Pinned
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FWIW, the idea that Black women can't win competitive races is not born out by data. It's about (to borrow from Mitch McConnell) candidate quality:
-Cheri Beasley outperformed in North Carolina (but Schumer didn't fund her)
-Lucy McBath won a Trump district
-Lauren Underwood won a Trump district
-Cheri Beasley outperformed in North Carolina (but Schumer didn't fund her)
-Lucy McBath won a Trump district
-Lauren Underwood won a Trump district
December 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
FWIW, the idea that Black women can't win competitive races is not born out by data. It's about (to borrow from Mitch McConnell) candidate quality:
-Cheri Beasley outperformed in North Carolina (but Schumer didn't fund her)
-Lucy McBath won a Trump district
-Lauren Underwood won a Trump district
-Cheri Beasley outperformed in North Carolina (but Schumer didn't fund her)
-Lucy McBath won a Trump district
-Lauren Underwood won a Trump district
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I get the impulse to push back on Hegseth trying to exonerate himself by pinning it all on Bradley, but no. He's not "an apparently good man." You don't have to cravenly genuflect toward him just because he wears a uniform. He is a criminal, a cold-blooded murderer, and does not deserve any respect.
BRENNAN: Do you have confidence in Admiral Bradley?
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
December 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I get the impulse to push back on Hegseth trying to exonerate himself by pinning it all on Bradley, but no. He's not "an apparently good man." You don't have to cravenly genuflect toward him just because he wears a uniform. He is a criminal, a cold-blooded murderer, and does not deserve any respect.
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No, they know what they are doing is wrong. They hate being called racists because they know that racism is wrong. They hate to have their crimes called out by the media because they know they are crimes. These are not people who are trying to do the right thing, these are malicious people.
December 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
No, they know what they are doing is wrong. They hate being called racists because they know that racism is wrong. They hate to have their crimes called out by the media because they know they are crimes. These are not people who are trying to do the right thing, these are malicious people.
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danish social democrats lost, badly. the "the left but adolf hitler on immigration" people:
December 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
danish social democrats lost, badly. the "the left but adolf hitler on immigration" people:
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I think it's important to just treat these guys as engaged in a conspiracy against the Republic and the Constitution.
What's most galling is Wurman and Barnett aren't stupid. They both know exactly how dishonest this is. Whatever their motives, and I don't really care, they're not doing scholarship in any of this. They're willful liars abusing their credentials in an aid of a lawless attack on fundamental rights.
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I think it's important to just treat these guys as engaged in a conspiracy against the Republic and the Constitution.
I'm still fucking pissed about the 8 Democratic senators voting to give cash payouts to insurrectionists
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm still fucking pissed about the 8 Democratic senators voting to give cash payouts to insurrectionists
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At some point someone just needs to say “you are an indecent person, you are lying to cover the slaughter of defenseless men, you know you are lying, and even under the tenets of your own professed faith you will certainly burn in hell if you continue down this path”
WELKER: Isn't it possible that even the act of taking off a t shirt could've been part of an attempt to get attention for help?
TOM COTTON: Or it could've been an attempt to signal to another cartel boat to come pick them up and pick up the cargo
TOM COTTON: Or it could've been an attempt to signal to another cartel boat to come pick them up and pick up the cargo
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
At some point someone just needs to say “you are an indecent person, you are lying to cover the slaughter of defenseless men, you know you are lying, and even under the tenets of your own professed faith you will certainly burn in hell if you continue down this path”
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I don’t care if we‘re 50 percent or 49 percent or 75 percent or 25 percent: we’re on the side of the Constitution and of right.
Yglesias is brain poisoned from surrounding himself with white nationalists on Twitter. Birthright citizenship is overwhelmingly popular. Even when limited specifically to illegal immigration it still enjoys a narrow majority. Many people do not blame babies for the sins of their parents.
December 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I don’t care if we‘re 50 percent or 49 percent or 75 percent or 25 percent: we’re on the side of the Constitution and of right.
Okay well if you vote Republican this would apply to you so?
December 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Okay well if you vote Republican this would apply to you so?
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Somali-Americans are neighbors, mentors, and friends who have helped build Minnesota.
Trump’s attacks are hateful and untrue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Trump’s attacks are hateful and untrue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | My Somali Role Models in Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Somali-Americans are neighbors, mentors, and friends who have helped build Minnesota.
Trump’s attacks are hateful and untrue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Trump’s attacks are hateful and untrue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
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i'm generally of the opinion that Europe is held back by its implicit commitment to ethnic nationalism, even if they don't form actual ethnocracies. it's to America and Canada's great credit that we have citizenship rooted in the place, not the "people."
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
i'm generally of the opinion that Europe is held back by its implicit commitment to ethnic nationalism, even if they don't form actual ethnocracies. it's to America and Canada's great credit that we have citizenship rooted in the place, not the "people."
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Focusing on a single incident makes it resonate with the public more. It doesn't somehow justify the other killings, it illustrates the larger problem.
The right is good at this, sometimes in bad faith. For example, Laken Riley.
Basically "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
The right is good at this, sometimes in bad faith. For example, Laken Riley.
Basically "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
Once the debate centers on whether the 2nd strike was legal, the first 21 strikes have been accepted as baseline. But the murder of the two survivors doesn’t make the other 21 any more legal. Selective outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized @tadstoermer.bsky.social
The Second Strike on the Caribbean Boat: A Resistance History Lesson in Normalizing Authoritarianism
youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik
youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik
December 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Focusing on a single incident makes it resonate with the public more. It doesn't somehow justify the other killings, it illustrates the larger problem.
The right is good at this, sometimes in bad faith. For example, Laken Riley.
Basically "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
The right is good at this, sometimes in bad faith. For example, Laken Riley.
Basically "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
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people died for birthright citizenship. i get that it’s more fun to be a pundit when your team has the white house and you get to brag to friends about visiting the oval office; but what i’m wondering is if maybe that’s actually not a good reason to throw away something we fought a civil war to win?
December 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
people died for birthright citizenship. i get that it’s more fun to be a pundit when your team has the white house and you get to brag to friends about visiting the oval office; but what i’m wondering is if maybe that’s actually not a good reason to throw away something we fought a civil war to win?
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I've always felt like I share some emotional antecedents with right-wingers, and one of them is how the listening tour nonsense turns me to stone. I don't understand why being a quivering little suckup to someone is supposed to earn that person's vote
December 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I've always felt like I share some emotional antecedents with right-wingers, and one of them is how the listening tour nonsense turns me to stone. I don't understand why being a quivering little suckup to someone is supposed to earn that person's vote
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they are traitors to america
December 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
they are traitors to america
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THESE PEOPLE ARE FILTH
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
THESE PEOPLE ARE FILTH
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You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.”
All how you choose to frame it.
All how you choose to frame it.
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.”
All how you choose to frame it.
All how you choose to frame it.
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hahaha the White House deleted the fascist anti-immigrant slop video after Sabrina Carpenter ratioed them
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
hahaha the White House deleted the fascist anti-immigrant slop video after Sabrina Carpenter ratioed them
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One thing that I came to realize is that elected/appointed Republicans are bad because of their base, not the other way around.
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
One thing that I came to realize is that elected/appointed Republicans are bad because of their base, not the other way around.
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What did you think defeating fascism would require? Vibes?? Essays?? Losers.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
What did you think defeating fascism would require? Vibes?? Essays?? Losers.
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There is an intense pro-enforcing laws turn on the left, and it's good. The Third Reconstruction will require a strong hand and an iron will and a heart hardened against the screeching of fascist traitors that they deserve mercy.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There is an intense pro-enforcing laws turn on the left, and it's good. The Third Reconstruction will require a strong hand and an iron will and a heart hardened against the screeching of fascist traitors that they deserve mercy.
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The entire right half of the political spectrum has gone all in on the idea that black people are uniformly less qualified for inclusion in politics, leadership, and higher education - and virtually no one has even mentioned it, much less raced to defend black Americans. It’s beyond belief.
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The entire right half of the political spectrum has gone all in on the idea that black people are uniformly less qualified for inclusion in politics, leadership, and higher education - and virtually no one has even mentioned it, much less raced to defend black Americans. It’s beyond belief.
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We'll have to seek the death penalty against everyone in the chain of command here. There's no excuse at this point for the E-4 to say he didn't know.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
We'll have to seek the death penalty against everyone in the chain of command here. There's no excuse at this point for the E-4 to say he didn't know.
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Publishing all the other boat murder videos but refusing to release the one of the two survivors being killed is an admission they know exactly how bad it looks. There's no other distinction to draw there, no reason to publish the others while withholding that one.
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Publishing all the other boat murder videos but refusing to release the one of the two survivors being killed is an admission they know exactly how bad it looks. There's no other distinction to draw there, no reason to publish the others while withholding that one.