hark! a liberal

hell Mills tried to turn her moment fighting Trump "see you in court" into a thing and outside of Maine it was like "ew cringe grandma!" rather than being the rallying cry it clearly was.

Obama: "The guy has become billions of dollars wealthier in office. Nobody disputes this! It's just -- how do you do that when you're supposed to be looking out for you? And the worst part of it not a single Republican in Congress has done anything to stop it."

Where Mehdi spends three minutes grilling his guest over 8 measly tweets in the span of 2 months. And that's a good clip? He even concedes the point! There's one person obsessed with Piker in this exchange, and it's not the one against whom the charge is being levied.

I need a "mute this person for a week or so" button in Bluesky. Ie. "I like you and seeing what you post usually but you're on some bullshit right now and I'd rather not see it"

As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

Cosmopolitanism is a foundational democratic value. All anti-cosmopolitan ideologies are just different flavors of volkism.

i do unironically think people that are cosmopolitan need sorta paradoxically be more chauvinist about it tbh. places and people that are cosmopolitan in outlook are better than places that are provincially minded. the kind of performative handwringing about not being 'authentic' is bad and weak.

Inflation is up again. Not because of a pandemic. Not because of a natural disaster. Because of Trump’s war, tariffs, and corporate tax breaks. It really is this simple: Republicans took over, and then drove up the cost of living in America.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a bracket

Love that my opponent is trying to paint me as someone who wants political violence and meanwhile her party is going to execute someone on live tv (after already murdering multiple citizens in the streets and fishermen in boats)

While we're throwing around ideas, I like Palm Beach too

Convince people who might otherwise vote Dem that it’s not worth it and suddenly you need fewer Republican voters. Flooding the media with “Dems suck” stories gets it out there and starts to push that story. So it’s important to have someone watching that and calling it bullshit.

Good intentions are not enough. You need to make good policy that actually solves the problem you're trying to address without creating worse second-order effects.

One day I hope to convince conservatives that we should enforce the rule of law, reduce the deficit, and not carelessly tear down the institutions prior generations built, but today is not that day.

C'mon man. Do better. This chart is misleading. Total private construction for 12/23 was $1,573B. Data centers was $1.9B. So the growth in data center and decline in all others, all others is still over 200X larger. The decline in all others is 1% and within normal fluctuations.

this has to be a bit right?

me: I really want Abdul to be elected Senator, therefore, I think Hasan should stop saying controversial things when he knows that the news media is going to turn around and then try to pin it on Abdul too many people in my replies: stop left-punching you shitlib fascist-lover

A MINNESOTA ICE OBSERVER NEEDS YOUR HELP ICE has been working with a local police department to charge an observer for tailing an ICE vehicle. She was doing nothing illegal. It’s an attempt to intimidate observers out of their constitutional rights. Help her (modest) legal defense fund.

this sounds awful but that’s because she’s actually mocking Trump and Mr. Smoothgroin deceptively clipped it to own the libs

Pro-tip: Just actually be angry.

If Paxton loses to Talarico after basing his entire campaign around trans people it will prove to the right that they can't squeeze any more blood from the stone. If he wins, the lesson is that hating trans people could even save even a loser like Paxton.

it's Forbidden to acknowledge that college-educated professionals and racial minorities tend to be less bigoted and are far more widespread in the Democrats than Labour

I’m not entirely sure how to communicate this to you all, but like, the vast majority of the country is to your right. On probably most issues, and definitely on most social issues. The only ways of dealing with that outside blue areas are: 1. Moderating. 2. Pretending to moderate. 3. Losing.

I think the call is coming from inside the house on this one JD

When you hear Piker’s contention that simply believing Israel should exist equates you with “a fucking rabid neo-Nazi,” you begin to see how Piker makes people who have recently been the subject of antisemitic violence in Michigan and all over the country a bit nervous. https://bit.ly/465YWSU

"here because the other site is fascist" in bro's bio btw. Meanwhile not even pretending to call them "Zionists" anymore.

Despite our best efforts at poisoning their food and taking away their medicine, the old and infirm are still hanging on!

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.

"[Waymos] are notorious for doing stupid and even dangerous shit" Brother do I have news for you about human-operated cars!

"We want people who come here the right way" "Haha just kidding fuck you"

What a misleading headline! The bill to "fix" CA-37 is $11 billion, as stated later in the article. $100M is just to widen a portion of a road that is already sinking under the waves. Note you don't need to vote on CA-37. That's because the state will just spend the money. Imagine that for transit!

The replies are so ass-pained holy shit.

Voters give Dems a majority for TWO years to fix all the things the GOP have broken, get impatient, & vote GOP again. And you wonder why Dems never get around to fixing other things. Imagine if Dems were given 12 years to fix things with a supermajority as FDR was given. 2 yrs of thin majority:

Every dollar they have spent on Haley Stevens ads is a dollar they aren't spending supporting a Republican in the general!

Teach your children ‘democrats are not always good, but republicans ARE always bad’ and in 2026 you’ve covered like 90% of their practical civic education wrt voting.

Thank you!!! We won by 14 votes in 2024 - and caused the MN house to be tied instead of a GOP/MAGA Majority. Appreciate all the help and please keep it coming.

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

Aaaaand that's it. 5-0. 555 Kelly will be on the ballots of Half Moon Bay voters in November. It's absolutely absurd that this is the case, and an indictment of our entire system of planning, but there it is. Let's win this in 4 months!

My point isn’t “this is why the left is bad,” it’s “this is why treating your faction as if it has the Mandate of Heaven will eventually lead you into disaster.” Think for yourself. There are total screwups on every team

Ironically if the neighborhood had let the convenience store (and maybe a few apartments) get built the data center would have likely ended up somewhere else...

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election