Rare credit where it’s due. This is the correct headline.
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The topline from Abdul El-Sayed’s win is that his platform for change still managed to win despite grotesque levels of outside campaign spending and a racist smear campaign to paint him as un-American. The grassroots desire to upset the status quo is that powerful.
Occurring to me that AIPAC has $30m less to spend on conservatives in general elections than they would have.
this name shit would be the perfect time for obama and/or mamdani to do a hit for el-sayed. "we've heard a lot of people attacking dr el-sayed over his name. well, for eight years they called me PRESIDENT hussein obama. and i'm MAYOR mamdani. so maybe its time for SENATOR el-sayed."
Abdul El-Sayed’s win represents a big blow to the politics of bygone days. Because if one campaign can show that *that* much money and *that* much old guard support doesn’t guarantee victory, it cracks open what can be imagined. It widens the aperture of what’s possible.
Will This Be AIPAC’s Biggest Defeat – Ever?
Prem was on hand in Michigan to witness the nail-biter between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, which appears to have gone down as an astonishing failure for AIPAC.
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BREAKING: Donavan McKinney has defeated incumbent Shri Thanedar in the MI-13 Democratic Primary! McKinney is an unapologetic progressive while Thanedar is a pro AIPAC pro genocide corporate puppet. A huge win for working people in MI!
Three years ago, the Biden White House attacked me for saying "Democrats should be fighting on every possible front — filing a flurry of lawsuits and exerting public pressure through the media." "The president's team wants to be more selective in picking legal fights." I feel sadly vindicated.
NEWS — Haley Stevens has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan U.S. Senate race against Republican Mike Rogers.
The Mentour Pilot YT channel is absolutely amazing on this stuff, way better than professionally produced documentaries. And the answer is yes, but still all kinds of things can go wrong.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 7h agobit confused about the GPS jammer crash stuff- like aren't pilots trained to fly through instrument loss? Never done lessons but I know people who do fly and I feel like I remember them talking about how there are requirements for this to get licensed
Recently read a skeet on here that was like "It's theorized men are more vulnerable to LLMs/chatbots because women are more thoroughly socially conditioned to be instantly suspicious of fawning, complimentary, compliant attention," and. Thinkin' about that, tonight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtvI...
The Hank Green Situation is Weird and Sad
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“So… you’ve been absent for 52 days, missed 47 roll call votes, and no one knows if you’re still alive?”
As I said yesterday: the vast majority of voters have no need to play pundit, back candidates you like and who you think will do the best job. Stop doing consultant cosplay, cause even they mostly suck at their jobs.
Waking up to Sharia Law in NYC is crazy. Knicks won, crime is down, 2,000 toddlers are going to school for free, parents got “date night” with nyc babysitters, they’re building housing on city land, small businesses are saving money and selling ice cream. Its sunny out i should go get one.
Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.
When I started my political science grad program in 2003 people were freaking out because survey response rates had fallen below 30% and now they’re well below 1%. It might be as accurate (and more intellectually honest) to just conduct simulations with high/low/average turnout scenarios.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h agoThere’s no actual alternative to polling but I just don’t believe they capture public sentiment in any reliable way anymore
You could say Abdul El-Sayed won despite $64 million being spent against him… one may also wonder if he won *because* of it
Quite an upset in the #KSGov Dem primary. State Sen. Cindy Holscher, who came out against data centers and the Kansas City Chiefs stadium deal, has defeated state Sen. Ethan Corson, who had a big financial edge and an endorsement from term-limited Gov. Laura Kelly.
get so used to hearing this place called a weird bubble that when you encounter the mind of someone who actually lives in one, it is genuinely startling
Cuddles_the_destroyer@cuddlessmash.bsky.social · 18h agowhat the fuck am I reading lmao
It's weird living in the "just because someone is a nazi doesn't mean they're antisemitic, maybe YOU'RE antisemitic for pointing it out" era.
Michigan: This is the way. Senate control runs through MI. We cannot afford to lose this seat. All the energy that went into the primary- & into offering #takes on the primary (including this AM)- has to go to the election in November. A MI senate seat is the difference between an R vs D Senate.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 13h agoEl-Sayed: There is so much more that unites us, however much we might disagree with our democratic opponent, there is so much more that unites us than divides us. And so to all of our supporters here tonight watching on TV—tomorrow, we begin to mend fences.
British media trying to pull a Charlie Kirk over a dead racist pedophile wife-beater is just more proof that ruthlessly and brutally denazifying British news media is going to be important.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donavan McKinney wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Michigan's 13th Congressional District.
Humorous to me how, when a Dem candidate is a centrist, the narrative is about how leftists have to grow up and support them. When the candidate is a leftist, the question is whether they can rally adequate support. So some people are responsible for running a winning campaign, you say? Interesting.
Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.
like menus, FOH with that QR code nonsense, if you won't even print a menu how am I supposed to believe you'll be arsed to prep a meal worth the time and money
Emily Gorcenski@emily.gorcen.ski · 7h agoNot to be all RETVRN but everything was better with paper
1. the whole "disappointing night" thing is pure cope. El-Sayed beat the establishment candidate despite being outspent 10:1, that's an earthquake 2. primary polls are just not great and everyone needs to spend the next week going really, really hard for Peggy Flanagan