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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20h

Sir John Curtice - Indepedent pollster - confirms what we all already know.

The Labour Government need to stop doing everything Farage wants them to do.

The much bigger challenge to Keir Starmer is the Green Party.

Lower bills. Tax billionaires.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Charismatic leader emerges on the left to roil Britain’s political scene

Zack Polanski of the Greens has drawn comparisons to New York’s Zohran Mamdani as he connects with younger voters on social media over the political issues of the day.

www.washingtonpost.com

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 50m

thing is i don't think keir starmer is cautious. he's a right wing bell end forcing through all manner of bad policies precisely bcos he's thrown caution to the wind.

they didn't even bother doing impact assessments for their benefit cuts.

oh and join the greens.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9h

A wake up call.

To join the Green Party:

Join.greenparty.org.uk

A poll puts the greens under ecosocialist Zack Polanski ahead of cautious Keir Starmer is a wake up call.

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Lip @lipatp.bsky.social · 24m

he would be unimportant if people ditch DEM party and these corporate media.

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 8h

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9h

There's no question that the @nytimes.com has ACTUALLY openly campaigned against Mamdani. Everyone in the city saw it. Why would they be trusted to report honestly on anything if he wins? The answer is they would not.

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Lip @lipatp.bsky.social · 1h

I think establishment wants to fight him but he doesn't really want to "fight" establishment.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4h

Just got back from 10 hours of canvassing for Zohran in Manhattan, some things really stand out compared to the last few months since the primary. First, *lots* of people have already voted, and nearly all the ones I talked to who did had voted for Zohran. Cuomo voters don’t even say his name.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them.
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
www.calonews.com/featured-top...

Carlos Jimenez, a 24-year-old U.S. citizen, was on his way to work at a food bank when he was shot by ICE officers in what a DHS spokesperson calls “defensive shots.”

On Thursday morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., ICE officers were at Vineyard Avenue in Ontario when Jimenez, who was not in the target vehicle, attempted to pull in front of the officers.

According to Javier Hernandez, executive director of the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, Jimenez was trying to assist and provide aid to the person who was being stopped by ICE officers.

After Jimenez was shot in the shoulder, the LA Times and LA Taco reported that he drove to his brother’s house so he could take him to the hospital.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2h

It is really annoying knowing that if a few Democrats talked to some of their Republican colleagues and said "Ok fine, you guys were right about him, I will draft Bill Clinton impeachment articles to go along with my Trump ones about Epstein" a bunch of them would go "Wow, now you are talking!"

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 18h

It is a sign of such deep moral rot to have so many people working so hard -- and breaking so many laws -- to ensure that the state kills someone.

www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...

A Red State Is Preparing To Execute A Man Who Was Never Proven To Have Killed Anyone

Next week, Tremane Wood will have the chance to make his case for mercy. Oklahoma's attorney general is fighting to ensure his death.

www.huffpost.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17h

Only one party has leaders who constantly mock and send goons to violently assault the supporters of the other party!

And somehow that party is never asked to be the one to cure "polarization" or "division."

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18h

I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."

Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.

Ezra Klein

This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism

I saw a poll a few weeks ago that struck me. It was from The New York Times and Siena University. It asked Americans what they thought the top problem facing the country was. No. 1 was the economy. That was what I expected. But No. 2 wasn’t immigration or inflation or democracy or climate change or even Trump. It was political division. In that same poll, 64 percent of the country said we’re too divided to solve our problems. They’re not wrong.

I hear it when Trump says, “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them.” When I hear that, I hear something scary, but I also hear an opening, an opportunity: In the end, most Americans want America to work. They know we disagree with one another. They don’t want us to hate one another.

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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 13h

Read the comments on neighborhood blogs & you see so many people would turn in Anne Frank and her family. Just to "keep us safe." They want the death penalty for shoplifting, FFS.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

I've been asking people "experience to do what?" - Most of the time I hear "to keep the city safe." And it's deep rooted fear including of "the other."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

Mind you these are the same people also saying that the City is CURRENTLY a hellscape of Mad Max proportions.

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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 13h

Bat signal went out. So depressing. It was an older white woman I had to engage with who said "no candidate is perfect; you go with the one with experience." Yeah, experience that led to a resignation in disgrace after fannies were slapped & grannies were killed.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

I'm seeing older white women doing visibility work in my neck of the woods.

Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 13h

Depressing to see so many women out campaigning for the fanny-slapper. So much for solidarity. + if you're supporting someone running a gutter-filthy campaign, you are gutter filth. ++ Islamophobia is a terrible look.

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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 13h

Depressing to see so many women out campaigning for the fanny-slapper. So much for solidarity. + if you're supporting someone running a gutter-filthy campaign, you are gutter filth. ++ Islamophobia is a terrible look.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3h

"Getting people to watch and give their opinions about an ad in a vacuum bears little resemblance to the way people actually consume content online." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The Super PAC Trying to Free Democrats From the Cult of the Quants

Danielle Butterfield thinks her party’s data obsession paralyzed it in 2024. Now she’s betting that a little chaos — and a lot of risk — might be what saves it.

www.politico.com

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Lip @lipatp.bsky.social · 2h

they use "crusading", not "jihad" or "intifada".
that's... sweet?

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Jacob Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social · 11h

PHOTO — Happening now in Williamsburg: Zohran Mamdani handshake with Rabbi Moshe Indig, a political leader of the Satmar Ahronim sect.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump on ICE raids: “I think they haven't gone far enough.”

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 9h

L.o.l.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump on Mamdani on 60 Minutes: “I think I'm a much better looking person than him.”

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5h

Very “Nazi talking about Weimar Germany” vibes

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

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Lip @lipatp.bsky.social · 3h

surely your post-primary campaign's unimpressive performance is because there are not enough depraved D.C. politicians endorsing you... or maybe just too many.
it's gonna be bad...
bsky.app/profile/lipa...

Lip @lipatp.bsky.social · 3h

Bernie Bros being Bernie Bros
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Mamdani is joined by Ro Khanna in hopes of exciting South Asian voters.

www.nytimes.com

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