The case for Ken Martin. ”The investments @kenmartin.bsky.social has made have left states much better prepared to organize for elections and win them...flipping 30 legislative seats in special elections.” If you read one article this wknd make it this. It’s that important. 🔥

Dante Atkins@danteatkins.bsky.social · 5d ago

Very important piece by @davidoatkins.bsky.social at Washington Monthly: the DNC is actually doing just fine and raising record money, and the hit pieces are a product of a tier of useless DC consultants who don't want their media buy gravy train to end. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/31/t...

WISCONSIN: “We’ve been told doing better isn’t possible. That’s bullshit. All we need to do is fight together.” 💪🏽 @francescahongwi.bsky.social

As I and many others predicted, Seattle's conservative establishment is going after its young new progressive female mayor with all guns blazing. It is quite disgusting to watch.

Robert Cruickshank@robertcruickshank.com · 4d ago

Danny Westneat joins the Seattle Times in full scale war against Mayor Katie Wilson, which is no surprise but another example of the Brandi Kruse-ification of local establishment media. They've gone from providing independent reporting and analysis to using their perches for a partisan agenda.

Katie Wilson is getting shit done. - Free school meals for all kids - Tiny home villages to get people off the streets - Major transit improvements - Collaboration with the Seattle Social Housing Developer The Seattle Times and Council President Joy Hollingsworth are looking to kneecap her.

Tired: sewer socialism Wired: server socialism (Although it does seem like he's also doing the first thing. And halal plate socialism.)

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

New w @pamherd.bsky.social: Mamdani just announced PIT Crew — an NYC tech unit that will build digital public products. Takeaway: Mamdani is reclaiming a vision of tech in govt for progressives, one not driven by consultants and which solves real problems. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...

"Centering class, focusing on bread-and-butter policies, and delivering tangible changes in the daily lives of working people is the way forward for the left. We need to show that it is socialists — not fascists — who are delivering for working people." tribunemag.co.uk/2026/07/rise...

Rise of the Danish Left

Tribune’s Grace Blakeley speaks to Pelle Dragsted, spokesperson for Denmark’s Red-Green Alliance, about building socialist power in the 2020s.

tribunemag.co.uk

Hard to overstate how much of a threat leaders and public officials who actually govern and serve the people pose to those whose political careers depend on fomenting cynicism and delegitimizing democracy

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 5d ago

Now this is the kind of trash talk we can get behind. We’re containerizing neighborhoods by taking trash off our sidewalks and allowing mid-size buildings to trade in their wheelie bins for a bigger, better, cleaner alternative: Empire Bins. It’s time to put a lid on it, New York.

Bye James Carville. Folks, the old guard will burn it all down to stay in power. Corporate tools will sabotage as many races as they can. They realize this is their last stand.

Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 3d ago

"I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker ... if he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I am out of here," James Carville says on Fox this morning. Reminder: The Left Insurgency airs tonight on CNN at 8p ET.

“Republicans have been trying for five years to rewrite the history of Donald Trump’s two biggest moral crimes. One was his violent attempt to overturn the 2020 election. The other was his deadly mismanagement of COVID.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Here Are the Republicans’ Biggest Lies From Their Fauci Show Trial

In their retelling of the COVID story, the doctor was the bad guy, the vaccines were deadly, and Trump did everything right.

open.substack.com

"what Trump and his supporters hate most of all is reality. They know what they want to believe. They fly into paroxysms of rage whenever someone points out that the world isn’t what they want it to be." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reality-is...

Reality is a Communist Plot

Of MAGA and the totalitarian mindset

paulkrugman.substack.com

Republicans want to rewrite the history of COVID just like they want to rewrite the history of January 6th and the ongoing reality of climate change. They refuse to accept that they or their ideas could be the villain of the story. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Anthony Fauci’s high-profile Senate hearing: what we learned

Six years on from Covid crisis, Republicans still politicizing science – and Fauci remains a political punching bag

theguardian.com

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

nytimes.com

man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Dr. Fauci is a hero. He really is. He helped guide America thru a mass death event. Millions more could have died but they did not, thanks to him. Everyone over 70 owes him a debt. It is disgusting that we live in a country that not only dishonors him but actively smears his good name.

Republican members of Congress—all of whom have sworn loyalty to a man, Trump, who scientific journals confirm caused at least 400,000 needless deaths during the pandemic—are today calling for prison for a man who *saved* millions of lives in the same period. A *disgusting* day.

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

Jamelle asks the question that, in retrospect, is the obvious and pressing one: why do we tolerate this? And it’s clearly not because we need his cars or even his rockets, which makes any plausible answer all the more disturbing.

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · last wk.

"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

When Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids

In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.

newrepublic.com

Sometimes I think about how the tech bros could go down in history as beloved heroes by doing epic stuff like ending world hunger, but they never will because this kind of fulfillment and joy is unavailable to someone who destroyed their own capacity for empathy.

gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Being able to help someone even a tiny bit is like helium. It’s joyous and light and nearly narcotic and I think if I were a millionaire I could feel that feeling all the time. Money is wasted on the rich.

Brett's identification of the "We Can Have Nice Things" party makes a potent point about what the Democratic coalition has forgotten in its decades long defensive crouch.

Brett Hamil@bretthamil.bsky.social · 2w ago

Seattle is essentially a deep blue one-party town, so our political poles have mutated in an interesting way. We now have 2 parties: The "Cities Are Good, Actually, and We Can Have Nice Things" Party and the "Cities Are Bad, Actually and We Can't Afford Nice Things (Unless It's for the Cops)" Party

My new piece - a glass-half-full interpretation of our moment: The Right is freaking out because they know we could be on the brink of proving that egalitarian, pluralistic democracy is possible. We are confronted with a world-historic chance:

A World-Historic Chance

The Right is freaking out because we could be on the brink of proving that egalitarian, pluralistic democracy is possible. A glass-half-full interpretation of our moment.

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THE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.

AOC: Is the answer to our problems to turn to the same playbook over and over again? A playbook that says, in order to win, Democrats must rely on the same dark money—$50 million and counting—from the same people who backed 35 election deniers to Congress who voted to overturn the 2020 election.

we went to the fucking moon, Milton

Cato Institute@cato.org · 3w ago

"The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus." — Milton Friedman. They were driven by individual liberty and free markets. And they always will be.

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social in MEMPHIS for @justinjpearson.bsky.social

Here's how I know Dems still don't appreciate the situation America is in and what MAGAs are capable of: the Governor of Kentucky should weeks ago have marched to the place Mitch McConnell's staff says he's in and then—if he didn't find him there—appointed a Democrat to his seat.

“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”

Actually read through the documents Trump released last night and they show basically the opposite of what he claimed. It shows that Russia aggressively sought to interfere on behalf of Trump in 2020. China explored it but thought the backlash would be too much and stayed out.

Techdirt@techdirt.com · 3w ago

The Documents Trump Declassified To Blame China For The 2020 Election… Actually Show Russia Was The One Meddling For Him You might have… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/17/the-documents-trump-declassified-to-blame-china-for-the-2020-election-actually-show-russia-was-the-one-meddling-for-him/