It's funny that MAGA still drops the "thousands were turned away" line after pictures of underwhelming crowds circulate. We can clearly see they are booking smaller and smaller venues. The idea that a narcissist like Trump would artificially depress his crowd sizes doesn't pass the smell test.

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2w ago

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has emerged as a prominent voice calling on Americans to step back from the political hostility gripping the country. The Republican governor is expanding on that message in a new book. https://to.pbs.org/3VmTJnx

I'm tempted to mute the never-ending Will Stancil economic sentiment discussion because it takes up half of my timeline. I think he has a point that economic sentiment being lower than the GFC signifies a disconnect between feelings and reality.

Weird how both Brexit and MAGA - two supposedly populist and antielitist projects - ended up promoting elite immunity from any legal consequences. Almost as if that was the goal from the very beginning, while the low-info voters who supported this are irrelevant and expendable.

I've been to the Kennedy Center. I've always enjoyed it's place architecturally on the DC Waterfront. I don't want to see it torn down. With that said, tearing it down in mid-October with $5/gallon gas and $7/gallon diesel might start testing the waters for something greater than a D+15 Midterm.

I saw a clip where the anti-Mamdani families went to City Hall yesterday and the media to family member ratio was well over 10:1. That should tell people everything they need to know about this so-called "controversy."

Seems like there is a lession here that a lot of Dem politicians would do well to internalize.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · last mo.

Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves

I know as Dems we love to doom, and in a lot of cases for good reason. However, in retrospect Dems sweeping statewide offices in Arizona in a midterm where our party held the presidency is really a terrible omen for the Rs.

This whole thing where Trump is claiming credit for a drop in prescription drug prices when Biden signed the legislation that allowed negotiating those prices highlights a big frustration of mine. Dems need to stop passing legislation where the public doesn't see the benefits for years.

The Wisconsin primary should be a wake-up call that we need ranked choice voting in primaries.

I have a possible theory on Trump's current expedition in Iran. As Trump is insanely jealous of Obama, he was hoping he would get adoration and maybe a nomination for a real peace prize for a deal and ending the war (that he started). Once that didn't happen, he didn't care if the world burned.

Georgia might blueshift above the national average but I think something is happening everywhere. A national environment where we can lock up the House without any seats in CA would be key. I think the Pratt nonsense was him priming the pump to challenge any CA returns after election night.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 3mo ago

okay the primaries weren't lying Something's Happening in Georgia

I got involved in some rural voter discussion and I guess where I stand is here: We shouldn't deprive people in those areas of basic things we believe in but we also need to stop doing extra things for them thinking more of them will like us. That is the behavior of the abused toward their abuser.

I predict the GOP is going to try to preempt state and local regulations against data centers to help their donor buddies. Johnson and Thune are probably smart enough to wait until the lame duck session as even a lot of Rs are anti-data center. Trump will probably force the issue sooner.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’ve heard oil called “liquid gold” before but Trump apparently thinks the term is fitting for data centers too.

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

If you want the Democrats to do something, you have to actually vote for them and not just get mad at them when you don’t. I hope that helps and I’m not being sarcastic because some of you really don’t seem to understand this at all.

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

Today’s warped, far-right Christianity in one tweet: Killing people in an unnecessary war is less offensive than recognizing the existence of transgender people.

Team USA lost because they didn't go on Joe Rogan.

I just made the connection that both of the threats of FCC investigations, to Colbert and The View, are centered around interviews with James Talerico. This guy obviously scares then to death.

"Narco Rubio" is right there for the taking. Might be a way to bring some attention to this.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“Marco Rubio as a teenager made extra cash working for his late brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia. The business imported and sold exotic animals as a front for moving nearly a half million pounds of cocaine and marijuana.”

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

If we get out of this, we need real systematic reform And we need to start identifying the people who are willing to do that and give them support and the people who are not and get rid of them

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Robert Black@hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Right. If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"

Your daily reminder that Republicans are ruining America.