come around. The John brown thing is actually a really funny bit
John Brown stan account@johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 5d agoIf you think you're likely to shoot a cop in the neck with your rifle if you show up armed to a protest, that's further argument for not showing up armed to protests.
I spend an unhealthy amount time thinking about the local News story following the 2022 farm bill that was essentially: gas stations still sell people THC or CBD that’s legal federally but very recently outlawed by state government…
J.D.@hillsider.bsky.social · 5d ago“Find out what will still be legal” is actually Texas’s motto
“Find out what will still be legal” is actually Texas’s motto
Texas Tribune@texastribune.org · 6d agoTexas is banning several THC products on July 31. Find out what will still be legal. bit.ly/4hA9h08
This is a bad piece. 1. It uncritically makes use of prosecution materials to piece together what activists thought and did 2. It whitewashes resistance in Minn, Chicago, and elsewhere 3. It betrays ignorance of movement history, from abolitionism through the panthers through M4BL
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 5d ago"Their actions ensured that they struggled to achieve sympathetic media coverage outside of a few left-wing outlets, struggled to attract material or legal support (the ACLU, for instance, refused to touch the case), and failed to achieve positive virality in the larger culture."