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The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 12h ago

“I’m staying in the race because, thanks to President Trump paving the groundwork, sexual assault and violence against women is widely and openly accepted now, so there’s really no reason to drop out.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 24h ago

TAPPER: Hold on -- hold on, 'cause I'm not done with the list of women who have accused you of violence. Are all three of them lying? REP. MAX MILLER: Yes. And I'm not getting out of the race because in 2016, President Donald J Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world ...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 9h ago

if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law

Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · 23h ago

Reminder that last year a Republican senator speaking on the record (!) admitted in so many words that all of this is playacting -- that GOP leadership "allow[s] [Susan] Collins the flexibility to vote no on some nominees" for electoral reasons. #MEpolitics

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Allison Hantschel@allisonhantschel.com · 2d ago

My favorite thing about being a Democrat is the party having to answer for every single person on the internet's every idiotic word while Republicans aren't held responsible for the actions of their actual no-shit senators and presidents.

Eric Blair@protecttruth.bsky.social · 3d ago

I once had a longtime criminal defense attorney tell me he felt guilty people often said “there’s no way this could have happened because of X, Y and Z,” instead of ”this did not happen because I did not do it.”

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)@kleinman.bsky.social · 3d ago

YOU (a fool): buh we need a salary cap to stop the Dodgers ME (wise, learned): we need the federal investigation into how the Dodgers' owner made a quick fortune in the heavily regulated, low margin insurance business to heat up www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Exclusive | Federal Probe Into Dodgers Owner’s Financial Empire Was Sparked by Whistleblower

Authorities are examining about $16 billion in private-credit deals involving Walter’s insurance companies to determine whether fraud occurred.

wsj.com

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 4d ago

Democrats would be even further ahead if they gave up on “gop lite” with immigration and read some emma lazarus

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d ago

Remarkable: Dems have now pulled even with the GOP *on immigration* in two new national polls. A third finds Trump 22 points underwater on the the issue, and *32 points* underwater among independents. Trump has absolutely destroyed the GOP advantage on immigration. newrepublic.com/article/2138...

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 5d ago

To be making the argument in 2026 that immigration is a Republican leaning issue so Democrats shouldn’t campaign on it, and especially Trump’s overreach on deportations, is to be completely ignorant of the data and events of the last 18 months

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is the problem with the idea that Dems can't go on offense on immigration. It's not okay for Collins to have a clear field on TV to sell herself as a moderate on ICE. CNN has Trump 22 points underwater on this. Two other polls have Ds *tied with the GOP* on it! newrepublic.com/article/2138...

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 5d ago

I also have a very specific contempt for the kinds of people who yell "vote blue no matter who" and then turn around and try to knife the other side of a primary in the back. We're in this together and we have to learn to live with primary outcomes to win.

What upsets me about the conversation around the DSA more than anything is that very little of the concerns and advice seem to be genuine. They often come from someone who doesn’t want to have to adapt to maintain power in the Democratic Party and is arguing that the voters are wrong because they’ll be out of a job if they aren’t, or, worse, a Republican making an attack framed as “good advice.” We don’t need someone whose continued power and influence is tied to maintaining their connections to a Democratic establishment that isn’t reflecting the preferences of voters anymore lying about other Democrats to try to keep their status, we need a Democratic Party that is willing to embrace the big tent, a tent filled with people who are willing to come together to support each other even as we continue to debate and discuss what the best course of action is. The biggest threat to the Democratic Party isn’t a challenge from the left, it’s people who will yell that you must vote blue no matter who when the candidate is to the right side of the tent but will argue that anyone from the left side isn’t a real Democrat, and from people on the left side of the tent who will yell the same about the right side of the tent. In a national politics where the GOP is defined exclusively by whoever can be the most devoted to Donald Trump, we’re all Democrats. I know that politics would be easier if we were like the Republicans and could march in lockstep, but that diversity is our strength, and if we don’t learn how to live with each other and embrace that diversity peacefully, we’re going to fail. That’s a much bigger threat than the biggest city in the country electing some candidates that represent its residents.
Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 5d ago

I'm tired of people who feel threatened by the DSA controlling the discourse about it, because even though I'm not a member, I can recognize that the DSA's good for all of us and for the Democratic Party

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 5d ago

We've gotta make the Monorail Simpsons episode required viewing for every city councilor in the country. Every single thing he says here is a lie. A Potemkin Village Imaginarium.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d ago

Important: Pro-Trump media are losing viewers in droves. "The audience for pro-Trump content has fallen from its heights and, for some creators, has reached new lows," NYT reports today. "Views are dropping for many of Trump’s greatest allies." More evidence we've entered Late-Stage Trumpism:

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d ago

In Late-Stage Trumpism, everything is sinking into cheap, petty malice: *Bill Pulte boasting of nonexistent "deep state" firings *Trump denying aid to blue states *Raging over Reflecting Pool fiasco *Prosecutions of foes imploding *He took over 250th and nobody came newrepublic.com/article/2137...