Increasingly suspect the reason there exists The Bad Dynamic where NYC and LA leftists are unable to understand national R to D vote math and coalition politics is that in their local political markets there are advantages to D base mobilization and intra coalition spoiler tactics.

i'm really sorry that this is the first election for so many people and that so many people don't realize women, and especially, women of color have to go out of their way to assure white voters that they will be normal and competent politicians, but you do actually have to grow up at some point

People say this doesn't work but like...idk my experience is in Montana where it worked extremely well. Schweitzer took on a moderate Republican *as his lieutenant governor* and the result was Republicans in Disarray for 16 years

there are still some talented people who for one reason or another are Republicans. their party is rapidly moving away from them. as a sage of my youth once said “I pull up quick to retrieve it”

Right now I know two Virginia Republicans who haven't voted for president since 2012 because of Trump I *want* their votes because I don't want *Trump* to kill us all

In addition to the olive branch to normie voters putting numbers of the other party in the cabinet can be strategic: either protecting a reasonable politician from some at home backlash candidate or forcing an election where the other party has a weakness Read a book hobos

Two stories about Kamala dominating Bluesky. 1. A comment she made on the View that she'd put a Republican in her Cabinet, like most of her predecessors. 2. An announcement that she'll expand Medicare significantly to cover the cost of in-home long-term care. One of these is actually important.

It is genuinely disturbing to see The Democrats Are Controlling the Weather go almost *mainstream* as a thing Republicans believe That was, not long ago, something only genuinely delusional people would believe or say in public.

Not telling Joker fans that the new Joker movie is a musical is genuinely one of the funniest things anyone has ever done

Oh, good, I’ve stumbled across the “10/7 was an inside job” corner of this website. That there are progressives and leftists pushing this Alex Jones-level crap is embarrassing.