Flow Void
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With time comes distance. With distance comes perspective. With perspective comes wisdom.
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Read this.
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Read this.
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Folks, no party or faction that has triggered a shutdown has ever gotten its demands met in a shutdown. That was always the risk going in. People (like me) were saying you were going to have to deal with eventual disappointment going in.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Folks, no party or faction that has triggered a shutdown has ever gotten its demands met in a shutdown. That was always the risk going in. People (like me) were saying you were going to have to deal with eventual disappointment going in.
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I think there is also something to be said about having the correct progressive/left resume, and then running as a normie Dem who’s focused on local issues. Some might say that’s “moderating” I would say it’s running a campaign according to facts on the ground.
November 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I think there is also something to be said about having the correct progressive/left resume, and then running as a normie Dem who’s focused on local issues. Some might say that’s “moderating” I would say it’s running a campaign according to facts on the ground.
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A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.
September 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.
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wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
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This is key. The diminishment of SCOTUS will become a sociological fact before it becomes codified in law. That process is now very well underway.
September 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This is key. The diminishment of SCOTUS will become a sociological fact before it becomes codified in law. That process is now very well underway.
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I definitely think this is true, but I also think a lot of voters would only see Democrats as strong if they were actually able to stop the bad things from happening, not simply delay them. People say they want fighting, but what they really want is victory.
“When you look at the factors weighing down Democrats, it’s not crime or trans rights or wokeness. It’s the deep-seated belief among independents and Democratic voters that Democrats are weak and feckless.”
The Dem Senate leadership's unbelievable negotiating position is that they will give Trump everything he wants except that they demand: an extension of Obamacare subsidies so that they expire right after the midterms, not before. This sounds like political malpractice on several levels.
September 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I definitely think this is true, but I also think a lot of voters would only see Democrats as strong if they were actually able to stop the bad things from happening, not simply delay them. People say they want fighting, but what they really want is victory.
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I know it's illegal on here to notice that our leaders are actually fighting back in the job we actually elected them to do, but here's the Wall Street Journal bitching about Schumer's "historic" delaying tactics that have left almost 90% of Trump appointee slots empty.
archive.ph/2025.08.27-0...
archive.ph/2025.08.27-0...
August 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I know it's illegal on here to notice that our leaders are actually fighting back in the job we actually elected them to do, but here's the Wall Street Journal bitching about Schumer's "historic" delaying tactics that have left almost 90% of Trump appointee slots empty.
archive.ph/2025.08.27-0...
archive.ph/2025.08.27-0...
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Some quotes from the article for the ‘DO SOMETHING!’s. 👇
August 3, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Some quotes from the article for the ‘DO SOMETHING!’s. 👇
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And I gotta say, every time I see someone talking about “earning my vote” I wonder if that person understands just how loudly they are advertising that they are fundamentally just a fuckin’ sheep that needs a shepherd to lead them to doing the right thing rather than being able to do it themselves.
July 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
And I gotta say, every time I see someone talking about “earning my vote” I wonder if that person understands just how loudly they are advertising that they are fundamentally just a fuckin’ sheep that needs a shepherd to lead them to doing the right thing rather than being able to do it themselves.
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The correct answer when you hear someone else say Do Something should be "you fucking first".
1) it would shut a lot of people up
2) it would maybe actually result in some leadership being taken outside of elected representatives.
1) it would shut a lot of people up
2) it would maybe actually result in some leadership being taken outside of elected representatives.
June 23, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The correct answer when you hear someone else say Do Something should be "you fucking first".
1) it would shut a lot of people up
2) it would maybe actually result in some leadership being taken outside of elected representatives.
1) it would shut a lot of people up
2) it would maybe actually result in some leadership being taken outside of elected representatives.
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A-fuckin'-men on all of this.
We all have a *civic duty* to *each other* to not allow the fascists to attain positions of power.
Once you turn voting into your own game of purity and fully embraced the consumerist mindset, well, the fascists have gotten the perfect useful idiot they wanted.
We all have a *civic duty* to *each other* to not allow the fascists to attain positions of power.
Once you turn voting into your own game of purity and fully embraced the consumerist mindset, well, the fascists have gotten the perfect useful idiot they wanted.
June 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A-fuckin'-men on all of this.
We all have a *civic duty* to *each other* to not allow the fascists to attain positions of power.
Once you turn voting into your own game of purity and fully embraced the consumerist mindset, well, the fascists have gotten the perfect useful idiot they wanted.
We all have a *civic duty* to *each other* to not allow the fascists to attain positions of power.
Once you turn voting into your own game of purity and fully embraced the consumerist mindset, well, the fascists have gotten the perfect useful idiot they wanted.
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Truly wild photos coming in from Los Angeles right now.
June 15, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Truly wild photos coming in from Los Angeles right now.
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We're starting to get voter file data back and Change's model indicates that the biggest contributor to Kamala losing was new voters entering the electorate breaking heavily toward Trump substack.com/home/post/p-...
Kamala Harris Didn’t Lose to the Couch
New Voters, Not Drop off, Determined Harris' Defeat
substack.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We're starting to get voter file data back and Change's model indicates that the biggest contributor to Kamala losing was new voters entering the electorate breaking heavily toward Trump substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Young people *are*, in fact, protesting, the question here is disingenuous because it is designed to start fights.
And it's that way because the truth is that the biggest orgs fighting against fascist takeover of the US government are lib-coded and lib-led, and that makes online edgelords mad.
And it's that way because the truth is that the biggest orgs fighting against fascist takeover of the US government are lib-coded and lib-led, and that makes online edgelords mad.
"Why aren't young people protesting?"
Consider—because they all got their shit rocked by police and prosecutors last year trying to stop a genocide, and you abandoned them.
Consider—because they all got their shit rocked by police and prosecutors last year trying to stop a genocide, and you abandoned them.
April 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Young people *are*, in fact, protesting, the question here is disingenuous because it is designed to start fights.
And it's that way because the truth is that the biggest orgs fighting against fascist takeover of the US government are lib-coded and lib-led, and that makes online edgelords mad.
And it's that way because the truth is that the biggest orgs fighting against fascist takeover of the US government are lib-coded and lib-led, and that makes online edgelords mad.
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like *democrats do not control any of the formal levers of national power.* everyone on here is screaming "how do we stop this." sorry kids, it's way too late for that. the question is how do we take power back and *fix* what musk+co are about to break.
February 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
like *democrats do not control any of the formal levers of national power.* everyone on here is screaming "how do we stop this." sorry kids, it's way too late for that. the question is how do we take power back and *fix* what musk+co are about to break.
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An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.
February 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.
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Animation of daily normal precipitation throughout the year using stations data from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Probably my favorite animation.
November 11, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Animation of daily normal precipitation throughout the year using stations data from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Probably my favorite animation.
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"It’s easy to tell yourself that not voting will somehow work magic, that literally doing nothing is not just a principled protest but even an effective strategy for getting what you want. But it’s a delusion."
Declining to vote doesn't get politicians to chase you, it gets them to write you off.
Declining to vote doesn't get politicians to chase you, it gets them to write you off.
New post at CAMPAIGN THREADS on the hot new trend of *not* voting in order to get what you want.
kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/not-voting
kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/not-voting
Not Voting
In the wake of the recent rout of the far right in France — with all the deserved attention to the ways in which leftists and centrists put aside their infighting to defeat a common foe — I thought I’...
kevinmkruse.substack.com
July 8, 2024 at 3:26 PM
"It’s easy to tell yourself that not voting will somehow work magic, that literally doing nothing is not just a principled protest but even an effective strategy for getting what you want. But it’s a delusion."
Declining to vote doesn't get politicians to chase you, it gets them to write you off.
Declining to vote doesn't get politicians to chase you, it gets them to write you off.
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Valentine’s Day is the perfect day to remind everyone that a vote is not a valentine, you aren’t confessing your love for the candidate. It’s a chess move for the world you want to live in.
February 14, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Valentine’s Day is the perfect day to remind everyone that a vote is not a valentine, you aren’t confessing your love for the candidate. It’s a chess move for the world you want to live in.
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