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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1h

This is why the idea that Democrats need to focus on and become the "party of the working class" is flawed. These voters vote Republican on racial resentment, not economic policy and Republicans cater to this. In 2024, only 30% of white no college men voted Harris, 42% among N/C women.

Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 2h

White working class voters left Democrats, but not over economic policy share.google/2gdxfA8aOrGZ...

Opinion - What we don't talk about when we talk about 'working class voters'

In 1968, 52% of white people who never attended college voted for the Democratic candidate, and in 2020, just 35% did.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1h

Antisemitism and racism usually go hand in hand.

Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 2h

And let me be EXTRA EXTRA clear:

If you aren’t fighting antisemitism, you are aiding racism. It is ONE fight.

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1h

🎯🎯🎯 All of this.

Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 2h

White people need to talk to other white people. It is entirely up to the whites to move the needle on their end.

Let me be clear: racism and antisemitism are rampant on *both* sides of the aisle.

Your twentysomething niece has fallen for the okie doke just as easily as your Boomer uncle.

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 3h

Worth remembering that Dean famously said he was from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. Dean was proudly a Democrat; Bernie never joined the party, choosing instead to remain an independent who caucused with Senate Dems.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 19h

To me the success of Dean’s campaign & failure of Bernie’s is what they did within the party after their losses: Dean ran for DNC chair, won, did a good job, & Deaniacs reinvigorated local party organizations

Bernie gave speeches, denigrated the Dem party & few of his people worked within the party

Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 19h

As an officer of a local party where about 70 of our 280 committee seats are filled, I cannot reiterate enough that the party is a creation of the people whose hands are on it. In too many places there aren't enough hands, or those hands are complacent or bitter. But they could be yours instead.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 3h

The Republican Party is a party of pedophiles and Nazis. Vote them all out.

Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 4h

The U.S. Capitol Police was called about an American flag altered to include a swastika and displayed inside the office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-Ohio).

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 7h

They are losers without positive qualities; they lack compassion, empathy and decency. They are not simply losers -- they are also very bad people who enjoy harming others.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 17h

This chant would not have been out of place on that Young Republican group chat, in case you have your doubts about horseshoe theory. This is utterly vile hate speech.

Gingit 🎗️ @virgosprincess.bsky.social · 1d

41% of those under 25 wanted the Islamic terrorists to keep the hostages.

Our children are radicalized.

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 17h

Some fine specimens of "the master race" here...

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1d

None of this is particularly surprising if you've been paying attention. They are exactly who we thought they were. None of these people have any business being near government and politics.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1d

Aw, damn. The wrong people keep dying.

OrdinaryBrotha @ordinarybrotha.bsky.social · 1d

www.tmz.com/2025/10/14/d...

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1d

Corollary here is making it crystal clear that people will be held accountable when this is over.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 1d

…terrified by the thought that someone could see their face

The greatest power we have is shame. Most people would be ashamed to take a job with ICE, & we as a nation need to ensure those jobs are understood as sinful & as shameful. /12

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1d

This is also an important thread. Very insightful.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 1d

This is an important thread. There are probably several hundred Federal agents who were sent to Chicagoland last month. They have inflicted cruelty & misery, they’ve gassed, & even shot & killed people. Every person they kidnap is a tragedy

But they actually haven’t got man people considering…/1

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

What Trump is doing is very bad. But I want to push back against some of the numbers here.

ICE did not hire 10,000 agents. It WANTS to. That it keeps running ads suggests it is struggling. And when it does, it seems to cannibalize local police, who don't like that.

More significantly:

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1d

In my more cynical moments, I ponder whether we may need to do more to appeal to the less bright among us.

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 2d

I can give you a ton of policy reasons why we should do more for working people. But what I can't say is that it will pay political dividends. The demographic most likely to vote Republican are white no college men. They're not our voters and many of them like the racism. This is the sad truth.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.

Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 2d

Community is the way out of this mess. This kind of solidarity will defeat authoritarianism every time.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 2d

That’s a key to the determined resistance to ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago; it’s a racial plurality neighborhood (about a third white, about a third Latino, remaining third Black & Asian), & the non-Latinos have banded together to protect their neighbors from Kavanaugh sweeps.

Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 2d

Fixed. Must have been a system glitch.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 2d

Racist antisemites? My kind of enemies.

Jasmine @jasminerobinson90.bsky.social · 2d

This is my second account.
Suspended because racist & antisemitic leftists have nothing better to do than try to get people who don’t share their hatred suspended.
I’m going to give it another try

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 2d

Followed for the use of Hamassholes. 🙂

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 2d

Origin story for "Idiocracy" just dropped.

Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 2d

"COVID altered molecules in RNA in the fathers' sperm, which are involved in the regulation of genes that are known to be important in brain development, suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic could have long-lasting effects on future generations."
www.sciencealert.com/covids-surpr...

COVID's Surprising Effect on Sperm May Impact Future Generations

COVID-19 infection causes changes to sperm in mice that may increase anxiety in their offspring, a study released Saturday said, suggesting the pandemic's possibly long-lasting effects on future gener...

www.sciencealert.com

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 2d

Could be chemo. Plenty of people out there with 3-4 week infusion cycles for maintenance/control. I know someone with multiple myeloma that's been in treatment for 10 years. Could also be infusion therapy for congestive heart failure, which would explain the swollen ankles.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 3d

Jesus. I just noticed the autocorrect typo in this. It should be "desegregated" not "desecrated". Aargh...

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 3d

There's a whole history of why Truman desecrated the Armed Forces in 1948. Part of it was politics, spelled out in a memo from Clark Clifford and part of it was Truman's revulsion over mistreatment of returning Black GIs. It's undervalued as a catalyst to what came later.

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 3d

Rural voters are getting exactly what they voted for. They are a core part of the Republican base and rural counties consistently voted 70-80% for Trump.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Baldwin: Our farmers are facing incredible headwinds. A lot of the fertilizer inputs come from Canada. Those have shot up because of tariffs. About a quarter of all farmers use the ACA for their health care coverage. This president is just contributing to the headwinds that our farmers are facing.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 3d

She was very specific in what she said he'd do and she was correct in every respect.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

She called it. Kamala Harris laid out Trump’s vengeance agenda before it even happened.

One line that stuck with me most from 107 Days was when she wrote that during the debate, Trump was “unburdened by the truth.”

He’s also unburdened by threat of accountability, thanks to the Supreme Court.

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 3d

Trump and Vance are violating their oaths daily. Sounds pretty criminal to me.

This is not an argument they really want to be making.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said Pritzker should be in jail. Do you think he has committed a crime?

VANCE: I think Pritzker has certainly failed to keep the people of Illinois safe

S: It's a yes or no question

V: I certainly think he has violated his fundamental oath. That seems pretty criminal to me

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 3d

There's a whole history of why Truman desecrated the Armed Forces in 1948. Part of it was politics, spelled out in a memo from Clark Clifford and part of it was Truman's revulsion over mistreatment of returning Black GIs. It's undervalued as a catalyst to what came later.

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