Sam Blum

Gettysburg College '15, ΣX | Campaign Finance/Compliance Nerd | Views expressed are my own

[Sam Blum @sam_blum]

It's the 'better things aren't possible & you're rude for asking for them' coalition

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Incredible.

A liberal coalition is finally forming to push back against both the far right and the far left.

This week, they launched @thepromise2026, a public pledge with 13 sitting Congressmembers and candidates signing on, openly breaking with the DSA wing while refusing to be lumped in with MAGA.

Their commitments:

"We are capitalist, not socialist."
"We want safety, not lawlessness."
"We are responsible, not reckless."
"Government should solve problems, not create them."
"We are mainstream, not extreme."
"We are proud, not ashamed of America."

This is the kind of pro-America, anti-authoritarian coalition American politics desperately needs.

More of this, please.

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

So centrist Democrats’ big plan for a House majority is to help Trump and Republicans block popular reforms like better wages, affordable health care, and combating climate change, resulting in a do-nothing Congress?

Hard to imagine a better argument for supporting progressives.

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

LOLOLOL so instead of getting the fucking message that voters are sending, they’re like “what if we formed a coalition to try to destroy them?”

This is why ppl hate the Democratic Party. Look at what contempt they have for their own voters. They want top down control and when the people pick, they’re furious.

[Andrew Hilary🇵🇸 @AndrewHilaryUS]

Vote blue
No matter who
Unless our donors
Don’t want you to

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We need to bring back intellectual elitism. Sorry, but a virologist will always know more about vaccines than a yoga mommy blogger with a ChatGPT Plus subscription.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

“Centrism,” is just performative compromise devoid of critical thinking, policy or ideology.

It’s a political vehicle that gives permission to do nothing in service of protecting a status quo that benefits large corporate donors and special interest groups who fund both parties.

[❄️ Snow 🔻 Himbo ☭ @SnowHimbo]

I love the economic model where we are told that paying supermarket cashiers a living wage will instantly collapse the global economy, but a CEO getting a $50 million exit bonus for ruining a company is just standard market health.

[Dennis M. Hogan @dennismhogan]

There needs to be a rule against doing this kind of cutesy humanizing nonsense with MAGA republicans

[THE SOY PILL @thesoypill]

I'm appalled by this leak.

They should be saying this out loud, not in private. Be better Democrats.

[Devin 🚩 @funkentelechyy]

I’d love to keep up this disregard for decorum among the American left. No more making establishment politicians feel cozy or falling in line with their respectability politics. They should feel threatened.

[Velodus✨ @velodus]

I love how the official message of establishment Democrats is basically this:

[Chuck (Taylor's Version) @Jamie_Maz]

This loser oversaw the loss of the Presidency, Senate, and House as DNC Chair.

And he’s telling leftists to leave the party.

These people hate democracy and hate their own voters.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Yep, must be "genuinely scary" for the Jewish residents of New York's 10th, one of the most Jewish districts in America, who voted tonight to replace a pro-genocide Jewish congressman with an anti-genocide Jewish congressman.

[Emma Mont (She/Her) @theemmamont]

YOU DID IT BRAD YOU WILL BE REINCARNATED AS NY-10 CONGRESSMAN @bradlander

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

Taking out the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus with a self-described communist 32 year old PhD student who tweeted “fuck Kamala Harris” is beyond insane. DEFCON 1 moment for the Democratic establishment.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Confident Position:
None of should know anything about how to fix a reflecting pool. The fact that we suddenly do is an indictment of the exact anti-expert politics that results in so many of us thinking we know fuck-all about how to fix a reflecting pool.

[Antitrust Memes 🔨 ⚖️ @antitrustmemes]

We should all be shocked to learn that a New York Senator carrying water for unpopular and extreme tech industry views also has offspring making money from those same interests.

[Sam Blum @sam_blum]

"They have no shame, do they? They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation."

[U.S. Interior Press @interiorpress47]

The advanced nanobubbler technology very effectively killed the algae that has plagued every Lincoln Reflecting Pool reopening—most infamously Obama's reopening—since 1922.

The Reflecting Pool water is crystal clear, and our National Park Service team is now vacuuming up the dead algae resting on the bottom of some parts of the Reflecting Pool—just like the destroyed Iranian Navy resting on the bottom of the Persian Gulf.

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

this double standard for Republican politicians has existed my entire life where they can routinely demean all Democrats as scum of the earth and all cities as unlivable shitholes but everyone threw a hissy fit over "they cling to their guns and religion" for years

[Sam Stein @samstein]

The algae infested reflecting pool is a metaphor