PJA
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the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland
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Especially since the thing that the actual, real polling data conclusively demonstrates is the most voters don't have set-in-stone policy beliefs - you can get wild 30% point swings in issue polling by polling the same policy framed two different ways in the poll question
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Especially since the thing that the actual, real polling data conclusively demonstrates is the most voters don't have set-in-stone policy beliefs - you can get wild 30% point swings in issue polling by polling the same policy framed two different ways in the poll question
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none of these people (inclusive of UK labour) seem to understand that voters want their leaders to *lead* them, not reflect their own ill thought preferences back at them
December 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
none of these people (inclusive of UK labour) seem to understand that voters want their leaders to *lead* them, not reflect their own ill thought preferences back at them
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Jesus, just stop. Democrats are winning now.
And if some voters feel this way about Democrats, a major reason is that THE FUCKING CONSULTANTS KEEP SAYING THE PARTY IS TOO LIBERAL AND OUT OF TOUCH. They incessantly reinforce the stereotype.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/t...
And if some voters feel this way about Democrats, a major reason is that THE FUCKING CONSULTANTS KEEP SAYING THE PARTY IS TOO LIBERAL AND OUT OF TOUCH. They incessantly reinforce the stereotype.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/t...
Tough Medicine for Democrats: “Too Liberal” and “Out of Touch”
Democrats are riding high after special elections, but that doesn’t mean they’re popular. Strategist Simon Bazelon has advice on what to fix.
washingtonmonthly.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Jesus, just stop. Democrats are winning now.
And if some voters feel this way about Democrats, a major reason is that THE FUCKING CONSULTANTS KEEP SAYING THE PARTY IS TOO LIBERAL AND OUT OF TOUCH. They incessantly reinforce the stereotype.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/t...
And if some voters feel this way about Democrats, a major reason is that THE FUCKING CONSULTANTS KEEP SAYING THE PARTY IS TOO LIBERAL AND OUT OF TOUCH. They incessantly reinforce the stereotype.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/t...
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In the campaign the pattern was that there was a fake, imaginary Trump the media created, and the more the real incompetent Trump faltered the more the fake competent Trump was inserted into stories, analysis etc bsky.app/profile/lilb...
Is, "Too big to ignore," possible at this point? His senility got too big to ignore when he had a mental breakdown during his 2024 campaign. Most media outlets ignored it.
July 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
In the campaign the pattern was that there was a fake, imaginary Trump the media created, and the more the real incompetent Trump faltered the more the fake competent Trump was inserted into stories, analysis etc bsky.app/profile/lilb...
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I always thought people did not pay nearly enough attention to this text.
It was about as much of a smoking gun as you could ask for.
It was about as much of a smoking gun as you could ask for.
Good reporting never dies. It ripens. By @hunterw.bsky.social, 2021
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Leaked Texts: Jan. 6 Organizers Say They Were 'Following POTUS' Lead'
Rally planners coordinated with the White House before Jan. 6, and prepped a party on the day of the Capitol attack, leaked texts reveal
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I always thought people did not pay nearly enough attention to this text.
It was about as much of a smoking gun as you could ask for.
It was about as much of a smoking gun as you could ask for.
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Gavin Newsom says the Ds need to be more "normal" to win elections. This is an anti trans, anti LGBT dogwhistle. That is disgusting for a range of reasons, but also—Ds are winning tons of elections! It is not 2024! www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-is-no-l...
It Is No Longer 2024, FFS
What year is it, Gavin Newsom, you fuck?
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Gavin Newsom says the Ds need to be more "normal" to win elections. This is an anti trans, anti LGBT dogwhistle. That is disgusting for a range of reasons, but also—Ds are winning tons of elections! It is not 2024! www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-is-no-l...
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Ah, yes, because the Republican party officials currently holding power — obsessed with children's genitals, breeding women, and woo woo hewlthcare — are very normal.
Fuck this guy, grind him to dust in the primary.
Fuck this guy, grind him to dust in the primary.
Gavin Newsom says the Ds need to be more "normal" to win elections. This is an anti trans, anti LGBT dogwhistle. That is disgusting for a range of reasons, but also—Ds are winning tons of elections! It is not 2024! www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-is-no-l...
It Is No Longer 2024, FFS
What year is it, Gavin Newsom, you fuck?
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Ah, yes, because the Republican party officials currently holding power — obsessed with children's genitals, breeding women, and woo woo hewlthcare — are very normal.
Fuck this guy, grind him to dust in the primary.
Fuck this guy, grind him to dust in the primary.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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Democrats have become the party of the status quo, says Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland. He's urging members of his party to craft sharper election messages and back new voices in the party. n.pr/3KH1RKn
Sen. Van Hollen urges Democrats to stand for something — not just be anti-Trump
Democrats have become the party of the status quo, says Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland. He's urging members of his party to craft sharper election messages and back new voices in the party.
n.pr
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Democrats have become the party of the status quo, says Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland. He's urging members of his party to craft sharper election messages and back new voices in the party. n.pr/3KH1RKn
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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*Trump hosts Klan rally on White House lawn.*
Hakeem Jeffries: 'I'm not sure burning crosses is going to bring down the price of beef for hard-working American families.'
Hakeem Jeffries: 'I'm not sure burning crosses is going to bring down the price of beef for hard-working American families.'
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
*Trump hosts Klan rally on White House lawn.*
Hakeem Jeffries: 'I'm not sure burning crosses is going to bring down the price of beef for hard-working American families.'
Hakeem Jeffries: 'I'm not sure burning crosses is going to bring down the price of beef for hard-working American families.'
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Q: How will you win over Trump supporters?
Crockett: "I don't know that we'll necessarily convert all of Trump's supporters. That's not our goal."
Q: "Do you need to?"
Crockett: "No, we don't. We don't need to."
Crockett: "I don't know that we'll necessarily convert all of Trump's supporters. That's not our goal."
Q: "Do you need to?"
Crockett: "No, we don't. We don't need to."
December 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Q: How will you win over Trump supporters?
Crockett: "I don't know that we'll necessarily convert all of Trump's supporters. That's not our goal."
Q: "Do you need to?"
Crockett: "No, we don't. We don't need to."
Crockett: "I don't know that we'll necessarily convert all of Trump's supporters. That's not our goal."
Q: "Do you need to?"
Crockett: "No, we don't. We don't need to."
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
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“Supreme Court reform is now the sine qua non of any reformist program in the United States, any program to re-implant/re-secure civic democracy in the United States.” talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything
I’ve become something of a broken record on this. But repetition sometimes...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“Supreme Court reform is now the sine qua non of any reformist program in the United States, any program to re-implant/re-secure civic democracy in the United States.” talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
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Like do we not remember how "China's sending this poison to us, it's a declaration of war" was the line for several years? Very little effort to convince people that no, it was actually uhhhhh Nicolas Maduro.
December 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Like do we not remember how "China's sending this poison to us, it's a declaration of war" was the line for several years? Very little effort to convince people that no, it was actually uhhhhh Nicolas Maduro.
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Conservatives: Democrats bribe lazy minorities with goodies
Also conservatives: bsky.app/profile/carl...
Also conservatives: bsky.app/profile/carl...
December 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Conservatives: Democrats bribe lazy minorities with goodies
Also conservatives: bsky.app/profile/carl...
Also conservatives: bsky.app/profile/carl...
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The controversial tactic of believing that laws Republicans no longer like still exist.
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The controversial tactic of believing that laws Republicans no longer like still exist.
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Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything
I’ve become something of a broken record on this. But repetition sometimes...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
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hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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They're going to destroy public education in the United States - part of their plot to enslave us - and they don't care how many of our kids need to die to make that happen. This is explicitly what all the people who helped Trump win were trying to achieve.
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
They're going to destroy public education in the United States - part of their plot to enslave us - and they don't care how many of our kids need to die to make that happen. This is explicitly what all the people who helped Trump win were trying to achieve.
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I wonder how long it'll be before SCOTUS decides to tear down all vaccine requirements by mandating bullshit religious exemptions. Part of their overarching goal of destroying public school in part by making it unsafe for middle class parents to send their kids to
The Supreme Court asks Trump's Justice Department to weigh in on a pending challenge to New York's COVID vaccine mandate for health care workers, which lacks any exception for religious objections. Suggests that some justices are looking at this one closely. www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I wonder how long it'll be before SCOTUS decides to tear down all vaccine requirements by mandating bullshit religious exemptions. Part of their overarching goal of destroying public school in part by making it unsafe for middle class parents to send their kids to
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Good to know that the Supreme Court is now in the business of protecting our souls
Full orders list: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Cert petition: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
Religious anti-vaxers have had a very encouraging day at the Supreme Court.
Cert petition: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
Religious anti-vaxers have had a very encouraging day at the Supreme Court.
December 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Good to know that the Supreme Court is now in the business of protecting our souls