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Pointless move to kneecap its own candidates in competitive GE races. Much savvy. So strategic.
Democratic socialists rework platform as they step into spotlightDemocratic Socialists of America is in a brighter spotlight than ever.www.semafor.comThis is definitely true in some times and places. In many, it's more like a reasonable conjecture. But, you know what? It's a LOT more reasonable than, say, "none of the stele discovered at royal sites condemns mass execution, so obviously no one in the entire society had qualms about the practice."
Professor NutellaThis is true, even if it has only been in the last decade or so that scholarship has begun to take the breadth of the overlaps seriously. There are differences in terms of how the concerns manifest, but that's no the same as saying they don't exist.
ICYMI, all of this is downstream of Trump's mishandling of COVID, which "forced" the right-wing information ecosystem to minimize, deflect, scapegoat, etc.
Chris ScottIn my lifetime I don’t think anything has made me want to give up on this broken country like the mass shared delusion about something that happened just a few years ago. So many brains are just completely gone and they’re not coming back.
While Moyn was busy mocking liberals and social democrats for worrying about Trump, some of us were writing entire books about how, and why, the old order wasn't coming back. Anyway, @joestieb.bsky.social's analysis of this piece is spot on. 1/2
Joe StiebTwo paragraphs in and we are already thick in the bullshit.
It's Wednesday, July 29th, 2026, and the U.S. remains governed by blood-thirsty racists.
American Carnage - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyThe Trump administration has almost certainly already killed more than a 100,000 civilians; reputable estimates suggest that number exceeds 500,000. The inaptly-named Department of Government Efficien...www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comCan't figure out which is more pathetic: the crassness of his interjection or the fact that he doesn't know what "virtually" means.
Bryan BlessedEuLolgy.