I am, for like the hundredth time, deeply grateful for Schumer/Clinton/ and the rest of the 2016 era Democratic leadership for making college educated voters the base of the party moments before their socialist turn.
Swoletariat
@swoletariat.bsky.social
Market Socialist and industrial policy enthusiast, former protein alchemist.
Republican PAC announces it will continue supporting Republicans.
I'm personally devastated that Abdul getting outspent 9-1 with the sitting governor putting her thumb on the scale didn't end with him winning by double digits, just beside myself really.
Politico@politico.com · 15h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
They're trying it too with Talerico.
skáld@danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 11h agouncommitted withheld their votes for specific and well-founded policy reasons ultimately revealed to have been morally and technically correct. stevens voters are going to withhold their votes out of spite and gutter racism
We're walking into "Jim Crow 2" and this guy wants to give Trump two more supreme court nominees.
Delta Nupe@itsnotuitsme1911.bsky.social · 14h agoEl-Sayed won. I’m urging Black Detroiters to STAY HOME and be “uncommitted’ like El-Sayed was for Kamala Harris during the general election. Dearborn voted for TRUMP instead of the Black Lady. I’m encouraging Black Detroit to vote for Jill Stein or Trump , like the Arabs in Dearborn did in 24!
With Medicare for all you literally don't need the VA anymore and prescription drug prices automatically drop from monopsony power, what are we on about?
They built camps for ICE to send people to, every accusation is a confession.
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
Magdi Jacobs: "El-Sayed has about a day and a half to get his supporters under control." Also Magdi Jacobs: "Your Islamophobic screed on how the Senate is a bulwark against Jihadism was very incisive!"
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Completely absent from this article? Any actual big ideas on offer from the center.
Nothing made me hate cops more than the time I was at a city fireworks display out in Lahaina's bay, saw a guy struggling in the middle of the water, ran until I saw a bunch of cops who after I told them about the person they made absolutely no effort to radio it to one of their boats.
Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d agoIt’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.
Come on New Yorker, you had the perfect set up for claiming SOE will rob wealth from minority communities and you dropped it, get your head in the game!
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago"There is little evidence to support the idea that bringing supermarkets to neighborhoods that lack them has a measurable effect on what residents eat."
Bold, persistent experimentation is something Democrats need to embrace if we're ever going to make this place better.
Bay area cities would rather pay 200k to a high school graduate to rob homeless people than pay half that per intersection to make revenue AND save lives.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · last wk.Basic rules of society that we need to re-establish post Covid: - You actually have to stop for red lights and stop signs. - If you want to watch videos or listen to music in a shared public space, you need to use headphones. - Your pet does not need to go everywhere with you. - Don’t litter.
Nothing demonstrates bluesky's default setting is 'radlib' like state run grocery store discourse.
We can put this into leftists terms, would you rather live in the imperial core or in the periphery?
Humble Novice@humblenovice.bsky.social · last wk.Is Darializa Avila Chevalier even aware that the majority of Puerto Ricans aren't interested in independence for a variety of reasons?
True most Democrats don't have the same credibility as the socialist ones.
the autumn and the scarlet 🍁@marcy.beneprism.rip · 2w agoI like Mamdani a lot but I also know that if just about any other Democrat made a big deal about "cutting red tape" they would be absolutely savaged as a ghoulish neoliberal who wants to let corporations feed poison ice cream to your children
SHE'S ON STEVENS WEBSITE AS AN ENDORSEMENT! 😭😭😭
Swoletariat@swoletariat.bsky.social · 2w agoRacism is still acceptable in the Democratic party.
British settlers in India on independence: well, the jig is up, time to start writing short stories and get really into cricket French settlers in Algeria on independence: I am going to form white people ISIS
Which way Democratic party? The popular Socialists or the disgraced Iraq war cheerleaders?
Mona Charen@monacharen.bsky.social · 2w agoThe DSA Is a Gift to MAGA www.thebulwark.com/p/the-dsa-is...
People who actually want to fight fascism are what the Democrats need. If the left is more eager than the center,let's go DSA!
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” James Kirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history:
The prospect of leading a competent resistance scares him and he's actively sabotaging the party.
Schumer declines to endorse likely Democratic Senate nominee in Maine
Troy Jackson is expected to face Sen. Susan Collins (R) in a crucial race.
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To recap, centrists for months have wanted Plantner out, and now that he has dropped out (rightfully so) the new candidate will be the DSA endorsed gubernatorial candidate.
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is entirely over, by the way. Bellows has already dropped out. Jackson has more than enough delegates to win a majority on the first ballot with 7 counties to go. Very impressive organizing feat.
Early results in Maine counties show that delegates aligned with Troy Jackson are cleaning up. 69 of a possible 72 delegates in three counties. (That is based on his campaign's estimates.)
The only thing more incredible than the lengths establishment Democrats will go to ratfuck the left is how badly they've gotten at it.
John Nichols@nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 3w agoWisconsin Governor Tony Evers endorses Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley for the Democratic nomination for governor.
Remarks on a podcast about Black establishment politicians who "defang the white left" were supposed to sink Will Lawrence. They were picked up for a radio ad from the CBC's PAC. But then something happened: local Black leaders defended him and said he was spot on. prospect.org/2026/07/17/c...
As the CBC Condemns Will Lawrence, Local Black Leaders Back Him Up - The American Prospect
On a podcast, Lawrence said Black establishment leaders’ support for the status quo ‘is a big problem.’ Black voters and leaders in Michigan agreed with him.
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