I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 15h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

Great to see @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social do the classy thing. This is the way!

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 12h ago

Mallory McMorrow endorses Abdul El Sayed minutes after NBC call

“you can’t have fun because it makes you not want to have a revolution” congrats, a leftist just described concisely why their political project is doomed to failure

eva (^_^)/@eva.computer · 19h ago

i'm sorry but i refuse to concede that the concept of fun is "spiritually israeli" or whatever tf this nonsense is

perhaps my six thousand mcmorrow votes were a mistake. you live and learn.

Sure would be awkward if China were facing a demographic crisis that could be easily solved by embracing immigration from Africa but they chose to stoke xenophobia & nationalism instead

Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵

I'll be disappointed if Stevens wins, but mostly what you should take away from tonight is that the coalition really is divided between factions with lots of genuine support, we can't wish the other side away, and we're all going to have to learn to live with each other if we want to win.

Leave it to Sawant to be the sorest loser tonight in a crowded field. I give her four Brianna Wus out of four for her dismal matching of campaign and constituency; just a disaster waiting to happen, ready to blame everyone but herself.

Mars Climate Orbiter circa 1999:

Cat Manning@catacalypto.bsky.social · 14h ago

multi-hour crashout because I did some math wrong. incredible

I don’t think there’s enough vote for Stevens left but this will be a close result. My hope is that the El-Sayed/DSA/far left contingent don’t get despondent but realize that both factions need each other. It’s time to cut the shit and fight MAGA, not Democrats.

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

Seattle voters are currently approving the library levy renewal by nearly 72%.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 15h ago

Greetings from the Yes Seattle Libraries election night party at Reuben's downtown, featuring CM Dionne Foster.

King County elections wya

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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 support [$democratic_candidate] for [$public_office] and believe that their politics is a perfect fit for [$state]. I would drag my [$genital] over [$harmful_object_or_substance] to vote for [$democratic_candidate] this fall.

Keith@mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 17h ago

I support the winner of the Michigan Democratic primary as the future senator from Michigan.

If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them. defector.com/the-right-ha...

The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector

A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN…

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people are pointing out that this is obviously antisemitic, and it is, but one notes that this is sort of the natural endpoint of building your entire political identity around cultural criticism.

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

when you know you've made a good game

I watched "Now You See Me" for the first time the other night and found it a fun little popcorn flick. My best friend made fun of me for liking it *so much* that I have now been negatively polarized into making the film a huge part of my identity.

the thing is that Wilson seems to not be particularly well-versed in film criticism, which when criticizing a film of the Odyssey is more important than knowledge of the Odyssey.

Eric 👨🏻‍💻@eman41.bsky.social · 23h ago

This passage makes me want to just log off and throw my phone in the river. The discourse on this has officially reached its end

You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

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

I'm a Friend of the Puss™ aka @littlepuss.net, and I finally started @quinnae.com's LOG OFF. Only halfway through the introduction & Katherine lays out the structural problems w/social media so clearly that I'm already setting intentions to be less at social media's algo'd beck and call.

Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (almost) Never Mix by Katherine Cross — LittlePuss Press

"Hands-down the smartest book I’ve read about social media so far this decade" —ESC KEY

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Today @bradlander.bsky.social joins @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com to talk about organizing, what the next Congress can do to claw back what this one has taken away, court reform, the post-Trump future, and more www.liberalcurrents.com/mr-rogers-wi...

Mr. Rogers With a Steel Spine (Out of the Jaws #8, with Brad Lander)

Today on a special episode of Out of the Jaws, Adam speaks with Brad Lander, candidate for the 10th congressional district in New York, former New York City Comptroller, city council member, and gener...

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Going to revise my opinion about AOC being the only politician who should use social media recreationally: No she should not. Log off, none of you are free of sin.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

I intend to write more thoroughly about this soon, but the fad for social media child bans should be resolutely resisted at all costs. There are genuine public health concerns about social media, yes. But unlike smoking, it has genuinely salubrious effects as well--including for teens.

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create

Social media bans based on age are just incredibly stupid and ineffective - with huge privacy downsides.

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

I'm probably preaching to the choir here: Molly doesn't "lead the call to ignore guidance" She's one of thousands of ordinary women - women who won't be bullied into surrendering their rights - refusing to be dictated to by misogynists like J K Rowling, Susan Smith, and Mark McGivern

Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 2d ago

Lol. Yeah. My dead name is Euan. So what! i own it 😎 Cute photo of me too 😊

Lol. Yeah. My dead name is Euan. So what! i own it 😎 Cute photo of me too 😊

ah the frothing joy of a goy imaging a pogrom against the Jews, you can feel the excitement at being able to tell the Jew the whole world wants him dead no matter who the Jew is or where they may live the entire world is sick of you being alive.