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brian glenn, boyfriend to marjorie taylor-greene, posts a series of selfies with her and captions it “i love this woman, i love this country, God bless america.”

will sommer retweets brian’s post and captions it: MTG’s boyfriend posting this after Trump disowned her, when his own career is based on proximity to Trump, is very romantic.”

George Conway, husband to KellyAnne, retweets Will’s post and captions it; “Seriously, it must be nice to have someone you care for stick up for you when you stand up to Trump.”

i regret to inform you that incredible things are still happening on the everything app

not to beat a dead horse but they do this not out of some belief about maximizing electoral returns but out of an aversion to rhetorically committing themselves to doing something about epstein/corruption/ICE/whatever other issue they’re avoiding, should they win power back

This is a yikes too. He gets dogwalked by Susan Collins even though Generic Dem has a 9 pt margin.

What I find funny is that the median Maine voter sees his tattoo and comments about sexual assault as a non-starter but we had how many people defending that shit here on Bluesky?

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

when your vote is so toxic you have the Chair of the DNC saying this shit sucks, you really have to admire the levels of embarrassment here

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

The way we talk about the economy as positioned the losses of workers as male losses, wrong and threatening because of the way they endanger male status. But women are workers, too, and they deserve dignity and decent wages.

People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.

the real question is what tony nominee will be found throwing a hoagie on elsbeth this january

Virginia Republicans leaned hard into anti-trans propaganda as part of their main messaging in the final months of this campaign.

It fell completely flat with voters. It did not resonate. Virginia Republicans came across as bizarre and detached from working class families.

Klein is right that Dems have to win in red states and that the party should be engaging in some soul-searching right now.

But the soul-searching should begin with basic facts. Moderation *is* the current strategy and Dems are losing despite having a popular agenda. More of the same won't fix it.

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

Washington Post: White House begins destroying East wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.

I have a lightning hot take which is that I think there's a large chance that Taylor Swift is more interested in visual storytelling at this phase of her career and has not been able to get a foothold in filmmaking and that's why we're getting good but not great musical work from her

the reaction to the new taylor album is interesting because it is exactly the same as the reaction to reputation (too petty, too cringe, awful lyrics) which is now considered a popular and well-received album. the cycle continues!

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

25% of US women have at least one abortion by age 40; tens of millions of women of childbearing age live in states where abortion is banned; tens of thousands have had their lives warped by forced pregnancy. Our leading pundits don’t even think it is important enough to be minimally competent about.

A tangential point but it is humiliating as a feminist—and a sign of the ways that endemic misogyny abridges women’s citizenship and dignity—that someone like Klein can be considered authoritatively well informed about American politics while also knowing so little about the politics of abortion.

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

Here are two of the most influential people in liberal media, David Remnick and Ezra Klein, telling each other outright lies about what the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said because years of exposure to conservative grievance media pounded the original facts of the case out of their skulls

imagine emailing a senior research fellow at the Moneybags Institute of Wealth Creation to let him know that there's $500 and a lunch catered by Sodexo waiting for him if he's willing to fly coach cross-country to give a talk

What appears to have happened is this: an executive agency with the power to regulate private actors threatened to take action to punish speech and to prevent more such speech from being made public in the future. And a corporation jumped to carry out this censorship in response to those threats. There is a word for this: jawboning. It is when the government pressures a third party to silence speech it does not like, and the US supreme court has ruled unanimously that it is an illegal first amendment violation – that is, state censorship.

I tried to make this point in my column: that the censorship involved compelled corporate cooperation (and corporate culpability!) does not mean that it is somehow not primarily a state action. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Seems wrong to characterize the Kimmel affair, as I’ve seen some people do, as “corporate censorship.” The but-for condition was a direct threat by the FCC chair; that’s state censorship.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

It also ignores that leaving was a form of influence! Millions sent a clear message about the minimum standards of fairness and respect we believe are foundational for civic conversation. Their obsession with our departure makes clear it was effectively communicated; they just don't like it

i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.