They should have been driving wedges into the coalition fractures of the would-be oligarchs, but they've been gradually captured. Now we have to take the party back and radically reform it as a vehicle to create a more democratic and ideally multi-party future.

There are three pillars to fixing this situation, and one of them is pushing preferential voting through in every Democratic-leaning state. Imagine truly great Dems from NY, CA, MA, etc. in caucus leadership roles instead of Schumer! Small swing states like ME have done it! bsky.app/profile/greg...

People need friends because those are the people who can raise an eyebrow at you and say "dude?" and if necessary have a nice sit-down with you to explain calmly why that was really fucked up.

It's also critically important that most Americans have no idea what is actually going on and how their country works. Their imagination of immigration is Ellis Island, not Decades-Long Kafkaesque Bureaucracy Panopticon. On the corporate media's role this is equal parts malice and incompetence.

public opinion is simply more nuanced than what can be expressed in issue polls. and voters think about broad issues in a number of different ways. there are ways to fight on immigration that do help trump. but there are also ways to fight on it that hurt him.

Nora: "How do you feel?"

Me: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober."

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die

i said "only throw"

you know what you did