Brandon Friedman

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‘More like a blue trickle’: Dems are hoping for a blue wave that might not happen There's little evidence so far that Democrats are going to crash the gates of Washington.

Democrats should be running away with the election, but pollsters are not seeing it

It’s clear that the party needs new leaders and a major overhaul. If they can’t do that then it’s time to start a new political party.
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

this is an absolute twenty alarm fire and I just cannot bring myself to believe capital, in one way or another, isn’t going to reel him in on this.

we can’t have a real economy without the goddamn labor numbers. it just doesn’t work.

Can't find this anywhere if anyone has a good link

Texas House Democrats press conference will likely not begin until closer to 8:15pm CT due to flight delay. You can watch it on IL Gov JB Pritzker’s YouTube channel (I’m sure networks will also pick up)

Saw Superman and very much enjoyed watching @michaelianblack.bsky.social bring back Barry Lutz

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

The people of Texas urged us to do anything we could to stop the Trump Regime's attempt to take political power away from millions of working families.

We heard you.

That’s why we’ve decided to deny quorum and fight this power grab with everything we’ve got. #txlege

Mothership Strategies is destroying the Democratic Party to enrich itself.

ICE is hiring. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: * Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Officer Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov SPOILER: this is from the print version of THE ONION

ICE bought a full-page newspaper ad as part of its recruitment effort

TV host: Do you have any hard evidence these numbers were wrong?

WH official: [gives garbled, bullshit answer while smirking because he knows he can say anything and it won't matter]

TV host: All right, let's move on

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

If I had to guess how many Americans even know that Israel systematically demolishes Palestinian houses I'd put it at somewhere around <5%. This seems like a good way to make it >20%.

so the speakers list for abundance conference is >80% men

www.abundancedc.org/speakers

I attended the Burbank Media industry job fair yesterday, where no one was hiring. At the job fair. The fair for jobs.

Republicans hate regulations on corporations but love placing regulations on voters.

Me: "So which country should @aoc.bsky.social go back to?"
Mick Mulvaney: "She's an American citizen."
Me: "So why did Trump tell her to go back to her country?"

I asked former Trump WH chief of staff Mulvaney if he ever challenged his then boss on his racist tweets.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wolq...

Richard Chesler: Get the fuck out of here, you're fired! Narrator: I have a better solution. You keep me on the payroll as an outside consultant and in exchange for my salary, my job will be never to tell people these things that I know. I don't even have to come into the office, I can do this job from home.

Ghislaine Maxwell's pitch for getting moved to a minimum security facility

The part about the messes is true, but the bigger problem is our long line of milquetoast, bipartisan-oriented Democrats who insist on "moving forward" instead of "focusing on the past." It's more a matter of will than capacity.

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

I'll be really curious to see who is the first American to apply for asylum in a foreign country under Trump, and how their claim is adjudicated.

Big problem with capitalism is when 40% of the population is actively fascist, you gotta sell in a way that pleases and accommodates fascists.

This is a photo of a post by Zohran Mamdani of the chairman of the Israeli film council calling for the extermination of all Palestinians

@governor.pa.gov @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

The video of the remarks in the photo below are on Twitter. Are you going to condemn this the way you ask people to condemn things they’ve never said? Asking as a Jew and a Democrat.

They came for the king and missed. Jack Smith needed to start earlier. That is not his fault. Merrick Garland should have appointed a special counsel, and Trump would have been indicted for his role in the insurrection. That could’ve happened immediately.

Thinking some more about this, how crazy is it that you can live in America and say fuck America and that's free speech but if you say fuck some small country you've never been to in the middle east then no less than the attorney general is coming after you.

Dune, 1965

Adding this, also a good thread

Echoing Murshed: we have a lot of people on the left who would absolutely be ruthless about standing up to Republicans and pushing an agenda that's actually popular on behalf of justice and democracy. They generally don't get hired, promoted or put in charge because of Democratic Party culture 1/x

Good thread about this