Matthew Rothenberg
mmrothenberg.bsky.social
Matthew Rothenberg
@mmrothenberg.bsky.social
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(Half of this exododus will comprise the entire population of Staten Island.) 😳
… Cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you’re born,
You’re never gonna see no exododus! 😞
You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
Two dopey ideas I hope to hear less of:

1. Zohran Mamdani’s goals for NYC are impossible.
2. He’ll fail completely if he doesn’t manage to implement 100% absolutely everything on his list.

MAGA set big goals and are achieving many of them. How about we non-fascists try that? (Omitting the evil.)
She posted this, if anybody wants to go yuck HER yum! 🤗
Haggis scotch eggs: Help yourself!
My comment was about a specific sentence from the Politico article that smacks of bothsidesism.
Politico said Platner’s tattoo has forced *Dems* to confront anti-semitism within their party, not within the pod-adjacent left.
But even if Platner did do it to evoke Nazi imagery, does it expose a deeper vein of Nazi sympathizers in the Democratic Party?
“And that was before Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol forced Democrats to confront antisemitism within their party.”

Did it, though? Seems more like an edgelord flex by Platner many years ago, not a smoking gun for his anti-semitism or anybody else’s.
Unless the party gets over its “centrism” fetish, I just don’t see them actually flipping much Trump policy 180 degrees. Instead, they’ll try to triangulate some awful Third Way.
What if the Dems were to seize back control of executive and legislative branches in 2028? (SCOTUS will be MAGA for a generation.)

I fear the extent of their pushback would be moves like improving the plumbing in the concentration camps and bodycams for ICE.
If you put a Zionist frame on the Trump administrations acts against immigrants and POC in general, you arrive at the question, “Does the U.S. have the right to exist as a white Christian state?”

And your response to that IMO should inform your response to Israel.
Remember when @lizzobeeating.bsky.social played James Madison’s Crystal flute and Republicans lost their minds? What happened to all that historical agita? 🤔
All those people who got upset about the removal of Confederate monuments seem kinda quiet about the destruction of the East Wing! 😳
(Singing this to the tune of “Raspberry Beret”!) 🎶
No question about that … But POC have sure been doing the work/putting themselves on the line at anti-ICE rallies and such! ❤️
RE No Kings demonstrations: To paraphrase Chris Rock, I haven't seen white people this mad since they cancelled M*A*S*H!

So far, all the photos I’m finding from places like Atlanta and Baltimore are super-Caucasian … Is it a question of coverage or a real thing?
Reposted by Matthew Rothenberg
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
Starmer’s narrowly beating Truss!
The baby isn’t in her PLACENTA, silly! It’s in her TUMMY.
No! Sounds like I should be! 🙂