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Kyle Thayer (doomscrolling)

@kylethayer.bsky.social

This is my account for doomscrolling. My main account is @kylethayer.com.

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d ago

What does power-shifting mean? This lays it out. A key insight is that progressives need to use policies to build enduring interests who will not just support those policies but also a fairer multi-racial democracy.

If we are fortunate enough to have a future rebuilding moment with a pro-democracy administration, we cannot make the same mistakes again. Rebuilders need to think about their work through the lens of power-shifting. They need to consider how they can design policy structures that build durable people power and deconstruct the power of the organized interests opposed to a multiracial, egalitarian democracy. We see this effort as being consistent with, and adding to, other important ongoing efforts to learn from the Biden-Harris Administration's record and assess what a future administration needs to do differently.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Preventing some Iranian villagers from getting drinking water does nothing to prevent the IRGC from firing missiles and drones. Water is a red line. I know those of you who hate the US military and US foreign policy won’t care about the difference, but it’s significant, with very bad implications.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3w ago

More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 3w ago

“But I want to tell you what he was like to hang out with in private when there were no stakes” is a very common response to the death of a person who had immense power in situations with high stakes.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4w ago

Cuomo’s victory was supposed to be part of the “MeToo went too far narrative arc that large parts of the New York media and political establishment were extremely eager to push

Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4w ago

I promise I am almost done Platnerposting but I want to point out that the establishment hates this man like he killed their whole families. They smear him as often as they can, label him an antisemite, drag him for being Muslim, etc Total rape allegations: 0

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 4w ago

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

Phil Rocco@philiprocco.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don’t think people really understand how bad the OMB proposed rule is going to be for state and local govt. We’re talking about putting a full third of state budgets under the explicit control of Russ Vought. (1/2) www.bondbuyer.com/news/cities-...

Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · 4w ago

The thing to understand about a lot of so-called left or liberal American journalists and pundits in general is that they're overwhelmingly white and therefore have a lot of Trump supporters in their families, whom they are loath to "write off."

Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · 4w ago

Here was a man who could capture the needed "fight fight fight" spirit, yet was not the wishy-squishy avatar of Woke that haunted their nightmares. Better still, he was a manly white man with working class vibes. When you seek to understand what James Carville saw in Platner, you start there.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · last mo.

Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)

📂 Version 1.0 — June 20, 1776 File Name: Declaration_Draft_TJ_DO_NOT_EDIT.docx Author: t_jefferson_33 Commit Message: "Initial copy-paste from my Mason_VA_Rights_Notes.txt and VA_Constitution_V2.docx scratchpads. Confine your review to grammar and typos, and do not redline, only leave comments." Tracked Changes & Notes: Line 14: "We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable..." Comment from t_jefferson_33: "Certified banger." 📂 Version 1.1 — June 24, 1776 File Name: Declaration_Draft_TJ_comments_JA_BF.docx Editors: b_franklin_GrittyOG and JA_redsoxfan (obo Committee, w/ Sherman and Livingston) Commit Message: "First pass by the Committee of Five. Modest style changes." Tracked Changes & Notes: 47 revisions (redlined), three full new paragraphs Deleted: "sacred & undeniable" * Inserted: "self-evident" Comment from b_franklin_GrittyOG: "250 years from now, people will think you wrote that banger. You’re welcome." 📂 Version 2.0 — June 28, 1776 File Name: Declaration_Committee_Review_FINAL.docx Author: t_jefferson_33 Commit Message: "Incorporated Ben and John's very minor edits of my excellent first draft into a clean copy. Ready for the Continental Congress to approve verbatim." 📂 Version 2.1 to 2.8 — July 2 – July 4, 1776 File Name: Declaration_CONGRESS_REVISED2_redline_NEW_v4_approved..docx Editors: Continental_Congress Group Chat (50+ active users) Commit Message: "Line-by-line review by committee. Light trimming, a mere 20% of the original text. Optimizing for colonial unity." Tracked Changes & Notes: ❌ CRITICAL DELETION: 300 word imprudent diatribe against KG III for transatlantic slave trade (“waging cruel war against human nature”). Comment from dunkin_delegate: “Jefferson wrote that? He always struck me as a smug hypocrite. #IYKYK” Comment from SC_delegation_delegate: "I thought we agreed this issue was off the table for now. It can be amicably settled later." ❌ DELETION: Large sections complaining about the ordinary British public being "deaf to the voice of justice." Comment from NY_delegation_hub: "Guys, let's keep the finger pointed strictly at King George. If we trash the British citizens, we ruin any chance of future trade partnerships or alliances. Keep it professional." ➕ INSERTION: Added "appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world" and "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence" to the closing paragraph. Comment from Middlesex_Conservative: "Marketing requested more religious claptrap to ensure maximum buy-in from the zealots." System Notification: User t_jefferson_33 reacted 👎(39 instances). 📂 Version 3.0 (Production) — July 4, 1776 (Late Morning) File Name: Declaration_of_Independence_FINAL_v3_USE_THIS_ONE_SIGNED.docx Editors: john_hancock_big_font Commit Message: "Approved. Shipped to the printers. John Hancock didn't realize his zoom level was at 200% when he signed. Committee unable to find the one intern who can resize images, shipping anyway." System Notification: User t_jefferson_33 has left the chat. The draft of the Declaration was revised first by Adams and Franklin, and then by the full committee. A total of 47 alterations, including the insertion of three complete paragraphs, were made to the text before it was presented to Congress on June 28. After voting for independence on July 2, Congress continued to refine the document, making 39 additional revisions to the committee draft before its final adoption on the morning of July 4. The draft shows the multiplicity of corrections, additions and deletions that were made at each step. Although most of the alterations are in Jefferson's handwriting (Jefferson later indicated which changes he believed were made by Adams and Franklin), he felt slighted by the way Congress rewrote the manuscript. In a consoling letter of July 21, 1776, the state's senior delegate, Richard Henry Lee, wrote to Jefferson that he wished that "the manuscript had not been mangled as it is." In an 1823 letter to Madison, Jefferson wrote that, at the time, "during the debate, I was sitting by Dr. Franklin and he observed that I was writhing a little under the acrimonious criticisms" of Congress. In fact, as Congress neared completion of the document by altering nearly all of his last paragraph, Jefferson could only write in the margin "a different phraseology inserted." Jefferson remained bitter about the changes made to the Declaration of Independence right up to his death. His autobiography was a major effort to set the record straight on its writing.
Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social · last mo.

A Trump administration with the base level of competency of Trump I would have turned this summer into a wall-to-wall national patriotism-equals-MAGA fest. It really is a stark illustration of the collapse of administrative capacity under Trump II that that just ... didn't happen.

Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · last mo.

Neo-fascism is not a materialist response to anything. It is a revolt of the privileged, so bored by their prosperity that they are reigniting world-historical ideological struggle just to feel something for once in their miserable, empty lives.

Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · last mo.

A lot of people on both the right and the left, for the sake of their own ideological confirmation biases, portray the neo-fascist wave as a surge of "forgotten men," the neglected working class and so on. But it is a revolution driven by car dealership owners and CEOs.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

To all the people glumly stating you can’t go after Elon Musk because he’s rich: you have been trained into holding this false belief. There is absolutely no physical or natural law stating that really rich men cannot be punished. The only barrier is cowardice.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Twitter/X is an enormous national security threat on a global scale, and a lot more nations need to grow a spine and start blocking it (and taking other active, aggressive measures).

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I was just thinking of the way that Facebook allowed genocidal incitement and coordination on their platform, which was evil, but Musk is using his platform to personally incite pogroms, which is worse.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo ago

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is good: Dems are moving to force Rs to vote on Trump's corrupt IRS immunity deal, now that the slush fund is in doubt. The exemption from IRS audits is getting overlooked, but it shouldn't. Dems tell me they're pushing for votes to kill it. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2112...

Trump’s Corrupt IRS Shakedown Backfires Badly as GOPers Turn On Him

The slush fund may be on life support, but this IRS immunity thing Trump wants is outrageous—and Democrats need to make Republicans own it.

newrepublic.com

Leah Greenberg ❌👑@leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

PSA: No Kings is supporting watch parties for the Committee for the First Amendment Concert on June 14th- not mobilizations. There are several non-affiliated scam PACs trying to raise money by promising a mass protest that's not actually happening on June 14th. Block them and tell your friends.

Micah@rincewind.run · 2mo ago

I would like AOC to run for three reasons: 1. I think the D candidate in 2028 is strongly favored to win regardless of who it is 2. We need to elect someone who understands the moment and is committed to a new reconstruction 3. Of all plausible candidates I am most convinced AOC meets that bar

Adam Gurri@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 2mo ago

Lotta people turning up to say a woman can't win in America that don't seem to account for one fact and one obvious inference: -Hillary Clinton got more votes than Donald Trump (or any other candidate) -If Harris ran in today's political environment, I guarantee she'd win

Adam Gurri@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 2mo ago

Lotta people turning up to say a woman can't win in America that don't seem to account for one fact and one obvious inference: -Hillary Clinton got more votes than Donald Trump (or any other candidate) -If Harris ran in today's political environment, I guarantee she'd win

AOC for President

Whether or not she runs, Ocasio-Cortez is invoking a feminist politics that Democrats should adopt if they are serious about defeating fascism.

liberalcurrents.com

Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · 2mo ago

There's a form of magical thinking that pervades everyone from Matt Yglesias to your average Bluesky communist: that Dems are One Weird Trick away from never losing another election, and it just happens to require Dems looking into the camera and endorsing the speaker's policy preferences.

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the "dems have to do my preferred messaging trick to win nonvoters" thing is like the emerging democratic majority thesis. whatever you thought about it originally, its not tenable now