Shaz
@demsocdems.bsky.social
25. Just a Random dude on ET. Am for good things which always falls under the label of liberal, socialist, progressive, or social democratic. Pakistani-American. Houston, TX
Also, to be clear, am not even going to entertain the thought of this ever happening unless Paxton is the Republican nominee and Crockett isn't the Democratic nominee.
What Blexas would look like, given a blue wave and minority reversion.
Made a uniform shift from 2024 Prez of D+8, and then shifted Hispanics and Asians D+20 from 2024 Prez.
Result statewide is D+3
Made a uniform shift from 2024 Prez of D+8, and then shifted Hispanics and Asians D+20 from 2024 Prez.
Result statewide is D+3
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Also, to be clear, am not even going to entertain the thought of this ever happening unless Paxton is the Republican nominee and Crockett isn't the Democratic nominee.
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Fulop supported an increase in the corporate tax rate LITERALLY THIS YEAR when he was running for office.
This is why people hate politicians.
This is why people hate politicians.
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Fulop supported an increase in the corporate tax rate LITERALLY THIS YEAR when he was running for office.
This is why people hate politicians.
This is why people hate politicians.
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The 2025 NJ Gov election in NJ-'s 9th House District, a D+19.4% win for Dem Rep. Mikie Sherrill over frm. GOP Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli in a seat that surprisingly voted for Trump by R+1% in 2024 zoomed back to Democrats off of Sherrill's strength with the Latino vote
November 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The 2025 NJ Gov election in NJ-'s 9th House District, a D+19.4% win for Dem Rep. Mikie Sherrill over frm. GOP Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli in a seat that surprisingly voted for Trump by R+1% in 2024 zoomed back to Democrats off of Sherrill's strength with the Latino vote
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It is wild to watch people dispute this, lol
People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.
November 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It is wild to watch people dispute this, lol
I hate it whenever this discourse pops up. The majority of every Southern State is White, and White Southerners vote Republican by Brian Stack margins! What is so hard for people to get about that? That even if you get rid of all gerrymandering and voter suppression, it stays red?
I understand why a lot of white liberals are like, fuck the south, because they think about the people in power who are mostly white conservatives. But that is only because of Jim Crow, voter suppression, a lack of real funding for Dems there
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I hate it whenever this discourse pops up. The majority of every Southern State is White, and White Southerners vote Republican by Brian Stack margins! What is so hard for people to get about that? That even if you get rid of all gerrymandering and voter suppression, it stays red?
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Genuinely hilarious that the only way we’re going to get actual functional YIMBY housing policy in our large cities is through Red Plenty Socialists and not the Abundance guys lol
at this point, Los Angeles is the most NIMBY city in the country.
I am not a socialist myself, but give me a socialist YIMBY like Zohran or Katie Wilson over a liberal NIMBY like Karen Bass any day of the week.
I am not a socialist myself, but give me a socialist YIMBY like Zohran or Katie Wilson over a liberal NIMBY like Karen Bass any day of the week.
After failing to stop a major state housing bill from becoming law, Los Angeles leaders are turning to plan B: Delaying Senate Bill 79's implementation and pushing for unspecified legislative changes next year. My dispatch for @politico.com Pro subscribers subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Genuinely hilarious that the only way we’re going to get actual functional YIMBY housing policy in our large cities is through Red Plenty Socialists and not the Abundance guys lol
If you could change 5 state capitols’, which capitols would you choose, and where would you relocate them?
For me
Florida: Tallahassee -> Orlando
Illinois: Springfield -> Chicago
New York: Albany -> NYC
New Jersey: Trenton -> Jersey City
Pennsylvania: Harrisburg -> Philly
For me
Florida: Tallahassee -> Orlando
Illinois: Springfield -> Chicago
New York: Albany -> NYC
New Jersey: Trenton -> Jersey City
Pennsylvania: Harrisburg -> Philly
November 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
If you could change 5 state capitols’, which capitols would you choose, and where would you relocate them?
For me
Florida: Tallahassee -> Orlando
Illinois: Springfield -> Chicago
New York: Albany -> NYC
New Jersey: Trenton -> Jersey City
Pennsylvania: Harrisburg -> Philly
For me
Florida: Tallahassee -> Orlando
Illinois: Springfield -> Chicago
New York: Albany -> NYC
New Jersey: Trenton -> Jersey City
Pennsylvania: Harrisburg -> Philly
In addition to TN-09 special for December, this is another December special election to watch (this was the jungle primary between two republicans and one democrat for a state senate seat in Texas. It was Trump+18).
The December election is the runoff
The December election is the runoff
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
In addition to TN-09 special for December, this is another December special election to watch (this was the jungle primary between two republicans and one democrat for a state senate seat in Texas. It was Trump+18).
The December election is the runoff
The December election is the runoff
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this is the best it's going to get for them until they leave power. right now, as you are reading this.
NRCC favored pollster Cygnal showing the generic ballot as D+6 50/44, and for the first time in two years, voters whose top priority is inflation and the economy now prefer a generic Democrat for Congress (D+13) over a Republican.
www.cygn.al/poll-voters-...
www.cygn.al/poll-voters-...
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
this is the best it's going to get for them until they leave power. right now, as you are reading this.
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downwardly mobile educated alienated elite-adjacents clearly are a large part of the contemporary american left's constituency, but it's such a stupid thing to have a complex about or considering particularly damming. read like any history book ever about who starts political movements.
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
downwardly mobile educated alienated elite-adjacents clearly are a large part of the contemporary american left's constituency, but it's such a stupid thing to have a complex about or considering particularly damming. read like any history book ever about who starts political movements.
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It’s gonna be so cool when people are like “look, Senator MTG stood up to her party on Epstein and opposes aid to Israel, I’m voting for her for President.”
I have no idea what will be the eventual consequence of what has been happening in the US over the past week except I will predict things will get a lot weirder.
November 15, 2025 at 3:19 AM
It’s gonna be so cool when people are like “look, Senator MTG stood up to her party on Epstein and opposes aid to Israel, I’m voting for her for President.”
What Blexas would look like, given a blue wave and minority reversion.
Made a uniform shift from 2024 Prez of D+8, and then shifted Hispanics and Asians D+20 from 2024 Prez.
Result statewide is D+3
Made a uniform shift from 2024 Prez of D+8, and then shifted Hispanics and Asians D+20 from 2024 Prez.
Result statewide is D+3
November 15, 2025 at 4:05 AM
What Blexas would look like, given a blue wave and minority reversion.
Made a uniform shift from 2024 Prez of D+8, and then shifted Hispanics and Asians D+20 from 2024 Prez.
Result statewide is D+3
Made a uniform shift from 2024 Prez of D+8, and then shifted Hispanics and Asians D+20 from 2024 Prez.
Result statewide is D+3
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Bill Clinton should take one for the team and say it's real, especially if it isn't
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Bill Clinton should take one for the team and say it's real, especially if it isn't
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ME FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS: look, i know it's a useful shorthand, but i don't think there's any such thing as a literal "epstein list" in the sense of a list of names
JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN AN EMAIL TO HIMSELF:
JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN AN EMAIL TO HIMSELF:
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
ME FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS: look, i know it's a useful shorthand, but i don't think there's any such thing as a literal "epstein list" in the sense of a list of names
JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN AN EMAIL TO HIMSELF:
JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN AN EMAIL TO HIMSELF:
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the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
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“The president is a pedophile who is starving your kids, crashing your planes, and destroying your healthcare.” Republicans certainly are not above this rhetoric, and in our case the rhetoric has the benefit of being true.
Personally I think if you had these documents in hand you should not have backed down out of any fucking shutdown fight
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“The president is a pedophile who is starving your kids, crashing your planes, and destroying your healthcare.” Republicans certainly are not above this rhetoric, and in our case the rhetoric has the benefit of being true.
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It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.
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QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
What are some county shapes that you hate?
That, putting aside from partisanship, just looks ugly and its county borders should be changed?
Mine:
That, putting aside from partisanship, just looks ugly and its county borders should be changed?
Mine:
November 12, 2025 at 5:44 AM
What are some county shapes that you hate?
That, putting aside from partisanship, just looks ugly and its county borders should be changed?
Mine:
That, putting aside from partisanship, just looks ugly and its county borders should be changed?
Mine:
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I think it says a lot about the quality of left media (as well as center-left) that an Abdul El-Sayed does not excite as much as Platner initially did.
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I think it says a lot about the quality of left media (as well as center-left) that an Abdul El-Sayed does not excite as much as Platner initially did.
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Just now: The plaintiffs who were arguing that Utah GOP's congressional map is illegal won in court.
The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used.
The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.
The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used.
The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Just now: The plaintiffs who were arguing that Utah GOP's congressional map is illegal won in court.
The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used.
The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.
The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used.
The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.
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Wilson ahead by 91 *votes* in Seattle
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Wilson ahead by 91 *votes* in Seattle
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It is generally true that American institutional media favors the conservative political narrative and helps facilitate its discursive advantages but I have never rlly understood why people say POLITICO and Axios in particular just make stuff up
the “axios is fake news trying to stir shit, dems aren’t gonna cave” to “the dem deal is actually good and smart and savvy” pipeline is real and best explained not be rational trains of thought but fear and cognitive dissonance
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
It is generally true that American institutional media favors the conservative political narrative and helps facilitate its discursive advantages but I have never rlly understood why people say POLITICO and Axios in particular just make stuff up
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Perth Amboy, NJ
83% Hispanic
Median Household Income: $58,490
15% Bachelor's Degree, 68% High School Grad
2025 Gov:
🟦Mikie Sherrill: 78% (6,281)
🟥Jack Ciattarelli: 21% (1,731)
2024 Pres:
🟦Kamala Harris: 53% (7,430)
🟥Donald Trump: 45% (6,209)
83% Hispanic
Median Household Income: $58,490
15% Bachelor's Degree, 68% High School Grad
2025 Gov:
🟦Mikie Sherrill: 78% (6,281)
🟥Jack Ciattarelli: 21% (1,731)
2024 Pres:
🟦Kamala Harris: 53% (7,430)
🟥Donald Trump: 45% (6,209)
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Perth Amboy, NJ
83% Hispanic
Median Household Income: $58,490
15% Bachelor's Degree, 68% High School Grad
2025 Gov:
🟦Mikie Sherrill: 78% (6,281)
🟥Jack Ciattarelli: 21% (1,731)
2024 Pres:
🟦Kamala Harris: 53% (7,430)
🟥Donald Trump: 45% (6,209)
83% Hispanic
Median Household Income: $58,490
15% Bachelor's Degree, 68% High School Grad
2025 Gov:
🟦Mikie Sherrill: 78% (6,281)
🟥Jack Ciattarelli: 21% (1,731)
2024 Pres:
🟦Kamala Harris: 53% (7,430)
🟥Donald Trump: 45% (6,209)
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Really just an unbelievable series of Ls for people who adopt a realist theory of politics. We have two parties committed to playing this shutdown as stupidly as possible
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Really just an unbelievable series of Ls for people who adopt a realist theory of politics. We have two parties committed to playing this shutdown as stupidly as possible