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Lover of #mapoli, #jewsky. Celtics fan. He/him, views my own etc etc Love books, travel and a good cup of coffee. Gathering dreams at dreamsofthesetimes.com
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A week, they couldn't even let us feel hopeful and optimistic for a single week!
We JUST awarded and co-signed their current strategy 5 days ago!
We JUST awarded and co-signed their current strategy 5 days ago!
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
A week, they couldn't even let us feel hopeful and optimistic for a single week!
We JUST awarded and co-signed their current strategy 5 days ago!
We JUST awarded and co-signed their current strategy 5 days ago!
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We just launched the biggest primary program in Indivisible’s history. Help us (literally) send Schumer and the surrender caucus a message. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...
Democratic leaders failed us again. Time to get some new leaders.
Indivisible's weekly newsletter with analysis and action
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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I am so sick of Democrats caving.
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I am so sick of Democrats caving.
I know it’s stupid and irrational, and a tax on people who don’t understand statistics, but I’ve started to buy lottery tickets on the regular. I can’t explain it.
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I know it’s stupid and irrational, and a tax on people who don’t understand statistics, but I’ve started to buy lottery tickets on the regular. I can’t explain it.
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See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
See the film and my update on the ongoing, pointless, man-made loss of life here: bsky.app/profile/agaw...
Promise?
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Promise?
Here’s what I don’t get about people like Ross Douthat.
I have opinions too. I think they’re good ones. I bet I can back them up better than he can. *And* they’re not grossly offensive opinions. Why can’t I get a job just saying, you know, whatever comes to my mind to a national audience?????
I have opinions too. I think they’re good ones. I bet I can back them up better than he can. *And* they’re not grossly offensive opinions. Why can’t I get a job just saying, you know, whatever comes to my mind to a national audience?????
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Here’s what I don’t get about people like Ross Douthat.
I have opinions too. I think they’re good ones. I bet I can back them up better than he can. *And* they’re not grossly offensive opinions. Why can’t I get a job just saying, you know, whatever comes to my mind to a national audience?????
I have opinions too. I think they’re good ones. I bet I can back them up better than he can. *And* they’re not grossly offensive opinions. Why can’t I get a job just saying, you know, whatever comes to my mind to a national audience?????
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Work sucks etc but they do not want you to be able to support yourself or pursue your dreams; they want you dependent on a man, so he can treat you as badly as he feels like without you having the option to leave.
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Work sucks etc but they do not want you to be able to support yourself or pursue your dreams; they want you dependent on a man, so he can treat you as badly as he feels like without you having the option to leave.
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It’s hip on the left and right alike to hate “liberal feminism” (a term I challenge detractors to define—usually the “liberal” is silent). But the fascists of our moment hate nothing more than the actual liberal feminist ideal: a public sphere where women are equal. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It’s hip on the left and right alike to hate “liberal feminism” (a term I challenge detractors to define—usually the “liberal” is silent). But the fascists of our moment hate nothing more than the actual liberal feminist ideal: a public sphere where women are equal. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
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I’m confused. Does being in the presence of other people’s prayers and then eating roast chicken erode one’s Christianity?
Heritage Foundation having a normal one
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I’m confused. Does being in the presence of other people’s prayers and then eating roast chicken erode one’s Christianity?
Incredible stuff
Heritage Foundation having a normal one
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Incredible stuff
Incredible to hear Pelosi won’t seek re-election. What a legendary career she has had.
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Incredible to hear Pelosi won’t seek re-election. What a legendary career she has had.
I’m excited to share this news with all 401 of my followers on here
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I’m excited to share this news with all 401 of my followers on here
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The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up.
I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.
I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up.
I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.
I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.
I want a TV show based on this premise in the mold of Schitt’s creek
I know it won't happen but a part of me I'm not proud of is absolutely fiending for stories of people who lived on the Upper East or Upper West Side of Manhattan, finally realized they were conservatives when Mamdani was elected, and now have to learn how to function in Jacksonville.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I want a TV show based on this premise in the mold of Schitt’s creek
Fantastic thread
Who’s tracking the best crash out’s? I know one of you are making a thread
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Fantastic thread
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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Let us together contemplate the stages of pundit grief
1. It's Inconcievable
2. It Can't Happen
3. It Won't Happen
4. It's Unlikely To Happen
5. It Must Not Happen
6. *%&&*Q$#!!
7. Pffft. It Doesn't Matter That It Happened
1. It's Inconcievable
2. It Can't Happen
3. It Won't Happen
4. It's Unlikely To Happen
5. It Must Not Happen
6. *%&&*Q$#!!
7. Pffft. It Doesn't Matter That It Happened
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Let us together contemplate the stages of pundit grief
1. It's Inconcievable
2. It Can't Happen
3. It Won't Happen
4. It's Unlikely To Happen
5. It Must Not Happen
6. *%&&*Q$#!!
7. Pffft. It Doesn't Matter That It Happened
1. It's Inconcievable
2. It Can't Happen
3. It Won't Happen
4. It's Unlikely To Happen
5. It Must Not Happen
6. *%&&*Q$#!!
7. Pffft. It Doesn't Matter That It Happened
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections?
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
July 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections?
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
A banner day
All this and Dick Cheney died this morning!
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
A banner day
Undeniably a great day
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Undeniably a great day
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i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist