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timothy faust @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 19h

the "working class" is more likely to be a black woman working as a home health aide for $11/hour than whatever Leonhardt &c imagine. The concept only ever contains a particular kind of usually-white always-man. It's as absurd as Schumer's imaginary Bailey constituency.

Leonhardt: The reason I’m pushing you on this is I do think there is greater demand for a true working-class politics in this country than many Democratic elites have often acknowledged. It’s a kind of working-class politics that really could involve moving economic policy in the direction that you want.

But I think for people to win — and when you look at people like Ruben Gallego in Arizona, who has won, or Marcy Kaptur in Ohio, or you, in Vermont: When you first got elected there and it wasn’t a solidly blue state — it is not enough to be populist on economics. Democrats also have to show some basic respect for working-class views and be authentic — rather than just saying that they’re tolerating views on things like immigration or on guns. They genuinely have to have views that are different than really affluent Democrats tend to have on social issues. You think that’s fair?

Sanders: Yes.

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30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 21h

Unfortunately I think this is also what people said about Trump early on

30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 21h

Not trying to argue, but isn't this kind of part-and-parcel of how companies have been leaning into the debt side of the debt-equity mix when raising capital for a few decades now? Or is there something even more significant about these specific bond sales happening now?

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30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 21h

I don't think this was a career-ending injury. It was maybe season-ending.

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30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 22h

Oh I actually graduated! I have to update my bio. Thanks for reminding me!

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 1d

This statement isn’t quite false, but it’s quite misleading. *After tax* household income of $190,000 does put you in the top decile. But in everyday English, “make” normally refers to pretax income. In which case you need more like $350,000.

Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

If both you and your partner make $95,000/year or more, you are in the top 10% of earners.

A really underappreciated issue in American politics is that there are many rich people who do not wish to acknowledge that they are, in fact, rich.

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d

Top 10% by income now getting half of all consumption

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30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 22h

Ah yes Barack Obama, famously deeply experienced with NYC politics

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30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 22h

Nope, he convinced them to end the strike. Try not to revise history www.sbnation.com/nba/2020/8/2...

How Barack Obama helped convince NBA players to end their strike and return to play

In a call with Chris Paul and LeBron James, Barack Obama urged NBA players to return to the court and resume the playoffs.

www.sbnation.com

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30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 22h

The threat is in the unspoken part. It's "govern in such a way that you water down all of your most radical ideas, or else face intense opposition from the rest of the party." This is essentially how he approached the NBA players in 2020 when he convinced them to stop boycotting.

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30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 22h

As a member of Knesset, Meir Vilner was a member of the Maki Party, a coalition of Jews and Palestinians who fought together for Palestinian self-determination and against Zionist imperialism.

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30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 22h

Uh, I never said that?

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30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 22h

The man in my profile picture is a Holocaust survivor

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30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't a nice gesture. It's a threat.

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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 4d

when basic every day “governance” depends on cops and jails and raids the public gets used to state coercion and violence and then nakedly authoritarian moves feel just a *little* worse but not much of a departure (bad!)

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 4d

So important to not forget both what happened + what the prevailing feelings were while it was happening: OP was hardly alone, but this kind of reflection/memory and accountability is absolutely crucial. This, much more than being right, is the sign of a trustworthy comrade and friend

Raea 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 4d

i spiraled over the fascists trying to pin the kirk shooting on us fearing it could even lead to pogroms but his death is already totally out of the news cycle. important to note when things don’t turn out as bad as they could, they’re not omnipotent

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30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 5d

Yea I noticed they were basically tied with voters over 45 in the Marist poll

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30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 5d

I've been trying to square this with the concern I was seeing about the initial early voting skewing older. This poll seems to anticipate the electorate being older, but it still has Mamdani up big. I'm wary about that as a claim.

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30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 5d

I think it's in the Google Sheet linked on this page maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/nyc-ma...

Home of the Marist Poll | Polls, Analysis, Learning, and More

The Marist Institute for Public Opinion (MIPO) is a survey research center. MIPO is home to the Marist Poll and conducts polls on politics, the economy, sports, technology and more at the local, state...

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30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 5d

More importantly, is it fine to phonebank for Zohran if I don't live in New York? I want to phonebank, but I'm worried it won't come off well if I'm calling as an outsider.

30-50 True Outcomes✡🇵🇸🏴 @titusmeyeronicus.bsky.social · 5d

Can someone explain how all the polling showing Zohran with a commanding lead squares with the news that early voting skewed older so far?

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 5d

New NYC mayoral poll from Marist, conducted Oct. 24-28, with 4.2% margin of error: maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/nyc-ma...

Zohran Mamdani - 48%

Andrew Cuomo - 32%

Curtis Sliwa - 16%

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 8d

More unemployment and poverty will likely lead to more violence. More police will not stop this.

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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.bsky.social · 6d

"Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."

Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

www.nytimes.com

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 5d

The good news is the bad news! Politics is social. Coalitions can be built and rebuilt--because most people don't actually believe in anything very strongly. At least not in a way that lines up with actually existing political parties.

Nick Davis @ntd.bsky.social · 5d

The problem w polling - as someone who does lots of surveys - is that surveys construct opinions that simply do not exist in nature for *huge* chunks of people and too few of the data science bros conducting campaign polling understand this very basic feature the survey response. Vibes indeed.

Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 5d

The existence of this photograph (which is a real photo of a real person at a Mamdani campaign event) is enough to establish for me that voters writ large have absolutely no grasp of what policy is or how any given policy impacts their lives. It's all vibes.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d

Have been keeping close track of who on the center-left and left is praising and who is not praising Trump's peace plan for Gaza and overwhelmingly it's been moderate pro-Israel Democrats and Biden foreign policy alumna. Basically the total opposite of the impression Bluesky gives you.

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