Man it's so funny when James Carville threatens to leave the Democratic party, like oh no, now the party might have candidates who are actually popular with their constituents and have popular policy positions and win elections what are we going to do noooo don't

So the price of challenging surveillance becomes disclosing the very associations you say were surveilled. Finally, a good reason to call something Kafkaesque.

maddy varner@regret.bsky.social · 8h ago

BIZARRE: Earlier this year, the Trump administration was sued for violating protesters' First Amendment rights in Maine. Now, they're trying to use that lawsuit to obtain Signal group chats that the protesters were in, which attorneys say is itself a 1A violation. www.wired.com/story/dhs-wa...

Yeah, this is only for actuaries and insurance companies to bet on

Matthew Facciani@matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 8h ago

"cancer and Alzheimer’s patients are praying that these treatments will succeed. But Kalshi is about to permit outside speculators to place ghastly bets that they won’t." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

(regular voter voice) Well ah I don't really know about Israel and all that but it sounds like this group wants to help Trump keep the Senate and enable his ongoing crime spree and I'm against that

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 14h ago

AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

This just-released Canada Heritage survey is a stunning piece of anti-Palestinian propaganda weaponized vs. critics of the genocide at universities. It is a reprisal against the encampment movement. Look at the evidence of ‘antisemitism’: a prof calling Israel a Zionist project—as it attests to be.

Still true btw for those who have an odd and totally not racist obsession with bringing up Dearborn or Uncommitted every day

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 4w ago

Do centrist Dems realize that the incentive structure they're establishing by admonishing one of the few major Arab American figures who unequivocally endorsed Harris despite nothing being conceded on Gaza? The lesson for those Arabs will be to uh, not do that again.

maybe they're right but there really isn't any reason to believe that "moderates" - as defined by DC conventional wisdom - have an advantage in these places. And if lefty candidates do win they'll chalk it up to a "wave" - correctly, somewhat, but when moderates win in waves they are geniuses

Tim@lodgepolepines.bsky.social · 22h ago

president of Center for American Progress btw

there was probably a world where republicans and centrists could credibly make a reasonably compelling case that AOC is too much of a lightweight and lacks the necessary seriousness and credibility to run for president but. lol. lmao

ive been putting up with some version of this talking point for my entire life. barely even notice it anymore. imagine if i said this about jews though. there will never be peace in the middle east until jews shed their genetic propensity for violence against mohammedeans. imagine anyone saying that

It is very funny to see the President of Syria go on Al Jazeera and talk about how he was a 20 year old who moved to Baghdad and attended a foreign fighter training camp in 2002 with the anticipation of killing American soldiers

A lot of people are going to try and insist in about six hours that being outspent by tens of millions of dollars and winning by five to possibly fifteen points is actually not that big of a deal

The Ken Jennings thing was distilled proof of “I’m your biggest ally until you make me feel bad for the thing I like doing and then I stop listening.” This is so common. People will stand up for a marginalized community UP UNTIL it puts them in an uncomfortable position

kind of wild that none of the people who othered abdul's supporters as foaming at the mouth DSAers who've never talked to a black person, etc, will ever reevaluate just how large a portion of the primary electorate they were smearing

some of us took the implicit premise of "vote blue no matter who," that after the primary majorities and margins are more important than intra-partisan factional disputes, pretty seriously and it increasingly looks like that group did not include a lot of the people yelling "vote blue no matter who"

Whenever someone like Noah talks about a left wing candidate's crazy proposals I go and look at their campaign website it's like "give kids meals at school" and "provide healthcare to residents with a proven model used in other states" and "fund our schools"

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · yesterday

voting republican to pwn leftists on twitter

I think on the whole it’s totally fine in principle to urge people to be cautious in how they talk about AIPAC et al but some people really do need to get it thru to themselves that it is actually exceptional for one organization to spend >30M on a single primary like it’s nothing.

The NAACP has released a statement while the Tarrant County Commissioners Court considers a proposal today that would cut the number of Election Day polling locations nearly in half "Let's call this what it is… voter suppression"

WE HAVE REAL CAMPS YOU CAN BE OUTRAGED ABOUT

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 2d ago

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity

How much of Graham Platner’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war?

newyorker.com

this is a fascinating story, in that someone in the DC office did exactly what a professional is supposed to. go to the court and affirmatively say: we never should have brought this case, it is based on lies from the executive branch, we are dismissing it immediately. and like: how did this happen?

i am absolutely dying for the story of how that brief got filed. "hey uh. im just gonna mosey on down to the courthouse and withdraw this sham case that the president has been lying his ass off about and is also one of two things he seems to actually care about" -- how on earth

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

i'd say "pay attention to who has kind things to say about rod liddle, the racist pedophile, following his death" but to no surprise it is the entirety of the mainstream british press

Anyway this is why both Nilay Patel and Toni Schneider start from the premise that the current user base for the app their discussing is obviously undesirable, it is taken as a given that anyone willing to use terms like “social justice” are obviously somehow maladjusted drapetomaniacs.

Nuclear question mark

My advice as a lawyer on this is really simple: If a referendum mandates one of three things, it's going to be the one you hate the most, because the other two are there to trick you into voting for the referendum. Genetic screening and testosterone level tests cost money. Telling someone to grope

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

that's what i mean. he knows that the number is a lie used to say things that upset dem grandees. that there's a true number doesn't matter because he could not give a single shit about anyone they've killed

how many people who smugly tell everyone how it is in the real world actually have absolutely no idea and ultimately no interest in what is going at all? what does he think the real number is? 5 thousand? 30? the answer is it's never occurred to him that there is a number because it doesn't matter