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if young voters turned out like they did for Zohran Mamdani for every race, the Democratic Party would never lose an election again so naturally, establishment Dems are…smearing him and refusing to endorse?

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

All the reactionary centrists attacking Mamdami every day will deny -- to us, even to themselves I think -- that they play a key role in enabling this kind of shit. But that is literally their function in the current US political structure.

submitted 17 hours ago • 158 comments

The rise of people like Lander and Walz, whose ideologies don't exactly match mine but have the exact right combination of "love thy neighbor" and "fuck you, asshole" attitudes, is massive positive for people who care about left of center politics

submitted 2 days ago • 122 comments

“He’s easily bruising. He has bone pain. He looks pale .… He has also lost his appetite …. His mom is terrified that these are symptoms that his leukemia situation might be deteriorating.” A 6-year-old with cancer is languishing in a U.S. detention camp. Who will answer for this cruelty?

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Ask me about a certain 2015 conference committee report that got “lost.”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Conventional wisdom among the DC/NY press corps is that Trump is strong on immigration enforcement. But that isn't reflected in polling. People hate it. So tell me: Who's in the bubble? Bluesky users or mainstream media editorial writers?

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.

submitted 5 days ago • 304 comments

Yikes: "Around 315 Guard personnel were deployed to assist DEA in executing a federal search warrant"—a deployment that "appears to be unauthorized" even under Trump's memorandum federalizing National Guard units.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

an absolute outrage

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

fwiw what Houston police did here is what it actually means not to be a sanctuary city

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Underrated in politics: 1. Saying stuff you actually believe whether or not it is the stuff that polls best 2. Not counting on billionaires to buy you a victory with TV ads 3. Spending time campaigning

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

The easiest way to explain ranked choice voting is that it's a sandwich order, not a tier list. If I said your choices are turkey, ham, or dogshit, you wouldn't be like "ok my third choice is dogshit", you'd simply omit the shit sandwich.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

A good question to ask is “when is the last time Van Jones had a job that wasn’t ’say stuff on the tv’?”

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Democrats are racking their brains trying to find the "Joe Rogan of the left" while doing everything they can to defeat people like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who actually possess the skills they're so desperately looking for.

submitted 8 days ago • 112 comments

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

submitted 8 days ago • 294 comments

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

submitted 9 days ago • 441 comments

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

nonzero chance that neither the World Cup nor the 2028 Summer Olympics take place in the United States the way things are going

submitted 11 days ago • 163 comments

wow and just when he’s scheduled to release his health care plan too crazy timing

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process is how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

submitted 13 days ago • 209 comments

28-year-old Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo, who has no known criminal record, was accused by Texas police of being in a Venezuelan gang because they found a photo of him posing with another man with tattoos, his lawyers say. From ProPublica partner @texastribune.org:

submitted 12 days ago • 507 comments

Pure, unadulterated evil.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Some ask “how is @thebarbedwire.bsky.social different from [Dem ‘owned media’ project]?” It’s stories like this -> We’re populist & progressive. We take on power & we want justice. But our work isn’t a sub for partisan politics. It’s real journalism. Read Felita Bailey’s story to see for yourself.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

submitted 13 days ago • 767 comments

BREAKING: Armed man arrested at Nashville's 'No Kings' protest had long fascination with Nazis, mass murder www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

submitted 14 days ago • 92 comments

Around 10,000 people gathered in Dallas Saturday to protest the Trump administration. Grievances were aired as vendors sold out of bacon-wrapped “freedom dogs” and “Smash the Oligarchy” hats.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The Dallas Express, which sued me (and lost) for calling it right wing propaganda, published an article suggesting in the form of a question that the assassination of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota could be "Democrats kill[ing] their own so they could turn around and blame Republicans?"

submitted 16 days ago • 130 comments

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

submitted 16 days ago • 64 comments

The Signal chat leak didn’t get Hegseth fired but I genuinely think this might.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Calling germ theory “widely accepted” and not, just, fact is cowardly malpractice.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The violence reported is that two people drove their cars into protesters.

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

The miasma theory is not "outdated," it's fucking nonsense. It thought people got chlamydia from rotten air. The "germ theory" isn't "widely accepted," it's proven scientific fact, and it's the only thing that allowed humanity to advance and cure diseases. Otherwise, great headline.

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

remembering headlines from last year

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

Ahead of the No Kings protest in Dallas this afternoon, the CEO of the right wing Dallas Express posted this image that includes a long rifle and a pistol, saying he will be "going in hot" to the "riot."

submitted 16 days ago • 72 comments

the "experts" are: —two guys from something called the Network Contagion Research Institute which only punches left and is funded by an Israeli surveillance entrepreneur —a grad student who disagrees with the premise of the article —a guy from CSIS, which has zero expertise in domestic policy

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

The Texas National Guard is pulling 2,500 troops from Greg Abbot’s Operation Lone Star to respond to anti-Trump protests. Internal memos show they're scrambling to find more troops. www.statesman.com/story/news/p...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The first known detention by the US Marines in their recent Los Angeles deployment is of... a US Army veteran on his way to an office at the Department of Veteran Affairs building. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 17 days ago • 118 comments

Just once I want to see a police chief fired over something like this

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

beware that this does not appear on any Seattle Reign official platform and appears to be a hoax.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

[writes a humanizing profile of a weird genocidal freak with strange and dangerous opinions] Uh, please be nice, guys.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

I think it's good when people change their minds. I think that we should encourage those who do to speak out about that. Also, I hope someone who knows this person can help them to connect the dots to other horrible things being wrought by Trump.

submitted 17 days ago • 16 comments

WELP bsky.app/profile/just...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

is it more likely there's been a secret moon base or the guy Trump appointed as Army Secretary doesn't know what he's talking about, I'll let you guess which side of that I fall on

submitted 18 days ago • 67 comments

He's not "Trump's top general"; he works for us and swore an oath to the Constitution

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

He was not “escorted out by security.” He was shoved out the door by three goons and handcuffed. The fucking Times is going to soft-pedal the violence until the end of fucking time.

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments