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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 5d

this is correct but also: being right is the foundation and too many political hacks these days think: well it's either "being right" OR "winning" pick one, and they pick "winning" and then only win half the time anyway

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 5d

‘Being right in and of itself is meaningless. We have to win. And we have to deliver.’

- zohran mamdani

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Sep 19

Thank you to the 58 NO votes.

What's glaring is how few white Democrats voted no.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · Sep 2

be loud for america is probably one of the most cogent things a dem politician has said in recent years

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 2

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:

"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · Aug 1

📍Reporting live from the Chippewa County Fair!

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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · Jul 29

Washington is broken because our leaders serve corporations and billionaires - not the people.

From Day One of this campaign I’ve refused to accept a dime of corporate PAC money. I’m calling on folks on both sides of the aisle to join me.

www.axios.com/2025/07/29/m...

Exclusive: Dems propose corporate PAC ban

Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin will introduce the Ban Corporate PACs Act.

www.axios.com

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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · Jul 10

Thank you to everyone who supported my campaign! I’m so proud of what our grassroots campaign achieved last quarter.

We’re supported by everyday folks giving what they can, when they can. And I couldn’t be more honored or humbled by the folks on this team. This is how we win.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · Jul 7

if i'm a naturalized american citizen i'm changing my voter registration to republican to dodge the first data sort in the review

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · Jun 29

taking this moment, between the terrible supreme court opinions, the concentration camps, and the bill in the senate, to go on tour of cable news to trash the dem nominee for mayor of nyc, and to do it while lying about him and peddling in obvious islamophobic rhetoric…it’s truly black pilling

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collin @photobycollin.com · Jun 25

lucky for you, it doesn't mean anything!

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · Jun 24

Why Mamdani-Cuomo in NYC is huge. A Dem gerontocracy is spending millions on consultants to find a "Joe Rogan of the left," but when a real-life candidate energizes Gen Z, party elites try to crush him

The future is bleak for Dems if creepy Cuomo wins. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

NYC race reveals what’s awful about elite Dems | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, how Trump is already threatening to ruin sports.

www.inquirer.com

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Jun 20

They murdered top Democrats in their homes 5 days ago and the president and corporate media could not care less.

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · Jun 18

How the fuck would ANY ONE know that's police?! Tell me. In fact, prove that they are. How does this not create the ability for random masked men to kidnap people into vans in broad daylight??

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jun 18

If your country’s police starts looking like this you are extraordinarily fucked.

The only appropriate response is a civil uprising.

#AbolishICE

A photo taken in Chicago of four ICE agents outside a blacked out can. Their faces are entirely covered except for their eyes which are covered by sunglasses. They look like a lynch mob. They wear no ID. There is nothing to indicate they are federal agents. The photo is a credit to Ramez Naam who posted it on X

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · Jun 18

as corporations cancel their donations to pride and juneteenth celebrations, let us not forget that philanthropy is mostly just a tax shelter and we should actually just raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jun 14

Whether it's Democrats putting flyers on Chris Cillizza’s Tesla or Republicans assassinating Democratic lawmakers, it's time for both sides to turn down the temperature.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · Jun 14

Obama and Biden both failed to do anything about right wing extremists and the big change we need is someone willing to use the state to confront and dismantle their networks, including using state force. For this to be successful it won’t look very “liberal.”

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Jun 14

I would like my state, every state, to mandate badges, name plates, no masks, for all law enforcement in the state. And if federal agents try to break the mandate, arrest them, then let the courts sort it out.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · Jun 14

Today’s a good day to figure out who’s trying to build their brand on the bodies of dead people, and block them. All my love to everyone honestly grieving. All we have is each other.

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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · Jun 14

The murders of Melissa and Mark Hortman and the attempted murders of John and Yvette Hoffman—the intentional targeting of people for giving their lives to serve our state and the people of Minnesota—it is unspeakably horrible.

We have to change. Our society cannot continue on the path we’re on.

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Rep. Leigh Finke @leighfinke.bsky.social · Jun 12

Yes @governorwalz.mn.gov is right.

Rolling up in unmarked cars, wearing unmarked vests and masks, kidnapping people off the streets IS GESTAPO.

We all see it.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jun 11

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.

They are in charge.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jun 11

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · Jun 10

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · Jun 8

Hey, so Trump didn’t call up National Guard for California. He’s federalizing the National Guard for anywhere that there’s protests, *likely protests or planned operations* ANYWHERE in the United States. Including [insert where ever you are]. This is it, folks.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · May 30

I thought my job as Senator was to try to keep my constituents alive.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · May 30

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

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