emily thai

"If we continue prioritizing funders over voters, we’ll continue yielding expensive defeats."

also true!

i think the point That Article is making though is that a lot of the left (not you!) is going "3D printing is inherently evil and useless and i refuse to learn how it works, how it might help me, or how to influence the way it is affecting the world" instead of using it to print whistles

replies: why would i use AI to refuse to read an article when i can do that myself

OPINION: Let Bucks County Voters Have a True Choice in May's Elections - Bucks County Beacon Sarah Baik believes it's time to put the small "d" democratic back in the big "D" Democratic primaries.

OPINION: Let Bucks County Voters Have a True Choice in May’s Elections | Sarah Baik believes it's time to put the small "d" democratic back in the big "D" Democratic primaries.

feels notable because the center-left Dem so often whines about it when they lose to a progressive, I appreciate that Malinowski despite the conditions of the race is throwing support behind Mejia in the same way progressives who lose are without fail expected to fall in line behind a centrist

Please spread among Google workers far and wide: www.googlers-against-ice.com

and if you want to see more choice in PA primaries, consider signing this open letter from @redwineblueusa.bsky.social :) bsky.app/profile/kati...

there's a few forums coming up that will have most of the candidates! this is the next one: bsky.app/profile/buck...

+ there's in-person events being planned for later this month - @luciaforcongress.com, @robstrickler.bsky.social, and @tracyhunt.bsky.social will announce when the dates are set!

can confirm she doesn't :)

Could @luciaforcongress.com be the next @analiliafornj.bsky.social, a progressive organizer from New Jersey who appears on the brink of cementing victory against establishment candidate and former Rep. Tom Malinowski? Lucia walks her talk and she knows what she is talking about.

not saying this to brag, i like barely said anything, it was just weirdly surprising to me when several people afterwards were like uhh yeah none of the panels i saw said anything about These Times or the decline of american civic health broadly

i was lucky enough to participate in this as a volunteer last year and this year i'll be facilitating it! if you believe fundraising can be an invitation into our movements and you want to hang out with the sharpest donor organizers i know, this is where you wanna be 🔥🔥🔥

went and spoke at a philanthropy conference today with a lot of lovely people and somehow i may have been the only panelist to bring up the imminent threat to american democracy ?

man just one or two more posts and I'm gonna fix american leftwing politics i can feel it

i feel like all of this stems from communities with incompatible norms of discourse refusing to explain their rules to each other and also refusing to stop discoursing and then getting offended when the other side plays by their own rules. like just block each other man

genuinely i will defend EAs on a lot of things but it's hard when they love nothing more than digging their own grave and then wondering why everyone thinks they're dead

awww i used to live right by sipping turtle, i think it could/should survive as a cute lil coffee and sandwich shop but logandale deserves better boba at this point in the 21st century

we are going to win

oooh interesting i feel like the international chains are expanding faster these days - when i was living in chicago i felt like we were 5 years behind in getting gong cha, tiger sugar, etc. i was diehard for tao tea

the "i dont really care if something good happened to you, it should have happened to me instead" meme

this post is how im finding out that chicago has molly and chicha now

i say this bc a union-backed candidate whose campaign opened with a commitment to economic, social, and climate justice winning +14 is not the same as "Dems" winning +14, and corporate Dems hoping to ride the coattails of candidates braver than them are setting us up to fail

drawing any conclusion requires making some assumptions, but certainly not those specific assumptions

it'll be interesting to see the tarrant county exit polls but there's something icky about Pundit Class immediately jumping to "texas +30 for dems!!!", as if the electorate is an inanimate mass that sways from one side of the imaginary left-right spectrum to the other

“If (Taylor Rehmet) were to lose by six points, that’d be worth talking about,” one political expert told me ahead of last night's race. “And if Rehmet were to win? You’d say, ‘Holy shit.’”

Rehmet won by 14 points.

hate to say it but these guys somehow have a more coherent strategy than the online leftists instagramming about a general strike

i've heard roughly the same from people in academia, arts, freelancers

unfortunately those of us over here whining about people over there does not fix that problem for them and in fact probably makes it worse

This is physically unsustainable for all life on earth.

The plans for data centers - if they succeed - guarantee that we burn the world down and blow every climate tipping point.

The fierce debate here is not just about "speed" but about who gets to decide and how we plan the entire economy.

ok now i need to leave tiktok and ig reels because my mental soundtrack all day has been eat zucchini, eat zucchini, eat zucchini, eat zucchini, do you need me, like the emoji