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Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this

I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know

If these trends continue next year, the Republicans are gonna get their asses blown out.

I will not be surprised if Mike Johnson begins to get some more significant internal discontentment and perhaps rebellion from within his own caucus.

His members now realize they’re collectively headed toward being in the minority. And that a number of them individually are facing unemployment.

I want you to think about the worst person you know and how miserable they are

and use that as motivation to keep going

we are going to win

Conservative commentators denouncing Tucker Carlson for mainstreaming Nick Fuentes appear to be going through a psychological process, where the lies they've been telling themselves—such as "the Left are the real antisemites"—can't withstand the reality of the political movement they support.

Exactly. The number 1 issue last election was inflation and prices being too high. So what did voters do? They elected the guy running on *raising* inflation and prices.

The median voter might as well be living under a rock, with how uninformed they are.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

be a presence in communities helping people in small ways. This isn’t gonna be an overnight success. It’ll take years and years of work. But it’s planting seeds now so we have the proverbial forest in the future.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Hell, why not do smaller stuff too. Have county Dems run after school study programs for kids, board game or video game nights, or even dating functions (to help stop the growth of inceldom). Make them nonpartisan and open to everyone, but run by Democrats. Just

The shitstorm that’s gonna happen when one of our soldiers inevitably dies in Mexico during this is gonna be massive. A fuck ton of unengaged normies are gonna wake up one day and go “Wait, we have troops dying in Mexico????”.

DEFEAT THE DESTROVERS OF DEMOCRACY! 1.) FASCISTS AND REACTIONARIES 2.) NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISTS 3.) AUTH-SOCS

Reminder that no one is free until everyone is free.

I am a leftist, but I understand most people aren’t. I’m not advocating for Dems to campaign on everything I want. I’ll take centrist Dem reforms over the absolute gutting of the government that Republicans are doing right now. I just want them to present *some* sort of vision for a better tomorrow.

for literal centuries now.

He ran on Hope and Change. Those were his slogans. He and Clinton both ran on reforming healthcare. He had a vision for the future. It’s batshit insane that you think my position on this is extreme or crazy. “People like leaders that give them hope for the future” has been a basic part of politics

It’s crazy. I was in high school when Obama got elected. His Hope and Change posters were everywhere. These people saying Dems shouldn’t promise anything are leading the party into an electoral dead end. People want leaders who have a vision for a better future.

I remember when Obama ran on Hope and Change. People won’t vote for politicians who don’t have a vision for the future.

People are not ready for the nick Fuentes era of the Republican Party.

Nick and the Nazis he had been grooming for years are about to become some of the loudest and most dangerous voices in the world and they will have the presidents ear.

The Republican Party is a Nazi party.

Screenshot text from the Atlantic Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”) In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed. Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…

seems bad!

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Can’t wait for the 2008 financial crash 2: AI Boogaloo. Jesus Christ, we’re so fucked.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this word for word, bar for bar, exactly what banks did to cause the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008?

Isn’t this exactly what companies did to cause the subprime mortgage crisis? Taking a bunch of bad mortgages that were individually likely to fail and packaged them together hoping that a critical mass of them wouldn’t fail?

Oh my god. Jayden Daniels arm is almost certainly broken. That injury looks horrific.