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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 23h

Nice joke you’ve got there. Be a real shame if I repeated the content of it back to you with aggressively pedantic sincerity.

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 17m

yeah, it's solid money for sure, and now a majority of her fundraising

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 19m

McIver's fundraising crashed back down to earth in Q3...except she retained a small-donor base she didn't have before, going from less than $1000 in small donations in Q1 to $67k in Q3

Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · Jul 15

LaMonica McIver wasn't a great fundraiser before the Trump administration brought her up on bullshit charges, raising just $65,000 total in Q1 2025. in Q2, she raised $467,000 from small donors alone and $752,000 total

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 48m

“guy insulting you and has the ‘Follow Back’ button” remains a fascinating species of poster

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 1h

My take on Collins opponents - not "untested"

Pingree (2002) & Bellows (2014) ran in very bad years for Dems

Brennan (former Gov) shouldn't have run in 1996. In 2008, 6-term US house member Allen ran horrible campaign (still angry about that)

In 2020, DSCC ran Gideon's campaign, shut out Mainers

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Meiselas: How do you see yourself in that race versus Graham Platner?

Mills: We’ve run people against Susan Collins before, and she won because we ran people who were untested… I’m the only one in the race who’s actually won an election

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1h

She was born 21 years before the moon landing and the same month as the invention of the transistor. She has openly stated she wants to serve a single term, retiring at the age of 85

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1h

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1h

I am going to find time I don't have to read and analyze a bunch of FEC and ELEC reports this week for those of you at the $8/mo/$80/yr tier!

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 1h

not sure why October has already been a decent month for subscriptions but hey if you wanna keep the momentum going primaryschool.ghost.io

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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 2h

people are allowed to change etc. etc. but every one of these glowing profiles *completely erasing* the fact that 3 years ago the subjects ran a totally DIFFERENT NV-named think tank with a polar opposite ideological mission, *where i worked*, is...surreal? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The New Think Tank Infuriating Progressives

It thinks Democrats can take a lesson from Donald Trump.

www.theatlantic.com

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 2h

and where are we now, Travis. where the fuck are we now

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 4h

yeah I'm gonna go with the decline in crime and increase in economic activity but your crank Malthusian theory is fine too I guess

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 4h

this week in Primary School: a congressman convicted of $750,000 in campaign finance fraud seeks a return, Ilhan Omar wades into the Minneapolis mayoral race, and progressives land a top recruit against Memphis Rep. Steve Cohen—as another formidable progressive eyes Hakeem Jeffries's Brooklyn seat

Issue 19

Issue 19 October 14, 2025 DC-AL (correction) Last week, I incorrectly listed DC Shadow Rep. Oye Owolewa as a candidate for DC’s lone nonvoting delegate seat in the House of Representatives (n...

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 4h

I gotta say, if anything this kinda highlights how far back the general rot in the agency runs, to have this man look at what’s going on and respond with more or less “they’re just following orders, and a few bad apples are acting up”

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

Sharing an excellent Q&A from Obama-era former ICE director John Sandweg about the ways in which operations today are totally unprecedented for the agency and the ways in which some times are unchanged — and how in his view, the admin is leaning into the aggression. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘Those Rules Are Gone’: How ICE Is Rethinking its Raids

ICE used to arrest the “worst first.” Under the new Trump administration, the agency is following a different playbook, says a former ICE chief.

www.politico.com

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 4h

no, I don't think America's largest city needed downzoning to become desirable

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 4h

he's @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social coded

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4h

Can I just say that I love how wholesomely stupid Channing Tatum is? I love the freaking guy. He’s calling in to talk about the Steelers but it’s about Kirsten Dunst.

"I never get nervous about working with people, but that's Kirsten Dunst bro," Tatum tells Vogue. "I knew I was gonna have to up my game because she's a beast. She doesn't have a single miss on her resume, it's all bangers."

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, if that Fort Monmouth development goes through it'll make sense.

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 4h

you know, props to those bosses for being the only ones to really realize that development tends to destabilize political machines

Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 4h

Plainfield exempt? they've gotten in on it recently

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5h

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 5h

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 8h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 4h

12 years of Fulop and 11 years of Baraka have added up to God knows how many units and there are other tiny exempt towns that have had similar governments (I think Edgewater and Harrison are both exempt, for example)

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 5h

also individual pro-housing mayoral administrations in big, Mt. Laurel-exempt cities like Jersey City and Newark

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 5h

most of the NJCL from Asbury north has seen a development boom and the NJCL *sucks* lol

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 5h

this could be and probably should be Bensonhurst and the Bronx but instead it is Newark and Elizabeth

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 5h

seeing the scale of development in North Jersey on my commute every morning is a really stark reminder of how hard NYC fumbled the first quarter of the 21st century with the Bloomberg downzoning

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

ah an approach so commonsensical that it needs billionaire donors to support it

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 5h

It's tucked into this Atlantic article about Searchlight, but I actually want to read more about how the contrarian debate seems to be driven largely by one donor advisor and/or his billionaire clients.

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