Amen. It is what it is. I read articles where people waited in line for 5+ hours to vote due to republican policies. Mostly POC too in southern states. For people to call them part of the “corporate class” and whatnot are out of touch with reality. 

Not to mention if they really cared, they’d get off their asses and vote!

The way this has played out has been one of the most depressing things I have ever seen. In some ways, even more depressing than Trump’s win in 2016. I have always felt (perhaps wrongly, as the Bros keep telling me) that Bernie poisoned the well in 2016. I blame him, at least in part, for Trump’s victory*. And in the…

A story...It was 2015 and 2016 and Bernie jumps in the race. It was a rough-and-tumble battle, and I understood the dislike for Hillary Clinton amongst Bernie’s folks, if even I thought that it was sometimes too heated and seemed too personal. I got it. I could completely see how many of us understood that Hillary…

I don’t want them to be “nicer.” I want them to genuinely RESPECT allies who hold different views of how to execute progressive proposals than them and who’ve had different life experiences.

I really, really don’t think moderates are asking us to dream smaller. The polls show many of them believe in the same things we do.

the links are missing on almost all the bullet point stories on mobile. 

The apopleptic response to Biden’s victory last night is just incredible to me. Mainstream democrats also dream of universal healthcare, affordable childcare and college, expanding rights for LGBTQ+, compassionate immigration policies, etc. We’ve been dreaming about those things for years actually, and working hard to…

She was an absolutely stellar candidate and it is absolute nonsense that I find myself stuck choosing between two men who are too old for the job, too blinded by their own self interest to support anyone else, and too lackluster as candidates to make me confident in either a win or a successful term in office.

failed in reaching the very same groups who he failed to reach last time essentially.

So Bernie seems to have, after four years of having the chance to learn from the errors of 2016 and widen his reach, failed in reaching the very same groups who he failed to reach last time essentially.

This is both the result of, and the problem with, get-out-the-vote messaging. It’s not enough to pressure people to vote, we have to pressure people to do a little homework beforehand

Like, his standup set was basically about how his father died in the 9/11 attacks, how he got addicted to drugs, how hard it is to live without drugs, his t-shirt, and why he didn’t feel he should have been cast on SNL. There were no real moments of levity or irony or funny commentary or really anything that could be…

Interesting piece Megan—but did you laugh? Did you laugh once?

Look, Davidson is obviously a celebrity now (for good or ill) and maybe, possibly as noted here has Things to Say™, but is he funny? People like him, yeah, and like his whole act on Weekend Update, but I just don’t know if he’s ever said anything that makes…

The disconnect for me is that even a high school drop out should realize an omnicompetent policymaker is a better choice than a billionaire buying an election. I got my degree late in life but that doesn’t mean younger me didn’t appreciate competent and learned leadership.

The argument for a Bernie nomination rests quite a lot on the idea that he’ll get young voters to turn out in record numbers.

I think what I struggle with here is that...the information is out there. And from my point of view people are not taking the personal responsibility to access it seriously.

Hot take: Davidson’s public apology to Dan Crenshaw legitimized a very dangerous man. I wish he hadn’t backed down, because in the end Crenshaw does indeed look like a hitman in a porno movie.