Oh, Kat Abughazaleh. She’s even worse. Every ad is “Democrats need to grow a spine!” and now she promoting that she’ll vote for impeachment. Like every single Democrat did. Twice.

We are coming up on ten years of Bernie almost exclusively benefiting Trump, and it’s just unremarked on when he goes on every show that will book him to explain what Democrats should do and how their brand is tarnished like he isn’t personally and directly responsible for this.

It’s genuinely odd that everyone just pretends like there aren’t some political figures who you can’t criticize here without getting flamed and others who you can dependably dunk on for likes.

Congratulations, @zeteo.com @boldprogressives.org & Z to A Research: This garbage you're pushing has inspires me to go ahead and FORMALLY ENDORSE @janetmillsforme.bsky.social after all.

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The political ignorance of “do something” has spawned two of the least serious, least qualified candidates in the midterms. They are very popular online. They raise a lot of money and spend it trashing Dems in their ads. They seem to think that they can “do something” that defies math.

I can’t crunch numbers right now but a 14-point swing in every congressional district across America would mean a huge Democratic majority in the House in 2026.

It wouldn’t be close. I don’t even have to do the math.

Any single-digit win in that race is a four-alarm fire for congressional Republicans. Take the win.

There was a point when they were at Vox when I adored both Yglesias and Ezra Klein for what they were doing for online journalism, and it’s increasingly hard to tell which one of them is dumber and/or more craven. Weigel has always just been an ego occasionally reigned in by good editors.

I think my favorite early 2025 take was that Democrats should run on egg prices all the way to the midterms.

Processed foods often check the boxes of being a) safe to eat b) filling and c) shelf stable (so they can reach rural places where fresh fruits and vegetables are not an option).

Most of the people who are most strongly against them don’t know or care about anyone poorer than them.

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Like The Mueller Report was a real and damning thing and the entire press allowed Trump to just say “Russia Russia Russia” like Beetlejuice and make it go away.

The foreign interference in the election was clearly laid out whether or not it met the bar of outright collusion.

Oliver Stone doing a glossy film adaptation of Snowden was a thing.

Greenwald obviously and most of The Intercept people since. The boosting of Bernie in 2016 has gone mostly unexamined for some reason despite the fact that RT was huge in that at the time. Tara Reade defecting was met with a shrug.

One of the weirder things of the past decade is watching the online creation of an an intransigent “left” in American politics that’s only served Russian interests of destabilization of the West and world order.