StandardIssueIdentity

How would I go about summing myself up in one hundred and sixty characters? Perhaps by asking fewer questions, and providing significantly more answers. Oh well

[the ghost of groditi’s future 👹 @GRoditiD]

when House aired, you got 20-27 episodes of the big shows and the time between one season ending and the next one starting was like 15 weeks. now its like 8 episodes and then a 5 year wait. for teen/YA content audience has effectively aged out of it by the second or third season

[Alex🌹🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @mndemsoc]

Schumer cleared the field for a completely unelectable 80-year-old unpopular governor who got blown by 53 points by an oyster farmer.

Be serious for a fucking minute and try to understand why Platner so easily won the primary

[Annie Wu (all socials: @annie_wu_22) @Annie_Wu_22]

She’s right.

The establishment knew that Cuomo was a sex pest and had to step down from office because of it… PRIOR to running him for nyc mayor… TWICE.

[Jonathan Parkes Allen 🌹 @Mar_Musa]

If Pope Leo is in fact successfully able to run the right-wing larping phenomenon out of Christianity he should be canonized immediately after death, no further questions asked

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US loves to boast about how wealthy it is, but its wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs.

US oligarchs are so insanely rich that they make average wealth seem very high.

But *median* wealth in the US is lower than in Slovenia & Portugal, and half of Italy's

[Matthew A. Cherry @MatthewACherry]

The 2-3 years between season might be a reason

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

A lot of people are asking “why hide McConnell’s state? Not like a Dem would win the special election?”

If McConnell vacated before August 3rd cut off it’d be a special election and any one can register as an independent…

Including Massie.

Which would split the Republican vote, giving him or maybe even the Dem the chance at the plurality.

But, if McConnell’s seat is not vacated before the 3rd by legally stepping down or a signed death certificate, then it’s too close to the next election and rules prevent a special election which bars any new registrations at this point.

With McConnell’s wife having travelled to China AFTER he was hospitalized, the next of kin isn’t available to sign off and so the bar for ending life support is extremely high (would require full brain stem death, which is not present in some patients who are never coming back)

So all they have to do is drag their feet until August 3rd, then tell you that he didn’t make it.

And in turn block Massie from disrupting an otherwise safe Republican seat.

Just like that fucking old turtle would have wanted.

[JulesNader386 @Julesnader386]

Literally ALL of Zohran Mamdani’s policies are popular NATIONWIDE.

The people want leftist policies, which is why Leftists are the most electable option, especially in swing states.

Pushing moderate candidates in this moment is the riskiest option.

[Florida Data Geek ✝️🇺🇦🇬🇱 @MappingFL]

In 2004 Putin tried to kill a reform candidate in Ukraine and tried to rig their elections. This led to a dramatic re-vote known as the “Orange Revolution”.

At no point in Putin’s tenure has Russia not been an aggressor state. NATO is 100% right and good against Russia.

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

The GOP has been immeasurably more successful at advancing their political project. While the Dems haven’t even been able to accomplish basic center-left goals like Medicare expansion, paid family leave and gun control, Republicans have made seismic changes to the American state.

[ed 🇺🇸 @ed_dems]

Jon Ossoff famously lost his house race before he won the Senate seat

Raphael Warnock had no electoral history before he won his Senate seat

It’s idiotic to disqualify 90% of the country from running just because they don’t have the DC consultant approved resume 💀

[Shark3ozero (Sigma Male) @Shark3ozero]

It's really so amazing that Dems lost to DSA in Las Vegas and they were so mad they pulled all funding and refused a peaceful transfer of power sabotaging the entire state economy leading to Lombardo becoming governor and trump winning the state in 2024

[StandardIssueIdentity @IssueIdentity]

Pushed out?
Strom was a Senator until the age of 98.
He wasn't exactly pushed out.

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

I think we also just need to be very clear that it's a racist position to believe that little brown kids should be blown up while little Israeli kids and the feelings of pro-Zionist adults somehow have more human value.

Jon Lovett is racist. Jon Favreau is racist. Anyone who defends Israeli apartheid and justifies the daily murder of Palestinians is racist. It is just Islamophobia.

We should be pushing racists out of the national conversation just as Strom Thurmond and the segregationists were shut down.

No one supporting apartheid should have a platform. It is a disgusting, inhumane, regressive position. It is legally and morally and socially unjustifiable.

We do not need to make them comfortable. They should know better.

They should know their credibility is zero.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

populists are winning, in part, because they are calling bullshit and not listening to their party’s civility police…the most successful candidates of late have been the ones who’ve stopped listening to consultants telling them to prioritize manners

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Russia sees itself engaged in an existential defense of human civilization. They aren’t going to stop, and anyone who thinks they are driven by logic or negotiations or any desire for peace is delusional. This will continue exactly as long as we permit it, and they will only be stopped by maximum and sufficient force. It is a death cult masquerading as a government.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Russia can stay psychotic far longer than the West can resist their worldview warfare.

Their bet is that their view will soon gain a majority in the West and that ‘antiwar’ voices will outnumber defenders of Ukraine. Given the obliviousness of the West, I’d say they’re correct.

[Joseph O'Neill @JosephONeillx]

This is disingenuous. Nobody objects to rich white people writing checks. What people object to is corruption--the Dem Party serving corporations and groups whose interests are in conflict with those of ordinary Americans.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

While Russians were busy pouring missiles and drones onto sleeping families in Kyiv, in Russia itself, the country's 4th largest oil refinery burns after precision strikes by Ukraine's long range drone fleet.

Most importantly, this refinery – operated by Lukoil – is Russia's 2nd largest producer of gasoline in Russia.

[Kia™ Knightly @KiaKnightly]

Hey @jackunheard,

You're a fucking moron.

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

Democratic leaders apparently never heard of generational change. That is what is happening in the party with the wins by the younger candidates. Some people want to hold on to power forever. Voters are saying no. This is how democracy works.