The truth is, both candidates are weak and the only thing that's gonna (and is very likely to) save the primary winner is the fact that Dear Leader is dedicated to Hoovering himself and his entire party.

Daniel Suitor@danielsuitor.com · 15h ago

looking forward to the centrists declaring a massive victory if Stevens lands anywhere from +.01% to -10% and immediately pivoting to Khive nonsense. looking forward to the left declaring they have received the mandate of heaven if they maintain a 3% edge. no one's happy and everyone's mad

I had a dream last night about Mantan Moreland and Larry Fine doing children's television all-day block programming interstitials. Complete with them being half-complete colourised. What a weird dream. Just a lot of direct-address to the camera by them.

Know the Warning Signs

David Klemperer@dmk1793.bsky.social · 19h ago

got a text today from an unknown number asking me if I'd seen Christopher Nolan's Odyssey and if I had any thoughts on it ... it turned out to be from a friend's new number, but for a while I really thought it was a devious new scam targeted at heterosexual men

I hope she’ll be OK! I doubt many cis people actually want the reality of this. Access to something as fundamental as toilets based on how feminine other people judge you to be is bad for them too. And lots of trans women aren’t that easy to spot no matter what the GCs say.

It's my 200cm. tall, non-make-up-wearing, deep-voiced, football shirt, shorts and trainers wearing, non-trans niece I am most scared for. I will never forgive Keir Starmer for painting a target on her back, nor Andy Burnham for not removing it.

Happy segregation day everyone. I have no doubt this government (and Starmer) will eventually be remembered for their awful human rights abuses. Take care if you’re out and about today - there will be GCs around actively looking to ruin our day. Hopefully they’ll end up targeting each other! 🤞

Love, hugs, and solidarity for the British trans community on this day which will live in infamy. May everyone get the dignity and respect they deserve. And may everyone supporting this get everything they wish for trans people. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️✊️

Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising@jillianw.bsky.social · last yr.

"Biological sex" is a term from anti-trans activism, not from biology. It has no clear meaning, and I would quite happily state (under oath if necessary) that my biological sex is female. And I will pee in the ladies' on account of being a fucking lady.

alan alda, atari spokesperson (1983) archive.org/details/1983...

Founders: We made the legislature Article I on purpose. The Constitution gives Congress oversight powers and requires the president to faithfully execute laws. And Congress is the only one with power to override or remove officials from other branches. Cornyn: What I presuppose is… maybe it doesn’t

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

What's dumb is saying government should not be funded. Shutdowns cause real pain, which is why the threat always favors Republicans over Democrats. Anyone pushing for a more socialist government should be *really* invested in keeping the social security & medicaid offices open.

This anti-tax stuff on the left really needs to stop.

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People say this a lot but I think it takes a remarkable sort of arrogance for almost anyone on Bluesky to estimate that their posts will help or hurt a candidate for the senate in any way greater than the opportunity cost of spending time poasting at all instead of doing normal campaign activities

Like if we’re electionmaxxing the juice from being magnanimous and highly professional on Bluesky is already dwarfed by never posting on Bluesky at all and just religiously devoting your waking hours to phonebanking or generating income that lets you travel to Michigan and campaign on the ground

Daniel has national prominence because of his video of the murder of Renee Good. For better or worse, that means the possibility his posts can be used out of context by bad faith news outlets. I'd hate that kind of attention, but would appreciate reminders that I'm not just poasting if I ever get it

I know you're not in Michigan, but this probably isn't a good way for someone with even a modest online following to help his preferred candidate consolidate the party vote if he wins.

This government is OUR government, as much as we dislike the current political leadership. I'd be happy to explain why funding the FAA is important to someone who's capable of conversing without out of context interest in my bottom half.

I suspect this is not accurate.

The Stevens campaign was too online

I'm curious to know what the 60,000 people who voted for McMorrow wanted to get our of their vote.

Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 10h ago

DDHQ Race Update (est. 96% in): Michigan US Senate Democratic Primary Abdul El-Sayed (D): 724,468 (48.7%) Haley Stevens (D): 703,595 (47.3%) Mallory McMorrow (D): 60,053 (4.0%) Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/283906

Yeah it's a smaller and worse defined electorate but still, seems we have not figured out a good methodology

That was the calculus El Sayed explicitly rejected. Those who can’t be asked to do the same have left the coalition of their own volition

Yeah except we’re talking about a guy who explicitly did not do that even while they received no concessions from Biden or Harris So ‘goose & gander’ here seems to imply ‘we feel no loyalty to anyone expressing support for Palestinians no matter what they personally do’

If the pro-Israel faction of the party packs up & goes home when they lose a primary to someone who explicitly supported pro-Israel candidates, then the pro-Israel faction is showing itself out of the coalition

Otherwise the message is “there’s no point coming around for the better candidate in the general because they never do the same for us”

I think if you dislike they message, you should return the favor & vote for Arabs & Muslims like El Sayed who saw Biden arm the IDF and *still* endorsed Harris

This was explicitly the message some of Uncommitted took, and why some of Uncommitted saw Trump's victory as a victory for them. And cynically they might not be wrong, in the long term, given the massive switch in American leftist sentiment related to I/P - and to Jews.

Yes, and you'll note I didn't say it wasn't. But again - if you think a candidate is publicly bigoted against your group, especially if your group is small enough your votes won't sway things by themselves, you don't want to tell the party your concerns can be safely discounted with a victory.

Well you're wrong imo, but that's also besides the point. I'm not taking sides. I'm saying everyone preaches unity but some people are quite happy to threaten to crash the plane because they see unity as a smokescreen over "a situation where I and mine take in on the chin."

The argument that "well voting for A Republican is worse than voting for Sayed because the Republican will be the bigger bigot" hits the immediate counter argument of "no, actually, it would be worse to lose my space within the coalition where I'm considered valuable enough to be worth defending."