media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment
Jack Letourneau
@jlet.bsky.social
Formerly southeastern MA, now upstate NY. 2½ oz gin, ¾ oz dry vermouth, 2 dashes orange bitters, 6–8 ice cubes. Briskly stir one minute, strain into chilled glass, express and discard lemon twist.
It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.
Consistency has its value, but doing a bad thing consistently is not actually better than being good somewhat inconsistently
F-F-F-F-Free market pricing??? But that would be un-American!
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6d agoYeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.
The reason Zohran scares the shit out of them so much is that they think this sort of technocrat FDR liberalism/market socialism will *work* and be popular, not that it will fail and be unpopular. They're afraid that he will be a good mayor not a bad mayor.
lowtax speedrun enjoyer@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2w agozohran is a completely normal (mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal/whatever) and it’s completely frying the brains of people with too much money or whose livelihoods are built on catering to the opinions of people with too much money
zohran is a completely normal (mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal/whatever) and it’s completely frying the brains of people with too much money or whose livelihoods are built on catering to the opinions of people with too much money
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 2w agoThe wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes
I know this is divisive and unpopular with those all-important centrist white suburban voters, but don't think it makes us safer to spend half our civic budget on a murder gang.
molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 3w agomost murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.
When a politician dies, they weren't your friend, you aren't close to their family, they are not owed your polite fictions or any obligation to not speak ill of them. They were public figures who wielded immense power and their death is as good an occasion as any to say what you think of them.
No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum
The chair of the Maine Democratic Party said on @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social last night that each day that passes where Platner doesn't drop out makes it harder for them to execute a good and fair plan to replace him. What a fucking asshole.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 4w agoAxios is reporting that Platner has said he won't file paperwork to withdraw before Monday, which is the final day he can do so (and four days from now). www.axios.com/2026/07/09/g...
>Everybody use AI or you're fired >Wait stop it's too expensive >Don't use it for menial tasks >Only use it for important work stuff >If you're going to use it for important stuff make sure it's correct >Let me know if you have any questions!
transform your ass out of the senate race please and thank you
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo agoHayes: Are there texts, photos, floating around that will hurt the campaign in October? Are you worried about that? Platner: I'm not worried about it. There may be things out there but they're from before I was public figure and got into politics. My journey is one of transformation.
Massachusetts is about as pure of a distillation of America as you can get. It's where the country started, it's filled with precious national history, it's a paragon of education and civic engagement, it's filled with the loudest and most irritating people alive.
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.
Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · last mo.Kavanaugh says that Constitution is an "enduring document" and that new exceptions to birthright citizenship can be added for "modern situations that were unknown or unanticipated by the Constitution’s Framers"
Jefferies and Schumer making it very clear that they are very much not up to the challenge, as they view the birthright citizenship ruling as a big win rather than an ominous warning of the future
Republicans: we want to kill millions of African children, turn the presidency into a monarchy, and salt the earth with the tears of migrant children. Democrats: hey, let's make sure tweens can't access Instagram.
alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · last mo.Dems' "Project 2029" first major policy proposal: an online child safety plan — narrowing Sec. 230, banning social media for kids under 16, promoting phone-free childhoods and more. Already backed by Cory Booker, Mikie Sherrill, Randi Weingarten + Jonathan Haidt. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America
what if they fought back against republicans instead
Axios@axios.com · last mo."There's going to be a war": Centrist House Democrats plot Mamdani Caucus counterattack
I’m *SO* much more productive when I’m sitting on Zoom calls from a conference room downtown than from my home office.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Some bosses say full-time, in-person work boosts productivity or collaboration. “Our new research reveals that the objection to any work from home is more likely to be driven by something else entirely: ego,” write Adam Grant, Marissa Shandell and Courtney Elliott.
youre not going to believe this but the dumb assholes we put in charge have fucked everything up
Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016
Ten million pounds of sludge from New York and New Jersey (Stadium)
Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
30th–35th Street and 5th–8th Avenue. This is going to be the shit show to end all shit shows.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo agoIncredible headline: No walking allowed in heart of Midtown for Monday's Knicks game