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Had a look through 100s & 100s of Graham Platner's old Reddit posts. The picture being painted based on a handful of them has little to do with what's in the archive - when it comes to his politics, his views on race, his attitudes to rural voters, and much else. A🧵:
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Had a look through 100s & 100s of Graham Platner's old Reddit posts. The picture being painted based on a handful of them has little to do with what's in the archive - when it comes to his politics, his views on race, his attitudes to rural voters, and much else. A🧵:
I don't know if people really understand how bad what Israel has done to Gaza is. So here's a collection of stats (often conservative undercounts) that make clear how much worse this is than anything we've seen in recent history.🧵
1st, the death rate & proportion of civilians killed:
1st, the death rate & proportion of civilians killed:
August 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I don't know if people really understand how bad what Israel has done to Gaza is. So here's a collection of stats (often conservative undercounts) that make clear how much worse this is than anything we've seen in recent history.🧵
1st, the death rate & proportion of civilians killed:
1st, the death rate & proportion of civilians killed:
NEW: A federal judge who sealed a slew of Epstein-related docs is also, through her husband's Wall St-representing law firm, connected to financial institutions tied up in the Epstein scandal. She's also the judge who imprisoned Steven Donziger after he beat Chevron.
July 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
NEW: A federal judge who sealed a slew of Epstein-related docs is also, through her husband's Wall St-representing law firm, connected to financial institutions tied up in the Epstein scandal. She's also the judge who imprisoned Steven Donziger after he beat Chevron.
A brief compilation of the reporting & evidence we have of not just Trump's relationship with Epstein, but Epstein's intel ties - including a CBS News producer told by Maxwell that Epstein had tapes of both Trump & Clinton.
July 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A brief compilation of the reporting & evidence we have of not just Trump's relationship with Epstein, but Epstein's intel ties - including a CBS News producer told by Maxwell that Epstein had tapes of both Trump & Clinton.
Yet again making the point that Biden's decision to split the centerpiece of his presidency into two bills (the BBB & the infrastructure bill) was why it failed in 2021 - and we can see this by the fact that Trump just succeeded where he failed by doing the opposite.
July 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Yet again making the point that Biden's decision to split the centerpiece of his presidency into two bills (the BBB & the infrastructure bill) was why it failed in 2021 - and we can see this by the fact that Trump just succeeded where he failed by doing the opposite.
Anyone who wants to apply proper scrutiny to the Trump admin should shift away from the outrageous, attention-seeking Musk, and focus their attention on Russell Vought - esp. since he's the one who's actually been running the show the past five months.
June 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Anyone who wants to apply proper scrutiny to the Trump admin should shift away from the outrageous, attention-seeking Musk, and focus their attention on Russell Vought - esp. since he's the one who's actually been running the show the past five months.
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Every shitlib & Dem insider that kept telling us to ignore the evidence of our eyes and ears as the party's final and most essential command... you owe all of us an apology and do not deserve positions or trust or office again. Thx @bmarchetich.bsky.social savageminds.substack.com/p/will-democ...
Will Democrats Learn From the Biden Disaster?
Probably Not
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May 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Every shitlib & Dem insider that kept telling us to ignore the evidence of our eyes and ears as the party's final and most essential command... you owe all of us an apology and do not deserve positions or trust or office again. Thx @bmarchetich.bsky.social savageminds.substack.com/p/will-democ...
The avalanche of corporate spending to unseat two socialist New York City council members is coming from groups & companies that have clashed directly with them over their votes & legislation - e.g. strengthening worker & tenant protections or banning biometric data gathering:
June 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The avalanche of corporate spending to unseat two socialist New York City council members is coming from groups & companies that have clashed directly with them over their votes & legislation - e.g. strengthening worker & tenant protections or banning biometric data gathering:
The most alarming case of neo-McCarthyism you probably haven't heard of: an Indiana professor active in campus protests against the Gaza war, who also happens to be Jewish, is currently being investigated over his criticism of Israel under an alarming new law. A brief🧵:
May 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The most alarming case of neo-McCarthyism you probably haven't heard of: an Indiana professor active in campus protests against the Gaza war, who also happens to be Jewish, is currently being investigated over his criticism of Israel under an alarming new law. A brief🧵:
Both Trump's critics & allies say there's a master plan to his tariff policy. I am not so sure. Its rollout is undercutting, and being undercut by, other core elements of his foreign & domestic policy, while hurting its own end game. Take the goal of isolating China for one:
April 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Both Trump's critics & allies say there's a master plan to his tariff policy. I am not so sure. Its rollout is undercutting, and being undercut by, other core elements of his foreign & domestic policy, while hurting its own end game. Take the goal of isolating China for one:
Anyone alarmed by cuts at the SSA won't feel better if Fiserv CEO Frank Bisignano heads the agency. Bisignano, whose confirmation hearing is tomorrow, is deeply disliked by current + ex-Fiserv workers for doing exactly what we're seeing at SSA: mass layoffs, branch closings, benefit cuts. A thread:
March 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Anyone alarmed by cuts at the SSA won't feel better if Fiserv CEO Frank Bisignano heads the agency. Bisignano, whose confirmation hearing is tomorrow, is deeply disliked by current + ex-Fiserv workers for doing exactly what we're seeing at SSA: mass layoffs, branch closings, benefit cuts. A thread:
The dropping of Daniel Davis - who would have been a great, sensible foreign policy pick - shows the danger of pro-Israel McCarthyism. The neocon faction in Trump's coalition is using the climate he's stoking to neuter pro-restraint voices in his administration.
March 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The dropping of Daniel Davis - who would have been a great, sensible foreign policy pick - shows the danger of pro-Israel McCarthyism. The neocon faction in Trump's coalition is using the climate he's stoking to neuter pro-restraint voices in his administration.
Trump's claims about rampant fraud in Social Security aren't new - it's what every politician who wanted to dismantle the program used as a fig leaf, from Reagan to Clinton.
Reagan once falsely accused a sheet metal worker who had been disabled & unable to work for seven years of being a fraud.
Reagan once falsely accused a sheet metal worker who had been disabled & unable to work for seven years of being a fraud.
March 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Trump's claims about rampant fraud in Social Security aren't new - it's what every politician who wanted to dismantle the program used as a fig leaf, from Reagan to Clinton.
Reagan once falsely accused a sheet metal worker who had been disabled & unable to work for seven years of being a fraud.
Reagan once falsely accused a sheet metal worker who had been disabled & unable to work for seven years of being a fraud.
These are stunning, damning statistics about the US healthcare system, one of the biggest, most stressful costs Americans face.
Yet the 2024 Dem campaign offered people nothing to solve this, and solutions to it are still almost entirely absent from both parties' discourse.
Yet the 2024 Dem campaign offered people nothing to solve this, and solutions to it are still almost entirely absent from both parties' discourse.
March 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
These are stunning, damning statistics about the US healthcare system, one of the biggest, most stressful costs Americans face.
Yet the 2024 Dem campaign offered people nothing to solve this, and solutions to it are still almost entirely absent from both parties' discourse.
Yet the 2024 Dem campaign offered people nothing to solve this, and solutions to it are still almost entirely absent from both parties' discourse.
Looking for something that's popular across partisan lines, is an electoral winner & can help you build a coalition of working-class voters - even ones who disagree w/ you on other stuff? Fight for a $17-$20 minimum wage, stupid.
March 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Looking for something that's popular across partisan lines, is an electoral winner & can help you build a coalition of working-class voters - even ones who disagree w/ you on other stuff? Fight for a $17-$20 minimum wage, stupid.
Democratic voters' current irritation with the Democratic Party is part of a longer trend where the party establishment has been wildly out of step with their own voters on key issues - Biden's candidacy & Gaza being most prominent.
March 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Democratic voters' current irritation with the Democratic Party is part of a longer trend where the party establishment has been wildly out of step with their own voters on key issues - Biden's candidacy & Gaza being most prominent.
Part of the tensions for the modern Democratic Party is that the exact same progressive groups they hate & complain about are the ones who helped organise the most potent bit of liberal Trump resistance in his 2nd term: the angry GOP town halls.
March 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Part of the tensions for the modern Democratic Party is that the exact same progressive groups they hate & complain about are the ones who helped organise the most potent bit of liberal Trump resistance in his 2nd term: the angry GOP town halls.
Relatedly - the "groups" that Democrats & their pundits have blamed for losing + complain are being pressured by them are also being blamed *by the Right* - for being behind this grass-roots outrage at GOP town halls. And they're not totally wrong. Further sign of misalignment between...
This energy is directly at odds with Democratsliberal pundits deciding trans rights are a liability & foisted on them by "groups." I think the question is can the party mount a comeback by ignoring or even despising its own activist base?
February 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Relatedly - the "groups" that Democrats & their pundits have blamed for losing + complain are being pressured by them are also being blamed *by the Right* - for being behind this grass-roots outrage at GOP town halls. And they're not totally wrong. Further sign of misalignment between...
This energy is directly at odds with Democratsliberal pundits deciding trans rights are a liability & foisted on them by "groups." I think the question is can the party mount a comeback by ignoring or even despising its own activist base?
February 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This energy is directly at odds with Democratsliberal pundits deciding trans rights are a liability & foisted on them by "groups." I think the question is can the party mount a comeback by ignoring or even despising its own activist base?
If you wanted to build a "big tent" and bring together working-class voters across party & ideology, one easy thing to do is put raising the min wage front & centre. If you see a politician talking about doing this stuff but not mentioning this policy, consider them unserious.
February 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If you wanted to build a "big tent" and bring together working-class voters across party & ideology, one easy thing to do is put raising the min wage front & centre. If you see a politician talking about doing this stuff but not mentioning this policy, consider them unserious.
When he has people fired, tries to cut their health care, or eliminates govt programs, Trump & Vought say they're getting rid of "wokeness" and "DEI" and call it a day.
When a "woke" predatory payday lender rips people off, they drop a lawsuit against it & publicly celebrate.
When a "woke" predatory payday lender rips people off, they drop a lawsuit against it & publicly celebrate.
February 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
When he has people fired, tries to cut their health care, or eliminates govt programs, Trump & Vought say they're getting rid of "wokeness" and "DEI" and call it a day.
When a "woke" predatory payday lender rips people off, they drop a lawsuit against it & publicly celebrate.
When a "woke" predatory payday lender rips people off, they drop a lawsuit against it & publicly celebrate.
A fired federal worker who did cybersecurity for the VA said he thinks it's "inevitable" now that its cyber defenses will deteriorate and eventually be hit by an attack, exposing millions of veterans - many of whom serve in top govt positions - to scams, extortion & blackmail.
February 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
A fired federal worker who did cybersecurity for the VA said he thinks it's "inevitable" now that its cyber defenses will deteriorate and eventually be hit by an attack, exposing millions of veterans - many of whom serve in top govt positions - to scams, extortion & blackmail.
Almost everyone I talked to who went to see Sanders in Iowa - who were all liberals & progressives looking for hope & direction under Trump - was unhappy with the Dem response.
It's also interesting to compare their rhetoric to Sanders' grim but aspiring message to the crowd.
It's also interesting to compare their rhetoric to Sanders' grim but aspiring message to the crowd.
February 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Almost everyone I talked to who went to see Sanders in Iowa - who were all liberals & progressives looking for hope & direction under Trump - was unhappy with the Dem response.
It's also interesting to compare their rhetoric to Sanders' grim but aspiring message to the crowd.
It's also interesting to compare their rhetoric to Sanders' grim but aspiring message to the crowd.
Whether slashing Medicaid and making air travel less safe, or eliminating the scourge of Wall St predators and cutting scientific research that would benefit working Americans, the Trump admin has found what it thinks is a winning formula: just claim it's "anti-woke."
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Trump Is Ripping Off America and Calling It “Anti-Woke”
The Trump team has hit on what it thinks is a winning formula: every time it wants to rip Americans’ health care away or let a predatory corporation off the hook, it just says it’s fighting “wokeness”...
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February 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Whether slashing Medicaid and making air travel less safe, or eliminating the scourge of Wall St predators and cutting scientific research that would benefit working Americans, the Trump admin has found what it thinks is a winning formula: just claim it's "anti-woke."
jacobin.com/2025/02/dona...
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It turns out most Americans don't actually share the desire of anti-government fanatics like Russell Vought to demolish their own state apparatus. Nor do they like their country being run by a cabal of billionaires.
February 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It turns out most Americans don't actually share the desire of anti-government fanatics like Russell Vought to demolish their own state apparatus. Nor do they like their country being run by a cabal of billionaires.