Your Friend Temporary Southerner

Your Friend Temporary Southerner

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Black Af, Gay, Christian, Socialist, Writer, Guy, friend. 🏳️‍🌈🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦✝️

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I'm 35. Barack Obama is the only president in my lifetime who did not leave office after being impeached or in disgrace.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

I hope Natalie shows Trump this clip of Harry Enten comparing Obama's popularity with his unpopularity

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Not good stuff Dr West

Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

Messaging shifts to win more people are good and solid. Abandoning your values and principles to win is shitty. AOC is doing the former

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, aka AOC, has softened her tactics and pursued voters and lawmakers in both parties. To reach her biggest goals, she‘ll need the far-left base—and everybody else. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4zVmvul

Yall better some of em Episcopalians! I’m watching 👀

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend.bsky.social

as a trans activist from Kansas, some of the most vehement pro-trans activists in the state are genuinely Christian pastors. the Dems in the State Legislature have way more pro-trans takes than this. he's saying this after my trans activist friends have spent like a week @'ing him. he can do better

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as a trans activist from Kansas, some of the most vehement pro-trans activists in the state are genuinely Christian pastors. the Dems in the State Legislature have way more pro-trans takes than this. he's saying this after my trans activist friends have spent like a week @'ing him. he can do better

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This is how my adhd be like tbh

Isaac Dovere@isaacdovere.bsky.social

Kamala Harris to me, backstage last week in Mississippi, on her thinking about running for president again -- which she acknowledges can only go on so long: “I go back and forth. I honestly go back and forth ... There’s so many factors.” www.cnn.com/2026/10/26/p...

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Yes well it does require things like “empathy” and possessing a basic understanding that all of our lives are interconnected

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Both of New York’s senators refused to endorse Zohran as the Democratic nominee and a year later he’s one of the most popular politicians in the country lol

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Jesse Ventura to Piker: "Here's what pisses me off -- I did 2 tours, 17 months. So did my brother. Southeast Asia. That was at the same time Donald Trump was running and hiding like the coward he is. Why didn't he join us in the Vietnam War? I've heard him talk. He said he should be a general!"

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Yissss

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social

I know absolutely nothing about Lula except that i saw someone share a clip on insta of him in celebration kissing a trans woman politician on the cheek and oh my god is that a radical act for a politician in 2026 so lets fucking go

The fuck is Matthew even talking about? Other countries elections affect the global economy! Global health and security! International relations and trade! This take is so fucking elementary and stupid

Dan Mauler 🎃@meelar.bsky.social

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

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If Josh wants our help to win the race, he can recant. Otherwise, he better hope his "electorally pragmatic" bigotry was worth it. Don't spit in my face and demand I love you for it.

Rusty Antel@rustyantel.bsky.social

Turek is running for Senate in Iowa, a conservative leaning Republican state. And it is a very close race. You have every right to criticize his position on this issue and in a perfect world I’d join you. But let’s put that aside and help him win this race. Turek is still better than his opponent

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We need to elect more trans women to Congress, just like we need to elect more Muslims to Congress

Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social

I think Sarah McBride's presence in the caucus has been extremely important in preventing Labourization because most of these people are kind of dumb and she can explain what's going on in small words.

I have voted many times for Democrats who didn’t go anywhere near where I wanted them to on black issues. It’s par for the course if I don’t want much worse Republicans to win. But I also expect some white siblings to hold those politicians accountable when I don’t have the energy to on my behalf

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YOU CANNOT SILENCE THE PEOPLE AND THE GREATEST POLITICAL LEADER IN THE HISTORY OF BRAZIL

Lula ran a very aggressive and grassroots campaign. He campaigned everywhere and after the first round mobilized supporters to get the word out to lower propensity voters who would’ve voted to abstain. They started a WhatsApp called “Lula’s Army” lol

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Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

Wild to have Latin America (hopefully and prayerfully not Brazil) and Western Europe falling to the far right and fascism while the US, Canada, and Eastern Europe are rebelling against it (the first is TBD til November 3rd of course)

We normally trace comparative politics to domino effects. But Blue Tide in Latin America, anti-authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, Liberal dominance in Canada, and the US getting ready to pounce on the most fascist element of American politics ever can only be reduced to "Kick the bastards out".