spooky litho

Dem social teams need to get these ready in the drafts if Blexas happens

we need to abolish the senate (or make it proportionately representative or strip it of jurisdiction), i'm so serious

what on earth could the context for this possibly be

The only safe place for Jews* *terms and conditions may apply

The Republican Party is going to get worse before it gets even worse

the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

i don't mean this as a dunk, OP is obviously well aware of this, but imo: orgs will avoid covering it because major news organizations view honest coverage of sexual abuse - its absolute dirt-commonness - as disqualifying. if you cover the abuse of women & girls honestly you are a partisan.

they're all on xitter and deep frying their brains with "the perfidious jew invented evil gender ideology to groom your kids through steven universe and make the white man a servant to israel" slop so insular they don't even realize how associating these two things looks to people on the outside

WHO WOULD WIN objectively best living conditions in human history VS. "i have to see transgenders on twitter :("

the primary purpose of the department of justice now appears to be "repeated embarrassing failures to prosecute jim comey"

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

The "clinging to guns and religion" line from Obama is so old nobody in the GOP wants to fuck it

"its [brexit] weakened our control of immigration" even in rejecting it's consequnces, we still affirm nativism's premises

Wow, Ipsos pushed most of the undecideds, it's a miracle Not really here nor there but apparently they use county votes as far back as 2016 to weight the poll, huh 35.22% R - 33.59% D - 31.19% R+1.63 LV screen. Pew Q3 Partisan ID: D+11 What are we doing, Ipsos? Does turnout look like R+2 rn?

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!

completely disgusting to use a slur and I also note that all the Dems who embrace transphobia are the ones who keep getting attacked with transphobia Those who shut the bigotry down like decent people don't get attacked because GOP know the attack doesn't work unless Dems cave to the bigotry first

Also - I actually take seriously the idea that all of these people are lying out of their ass. But: - I question the utility of lying, especially when you can just look up a candidates previous pro-trans votes and positions in 5 seconds with the supercomputer in your pocket

in addition to everything else he's just outright lying about what Turek said. Some statements are obviously weasel-worded (Talarico, Brown, arguably Peltola) but Turek's very clearly isnt'!

Bluesky has four kinds of users

watching people encounter leftcom posters is always so funny

Furthermore, even if they avoid misgendering trans people by default, if they say "safety concerns" they are still saying the slur.

Wait is Lula winning???

We gotta rehearse calling out that "no federal funds for gender affirming care" is objectively a lie about what the policy does, to the point that we reflexively point it out every time we see it. It's "No GAC, even out of pocket, at any hospital that has even one medicaid patient or federal grant"

Congressmembers' healthcare is partially funded by the feds, so Turek is promising that if he wins he will advocate the social murder of his own colleague

Turek's positions are not "less than perfect." They are a direct threat to the lives of my trans friends and family. He IS the danger we must fight.

repost if you will never vote for a democrat willing to harm trans kids puberty blockers are medicine hormones are medicine nobody is carving your kids up children know who they feel like

my honest take on this is that if the senate majority depends on a segregationist then it's no majority at all, better he lose and the people's own house stands as the bulwark against fascism

Republicans will almost certainly pass Democrats at some point in Florida but everyone said that would be today and nope. I still expect like a ~5% loss for Nixon and Jolly but it’s fun to dream a little and follow this.

"Liberal" newspaper headline shift:

I think the Trump people have understandably come to the conclusion that this country hates women and misogyny is a cheat code for power. They may or may not be right. But I will grant that I see how they reached that conclusion from their personal experiences.

The Ukrainians literally just used tanks in their most recent counteroffensive lol

It's been over 10 years since the "detransition wave" was just around the corner. it is tremendously effective cope for the phobes.

a lot of people are understandably frustrated by the fact that various technological and cultural factors have put everybody together into the same room at all times, which makes Doing Politics annoying some have reacted to this by wishing we could make it 2006 again

this voter is too politically engaged to be representative of the median voter; disregard

if the navy was really only 9% gay it would be a world historical low

Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.

Why Matt in particular is a awful person to have so much clout with elites is because he comes at “follow the data, the vaunted data” and then just lies

a good metaphor for politics is when you have a drill for boring holes in a board, and you find a hard board, and you immediately give up

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"