Jeff Fecke

Oh come on, it's not like Trump was found by a court to have raped someone before except for that one time.

They hate us 'cause they ain't us.

Obama is the first Black president. Even if he'd done nothing he'd be the first Black president. (He did things.) Trump will be talked about for years to come, though. Just like Nixon.

I don't want high turnout. I want the Republicans to stay home.

This is America at its best.

*sigh* Stealing is bad, even if you're stealing from people you don't like.

Flavio to retire to the Villages in Florida

#til A Chinese nickname for Trump: "'Chuan Jianguo,' which roughly means 'Trump, the (Chinese) nation builder.'"

A person on Twitter posted these screenshots about her supposedly ridiculous Airbnb host, and I'm honestly impressed, for the first time in my life, I'm feeling bad for an Airbnb host, she's just that entitled and ridiculous

a weird set of people who only exist online are people who celebrate the defeat of global fascism in every other country and are then horrified and appalled at the idea that they should also be expected to vote for their domestic opponent of global fascism if some of their stances are Problematic

in practice, of course, Magyar's govt is now unravelling Orban's anti-LGBTQ laws, but he knew that *being able to do that* meant winning which in mega socially conservative Hungary meant centering other things

TFM/"Democrats for Mike Rogers" is attempting to have a rally in Pontiac, MI, but it doesn't appear to be going well. bsky.app/profile/kass...

I think Nate Silver is basically correct that Marist (and some other pollsters) are using their LV screens to hedge because they don't believe their own results. Which, to be fair, I don't really believe them either, but that's not what you're supposed to use an LV screen for. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I would like to report the owner of Mar-a-Lago who signed an oath under penalty of felony perjury that the White House was his *Florida* voter registration residence Oh wait, he has to be arrested and convicted. darn

Well played

Nathan: Do you understand why he is a tragic figure? Elizabeth: He doesn't have any friends? Nathan: Sorta. He really wants the ring that he lost but he also hates himself for wanting it so much. Billy: [Pausing Audible at 2x speed] Boromir is the actual hero of this story.

This is an INCREDIBLY important point! The media & the GOP are going to make every attempt over the next few years to let the GOP move on from MAGA, Trump, etc. It is going to be CRITICAL that we keep those two things attached. We need the voters just as mad as they are now in 2028 & beyond....

It's going to be somewhat refreshing for all of the DSA folks to learn how "being somewhat more influential" means "dealing with the same bullshit that drove you crazy about the Democratic Party" and I for one am here for the aftermath at least.

Looks like we need to switch to "No, it's only the national DSA that's crazy, the local orgs are pretty good!" we'd been stuck on "No, it's only the local orgs that are crazy, the national DSA is pretty good!" for a minute there.

These people don’t want to win; they don’t even want to persuade. They want a world where they are a pure and rarified elite, with none of the responsibilities of actual power, only the smug gratification of being right.

What is this al-jabr stuff?

Cenk is going anti-trans.

*BOLSONARO: FEDERAL POLICE REQUESTED I GIVE THEM MY PASSPORT

"Not me. He...he never notices me." *sighs heavily.* *Crowd is silent.* "Now now, don't you all shout how I shouldn't feel bad. I have the love of my life, Gullvalla Ikea, to go home to."

"I remember when I met her in a club down in old SoHo, the champagne there tasted like COCA-COLA. Anyhow, she came up to me, big woman, strong woman, tears in her eyes, I said what's your name, and in a raspy voice, she said, 'Lula.' L-O-L-A Lula. Not many people know it's spelled with an O."

Ah, it appears Bluesky's UI is going bonkers.

Yeah, I'd like to not care much who was in charge of Brazil but when one of the choices is a Nazi party allied with people in my nation's government I kind of have to.

Different Places Have Different Amounts of Human Rights And Democracy And That's Okay

This account is pro-Fascist and pro-autocracy and it is not unique Let's discuss briefly what the indicia are

Your daughter is creative. Your daughter loves animals. You daughter is empathetic.

Voters are pissed and showing up! Republicans thought they could redraw the maps, rig the odds, and coast to victory. Instead, they’re scrambling to save seats they thought were in the bag.

I used to bet on election outcomes, and I stopped for a number of reasons, but one of them is that as I got older, I just started to feel like what I was doing was cruel, precisely because you're committing an affinity fraud!

No, NPR, this isn't true. There's plenty of things extraordinarily more scary than "private equity in food"

People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.