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I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

The absolutely brilliant pitch perfect troll of getting targeted by your opponent with virulent Islamophobia and then immediately releasing an ad in all Arabic.

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

Vance is responding to a purported quote from Joy Reid THAT SHE DIDN’T SAY.

Left is Vance quote-tweeting a BS MAGA account. Right is my transcription of the video. She’s talking about HER PARENTS’ EXPERIENCE OF RACISM NOT HERSELF. SHE’S QUOTING HER MOTHER.

Vance didn’t listen / doesn’t care.

and if they didn't, we tied a sweater around our waist

To be clear, saying you're going to "avoid politics" is an INCREDIBLY political statement, especially in an age of fascism.

Generals I have gathered you here today to make sure the military isn't doing anything gay or black

I really don't like to pick on the same people over and over, but Hakeem Jeffries and Ezra Klein won't stop saying things.

deer.social

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword

[the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

*watching innocent people rapidly acquire the cursed knowledge that has driven me to madness* oh no

lead the kind of life where your death will probably not be followed by a wave of threats against black universities

Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.

“I feel like people mistook my 250k for enthusiasm” is something I’ve often found myself saying out loud

New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

Absolutely right.

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”

Doechii at the #BETAwards

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Hot take: I do not think the Democratic Party should be relying on journalists for any kind of messaging, for the simple reason that the incentives are completely misaligned.

Related take: "Deeply reported" is not a synonym for "good."

I hate that she has to speak on this again. Online misogynists love to say "innocent until proven guilty" but it's just a slogan to them. A guilty conviction even in a legal system notoriously hostile to survivors means nothing to them; theres always a reason to discredit victims...

Disability Rights in Mississippi Threatened Amid Federal Cuts Funding delays forced the agency that advocates for disabled people in Mississippi to stop taking new clients, endangering their rights.

Disability Rights Mississippi had not received federal funding for 5 of its 8 programs until May 14, causing DRMS to pause its case intake at the beginning of the month. It finally received its 2025 fiscal year funding, but the proposed FY2026 federal budget could eliminate some of DRMS's programs.

I know there aren’t “good” pictures of Tate Reeves, but the MS Free Press’s commitment to using only horrible ones is worth becoming a sustaining donor