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"The problem with the polling and all the emphasis on data in contemporary politics is that it does not take into account that the electorate doesn’t really exist until election day, and the politician and his or her campaign are actively creating that electorate."

submitted 7 hours ago • 23 comments

Historically speaking, what's abnormal isn't 30-somethings entering leadership positions, it's 88 year olds running for re-election to Congress.

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

Smash Remix 2.0.0 has released, now featuring the voice acting of the original Smash 64 announcer Jeff Manning. Download Page: smash64.online/remix Code Registry: github.com/JSsixtyfour/... Sound Test list and credits: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

One of the marvelous things about the United States - something it shares with Rome, I might add - is that American identity is fundamentally legal in definition and almost totally binary. Regardless of my politics or his, Zohran Mamdani, naturalized in 2018, is every bit as much an American as me.

submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

Honestly, this made me laugh out loud (maybe it was more of a horrified cynical rattle). Points for honesty!

submitted 21 hours ago • 317 comments

Yes, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social … YES

submitted 46 days ago • 27 comments

all major news sources concur that the results of the NYC primary prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that Bluesky has the juice

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.

submitted 1 day ago • 206 comments

Think of treaties as like vaccines -- more effective than quack cures but deeply unpopular among the stupidest people on earth.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Based on videos taken in Jordan, @slair.bsky.social was able to identify all of Israel's missile defense sites, determine the interceptor type based on their burn-time and then estimate the number of interceptors fired. A tour-de-force. www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1220...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Bluesky might not be a left wing echo chamber. it might be a millennial echo chamber lololol Born during Reagan era, trying to start careers when 2008 recession hit, we’ve all endured so much right wing destruction we’ve been radicalized.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

mf tried to declare ceasefire Michael Scott style

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

If my robotaxi service was caught doing all this on day fucking one (or I were the regulatory body implicitly blessing this woeful level of performance) I wouldn't be commenting either

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

LAT posts a picture of Narciso Barranco, who was violently assaulted by ICE, with his 3 Marine sons. These are the proud Americans Stephen Miller is targeting. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 3 days ago • 171 comments

this is the most one-sided two-option poll i can remember seeing. you could probably get 10 percent of americans to respond that installing your air conditioner backwards so that cold air blows outside will fix the environment

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

Lavos, the alien monster intent on destroying all life, has emerged from beneath the planet's surface to endorse Andrew Cuomo in the New York City mayoral race. "Cuomo has the experience and character necessary to lead," said Lavos, while fire rained from the sky

submitted 3 days ago • 104 comments

I'm not sure who turned my words into a meme, and included U.S. citizens (most of whom do not want a new war!), but I appreciate how many people are connecting with it. May all of us, in all of our different situations, somehow help bring the justice this world so desperately needs. 💔

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Wow, that sure seems like maybe it would be a thing you'd want to be able to know before committing to hostilities in a first-strike against a foreign power's uranium enrichment program, huh?

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

The Splatoon kids still keeping it real

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Trump’s attacks on Iran were based on vibes, not new intel, two administration officials tell Rolling Stone. “There is no intel,” one of the sources says. “The intelligence assessments have not really changed.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 days ago • 121 comments

It really is insane that a Star Wars spinoff show captured the current political moment better than literally any other piece of media.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

In September 1964, the US seriously considered attacking the nuclear program of the People's Republic of China, as they could see that a nuclear test was being planned. They abstained from doing so. Why? A few reasons. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Hey everyone, I'm currently looking for work as a 2D & pixel art generalist. If you know of any projects in need of props, portraits, backgrounds, tiles, animation, UI, etc. Please reach out!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

“His statement on Thursday, suggesting a two-week window and ‘a substantial chance of negotiation’ with Iran, was a feint meant to keep the Iranians off guard, four people familiar with the planning told us.” Big time reporting here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

1. If you want hope in this dark moment, listen to chant of "no more war" that broke out in the very large crowd that came out to hear Bernie Sanders in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There is only one off-ramp from Trump's mad rush to war: the quick mobilization of an anti-war opposition. The people are ready.

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

you're better informed taking LSD and playing super nintendo than you are watching cable news

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

Reminder that none of this would've been possible if not for the neocons manipulating Trump's hatred of Obama to kill the JCPOA. From there, safeguards became unconstrained enrichment and all the scary things they're trotting out became possible. Be careful buying what these guys are still selling.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.

submitted 4 days ago • 399 comments

Two pertinent graphs from me tonight... First, U.S. support for bombing Iran is very low — much lower than support was at the time for the American military attacking Afghanistan, Iraq, and ISIS. Link: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-amer...

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

"[U]ntil circumstances compel the other branches of government to adjust their posture...the executive branch is unlikely to see itself as legally constrained from participating in Israel’s military campaign against Iran, if Trump ultimately opts to do so," writes @sranderson.bsky.social.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

appears that the line is going to be that the war powers act lets trump do this. hearing it from a lot of people on tiktok who i am certain have never thought about that law prior to this evening

submitted 4 days ago • 109 comments