Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is a glorified single-source interview with the head of Third Way. It quotes far more moderates saying they support the progressive candidates in the general election. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u... 1323483564
Boobs™ @boobs.goodgirls.onl · 06/08/2026members of the democratic party don't like how democracy has raised alternatives to neoliberalism fascinating 011
📎🇨🇦2 Wheeled Thug🇨🇦 🇺🇦🇺🇳 DM’S from following/followers only. @2-wheeled-thug.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Oh great, infighting again. That always plays well on Fox. 000
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I see the Times is copying our friends at Axios who love a good 'this one Dem said this' story that riles everyone up but is actually not representative of anything... 0254
Christine - Fascism Is Evil @botanicaldays.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The NY Times spinning its bias and propaganda against progressive democrats into a misleading headline is sad, but a bit comical as well. I remember when it was a top newspaper that delivered hard, accurate news stories. 000
Clio @clio.bsky.social · 06/08/2026At this stage the average Democrat frankly is tired of being fear mongered and told to shut up and sit down and let the "grown-up" take care of things. 000
Ian B. Bautista @xicanodekcenmke.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Leave to _tNYT_ to mislead in the headline. Very disappointing. (sorry I gave it any credence) 000
Frank Ballinger @sirala6.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Of course, this is so silly. The public will dictate where the party goes, or the party will die and splinter. 040
Chunk Hunkman, Attorney at Law @revbleech.bsky.social · 06/08/2026*James Carville levitates a foot off of the ground; it is time* 000
moominpapa.bsky.social @moominpapa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Even on a post explicitly calling out how their framing about “moderate Democrats” is fake, there are a bunch of comments mindlessly buying the NYT bullshit. “Yep, The Democratic Party hates all progressives.” The internet may have been a mistake. 000
johnniegoat.bsky.social @johnniegoat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026$15m? isn't that what they got as a loan last month collateralised against their HQ? so they are betting the ranch on punching left rather than taking on the GOP? what a bunch of clowns 110
Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It's not rocket science. What did they expect? 000
⚓️ Salty Chief @mrmalmin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026How any moderate democrat can look at this feckless government they’ve created, this pay to play corporate controlled sad lump of legislators that have lost us decades of social gains and over half a century of economic progress and think the progressives are their problem, man I just don’t know. 010
VonDonDolo @vondondolo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Every one of these news cycles is like "United Hedge Funders for Liberty announces fifty bazillion dollar WARCHEST for defeating the Make Life Better candidate", followed by mutual aid posts for people who need 200 bucks to make rent this month Everything is obscene and dysfunctional and exhausting 010
Greg Gardner @ggard4.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is the NYT’s bothsiderism at its absolute worst. 000
Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 06/08/2026If the British experience is anything to go by, one loudmouth chucking $15m at it ain't gonna be a problem. The dangerous ones won't go public and will be playing with a lot more money than $15m. (In UK politics, '... a lot more than $15m' translates as £4m or so). 000
Headless Engineer - Spooky Light Dept. @cppilgram.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It's great that Third Way is always good for a ratfucking quote or three. At least whenever I see "Third Way", I know I'm about to read a bunch of lies. 000
BygoneBegotRisk @bygonebegotrisk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Isn't Third Way like three guys and a desk? 010
The Fifth Dentist @fifthdentist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I'd prefer they wage their wars against Republicans. The party they claim to oppose. 000
85 seconds to midnight ⚜️🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺 @sapiosimmo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026So the Ds are preparing to do what Rs refused to. And Ds are there because they SUCK at serving the people, while being happy to take the left's vote as a lesser evil than Rs. 000
Battus Philenor @benstl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I've been thinking that in a counterintuitive way these types of articles might actually help progressive candidates. The Democratic brand is so toxic that articles trying to separate DSA and progressives from the DNC could help get progressives the independent pox-on-both-their-houses vote. 100
M. Kelly @emkelly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Chait had a whole piece about how centrists MUST wrest the party back from progressives without ever articulating a specific problem with progressives, though he gestured briefly at "electability." 6730
Bknox @bknox.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It’s only one example, but I have been pleased to see dem leadership rally immediately behind el sayed (including his primary opponents). 060
PigeonPancake @pigeonpancake.bsky.social · 06/08/2026They're going to need to go back to the couch cushions if all they got is 15 million. 70 million couldn't buy michigan. 000
Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I have to say that the people responding to the initial source demolish the initial position. So it’s a case of ‘you gotta read the article.’ 020
Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Just a reminder that Third Way gets its "polling data" from Blueprint, a polling and public opinion research firm owned by centrist billionaire Reid Hoffman. It's a convenient way to give Dems their marching orders & for the party to very quietly embrace Citizens United. 010
Gerry Priesing @altonmann.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The Republican right wing NY Times sowing dissension in the self destructive Democratic party once again. Times expired by date passed long ago - maybe at the turn of the century. 020
Feste @greenplanet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Imagine platforming this nonsense. The editors of the New York Times are corrupt. Never forget it. 000
JhonnyDangerously @jhonnydangerously.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The Third Way ? Are they still a thing? They're basically just republicans and conservative libs. Thats not a third way, its just a collection of the dullest people, trying to convince people of the most boring basic ideas that we all heard of for decades and led us to where we are now. Fuck that 010
Carol @carolinalimalima.bsky.social · 06/08/2026What is the total opposite of MAGA politics? Moderate or Progressive? How can you be a “moderate” when it comes to defeating a corrupt, extremely right wing government and restore Democracy in your country. Will they moderately attempt to change some MAGA policies? Just enough to pretend something? 001
annathevagabond.bsky.social @annathevagabond.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The media loves nothing more than the "Dems in disarray" narrative. One reason why I have little patience with people who attack the party for poor messaging. The lanes that are readily available to the GOP are too often closed to us. 040
jillnaustin 🔥🔥🔥 @jillnaustin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Great! because we are in for the battle of a lifetime. 000
TRuxMintinBox @truxmintinbox.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Almost like the whole article is an ad for Third Way and Jonathan Cowan because they want people to send more money. 000
web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 06/08/2026At a time of record capital concentration and the fascism to protect its corruption the public undermining and billionaire servicing function of Third Way has never been more clear. Endless "moderation" is exactly how we got here. bsky.app/profile/mich...Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.socialThis is a glorified single-source interview with the head of Third Way. It quotes far more moderates saying they support the progressive candidates in the general election. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u... 151
oddnumber.bsky.social @oddnumber.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Is this the moment to note that The Third Way is a German fascist party? 000
Laurence Braun-Woodbury @laurenceb-w.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Liberals siding with fascists over the working class? It's giving real Weimer republic vibes. 1110
Crazy Catlady 🇨🇦🌊🗽📜🇺🇸 @truebluewave54.bsky.social · 06/08/2026@housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov knock it off! You moderates are looking more like MAGA everyday. Better get your shit together, drop the rich assholes lobbying you, and put Democracy first. We're at war with Trumpism. Its not the time to shit on the one party left to destroy Nazis. 000
Lorenradis @lorenradis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Voters are excited about having candidates that believe the government exists to support human beings and their quality of life, not the other way around. WE MUST STOP THEM. 000
🩻🪦SpookyScaryShnazzyOoo🪦🩻 @theshnazzyone.bsky.social · 06/08/2026They are not moderate democrats, those are centrist neo-liberal democrats who don't want the party working for anyone but big business and corporate interests. These are the dems who keep the party from seriously tackling minimum wage and healthcare. 000
Cooper Hamilton @cooperhamilton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"Third Way has long nudged the Democratic Party toward market-friendly policies ... while opposing measures like Medicare for All that threaten insurance profits." Rich donors who like tame Democrats doing their bidding. 000
jr white @justjrwhite.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Let’s be clear who is in disarray, the centrists who make money no matter who is in power. Losing that money is more concerning to them than the safety of the republic. 120
DataportDoll @dataportdoll.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"All you had to do was pay us enough to live" but it's voters saying "all you had to do was fight". 010
Lee Rowan 🐕 🐈⬛ 🌳 🌈 🏳️🌈 🇨🇦 🐉 🇺🇦🦇🪶🖋️ 🇺🇸 @leerowan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It's bullshit, all right; the NYT has become a propaganda tool. Look at who owns it. 000
That Damn Cat @pnw57.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It’s agit prop to divide the non maga movement. They don’t have the numbers so they are running scared. Democrats will support whoever the voters decide should carry the standard in the general election. 010
Mary Shurtz @punkichu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026When I can see this headline as I am still waking up in the morning and go "yeah, that seems like cherry-picking bullshit" I am both proud of myself that I am getting better at this and also so mad that I am right. 000
tbd @tumescentnumpty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026evergreentbd@tumescentnumpty.bsky.socialThe megaphoning of bad faith "scandals" will continue until acceptance of a horse race narrative improves 010
drug doc @pkpd-babe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026War for the left and strongly-worded letters for the right. 000
JohnnyNaugahyde @jbvta.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Dems gonna fuck it up againstatic.klipy.comFfs EyeALT: Ffs Eye 010
champbonaparte.bsky.social @champbonaparte.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Third Way is just a Republican think tank at this point. 000
el Niñoberries @ninaberries.bsky.social · 06/08/2026look at the byline he tells you everything you need to know. only focused on "the party," not the people "Shane Goldmacher is a national political correspondent who has been covering the Democratic Party’s efforts to win back power in 2026." 060
Camerado @dogsinautumn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Politico and Axios should probably sue NYT for infringing on their territory here. I work in Dem party politics at the county level in a non-Atlanta part of Georgia. Little old ladies mostly. Evelyn Normielibs. They love our DSA candidates as much as they love anyone else who runs on our ballot line 2453
globalyokel.bsky.social @globalyokel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026You would think that the old Democrats would welcome all the fresh progressive energy that is revitalizing the party. But they don't want that energy, because it conflicts with their agenda of pimping for Israel and the corporate sector. 000
David Helms @davidhelms.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Preparing for war? They don't sound all that moderate. 230
henzington.bsky.social @henzington.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Actually listening to and responding to voters. Can’t have that 000
Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Ooh, maybe they’ll bring back Joe Manchin for a 2028 presidential run! 030
furtherexchange.bsky.social @furtherexchange.bsky.social · 07/08/2026You are absolutely right. Was written a day after the Mich primary. So nothing has happened re this “war” It’s vaporware. Guy gives a provocative, flippant quote - “let’s make that a whole story!” 000
thunderwhiskers.bsky.social @thunderwhiskers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Nothing gonna pull us out of this mess like splitting the vote! 000
Anti-Sabotage Operations Group @antisabotage.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The problem that too may people On Here don't want to reckon with is that the DSA is a liability, as demonstrated by the fascist infiltrators they try to sneak into the Democratic Party - like Graham Platner, Cori Bush, and Darializa Chevalier. nypost.com/2026/06/05/u...nypost.comMamdani-backed NY House candidate refuses to answer for puppeting Putin’s Ukraine talking pointsAvila Chevalier is challenging incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat, who is endorsed by Gov. Kathy Hochul. 000
Soup Szn @bskylife.bsky.social · 06/08/2026So funny that $15 million was the number they are choosing to promote. Stevens just lost with something like $60 million in outside backing and that was a single race. It sounds impressive to a layperson but it's nothing in national politics. 31614
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The Times is using these trash "news analysis" articles to invent a narrative in which the DSA is a liability and the left poses an electoral threat to Democrats. This is only true if the mainstream media keeps framing it like it is! 311657171
Chris @wilywolf108.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I'd love to believe you but years of centrist effery has taught me that what moderates *say* and what they *do* are not the same thing. I welcome all moderates that sincerely want to support the left. And I hope they have patience if trust isn't immediate and total. Trust is earned. 000
Aleksa Milićević @aleksa-milicevic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The same way they tried to shill for No Labels. Turned out really nicely. 020
Erratic Reader @randomreader.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Is all of this war between different flavors of non-Republicans real, or just something Republicans and newspapers say? I don't care how things are labeled. Our quality of life is going down and anyone who wants to implement researched, well thought out policies to improve that is cool by me. 000
Rip | PDX @ripcitybassworks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Every. Single. Time. The "blue no matter who" people side with the fascists over long overdue reform. 9161
jimmbuzz.bsky.social @jimmbuzz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is the problem with a two party system, when fighting within a party becomes more important than making your own case to the electorate. 010
KaputOtter 🧡🦦🧡 @kaputotter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Dying gasps of a fading establishment. It's not just a new generation. There are those who have been in the game for a while but held back by ~" electability, "~ which as only ever been a manufactured manipulation. The people want what the people want. And we know exactly what those things are. 000
Joe @elusivethought.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Where was the similar flood of articles about moderate conservatives working to extinguish the rise of violent extremism that has been normalized over the past decade? 1531
Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 06/08/2026It's like crab theory where every news org eventually evolves into Axios given enough time 0230
melissainkc.bsky.social @melissainkc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Of course the media is framing it like a socialist threat. I mean were y’all born yesterday? Language is important and DSA is ignoring that truth. 000
Purrypurrydog @purrypurrydog.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Same energystatic.klipy.comArrested Development: There Are Dozens Of UsALT: Arrested Development: There Are Dozens Of Us 001
SmashedNSinking @smashedandsinking.com · 06/08/2026It's weird that I want like reasonable childcare costs, medical insurance that works, and food & gas at normal prices and moderate Democrats are like "we must destroy all these crazy people with their crazy ideas!" What even is a mod dem platform at this point? 010
They Say @oracy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Democrats MUST win in 2026! Trump and Blanche will weaponize the federal govt and DOJ against Dems, Blacks, Muslims, LGBTQ, Immigrants or anyone who disagrees. As Stephen Miller and ICE turn the USA into police state. The tax cuts for the rich, Iran war and reckless spending are destroying us. 110
Barbara Chasco-Papale @vintageaprn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Dividing us to conquer us!! Not good!! 000
𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩 @404evr.com · 06/08/2026Ohhhh, so THIS is what the homie was onabout. It really needs to be understood that ThirdR̶e̶i̶c̶h̶Way is a maga think tank.HasanTheHun (automated mirror)@hasanabirepeater.bsky.socialif you’re left flank: stop conceding on oppositional framing. be strong. be bold. be brave. have moral conviction. use every opportunity in the spotlight to reframe the issues back to things you want to implement and things trump failed to. 000
darth2024.bsky.social @darth2024.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Looks like more confirmation Third Way was created to move Dems rightward. They can call themselves moderate but they are not. NYT proves yet again they aren't worth subscribing to, just another right-wing biased propaganda organization. 010
Steven Maher @smaher24.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Perfectly on brand for the NY Times, fight-promoters for attention. 020
Chip Marsh @chipmarsh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Voters on the left are far more likely to remember how we screwed ourselves 2 years ago than the brainwashed MAGA Morons on the right are. Whether they are progressive, liberal, or moderate, I honestly believe for the most part that Democratic voters are going to rally behind our party candidates 100
Ken Getty 🇨🇦 @kengetty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026@thedemcoalition.bsky.social need to counter this narrative 000
gsirc.bsky.social @gsirc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I'm simply astonished people are still reading the Vichy Times. Like, why? What's that thing about 'doing the same thing & expecting a different result'? 000
Charles Colee @charlescolee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Once again, Sulzberger takes Big Money's side against working families 010
JacqueBlue @jacqueblue.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Headlines have just become a part of our 3 sec education. Let a short phrase do all the work so the ppl don't have to do it themselves. Also, with all the articles paywalled these days, ppl can't afford and/or unwilling to pay for a subscription to 💩JacqueBlue@jacqueblue.bsky.socialWe have to get our country out of 3 sec education. Bcuz it's not education. Slogans are not meant as definitions, but as short phrases to describe the overall idea. Our ldrs then use those phrases to reframe it & mislead the public knowing they won't find truth. Try using the 1st sign in a chant. 000
SnickerSnacker @snickersnacker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I'm assuming they're afraid of losing funding by billionaire-backed SuperPACs Heaven forbid we become too woke, eh? 🤦 010
Grungehamster @grungehamster.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Far be it from me to suggest there AREN'T shithead elected Democrats who are more comfortable with Trump maintaining power than having someone to the left of them have any influence within the party, but it is a minority opinion (like accelerationist "the only way to stop Trump is eliminate Dems.") 1300
Stacy Parker Le Melle @stacyparkerlemelle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026My first reaction to that headline, though, is “why?” Though it is business as usual for establishment/empowered, who always show themselves to be working for everyone but us, Dem voters, to gird their loins to fight for their bosses. 001
litho @lith5.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Third Way is arguably responsible for AES winning so I strongly encourage them to try this again in 2028 010
pamelapier.bsky.social @pamelapier.bsky.social · 06/08/2026What's done is done. I think Abdul has next to no chance of winning in our hateful, racist, bigoted country but we need to unite behind him now. I've done a monthly donation very grudgingly. We have to unite or we lose. 000
Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 06/08/2026There are way more ways than just three, and Third Way doesn't even make the top ten. 000
Harrison @reysjones.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Probably something the GOP dreamt up. They can go to Hell anytime. 000
gr8tazz.bsky.social @gr8tazz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026They need to stop this shit and focus on fighting for the integrity of our country. 000
gr8tazz.bsky.social @gr8tazz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026A lot of this Dem in-fighting bullshit is bot propaganda and paid political bullshit from MSM. Ignore it. 071
Ian Astra’s Dad @ikdinaz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026$15 million for this isn’t a lot in national politics, but it’s still proof that Third Way donors should be taxed more. If they have cash for this nonsense, they have cash to pay for stuff people actually need. 020
StuartStories @stuartstories.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Why does the @nytimes.com support the present regime? To misquote Dickens: It was the most cowardly of times. 140
Keeperofthe7keys @keeperofthe7keys.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Also the headline acts like they haven't already been for 2 decades now. 000
Burnest Hemingway @burnesthemingway.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Would be nice if Third Way and their ilk would go to war with Republicans as hard as they do with progressives butstatic.klipy.comAlex Trebek PointingALT: Alex Trebek Pointing 010
onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 06/08/2026they keep threatening this in the NYT but then they keep losing. do they think if they get another NYT story warning that centrists are organizing, the left will suddenly give up? it's funny that they think anyone is buying this shit 020
🐆National Chair, Leopards Eating People's Faces Party 🐆 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026What part of "Do not feed the trolls!" does the NY Times not get?? 000
Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Well Michael you’d have to actually read the article to discover that and who has the time with all the posting 080
Teleportnow🍃🍂🍁 @teleportnow.bsky.social · 06/08/2026And therein lies our problem. Democrats willing to wage war on other Democrats over existential issues like corruption while simultaneously cozying up to Republicans they claim are fascist because they share all the same donors. 001
Syditious @epluribusunumyo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"Democrats Side With Fascists To Protect Capital" Old news really 010
Chris Maley @chrismaley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Third Way...Neoliberalism is evil. #TaxTheRich chrismaley.com/2025/02/14/r...chrismaley.comRomeo Whiskey Tango, A RoundtableRomeo Whiskey Tango, continued. I worked with a guy who personified this chart. Here we are, folks, observing the rich white trash roundtable, a gathering of the USA’s key decision makers. Oh… 040
Run Girl @rungirl262.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The moderate Democrats are trying too hard to court Republicans and not hard enough to maintain their base. Being the 'fascism with a smile' party is not the lure they think it is. 2190
Matt M. @mattymerz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026They wasted $60 million on one man, throwing $15 million extra into the furnace for the rest of the DSA should surely suffice. 000
sensiblelawyer.bsky.social @sensiblelawyer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026@nytimes.com, do you mean the mainstream/moderate dems who lost to trump twice?? Just askin’ 020
Lane Hutson Enjoyer @adlemm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The effort to stoke an attack against the left is absolutely insane given the current state of America and decades of demanding progressives shut up and vote Dem no matter how little they represent the Left’s values. The one time things shift left and it’s war 2331
Wraith LaFrentz *Boo’d up this month* @wraith-lafrentz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026At a time like this, can we stop calling these people “centrists” and “moderates”? They’re complacent/complicit asskissers and do-nothing bitches. Simple and Plain. 010
elvancho.bsky.social @elvancho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It's a hit piece from state media to divide the left. They know the midterms are going to wipe them out. Their only chance is getting some of us to reject our own side. 000
Ah Sierra @ahsierra.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I've been around Dem Pols several times in the last few weeks here in Cali, haven't heard one discussion about this supposed "war". WTF? 010
Nunes' Lemon Tree @nuneslemontree.bsky.social · 06/08/2026is even the idea for the articles AI now? this whole thing from top to bottom looks like shit. 000
Penguins Against Tariffs @theotherkatie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The reader comments are 100 times better than the article. 0130
Armored Chocobo @armoredchocobo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026You know the party for the people is here when both Republicans and Democrats want to attack them. 010