Drake
@drerez66.bsky.social
A primitive on the Information Age Civilization on Sol III
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“The Republican Party Faces a Bigger Crisis Than the Democratic Party” — my @washingtonmonthly.com response to David Plouffe’s recent NYT column
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The Republican Party Faces a Bigger Crisis Than the Democratic Party
David Plouffe calls for a Democratic overhaul to survive Census changes, but demographic shifts really threaten the Republicans.
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January 16, 2026 at 12:30 PM
“The Republican Party Faces a Bigger Crisis Than the Democratic Party” — my @washingtonmonthly.com response to David Plouffe’s recent NYT column
washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/16/t...
washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/16/t...
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not only was this predictable from the moment he took office, it should have been expected. and yet a constellation of “serious” and “savvy” observers insisted that we were living through a realignment
January 16, 2026 at 1:28 PM
not only was this predictable from the moment he took office, it should have been expected. and yet a constellation of “serious” and “savvy” observers insisted that we were living through a realignment
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a year in and trump is in free fall with the public across every conceivable issue
CNN poll finds majority of Americans say Trump is focused on the wrong priorities | CNN Politics
Public opinion on nearly every aspect of President Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House is negative, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with a majority of Americans saying Trump is f...
www.cnn.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
a year in and trump is in free fall with the public across every conceivable issue
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Whew, this new CNN poll is brutal....
58% say first year was a failure. Net approval on key issues:
- Venezuela: -16
- Immigration: -16 (was +3 in Mar)
- Economy: -21
- Foreign affairs: -21
- Job approval: -22 (39-61)
- Tariffs: -25 (new low)
- Healthcare: -27 (new low)
www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...
58% say first year was a failure. Net approval on key issues:
- Venezuela: -16
- Immigration: -16 (was +3 in Mar)
- Economy: -21
- Foreign affairs: -21
- Job approval: -22 (39-61)
- Tariffs: -25 (new low)
- Healthcare: -27 (new low)
www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...
January 16, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Whew, this new CNN poll is brutal....
58% say first year was a failure. Net approval on key issues:
- Venezuela: -16
- Immigration: -16 (was +3 in Mar)
- Economy: -21
- Foreign affairs: -21
- Job approval: -22 (39-61)
- Tariffs: -25 (new low)
- Healthcare: -27 (new low)
www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...
58% say first year was a failure. Net approval on key issues:
- Venezuela: -16
- Immigration: -16 (was +3 in Mar)
- Economy: -21
- Foreign affairs: -21
- Job approval: -22 (39-61)
- Tariffs: -25 (new low)
- Healthcare: -27 (new low)
www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...
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Woke 2 is arriving
January 14, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Woke 2 is arriving
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The other night I dreamed that there was something like the Kardashev scale to see how advanced a civilization was but instead of measuring how much energy they had harnessed it was whether or not they had yet created SpongeBob
January 14, 2026 at 9:16 PM
The other night I dreamed that there was something like the Kardashev scale to see how advanced a civilization was but instead of measuring how much energy they had harnessed it was whether or not they had yet created SpongeBob
I'm no longer full of microplastics? damn
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discoveries of #microplastics throughout human body, from brain to blood, arteries to testes
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:11 AM
I'm no longer full of microplastics? damn
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‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discoveries of #microplastics throughout human body, from brain to blood, arteries to testes
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:33 PM
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discoveries of #microplastics throughout human body, from brain to blood, arteries to testes
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Stonewall Jackson has gone woke
'Avatar' star Stephen Lang speaks on masculinity
"I left the man club some years ago ... I have no interest in promoting some idea of masculinity that is either aggressive or more important than anyone else"
(via EW)
"I left the man club some years ago ... I have no interest in promoting some idea of masculinity that is either aggressive or more important than anyone else"
(via EW)
January 3, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Stonewall Jackson has gone woke
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good rundown of how many democrats are, in fact, coming out against this shit
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/the-...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/the-...
The Dem Reaction - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Where are the Democrats right now? Friend of the blog Jamie Mayerfeld has done the research: I saw someone write on Facebook: “Only a short matter of time before we see establishment liberals falling ...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:43 PM
good rundown of how many democrats are, in fact, coming out against this shit
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/the-...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/the-...
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Apparently maduro almost got into a safe room but wasn't able to close the door? fuckin crazy
January 4, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Apparently maduro almost got into a safe room but wasn't able to close the door? fuckin crazy
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Underrated factor in all of Trump's military adventures is how much he wants to recreate and surpass the cultural impact of the Bin Laden raid. And it's just never gonna happen because no singular foreign enemy or tyrant other than Hitler has had such a cold-finger grip on the American psyche.
January 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Underrated factor in all of Trump's military adventures is how much he wants to recreate and surpass the cultural impact of the Bin Laden raid. And it's just never gonna happen because no singular foreign enemy or tyrant other than Hitler has had such a cold-finger grip on the American psyche.
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FOLKS NEED TO REALIZE HOW HUGE THIS IS
For the first time in modern Texas history, Dems have candidates running in every state and federal race on the 2026 ballot.
That includes all congressional seats, every state House and state Senate race, plus statewide judicial and State Board of Education.
For the first time in modern Texas history, Dems have candidates running in every state and federal race on the 2026 ballot.
That includes all congressional seats, every state House and state Senate race, plus statewide judicial and State Board of Education.
January 3, 2026 at 4:33 AM
FOLKS NEED TO REALIZE HOW HUGE THIS IS
For the first time in modern Texas history, Dems have candidates running in every state and federal race on the 2026 ballot.
That includes all congressional seats, every state House and state Senate race, plus statewide judicial and State Board of Education.
For the first time in modern Texas history, Dems have candidates running in every state and federal race on the 2026 ballot.
That includes all congressional seats, every state House and state Senate race, plus statewide judicial and State Board of Education.
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I think there are people in the media business who want to destroy parts of it intentionally
I think David Ellison and Bari Weiss are not in that group - they dream of a centrist-branded Fox News and they are doing an embarrassing series of pratfalls trying and failing to make it happen
I think David Ellison and Bari Weiss are not in that group - they dream of a centrist-branded Fox News and they are doing an embarrassing series of pratfalls trying and failing to make it happen
January 3, 2026 at 3:26 AM
I think there are people in the media business who want to destroy parts of it intentionally
I think David Ellison and Bari Weiss are not in that group - they dream of a centrist-branded Fox News and they are doing an embarrassing series of pratfalls trying and failing to make it happen
I think David Ellison and Bari Weiss are not in that group - they dream of a centrist-branded Fox News and they are doing an embarrassing series of pratfalls trying and failing to make it happen
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One thing I will say is that this continues the Trump Administration theme of not taking any overseas action that needs more than 24 hours of consideration. They push for the "yes" & they make sure it's not something that can be interrupted by a last-minute "no" once he's slept on it
The question was never Maduro. The question was always what comes after Maduro. I don't have any answers yet, how could I?
January 3, 2026 at 3:48 PM
One thing I will say is that this continues the Trump Administration theme of not taking any overseas action that needs more than 24 hours of consideration. They push for the "yes" & they make sure it's not something that can be interrupted by a last-minute "no" once he's slept on it
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This is why I got a degree in political science, so I can spend the rest of my life explaining- to friends, family, and strangers on the internet- that rally round the flag effects are actually rare and require specific circumstances and aren't just "presidential approval goes up when he does war"
One thing every new FP crisis makes very clear is that millennials and zoomers have adopted some very weird theories of how foreign policy intersects with public opinion as a result of the Iraq War and stories about it thereafter
January 3, 2026 at 3:25 PM
This is why I got a degree in political science, so I can spend the rest of my life explaining- to friends, family, and strangers on the internet- that rally round the flag effects are actually rare and require specific circumstances and aren't just "presidential approval goes up when he does war"
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This is a statement you’ve come to play ball.
I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.
January 1, 2026 at 11:16 PM
This is a statement you’ve come to play ball.
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I can't believe the first inaugural winner of the FIFA Nobel Peace Prize would do this.
January 3, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I can't believe the first inaugural winner of the FIFA Nobel Peace Prize would do this.
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I don't think the administration will meaningful capitalize on anything potentially gained from this operation tbh
January 3, 2026 at 10:26 AM
I don't think the administration will meaningful capitalize on anything potentially gained from this operation tbh
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There's an outstanding indictment against Maduro from back in 2020 but lol lmao at this DOJ managing this case at trial
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
There's an outstanding indictment against Maduro from back in 2020 but lol lmao at this DOJ managing this case at trial
uh happy late new year and what i thing to wake up too
January 3, 2026 at 3:25 PM
uh happy late new year and what i thing to wake up too
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two notable reactions from congress (before maduro capture)
January 3, 2026 at 9:46 AM
two notable reactions from congress (before maduro capture)
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I think everyone with ambition will know which way the winds are blowing in the base, bigger question is those without
seems good that Schatz and Gallego of all people are already on this point
two notable reactions from congress (before maduro capture)
January 3, 2026 at 10:32 AM
I think everyone with ambition will know which way the winds are blowing in the base, bigger question is those without
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i think that people really underestimate reality that
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
January 3, 2026 at 11:15 AM
i think that people really underestimate reality that
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.