M.J. 🌦

zilleniacal // elections-curious, gen ai-hater // watermelon green // looking forward to the day, when life can grow without decay // 🏳️‍🌈 🦆🍉 // also on 🦋

[M.J. 🌦 @MattFerg26]

🥀 ORIG ANALYSIS #LocalElections2026 #LE2026 (1/5)

SUNDERLAND's ROSES DEADHEADED -- NOT UPROOTED
📈 RFM vote share higher than CON & LAB combined
🎭 LAB seat decimation (49 -> 5) masks overall & per-ward vote % not totally collapsing
🤹‍♂️ LDM form oppo...by seat no. standing still

[Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary]

Still get whiplash every time I see a quote from the "victim's minister" and it's the lady who had her constituents dawn raided for campaigning against her.

[keewa 🇵🇸 @keewa]

Palestine Action are terrorists, apparently, but this ...?

[滿帖子乖謬之言觀汝似有瘋症 @remmettmaxwell]

one of the twists in real world AI is that, in scifi, it was assumed that the danger would be that we'd raise the machine to the level of a human soul. but to be honest, it seems we're most in danger of debasing the human soul to the level of machine.

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

We all know history repeats itself but I swear it used to take a little longer

[John Kuk @john_s_kuk]

Everyone assumes candidates like El-Sayed win affluent, educated professionals. Michigan's precinct data says otherwise: comparing equally-educated precincts, the LESS wealthy ones gave him a HIGHER share. I matched 2,864 precincts to census data + 3 presidential elections.🧵1/

[Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇺🇦 @JakeLandauTO]

Why can't parents just take the fucking phone away from their kids if they don't want them to use it? Show me these young teenagers who can afford those flagship phones.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

If a progressive outspent a centrist 9-to-1 in the midwest and still lost the conventional wisdom would be that their ideology was electoral deadweight the party needs to cut loose but because the opposite happened it’ll just be that college kids are too radicalized or something.

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

blue collar labor has long been fetishized as the spiritual base of both parties even as factory work was long ago overtaken by email jobs, but it does feel like this election cycle might finally allow left wing riveter iconography to fade away and be replaced by something closer to reality, the great lefty millennial t-shirt class spanning PMC keyboard warriors, unionized service and government work, and the precariat

[Ansell Eade @AnsellEade]

There’s been a tension within YP since its formation – can it be a party like Labour or the Greens, with a higher degree of internal discipline because of already-established structures, or will it have to be a kind of electoral alliance?

This transcended its left/right divide.

[Lily in the City @LilyArtemisTO]

THIS

One could be called the Progressive Conservative Party (like the provincial parties) and the other could be a populist party called something like the "Reform Party" or "Canadian Alliance"

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

The Dem establishment is currently is skating by, sort-ofish, on an electability and steady hand argument.

But they have completely conceded the broader ideological framework. If they want to maintain long-term viability, they need an actual counter argument and positive vision.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

This is what they expected and wanted to happen: that members of the public, shown the cops would take their side if they kicked off and went mental at anyone they suspected of being a transgender, would then start going apeshit en masse and enforce their wacko ideas for them.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

schumer should've told stevens to drop out, not mcmorrow. gilibrand going around telling people mcmorrow was dsa for some reason. like wtf are these clowns doing

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

i feel like there's some vague spiritual force that just abhors a landslide in american politics, so often when polls predict one the animal spirits rev up and revert to the mean...

[Joe @electionsjoe]

I get why Republicans get so mad about losing. Starting with a strong lead and having it shredded is much more disheartening than being behind and clawing your way to victory.

[🫸nate🫷 @c0njectur3]

Republicans suddenly sounding a lot like 2024-2025 Democrats

[Oliver 🫒❤️‍🔥🌾 @Pyrrrhos]

I don’t know why but he’s the first person to hold the office that I genuinely don’t register as being Prime Minister.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

Rather than spending money responsibly in a way that kept on top of problems, cuts have allowed them to grow and fester to the point they are so big and complex to solve that it'll cost far more than was ever saved by austerity.

[bread and poses @breadandposes]

@AnsellEade It wouldn't have relied on green switchers directly but suppressing labour voters by challenging Burnham on what he was actually going to do. Wasn't going to change result but imo too many greens saw the mayoral as detached from the byelections that happened before it.

[Ansell Eade @AnsellEade]

Burham’s rise to the top of Labour and control of the government is going to pull back some Labour/Green switchers (and some Green-curious 2024 Labour voters who have yet to have local elections in their area). Nothing eco-centrists said or did could have prevented this outcome.