Andrew W
@andrewinlife.bsky.social
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The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani.
The president and his allies came after him.
Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute.
He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters.
His politics can win anywhere.
The president and his allies came after him.
Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute.
He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters.
His politics can win anywhere.
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani.
The president and his allies came after him.
Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute.
He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters.
His politics can win anywhere.
The president and his allies came after him.
Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute.
He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters.
His politics can win anywhere.
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not even a week after Sandwich Guy caught a federal felony assault charge for the use of a sandwich
“Federal prosecutors in D.C. have been instructed not to seek felony charges against people who are carrying rifles or shotguns in [DC], regardless of the strength of the evidence, according to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and an email reviewed by [WaPo].” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Pirro’s office won’t pursue gun charges over carrying rifles, shotguns
A statement from Pirro on Tuesday said D.C.’s blanket prohibition on carrying shotguns or rifles “is clearly a violation of the Supreme Court’s holdings.”
www.washingtonpost.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
not even a week after Sandwich Guy caught a federal felony assault charge for the use of a sandwich
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yesterday @davidjroth.bsky.social used the phrase “their brains were defeated by their phones” and i genuinely think we’ve lost like meaningful swaths of some generations to this
Chris Cuomo posted an obviously fake video of @aoc.bsky.social (it literally says "parody 100% made with AI") and when the congresswoman fact-checked him he complained "but it really does sound like you"
August 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
yesterday @davidjroth.bsky.social used the phrase “their brains were defeated by their phones” and i genuinely think we’ve lost like meaningful swaths of some generations to this
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water is also really vital for life. however, too much water and you drown.
Lee Zeldin: "They say that climate change endangers public health. You have many on the left who will say carbon dioxide is a pollutant, and they won't talk about the all of the many reasons why carbon dioxide is actually quite essential for life here on our planet."
July 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
water is also really vital for life. however, too much water and you drown.
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It’s almost like Americans were never fundamentally, inevitably “anti-immigration” and Democrats never had to just put their hands up and meekly chase Republicans (and lose), and affirm all their anti-immigrant positions that helped get us here at all!
Wow — New Gallup poll:
— Trump approval on immigration: 35-62 (!)
— Record high approval of immigration (79-17 overall)
— 78% of people support a pathway to citizenship (+8 from 2024); only 38% support mass deportation (-9 from 2024)
— 30% want a decrease in immigration (-25 from 2024)
— Trump approval on immigration: 35-62 (!)
— Record high approval of immigration (79-17 overall)
— 78% of people support a pathway to citizenship (+8 from 2024); only 38% support mass deportation (-9 from 2024)
— 30% want a decrease in immigration (-25 from 2024)
July 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It’s almost like Americans were never fundamentally, inevitably “anti-immigration” and Democrats never had to just put their hands up and meekly chase Republicans (and lose), and affirm all their anti-immigrant positions that helped get us here at all!
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it is unfathomable to some people that a person can have a good life and go "damn it'd be cool if other people also had good lives we should make that happen"
Despite his own privileged path to power, or perhaps because of it, the son of a Columbia University professor and a movie director is campaigning as a socialist intent on redistributing New York’s wealth.
Here’s How Much New York City Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Is Worth
Despite his own privileged path to power, or perhaps because of it, the son of a Columbia University professor and a movie director is campaigning as a socialist intent on redistributing New York’s wealth.
www.forbes.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
it is unfathomable to some people that a person can have a good life and go "damn it'd be cool if other people also had good lives we should make that happen"
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All I want to hear out of Democrats is that we had a deal and no bomb. Then Trump tore it up and he is now putting American lives in danger.
That’s it.
That’s it.
June 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
All I want to hear out of Democrats is that we had a deal and no bomb. Then Trump tore it up and he is now putting American lives in danger.
That’s it.
That’s it.
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seems to me the basic error these centrists are making is that they are playing on enemy turf, rather than trying to raise the salience of issues that favor them
it's still wild to me that so many centrists want to triangulate on social issues when half the reason 2024 fundamentals were what they were was the economy
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
The Great Un-Awokening
Democrats eyeing a presidential bid in 2028 scramble to move to the center.
www.politico.com
June 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
seems to me the basic error these centrists are making is that they are playing on enemy turf, rather than trying to raise the salience of issues that favor them
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I wonder what Mike Johnson would do if he was, say, driving down the interstate and got pulled over by an unmarked car.
And then a couple of big guys hiding their faces behind masks and wearing no badges or other ID demanded that he exit the vehicle.
And then a couple of big guys hiding their faces behind masks and wearing no badges or other ID demanded that he exit the vehicle.
MIKE JOHNSON: From the people who mandated mask wearing for years, it's absurd. They need to back off ICE & respect our agents
Q: So you're ok w/agents not identifying themselves when they're arresting migrants?
J: Why, so they can target them? So they can put names and faces online and dox them?
Q: So you're ok w/agents not identifying themselves when they're arresting migrants?
J: Why, so they can target them? So they can put names and faces online and dox them?
June 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I wonder what Mike Johnson would do if he was, say, driving down the interstate and got pulled over by an unmarked car.
And then a couple of big guys hiding their faces behind masks and wearing no badges or other ID demanded that he exit the vehicle.
And then a couple of big guys hiding their faces behind masks and wearing no badges or other ID demanded that he exit the vehicle.
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Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!
June 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!
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If you watch a show like this, then Hell, previously only a mythological abstraction, immediately springs into being specifically so there is a place for you.
Trump officials reportedly consider TV gameshow with US citizenship as prize
Trump officials reportedly consider TV gameshow with US citizenship as prize
Homeland security department reviewing ‘out-of-the-box’ pitch in which immigrants would compete for citizenship
The US Department of Homeland Security is reportedly considering an “out-of-the-box” pitch to participate in a television gameshow that would have immigrants compete to obtain US citizenship.
Department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin described the pitch to the New York Times as a “celebration of being an American” and said the show would include challenges based on American traditions. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
If you watch a show like this, then Hell, previously only a mythological abstraction, immediately springs into being specifically so there is a place for you.
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As @texasaft.org points out, Texas taxpayers spent nearly $1B on failing charter schools last year – while public schools outperform them across the board. It’s time for oversight, and that's why I filed HB 5571 to hold the TEA accountable. Texas kids deserve better. #txlege
Closer Look: Texas Charter Schools Don’t Make the Grade
A Union of Professionals
www.texasaft.org
May 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
As @texasaft.org points out, Texas taxpayers spent nearly $1B on failing charter schools last year – while public schools outperform them across the board. It’s time for oversight, and that's why I filed HB 5571 to hold the TEA accountable. Texas kids deserve better. #txlege
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I suppose the New York Times will run daily stories on this until he resigns, unless Secretary of Defense is a less newsworthy job than a college administrator?
“A review of Hegseth’s thesis by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three experts on plagiarism, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphrasing, and verbatim copying.”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say. But how serious is it?
A review of the senior thesis of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three plagiarism experts, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphr...
www.dailyprincetonian.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I suppose the New York Times will run daily stories on this until he resigns, unless Secretary of Defense is a less newsworthy job than a college administrator?
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what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”
Interesting piece which reveals a lot of the tech bro ignorance of government: DOGEr comes in, expects to find lots of inefficiency, is at least willing to acknowledge he was wrong unlike the hard core ideologues.
May 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”
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Is it bad if Germany takes a stance against its neo-nazis and then your government takes the side of the neo-nazis
May 3, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Is it bad if Germany takes a stance against its neo-nazis and then your government takes the side of the neo-nazis
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love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives
“Mr. Rodríguez, we’re going to miss you,” a girl told the teacher after singing.
“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Fearing deportation, a beloved music teacher gives a final lesson
Jesús Rodríguez, a Venezuelan national whose U.S. humanitarian parole status is set to expire soon, decided to voluntarily leave the United States out of worry of being detained.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives
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A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.
RFK Jr: "We found that there's a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children. So the more you get, the stupider you are."
April 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.
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Two headlines in the New York Times today.
April 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
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Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.
Sunday morning April 20, 2025
Fox News Sunday — Van Hollen
NBC's Meet the Press — Van Hollen
CNN's State of the Union — Van Hollen
CBS’ Face the Nation — Van Hollen
ABC’s This Week — Van Hollen
@vanhollen.senate.gov
#AbregoGarcia #RuleOfLaw
Fox News Sunday — Van Hollen
NBC's Meet the Press — Van Hollen
CNN's State of the Union — Van Hollen
CBS’ Face the Nation — Van Hollen
ABC’s This Week — Van Hollen
@vanhollen.senate.gov
#AbregoGarcia #RuleOfLaw
April 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.
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I like parties that can do two or even three things
NEW: A deportation case exposes a rift among Democrats over how to take on Trump
One camp sees a pivotal moment to lean in and fight a lawless move.
Another camp sees a trap and wants to pivot to hitting Trump on his growing economic vulnerability.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
One camp sees a pivotal moment to lean in and fight a lawless move.
Another camp sees a trap and wants to pivot to hitting Trump on his growing economic vulnerability.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Abrego Garcia's deportation case exposes a rift among Democrats over how to take on Trump
As some Democrats vocally push for the release of the man the administration says was mistakenly deported, others have sought to steer clear and focus on high prices and economic issues.
www.nbcnews.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I like parties that can do two or even three things
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Matt is interested in some poll results but not others because he actually has very deeply held beliefs but would rather not discuss or defend them
No, actually, we shouldn't just let the government violently attack people on the streets and disappear them into foreign gulags. We should try to stop them.
April 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Matt is interested in some poll results but not others because he actually has very deeply held beliefs but would rather not discuss or defend them
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Fathers of the year and non-fathers of the year all have the same constitutional rights
Leavitt describes Abrego Garcia as "hiding in Maryland" and says, "based on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room, you would think we deported a candidate for father of the year"
April 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Fathers of the year and non-fathers of the year all have the same constitutional rights