Blue(s)Anon 🇦🇺🇺🇸
@baggersupped.bsky.social
In no particular order: Up the Baggers; the Union forever; always ways, always will be. Labor Left and Progressive Democrat.
Google "Australian rules football" and then lend your support to the Carlton Football Club. Lord knows they need it
Google "Australian rules football" and then lend your support to the Carlton Football Club. Lord knows they need it
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This was the *hard* one of Mamdanis supposedly pie-in-the-sky campaign promises and they're already doing it. Open a few grocery stores and solve the Riddle Of Free Bus Fare and you're home free
The goal of the multiyear plan, which Ms. Hochul is expected to introduce alongside the mayor in an appearance Thursday morning and will be a part of her State of the State address on Jan. 13, would be to offer universal access to children statewide, her office said.
Hochul and Mamdani to Announce Road Map to Expand Child Care
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:32 PM
This was the *hard* one of Mamdanis supposedly pie-in-the-sky campaign promises and they're already doing it. Open a few grocery stores and solve the Riddle Of Free Bus Fare and you're home free
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I went to a talk Ta-Nehisi Coates gave when “The Case for Reparations” came out and I remember someone in the Q&A asked why he didn’t also talk about Native American reparations.
The response was something like “that is a worthy topic but sometimes you need to focus on/write about one thing”
The response was something like “that is a worthy topic but sometimes you need to focus on/write about one thing”
Update: I am informed that there was a DSA rally in which all possible other causes were dragged in, and a very left acquaintance said: Jeez, I’m leaving.
Sigh.
We should be able to have vigils that focus on this one event, not just for big tent reasons but out of respect for someone who has DIED.
Sigh.
We should be able to have vigils that focus on this one event, not just for big tent reasons but out of respect for someone who has DIED.
Boston area people: is there a vigil or demonstration for Renee Good?
Also, how does one get on the mailing lists that tell you about such things without having to ask Bluesky? I only got here a few months ago, and I have not yet found them.
Also, how does one get on the mailing lists that tell you about such things without having to ask Bluesky? I only got here a few months ago, and I have not yet found them.
January 8, 2026 at 2:39 PM
I went to a talk Ta-Nehisi Coates gave when “The Case for Reparations” came out and I remember someone in the Q&A asked why he didn’t also talk about Native American reparations.
The response was something like “that is a worthy topic but sometimes you need to focus on/write about one thing”
The response was something like “that is a worthy topic but sometimes you need to focus on/write about one thing”
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“I want a progressive movement that is aggressively pro raising wages at the bottom and aggressively pro immigration. These are completely coherent goals.” Great piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
We Need to Get Off The Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:29 AM
“I want a progressive movement that is aggressively pro raising wages at the bottom and aggressively pro immigration. These are completely coherent goals.” Great piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
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“The long tradition of American abolitionism often rested its argument on the fact that you cannot guarantee that institutions of brutality will never be turned against free men. Similarly, one cannot intensify the attack on non-citizens and expect citizens to come out unscathed.”
Murder in Minneapolis
What this violent crime perpetrated by agents of the state means for the next three years.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:07 PM
“The long tradition of American abolitionism often rested its argument on the fact that you cannot guarantee that institutions of brutality will never be turned against free men. Similarly, one cannot intensify the attack on non-citizens and expect citizens to come out unscathed.”
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January 8, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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doomers get the fuck out of my mentions you unimaginative cowards
January 7, 2026 at 8:15 PM
doomers get the fuck out of my mentions you unimaginative cowards
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Ordinary people are demonstrating extraordinary bravery in the face of murderous Gestapo agents. Elite institutions continue to cower.
ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.
January 7, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Ordinary people are demonstrating extraordinary bravery in the face of murderous Gestapo agents. Elite institutions continue to cower.
The Biden Admin did a good thing by shipping him off to Japan, but they didn’t go far enough. Next guy needs to make him ambassador to Mars
I have nothing but contempt for this kind of thinking or political advocacy; anyone who joins this man's campaign is taking up with the opposition.
He waves no battle standard, his white flag is ironed, clean, unimprovised, and ready to be unfurled.
He waves no battle standard, his white flag is ironed, clean, unimprovised, and ready to be unfurled.
January 7, 2026 at 2:22 PM
The Biden Admin did a good thing by shipping him off to Japan, but they didn’t go far enough. Next guy needs to make him ambassador to Mars
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this is where i am at: THERE IS NO ONE ELSE. do you want to outsource your military policy to steven miller? no? how about the dc blob? also no? THEN LEARN WHAT THE FUCK HOW TO MILITARY
www.breakingbeijing.com/p/there-is-n...
www.breakingbeijing.com/p/there-is-n...
January 6, 2026 at 10:28 PM
this is where i am at: THERE IS NO ONE ELSE. do you want to outsource your military policy to steven miller? no? how about the dc blob? also no? THEN LEARN WHAT THE FUCK HOW TO MILITARY
www.breakingbeijing.com/p/there-is-n...
www.breakingbeijing.com/p/there-is-n...
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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Chuck Schumer rejecting out of hand the one point of leverage he has, the one that was actually working really well last year until he caved, is the most Chuck Schumer he can be.
spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/...
spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/...
Schumer rejects idea of another government shutdown
Lawmakers returned to Washington from a holiday break Monday after seeing a record-long 43-day shutdown in the fall.
spectrumlocalnews.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Chuck Schumer rejecting out of hand the one point of leverage he has, the one that was actually working really well last year until he caved, is the most Chuck Schumer he can be.
spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/...
spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/...
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I've seen a million posts like this but that's just not how international politics works. What really matters is power, not credibility or moral consistency. If Xi Jinping thinks he can successfully invade Taiwan at acceptable cost, he will do it
If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?
January 4, 2026 at 12:44 PM
I've seen a million posts like this but that's just not how international politics works. What really matters is power, not credibility or moral consistency. If Xi Jinping thinks he can successfully invade Taiwan at acceptable cost, he will do it
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A long essay but worth reading to a get a sense of how Trump is and is not like the imperialists we're used to. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-most-chi...
The Most Childish Imperialism
How Trump is different from the old imperialists, and how the liberal world must respond.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:29 AM
A long essay but worth reading to a get a sense of how Trump is and is not like the imperialists we're used to. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-most-chi...
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I know I've said it a million times now but between Mamdani and Schumer, the median Democratic voter is far closer to the former than the latter on Palestine today. The pro-Israel bloc makes a mistake, on a fundamental level, by raising the salience of the issue.
January 2, 2026 at 8:49 PM
I know I've said it a million times now but between Mamdani and Schumer, the median Democratic voter is far closer to the former than the latter on Palestine today. The pro-Israel bloc makes a mistake, on a fundamental level, by raising the salience of the issue.
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I do think the pro Israel people understand within 10 years, Israel will have no allies outside of Russia and China and that Israel will be universally hated in the US very soon, but they genuinely do not understand persuasion so they don't know how to pivot.
December 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I do think the pro Israel people understand within 10 years, Israel will have no allies outside of Russia and China and that Israel will be universally hated in the US very soon, but they genuinely do not understand persuasion so they don't know how to pivot.
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All other things put aside, the fact is that just a few years ago the views Mamdani holds on Palestine would have rendered him persona non grata and now they do not. The establishment has to contend with him. To what extent he then in turn has to contend with the establishment is still undetermined.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who didn't endorse Zohran Mamdani for mayor, is expected to attend his inauguration at City Hall set to start shortly, per a source.
Schumer will be seated on the dais with other top pols.
Schumer will be seated on the dais with other top pols.
January 1, 2026 at 5:57 PM
All other things put aside, the fact is that just a few years ago the views Mamdani holds on Palestine would have rendered him persona non grata and now they do not. The establishment has to contend with him. To what extent he then in turn has to contend with the establishment is still undetermined.
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It feels like ages since we’ve heard anyone in elected office with any real command of the old American art of rhetoric. In my lifetime, I think Obama is probably the only other prominent example.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:20 PM
It feels like ages since we’ve heard anyone in elected office with any real command of the old American art of rhetoric. In my lifetime, I think Obama is probably the only other prominent example.
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No matter where we go from here I cannot believe we, as DSA, in under 10 years of reconstitution, elected a guy to govern the most important city in the world that says in his inaugural speech: “I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist.”
January 1, 2026 at 8:27 PM
No matter where we go from here I cannot believe we, as DSA, in under 10 years of reconstitution, elected a guy to govern the most important city in the world that says in his inaugural speech: “I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist.”
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2012 campaign is like some lost mythical battle to Republicans. Like they genuinely believed they were destined to win and that Dems should never hit back like they did. If anything Dems should have been meaner to Romney.
if people on the other site think Obama was mean, i don't think they're ready for Reconstruction 2
December 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
2012 campaign is like some lost mythical battle to Republicans. Like they genuinely believed they were destined to win and that Dems should never hit back like they did. If anything Dems should have been meaner to Romney.
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Spending some of the last day of 2025 thinking about how they tried to make Kirk's murder into some big moment to help usher in their fascism cut couldn't even pretend THEY cared for more than a couple days
December 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Spending some of the last day of 2025 thinking about how they tried to make Kirk's murder into some big moment to help usher in their fascism cut couldn't even pretend THEY cared for more than a couple days
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good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
December 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
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the MAGA project is stalling out in no small part because they've been unable to sell america on their ideas in practice. the images of masked thugs grabbing innocent people off the street has galvanized spontaneous resistance, not mass support
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Miller falling short on his "authoritarian designs"?
"The deportations are lagging far behind his hopes. He has not persuaded Trump to deploy the dictatorial power he pines to see. And he has unleashed a cultural moment in defense of immigrants that is more powerful than anything he anticipated."
"The deportations are lagging far behind his hopes. He has not persuaded Trump to deploy the dictatorial power he pines to see. And he has unleashed a cultural moment in defense of immigrants that is more powerful than anything he anticipated."
Stephen Miller Is The New Republic’s 2025 Scoundrel of the Year
He was counting on a nation of haters. He was wrong.
newrepublic.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
the MAGA project is stalling out in no small part because they've been unable to sell america on their ideas in practice. the images of masked thugs grabbing innocent people off the street has galvanized spontaneous resistance, not mass support
bsky.app/profile/just...
bsky.app/profile/just...
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i remember talking about this issue polarizing on party lines but it seems like the actual divide is going to be elected officials, who are all 9000 years old and were best friends with golda meir, vs voters, who think its not great that israel keeps killing so many kids
It seems the pro-Israel consensus among Democrats is well and truly dead at this point. Dem primary voters prefer candidates who refuse to travel to Israel (by net +45%) and back a bill to end military aid to Israel (by net +61%). www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202...
December 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
i remember talking about this issue polarizing on party lines but it seems like the actual divide is going to be elected officials, who are all 9000 years old and were best friends with golda meir, vs voters, who think its not great that israel keeps killing so many kids
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Here's the thing: People talk. White House reporters know what's behind the IV infusions. They're just not reporting it to the public.
The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care.
We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
Trump looked pretty rough today -- note that both of his hands are discolored
(Joe Raedle/Getty)
(Joe Raedle/Getty)
December 29, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Here's the thing: People talk. White House reporters know what's behind the IV infusions. They're just not reporting it to the public.
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My takeaway is these politicians know something about Trump's medical condition that we don't.
Trump is very sick, probably dying— and they're betting that he won't last out his term. They're carving out space in the post-Trump MAGA world. MTG is distancing herself from the Vance 2028 camp.
Trump is very sick, probably dying— and they're betting that he won't last out his term. They're carving out space in the post-Trump MAGA world. MTG is distancing herself from the Vance 2028 camp.
‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My takeaway is these politicians know something about Trump's medical condition that we don't.
Trump is very sick, probably dying— and they're betting that he won't last out his term. They're carving out space in the post-Trump MAGA world. MTG is distancing herself from the Vance 2028 camp.
Trump is very sick, probably dying— and they're betting that he won't last out his term. They're carving out space in the post-Trump MAGA world. MTG is distancing herself from the Vance 2028 camp.