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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14h

democrats have been pivoting to the economy literally my entire life, and yet somehow centrist pundits are still convinced we're the party of identity politics. maybe the problem isn't policy. maybe you can't run from the culture war. maybe you just have to win it!

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 17h

And supporting a political project that is destroying our ability to do public sector biomedical research. They're betting everything on AI being a magic wand and we won't need these woke lib scientists doing research, experiments and clinical trials to figure it out.

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 17h

And supporting a political project that is destroying our ability to do public sector biomedical research. They're betting everything on AI being a magic wand and we won't need these woke lib scientists doing research, experiments and clinical trials to figure it out.

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 3d

It is kinda funny how AI people will be like “this technology will cure cancer!!!” When data center spend is crowding out any sort of biotech spend on account of it being far, far riskier

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 18h

Yes, if you prefer fascism to liberalism you won't have a great time on here.

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 18h

There is a saying- 'everything in moderation, including moderation.' that I think these people should internalize. People aren't going to vote for a spineless, bloodless candidate that doesn't commit to what they believe in.

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 18h

There is a saying- 'everything in moderation, including moderation.' that I think these people should internalize. People aren't going to vote for a spineless, bloodless candidate that doesn't commit to what they believe in.

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 18h

Part of the problem is that Democrats trying to distance themselves always come across as insincere- reciting message tested talking points. Of course no one believes them or even pays attention to them when they do this!

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 19h

The current dynamic is that conservatives keep taking unpopular positions and swaying the electorate towards them. Democrats just keep passively backpedaling as the electorate shifts. They don't treat themselves as having any agency over how public opinion develops.

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 19h

The current dynamic is that conservatives keep taking unpopular positions and swaying the electorate towards them. Democrats just keep passively backpedaling as the electorate shifts. They don't treat themselves as having any agency over how public opinion develops.

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 20h

Collins and Murkowski are 'nos' until their votes are needed.

Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 20h

I count this as a win for us, to be clear.

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 21h

This isn't cute or funny, campaigns only do this when they're in extreme distress!

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1d

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.

that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.

but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently they didn't edit it *that* heavily lmao

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 1d

That's why there are so many points maxed out on the left- that's not natural, its an artifact of the polling questions. I think if you did this but with questions that better reflected to full range of US political opinion, you'd get a much more balanced graph.

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 1d

I remember this, it was from 2016. Problem was, when they asked economic policy questions, they only asked stuff like 'Do you support Obamacare?' 'Should we fund medicaire?'. Nothing about medicaire for all or anything else that could capture the real economic left wing.

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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 1d

Virginia bros we might be so back

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like people are struggling with the new party internal dynamics, which don't fit neatly onto the 'left vs. establishment' mold of previous cycles.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 2d

after Fetterman and Polis, it’s hard to think of a Dem politician who has torched their own career as much as Whitmer has over the past year

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans had a choice to either:

1.) Usher in a new party system through racial depolarization and rule forever through rainbow fascism

2.) Risk blowing it all up in a second civil war for a country that’s 2% whiter

Was there any doubt where they’d land?

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 2d

Hispanics’ support of Trump plunges since he started second term

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Hispanics’ support of Trump plunges since he started second term

twp.ai

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who's support of Palestine led them to not vote for Harris was at best acting as a tool of global fascism (which includes Netenyahu's genocidal government).

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Icefire9 @icefire9atla.bsky.social · 2d

I remember takes that Bluesky was an out of touch echo chamber because the site hated Cuomo and yet he was comfortably leading in the NYC primary polling. Maybe, on the narrow question of hyper low turnout primary elections, the sentiment on Bluesky is predictave.

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