While the gap between Dem and GOP talent keeps snowballing hard in favor of Dems, there has been an absolute decline in Dem talent, as a delayed effect of the local and state-level wipeouts under Obama.

fanxioustastic.bsky.social@fanxioustastic.bsky.social · 18h ago

What I don’t understand is why so many states have such underwhelming options in this likely very blue year.

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law

In places like nyc where most of us don’t have balconies but almost all of us have window A/Cs, I would really love to see the development of combo solar A/C units that defray the cost of cooling when running.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · yesterday

Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.

'Mizrahi Jews will magically realize they're actually Arabs' is racist delusion.

Cuddles_the_destroyer@cuddlessmash.bsky.social · 22h ago

what the fuck am I reading lmao

People will call this weak and cringe but it’s what Dems need after today. Time to buck up if they want to win in the fall.

KHive having completely different opinions from Harris is fascinating

yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from @longwall26.bsky.social)

hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 5mo ago

the same bros that think the US could successfully prosecute a land war in Iran think they could win a point off of Serena Williams at tennis

The United States if Republicans would Just Stop Being Like That

Incredible that team Collins keeps responding to criticism of her Kavanaugh vote by saying she did such a good job vetting him. Reporters literally had his Bush-era emails saying of Roe that the Supreme Court "can always overrule its precedent, and three current Justices on the Court would do so"

She Voted for a Justice Who Overturned Roe. Now it Haunts Her on the Trail.

Senator Susan Collins, who supports abortion rights, endorsed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court. It has emerged as a major issue in her campaign for re-election.

nytimes.com

This is the kind of thing that happens when people don't study the French Revolution at school

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d ago

Meanwhile Laura Loomer is fending off accusations that she’s a trans woman. Participating in right wing political discourse just melts people’s brains.

this is deeply and damnably irresponsible, but, also, what’s even the actual benefit for google here? what is the product use case for this?

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

a lesson i wish Dems would learn is that rejecting the fabulist premises of the far right allows you to do so much more rhetorically than any amount of attempted fact checking ever could

Squishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.

ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · 7d ago

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

My sincere religious beliefs demand that we send people who defraud and lie under oath to prison.

tomwellborn3rd@wellborn.net · last wk.

Kim Davis told the court under oath she'd made no transfers over two thousand dollars in five years. Deeds show she moved three parcels worth over four hundred thousand to family members eight months before that. She wants the martyrdom without the debt.

Among many other things this is a good illustration of the necessity of untethering ideology and "fight" in intra-Democratic battles. The party is very united on fight, very divided on ideology. You unite on fight, let different constituencies/states find their center of gravity on ideology.

“Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city,” [says Jean-Louis Missika, Paris’s deputy mayor for urbanisation]. “They are parked 95% of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70kg. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is.” www.ft.com/content/882e...

How Paris beat the car

Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model

ft.com

I'm just a small-town political scientist, but I see all of these polls & again can't help but think we don't need yet another Ezra Douthglesias podcast this week clutching meta-pearls about What Democrats Must Do. The answer seems to be "oppose fascism & corruption, with local characteristics" 🧐🤷‍♂️

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 6d ago

As @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social said yesterday:

"are we dealing with the right officials" is almost universally a sign the diplomats/heads of state are stuck, lost, in denial and are resorting to "maybe there are other interlocutors who agree with us", which is about as ridiculous as it sounds.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Can they transfer us to the right department. 🤡

'It is generally a mistake, in American politics, to say “let’s wait four years and build.” It is wiser to seize every momentary advantage and push it as hard and as far as you can.' www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...

AOC Must Run For President

History is calling. Sorry!

hamiltonnolan.com

"Why do they call us Nazis"

The William and Mary Quarterly forum on the recently discovered John Dickinson documents, revealing his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution, is now available online! The WMQ has generously made the issue open access for the next month. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57168

yep. as long as we as a society want to have rules, which is to say things you *absolutely cannot do*, then we have to find some way to address what happens when you don’t, and something generally prison-shaped almost definitely needs to exist, but the system we have now is monstrous.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 7d ago

I'm not really a prison abolitionist but I favor reforms radical enough that it wouldn't really be 'prison' in the way Americans understand it, so like, I vibe with this (and Hong's answer about it as a long term goal was really good)

just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

you cant have “good faith concerns” about trans kids in sports if theres a couple dozen nationwide. its not possible. you have been brainwashed to believe its possible but it is not possible. the very nature of the facts make it impossible to have “good faith” concerns about this

victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 6d ago

enough of this shit

This is not anti-Zionism (coherent critique of Zionism), but it is antizionism (the eliminationist ideology targeted as Jews-qua-"Zionists", with "Zionists" taken to mean Jews who claim a right to property).