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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 53m

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7h

Off their phones and into the streets

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

A Little-Noted Element
Propelled Mamdani's Rise:
Gen Z Loneliness
Members of Gen Z found something unexpected in the mayoral race: a chance to hang out. Their enthusiasm turned into real votes.
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LANana-Nuestra Señora de la Muerte del Pan 😪 @lanana421.bsky.social · 21h

CBP Officer:

"I could smell the onions & Mustard!" 🤣😭

Defense Attorney:

"Do you recognize that sandwich?"
😭💀

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h

BIG result, folks:

Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was ground zero for the conservative takeover of school boards & anti-LGBTQ policies in 2021, on the Central Bucks and Pennridge boards.

Dems flipped both boards back in 2023.

Tonight, Dems have ousted *all* Republicans from both school boards.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

i wouldn't be a total glenn youngkin hater if i didn't mention that the results tonight mean that his total tenure amounted to presiding over the destruction — at least for the next few years — of the virginia republican party. lmao.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 10h

Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality.

Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

Oh we will not forget who bent the knee.

Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 12h

Democrats won big. If it holds through 2028, it's going to be interesting to watch all the tech giants pretend they're not a bunch of MAGA fascists.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11h

This is why Chuck has NO REASON to come back to the table. Let them twist. If you're coming back with wins this big during a shutdown, the people know where their bread is buttered. Don't throw them a lifeline. These aren't tiny margin wins. They're blowouts.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

These elections really should be easy Republican wins since Trump said his approval ratings are at record highs, prices are down, he’s ended 29 wars, there is no inflation, nobody likes Democrats, and everything is better than it has ever been before.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12d

Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis.

Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12d

DHS posted a disturbing video today featuring a song that’s popular with Nazi creators

DHS Posts Video Featuring Song Popular With Nazi Creators

The agency denied making

gizmodo.com

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Coffee Porter Jr. @unlox.bsky.social · 12d

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13d

"I started running for this national seat and I went to a bunch of national reporters and every single one of them asked me about trans athletes. Literally none of them asked me about childcare, none of them asked me about health care, education."

A Rising Democratic Star Enters the Grunt-Work Phase

Texas’s James Talarico: “My party is scarred from the last election and scared of its own shadow.”

www.thebulwark.com

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 14d

A really important piece. The problem, as always here, is generating the politics that supports a move to the right policy. www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/h... via @statnews.com

The U.S. experiment with profit-driven health care has failed

“The market competition, managed care, and ‘corporate efficiency’ that economists prescribed as the cure for health care inflation instead accelerated it.”

www.statnews.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23d

blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah Burisma yada yada

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 23d

Here is some material Bari Weiss published regarding Covid.

So when anyone defends her in any way, what they are saying is that real world victims of medical disinformation don’t matter.

It’s all just a game to these pundits.

• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back-and Won
• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: Free Speech on Trial
• Dr. Marty Makary: Dr. Fauci's Legacy
• Drs. Tracy Hoeg and Marty Makary: U.S.
Public Health Agencies Aren't 'Following the Science,'
• Dr. Marty Makary: Officials Say, Universities' Covid Policies Defy Science and Reason,
• Drs. Vinay Prasad, Stefan Baral, Lucy McBride: Bringing Sanity to the Omicron Chaos, Talking To Three Doctors Who Have Been Islands Of Reason In A Sea Of Confusion.
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Let Djokovic Play
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: We Have a Tripledemic.
Not of Disease, But of Fear,
• Drs. Vinay Prasad and John Mandrola: The Epidemic of #DiedSuddenly
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: How to Save Science From
Covid Politics
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: What RFK Jr. Gets Right— and What He Gets Wrong,
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Vinay Prasad: Why Was My Talk at a Medical Conference Canceled?
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Covid Vaccines Shouldn't Be 'Routine' for Kids.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 27d

it’s all just a grift

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 27d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27d

But that is precisely the situation right now according to SCOTUS itself. They are constantly deciding major issues via the shadow docket, without any reasoning or final order, to ensure those rulings are *not* legally binding and can be reversed whenever they feel like it. That is illegitimate.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 27d

DAILY DEMS DOING THE WORK, MAKING NOISE, AND FIGHTING BACK Day 256

It’s nice watching people amplifying more and more Dems fighting back, but I still get comments asking why they aren’t talking about this thing or that thing, and I just sight and say “they are, it’s just not being amplified.
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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Craig Roblewsky @pointc.bsky.social · 27d

We have a whole new website dedicated to the "burning" question.

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27d

Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27d

If you obey the administration’s demands to use its NewSpeak vocabulary, why would I ever trust you to describe its actions objectively?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Oct 4

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

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