Gene Mitchell

Had a blast with my colleagues at the @iftaft.bsky.social trivia game for our winter retreat. Go team 7th grade dance!

Finally.

Unrelated, how does 40 + 23 = 62 favorable for @govjbpritzker.bsky.social I get it’s a mathematical error, but if polling is your job…

Donald “I don’t know anything about Project 2025” Trump wants to hand over the keys to the OMB to Project 2025’s lead co-author to fire thousands of federal workers and replace them with Trump loyalists.

The labor movement is ready to fight back.

What do we call a @bsky.app “post?” Is it a post, a tweet, or something else entirely?#oxfordcomma

Not exhibit A of your point, but definitely AN exhibit:

www.illinois.gov/news/press-r...

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Less than 3 years ago, folks were debating if the RB position was unnecessary. This season, #SaquonBarkley and the @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social are showing the position is more valuable than ever.

What happened?

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Congratulations @chicagobearsobs.bsky.social , you have lost my 8 year old son to the @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social #emBEARassed

@andylevy.net are you TV’s Andy Levy from Redeye? If so, really enjoyed your time on that show as “ombudsman.” Cheers to you buddy.

We made Cancun look good.

Getting older means appreciating what you have and what it means to you. Here’s a picture of my whole world as I turn 39.

adulthood is falling back in love with everything you loved as a child but suppressed because it wasn’t “cool”

This is as dangerous as it’s ever been for workers in America. With the wrong ruling here, we could see a dangerous climate for workers who decide to organize.

Since 2020, the Democratic Party won:

The presidency from an incumbent, the House, and then the Senate in a midterm where Dems were projected to lose…

I see ur trying to be cute but he didn’t. When he was the incumbent, his approval rating was 46%. His overall vote total? 46.8%.

www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/d...

I nerd-laughed wayyyy too hard at this post.

Show me a presidential candidate that outperformed Harris in modern political history in comparison to the incumbent party’s approval rating. She over performed that number by 8 points. By that metric, if Biden had 45% approval rating, she would have won in a landslide.

Politics isn’t in the federal government it’s in local government. And the overwhelming majority of statehouses and municipal governments are dominated by GOPers. So they don’t have to worry about restarting a movement every 2 years. It’s already built in.

Bannon it should listen to Coca-Cola. CC doesn’t say only some people can have a coke, it wants the world to have a coke. Coke marketed itself continuously as relevant to culture. Dems don’t do that. Haven’t done that. We show up every 2 years and we don’t stick around. Your staying power in

Township, city, county, or even local region? My superintendent is a Republican. My PW Director is Republican. My city planner is Republican. Etc. So who mostly delivers for me? The GOP. So why would I seriously consider a Dem elsewhere. If brand is the Dems problem then it should not listen to

we need a desperate focus on local elections. Too many times the Democratic Party has stood on the success and failure of the party at the position of POTUS meanwhile the GOP wins droves of power at local elections. How can anyone admit they are a Dem when no Dem is elected in my

Favorability of said party’s incumbent president. Biden sat at 41ish and it looks like VP Harris gained almost 8 points on that number. Historically, that is unprecedented. Politically it is almost impossible.

Much like the OP points to, we don’t need radical change (as Bannon/TP types are)

I’ve read similar takes and I reject it. We don’t defeat fascism with fascism. We don’t grow a larger movement by subtracting members from it. Only in political science do we ignore certain “laws” of nature. In no Presidential election of the modern era has one party won support outside of the

Make us a cult-driven threat to democracy?

Real talk: show me a room full of people who believed the @pittsburghsteeler.bsky.social would get better with Wilson as QB and I’ll show you the home address of Russell Wilson.

What’s astounding about the #ChicagoBears is that they should be 6-4 when it’s miraculous they have won even 4.

I am thrilled at the picks as the only attribute that matters to DJT is loyalty. That means far less likely to have any competence to do his/their bidding. It gives us/democracy a chance.

If football is on the tv, then Minerva is on me. Rules are rules. #CatDaddy

Jake Paul looks like Sarah Palin’s future ex-son-in-law.