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@metasarcastic.bsky.social
I have obtained levels of sarcasm you can only dream of
Q: Were you prepared for pushback you received, especially from Republicans, framing you as too extreme for Wisconsin? HONG: What's extreme is Rep. Tiffany has voted against interests of Wisconsinites over & over. What's extreme is that he's an election denier & continues to protect pedophiles
This is a good answer, & no one in the Wisconsin media frames or asks Tom Tiffany questions like this about being too extreme. Whatever one thinks of Hong, it's a wildly different double standard & Tiffany's/the WI GOP's embrace of authoritarianism is more extreme than anything she has proposed.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Q: Were you prepared for pushback you received, especially from Republicans, framing you as too extreme for Wisconsin? HONG: What's extreme is Rep. Tiffany has voted against interests of Wisconsinites over & over. What's extreme is that he's an election denier & continues to protect pedophiles
The @nytimes hasn't written a single article asking if "voters will think Tom Tiffany is too radical" because he is an election-denying, pro-ICE, authoritarian extremist. Somehow, his position on the political spectrum has disappeared completely from the National and State Conversations™️
Will Wisconsin Voters Think Francesca Hong Is Too Radical? Here’s Where She Stands.
The democratic socialist is the front-runner to win the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin on Tuesday.
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A lot of people on this site are going to have major mental and emotional breakdowns after Abdul El-Sayed wins in Michigan.
look I'm pretty sure "saying rude things about john fetterman" is going to play a bit differently with the dem primary electorate than a lot of these folks seem to think it will
Politico@politico.com · 2mo agoEl-Sayed comes under fire for 'ogre on a pike' leaked comment
As Gov. Whitmer tries to stop Abdul El-Sayed, remember: Whitmer’s dad was Blue Cross’s CEO, she appointed a Blue Cross CEO co-chair of her transition & got more Blue Cross cash than any MI candidate — as Blue Cross denies 1 in 6 claims Story at LeverNews [dot] com
BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.
Planned Parenthood is set to spend more than $47 million for the midterms, POLITICO reported today. The healthcare giant—which just got its federal funding restored—plans to go after the Republicans who voted to defund them. Good. open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
Let's Make the Midterms All About Abortion
7.9.26
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Mamdani got into office and instantly: • Froze rent for 2 million New Yorkers • Cut subway fares in half for low-income riders • Fully funded NYC parks • Added $680M for public schools • Launched free child care for 2-year-olds If establishment politicians actually wanted to help you, they could.
@grahamformaine.bsky.social If you're going to give up, negotiate a set of leftist policy endorsements from whomever you end up endorsing!
Centrist Democrats: "Nothing can be done except for more tax cuts. Also we love the police, the military and some wars. Also we will say 'kitchen table issues' twice a day. Vote for us."
Never let the cynics and naysayers grind you down. You *can* have it all at once.
Then you can F the Supreme Court and all the freedoms people fought and bled for during the Civil Rights Movement. Mainers voted. They made their choice. It's about beating Collins and taking the Senate.
🎄Bonster of the Oklahoma Bonstrosities🎄@bonstrous.bsky.social · 3mo agoeh i like most of your takes, but fuck Platner forever
Tom, you have to step outside your bias and acknowledge reality. This is the Gaza Generation. It is not a niche issue or something that is limited to the far left, progressives, or whatever group you loathe. All the data is there. You choose to ignore it. Why?
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3mo agoNo, a small number of young people who live on their phones and don't know what "genocide" means have decided that this is more important than stopping an authoritarian takeover of the United States.
Because people refuse to support an ethno nationalist regime that is taking billions of our money to occupy and kill people? Because people are horrified by mass death and starvation that is preventable? Because people are sick of super PACs buying our politicians? Why are you so ghoulish, man?
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf this is truly the Gaza generation, then American democracy is doomed
Could you rewrite this like a journalist instead of a stenographer?
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3mo agoA sweeping overhaul of East Potomac Golf Links will begin Sept. 1, President Trump said Sunday after he toured the century-old municipal course with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, renowned golf course architect Tom Fazio and White House aides.
Labour exists to protect the status quo. They want clear signals that Burnham won't bring in wealth taxes, water nationalisation or stop the UK arming Israel. We need to keep building our movement and provide hope with a plan for a different politics. Join.greenparty.org.uk
If you're one of the defense attorneys for the Prairieland 9, I'm doing a big story on the case and need to talk to you. Pls text me at 202-510-1268
American was just sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving "Antifa" zines; yet there were zero questions about NSPM-7 at the Homeland Secretary's hearing on capitol hill today. You do not hate Congress enough.
The Democratic Party's control over primaries is breaking down. Why that's a good thing: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/mamdani-sw...
Mamdani Sweeps; Party Weeps
Party control is dying
kenklippenstein.com
That’s what happens when you make promises to an entire generation of people and then fail.
Politico@politico.com · 3mo agoModerate Democrats fear they’re on the verge of losing the party’s ideological civil war to progressives.
The last 18 months in politics: -Trump wins, implements horrific agenda -Establishment Dems go into freeze/appeasement -Grassroots opposition movement builds -Dem leadership feigns resistance -Primary challenges proliferate Not that complicated. Schumer et al reap what they sowed.
Media’s framing of Platner as some kind of manopshere referendum on gender is idiotic. Women actually prefer Platner to Collins, as polling consistently shows, whereas men prefer Collins. You’ll never see this in a headline though because everything has to be culture war bs
