Jeremy Venook
@jvenook.bsky.social
Lifelong theatre kid and SF sports fan. Proud Biden/Harris alum. Competitive crossword solver and constructor. Currently: NYU Law. He/him/his
This gives voters too much credit, I think.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 5h agoa reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans
We’re currently seeing this with the Supreme Court—for 20 years, Republicans were fuming because they had a one-vote majority, so one justice balking for some idiosyncratic reason was enough to hold things up. At 6-3, if one of Roberts/Barrett/Gorsuch dissents, they can get almost whatever they want
Micah@rincewind.run · 11h agosome specific democrats suck and they suck in ways that are detrimental to issues that you personally care about you know how you solve that once we are past the primaries? you elect even more democrats so that their votes are less important joe manchin couldn’t have done as much damage as vote 52
i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten
A big part of the fantasy on QAnon boards is that when The Storm comes, they’ll all be local heroes explaining events to their befuddled peers thanks to the many hours they’ve invested huffing gibberish.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · yesterdayI think “I am the protagonist of life” is the main psychological appeal of this kind of conspiracism. You risked nothing, you did nothing, and other real people are suffering the things you’re pretending to think are bad, but in the end you’re the great hero for surviving your imagination.
Sincere question: Is the problem not the polls, but the fact that they are ever-more central to political discourse in a way that implies certainty, even as they keep “missing”? Like, did people just not talk about polls so much in the past, such that nobody expected them to be spot-on accurate?
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 15h agoWhat is truly "shocking" about the polling miss in Michigan is that it is completely average for a primary "The expected error on the margin between two primary candidates in a race for governor or U.S. Senate is a whopping 13.0 points." blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/2026-texas...
i really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office
A good rule of thumb is to not make decisive statements about the ramifications of the results of an election until you actually know the results of that election
If a person has enough money that they can make headlines for threatening to leave a city, they have already a) accepted that their tax burden will be higher than it would be elsewhere, and b) made financial arrangements to minimize how much of that burden they’ll actually feel
Mike Masnick@masnick.com · yesterdayToday in least shocking news ever. Of course Griffin was never leaving NYC. www.curbed.com/article/ken-...
It’s pundit’s fallacy all the way down: The best way for a politician to win is to adopt my exact policy beliefs and aesthetic preference!
Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · yesterdayThere is a thing I've noticed here where people conflate "I don't personally like this candidate" with "this candidate will definitely lose whereas my preferred candidate will definitely win!"
On top of everything else it sure seems like the Republican Party is chock-full of people who have scrambled their brains watching too much pornography
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d agoEarlier tonight, @michellegoldberg.bsky.social read *another* quote from this weirdo that reflected the same general sentiment. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
For my entire life, pundits have criticized Democrats for being mean or condescending toward non-city dwellers, but the absolute worst examples absolutely pale in comparison to the way the average Republican vilifies big cities, which is somehow not discussed as a party-defining failing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
I will never get used to a president talking about his own country’s biggest cities this way
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
when people say "do your own research" they generally mean "do not trust anyone with any relevant training or experience"
Marc Veldhoen@marcveld.bsky.social · 3d agoI'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.
every single major corporation, business, sports league etc needs to have a plan in place for being brigaded by the conservative podcaster grifting complex
Todd Blanche dropping any “assurances” about Trump’s criminal slush fund shortly after he’s confirmed is a very easy prediction. Incredibly obvious stuff, based on repeated patterns. The only question is if Senators Cornyn and Tillis choose to fall for it. Entirely a choice.
Also the Republicans were screaming that Fauci helped authorize vaccines for children, which is something every goddamn parent I know was praying for every day for more than a year and have been thankful for ever since. These people are all self-centered idiotic sociopaths, nothing more.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d agoif you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid
Also worth noting that most of the damage, not only to children but to society generally, was downstream of the massive mismanagement of the early months, all in the name of Trump’s belief that COVID was no big deal. An even minimally competent response would’ve mitigated just about all that damage.
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d agoMy take on COVID "lockdowns" (really, state and local decisions in the face of a killer plague) is that yes they were bad for children and this is an additional reason why it was morally repugnant when huge segments of the population refused to help with social distancing. Shame on you all.
I am firmly anti-salary cap but I do support the league banning the Dodgers specifically
In lieu of a consistent stage-to-screen adaptation pipeline—although we have been getting those at a decent rate lately—I would love for it to become the norm that Broadway shows all get a good proshot that’s decently accessible, even if just for archival purposes
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 3d agoThat said, don't overlook a much smaller but significant box-office phenomenon: The proshot of Hadestown grossing $18 million--more than Hamilton made--feels like a very clear and positive statement about the viability of these straight-from-the-stage special events. Expect more.
I have a question @peterbakernyt.bsky.social: where *exactly* has Trump played a weak hand strong? I’ll grant that he’s been able to cow most of the congressional GOP. Even there, however, he has weakened his grip on the Senate through the way he’s played his hand. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
One struggled to have sympathy for people who so obviously failed to grasp the fundamental nature of Trump.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d agoTrump “came up with a completely false quote saying I acknowledged things I never said. “My god." — Brad Karp, then the chairman of the law firm 2/2
Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
Obviously the Biden administration’s messaging strategy on inflation didn’t end up working but can you imagine if he had sent out someone to say “prices aren’t rising if you just stop buying expensive stuff”
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 6d agoRFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. ... You can buy liver"
Trying to think if I’ve ever read a book with as clear of contempt for its first-person narrator as “Yesteryear”
So basically an adversary could attack any blue state and Trump wont care because he doesn't see himself as the President of the "United States" Without a doubt the most worst president we've ever had. Anti-republic, anti-democratic, anti-constitutional just devoid of basic dignity
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
It's generally accepted on here that transphobia is a big, flashing warning light about someone who's about to go down a right wing rabbit hole, and I think after this week we should probably consider "still mad about Dr. Fauci" in a similar way
Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 6d agowhat
Once again I'll reiterate that the way AIPAC has been transformed into this creeping villain behind every unwanted election result is feeding a resurgence of antisemitism, and that goes triple if the winner is Jewish and was opposed by AIPAC. Please please think about your words here!
