CoolBlue71

Interest in politics (including electoral)

[CoolBlue71 @CoolBlue71]

🇱🇷 ELECTION 2024 PREDICTION MAP: U.S. PRESIDENT 🇱🇷
🔵 Kamala Harris 47% (w/ 226 EVs)
🔴 Donald Trump 50% (w/ 312 EVs)—Pickup!
⚪️ Margin: R+3

(Whole-number estimates!)

⚫️ Color Key: Solid shade is for party hold (from 2020); Light shade is for party pickup

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Thr federal minimum wage needs to be at least $30 an hour. The working class cannot afford to eat. I won't vote for any candidate who doesn't loudly and consistently push for this.

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

Me watching the entirety of Left Twitter unite to shit on Jacobin

[Rich Baris THE PEOPLE'S PUNDIT @Peoples_Pundit]

LIVE #InsideTheNumbers 6PM ET — What do people do when they don’t have an argument? Plus, primary night update for California. Shocker, nobody listened and now they’re crying like babies. It’s pathetic. https://t.co/tKZokghKrf

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Michigan Senate candidate Haley Stevens voted with Republicans against the Lebanon war powers resolution:

[CoolBlue71 @CoolBlue71]

@JerryTerry66067 @sable98677 @IAPolls2022 @Grok — What were the 2024 election results for U.S. President nationwide; U.S. President from Michigan; and U.S. Senate from Michigan?

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

@lisamurkowski @SenatorCollins Yes. We remember the time she voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Justice and he ended up writing the majority decision overturning Roe v Wade. Good times.

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Jacobin magazine, the principal mouthpiece of the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America, today released a hit piece on Amazon labor leader Chris Smalls, @Shut_downAmazon.

It could be legit if Jacobin had had an honest critique of Smalls to clarify what class struggle unionist leaders should be doing. But the article is not that at all.

It’s a hatchet job against a leading labor activist who has refused to toe the line of the DSA and the business unionist labor leaders who give cover to the so-called progressive Democrats and to the Democratic Party as a whole, despite shocking betrayals by them against working people.

The crux of the real reason why Jacobin went after Smalls is contained in this sentence: “[Smalls] blames the two-party system for the state of the American labor movement…”

Smalls is spot on about this and the need to break from the Democratic and Republican parties. We need a new party of the working class.

The DSA leadership, on the other hand, sees giving cover to the Democratic Party as job number one. The Democratic Party is the party under whom the genocide in Gaza began and which engineered the breaking of the railroad workers’ strike — both under President Joe Biden. ALL Democrats in the House, including DSA star AOC voted to break the strike. The Democratic Party is one of the two most powerful capitalist parties in the world, and in no way represents working people or the oppressed.

Business unionist labor leaders are those who have made peace with the capitalist system and are driven by protecting their careers, which means placating the bosses, not organizing the rank and file against the bosses to win substantive working-class victories. Refusing to fight the bosses also means aligning with the parties of the bosses, like the Democratic Party.

The overwhelming majority of the labor leadership today is business unionist, with some crucial exceptions like Smalls. We need a reckoning in the labor movement.

Brother Smalls has put his life on the line for the antiwar movement in solidarity with the Palestinia people against the Israeli state’s genocide bankrolled by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Smalls went on a Gaza aid flotilla carrying food, baby formula, diapers and medicine in the context of catastrophic levels of mass starvation in Gaza. The flotilla was attacked by the Israeli military, who physically assaulted Smalls, and kicked and choked him.

In contrast, AOC has voted for the Iron Dome which is part of the Israeli state’s genocidal apparatus.

For having the temerity to expose AOC and other self-described “progressive” politicians, Smalls is called “narcissistic” by Jacobin, a term the magazine’s editors were apparently forced to retract after they got huge amounts of flak on all social media.

Personal attacks and character assassination like in this case are often used by the political establishment’s spokespeople as proxy for their real objections — in this case, the threat they feel from Smalls openly calling out the Democratic Party’s actual role.

The only way of rebuilding a militant labor movement is to pose a concrete threat to both the Democratic and Republican parties, which in turn requires a challenge to the business unionist labor leadership. That is the basis on which I won the nation’s highest minimum wage and the Amazon Tax during the decade I was the sole socialist on the Seattle City Council.

I am now running as an independent revolutionary socialist against genocidal Democrat Adam Smith. I am calling for an end to all military aid to Israel and an end to all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war. https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7

[UAW @UAW]

The UAW is proud to endorse @AbdulElSayed for U.S. Senate.

UAW members in Michigan want a fighter in Washington, D.C. who isn’t afraid to push forward a strong working-class agenda with moral clarity. Having never taken a dime from corporate PACs, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is someone we can trust to have our backs, including when we need it most – like come May Day 2028. From Medicare for All to banning stock buybacks, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is ready, eager, and well-equipped to move our core issues in the U.S. Senate.

[Political Polls @PpollingNumbers]

🔵 UAW has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan's U.S. Senate race, giving the progressive Democrat backing from one of the nation's most influential labor unions.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

It's wild to watch MAGA now sound exactly like Rachel Maddow and Adam Schiff when talking about RUSSIA.

Russian civilization has produced remarkable works of literature, science, religion, architecture, politics. It's fascinating to visit. Talking to Russians is not sinister.

[Covie @covie_93]

Look MAGAts, they finally found voter fraud.

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

We do NOT want the same things as “D or Rs”

Democrats and Republicans are genocidal monsters who we must wage class war against

Who is liking this pure goyslop!?

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

So under full Republican control, the Republican controlled Senate can’t pass the Save America Act for election integrity, the House just passed a bill giving another $9 billion to Ukraine, Republicans are planning to merge our military with Israel’s military while Trump has us in another foreign war that’s costing $2 billion a day and has driven gas over $4.50, and not a single person has been held accountable for the pedo Epstein files.

[CoolBlue71 @CoolBlue71]

This is understandable.

🔵 Virginia and Colorado have carried the same, with exception in 1992, since 1948 at the level for U.S. President. (The two states agreed in 19 of the last 20 such election cycles.)

🔴 Ohio and Florida have carried the same, with exceptions in 1944 and 1992, since 1928 at the level for U.S. President. (The two states agreed in 23 of the last 25 such election cycles.)

Bonus: Ohio and Iowa have agreed, since the latter first voted for U.S. President in 1848, with exceptions in 1916, 1940, 1976, 1988, and 2000. (The two states agreed in 40 of the 45 elections in which Iowa has voted for U.S. President.)

[CoolBlue71 @CoolBlue71]

@PpollingNumbers @Grok — What are some recent 2026 polls’s percentages support for Maine’s current United States senator Susan Collins?

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Jessie Waters inadvertently admits the @GOP is now the Party of War.

[The Political HQ @ThePoliticalHQ]

🚨Donald Trump Approval Poll🚨

🔴 Disapprove - 61%

🟢 Approve - 35%

YouGov
1,604 U.S. Adults
5/29-6/1

[CoolBlue71 @CoolBlue71]

It is also true that, effective with the 2024 United States presidential election, a 1976 Jimmy Carter is the last Democratic winner to carry Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas.

All four states, with includes Alabama, were 1980 Republican pickups for Ronald Reagan. They have since carried for all Republican United States presidential candidates (winners and losers alike).

[CoolBlue71 @CoolBlue71]

What is also worth considering is this: Through the year 2000, all prevailing Republican United States presidential candidates carried the state New Hampshire.

A 2004 re-elected Republican incumbent George W. Bush became the first from his party to win without New Hampshire. (It was a 2004 Democratic pickup for losing nominee John Kerry.)

Since 2004, the Democrats have carried New Hampshire for U.S. President. In 2016 and 2024, Donald Trump became the first Republican to win two terms, for U.S. President, and never once carry New Hampshire.

[CoolBlue71 @CoolBlue71]

The traditional U.S. broadcast news networks’s Election Night coverage—highlighting on maps 🔴 for Republican and 🔵 for Democratic—became common in 1996.

NBC used the opposite scheme in 1992 and then—as it was already established with ABC and CBS—switched to the well-recognized color coding in 1996.