I have a head start on the voter enthusiasm/charisma/put your name on it theory of change due to sitting on a city bus the day after Trump first got elected and listening to ppl reassure each other the Democrats had/would keep the Senate majority + were useless anyway. It's important lol
A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters. on.wsj.com/3PoQMj5
** expanded ctc
This isn't about persuading someone who loves Trump's racism - it's about making his neighbor feel like there's something in it for him if he votes D
As a counterpoint, the working class of middle America includes a lot of urban/suburban ppl who experienced the expiration of the CTC but none of the benefits of the nascent longterm investments of IRA/CHIPS. Timing matters, so does slapping your name/party's name on stuff
Do you want a monthly recurring campaign contribution? Because this is how you get a monthly recurring campaign contribution
It's so visceral. I cannot stop thinking on an individual level about what they must be going through. Christ
My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.
🙏🙏🙏
If you make the computer mad enough will the singularity happen? Let's find out
There is one legitimate usage of AI-as-Ouija-board but people get mad if you talk about it (digging Lenin up and telling him American communists think Rust Belt standard of living is as conducive to revolution as tsarist Russia)
remember how they sent that Roman consul to Carthage to have him ceremonially executed? yeah, that
Yeah i'd be in favor of national democrats recognizing that affordability is extremely salient bc the base is where the housing crises are and doing zoning preemption and permanent CTC expansion about it 🌚 but of course they're not doing that
I don't think it's consultants or whatever, I know too many non professionals who think like this. It's a mental block. They cannot accept that what is plainly true to them (vote for literally anyone to stop a fascist) is debatable or unimportant to others
It's bc Trump is a fascist and stopping him is extremely important and a lot of ppl who know this cannot accept that most ppl are not plugged in enough to care/agree (and those bellyachers shouldn't have politics as a hobby or calling)
It's day 96 of the ICE occupation of MN.
Today brought revelations of more ICE lies - this time about the murder of Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas in March 2025.
ICE continues to lie about their operations, about how they do their work, and even when they murder our neighbors.
ABOLISH ICE
Ok nvm read the first one's summary and remembered what an appalling experience it was. Middlemarch time
Once again thinking about the greatest clip of all time: Britney Spears realizing Ryan Seacrest is straight
Just kidding im anti animal abuse. Suffocation at the bottom of a pile of the nastiest high school hockey pads in the state will have to suffice
The entire power elite of the USA owns this savagery forever, including the theoretical opposition party, unless you beat the drums of IMPEACHMENT for Trump immediately and don’t stop until he’s gone. He’s given you 700,000 reasons now and it’s one of the only tools you have. USE IT.
Extradite ICE and feed them to the bears at the north american bear center 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
I def don't think she'll do that, for a lot of reasons - to be clear his guy was just shoot-your-shotting it - but yeah the field is open. Derogatory
My sleep paralysis demon: maybe stress has killed enough of our brain cells to make reading the Grisha books fun
The combination of ICE agents not having uniforms or identifying themselves, and police supporting their openly illegal behavior, has been that anyone who looks the right way can just openly break laws, in serious and dangerous ways, in broad daylight.
For context it's an open enough question that one of Jacob Frey's creepy ass operatives was hinting about an appointment on social media. I'm going to just defer to the MN Reformer on predictions, they know statewide ball & I don't
Not really. Keith's indispensable as AG and I doubt he'd be Klob's pick bc she is going to want to put a moderate in. I would not be surprised if she wanted Hoffman for something but I have no real idea where he's at given the shooting + need for state level leadership. Genuinely no clue
i think ppl would be very very very offended right now bc everything from the past 3 months is so fresh. i don't think it's super likely & have no real opinion on what'll happen but i can tell you the klob + flan + craig speculation was real when walz dropped + a lot can happen b/t now & august
our primary's not till august and klob has incredibly bad centrist brain damage, it could happen
Today we observed six shackled detainees being loaded onto the ICE Air flight at MSP. They're heading to El Paso, where conditions are so horrific, staff gamble on who the next prisoner to commit suicide will be.
The man walking from right to left at the beginning of the clip is dragging shackles.
WHOOPS!
