Trump saw the disconnect between the Republican voter base and the Republican funding base, drove a wedge, took over the party, and then the Presidency. Democrats need to do something similar.
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@jonnybutter.bsky.social
Here for interesting people and visual art. Learning to love linguistics. Music + philosophy background. I try to avoid US political stuff, but it's so hard. It's my country but also everyone's empire, so...un espectáculo catastrófico. Se habla español
"..Slotkin, who believes she's running for president"✌🏻
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 16h agoElissa Slotkin, who believes she's running for president, endorsed and did straight-to-camera ads for Maasdam. Woeful underperformance from him here.
Ice is spending millions on outside agencies to sweep up Americans who criticize it on social media in a far-reaching dragnet that infringes free speech. “As far as I can tell, all of this is about people saying naughty things about ICE and immigration enforcement." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics
The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
wsj.com
Dance like you thought the zoom meeting had ended. Sing like you didn’t realise there was someone right behind you at the cashpoint. Love like you assumed you’d run out of biscuits then found a whole packet of plain chocolate digestives in the cupboard. Live like a giant bee.
Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right
The great Harry Crews used to say something like "Some people say they've never met a hero, but I meet 4 or 5 every day."
This is something defense attorneys deal with in a daily basis. Prosecutors charge shit cases all the time and clients get arrested and held in custody. Even a short stay in jail can destroy a person's life, but the system is entirely indifferent to that. Then, six months later, they drop charges.
Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 4d agoI worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.
By the end of the 2026 elections, @haleyformi.bsky.social will likely be the largest recipient of pro-Israel money ever, topping Joe Biden's $4.2M career mark. Through 2024, she took $946K in pro-Israel cash, 13th most in the House. By mid-April 2026, Stevens was already up to $3.3M.
Buddy this is a weird world and if you’re banning everything someone finds “sexually gratifying” you’re eventually just shutting down YouTube
Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d agoa bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...
Doesn't look all that horizontially projectile tbh
Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · 5d agothis is my new favorite diagram
Patti Smith’s meeting with the Pope is an extraordinary event. Just imagine: a holy figurehead, venerated religiously by millions, finds time to talk with a pope.
I can tell the bond folks the exact date Kevin Warsh will start advocating for major rate hikes to tame inflation: January 20, 2029
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 5d ago"it’s clear that the bond market reaction wasn’t a judgment on the rate decision itself. It was, instead, a judgment on Warsh." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-bond-m...
The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.
The “it’s a social construct” people don’t like it when I explain how science is a social construct
FBI explores novel depths of stupidity
Hari Kunzru@harikunzru.bsky.social · 6d ago“anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity;…extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views." If some bad faith MAGA cop could characterize you in this way you are at risk reason.com/2026/07/28/m...
Take control of the metaphors and you take control of the system. Unfortunately, the metaphors that have organized a successful build out for this industry motivate further displacement of agency. The story demands an independent, rational agent emerges, so that what everyone thinks to build.