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Just an unbelievable lack of introspection here.

I deal with this cynicism often in my circle. My parents made sure to stress the fact that, even though this happened to us (and, of course, others concomitantly), we needed to ensure that it would never again happen to anyone.

10/10 heartbreaking but also hilarious

Mazel and naches to you, Juliet. Just ignore the haters!

Whoops, found it on Haaretz

Yair, can you provide a link to a story/stories on this? Thank you!

I think this is basically right. The move that many of these former/post-liberal personalities made was to exploit the overreach of the left, first (ostensibly) from the left and then to adapt overtly to the nativist far right. It's likely a matter of finding a monetary lane.

Does anyone genuinely care about being "ratio'd"?

Can we cut this mishegas already and focus instead on substantial engagement rather than whether something is popular on Bluesky?

10/10 très bien

And, of course, a baguette to serve as a temporary splint.

I don't know what it is, but I find this video to be so unbelievably funny. I'm not sure if it's real or AI, but either way, it just feels like such a distillation of this moment.

What they do say - and something I agree with - is that the Democrats should break free of both the "corporate centrism and the pursuit of progressive ideological purity."

I think that's good advice for building a winning coalition.

They certainly say to "focus less" (#3) and "moderate" (#4), but I don't think that is tantamount to dropping an issue altogether. Combined with the explicit calls to include and learn from politicians like AOC and Sarah McBride, I don't think it's fair to say they want to excise these issues.

A lot of this was willful blindness at a time when he was ascendant. He no longer is, and now he wants to try to re-capture the right wing media ecosystem. He's far too late.

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Part of the problem, I suspect, is that the Dems carry a lot of the baggage from the past decade of leftist discourse, even if they don't advocate it themselves. But the memo DOES identify clearly that a big tent party requires moving away from the purity tests that became so common.

I don't claim to know what the Dems need to do to win. And I suspect that we likely agree on many issues. But we need to be able to delineate between broadening the tent and giving up on an issue entirely. I just don't think it's fair or accurate to claim that they are doing the latter.