Matthew Downhour
@matthewdownhour.bsky.social
Liberal, Montanan. Subscribe to Paine-Wollstonecraft-Douglass-George thought, Bolivar-Juarez-Nkomo-Zelenskyy praxis
This is gonna sound unfathomably arrogant but I think I could do every current cabinet secretary’s job better than it is currently being done
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h agoEvery military leader since antiquity: wars are won by logistics hegseth: you win wars when military look like fitness influencers
This election has almost no impact on my life but I would still very much like for her to win
Nithya Raman@nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 7h agoLos Angeles is in the worst housing crisis in our city’s history. We cannot solve that crisis unless we build. That’s why I’m proud to have earned the endorsement of the Western States Carpenters. Together, we’re going to make it easier to build the homes Angelenos need.
Every military leader since antiquity: wars are won by logistics hegseth: you win wars when military look like fitness influencers
Anyone who purports to be a friend of Taiwan should be loudly demanding Ukraine be allowed to make Patriot missiles under license. US facilities are obviously insufficient for potential need & Ukraine is likely the lowest cost location possible to expand production
The Eisenhower Doctrine has outlived any usefulness it once had
Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h agoOne important way of doing this is going to be shrinking our global military footprint in a big way. Which brings me to my proposal: end CENTCOM's entire presence within the first 100 days.
Thank you @moodogpress.com for randomly liking this two years later & reminding me of one of the best lines in country music
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 2y ago"From the rocking of the cradle to the rolling of the hearse, the going up was worth the coming down" youtu.be/KmblkC6PVco?...
Or the Senate one or the other either way you’ll be there til you’re geriatric & released on humanitarian grounds
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h agoDr Oz: "When you steal money from the federal government, you ought to go jail and go to jail for a long time"
Schumer & Gillibrand learning from their Mamdani mistakes? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Top Democrats set aside qualms and embrace progressive Abdul El-Sayed
Democrats are ‘united by a common purpose,’ Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand say in joint statement
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I assume Amir Hassan lost his GOP primary in Michigan last night, despite being endorsed by Trump, because Republican voters genuinely didn't know the difference between him and Hasan Piker.
The “Hitler could have won if he wasn’t a moron” of electoral politics
You Might Know Jack@lessweirdjack.bsky.social · 9h ago[takes drag of a cigarette] GOP would never lose an election if they were so racist but if they weren’t so racist they wouldn’t be the modern GOP anymore
Republicans orthodoxy is that Donald Trump is uniquely incapable of overseeing free and fair elections
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h agoholy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!
I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
Same people who would (correctly) be furious if Haley didn't do this are choosing to grind axes about her campaign. Grow up. Elections are zero sum. Yeah, her campaign was shitty. No one's saying you have to like her, but sore winner is a real bad look and a worse way to get her supporters on board
Engrained in this for a lot of people is the implicit belief that Arabs & Muslims belong to the Democratic Party & if they voted for Republicans it was spiteful about Gaza and not normal Republican reasons like lower taxes or homophobia
Jared Friedman 🇺🇦@silkscreenfiend.bsky.social · 10h agoWe have to reckon with the fact that Uncommitted really was what it said it was - a group of loyal partisan democrats trying to save the party from itself. This was obviously not the case with "Abandon Harris," but anyone conflating the two is doing so out of either ignorance or malice.
We have to reckon with the fact that Uncommitted really was what it said it was - a group of loyal partisan democrats trying to save the party from itself. This was obviously not the case with "Abandon Harris," but anyone conflating the two is doing so out of either ignorance or malice.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 10h agoThe co-founder of the 2024 National Uncommitted Movement, Abbas Alawieh, decisively won his primary to become a State Senator in Michigan. Abbas was endorsed by both Bernie Sanders and Gretchen Whitmer. Abbas Alawieh also privately met with former VP Kamala Harris last month upon her request.
It gets an actual chuckle out of me seeing people on here say "now the TRUE test is whether the shitlibs can live up to their own words and line up behind El-Sayed!" only for Stevens, Whitmer, every prominent Michigan Dem, the DSCC, etc. to have endorsed El-Sayed before they can finish the sentence.
"Would a imperial force beleive its own propaganda so much that it believes it is invincible against all reason?" *Waves in VDV*
48.48% to 47.51% a difference of just less than 1% of the vote damn.... also El-Sayed owes McMorrow a box of chocolates because her 4% of the vote could have changed everything.
Erstwhile Harris supporters still trying to shoot down Abdul El Sayed are truly like the soldiers fighting for Hirohito on Pacific atolls well after he himself made peace with the outcome
D.C.@dcmcb.bsky.social · 10h ago@matthewdownhour.bsky.social Kamala Harris has already sent out a fundraising email for El-Sayed, by the way. This morning.
@matthewdownhour.bsky.social Kamala Harris has already sent out a fundraising email for El-Sayed, by the way. This morning.
Some Parts of Khive have been beefing with online leftists for so long they forgot that Republicans are the problem with the US. Really wish more left, center AND left center people remember who is the issue.
Gotta love a “prove me wrong” to “post blocked” turnaround, an all time favorite
This clears the bar of "good enough." If you held out in the fall, fuck you, you deserve what you get (and we all pay the price). But if you told people that they needed to back Harris, you're on the right side of the line.
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 11h agoHis role was key in attempted to rally uncommitted primary voters to Harris for the general
VBNMW applies to people who protest voted in a fucking primary. Come on.
Obviously I’m on Mockingjay now, & marveling at how well the universe anticipates the role video & propaganda would play in wars like Syria & Ukraine. “Would a rebel army actually risk real resources to film a propaganda video?” Turns out absolutely yes
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 2d agoMade it to Catching Fire - truly, Philip Seymour Hoffman was one of the most profound ‘gone too soon’ actors of my lifetime
Probably the fastest political realignment cycle in our lifetimes. From dropping out to "pretty much everyone in the DNC nominations process has lined up behind Harris and there are gays on vacation in P-town already branding her campaign with Charli XCX merch" in less than 72h.
Russian soldiers are proud of this btw. They post videos of blowing up old people walking their dogs. They defend attacking Yuri selling his vegetables because maybe one he used his van to move defense material. Not Putin - every day Russian soldiers
Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 11h agoA reminder that @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social has been on the frontline reporting on Russia’s “human safari” Everyone should be following her phenomenal and courageous work share.google/D5LgdcUTqzVv...
