Some tidbits: Huckabee refers to the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria”, has held fundraisers in Israeli settlements, thinks there is “no such thing as a Palestinian,” and that the very concept of Palestinian identity is “a political tool to try and force land away from Israel.”

honestly you have an unprecedented opportunity to do what the government won't bc the supplement trade is totally unregulated:

tell us what's IN those things

the thing about people saying dems need to throw trans people under the bus is that they already did that when they refused to even offer a counter argument to the decade long dehumanization campaign waged by the right

This was the motto of every allegedly responsible institution in this nation when confronted with the task of applying the clear rule of law to Trump for the past eight years.

YES!

Gallego defeats Kari Lake in #Arizona Senate race

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Most of Trump's voters weren't committed ideologues who listen to Steve Bannon's podcast or read Curtis Yarvin's pseudo-philosophical musings. Many just voted on the basis of incorrect information they absorbed from our broken media system.

People you should follow if you want the vibe:

As many have pointed out, Dems faced the same environment that has been taking out incumbent parties everywhere.

A big part of this, however, is that Trump was allowed to rehabilitate himself and his first term relatively unchallenged by the media.

newrepublic.com/article/1882...

Twitter/X has turned into a decaying strip mall from my childhood.

One that was once the spot, but has been overrun by hooligans, cheap/ fake stuff, and a weird smell that no one can get rid of.

there is a major religion story not being included in these election postmortems

either people specify what they mean when they say “elite” or the term is just meaningless pejorative. both parties are dominated by elites in any conventional sense of what that means! the question is: why are right-wing elites more palatable to voters than liberal ones?

This is something that grates on me. Rarely is it a quick slide from fair elections to no elections. Turkey's a perfect example. Yes, the AKP have huge inbuilt advantages. But the CHP still hold the 5 largest mayoralities in Turkey, and came about as close to winning the presidency as Harris did!

A lot of you probably saw these words from Rebecca Solnit today, but in case you didn't, maybe you can take some inspiration from them.

There were so many problems, but I will take some bitter solace in knowing that LGBTQ+ Americans weren't one of them. www.advocate.com/election/lgb...

I am going to say this once: based on what we know now, there’s no “one weird trick” that would have won the presidency. There just isn’t. This was a massive shift and massive shifts have many fathers.

Disturbing: A big reason Trump won was undecideds couldn't be persuaded that millions of jobs lost in 2020 and death of Roe were Trump's fault, internal Harris campaign polling showed. Biden/Ds let Trump rehabilitate himself to disastrous effect.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1882...

give compassion to those who deserve it
give fury to those who have earned it
steal joy where & whenever you can

the only way out is through, the only way through is together

Re-upping this

welcome late twitter expats, it's all good here. unless you're a trumpie shitposter in which case we're gonna block your ass into the sun. but otherwise, welcome and try to be kind bc that's what we've been trying to build here.