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The only way democrats could ever get enough power in Congress to get free healthcare and education is to go back in time and prevent democrats from desegregating schools and voting through the Civil rights act

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It's a real problem that so many people anywhere left of center in this country think that the path to victory for them lies in electing Republicans until Democrats do exactly what they tell them to.

That most leftists who say this shit idolize FDR and the New Deal, which explicitly excluded racial minorities, while completely glossing over LBJ’s Great Society that explicitly included racial minorities is the tell. It’s also when the shift to republicans in white electorate happened.

A load bearing mythos of pop leftism is that the Dems used to be good and for the working man and then embraced neoliberalism so the working man got sold out, instead of "white America as a whole turned on the Dems after the Civil Rights Act and began tearing down their own commons and prosperity"

My thoughts on NAZA are now published on Crooked Timber. crookedtimber.org/2026/10/26/n...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

“Bluesky is too bloodthirsty” Well, MAGA wants a civil war with indiscriminate slaughter if they lose. The whistle-past-the-graveyard moderates want to kick the can down the road like we did in 2021. National Salvation liberals want a very small group of people with defined crimes to pay a price.

The stereotypical McCain-Romney Republican writes for The Bulwark, has come around on universal healthcare and higher taxes, and really really really wants to throw Trump and all his cronies in jail from now to the heat death of the universe.

OK gonna share some of my favorite Brazilian election memes. Will provide translation/cultural context where needed. Let's start with this...

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"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem

between serbia, brazil, and hopefully november 3, a good reminder: voting works it’s not the end, there’s always work to be done after the vote, but if you want to beat the motherfuckers and keep them out of power: vote your asses off

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

Lula:

Everyone thought Lula was cooked, hopeless. Then he bought a phone and started posting and now he's gonna get a 4th term. The lesson is to never stop posting.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Lula Goes HARD

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

Brazilian women are posting their tits on Twitter in celebration of the Lula win just fyi

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

exchange between a right wing Brazilian congressman and a left wing congressman is pretty brutal for the former

Lula is to my left. Magyar is to my right. And I don’t care in the slightest, because they are the candidates of democracy against autocracy.

someone really wants to join his dad in jail and/or the hospital

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

The media is going to do the exact same thing whether you make a cutesy crack about Trump's decorating or call Trump a deranged, corrupt pedophile who is putting kids in gulags and plans to destroy democracy forever, so you might as well do the second thing imo.

Yes and also this sort of 'uniparty' nonsense feels so hollow deployed in the midst of a national stove-touching. It turns out the difference between a 'milquetoast corporate Democrat' and Trump was really big! President Harris would not be driving trans soldiers out of the military!

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We wrapped we finished we did it we did the movie

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Harris ran on prosecuting sex trafficking and expanding protections for people seeking asylum. Both Harris and Biden ran on protecting people with TPS protections, like the Haitians, Afghans and Venezuelans that Trump is deporting en masse. You're full of lies because you are as🗑️as Trump.

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We’ve been thinking along the exact same lines so @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com wrote about it as well www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

One reason games are so expensive is that you need to hire a lot of very expensive programmers rather than much cheaper creatives like writers and VAs, so it’s especially odd given the recently created Automated Programming Machine to go “let’s fire our creatives”. That’s the comparative advantage!

The most productive things you personally can do right now is: (1) turn in your damn mail ballot (2) bother your friends and relatives to turn in their damn mail ballots (3) phone bank calling swing state Dems with outstanding mail ballots and telling them to turn in their damn mail ballot

we have to pack the courts hard enough that they’ll find a rationale to rule this shit invalid