I vote for shitty moderate Democrats all the time in general elections. I do it because Republicans are demons from hell, not because I care about the opinions of people like this. But man is it annoying.

Delta Nupe@itsnotuitsme1911.bsky.social · 15h ago

El-Sayed won. I’m urging Black Detroiters to STAY HOME and be “uncommitted’ like El-Sayed was for Kamala Harris during the general election. Dearborn voted for TRUMP instead of the Black Lady. I’m encouraging Black Detroit to vote for Jill Stein or Trump , like the Arabs in Dearborn did in 24!

The Crouch and Run: a fun Los Angeles sport for bus riders where the only available shade is half a block from your bus stop and your bus comes only once every 30 minutes so you crouch in the strip of shade then sprint when you see a bus.

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And the BdPublicWks denied my 3 #MeasureHLA appeals (can be counted as 6 denials, as they piecemealed 1 project into 4 items). City staff & officials really circle the wagons against bike, bus, walk, accessibility… resting several arguments on providing what’s good for drivers.

For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 21h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

The DSCC puts out a statement from Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand backing Abdul El-Sayed. This is the first time since 2010 that a DSCC-backed candidate lost in a primary. #MISen

💡TIP: Lebanon-Israel talks have been PAUSED FOR THE DAY, but will resume tomorrow in Rome, a Lebanese official source tells @almonitor.bsky.social . Israel has been heavily striking South Lebanon today. More to come

"America is broadly Islamophobic, and so any enemy of Islam is a friend of ours"

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

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ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->

Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 22h ago

Fed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.

Well now we can move on to the part of the election where the centrist Democrats graciously accept their defeat and support the progressive primary winner for the good of party, state and country

Abdul built a primary campaign rooted in the belief that human rights are universal, and that we can invest in our communities instead of endless wars. He didn't back down on his commitments to end Israel's genocide and apartheid. Congratulations @abdulelsayed.bsky.social On to November!

Unfathomable

Abdul El-Sayed has won, NBC News says. And there are other wins for the left in Michigan: —William Lawrence wins his U.S. House primary. —A DSA-backed candidate is leading a Democratic incumbent for state House. —Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of Uncommitted, leads for state Senate.

IT’S OFFICIAL. A Sunrise Movement co-founder is the Democratic nominee for Congress in MI-07. Huge congratulations to @wewill2026.bsky.social on his victory!

Transit riders will have to travel outside the perimeter to ride buses during the transit-first games 🙃

Ironica@ironica.bsky.social · yesterday

Also, public buses won't be allowed in "red" zones... But people still live and work there.

A stunning reversal of LA’s environmental progress. In 2019, we decided to phase out natural gas at Scattergood by 2024. It was a commitment to protect the climate for our kids. Today the City Council extended natural gas there for the foreseeable future.

Climate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai@bigearthdata.ai · 23h ago

LA City Council Votes to Allow Billion Dollar Scattergood Gas Plant Retrofit to Move Forward ->Food & Water Watch | More info at BigEarthData.ai | #Vote #Democracy

37.6% of the vote counted in Michigan: El-Sayed and Stevens are separated by fewer votes than non-candidate Mallory McMorrow is getting. Too early to call.

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

South Carolina is now the first state in the nation for the Democratic Primary and this just ran in The State, the newspaper of Columbia, South Carolina. Come out to the rally and lobby day next week in Sac and help get our legislators to undo the cuts! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

The California Democratic Party has endorsed Prop40, the Billionaire's tax, after an intense floor debate, with 61% of the vote.

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

Democratic Socialists’ bus benches remain, city mum on next steps | Port City Daily

WILMINGTON — The handmade bus benches installed by the Wilmington Democratic Socialists of America have highlighted a problem nearly everyone agrees exists: most Wave bus stops have nowhere for riders...

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This is a story of DSCC consolidating around the worst possible moderate and enabling Abdul to steamroll and it seems like some of these establishment figures chose to do this because of psychosis

The fight for Michigan: How a marquee Senate primary became the Democrats’ latest proxy war | CNN Politics

Tuesday’s Michigan Senate primary between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed has become a bitter referendum on many of the fights Democrats are having nationally.

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Anyone willing to guess the # of think pieces we'll get in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post et al if Haley Stevens loses by 10 or more next Tuesday that will argue that Democratic leadership should moderate on Palestine if they want to have their candidates win?

🐳 You’re God damned right @hesterblum.bsky.social & I made a TWENTY-FIVE EPISODE PODCAST just about 𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐘-𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐊. Subscribe now at exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick & enjoy our thrilling trailer:

whoa apparently the President is shackled to his bed in a dedicated diarrhea WARD?

it is genuinely wild how little american supporters of israel know about israel

Shocking.

So Yet another great example of why this guy is super fuckin’ stupid He’s gonna run for president. He wants to fast track a monopoly into the hands of a media empire that’s expressly interested in dedicating the full force of their resources to crushing specifically him And they will. Mercilessly

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 5d ago

when it comes down to it - @gavinnewsom.bsky.social bends the knee to big money and billionaires. This time he is bending the knee to billionaire monopolists - pushing for a media merger helping the right wing media project.