matt
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organizer. queens native, currently oakland. willing to fight for someone i don't know. i hate the senate. he/him.
Dodgers are humanity in Pluribus: they’re all knowing and perfectly happy, but we know that they cannot be allowed to win
this is where I'm at with gun nuts too
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 4d agoWhat I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.
disagree. all cops should dress as shrubs all the time. ACAS.
The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 5d agoCatching 74 distracted drivers in six hours is good, but what would be better is redesigning the street so drivers are forced to pay attention.
the fauci stuff seems pretty straightforward: conservatives were meant to feel scared and vulnerable and faced the need for collective and government action. the ones that didn't die from stubbornness decided they'd never be made to feel that way again, and decided someone had to be at fault.
the idea that erstwhile neocons think they get to police who else gets to be inside the Democratic tent is never not amusing
Last gasp of the Clyburn-Biden deal to kneecap the left in 2020 and beyond, and almost certain to produce a less competitive nominee.
Politico@politico.com · 2w agoBREAKING: Democrats voted to make South Carolina their first presidential primary state for 2028. It's a significant shift from past election cycles, and one that prioritizes a state with a significant Black voting bloc.
ezra klein :: problematic white guys dylan byers :: billionaires
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoIn @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I think a lot of the critiques and anger are fully valid,” says Morris Katz, one of Graham Platner's campaign advisers, on this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” “Knowing what we know now, the Reddit posts alone probably should have been enough.”
As A Lifelong Conservative, Why Won't Democrats Cater To My Preferences? | My latest in The Atlantic.
liberals haven't captured the supreme court since the 60s what are you talking about
Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 3w agoKlein's one-sentence autopsy of liberalism: "first liberals captured institutions, and then institutions captured liberalism."
wonder who he voted for people.com/today-show-i...
‘Today’ Show Intruder Breaks into Studio Looking for Al Roker, Confronts Craig Melvin and Yells Racial Slur
A man broke into the ‘Today’ show’s studio in New York City on Thursday, July 16, and was detained after confronting co-host Craig Melvin, sources tell PEOPLE.
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i sometimes wish democrats had done something to earn this kind of hatred
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."
dodgers burying their threepeat chances with their white house visit
Matt Browner Hamlin@mattbh.com · 4w agohaven't seen an english collapse on american soil like this in 250 years
for the latest on the virus, we go to the author of "Treating HIV Doesn't Pay"
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w agoIn @nytopinion.nytimes.com No one wants to get cyclospora, this summer’s nightmare stomach bug, Emily Oster writes in a guest essay. “But a look at the numbers suggests that you can probably chill out a bit.”
a fun test will be to see if they fire the same parliamentarian who stripped a ton out of the biden-era reconciliation and survived (my guess is yes, they're pulling the wiring out ahead of the midterms)
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3w agoReconciliation 3.0 is here. Another big challenge awaits Republicans as they plan to pass a GOP-only bill centered on war funding through slim majorities. The Iran war's unpopularity is one problem. Lack of offsets is irritating fiscal hawks. And of course, Senate budget rules.
Nobody celebrated human death with more glee than Lindsey Graham. Nobody.
Goldstein@goldstein.latinsky.app · 3w agoHere is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.
sometimes people ask me what I want from the media that they're not already doing and "defend Americans' rights to democracy, freedom, civil rights etc the same way they defend Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state" would be basically what I'd ask for.
can't speak for maine voters but a whole lot seemed to come down to "i don't want to listen to people i find annoying personally"
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4w ago"What did it say that the red flags got so obscured in the process? Why did the idea of better vetting get so casually dismissed? And how was it that political neophytism was treated as an asset and not a liability?"
"Antwerp" in Dutch folklore translates to"throw hand" and I think Belgium would be justified in doing so.
As much as I hate to say it because it’s cheap webforum meta discourse, the strongest correlation to Platner support wasn’t ideology, it was if you still frequently use X, The Everything App. I would hope that would lead to some introspection about what remaining on there does to your judgement.
Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · last mo.Like I said, there's no small amount of finger-pointing that's going to happen as a result of this. But Platner was a creation of Ryan Grim, Bernie Sanders, and Matt Stoller, as much as he was of Pod Save America and Matt Yglesias. That's what has to be reckoned with.
If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.
AdotSad@adotsad.bsky.social · last mo.Oh its OVER OVER
Elizabeth Warren covering herself in endorsement glory again.
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · last mo.AOC not getting behind Graham Platner looks like a chess move now.
utter failure by all involved. schumer and the dscc for championing mills. pod save bros trying to turn a big dial taht says nazi. probably costs us the senate and 1-2 more supreme court seats.
Michigan can and should reject another John Fetterman democrat.
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last mo.Haley Stevens voted to:
