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Democracy is like exercise. You can't do it once every four years and complain when you don't see results. Pro-edit button. "Soros-backed." He/him. Linktree.com/joekatz45.
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It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

submitted 8 hours ago • 61 comments

Quick reminder that the majority of Americans live in cities, "real America" is urban, and when people scream obscenities about cities they are screaming obscenities about America.

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

Wow, torpedo bats really were a slippery slope

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments

I don't think these people realize how unhinged they sound screaming about how the mayor of New York's first and only responsibility is to Israel

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

If you live in NYC and are still undecided about whether to rank Cuomo or Mamdani, and your first question isn't, "Who do I want to be mayor when the tanks arrive?" you are doing it wrong. Yes, even if you're a Zionist (which I am, RIP my mentions).

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

That Boelter guy sure looks alive, heathly and unbeaten for a dude who literally shot at the cops as he escaped on Saturday AM.

submitted 6 hours ago • 34 comments

Mike Lee's bullshit serves multiple purposes. In one fell swoop, he is refocusing the discourse on whether this was RW violence as opposed to what we do about RW violence; avoiding condemning right-wing violence without openly approving it; and justifying criminalization of left-wing dissent.

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

A conversation well worth reviewing between @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social on what the power of protest actually is and what the 3.5% rule people keep citing actually means

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Authorities have reportedly captured 57-year-old Vance Boelter near his Green Isle home

submitted 7 hours ago • 34 comments

It is actually my observation that normies do not give a shit about people being trans and aggressively resent any demand that they care about it. That takes effort. Nobody other than dedicated partisans gives a shit, and most people find it hard to believe anyone *else* gives a shit.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

Meanwhile, in the NWSL. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

new ethical dilemma just dropped

submitted 10 hours ago • 24 comments

Wait, a good guy with a gun shot at a bad guy with a gun and a random third person is dead?

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

To be clear: a guy named Arturo Gamboa pulled out a rifle and charged the crowd, and Arthur Folasa Ah Loo was accidentally shot by volunteers trying to bring down Gamboa. Gamboa has been booked on murder charges. There were also multiple MAGA truck attacks on protesters yesterday.

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

"There is a straight line from Jan 6 to the pardons to the assault on Sen. Padilla to Minnesota." A good, blunt putting-it-all-together thread here from Sen. Murphy.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

So did the Red Sox leadership make some sort of bet that there's nothing they can do to permanently alienate the fan base, or what

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, a 39-year-old Utah resident, died Saturday night after being shot during Salt Lake City’s “No Kings” protest. Police said a member of a peacekeeping team fired shots trying to contain a man pointing a rifle at demonstrators, hitting Folasa Ah Loo.

submitted 14 hours ago • 35 comments

It takes 3.5% leading a mass uprising and shutting down the Capitol for weeks at a time. Waiving a bunch of signs in public parks for a single day isn't going to magically do it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 53 comments

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

submitted 13 hours ago • 300 comments

Mike Lee's bullshit serves multiple purposes. In one fell swoop, he is refocusing the discourse on whether this was RW violence as opposed to what we do about RW violence; avoiding condemning right-wing violence without openly approving it; and justifying criminalization of left-wing dissent.

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

I wrote a very personal essay about two conversations—one with my father decades ago and one with a stranger a few weeks ago amid the upheaval of Trump 2.0.

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

This is good, @padilla.senate.gov. But an opportunity was missed. Every D should be saying all over the shows that Trump has lost the public on deportations of noncriminals, that he admitted deportations hurt economy and that he's diverting resources from dangerous criminals. @kenmartin.bsky.social

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

If anyone wants to politely tell Mike Lee’s staff the real political identity of this shooter, his DC office number is 202-224-5444.

submitted 15 hours ago • 22 comments

mike lee’s brain fell out his ass

submitted 15 hours ago • 112 comments