Emily Joy Allison

As a reminder: Pam Bondi was tRump’s SECOND choice. His first was accused sex trafficker and pedophile Matt Gaetz.

Best case scenario it’s aliens. Like. BEST case scenario

our nation’s first crust punk congressperson being a radical centrist makes a TON of sense actually

@nashseverewx.com massive trees fallen on my house in Capitol View off Dickerson #tspotter

WELP 🤷‍♀️ we also don’t talk enough about Mr. Henry’s Wild and Wacky World

What a sentence

I just hope that those of us who grew up evangelical being told that to be a faithful Christian is to be a Republican and then lost everything when they left are getting some kind of closure right now. You lost your life, and by doing so you saved it. Jesus said something like that if I recall.

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

They don't care that the cover-ups are clumsy. Their goal isn't to take over the news, it's to destroy it. To destroy our sense-making capacity. To destroy truth.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

it's not hard to just love your kid.

entire world being dictated by people who simply do not love their kids as they are and want to invent ways for that to be morally justified, a way to hurt them or let them die for not being what they imagined... but ethically.

Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.

Dems might just have to retire the “I’m rubber you’re glue” approach to talking about trans rights

My most fundamental belief is that we do not have to live like this.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Ds don't seem to be getting what they need out of Nashville. But if the margin lands at R+3, that's a D+19 shift from 2024 -- we're not talking a wave, we're talking tsunami

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.

Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

This race is close and, given how much Democrats outperformed the polls a few weeks ago, a win is actually possible.

But even a narrow loss in a gerrymandered district Trump won by 22 points last year would be a sign of significant progress.

Is there an unknow button. I’d like an unknow button.

Centrism is not reasonable. It stands in limbo between the view that all humans should be treated well as citizens of planet Earth and the view that only a tiny few powerful people matter.

When you stand in that limbo, you're actually just floating, lost.

It's not "reasonable." It's delusion.

Republican projection is wild because what do you mean you think there are people on the left who don’t want the files released because we’re afraid politicians we like will be in them

what the world needs now are statements of the obvious

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation.

If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.

Seriously I love the south so much and I am so tired of excuses about races being “winnable” or “unwinnable” when Tennessee was a swing state IN MY LIFETIME & I have blue jeans older than its Republican trifecta. Like explain to me why your determination is so lacking & your imagination so shriveled

AFTYN BEHN NEXT @aftynbehn.bsky.social

Former helicopter pilot Sherrill keeps New Jersey blue despite Trump's inroads

Democrats not only kept control of the NJ governor's mansion for three terms in a row -- something that hasn't happened since the 1960s -- but went from winning by 3 points last time to winning by *13*

This is how Fox News has that story headlined, in small print, buried on the home page

Woah, it’s happening in the South. Let’s go, Tennessee, and vote soon for @aftynbehn.bsky.social for Congress!

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible