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Hey I'm Mitch, some guy with an engineering degree, a construction job, a lot of cats and a house full of projects that's a local Democratic chair. 📍Massachusetts

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 2d

Next Saturday, Lowell is going to say it again, as long as it needs to keep being said, that in America, there is no sovereign above the law.

Lowell Democrats will be tabling there, along with many other community organizations too, because this work will have to keep going after Saturday.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 11h

In Massachusetts the party conventions approve candidates for the statewide primary ballot (Governor, Lt Gov, AG, Secretary, Auditor, Treasurer, US Senator). Attending the convention can be a very consequential responsibility a lot of people don't know about! So I make sure people know.

Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 11h

It's often not something well explained certainly. I did not even know there were local party committees I could join until my 30's, much less what they did or what kinds of things being involved in the party processes can accomplish. So I am trying to do the work explaining that.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 11h

Here, two of our local Indivisible's three founders were a ward chair and a vice ward chair of the local Democratic committee and its membership heavily overlaps.

Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 11h

In many places the Indivisible groups *are* basically the progressive wings of the local party. It is the case around here.

The local party might not be organized enough to capitalize if not. In that case, you may be able to take the initiative to organize it yourself.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 11h

I've approached left wing/progressive activists about filling those vacancies. And sometimes they take the offer, but often they don't.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 12h

Our local party is mainly older women who have been tirelessly keeping things going for decades. We also have a bitter old guy who's a reactionary bully that sees himself as the gatekeeper of local politics. We need more hands and more voices to supplement the former and drown out the latter.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 12h

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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DB Reiff @db4dignity.bsky.social · 14h

It’s what she does.
And, if the Globe doesn’t report it, she pays no price.
www.universalhub.com/2024/oopsies...

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

anyways attend NO KINGS this weekend!

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plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 1d

This weekend folks

www.nokings.org#map

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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

they have been trying to do meme authoritarianism, and that means generating the right kinds of content--the forces of Order vs the forces of Chaos, riots and violence and burning shit and ""antifa supersoldiers""

the kind of imagery to justify the kind of powers they aspire to

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

instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police"

they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit

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

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...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 17h

Dozens of people have lost their jobs because they were insufficiently sad about Charlie Kirk being killed and then Trump goes and makes a joke about dodging bullets at his memorial.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19h

These are the people who will be solemnly lecturing you about the dangers of liberal intolerance and woke groupthink from their sinecures at the @nytimes.com and the @theatlantic.com in just a few years.

Politico @politico.com · 23h

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

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 1d

Romney may have in retrospect appeared righter than Obama about some FP things in that moment but I'm not sure he was for the right reasons that would have led to constructive alternative results.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 1d

I do not think so. I've had some variation of the "should you have let the wookie win" discussion before, but I think the right wing media feedback loop pushes along GOP radicalization even if they win 2012, and we also lose the ACA while it was more vulnerable.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 1d

I was wondering where the midcentury united states senator from Georgia famous for stymying civil rights legislation fit into this

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

What really also annoys me is there’s also a variant of this that seem to think that there’s some magic secret trick the national movement will play that will solve politics, possibly forever, that somehow isn’t also mass violence.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

the thing that annoys me about the 'elections won't save us' shit is that it's just a permission structure to wait for a powerful national social movement, and in their want a violent one, that *will never fucking exist*.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

winning elections is pretty much the only way to solidify the gains of social movements though. and winning them often enough that they can't be immediately repealed.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

Something I just sort of wonder about is why everybody immediately rushes to fall for Donald Trump’s bits, with absolutely no idea of their staying power even 6 to 12 weeks from now. You don’t have to immediately credit the guy on announcement day

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

I think it matters that to whatever degree we want to credit Trump with doing this as-yet-tenuous deal, forget the ten months of ongoing support for genocide, the support for bombing Tehran, etc.; Trump helped accomplish this by telling Palestinians if they didn’t sign on he’d see them all destroyed

David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely don’t think our political discourse is capable of talking about how Donald Trump—*Donald Trump*—just halted an ongoing genocide.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a local party leader who's in the middle of helping people for city council and she's an aide in the state legislature but we can't post about that business all the time.

While I'm here, I'll remind you that if you have takes on the future of the Democrats, you should join your local committee.

Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 1d

We're almost done with the 2025 Massachusetts DCR Parks challenge - visit a dozen parks and stamp a passport at each one by the end of November. We plan to get the last ones in Western MA later this week, finishing with Mt. Greylock.
www.mass.gov/info-details...

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Saganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 1d

My wife and I went to a couple of state parks where it was literally raining because the hell if we're going to spend all of this day on the internet

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 2d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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