Max Milstein
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What if every time someone is wrong online about electoral politics they have to go knock on 500 doors
December 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
What if every time someone is wrong online about electoral politics they have to go knock on 500 doors
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this feels like a "you won't guess where this is going" LinkedIn post for the ages
December 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
this feels like a "you won't guess where this is going" LinkedIn post for the ages
I'm on the second chapter of Talia Levin's Wild Faith, and....it doesn't seem very good? This book should be right up my alley but I'm finding it straight up boring.
Has anyone read it, does it get better?
Has anyone read it, does it get better?
December 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I'm on the second chapter of Talia Levin's Wild Faith, and....it doesn't seem very good? This book should be right up my alley but I'm finding it straight up boring.
Has anyone read it, does it get better?
Has anyone read it, does it get better?
Florence + The Machine - Stand By Me
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December 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Screw the movies you've watched 6 times.
Show me a GIF for a movie you watched exactly once that will stick with you forever.
Show me a GIF for a movie you watched exactly once that will stick with you forever.
a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a cartoon scene
Alt: a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a cartoon scene
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Screw the movies you've watched 6 times.
Show me a GIF for a movie you watched exactly once that will stick with you forever.
Show me a GIF for a movie you watched exactly once that will stick with you forever.
For a long time I assumed this was just because Minnesota's Senate Districts (the level on which most local organizing occurs) were, like, some perfect size for a local org.
Some places do it really well, I was very impressed with local party org in Minnesota. Must be that German heritage!
December 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
For a long time I assumed this was just because Minnesota's Senate Districts (the level on which most local organizing occurs) were, like, some perfect size for a local org.
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something that I think even people like me who grew up rich might not necessarily understand is the lives of the rich and stupid. we grew up with rich parents who nevertheless weren't morons and would have no patience for the kind of irresponsibility that seems to dominate among our governing elite
"Brett Kavanaugh had six figures in credit card debt shortly before he was confirmed to the Supreme Court" is one of those things that will live rent-free in my head forever because I quite literally have represented someone in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy over substantially less debt.
December 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
something that I think even people like me who grew up rich might not necessarily understand is the lives of the rich and stupid. we grew up with rich parents who nevertheless weren't morons and would have no patience for the kind of irresponsibility that seems to dominate among our governing elite
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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One thing that will happen is a bunch of Republicans in safe Republican seats who have never had to run a real campaign will find themselves in competitive races for which they won’t be prepared.
December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
One thing that will happen is a bunch of Republicans in safe Republican seats who have never had to run a real campaign will find themselves in competitive races for which they won’t be prepared.
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This post and the subsequent replies are, and I mean this as a compliment, *extremely* good propaganda especially for the short video documentary age. Come learn some things.
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This post and the subsequent replies are, and I mean this as a compliment, *extremely* good propaganda especially for the short video documentary age. Come learn some things.
People and groups that traffic in antisemitic tropes tend to either double down or apologize. Glad to see this group apologizing and committing to doing better.
However, commenters flagged that the video erroneously claimed that AIPAC is a “foreign lobby,” which we believe to be untrue. They are a lobby in support of a foreign government, but that is not the same.
That veered the video dangerously close to promoting the “dual loyalty” conspiracy, which is
That veered the video dangerously close to promoting the “dual loyalty” conspiracy, which is
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
People and groups that traffic in antisemitic tropes tend to either double down or apologize. Glad to see this group apologizing and committing to doing better.
A new, highly anticipated Magic: the Gathering set drops this weekend, and it's a week when Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been in the news, so the acronym MTG is at peak non-decipherability.
(Context usually works).
(Context usually works).
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A new, highly anticipated Magic: the Gathering set drops this weekend, and it's a week when Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been in the news, so the acronym MTG is at peak non-decipherability.
(Context usually works).
(Context usually works).
I feel like "crashing out" became common slang really fast. I think I heard it for the first time last week, and by today I'm seeing multiple, 3 or 4 uses a day.
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I feel like "crashing out" became common slang really fast. I think I heard it for the first time last week, and by today I'm seeing multiple, 3 or 4 uses a day.
This is a wildly under-appreciated fact driving Federal and (even moreso) State policy.
You obviously can't just do what they say, but an unfortunate reality about politics (per the "legislative subsidy" literature) is that corporate lobbyists tend to be much better informed about the substantive details of policy issues than overworked/underpaid congressional staff or NGOs types.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is a wildly under-appreciated fact driving Federal and (even moreso) State policy.
Congratulations to Katie Wilson as Seattle enters its third decade of not returning incumbent mayors to office.
I would read a book or long article on this phenomenon.
I would read a book or long article on this phenomenon.
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Congratulations to Katie Wilson as Seattle enters its third decade of not returning incumbent mayors to office.
I would read a book or long article on this phenomenon.
I would read a book or long article on this phenomenon.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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I think the Dems considered what the economy would look like if thousands of fed workers missed 3 paychecks, w ripple effects to thousands more contractors, & food aid was fucked for another month, going into the retail season, & they picked 8 senators who don’t have to face reelection next year 🤷🏻♀️
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I think the Dems considered what the economy would look like if thousands of fed workers missed 3 paychecks, w ripple effects to thousands more contractors, & food aid was fucked for another month, going into the retail season, & they picked 8 senators who don’t have to face reelection next year 🤷🏻♀️
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I can’t say that was the right decision, but I can’t say it was the wrong one either
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I can’t say that was the right decision, but I can’t say it was the wrong one either
A Republican Supreme Court allowed a Republican President to block food aid so a Republican Congress could end health insurance aid.
If you're mainly angry at Democrats about this I don't know what to tell you.
If you're mainly angry at Democrats about this I don't know what to tell you.
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A Republican Supreme Court allowed a Republican President to block food aid so a Republican Congress could end health insurance aid.
If you're mainly angry at Democrats about this I don't know what to tell you.
If you're mainly angry at Democrats about this I don't know what to tell you.
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Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
There's a Simpsons where it turns out that Ned Flanders considers insurance to be a form of gambling.
Jon Lovett pointed out during the 2017 ACA debate that a large number of Republicans seem to believe this, they have a moral opposition to the concept of insuring against risk.
Jon Lovett pointed out during the 2017 ACA debate that a large number of Republicans seem to believe this, they have a moral opposition to the concept of insuring against risk.
My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
There's a Simpsons where it turns out that Ned Flanders considers insurance to be a form of gambling.
Jon Lovett pointed out during the 2017 ACA debate that a large number of Republicans seem to believe this, they have a moral opposition to the concept of insuring against risk.
Jon Lovett pointed out during the 2017 ACA debate that a large number of Republicans seem to believe this, they have a moral opposition to the concept of insuring against risk.
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I would like to see some reckoning with this by people, to be entirely honest.
Yeah this part is darkly funny. Before this started, *many* people here insisted that Dems getting an ACA credit extension would be a massive GOP win (because 'TOUCH THE STOVE'!). Now many of the exact same people are denouncing it as a massive failure if they don't get one!
The goalposts keep moving on this too. If the outlines of this alleged deal are correct and it goes through and the GOP either welches on the promised vote/votes against extending the ACA credits, that’s what Bluesky wanted pre-shutdown, but now it’s the Dems selling out.
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I would like to see some reckoning with this by people, to be entirely honest.
I don't know everything in the deal. I called my Senators and asked them not to cave for nothing. Was this enough? I don't know (my Senators voted no fwiw).
there is some tension between the (correct) level of apocalypticism on this site about food aid running out and the unwillingness to make any compromises in service of making it not run out
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I don't know everything in the deal. I called my Senators and asked them not to cave for nothing. Was this enough? I don't know (my Senators voted no fwiw).