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I think the banal answer is: he’s very rich and powerful and good at networking and this how people act around very rich and powerful people.
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I think the banal answer is: he’s very rich and powerful and good at networking and this how people act around very rich and powerful people.
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“The big tent goes both ways,” she said. “When we’re building a big tent, yes, it means welcoming people who are in the center or to the right of us. But it also means welcoming people who might be to the left. The center of our party has used purity politics to cancel or exclude progressives"
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
“The big tent goes both ways,” she said. “When we’re building a big tent, yes, it means welcoming people who are in the center or to the right of us. But it also means welcoming people who might be to the left. The center of our party has used purity politics to cancel or exclude progressives"
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It’s not just that Trump is personally a rapist, though there’s lots of credible evidence to suggest that he is. It’s that he is promoting a fundamentally pro-rape ideology, and that the permissiveness for rape and entitlement to rape that are core to his worldview are central to his appeal for men.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s not just that Trump is personally a rapist, though there’s lots of credible evidence to suggest that he is. It’s that he is promoting a fundamentally pro-rape ideology, and that the permissiveness for rape and entitlement to rape that are core to his worldview are central to his appeal for men.
I understand the cave but at the same time it is so demonstrable of how little Democratic leaders think of their own partisans.
They were fine with telling the base to take a hike and validated all the discontent about the moderate wing of the party. Didn’t even care to manage the optics.
They were fine with telling the base to take a hike and validated all the discontent about the moderate wing of the party. Didn’t even care to manage the optics.
And I think it’s one of the reasons everyone is so angry at the Senate Democrats who caved on this one - because they may believe it’s the most logical thing to do in this moment, but the background effect has been to erase any sense of agency that tens of millions of people had.
November 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I understand the cave but at the same time it is so demonstrable of how little Democratic leaders think of their own partisans.
They were fine with telling the base to take a hike and validated all the discontent about the moderate wing of the party. Didn’t even care to manage the optics.
They were fine with telling the base to take a hike and validated all the discontent about the moderate wing of the party. Didn’t even care to manage the optics.
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Lol, many such cases I'm guessing
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Lol, many such cases I'm guessing
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We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
Trump 2 is really bringing me back to first principles with regard to patriarchy, white supremacy etcetc.
Like the logic made increasingly explicit in these arguments is that we are just supposed to accept that men should be allowed to abuse women
Still shocked at Ezra Klein saying this v clearly
Like the logic made increasingly explicit in these arguments is that we are just supposed to accept that men should be allowed to abuse women
Still shocked at Ezra Klein saying this v clearly
![Instagram caption from NPR of their interview with John Fetterman
In his new book, "Unfettered," Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) criticized his party for losing the support of working class men, writing that President Trump appealed to them more because "he wasn't afraid to comment on things the left told us we were no longer allowed to have commonsense opinions on."
Fetterman also writes, “if men are forced to choose between picking their party or keeping their balls, most men are going to choose their balls.”
“I think there's been a disconnection,” he told "All Things Considered" host Scott Detrow. “It's just this idea and just being perceived as more anti-man […] And it's just a lot different kinds of energy that comes out from.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5fkaj7zmtrdz6o4az3vvlxbf/bafkreiadfrhld7ftk53pgpl2aaafm74uz2qivzeudf3nkmykvcx643fl7i@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Trump 2 is really bringing me back to first principles with regard to patriarchy, white supremacy etcetc.
Like the logic made increasingly explicit in these arguments is that we are just supposed to accept that men should be allowed to abuse women
Still shocked at Ezra Klein saying this v clearly
Like the logic made increasingly explicit in these arguments is that we are just supposed to accept that men should be allowed to abuse women
Still shocked at Ezra Klein saying this v clearly
The bosses got what they wanted and the far left was happy to help push for this outcome.
Those post-Covid wage growth trends for high-income vs. low-income Americans has completely flipped.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The bosses got what they wanted and the far left was happy to help push for this outcome.
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Its a very real pattern. Trump pardoned about 1500 supporters and a number of non-trivial number of them have ended up breaking the law again within months.
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Its a very real pattern. Trump pardoned about 1500 supporters and a number of non-trivial number of them have ended up breaking the law again within months.
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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This point is absolutely valid, and also the QTs and replies here continue to indicate this place isn't beating the allegations
This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This point is absolutely valid, and also the QTs and replies here continue to indicate this place isn't beating the allegations
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I keep rotating back to the fact that the ACA and subsidies related to it weren't worth voting Harris to keep/extend but are somehow super important now.
November 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I keep rotating back to the fact that the ACA and subsidies related to it weren't worth voting Harris to keep/extend but are somehow super important now.
It’s really becoming evident that the cave is not a strategic error but is a HUGE optics/messaging error from the extremely out of touch moderate senate Dems.
If we get new leadership out of this I guess that’s fine but I’m pissed they did this in a way that validates dumb narratives about Dems.
If we get new leadership out of this I guess that’s fine but I’m pissed they did this in a way that validates dumb narratives about Dems.
Being pissed is fine. It’s good. Saying that Democrats are the ones who took health care subsidies away is a vicious fucking lie that is meant to demotivate people, to republicans’ benefit, and you know it.
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It’s really becoming evident that the cave is not a strategic error but is a HUGE optics/messaging error from the extremely out of touch moderate senate Dems.
If we get new leadership out of this I guess that’s fine but I’m pissed they did this in a way that validates dumb narratives about Dems.
If we get new leadership out of this I guess that’s fine but I’m pissed they did this in a way that validates dumb narratives about Dems.
The far left is going to wage a campaign telling young politically engaged people exactly this.
If people lose their ACA subsidies because republicans slashed them and refused over and over again to even try to restore them, which of those people is going to look at those increased price tags and say “goddamn I blame democrats for not using their leverage”? Listen to yourselves.
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The far left is going to wage a campaign telling young politically engaged people exactly this.
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The fact that Democrats get blamed for the Republicans taking away the subsidies but for some reason never got any credit for getting them in the first place has my blood boiling.
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The fact that Democrats get blamed for the Republicans taking away the subsidies but for some reason never got any credit for getting them in the first place has my blood boiling.
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It's becoming clear that a lot of people thought that the extended ACA subsidies existed until the shutdown ended, and it was the decision of Senate Democrats to fold that allowed them to be defunded which is..........not actually true.
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It's becoming clear that a lot of people thought that the extended ACA subsidies existed until the shutdown ended, and it was the decision of Senate Democrats to fold that allowed them to be defunded which is..........not actually true.
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Being pissed is fine. It’s good. Saying that Democrats are the ones who took health care subsidies away is a vicious fucking lie that is meant to demotivate people, to republicans’ benefit, and you know it.
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Being pissed is fine. It’s good. Saying that Democrats are the ones who took health care subsidies away is a vicious fucking lie that is meant to demotivate people, to republicans’ benefit, and you know it.
It’s striking how people don’t seem to have absorbed that the ACA subsides wouldn’t have existed the past couple years AT ALL if it weren’t for Dems, and literally no one knew or cared until now.
Now they’re going away bc every GOP senator put a gun to the nation’s head and ppl want to blame Ds.
Now they’re going away bc every GOP senator put a gun to the nation’s head and ppl want to blame Ds.
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It’s striking how people don’t seem to have absorbed that the ACA subsides wouldn’t have existed the past couple years AT ALL if it weren’t for Dems, and literally no one knew or cared until now.
Now they’re going away bc every GOP senator put a gun to the nation’s head and ppl want to blame Ds.
Now they’re going away bc every GOP senator put a gun to the nation’s head and ppl want to blame Ds.
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Starting to think that putting a deeply partisan sycophant with no housing policy expertise in charge of US housing policy was not a great idea.
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Starting to think that putting a deeply partisan sycophant with no housing policy expertise in charge of US housing policy was not a great idea.
NO WAY LOL
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
NO WAY LOL
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Many people are saying
I wrote about what I see as the real lesson of Mamdani's victory: not that Democrats needs to move left (or right, for that matter), but that they should try to build real-world relationships with normal voters. publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...
Mamdani the Party Builder
Partyism in action
publiccomment.blog
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Many people are saying
The GOP has always done this. The problem is *voters* refuse to learn this lesson.
I mean, I think we also have to ask the question of what happens now that the GOP know they can just hold poor people hostage with SNAP anytime one of these comes up and if they restart it at all without massive court intervention and even then they've defied those plenty. They lose but still.
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The GOP has always done this. The problem is *voters* refuse to learn this lesson.
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Genuinely yes you absolutely do need to stop assume your audience takes "seemingly obvious" things for granted in your political analysis! You would be shocked the amount of people who need it spelled out for them. Arguably you, for instance.
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Genuinely yes you absolutely do need to stop assume your audience takes "seemingly obvious" things for granted in your political analysis! You would be shocked the amount of people who need it spelled out for them. Arguably you, for instance.
YUP!!! “Everyone knows the GOP is terrible so it’s on Dems to blah blah blah…” people quite evidently do NOT know this.
Genuinely yes you absolutely do need to stop assume your audience takes "seemingly obvious" things for granted in your political analysis! You would be shocked the amount of people who need it spelled out for them. Arguably you, for instance.
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
YUP!!! “Everyone knows the GOP is terrible so it’s on Dems to blah blah blah…” people quite evidently do NOT know this.
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You guys, we never had any material leverage. All we had was an opportunity to make them eat shit, which they gladly did. So, mission accomplished. There were never going to be any policy extractions because we never had any means of actually making them do it.
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
You guys, we never had any material leverage. All we had was an opportunity to make them eat shit, which they gladly did. So, mission accomplished. There were never going to be any policy extractions because we never had any means of actually making them do it.
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One problem with the whole "the Dems should have held out" is that holding our longer means that the cave will have just taken longer, or the GOP will have ditched the filibuster. Neither option ends with restoring ACA funding at this point.
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
One problem with the whole "the Dems should have held out" is that holding our longer means that the cave will have just taken longer, or the GOP will have ditched the filibuster. Neither option ends with restoring ACA funding at this point.