This is the right thing to say and I wholeheartedly support it and believe it but it is frustrating and aggravating that he's been saying this for months and months and, like Mamdani, some people on here take this as a rhetorical pivot after the primary rather than just sincerity.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Miller is a piece of shit. But be cautious about calling family photos of nude toddlers "CSAM." I've written about lives ruined over allegations that turned out to be harmless photos of kids taking a bath or running naked through the house. Moreno is already calling for prosecutions, here.

Max Miller’s lawyer admits to accidentally releasing ‘private images’ of daughter

Lawyers for ex-wife Emily Moreno said possible “Child Sexual Abuse Material” was included in a trove of documents the Ohio lawmaker publicly posted.

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Takes like this are very tempting but IMO go too far. The polling miss last night was historically exactly average for a primary — no evidence polls have gotten worse recently. And remember 2022 had the most accurate House and Senate polls in history! bsky.app/profile/gell...

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h ago

There’s no actual alternative to polling but I just don’t believe they capture public sentiment in any reliable way anymore

the median midwestern voter loves two things: electing republicans and thwarting republican policy goals via ballot referendum

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I don’t understand how you land on a movie premise like “The Purge but for Sex” and immediately go with the people who follow the law and not Sex Outlaws, Fuckin And Suckin Against Authority

if nothing else another big night for the "polling in the no-one-picks-up-their-phone-anymore Era is cooked" take

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 16h ago

Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe

I want El-Sayed to win for policy reasons, but much more than that I need him to win because the worst posters on Bluesky will be absolutely *insufferable* if he loses

I’m sick of Artificial Intelligence. Why not Artificial Wisdom? Artificial Charisma? you get it

Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.

Politico@politico.com · 2d ago

Michigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.

It says a lot about how whiny and incoherent centrist Democrats have been in recent years that Ro Khanna of all people can just 360 windmill slam dunk on Dan Goldman like this

Folks I won’t tell you not to feel your feelings, but this is rage bait. He’s talking about expanding beyond politics into things like live sports.

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."

Neighborhood Defender Service and the Bronx Defenders are currently on the city's longest-running public defender strikes since 1982. hellgatenyc.com/hot-strike-s...

Basically the height of caricature at this point: Israel is demanding that as part of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, it be allowed to continue attacking Gaza.

So under this Supreme Court's treatment of U.S. law and presidential power, Joe Biden couldn't forgove my student loans, but perhaps Donald Trump can forgive his own tax debt. Wild.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

I think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

These XX/XY losers had an organized rally at Hollywood and Highland the night before our Hollywood Bowl show, it was loud and took up a lot of space but there were only like a hundred people there. Like many thousands more people paid to watch us play dnd than went to support this shit for free lol

alexis simpson@amutepiggy.bsky.social · 3d ago

lol

Appropriate air quotes because the most infuriating part about Americans debating "lockdown" is that it simply never happened. Having to pick up your Applebees and eat it on the sectional does not count. There wasn't even a brief moment where "everything" was closed. That's not real.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d ago

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid

And here he is staring pretty unequivocally that he sees aid to Ukraine as different from aid to Israel (or Egypt), so please update your priors or fuck off with claims to the contrary.

this ship has sailed, but the people whose conditions were most locked down were the people in prisons who had no PPE and no health care. some even got coerced into making eleven million gallons of hand sanitizer in New York, a bunch of which went to waste

New York made 11M bottles of hand sanitizer. Now it has 700,000 gallons it can't get rid of.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered the production of the hand sanitizer by the state's prison system. A spokesperson said he makes "no apologies for single-handedly solving a hand sanitizer shortage."

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I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering

These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races

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One struggled to have sympathy for people who so obviously failed to grasp the fundamental nature of Trump.

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

Trump “came up with a completely false quote saying I acknowledged things I never said. “My god." — Brad Karp, then the chairman of the law firm 2/2

This is what I mean when I talk about the Fantasy of the Optional Pandemic, where the virus was erased from the equation and mitigation measures were always portrayed as an avoidable choice. Headlines about what actually happened are never even acknowledged.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

This is very funny to me for some reason. Someone actually went to Finder/Explorer and checked the exact file size hoping it would be a compellingly enormous amount and it was only 695 megabytes but they still put it in.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Jeanine Pirro's motion to dismiss the Reflecting Pool case is going to have ripple effects. The decision to end the case against former Olympian David Hearn is already making a big splash — and this is likely just the beginning, not the end, of the matter. Tonight, at Law Dork:

okay I have now seen Christopher Nolan Presents Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey: A Matt Damon Adventure. and my review is, I can't believe anyone got mad at Emily Wilson's review on behalf of this genuinely quite bad film

i work at youtube, where you can watch anyone who has ever died on camera and get a half dozen neo nazi channels in response to searching “shrek cookie frosting recipe 2026.” please do not use women in our videos unless you’re complaining a brown one got a job somewhere

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...