One of the grifts of corporate America (via their corporate/billionaire rags like The Atlantic) is convincing voters that the Dem Party is center-left on econ when center-right New Dems & Third Way Dems moved the party rightward and away from center-left New Deal econ. It helped usher in fascism.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · yesterday

Abdul El-Sayed’s win in Michigan is a blow to center-left Democrats—“and more will come unless they quickly absorb bracing lessons from this debacle,” @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues:

when i say i hate reddit atheism this is what i am referring to. islamophobia is so baked into both political parties in this country it's disgusting. @altnoaa.bsky.social is just a bigot pretending that this is a principled stance

New Atheism, with its finger pointing at all the problems of religion, has failed to investigate its own lack of principles and its valueless perspectives of the world. It’s a marble pedestal for scientific racism, bigotry, and sexism. It’s a cynical & empty materialism devoid of possibility.

samantha@commiesamantha.bsky.social · 5h ago

when i say i hate reddit atheism this is what i am referring to. islamophobia is so baked into both political parties in this country it's disgusting. @altnoaa.bsky.social is just a bigot pretending that this is a principled stance

News Media does not serve the people. It serves power. Right now, that power is concentrated among those who benefit from fossil fuel profits.

Dave Jones@cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 9h ago

Lies. It's 200 times when solar panels are "mentioned" in the fire report. e.g. “the fire did not reach the solar panel”

For my newsletter, I spelled out once simple trick for the WNBA to shut down that transphobic publicity stunt by two former NBA players: www.burnsnotice.com/heres-how-th...

Here's How the WNBA Can Win the Anti-Trans Controversy

The league has a golden opportunity to make a definitive and educational point about trans athletes–if it has the courage to do it

burnsnotice.com

I really wish people would stop calling centrists the “center-left”. New Democrats, Third Way, Blue Dems all have center-right economics. They pulled the party rightward from FDR’s center-left economics. Progressives are center-left. The hard left is communism. We’re living under a hard right govt.

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 3h ago

Incredible that the center-left habitually chides progressives for forgetting the "ancient wisdom" of politics and then watches as they're beaten by the most basic organizing: campaigning in public, finding volunteers, canvassing. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...

Well this is terrifying. Good for him for fighting back…again.

Christine Langhoff@clanghoff.bsky.social · 15h ago

www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

It’s a racket. It truly is. We’re paying insurance just to pay for our own medical care. It should be called catastrophic insurance, but even that isn’t always true because insured people still go bankrupt due to health care bills for major surgery and care.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · yesterday

i love paying $600/mo to my health insurance company for the right to pay the first $3500 of my health care expenses every year.

BHATTACHARYA is an egotistical crybaby who has no interest in restoring faith in public health. He’s in his current role because his ego was hurt. He’s clearly anti public health. Why do people like him even get into medicine if they think doing nothing & letting people die is the “natural” course?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

This is not going well for Bhattacharya 😬 BHATTACHARYA: Talk about misinformation: the decisions during the pandemic led to many people losing faith in public health BRENNAN: Trump admin officials BHATTACHARYA: No. I mean Biden. BRENNAN: The pandemic began during the Trump administration

Clinton saying the GOP “anti-communist” attack will be very effective is part of the “anti-communist” attack. Her husband helped dismantle the New Deal (closest thing we had to social democracy) and she ran on keeping it dismantled.

Bill Corbett@billcorbett.bsky.social · yesterday

The absolute best way to keep the fascists strong is to run in terror from the lazy, completely predictable shit they say instead of mocking them then punching back 10x harder. nypost.com/2026/08/07/m...

This guy has seen the polls on Israel, yet he would rather pretend that identifying shapes on a map is a prerequisite for caring about the child slaughter and mass destruction we all saw in the videos. Most likely, he’s projecting his own lack of humanity & empathy. He simply doesn’t care.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d ago

Toxic only to the leftists who would have refused to vote for her anyway. You can say that's bad, but most people can't find Gaza on a map.

This really is no different than what Tom Nichols is doing today.

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 3d ago

Replace Muslim with most any other minority community and it would warrant expulsion or at least censure But this vile dehumanizing hate targeted at Americans who are Muslim is accepted as legitimate political discourse and no one blinks

I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)

Dumb people buying dumb cars from a dumb man and using them dumbly

Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d ago

Turns out Kyle Shanahan’s serious car accident was a Tesla autopilot crash.

The never-Trump Republicans like it this way. That’s why they’re on Bluesky right now trying to scare Dems out of voting for the candidates who will fix extreme wealth inequality. The economy is only working for the top 10%. That’s what centrists & conservatives spent the last 40 years implementing.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2d ago

The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again: the stock market is not the economy.

Excuse me while I sit in silence processing the idea that the mayor of New York was nine years old on 9/11/2001.

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

Mamdani was nine years old on that day by the way. There is no other explanation but this.

Staff writer at the Atlantic asking for clicks on an Atlantic piece specifically designed to help tank a candidate who threatens corporate power, all couched in Islamophobia.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d ago

I invite people to read the article (gifted) and decide if it's a hit piece. Neither of the writers are conservatives or ever were; they're reporters.

Seriously, Nichols is no better than the far right Republicans in Texas fomenting irrational fear over Sharia law.

j-kindz.bsky.social@j-kindz.bsky.social · 2d ago

I mean, I guess he’s a bad candidate if you’re a racist bigot. The Atlantic writes a hit piece and then the usual suspects point to it like it’s a real problem for the Dems. These are all people who don’t want certain Dems to win. They actively make it a “problem” on purpose.

I mean, I guess he’s a bad candidate if you’re a racist bigot. The Atlantic writes a hit piece and then the usual suspects point to it like it’s a real problem for the Dems. These are all people who don’t want certain Dems to win. They actively make it a “problem” on purpose.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4d ago

I don't have advice for AES. I think it was a mistake to nominate him, and I hope I'm wrong. But the general view I have for Dems is - prioritize races you're more likely to win - don't let the fallout from AES hurt other candidates And by fallout, I mean: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

They had contracted Blue Angels for 43 years; 43 years The owner says she never received a personal notice that Hegseth was canceling her or any reminder that her contract renewal was coming up This is how the Trump administration treats people, especially Black people

Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)@portlandken.bsky.social · 3d ago

Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!

Mamdani was nine years old on that day by the way. There is no other explanation but this.

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2d ago

the argument against Mamdani attending the 9/11 anniversary, as far as I can tell, is literally just that he’s Muslim, and reposting it is just reporting rank racism

An actual Dem candidate saying this out loud in front of the public? Finally. This is gonna piss off corporate (centrist) Dems. They don’t like the public to know this was intentional and accepted by politicians in both parties.

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 5d ago

James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.

Lie. Biden definitely wasn't "maxxing out" on "illegal immigration." Immigration activists denounced his policy as too draconian, and Dems tried to pass a hawkish immigration bill. Similar point re: Starmer. NYT thinks the op-ed page is for publishing lies, at least if the lies are right-wing. 6/x

This by CNN is genuinely reprehensible. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. -The 'new pain' case vs Mamdani is *solely* his religion. -He was in NYC on 9/11, at grade school -Soon after attack GWB himself gave famous speech warning against blaming all Muslims for terrorism -25 yrs later, this.

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

Twenty-five years after the mayor of New York City became the champion of America's grief and resilience at the time of the 9/11 attacks, families of those killed are split on whether the current mayor should attend the annual remembrance. https://cnn.it/4zkKYdc

This is one of the most catastrophic developments imaginable for US media and the country. I don’t even have the words for it.

Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership

The move sets the stage for more corporate consolidation in the media industry.

nbcnews.com

Rahawa Haile@rahawahaile.bsky.social · 3y ago

A fun fact about me is that I have a degree in telecommunication and will die on the hill that media—all of it—has never recovered from the deregulation and consolidation made possible by the Telecom Act of 1996. Don’t get me started on what it did to minority-owned radio and TV stations.

holy moly the comments on this about dealerships

The Verge@theverge.com · 4d ago

Fathom translates as “six feet deep,” which is probably where Ford would like to bury the Slate Truck. www.theverge.com/transportati...

CNN hires and protects liars like Scott Jennings because their business model is to manipulate. It’s a Machiavellian propaganda enterprise. It’s not news.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 4d ago

CNN had Abdul El Sayed on last. night and asked him five questions in a row about Israel and zero on healthcare, affordability, housing, or local Michigan politics.

CNN had Abdul El Sayed on last. night and asked him five questions in a row about Israel and zero on healthcare, affordability, housing, or local Michigan politics.

In Bari Weiss' Free Press, Olivia Reingold reported from El-Sayed's watch party that "there were keffiyehs as far as the eye could see ... keffiyehs on heads, keffiyehs as belts, keffiyeh-printed phone cases." Not a single one made it into images from Reuters, a local ABC station, or Detroit News.