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Didn’t see any ICE costumes in Baltimore last night but I did see multiple Black children dressed as prisoners or prison guards 🫠

This is partisan hack analysis. This is "obvious" only to ideologues that already believed this. The Dems were hurt by rising prices, a doddering, unpopular incumbent, and the administration's enabling of a genocide. They tried to fix the second problem by dumping Biden, but it wasn't enough.

Thanks, Drake.

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

@curses.zone

I am certainly no seasoned strategist but I am a little skeptical of the political wisdom behind building a giant golden ballroom and sharing a dozen photos of a renovated marble bathroom at the very moment that millions of people are losing access to healthcare and food.

too many rock station listeners would've identified with the cop in the song

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

Tracy Chapman, Living Colour and Lenny Kravitz were the only Black artists I recall hearing on WHFS (DC/Baltimore). They could play rap by white people (Beasties, Beck) or rock by Black people, but never rap by Black people. Infuriating.

what i keep coming back to is: this is a battle for attention. the (broad) left has basically ALL of the artists. why is the democratic party such absolute shite at winning (positive, sustainable) attention, even factoring in right wing platform ownership?

Yeah, very good points, and I'm sorry you had to deal with that. As someone who was fortunate to grow up in a fairly stable, respectful environment it's hard to put myself in the mental space to manipulate people. Maybe this machine can only be used for harm, I don't know.

get his ass

No, I mean propaganda machine. Communications meant to promote a particular set of values and ideas. Fascism is (rightly) incredibly unpopular but they keep winning because they know how to manipulate people. Beyond time we learned from that, except to accomplish good things and not bad things.

It's wild to me that the Democratic Party is "the party of Hollywood" and basically every creative field, yet they can't seem to figure out how to communicate effectively to anyone.

Don't take your policy out in public, it's unseemly. Your policy is not your message. The *outcome* of your policy is your message - the life it will deliver for people.

In other words, sell the brownie, not the recipe, like every effective marketer knows.

apparently john fahey painted it??? crazy

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

The best time to start building a Democratic propaganda machine was 30 years ago, the second best time is today.

yeah i'd say so

YouTube video by OutkastVEVO Outkast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) (Official HD Video)

The true spirit of the season is that today is the 25th anniversary of Stankonia

youtu.be/lVehcuJXe6I?...

I think this is a lot of it. It's uncomfortable to confront or cut off racist friends and family members so I will just hope that they'll see the error of their ways on their own.

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

Tweet from John Podhoretz reading: "My mother was a Heritage board member for 40 years. You have befouled her, you rancid wretch of an amoeba." quoting Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, tweeting: "There has been speculation that @Heritage is distancing itself from @TuckerCarlson over the past 24 hours. I want to put that to rest right now—here are my thoughts:"

The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.

Most despicable person in American politics and yes I know that’s saying a lot

As well it should have. Blocked.

translating this in indie terms: each baseball team has 10 johnny marrs and 16 morrisseys but you root for the smiths as a whole

Panic in the Hamptons: The fight to stop Zohran Mamdani Behind closed doors, wealthy donors plotted to stop a movement reshaping New York politics — and exposed their deepest fears.

Read the inside story of how the movement to stop Zohran Mamdani fell apart:
www.salon.com/2025/10/30/p...

Infuriating, amazing piece and a reminder that the term “Cuomosexual” makes my soul try to dry-heave itself from my body

there is no reason for maryland democrats to be this stupid and weak. maryland is one of the bluest states in the country and should be poised to oppose the gop power grab like few other states. stop being such goddamned weaklings. democracy is on the line.

maybe you should stop using AI then