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Brendan
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Hello, friends! If you're following me, that means you're cool. Or uncool. I don't remember which. But you're likely to get a shit ton of TV and music recommendations in between tons of political content. Also the occasional #actuallyautistic post from a guy who spent 41 years thinking he was NT.
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For twenty years all we heard from the Republican tea party types was their griping about state's rights. They are totally silent now. They were all a bunch of fucking frauds.
To say Jeffries didn't show leadership is being damned generous. And to treat this all as normal times is what got us here.
This is the kind of glib establishment-shilling shit that drives me bonkers. First of all, this is not a normal election and these are not normal times. Not one but TWO former Democrats ran, and lost, against Mamdani. Then they were both running; then Adams dropped out.
"Well it's understandable that the left is mad at Jeffries for making a perfectly normal endorsement at a perfectly normal time, because they wanted to be special little guys, & instead they got treated normally." No? It isn't?
*national* respondents who feel passionately one way or the other, and it's well known that negative partisanship is the driving force behind partisan animus. That is, if you dislike a politician, that is a more powerful, more animating sentiment than liking one is.

OP knows this, too.
it's an accurate or fair model of where Mamdani stands with all Americans is to either lie or wilfully mislead. This is also a silly poll, because few Americans outside NYC and its immediate surroundings give a flying fuck about who the mayor of NYC is. You're thus going to get a group of
That doesn't "account for" anything when nearly 50% of respondents don't have an opinion. That's like saying the IL-9 is decided because Dan Biss is leading the pack. He is, but there are an awful lot of people who haven't figured out where they stand yet. The -14 could go up or down, but to pretend
Any member of the military carrying out these illegal orders – orders they *have* to know are illegal, not to mention immoral – should be tried for war crimes. I'm done coddling servicemembers who took an oath to the Constitution but violate that same document with ease and even excitement.
The U.S. military killed six people overnight in the 10th reported strike on a boat alleged to be involved in drug smuggling, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced.
U.S. kills six in latest strike on alleged drug boat, Hegseth says
The operation marked the 10th known attack on suspected smugglers from Latin America, pushing the reported death toll to at least 43.
wapo.st
So is every member of the military carrying out these illegal, war-crime-y orders. All of them. They don't get a pass just because they're following orders that come from a dementia patient and a drunk.
There are 6 Catholics on the Supreme Court. Catholicism is unambiguous about its belief that capital punishment is evil. Anyone allowing it to go on may be following the law, but they are not good Catholics. Any priest who denied communion over abortion but not this is also a fake Catholic.
Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...
After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.
Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.
www.treadbylee.com
This. The ones defending Planter are Obama-era stooges like the Pod Save guys. Those dudes are decidedly not leftists.
Two things can be simultaneously true: this Obergefell response isn't predictive of a grant of certification, AND this SCOTUS is utterly lawless and so uninterested in legal precedents that Obergefell could be in trouble. We need to stop assuming good faith on the part of these extremist judges.
Just to be clear, #SCOTUS has done nothing to indicate any interest in this case besides calling for a response—something that a *single* justice can request, and that is *not* remotely predictive of a cert. grant.

Everything else is standard practice for *all* cases filed in the Supreme Court.
Breaking: The Supreme Court is now officially considering taking up a case overturning same-sex marriage.

This is the first time in history the court has considered rolling back this right.
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ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
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This is a screenshot of Graham Planter in a conversation, six years ago, about how the Totenkopf was an SS symbol.

If you are one of the people on here who actually believes that he did not know what the tattoo was until just recently it's because you WANT to be lied to
also, how does Platner claim that he had no idea what a Totenkopf was or that his tattoo was one until a week ago when this Reddit conversation he was part of 6 years ago was all about a soldier with a Totenkopf where people discuss the difference between an SS Totenkopf vs. a Punisher skull etc.
a decent explanation that amounts to more than "I didn't know," which means you are either a Nazi and lying or else you're too stupid and judgment-lacking to be a viable candidate. Go away. Go far away. Take some time to think. Then make your amends and help your community in a non-governmental way.
"The establishment is spooked?" My dude, I'm the furthest thing from a fan of the "establishment" and have spent many months and years railing against first Reid, then Schumer and Durbin. I'm not an establishment fan. You willingly got a Nazi tattoo and kept it for 18 years. You have yet to give...
From Graham Platner's first town hall since the tattoo story broke:

"The establishment is spooked. If they thought that ripping my life to pieces, trying to destroy it, was going to make me think that I shouldn't undertake this project, they clearly have not spent a lot of time around Marines."
ok with antisemitism. But Golden sucks. Hard. I tend to believe in voting for not-Nazis over Nazis, but I prefer actual progressives over centrists whose no-tax, pro-corporate policies created the conditions for the current economy, which has been bad for so many for so long.
Look, I'm not gonna be a dipshit like @krystalball.bsky.social and pretend the Nazi tattoo isn't a big deal. If you don't think it's a big deal, you have no business criticizing those Young Republican texts. Of course Golden would get my vote over Planter at this point. If you disagree, you're...
Broken clocks.

But even if he's right, he's wrong about the *reason* he's right. He thinks the oyster guy being a Nazi is reflective of progressives, and Golden is "real America" or some dumb shit. The fact of the matter is, Planter can be toast AND Golden's policy platform can be trash.
I think it’s a little odd to be more open — whether as pure “resistance” or as a means of fighting “oligarchy” — to candidates with Nazi tattoos than to candidates like Jared Golden who take moderate stances on public policy issues.
Don't just resign from leadership, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social you absolute coward. Resign from *office*. You are an absolute bought-and-paid-for disgrace, and you will be remembered as one of the Vichy Democrats who tried their best to let fascism win. Fuck you.
WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social asks Rep. Hakeem Jeffries who he plans to vote for in the NYC mayoral election.
I think that's enough from the ancient senator from Vermont. Time to hang it up, @sanders.senate.gov. I've been a fan for a very long time, but between your support for Planter and your support for Marco Rubio, you've lost the plot. Shame on you.
Bernie isn't admitting he is wrong *now*.
You're right. The BernieBros were just warmed-over GamerGaters who hated Hillary because she's a woman. And Bernie and his people never really reckoned with that segment of his support

Y'know, what we have to reckon with is that antisemitism isn't just on the right. Look at UK Labour under Corbyn!
necessary intelligence, judgment, and moral fiber to fight against both the Nazis and the appeasers in the Democratic Party.

"I just found out" isn't a good enough excuse for me. He went to a Nazi shop while drunk in Croatia and got Nazi art on his body. That's the story at its *most* charitable.
Sorry, if you bought that, great, but I'm not buying his explanation. He had a tattoo artist (who would have known the symbol if it was just hanging there in the shop) deliberately put that tattoo on his body. And then he kept it for 2 decades! At the very least, it shows he does not have the
Exactly. I know Bernie's brand is economic populism, but I think we've seen over the last 10 years that racial and ethnic identity need to be given space; Bernie's not winning over disaffected left-leaners by digging in his heels. Just profoundly disappointing from someone I've always respected.
I mean, I could buy "I thought it looked cool, but when I found out what it was, I got rid of it immediately."

I can't buy that a self-described military history buff kept a Nazi tattoo on himself for 18 years without once someone telling him what it was. He's lying. What else will he lie about?