I’m glad El-Sayad won, and I hope he spends a lot of time in and around Detroit to establish relationships with the Black community who treated him skeptically.

We specifically visited the Riverfront when we were in Birmingham to see where everything went down.

TW@twesq.bsky.social · 14h ago

On this day 3 years ago a man sent up a call for aid and his neighbors answered, giving us the greatest video of the decade. Happy Chairteenth to all who celebrate.

BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson at a press conference today, “Should we bother asking you any questions about Max Miller, Trump’s latest Iran deal, or his Capital One scandal, or have you not heard about any of them yet?"

Video from my appearance at the Capitol Forum is up.

"The Assault on Congress's Anti-Monopoly Solution" with Sean Flaim

YouTube video by The Capitol Forum

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I forgot about something I wrote back in June and a great article I just read in The American Prospect reminded me to post it.

The Price of Looking Forward

In the weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008, something was available in American politics: justified, focused, popular anger at identifiable wrongdoers.

open.substack.com

This is a super good idea. And it's not closing the barn door after the fact; it's seizing back control from a Supreme Court that has gone off the rails. Set up this confrontation and then a hundred more.

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d ago

I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/

For the first: they are only common in countries where one party wants to run on super unpopular ideas and is continually frustrated that no one will vote for them. For the second; I'm pretty sure people who lived in Hungary the past 16 years will absolutely say they lived in an authoritarian state

Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · 4mo ago

Nope. Nope. Nope. This post is just two false statements.

She’s running on popular shit, oh no!

Milwaukee DSA@mkedsa.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you hear concerns about @FrancescaHongWI's electability in November, remember she has the only platform that addresses the issues that impact all of Wisconsin - data centers, property tax cut by taxing the rich, universal child care, badgercare expansion.

Posted something new to Substack.

What Postliberal Regimes Actually Share

The sharpest objection in Matt Johnson’s review of James Patterson and Thomas Howe’s Why Postliberalism Failed is one Patterson and Howes never answer.

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Posted something new to Substack.

What Postliberal Regimes Actually Share

The sharpest objection in Matt Johnson’s review of James Patterson and Thomas Howe’s Why Postliberalism Failed is one Patterson and Howes never answer.

open.substack.com

Just finished binging Season 3 of Foundation. Looks like one season left given we're down to the last two books.

New Blog Post from @elleb.bsky.social wrapping up her Olympic Classes Regatta and the Sailing Grand Slam series for 2026! www.secondwindracing.com/second-thoug...

What Racing the World's Best Taught Me | Sailing Grand Slam — Second Wind Racing

I raced one of the strongest ILCA 6 fleets in the world at the Sailing Grand Slam in San Pedro. Here's what the results didn't reveal about my Olympic campaign.

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Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Lets crowdsource this. Add your own ideas to this list ⬇️ What a real opposition would do:

Ami Fields-Meyer@fieldsmeyer.com · 5d ago

Create a shadow cabinet. Every time Hegseth stands at pentagon podium to announce some wild holy war action, our shadow SecDef gets up at ours to explain what we’d do differently. Same with RFK vaccine announcements or supplement things. Create a constant contrast, counter narrate the presidency.

My book is nearly complete & I'm looking for people to beta-read it. The book is about rivalry (or competition) from where it starts in the brain all the way out to civilization itself. It explains a whole ton of stuff we see in everyday life, including our current state of politics.

Every file. Every single one.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

Ahh nothing like looking at your work email on your day off and seeing that someone sent an email to the entire agency and now everybody is replying all and copying the entire agency.

There is a reason that a lot of these candidates mirroring FDR are ahead; apparently it's escaping people why.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 6d ago

With five days left and two polls showing him up by 10+ points, Abdul El Sayed has a new ad with AOC being pushed today

i've got a good piece on this www.gelliottmorris.com/p/meet-ameri...

Meet America’s new swing voter: The anti-system voter. (Or: Why Democrats should think through nominating AOC in 2028)

A new paper finds anti-system sentiment — not left-right ideology — decided the 2016 and 2024 elections

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Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 6d ago

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.

Pretty sure this was the same office design that The Hunger Games used...

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 6d ago

big “sale table at hobby lobby” energy

It strikes me as bad that this stuff is rewarded.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 6d ago

Oh, so those girls at the Seattle Storm game were being obnoxious the entire time trying to provoke people and filming the reactions for content. Of course.

The lab leak theory has legs because it plays to a particular frailty of the human mind. When something large and bad happens (COVID), we are wired to think that an agent is responsible for it. Structural explanations, viral evolution, etc. doesn’t meet our brain’s causal requirements.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 6d ago

Good lord. The "conspiracy" was a bunch of emails among scientists saying "this is xenophobic bullshit and is confusing the public, we should rebut it" and they were right. The "lab leak" theory still requires far more leaps, inferences, and assumptions than the straightforward zoonotic theory.

I still go back to the fact that one cannot sign a contract with oneself. The unitary executive means the "settlement" is invalid.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 6d ago

Today in the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is gonna force a vote on an amendment that would ban the IRS + Treasury Dept from entering into agreements that grant someone immunity from tax audits -- a perk Trump just got in a shady settlement with IRS, signed by Todd Blanche.

My book is nearly complete & I'm looking for people to beta-read it. The book is about rivalry (or competition) from where it starts in the brain all the way out to civilization itself. It explains a whole ton of stuff we see in everyday life, including our current state of politics.

Kids: 1 KIDS Act: 0

I had exactly this thought about Salam about 15 years ago and it's been the same ever since. He moves in their social circles, talks in their cadences, attends their events, and is genial to them in person, so he gets no pushback whatsoever for enabling & defending moral horrors.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last wk.

Seeing how many respectable liberals, and even leftists, in New York media continued to speak warmly of Reihan Salam is what made me first realize that some journalists have no criteria for moral judgment other than whether someone is personally nice to them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/n...

Survey data worldwide shows ~33% of people have an authoritarian predisposition in politics. This is pretty consistent with retaining just the ones who are right wing and then a smaller outer ring of people who don’t follow any news at all.

Bradley P. Moss@bradmossesq.bsky.social · last wk.

I will confess that I did not believe he would get below 35%. I thought that was his floor. Color me intrigued.

I really wish this Bozo would stop fucking with all our shit.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.

President Trump is set to announce a sweeping plan to remake Dulles International Airport, including building new terminals and doing away with the airport’s long-criticized shuttles, according to two people. Read more here: