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jesscataylr @jessicat.bsky.social · 16h

the problem is that we don't have a thirder coin

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Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 22h

Maybe they think a quarter pounder is 25 pounds since a quarter the coin is 25 cents

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Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 23h

People probably said that about Dem losses in Arkansas and West Virginia in the 2000s, and about GOP losses in Vermont in the 1980s and '90s.

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 1d

I hate MattY way less than the rest of you but I agree he's useless because of this. None of this works when the other guys get activated by whatever rumor and hearsay Fox or worse ONN puts on the wire.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

Matty correctly understands that the nationalization of media and edpol has meant that this dynamic no longer works; people in Nebraska do actually vote based on what they see on TV about Baltimore. His solution to this is to establish a Leninist vanguard party-style control over all Dem policy.

🎃 Harm City Slasher 🔪 @sprawlhater.bsky.social · 1d

The idea that Democrats should adopt nationally popular but locally unpopular positions in locations where they have supermajority control of politics makes no sense. That's exactly where you should implement correct policies that the rest of the country nonetheless dislikes!

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Magenta @magentab.bsky.social · 1d

people in real time experiencing their first splotchy cat bait

Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, now that most major cities are turning red, Democrats probably won't have concentrated urban membership much longer.

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Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 1d

I hope you're right, after all trends are nit guaranteed to continue. But Trump made significant gains in most major cities between 2016 and 2024.

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Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 1d

Look at how most major cities have shifted between the 2016 and 2024 elections. Almost all shifted toward Republicans; even cities like Milwaukee and Atlanta where Democrats made massive gains in their suburbs; and Democrats utterly collapsed in New York City and Miami.

Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 1d

Of course, now that most major cities are turning red, Democrats probably won't have concentrated urban membership much longer.

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Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 1d

I think the bigger issue, which Matty remains mysteriously silent on, is that putting police and prison abolition on a list of "unpopular democratic policies" is treated as so obvious as to not even merit comment, but saying republicans want to do project 2025 was roundly condemned by the media

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

Here with yellow checkmarks we have five examples of real things that Gavin Newsom and leading California Democrats espouse. Not a straw man.

My take is Democrats should drop these ideas, ideas that do not sound at all like economic populism to me.

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 1d

The potential future Senator from Texas is leading this charge.

BUT ANYWAY remember that one time a person in 2019 with 5000 followers on Twitter said "abolish all prisons"

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

While Tylenol remains a tool recommended by medical professionals to treat pain and fever during pregnancy, the state of Texas is suing the makers of the medication for allegedly hiding unproven links to autism and other disorders. Scientists have found no such causal relationship.

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Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 1d

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Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm already preemptively depressed

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer.

The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage

A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

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Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm already preemptively depressed

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 2d

Responding to the new Mamdani scandal, Andrew Cuomo notes that he didn't call any of the 13 women he assaulted "aunt."

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Ahhh, I've seen this film before. Josh Hawley puts out an op-ed staking out a position in The New York Times, then he folds and falls in line with the rest of the GOP. Remember when he did this with Medicaid?

A headline from The New York Times opinion page Guest Essays saying "Josh Hawley: No American Should Go to Bed Hungry."

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Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 2d

Especially since painting Democrats as antisemitic because of the pro-Palestine faction of the party is already a major GOP strategy. Even defending Platner for the tattoo, let alone nominating him, will make these accusations seem all the more credible.

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Chris Wightman 🧟‍♂️ @wymancr.bsky.social · 2d

Mamdani referred to his BFF but humans only live on average 70-80 years, not "forever." We rate this claim 4 Pinocchios.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 2d

This one is fucking amazing

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Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. The design started out as a bid for the contract that ultimately went to Lockheed for the C-5 Galaxy.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 2d

What almost everyone who talks about this means is "the prominent cultural and social visibility and influence of LGBT people" which does upset a lot of people, but is also not something that the Democratic Party can actually affect without a totalitarian cultural revolution.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3d

Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇

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Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 2d

Mamdani once offered me a Kleenex but it was actually a store brand facial tissue!

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Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 2d

I doubt it. Biden's "garbage" remark in late October was made into a major Dem scandal. A campaign with him as the nominee would have been a disaster.

Sweet Splotchy Cat @catsplotchy.bsky.social · 2d

I think the fact that Kamala did relatively well given Biden's approval ratings, and the fact that very few incumbent parties worldwide survived the post-Pandemic economy, is a good counter-argument. Kamala was in the same position as McCain 2008 but actually came much closer to winning.

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 3d

Another reason all of the "voters want to revisit policy minutia from 2024" articles make me so mad, in addition to their smug wrongness, is that the Dem policy shop needs to put all their resources to creating and selling a plan to fix this mess!

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