Brad Carpenter (he/him)

i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.

The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

> @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

They got cute and used Senators not up for re-election next year or ones that were retiring for the surrender vote.

So here's the metric we use instead:

If you aren't pushing for a new Democratic leader in the Senate *immediately,* you're out on your ass.

A lot of old, rich white guys sure suck, huh?

JFC

Farm bankruptcies up 57% this year due to tariffs.
Suicide rate among farmers 3.5 times greater than the general population.

This is a tragedy.
How you vote DOES matter.

The Confluence I’ve been right so long, I’ve been done wrong.

"The Vichy Dems' heel turn is not new. You couldn’t see the heel because it was stepping on your face."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...

The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.

Agreed, and it's a damned shame.

For more on this, check out this well timed @juliusgoat.bsky.social piece.

www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Paid off, fat, and happy traitors who do not understand how far normal American lives have fallen.

YouTube video by Sky News Zack Polanski: Starmer 'not a man I would be willing to work with'

If you correctly view the presenter as "the establishment" and Polanski as "the people", this short clip is everything.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTTP...

The only safe space in politics is beating up the Dem establishment.

YouTube video by LBC BBC boss Tim Davie resigns over Trump documentary edit

Related content:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oXG...

Primaries for senators

YouTube video by Novara Media Everything They Tell You About the Economy is WRONG | Aaron Meets Gary Stevenson

Related content (the rich have outbid us for our politicians, and we need to stop paying attention to the narratives being presented and cast the coin-operated politicians into the sea)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtwb...

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

It's as if they wanted to speed-run the past year of UK politics into a single week.

Either way, we need to replace every corporate boot-licking Dem (at least half of them?) and every Nazi GOP member (pretty much all of them) and take this country back for the people.

What's obvious, at this point, is the billionaire class has an iron grip on our politics and we need to do something about it.

We need real, non-corporate owned Americans to run against these coin-operated politicians and take our country back.

They're just the eight that fell on the sword, but you do have to drag their carcasses out and replace them with better bodies.

Tonight was a very bad night.

They've looked into their future and see the necessary actions require raising taxes on their donors (who would rather wag their fingers at the fascists as their hoard of wealth grows), so...

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

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.

I don't know a single living person who defends Schumer.

I know Dems are woefully bad at social media and really suck at getting their message out, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out that the ONE THING rich Dems decided to do would be fund bot-farms to defend their BS actions online...

The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.

Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...

CNN: The guy worth half a trillion dollars has just been awarded a trillion-dollar bonus

NYT: The president took a break from building a giant golden White House ballroom to eliminate SNAP benefits

CBS: It remains baffling that so many voters are willing to consider socialism

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID

Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

I get this, but believing in afterlife usually includes the belief of divine judgement. Someone who thinks a villain will go to Hell may be inclined to not do the hard work of holding him/her accountable here on earth.

I'm here to tell you that if these villains die free, they got away with it.

Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world