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These rules allow us to talk so good, to make it so divine, such that you wish social media would be like this all the time
welcome to Bluesky. we have rules here:
1) this dream isn't feeling sweet
2) we're reeling through the midnight streets
3) and I've never felt more alone
4) it feels so scary getting old
Welcome to Bluesky. We have rules here:

1) Is it worth it?
2) Let me work it
3) I put my thang down, flip it and reverse it
4) Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i
5) Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i
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We are going to live in a world where the the marginal cost of electricity is very close to zero
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
Why I’m sad about Pelosi retiring bc her institutional knowledge will be sorely missed (at least Saikat Chakrabarti has been thinking about this, state capacity, and institutional building for years)
i don't think its expressed enough that we don't really have *a* government anymore. nationally policy is being directed and created by like roughly half a dozen factions (and maybe like 50 to 100 total individuals) on a totally incomprehensible and erratic basis
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one of the best to ever do it
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi won't seek reelection, ending her storied career in the US House.
Like the fact she’s taking a quiet, limited media presence approach rn speaks volumes
Esp if all other candidates realize they have to spend most of the time attacking her

She does benefit from the 2026 primary feeling shorter than 2018 bc of the PSC but yeah
Like I think ppl are given her a sense of formidability like a 2nd or even 3rd string McBath, Abrams, or Carter that she doesn’t even deserve

Which the lack of establishment support shows

If the lights get too bright, I think she could very well wilt
Sorry I though I said *as tough as a* race like this to mean, much more high-profile, much more scrutiny, much more money

Her bet is that she can rely on the coalition politics she used to win in 2017 which she couldn’t even used to win in 2021
Which is again if national progressives want Ruwa Romman, they would want to nationalize this race w/ high-profile media coverage starting now bc Keisha Lance Bottoms has been someone to wilt under the spotlight
Finally Bottoms has never been in a tough race like this and is not a good campaigner (eg couldn’t successfully win re-elect)

I worry once the negative ads hit, she will falter (also Abrams despises her for good reason and if Esteves emerges as the alternative, will prob. work to sink KLB)
I don’t think ppl realize that Bottoms is more a precarious position than polls advertise bc the race is so early

1) The establishment is not backing her, most are silent or going for Esteves
2) KLB hasn’t run a campaign in almost a decade but she knew she was going to lose her re-elect
Finally Bottoms has never been in a tough race like this and is not a good campaigner (eg couldn’t successfully win re-elect)

I worry once the negative ads hit, she will falter (also Abrams despises her for good reason and if Esteves emerges as the alternative, will prob. work to sink KLB)
I don’t think ppl realize that Bottoms is more a precarious position than polls advertise bc the race is so early

1) The establishment is not backing her, most are silent or going for Esteves
2) KLB hasn’t run a campaign in almost a decade but she knew she was going to lose her re-elect
I don’t think ppl realize that Bottoms is more a precarious position than polls advertise bc the race is so early

1) The establishment is not backing her, most are silent or going for Esteves
2) KLB hasn’t run a campaign in almost a decade but she knew she was going to lose her re-elect
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How did Georgia pull off their first statewide win in non-federal races in 19 years—and so convincingly?

Turnout, turnout, turnout.

The state's 10 largest blue counties made up more than 52% of the total electorate. That compares to 44.6% last year, and 45.3% in the 2022 Senate runoff.
The greatest American politician since LBJ; I wish she would stay through 2030 given the work needed to rebuild the state in 2029 and Jeffries ain’t it

I don’t think it’s appreciated enough (by progressives) that Pelosi was their ally more than not and imp so superior to her alternatives
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi won't seek reelection, ending her storied career in the US House.
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Democrats scored their first non-federal statewide wins since 2006. And party leaders can’t help but look back even further to 1992, when Republican Bobby Baker’s PSC victory signaled the GOP’s emerging power in Georgia.

www.ajc.com/politics/202...
‘Landslide’ PSC sweep jolts Georgia Democrats ahead of 2026 midterms
Georgia Democrats put Republicans 'on notice' ahead of 2026 midterms with Public Service Commission wins.
www.ajc.com
Also the biggest story rn- Trump’s campaign against immigrants - shows that amplifying Trump anti-Latino racism works to galvanize Hispanic and other minority vote as a bloc
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
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These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
Total Democratic victory.
NJ gov is so crazy, because if you compare it to 2021 gov, you get double digit left swings in all in the affluent white suburban counties and south jersey

but if you compare it to 2024 president, you get double digit left swings in the minority-majority urban cores
Thanks; do you have any thoughts on who’s more likely to win at this stage?
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Yall. Georgia hasn't elected statewide candidates for state offices in 22 years.
There are counties going blue in Georgia that NEVER vote for Dems.
This is a BIG DEAL.
Do you think Sam Foster will win mayor?
Fuck Keisha; let’s put @ruwaromman.bsky.social in the Governor’s Mansion; 2026 we can bring true progressive change to Georgia, not the run the same tired playbook
looks like democrats are about to flip two statewide elections with >20-point margins... in georgia
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i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?

Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Ppl mock Hillary Clinton for using identity politics yet ignore she had the highest Latino vote share ever and 2nd highest Black vote share ever

Dems would kill for those numbers today lol!
Again so much ink on how to regain Hispanic voters that ignores the best candidate with Latino voters was Hillary Clinton who repeatedly called out Trump anti-Latino racism
I do think it’s noteworthy that when these guys are inventing party planks that don’t exist they always go to anti-racism as the mockworthy initiative
I don't think it helps the debate about what Democrats should do to pick an obscure thing that some Democrat somewhere may have said -- like on teaching eighth grade algebra -- and then attribute it to Democrats generally.