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Why do so many of us feel the stakes are existential? Not because of gas prices. Ossoff gets it. Some others do, too. But even charismatic political talents like Abdul El-Sayed are being led astray by the advice to hew to talking points & avoid the narrative of accountability. That must change. /3

@brianbeutler.bsky.social: "Successful elections aren’t only assemblages of talking points that poll well. They’re built on good storytelling; because through storytelling we can make better-than-educated guesses about how politics will change in the near future." /1

Strong agree.

As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

Godspeed and thank you. 🙏 💫

Trump has publicly been a perverted, pedophilic, INCESTUOUS guy for decades and is very weird how everyone just wants to pretend that these accusations only started after Epstein got got.

It's like everyone decided "If the president was plausibly accused of child sex trafficking, it would be the biggest scandal of all time" and went from there to "It's not the biggest scandal of all time, so I guess he's not plausibly accused of child sex trafficking." But he is.

House Democrats looked into it and it really feels like they were just tripping over allegations against Trump - including allegations no one had heard before! - everywhere they looked. It's bizarre that this remains such a low-burn scandal. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

It's well-documented that the president maintained a years-long friendship with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker. It might strike you as odd there aren't direct allegations of Trump engaging in child sex trafficking.. except there are. There are SO MANY. They just never get reported!

I am fascinated by the zero-charisma chuds who during the Trump administration find themselves briefly in positions of power and relevance. An inspiration for thumbs everywhere. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

“Ramaswamy’s ad embraces a woman who enabled sexual abuse—and uses the language of ‘parental estrangement’ to mobilize MAGA voters who can’t understand why their children won’t take their calls. But they know the reason. They just don’t want to accept it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

"The right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

Setting aside all the other deeply appalling aspects of this ad, it is being aired by a billionaire who would exploit this obviously troubled elderly homeless woman for his political career.

The average family that heats their home with oil is going to pay $1500 more this winter because of Donald Trump’s insane Iran War. Some people will go cold. Some may die. This isn’t hyperbole. This is the consequence of having a president who just doesn’t care about you.

Trumpism has succeeded because his side draws up a passionate core and supplements it with gigantic media presence. There is no alternative to this. Goody-two-shoes "let's participate in democracy together" crap goes nowhere. You can only defeat fascist power with progressive power. /end

Given the shift in media ownership over the Trump era, Democrats REALLY need to learn to ignore media handwringing now. Because I have no doubt their every move for accountability will be attacked from every possible angle.

Republicans really firing on all cylinders in this campaign www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"Bottom line: Democrats are delusional if they continue to believe good policy is sufficient to win elections. Republicans correctly realize good policies and effective governance are not even necessary to win." @schaller67.bsky.social | @atrupar.com in a zinger Public Notice.

oh my god ballot initiatives too. "yes, let's require ordinary voters parse this highly complex legalese likely written to be intentionally dishonest." crazy system bsky.app/profile/benf...

Right. If your mother says bad things about you, it should automatically disqualify you from holding a job in government. Apropos of nothing, here's an email to Pete Hegseth from his mom.

I'm old enough to remember when Jared Kushner thought it was a good idea to use the Russian embassy to conduct secure communications during an American presidential transition

Who's in charge of this country because it sure isn't us and it doesn't even appear to be the government anymore A bunch of paunchy moon-faced degenerate dead-eyed parasites forming a human centipede of investment in each others' vanity conglomerates, not a scintilla of civic virtue among them

A good hedge, then, would be to say now that these oligarchs are meddling in the election, and will have to answer for it in January, no matter the size of Democrats’ victory. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

Dems play the expectations game by, e.g., saying private polls are closer than public ones. What they should say (because it's true) is that they're up against aggressive cheating by the richest, most powerful people in the world, and winning in spite of it. 🧵 www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

I’ve decided there isn’t a word yet for these people. He’s more than a shit, he’s proactively vile, wretched

Surely this is out of context? Surely even Vivek wouldn’t say this in the context of childhood abuse?

Republicans turn America into a third world shithole, then chant USA as it burns down.

First Assistant Bill admits California does signature verification for ballots. MAGA going to be mad about this admission!

If you want to spread the word, feel free to steal this

Abortion—and democracy—are on the ballot. Here's what you need to know

really, who still listens to him? the same people who think Rahm Emanuel has a real following...

NEW in Bolts: In Culver City, California, students are trying to drum up support for a November ballot measure to let 16- and 17-year-olds participate in city council and school board elections.

Jan Crawford is CBS News’s longtime Supreme Court correspondent and she’s especially close with Alito. Just a fun little insight into (1) who is providing you with ostensibly straight news about the Court and (2) how their brains can be just as cooked as the brains of the justices they cover.

New from me: I'm so sick of the Broligarchy, the world they want to force upon the rest of us, and the millions they waste on that goal. On election day, let's tell them all to go to hell. www.altrightdelete.news/p/f-the-brol...

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The piece was getting pretty long but I will add here that of course one thing incivility earns you that politeness doesn’t is attention. It’s an important hack to use the current attention economy to your advantage.

Every word here is golden but especially “anthropomorphic smarm-fountain David Brooks.” Perfect!

Democrats: "we should put rich people in prison when they commit brazen crimes" American media: "whoa there...that sounds really extreme!"

At some point, voters will understand that corruption and unregulated corporate greed are deepening an unsustainable wealth gap. We need to rise above the scare tactics are designed to distract and divide us.

This past week serves as a valuable reminder that, the vague term "collusion" notwithstanding, Trump has spent his whole political career these last 11 years serving Russian interests, obstructing US foreign policy to help Ukraine, and jeopardizing NATO's unified front against Russian aggression...

Given the news that Meta throttled Lula in Brazil and stories like this one below every Dem state legislature should open an investigation into whether the platforms have attempted to influence elections in their states.

California’s billionaires have a combined net worth of $2.4 trillion. Under Prop 40, their net worth would fall to…just under $2.3 trillion. What amounts to a rounding error for them would allow millions of their fellow Californians to afford healthcare. Vote yes on Prop 40.

"Russia has been helping Iran the entire time....And Donald Trump’s response is to beg Putin to accept American money in exchange for a few thousand barrels of diesel....This is the most stunning display of submission and weakness from an American president ever."

The President of the US is now threatening to jail local election officials if they do not break federal law in the middle of an election in which hundreds of thousands of votes have already been returned. An unprecedented attack on our democracy — one we will call out every. single. time.