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Ray Baker
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You wouldn't let a Pennsylvanian Post, Would you? Democratic Nominee for Reading City Council - District 4
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So fucking True.

I hate that fucking team, looking forward to 1pm kickoff.
It’s Brooklyn Podcaster Brain. All these dweebs really everyone outside a Top Ten city just all sit around surviving on Dollar Tree hot dogs and methamphetamine and never worrying about current events.
there’s something distasteful in the way people describe the poor as having only their economic plight guide their values. it feels almost condescending, as though they can’t walk and chew gum and think that disrespecting an historic office is bad.
I watched it as a Jets fan for 28 years and thought. Oh child, you don’t even know how deep this well goes.
It's also kind of an old guard/new guard for "independent media" and online figures.

Old Guard folks are fighting the last war of 2020-2024 that is finding New Bernies and defending them like they're your Dad.

New Guard thinks he's not worth the baggage and the goal is to win elections.
You know, it kind of feels like the Platner thing is more or less a Bluesky versus X, The Everything App forum war, but a fairly one sided one because everyone I’ve seen on here is sincere in their rejection of him
Ben Burgis calls everyone criticizing Graham Platner's SS tattoo "hall monitors".
I really feel like there are thousands of political operatives and politicians who are going to have egg all over their faces as shit keeps dropping.

Nobody gets NDAs if the shoes are done dropping.
I mean, depending on the business it's frankly just the issue of paperwork vs. paying them the one time and telling them to fuck off.
There's a lot of good reasons for NDAs to exist.

None of them involve political campaigns.
“If you’re explaining you’re losing” final boss.
This is going to play in so many 2026 ads if we’re in a recession.
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
Yeah, I think a lot of folks on the other site are spiking the football about him beating this far too soon.

If you get a few more folks on the record saying "Yeah he knew what it meant" more than 3 weeks ago, this story is only going to grow.
Timeline ain’t lining
Everything the GOP is doing is built on the assumption that the 2024 Coalition is permanent and ever expanding.

Everyone is underestimating how any reduction in their numbers with minorities and a failure to return their white vote to 2020 numbers will damn them.
just to play this out: losses geographically concentrated among expected partisan voters are catastrophic for gerrymanders, because they violate the efficiency assumptions of your cracked districts.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever read and this person needs to be launched into the sun.

6-8 point rural swing is how you get an absolute apocalypse for the GOP
Some of the funny folks shifted here but far too many stayed there for the dopamine hits.

Frankly, we also lack a good base of Conservatives who flocked to TS, thus you don't even get fun fighting.

Twitter is the last digital public square, but half the bars closed & the street lights are broken.
the problem with the Twitter/Bluesky schism is that Twitter feels increasingly immoral to use, which Bluesky provides an alternative for, but a social media site, fundamentally, has to feel fun, which is where Bluesky falls short
That’s fucked up to denigrate the aura machine that is the Crown Vic
They're Ford Crown Victorias now. And sales got a bump from people desperate to get the EV car credit before it expired www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/b...
Tesla’s Profit Falls 37% After It Cut Car Prices
www.nytimes.com
Begging it happens in the next month and an actual candidate jumps in who can win. We’re setting ourselves to watch Republican Claire McCaskill steal a winnable election
Patriots. In. Control.
VA Dems *confirm* they're moving forward with a plan to revisit the state's redistricting commission. It would require lawmakers to pass an amendment twice, which would then go before voters—in theory early enough next year to allow time for a remap before 2026.

From Reid Epstein at @nytimes.com
Virginia Democrats Plan to Redraw House Maps in Redistricting Push
www.nytimes.com
Republicans losing 5-8 points in rural America would result in wipeouts that make 2006 look quaint.
yea losing voters by less is important?
Not worrying if Myly McGrunf is having a fit on Instagram over her album not going platinum, simply worrying if I can exercise enough to make these slacks fit as my metabolism slows further.
Well into the season of life where I don’t keep up with pop culture, and it’s great.

You don’t need to get annoyed that The Kids like different stuff. Are Addison Rae and Tate McRae different people? Who cares! There’s jazz to listen to and you have plantar fasciitis.
The NYDems doing this was the first domino to fall in the return of Trump.

A Biden Trifecta in 2023 helps guide us through so many more problems.
the new york democratic party intentionally turned power over to republicans in order to avoid sharing it with the left. hakeem jeffries specifically endorsed hochul's attempt to appoint a judge who would gerrymander the state against his own party.
it's an open secret that a lot of Cuomo's campaign guys are BAPs, Ted Cruz 2024 alumni, and assorted internet nazis
I pray Mr. David is reading Bluesky.

The comedy is writing itself for him again.
It’s very weird they’re doing this for a Blackwater Mercenary while being the first to remind you how evil they think Buttigieg is for being Naval Intelligence and a McKinsey guy.

Like does this shit matter or not?
I am going insane, why are Majority Report ppl handwaving away the totenkopf. I'm actually disappointed
And he’s never even proven he can win!

He could just as easily flop in the general!
burning credibility for a candidate in an election that isn't even for a fucking year
It always comes from the folks you most expect it from.
The Democratic Candidate has to promise to let Autopen push the Plunger to blow this up.

Twist the fucking knife.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC
It's really funny to watch so many of the same folks who bagged on Pete Buttigieg for being a Naval Intelligence Officer (which sure fine whatever, idc) find it in their heart to love and support a fucking Blackwater Merc.

What are we even doing here, man?
I’m still stuck on Emma Vigeland saying “do we really want to alienate the troops who become mercenaries?”
Folks, just when you thought this discourse had reached it's zenith, we found a whole barrel of gasoline.