Big Worker

If you want more leaders like AOC and Zohran you need to join DSA and vote SMC

When bluesky is giving me shit

Incredibly funny that wannabe autocratic Brooklyn Dem leader Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn identifies as the heir to Dessalines, who famously appointed himself emperor of Haiti, massacred all the French on the island, and was ultimately murdered by former supporters and torn to pieces by an angry mob.

Brooklyn Dems Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn's last-minute gambit to overcome the results of the June election and retain power over the county machine has failed, for now. hellgatenyc.com/brooklyn-dem...

The old Sinclair Lewis quote that fascism would come to America "wrapped in a Hugo Boss uniform and carrying a swastika" was so prescient

Early and in person is the gold standard, election day is next best, mail in ballot only if you really have to. I wish we didn't have to make that calculation but they are really going to try to disrupt mail in ballots, and possibly in person voting

Current Polling USA Senate Model: Democrats are at 53 seats (+1) Republicans are at 47 seats (-1) (% Change With Previous Week's Model)

Hell Gate reporter Katie Way is not exaggerating when she says that "this video has the potential to become a certified NYC politics cult classic along the lines of the Eric Adams teenage room search PSA." It's cuckoo bananas from start to finish:

Is this legit? I have been dreaming about this technology for many years

So anyway here's Jolene as horror story

How I feel not watching almost any short form video must be how it felt to be one of those "I don't own a tv" people in the pre-internet age

Huge story breaking right now in NYC: BK Dems party boss Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn announced that she's subverting the will of Brooklyn's voters (a majority of whom recently voted to change party leadership) by dramatically changing the rules in order to hang onto her position as party boss.

Is it illegal or *should* it be illegal?

Influencer successfully gets perfect shark shot

Republicans passed a tax on college endowments but McConnell added a loophole for a specific Kentucky schoo saying it doesn't apply to schools with below a certain number of tuition paying students. Now tons of schools are piling through that loophole by giving free tuition to a lot more students

My three year old was pretending to be a veterinarian ("animal doctor") and when I asked her if she specialized in some type of animals she said "toy animals" - can't argue with that

The left needs a candidate it can unite around in the 2028 primaries and AOC is the only real choice. Nobody else checks all of the boxes. Every other option is worse. If she doesn't run, it's a missed opportunity of historic proportions. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...

The A/B testing of running Jabari as a Green and losing and then as a Democrat and winning was a great moment in pragmatic socialist electoral strategy

I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms

So the message I'm getting here is that DSA / @chiosse.bsky.social should have primaried Hakeem Jeffries

Victim blame women who are raped hard enough and they'll be too ashamed to report their rapists - right wingers have really found a system that works (for rapists)

Man we lost the generation that beat fascism and instantly fascism came back huh?

I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:

Gerrymandering

When bluesky doesn't like my posts

Can anyone pass on this message to Bright Limm?

The UK really needs proportional representation

Above all, Dems/libs should deal with Trump, the media, SCOTUS, Trump-friendly oligarchs, knee-bending institutions and more with this principle in mind: "We will not submit to being governed by unprincipled actors. We are taking notes, and you will pay a price." www.offmessage.net/p/dnc-sue-cb...

Monthly dues payments to DSA (and therefore the number of dues paying members?) have doubled since the 2024 election. Time to do your part:

Ever since I met the senior partner at my new law firm and discovered he looks exactly like Nathan Fielder I've been a little suspicious that all of my new co-workers are actors doing a Rehearsal on me

Okay fine I'll admit it - I DO know who Hasan Piker is

We should stop referring to the potential solutions in Israel-Palestine as "one state" or "two state" and instead say "democratization" or "partition"

Does Palestine have a right to exist?

I just asked my three year old what her favorite dinosaur was, expecting that she would indeed say triceratops (or "topatops" as she calls them) but instead she told me her favorite kind is "rosa" aka pink. Fair enough

NEW — Iran had already presented a 10-point plan. Then Trump wakes up today and threatens to blow up Iran's "whole civilization" if they don't bend. And then, just an hour before his deadline, he announces a ceasefire, citing Iran's "workable" 10-point plan.

The first national poll putting @greenparty.org.uk in first place (just) is an utterly extraordinary moment in British politics.

Die Republikaner die

Try extending that graph to the left. There's a reason it was truncated there. This is a perfectly normal usage profile. Whenever a user joins a given site, there's a standard falloff curve where a fraction leaves. Since Bluesky's users have mainly come in spikes, that's just the normal curve.

Even the hawkish Rahm Emmanuel...

I hate when politicians politicize science by making scientifically informed policy

Woke NYC court building bathroom door

As Socrates once said, accepting that apparently you are an idiot is the beginning of wisdom

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Real microcosm of the counterproductive "warrior mentality" to decommission these badly needed but not directly violent mine sweepers in favor of more redundant firepower

Screaming

This is literally the Dr. Strangelove situation with Israel in the role of General Ripper going rogue with an attack and demanding that the US follow through or be hit by the retaliation anyway without the advantage of striking first