AIPAC setting $34 million on fire was the best possible outcome here and we got it. That’s $34 million they can’t use to harm dem candidates in November.

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 6h ago

btw if you’re ticked at AIPAC for whatever reason them spending a maximum amount of money to barely lose is ideal, 10/10, just as a pure matter of don’t-know-ball and forward outcome for them as an organization. this cycle has been catastrophic for them purely in terms of inputs and outputs

Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%

I feel like I’ve said it 1,000 times but the best way to make sure no trans girls or women ever get to participate in women’s sports is to simply not have women’s sports, problem solved. This is always where this was headed within sports.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · yesterday

You can see the very obvious throughline from “men could transition and easily dominate women’s sports” to “women’s sports are lesser and shouldn’t be taken seriously” to “women shouldn’t play sports” to “here are the acceptable life choices for women”

Have we tried taxing rich people?

Whole race in a nut shell: Susan Collins is a product of the ownership class and a member of the ownership class focused on advancing ownership class interests and Troy Jackson is a product of the working class and a member of the working class eager to advance working class interests. #MEpolitics

Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wild pair of paragraphs in Press Herald's story on Susan Collins and Troy Jackson's roots in Aroostook County. Who knew that being a worker and hiring workers were the same thing! (Lots of ownership class folks think this way, actually.) #MEpolitics

The $1.776 billion Trump “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is dead! Whoopee!! Wait . . . . how long ‘til we see a $1.9 billion “Trump Justice Fund”? Or a special drive-up window for MAGA Federal Tort Claims Act claimants?

Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce

Reuters@reuters.com · 2d ago

Michigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E

I’m so bored by this timeline.

The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority - the individual. It limits the governments power to harm the individual. The whole constitution is designed to limit the governments power.

If someone doesn't provide a link, I assume they are fudging and it's not worth my time. 1000x if you post a poll with no collection data.

Elon Green@elongreen.bsky.social · 3d ago

You know what’s cool? Sharing links to the original story instead of just a fucking screencap.

Everyone who is talking about this story should be reading Abby‘s original version. She actually read through over 1000 pages of court documents, and she did it first. And shamefully, some large outlets have chosen to not credit her (@nytimes.com)

Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) previously denied a report, also alleged in court records, that he pushed a girl down a flight of stairs in high school. But the woman recently told me the alleged incident remains "one of the more traumatic nights of my life." Inside the investigation: ow.ly/8xU450ZpaNp

So: Fuck Max Miller and reminder that abusers are everywhere and demanding accountability is the absolute moral baseline.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · 3d ago

Another day, another reminder that about 15% of US women & 4%of men have been injured via intimate partner violence (IPV) & 30% - 60% of IPV perps also abuse children in the household. Accountability for perps + safety for those harmed. Always.

'I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly.' 'I think the goodness should come before he expects that.' - Middlemarch by George Elliot (1871) 150 years, same song.

this guy gets it

It's one thing to say you don't regret voting for Kavanaugh as Susan Collins did in June. Can argue that you made the best decision possible w/ the info available. But it's a whole other thing to say you'd vote for him AGAIN. That's an endorsement of his impact on the court and country. #MEpolitics

Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Q: "The life issue is just, like, my voting issue...If you could clone Justice Kavanaugh, would you do it?" Susan Collins: "I would vote for him again, yes, if that's what you're asking." #MEpolitics

The only wrong way to buy an author's book is to get a pirated copy. Buying a used copy in paper? Authors don't get anything from resale, but I don't know any author who objects to that. Real human authors were all real human readers first, and we all discovered reads we loved in used bookstores. 5/

Woof. Manifesting Red God with a re-read. It hurts even more, knowing where they are all going. #booksky

The xAI fascio-freak is suing Minnesota for passing a first-of-its-kind law banning “nudification” technologies because, sure, that’s the free speech hill to die on www.jezebel.com/turns-out-th...

As Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Turé) said, “if a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

"If your neighbor thinks some kooky things about communists, it might make them kind of an intolerable jerk, but they don’t have the power to do anything. But when the FBI or CIA or other institutions that have power think this way, then it starts to have real implications” — @sethcotlar.bsky.social

A GOP (or centrist lib) on the DSA's plans: 1. Build park benches 2.??? 3. Take over the world

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

AMEN

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

Lucas Tieman@lucastieman.bsky.social · 6d ago

There would be more pushback if folks left of center were more serious about outreach. But folks aren't despite the fact that our system does give disproportionate power to rural areas. But instead of taking that as the rules of the game as it exists, and actually organizing, we complain about it.

LISTEN to survivors describe their meeting with Todd Blanche: "Very condescending" "A lot of talking in circles… arguing semantics" "He actually said the words: 'Get to the point.'"

"Are they fearful of the socialists’ plans to ensure all Americans have health care and stop genocide, or are they not horrified by what Trump has done. Here’s what scares me: that Allen and VandeHei would say “yes” to both," writes @alexshephard.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2136...

The New Red Scare Is Here—and It’s Dumber Than Ever

These Beltway pundits desperately want us to believe that there’s an equivalent of Trumpism on the left.

newrepublic.com

Re-reading Golden Son and watching the central crew form the bonds that hold them for the rest of their lives makes me laugh at them then and also cry for who they become. #booksky

I need some non fiction books because I am running out on my TBR (I always like to have one going). Any recs? I like underdogs, rebels, ancient civilizations, the year 1400, weird things, feminism, art. But interesting is the most important. #booksky

Read this instead of the times.

Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · last wk.

Read my July 18 story for the original reporting that the New York Times didn’t link to... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Approximately 1 out of 3 women will experience sexual and/or physical abuse in their lifetime and you still have men claiming that allegations must be false because there are too many of them. It’s actually the opposite. The vast majority allegations will never become public

Fine piece but it gets the causation backwards. The truth is NOT that Susan Collins might've blocked Kavanaugh IF ONLY she'd been more open to dialogue with Maine women. It's that she resisted a dialogue precisely BECAUSE she'd resolved from the start to fall in line and vote for him. #MEpolitics

Portland Press Herald@pressherald.com · last wk.

Susan Collins still isn’t listening to women | Opinion