Jays' fan, unashamedly trans, once (and future?) irregular blogger on Medium. Warren Democrat - Sic semper tyrannis
WATCH: “With these voters, who largely distrust both parties, his ideas broke through… they all left the conversation yesterday saying they’re going to vote for you.” Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social wins over a group of MICHIGAN voters who are on the fence and have voted Republican before.
Cheryl Reeve, winningest coach in WNBA history, defends transgender athletes against sports bans. “Exclusion is never the answer. Separate isn’t equal. Trans lives matter.” 💗🏳️⚧️💗🏀💗
This @patrickwyman.bsky.social essay is not explicitly about car dealerships but it includes them and their politics. It has lived in my head since 2021 as one of the better essays explaining how we got here www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
American GentryThe jet-setting cosmopolitans of popular imagination exist, but they are far outnumbered by a less exalted and less discussed elite group, one that sits at the pinnacle of America’s local hierarchies.www.theatlantic.com
The president is posting through it today, and by "it," I mean "the kind of alarming mental decline that requires full-time medical staff in a dementia ward"
Eliot HigginsTrump having a normal one today
"Senator Moreno, have you refused to say anything because you think your daughter is lying about these allegations of abuse or because you prioritize Republican politics above your own family?"
Adam ParkhomenkoBernie Moreno still not saying anything because he’s a gutless sack of shit.
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are."
Voting for essentially unlimited funding for an authoritarian domestic paramilitary force and then taking credit for adding bodycams is the most Susan Collins thing ever
Greg SargentSusan Collins, who voted for $70 billion in no-strings-attached ICE funding, is now taking credit for securing new bodycams to distance herself from Trump and ICE. This is how Collins wins in Maine. Dems must go on offense on ICE to thwart this scam. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
MAGA masculinity means declining to publicly criticize the man your daughter has accused of physical abuse, because doing so might prompt a senile 80-year-old man to write mean things about you.
Wajahat AliThe man beat his daughter and injured his granddaughter but he's fine with it apparently. www.notus.org/ohio/bernie-...
So what’s he saying is that the US needs waves of immigrants to ensure that our worst, most inhumane instincts are kept in check? Sounds good!
Alexander ClarksonAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
10 years ago, I talked to countless voters who were split between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. The establishment can whine about today’s populist fervor all they want, but they should have seen it coming.
Weekend reading: I wrote about cowardice and conviction, the complicity of conservative elites, and the permission structure that governs the Right. Some thoughts from this week’s piece - on power, opportunism, and ideology in Republican Politics: 🧵
Power, Opportunism, and Ideology in Republican PoliticsAbout cowardice and conviction, the complicity of conservative elites, and the permission structure that governs the Rightsteady.page
People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
Two photos in DOJ's MTD prove that DOJ always had proof that Davey Hearn didn't damage the reflecting pool. They didn't need any documents from DOI to know their case was shit.
There was a time that Republicans were dominant in California politics. It was their immigration policy and rhetoric that undid them then, too.
Greg SargentRemarkable: Dems have now pulled even with the GOP *on immigration* in two new national polls. A third finds Trump 22 points underwater on the the issue, and *32 points* underwater among independents. Trump has absolutely destroyed the GOP advantage on immigration. newrepublic.com/article/2138...
a republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.
‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweatingThe Ohio lawmaker denies the allegations as an Aug. 5 deadline to drop off the ballot approaches.www.politico.com
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valerie.vgAlejandra CaraballoAmnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
Todd Blanche quite obviously lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he told them this was dead. It was never dead. It was just on hold until he was confirmed.