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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 36m

And Garlin isn't as far left as Abdul, he's a fairly mainline progressive Democrat.

Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 36m

Yeah the latter is just not going to be as ugly a race. I'm all in on Garlin, especially in a year this rough for Republicans, but progressives don't loath Benson or anything.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 49m

Nick Levendofsky, executive director of the Kansas Farmers Union, is 100% a Democrat and should get in the race if he has any charisma.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 53m

One of said farm leaders should announce a run as a Democrat for the Senate.

States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 1h

Kansas farm leaders are pushing Congress to get back to work and solve problems facing the agriculture industry, pointing out that a closed government doesn’t mean U.S. lawmakers can’t be in session.

via @kansasreflector.com

‘We don’t shut down’: Kansas ag leaders tell Congress to get back to work

TOPEKA — Kansas farm leaders are pushing Congress to get back to work and solve problems facing the agriculture industry, pointing out that a closed government doesn’t mean U.S. lawmakers can’t be in…

www.newsfromthestates.com

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 1h

This is good not only because the left benefits from becoming YIMBYs, the YIMBY movement also benefits from left-wing people becoming predominant and sanding off the market fundamentalism and tech-right crime panic aspects.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 1h

It is in fact good that NYC DSA is broadly in favor of evidence-based housing policy!

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 1h

"our NYC DSA" buddy you were suspended for being a coked-up abusive freak to your comrades

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3h

"Mamdani is not the issue. The issue is much deeper... he is a convenient cipher for Jewish anxiety, the anxiety of how Israel, the center of American Jewish identity, is now being challenged, not only by the protestors but by young progressive Jews." shaulmagid.substack.com/p/the-issue-...

“The Issue is Not the Issue” – The Free Speech Movement 1964 - The Anti-Mamdani Craze

When Displaced Anxiety and the Need for Deflection Becomes a Dogma

shaulmagid.substack.com

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 2h

TBH "I'm torn and haven't decided" would come off a lot better.

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 2h

"I've yet to take a position," Zohran Mamdani says in Hell's Kitchen about the housing-related referendum questions on the Nov. 4 ballot. "I will be sharing that as soon as I do."

Early voting started Saturday & hundreds of thousands of NYers have already cast ballots.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 3h

I think Spanberger is going to easily clear 10 points

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 5h

I do not believe Dems should fold. I believe if this works, he will keep doing it. If I believed folding would feed hungry people, I would at the very least strongly consider it. But he explicitly said he felt no obligation to honor any deal struck.

Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 7h

"Trump is illegally impounding SNAP funds to make people hungry so he can force the Democrats to capitulate to help the hungry people" is just a wild state of affairs.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 8h

Woke 2 is starting to take shape

connor @rockiesvsconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Raising the woke alarm for Quinn Meinerz. Broncos have a woke one

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 3h

Dan Osborn is an excellent example of the former, but if I were running a candidate to overperform in South Carolina, I'd probably pick a simple country lawyer or small-city family doc who's also a Sunday School teacher.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 3h

Yes but also some electorates are going to respond better to the sparks factory guy, and we should consider that when recruiting candidates. OTOH some will respond way better to a yuppie lawyer or a nurse, and we should consider that too

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 4h

Force them to use the reserve funding?

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 5h

Going to a fundraiser of his in a few weeks.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

Interesting to see: Tlaib endorses Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist for Governor. Gilchrist is the only candidate in the race who has called Israel's onslaught on Gaza a genocide.

Tlaib endorses Gilchrist’s bid for Michigan governor • Michigan Advance

Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist has landed his first major gubernatorial endorsement from a sitting member of Congress: Democratic U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Detroit. Gilchrist is seeking the Democ...

michiganadvance.com

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Democrats @democrats.org · 6h

Republicans control the House.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.

This is their government shutdown.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

this is a remarkably fucking stupid thing to say

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

JOHNSON: “.. The pain register is about to hit level 10.”

@politico.com #Shutdown
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 10h

I think this is right but incomplete, the messaging stuff might not perfectly map this way but it's definitely a proxy fight and the real debate is about who should matter in the dem coalition, who should get the place among equals at the table or, even better, place of pride

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 7h

I fucking hate localist nativism.

Local Internet Wrestling Mom @professorachaos.bsky.social · 11h

When I moved to Minneapolis in the mid-aughts, it was really difficult to make friends. People from other states didn’t get it.

Now the bias is front and center in my city politics. If I’m a resident who “just got here,” do I matter less to Josh?

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Abe Silberstein @abesilbe.bsky.social · 7h

It's not surprising that Hasidic political operatives are relatively more levelheaded regarding Mamdani than Elliot Cosgrove, Ammiel Hirsch, and the rabbi of KJ. They have decades of experience in NYC politics and do not revert to pro-Israelism to formulate their reaction to a local phenomenon.

What a Jew learned from meeting Zohran Mamdani | The Jerusalem Post

I have no reason to believe that Zohran Mamdani is antisemitic or remotely close to that. But I learned that we must argue better. Respectfully, and truthfully, without demonizing the other side.

www.jpost.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 7h

IMO the really important and interesting debate is how to establish reliable information channels and relationship-building techniques that actually reach normal people.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 23h

My main takeaway on the “moderation” debate is that Democrats would be better served by other debates besides left-right positioning, like how to develop new valence issues (corruption!) as wedge issues, and how to get attention for their policy proposals in the first place

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 7h

You wouldn't call Asheville a city?

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

Cannot emphasize enough how rapidly shit could spiral into a color revolution here.

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