Tom Gillespie
@tagillespie.bsky.social
Mostly just lurking. He/him Antifa
"In deep-red Texas" deliberately misses the point from the jump
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoIn deep-red Texas, conservatives are trying to make sense of what just happened to their longtime Republican stronghold. We visited a men’s bible study as they gathered for the first time since the state flipped in the midterm election.
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/
Some thoughts on the collision of the past and present in the Mississippi Senate race
Mississippi Goddamn
We're still tabulating the final results of the 2026 midterm elections, but the biggest takeaway already seems quite clear – southern politics have been completely upended. Georgia has led the way he...
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Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Alan Rickman as Metatron in Dogma
ALT: Alan Rickman as Metatron in Dogma
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Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 4d agoFilm you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Hakeem Jeffries is not YOUR leader. There are actually people leading the resistance well already. He is the leader of 255 incoming Members of Congress, more than half of whom are more conservative than you, than me, and even than Hakeem Jeffries. emptywheel.net/2026/11/05/o...
On Congress - emptywheel
The division of labor in Congress guarantees that the people most effective at oversight -- people like Jamie Raskin -- are in the right places and already working on the oversight of the Trump Admini...
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Wow, wow, wow. One of those “the past isn’t dead, it isn’t even past” moments.
Djinn & Tonic@djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 5d agoThe last black senator from Mississippi was born a slave
There's going to be so much of this around the world, now and more forcefully if a Democrat wins the presidency. People are desperate to return to normal. But normal is gone.
Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 5d agoCanadian business leaders are already suggesting that the midterm results signal a return to normalcy -- and the need for an immediate trade deal with Trump. Ignore them, Prime Minister. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/11/04/o...
you extend a hand across the aisle, that hand better be holding a shiv CONSEQUENCES
"The Constitution protects Americans’ rights to hold differing beliefs and participate in society as equals. For conservative Christians who believe in God but not equality, this is a problem."
Right-Wing Lawyers Keep Pushing a Constitutional Right to Discriminate Against LGBTQ People
This six-justice conservative supermajority keeps telling activists exactly what kinds of cases to bring next.
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Springsteen finally found the solution to stop Republicans who don't understand his songs from playing them.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d agoFox's Stuart Varney and Jimmy Failla have a meltdown over Bruce Springsteen endorsing Abdul El-Sayed. Stu: I will never play that man’s music on this program again! Jimmy: The idea that Bruce Springsteen’s sticking up for people who weren’t born in the USA is why I'm never watching him again!
fascinated by political reporters who see their job as disciplining democrats and not just explaining what is happening
Axios@axios.com · 6d agoThere's a difference between a blowout and a mandate. Confusing the two could tempt Democrats to overread the results and forget the serious credibility problem they still face heading into 2028.
Yeah, I always tell everyone the goal of the Civil Rights Movement was the right to be ordinary. The enraging part of the Callais was its blinkered refusal to uphold the Fifteenth (and Nineteenth and Twenty-Six)’s clear invocation that people have the right to vote and Congress must facilitate it.
Theodore R. Johnson@drtedj.bsky.social · last wk.Another thing on this: I can assure you that folks will cite high Black turnout this midterm as evidence that the Roberts’ Court in Shelby County, Rucho, Callais, etc has been justified in weakening the VRA. But people outworking discriminatory law/jurisprudence is not justice or good policy.
And it's not as if Paxton is some gleaming bronzed Adonis by comparison.
Human Resources Haldeman@gonebabygone.bsky.social · last wk.It's pretty weird to me how Republicans landed on this notion of calling Talarico a lisping little fairy, not that it would be justified if he were effeminate but that's not even his affect, he just comes off like a median white-collar millennial straight guy
I don’t really think “not a politician” should be a selling point for a candidate. The job is politician. I want to elect someone who understands that job and is good at it and also is not a dirtbag. We have seen how catastrophic it is to make “not a politician” the priority over “not a dirtbag.”
In "honor" of #HaleyStevens -- I don't normally involve myself in out-of-state campaigns, but this demanded a response.
Almost all of my criticism of Democrats centers around the ideas that 1) I'd like them to defeat Republicans in elections; 2) I'd like them to nominate candidates who will actually work to defeat Republicans *after* elections, so that those electoral wins become meaningful.
PAXTON: Tell your friends the difference between me and James Talarico AUDIENCE MEMBER: Paxton, you take bribes!
If you're a reporter pretending that the Dan Sullivan thing in Alaska is somehow (1) unprecedented, (2) illegal and/or (3) scandalous in any way, I'm never going to waste a moment reading a fucking word you write again. You're revealing that you're a stenographer at best and a con artist at worst.
Yesterday someone suggested reading the first page of the California/20,000 voters ruling, so I just did, & it's so remarkable that I'm going to post it all bc holy cow what a thing. [this thread constitutes alt text for the image of the page] 1/n
Shocking as in wrong/offensive, presumably, rather than shocking as in unexpected.
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2w agomost shocking part of this huge story: “Roughly a year ago, Mr. Trump was briefed about the intelligence findings, which have not been previously reported, and chose not to do anything with the information. Mr. Trump has been wary of disrupting Nvidia’s chip sales” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/u...
We must unlearn the deception that public funds "come from" taxes. The truth is that taxes are public collections of private funds created by private banks using credit that they were granted BY THE PUBLIC. To demand full funding of all basic needs, organized majorities must understand this fact.
Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 2w ago"The trouble is that most modern political economy—Marxism included—promptly betrays its own constructionism, reducing money’s social functionality right back to a private, alienable, and ultimately exogenous thingliness."
UPDATE: @justinjpearson.bsky.social on Brent Taylor’s Sexting Scandal🍆 “This is the type of predatory behavior that needs to be rooted out of our society and politics. Tennessee deserves leaders who respect women— not sexually harass, expose their genitalia to, or take advantage of them.”
So hard to pick a favorite part of this article. Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too
Nashville Scene@nashvillescene.com · 2w agoRepublican congressional candidate Brent Taylor asks voters to forgive past sexual advances as "youthful indiscretions."
probably ought to be better known that the republicans party is basically down to a very small number of extremely wealthy donors, and kneecapping even one of them is probably an existential threat to the party
The hidden GOP fundraising weakness is getting worse
Republican candidates’ struggles with online fundraising have left them more reliant on large donors and super PACs.
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My first cartoon depicting the RW Portuguese leader of Chega: André Ventura Chega uses the same lies and racist scare tactics as MAGA. Think of Chega as MAGA with an accent
