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Jazz, math, mtg, board games. He/him. Jewish, #CeasefireNow #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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@eyehatemyteams @LisaMikol3369 @EarthFirstVoter @stephen_neukam I think you mean Janet Mills not Susan Collins but yes!

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@maxkatz515 @ChorizoGroyper Nah we really are. Netanyahu has been pushing the US to go to war with iran for 20 years and Trump is just the first guy dumb enough to go for it

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@SethAbrams1 I checked his name bc whatever obviously Steve Hilton would be worse, but I think he’s going to be a shit governor. The vote totals don’t mean much

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@alibrooke4ever This is funny because one of the thoughts I had watching this video is that the voting should work *more* like the papal election, ie people can write in whoever they want until someone gets a majority. Then maybe the party can naturally find the alternative to Jeffries

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@sam_d_1995 gerrymander a new state every month until morale improves (aka trump signs it)

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@jawillick The overall vote in 2026 was D+13. The democrats are on track to have a 12 seat majority in the senate. So yes despite the tsunami the senate *still* favors Rs (and in a usual year it favors Rs much more than 2026)

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@toddrichman @treesey @JoshKraushaar @jonfavs Funding Israel is incredibly unpopular at this point, every single poll shows this

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@nick_field90 That is funny but even funnier is Kamala Harris in *16th*

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@DelusionalFrag @drew_erz If you’re actually curious here’s the bill Democrats tried to pass in 2019 and in 2021, https://t.co/CRwtGpw7eq, and the specific provisions on gerrymandering

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@DelusionalFrag @drew_erz The fix is not that hard, you need an independent non-partisan commission to draw districts based on criteria like roughly equal population and natural geographic/cultural boundaries. One party has pushed for this in congress repeatedly and the other has always voted against it

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@DelusionalFrag @drew_erz Yeah you’re right this should be illegal! Tell trump to stop california’s power grab and pass a nationwide gerrymandering ban

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@wsteaks One of the best things about Hasan is how willing he is to take shit for the rest of the party when he knows it will help

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@mattyglesias If there is a small electability cost of running on universal healthcare, it’s well worth it if we can still win enough seats to get it passed, because the goal is to improve our society. If democrats moderate too hard win, they will do nothing and then lose to the next fascist

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@mattyglesias You do realize that electability is a means to an end right? The reason we want to elect democrats is not to win for the sake of winning, it’s to implement policy that improves our country.

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@Celebrim42 @BlomquistForMI The national popular vote compact is fundamentally no different. States are allowed by the constitution to decide how their electors are chosen, and basing on the national popular is no farther from the original founders vision than what we have now

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@Celebrim42 @BlomquistForMI The electoral college was originally designed to have states choose electors that would choose the president. The idea that electors would vote for whoever won the popular vote in that state came later, and not by constitutional amendment, but by states deciding for themselves

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@Celebrim42 @BlomquistForMI Elections have consequences. One of the consequences will hopefully be that we make our election system more democratic going forward, instead of the arbitrary, outdated electoral college system.

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@TherealArcto @Shambalaguard @dylanotes @jstreetdotorg Yes you’re right, the original tweet should have said ‘They crucified hasan piker for having an opinion that 80% of Jewish americans hold.’ That kind of makes the point stronger given that Hasan was being attacked for being antisemitic, no?

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@Sparkpoodle1 Also assuming that swings are linear everywhere is silly. If toss up districts all swing by 15 points, you wouldn’t expect a D+80 district to swing by 15 points

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@Sparkpoodle1 I mean, NYC, which is about half the population of the state, has an incredibly popular DSA mayor. I wouldn’t be too worried, lots of democrats just don’t like Hochul