Stephen Lurie
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Stephen Lurie
@luriethereal.bsky.social
· Jul 31
We're All Jocks, Jamming
How did sports and music get so inexorably entangled?
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🎶Y’ALL READY FOR THIS🎶
…because I have an essay out today on the 30th anniversary of Jock Jams, Vol. 1 and how the relationship between music and sports has completely changed.
heat-death.ghost.io/were-all-joc...
…because I have an essay out today on the 30th anniversary of Jock Jams, Vol. 1 and how the relationship between music and sports has completely changed.
heat-death.ghost.io/were-all-joc...
don’t say the shut down didn’t achieve anything, okay???
it allowed coup co-conspirators to each fleece the American people of half a million dollars!
it allowed coup co-conspirators to each fleece the American people of half a million dollars!
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
don’t say the shut down didn’t achieve anything, okay???
it allowed coup co-conspirators to each fleece the American people of half a million dollars!
it allowed coup co-conspirators to each fleece the American people of half a million dollars!
I would hate for “internal recriminations” to do something as terrible as, say, internal leadership change in a party that has proven incapable of “fighting united”
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I would hate for “internal recriminations” to do something as terrible as, say, internal leadership change in a party that has proven incapable of “fighting united”
just one idea that comes to mind for what Democrats could have done when flights were being cancelled — instead of cave — would be to remind everyone how this administration started gutting air safety from their very first month in office
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
just one idea that comes to mind for what Democrats could have done when flights were being cancelled — instead of cave — would be to remind everyone how this administration started gutting air safety from their very first month in office
Tired: Vote Blue No Matter Who
Wired: Vote Aye No Matter Why
Wired: Vote Aye No Matter Why
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Tired: Vote Blue No Matter Who
Wired: Vote Aye No Matter Why
Wired: Vote Aye No Matter Why
chat is it a good sign for the party when the paper notorious for hedging uses the word “universally” in front of the word “furious”
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
chat is it a good sign for the party when the paper notorious for hedging uses the word “universally” in front of the word “furious”
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Eight Senate Democrats saw charts like these and decided "oh yes, now that public opinion is on our side and our opponent is facing electoral consequences for their policy choices, now is a great time to give up all of our leverage in health care negotiations" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/donald-tru...
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Eight Senate Democrats saw charts like these and decided "oh yes, now that public opinion is on our side and our opponent is facing electoral consequences for their policy choices, now is a great time to give up all of our leverage in health care negotiations" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/donald-tru...
JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the court:
Benjamin Franklin could have, at most, delivered a few hundred mail-in ballots. For this reason, all mail-in ballots are now unconstitutional.
Benjamin Franklin could have, at most, delivered a few hundred mail-in ballots. For this reason, all mail-in ballots are now unconstitutional.
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the court:
Benjamin Franklin could have, at most, delivered a few hundred mail-in ballots. For this reason, all mail-in ballots are now unconstitutional.
Benjamin Franklin could have, at most, delivered a few hundred mail-in ballots. For this reason, all mail-in ballots are now unconstitutional.
all AI research should be directed entirely towards the question of “is X movie available to stream,” a question thus far eluding reliable resolution by all available AI and human technologies
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
all AI research should be directed entirely towards the question of “is X movie available to stream,” a question thus far eluding reliable resolution by all available AI and human technologies
“New York Times conducts hostile interview with children’s education influencer questioning her recognition of comprehensively documented war crimes” is not a sentence I could have imagined a few years ago
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“New York Times conducts hostile interview with children’s education influencer questioning her recognition of comprehensively documented war crimes” is not a sentence I could have imagined a few years ago
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This is the message of a failed, feckless, and leaderless party. We need a party with backbone, and the only path to it is through a cleansing primary season. If your Dem is up for reelection, and you aren't damn sure they're fighting the fascists with everything they've got, primary the bastard.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is the message of a failed, feckless, and leaderless party. We need a party with backbone, and the only path to it is through a cleansing primary season. If your Dem is up for reelection, and you aren't damn sure they're fighting the fascists with everything they've got, primary the bastard.
Whether or not Democrats’ analysis here is solid (it’s not), the additional outrage is that, if they had any kind of strategic consistency, it would have made no sense to fight in the first place. They would have “known” they can’t beat Trump. Instead they went and advertised their powerlessness.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Whether or not Democrats’ analysis here is solid (it’s not), the additional outrage is that, if they had any kind of strategic consistency, it would have made no sense to fight in the first place. They would have “known” they can’t beat Trump. Instead they went and advertised their powerlessness.
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The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.”
So I don’t know man.
So I don’t know man.
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.”
So I don’t know man.
So I don’t know man.
intrepid reporters might ask Durbin how many terrorized Chicagoans equals one Republican handshake
Dick Durbin suffers from a terminal case of Senate Brain, in which the big prize is a handshake deal with your distinguished colleagues where they'll allow you to hold a meaningless vote that you can then point to with pride to your constituents as they go broke from crushing medical bills.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
intrepid reporters might ask Durbin how many terrorized Chicagoans equals one Republican handshake
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"Is there a more feckless, spineless opposition party anywhere in the democratic world? Why do Democrats insist on repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?"
Me for Zeteo's First Draft this morning on the Democratic surrender in the Senate:
Me for Zeteo's First Draft this morning on the Democratic surrender in the Senate:
🏳️ BREAKING: Democrats Surrender. Again
Mehdi's Monday morning update on the senators voting to reopen the government without a guarantee on heathcare; the BBC rolling over for Donald Trump; and Kathy Hochul's clash with Zohran Mamdani.
zeteo.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"Is there a more feckless, spineless opposition party anywhere in the democratic world? Why do Democrats insist on repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?"
Me for Zeteo's First Draft this morning on the Democratic surrender in the Senate:
Me for Zeteo's First Draft this morning on the Democratic surrender in the Senate:
SCHUMER TO PARTY: PLAY DEAD
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
SCHUMER TO PARTY: PLAY DEAD
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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I vote for Democrats but I only know of one political organization actually fighting for us and maybe you also want to join the fight act.dsausa.org/donate/membe...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I vote for Democrats but I only know of one political organization actually fighting for us and maybe you also want to join the fight act.dsausa.org/donate/membe...
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Chuck Schumer must be replaced as leader since he cannot keep his caucus in line.
America is in the midst of a Republican-made health care crisis—a crisis so severe, so urgent, and so devastating for American families that I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address it.
I am voting NO.
I am voting NO.
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Chuck Schumer must be replaced as leader since he cannot keep his caucus in line.
incredible to keep this up as your pinned post after you sacrificed Americans’ health care for…[checks notes…still checking…hmmm, not finding anything here] … absolutely nothing?
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
incredible to keep this up as your pinned post after you sacrificed Americans’ health care for…[checks notes…still checking…hmmm, not finding anything here] … absolutely nothing?
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Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
this this this this this — and until we are able to force the fundamentals to change, we will always arc back to where we are now
Our political system is fundamentally broken. It was not designed to represent the will of the people and it is incapable of doing so today.
The people don't want a king. The people don't want Democrats to surrender. The people don't want only two parties.
The people don't want any of this.
The people don't want a king. The people don't want Democrats to surrender. The people don't want only two parties.
The people don't want any of this.
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
this this this this this — and until we are able to force the fundamentals to change, we will always arc back to where we are now
fwiw democratic senators who aren’t up for reelection for many years can still be forced to resign quite soon if their constituents insist upon it
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
fwiw democratic senators who aren’t up for reelection for many years can still be forced to resign quite soon if their constituents insist upon it
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Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when