Mister Heat Miser
@elibrennan.bsky.social
He/him; Terrapin grad.
Springsteen megafan. Aspiring climate warrior/wonk. From the Dem wing of the Dem party. Opinions my own. Sorry about all the typos.
Springsteen megafan. Aspiring climate warrior/wonk. From the Dem wing of the Dem party. Opinions my own. Sorry about all the typos.
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Meanwhile, the “American Jewish right” is making clear that they view progressive and even centrist Jews – basically anyone who isn’t in lock-step with Netanyahu – as their enemies.
They think they are modern-day Maccabees. 🧵
They think they are modern-day Maccabees. 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Meanwhile, the “American Jewish right” is making clear that they view progressive and even centrist Jews – basically anyone who isn’t in lock-step with Netanyahu – as their enemies.
They think they are modern-day Maccabees. 🧵
They think they are modern-day Maccabees. 🧵
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It’s so cool how the dumbest people on both the left and the right have decided that big companies are responsible for the housing shortage. When Yung Hitler decides to talk about “big corporations” as bad you know that the truth is even worse to address for conservatives.
What is this talking point:
"[we need to] not allow corporations in the Chinese Communist Party to buy entire neighborhoods of single-family homes"
Did he get his anti-corporate and anti-communist talking points jumbled up?
"[we need to] not allow corporations in the Chinese Communist Party to buy entire neighborhoods of single-family homes"
Did he get his anti-corporate and anti-communist talking points jumbled up?
the comments to this Fox News article are so fucking funny, man
literally conservative boomers being like "yeah, fuck Gen Z"
www.foxnews.com/media/nikki-...
literally conservative boomers being like "yeah, fuck Gen Z"
www.foxnews.com/media/nikki-...
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It’s so cool how the dumbest people on both the left and the right have decided that big companies are responsible for the housing shortage. When Yung Hitler decides to talk about “big corporations” as bad you know that the truth is even worse to address for conservatives.
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I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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I also don't think most Ds have the knowledge or guts to do what's needed to actually reduce electricity costs *over time,* not *compared to a hypothetical scenario they make up." Sorry, but "your bills are lower than they would be in an alternate timelime where you didn't elect me" is not a winner.
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I also don't think most Ds have the knowledge or guts to do what's needed to actually reduce electricity costs *over time,* not *compared to a hypothetical scenario they make up." Sorry, but "your bills are lower than they would be in an alternate timelime where you didn't elect me" is not a winner.
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I've been really frustrated with the solipsism of Jewish institutions that try to stoke panic over Mamdani while remaining largely silent on the actual fascist threat in the US. IMO a much better use of their religious authority would be joining clerics from other faiths at anti-ICE protests.
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I've been really frustrated with the solipsism of Jewish institutions that try to stoke panic over Mamdani while remaining largely silent on the actual fascist threat in the US. IMO a much better use of their religious authority would be joining clerics from other faiths at anti-ICE protests.
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I'm still unpacking this all, but it is perhaps even more significant that the PA budget also eliminated $300m that had previously been approved to save transit.
So in the wake of IL success and Dem-wave election PA moves backwards on electricity and transportation, increasing bills and pollution.
So in the wake of IL success and Dem-wave election PA moves backwards on electricity and transportation, increasing bills and pollution.
Ok apparently this is actually not widely known: Gov. Shapiro withdrew Pennsylvania from RGGI today as part of a deal to pass a now-4month overdue budget.
So.....did no one else notice that Pennsylvania just dropped RGGI?
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I'm still unpacking this all, but it is perhaps even more significant that the PA budget also eliminated $300m that had previously been approved to save transit.
So in the wake of IL success and Dem-wave election PA moves backwards on electricity and transportation, increasing bills and pollution.
So in the wake of IL success and Dem-wave election PA moves backwards on electricity and transportation, increasing bills and pollution.
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jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
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Trump spent his first Thanksgiving after getting elected President with Jeffrey Epstein. 2017.
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Trump spent his first Thanksgiving after getting elected President with Jeffrey Epstein. 2017.
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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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Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao
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I think if moderate democrats had policy positions that reflected their often more-right-wing constituents I could swallow that pretty easy.
But it’s so much worse than that. They have a whole ethos that is the antithesis of good policymaking or politics or the courage necessary to fight autocracy.
But it’s so much worse than that. They have a whole ethos that is the antithesis of good policymaking or politics or the courage necessary to fight autocracy.
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I think if moderate democrats had policy positions that reflected their often more-right-wing constituents I could swallow that pretty easy.
But it’s so much worse than that. They have a whole ethos that is the antithesis of good policymaking or politics or the courage necessary to fight autocracy.
But it’s so much worse than that. They have a whole ethos that is the antithesis of good policymaking or politics or the courage necessary to fight autocracy.
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not snark, actually asking: after pushing a comma strategy that focused on health care, what is the case for the Democrats making a deal to end the shutdown now that doesn't involve a win on health care?
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
not snark, actually asking: after pushing a comma strategy that focused on health care, what is the case for the Democrats making a deal to end the shutdown now that doesn't involve a win on health care?
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Particulars of Israel-Palestine aside, it's a bit surreal seeing a mayor get grilled on foreign policy while everyone shrugs when the actual president appears to be throwing darts at a map blindfolded to decide our next war. Sorry, Cameroon. Nothing personal.
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Particulars of Israel-Palestine aside, it's a bit surreal seeing a mayor get grilled on foreign policy while everyone shrugs when the actual president appears to be throwing darts at a map blindfolded to decide our next war. Sorry, Cameroon. Nothing personal.
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I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.
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The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up.
I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.
I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up.
I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.
I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.
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Amazing how much 2025 was a hyper correction for the fact that in 2024 voters clearly didn't know what they were voting for because the media didn't report on Trump's actual policies/voters refused to believe what they were voting for.
Between 2020 and 2024, no New Jersey county moved further right than Passaic County (11pts). At 43% it's also the most the most-Latino county in the state, and is among the least-white overall.
Last night, it moved 18pts to the left, surpassed only by Hudson County (the second-most Latino county)
Last night, it moved 18pts to the left, surpassed only by Hudson County (the second-most Latino county)
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Amazing how much 2025 was a hyper correction for the fact that in 2024 voters clearly didn't know what they were voting for because the media didn't report on Trump's actual policies/voters refused to believe what they were voting for.
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I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
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My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’
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Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
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Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.