We have to reckon with the fact that Uncommitted really was what it said it was - a group of loyal partisan democrats trying to save the party from itself. This was obviously not the case with "Abandon Harris," but anyone conflating the two is doing so out of either ignorance or malice.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3h ago

The co-founder of the 2024 National Uncommitted Movement, Abbas Alawieh, decisively won his primary to become a State Senator in Michigan. Abbas was endorsed by both Bernie Sanders and Gretchen Whitmer. Abbas Alawieh also privately met with former VP Kamala Harris last month upon her request.

Sometimes someone just pops up to demonstrate exactly what's being talked about, and really I think that's neat.

Shou Fukan@shoufukan.bsky.social · 3h ago

Lib paranoia and conspiracy theory thinking is every bit as hilarious as qanon was. His "worst" fans are people who are vehemently opposed to Israel's genocide in Gaza and the fact that you think they're all maga troll bots means you should probably just never talk about politics ever again

I think this is actually probably a helpful thing. There's a fine line between having momentum and feeling like you've been crowned. Knowing you have to keep working is salutary.

Your Friend Temporary Michigander@trt311.bsky.social · 11h ago

I genuinely didn’t expect… white rural Democrats… to be the main reason this race was a nail biter but yeah, we’ve got our work cut out for us in November. Abdul’s people need to really kiss Stevens’ ass and make nice with the MI Dems or they are def gonna lose in November.

The moderates being unable to generate even a modicum of tactical thinking is the through-line for how we got here

The other thing that El Sayed is going for him is a bit of a rope-a-dope advantage. Voters just tuning in (which is most voters) have been led to expect him to talk nonstop about Gaza and defunding the police, and they will discover that his campaign is actually focused on elite corruption.

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 7h ago

I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.

Update: El Sayed is on Morning Joe while the race remains technically uncalled. The consolidation is flying.

Jared Friedman 🇺🇦@silkscreenfiend.bsky.social · 7h ago

My only real hope is that Stevens and El Sayed will look at the razor thin margin and realize that that passion is actually a strength, but they need to work together to repair whatever damage lingers. That said, I'm confident they can.

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 · 18h ago

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

This Is The Way. I knocked doors for Tom fucking Suozzi. And I would [chokes back gorge] knock doors for Tom Suozzi again. Because the worst Democrat is better than the best Republican in the same way that finding a nickel is better than getting kicked in the junk.

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 17h ago

shut up and either win a primary or vote for the centrist

Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

We used to have Bob Hope, Johnny Cash, and Richard ICBMs...

rich traditions@helldude.bsky.social · 19h ago

couple months ago: let's show these assholes why americans are drowning in medical and other personal debt now: wait what we don't even have the weaponry now either

The stridently anti-El Sayed set are really coming to remind me of PUMA voters in '08, because they're functionally making the same arguments for the same reasons.

This, a thousand times this. Just not letting things go to waste is all my brain wants, and modern society makes it a real challenge. That said, the buy-nothing groups are the one (1) redeeming feature of Facebook, especially if you're in a populous area.

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 23h ago

I DON'T EVEN WANT A STUPID FUCKING TAX BREAK. I don't need a REWARD for fucking charity. I just want *somebody* to be able to use lightly worn coat my kid grew out of in one winter, or the board game the kids played once, hated, and never opened again.

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Going over to a random table of people laughing and talking at a pub and screaming at them that they are insulating themselves from the viewpoints of a majority of voters.

www.maptap.gg August 3 91👑 97🔥 96🔥 94🏅 99🎯 Final score: 959

He's losing words. Anyone with a parent or loved one suffering from dementia will recognize this pattern. Wen he says "moving cameras," it's because he can't recall the word "videos" and so he's stating the component parts as best he can. E.g., a "camera" is involved and the images are "moving"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."

I'm sorry, but anyone who could write this utter nonsense is undeserving of freedom of speech.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 5d ago

Opinion: The most powerful sword the left wields against Trump and is omission. Selective silence. Hide the positives, and the American people never hear them.

if you're not comfortable fooling the morons into voting for you I think electoral politics may be outside your skillset

There are no good Republicans. No good moderate Republicans, no good MAGA Republicans, no good mainstream Republicans. They must be broken forever and driven from our society.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d ago

John Cornyn & Thom Tillis issue a joint statement announcing they will support Todd Blanche for AG. He's now in good position to clear the Judiciary Committee tomorrow and head to the full Senate.

Google Maps should be nationalized and transformed into a public utility administered by USDOT.

It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

Downplay a book or movie: The Neverending Anecdote

Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · 3d ago

Downplay a book or movie: The Hitchhiker's Guide to a Star Cluster.

Also, if these people were Real Revolutionaries, and not Soft, Weak Libs, they should understand the rules of the game: people who get caught are a liability, and defending people who get caught is a strategic blunder. But they don't. They whine publicly about injustice. They're sentimental fools.

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 3d ago

how many detainees did the Prairieland defendants set free? how many people are now walking free when none of those activists ever will again? oh right, zero, which is a substantially lower number than the number of people Stancil and his compatriots saved with no jail time themselves

The Man Who Was Thursday. What a weird, beautiful book.

David Weiskopf believes in you@dave.bzky.team · 10mo ago

What is your favorite English-language novel? (Free spaces for Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, and Moby Dick -- what else you got?)

Regardless of what you think about Mamdani's public supermarkets, I think we can all have a nice little chuckle at the unhinged fantasy cope on display here from NR.

I think this phenomenon is the crisis of capitalism we're going through in a nutshell. Cost of consumption goes down, cost of production goes down further, difference is pocketed by investors.

Jared Friedman 🇺🇦@silkscreenfiend.bsky.social · 3d ago

My hunch is that Red Wing Shoes are basically what all shoes used to be - made in the USA by skilled labor, from durable materials, and expensive compared to the average weekly wage. The advent of cheap shoes allowed workers to afford "more," but the "savings" is made up of unsustainable phenomena.

Every single Republican is this man. Moreno so terrified of being called out on whatever weird shit he was up to that be couldn't even bring himself to comment on what this bastard did to his own daughter until it was clear the cat was out of the bag. This is who they are. Abuse and silence. Filth.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Miller and his attorneys released a big Dropbox cache of transcripts, recordings, etc (link below). If they think this is going to help him, they are likely wrong. Even Miller's father-in-law, US Sen. Bernie Moreno, has come out against him www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/982qz...

At some point, and it should be soon, some Democrat (or all!) should really start making a point about the general depravity of the entire GOP. Between the nonstop lying, the white collar crime, domestic abuse, fraud, child abuse... this is a group that devotes itself to evil. It simply is.

Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 4d ago

This should absolutely be the centerpiece of Emilia Sykes' or Lebron James' 2030 campaign against Moreno.

Professor Harold Hill. No, I will not be taking questions at this time.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 5d ago

Name a villain who was actually right.

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that