Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 01/07/2026You want him to lose to confirm your priors. We get it. 200
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The supposed cold utility of being the party of higher standards was torched for the foreseeable future when Trump won again. Well before Platner. 000
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I'll take the conflation of criticism of Israel with antisemitism seriously when the ADL replaces the guy who was cool with Musk's sieg heil as their leader. No sooner. 110
Reposted by Ben WeinbergAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/06/2026We need to recognize what happened to Scott Wiener at the San Francisco Trans Pride March as antisemitism, and finally purge this poison from left wing movements. A new opinion piece by Evan Urquhart, @evanurquhart.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...assignedmedia.orgScott Wiener’s Viral Harassment is What Left Antisemitism Looks Like - Assigned MediaAn opportunist at the Trans Pride March in Sanfrancisco harnassed suspicion and hatred of Jews for his own purposes. 931428375
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Now why would a country that elected Trump twice all of a sudden care about schtick?! 010
Reposted by Ben Weinbergjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2026the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong! 20358671103
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 01/07/2026"Blaming all Jews for Gaza" isnt something serious ppl do. Israel wants to be held to a different, unquestioning standard. That's the whole problem! They're reflecting our own rogue govt back at as us. The rest of the world should tell Trump to fuck off, & we should want to tell Israel the same. 020
Reposted by Ben WeinbergJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 01/07/20261. Congressman Mike Collins, the GOP nominee for US Senate in Georgia, has spent over $400,000 of taxpayer money designated for office expenses on TV ads that are virtually indistinguishable from his campaign ads.popular.infoGOP Senate candidate spent $400,000 of taxpayer money on campaign-style adsGeorgia Congressman Mike Collins is using public funds to pay a political ad firm — the same firm that makes his Senate campaign ads. 22641287
Reposted by Ben WeinbergAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/07/2026Why are the Trump administration's 250th celebrations so feeble? Because it's hard to celebrate the ideals of the Declaration of Independence if you don't believe in them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comBlood and Soil Aren’t What Binds America TogetherIf you don’t believe in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, celebrating it is difficult. 381305379
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 01/07/2026It's hardly as simple as you describe given the intense propaganda network demanding that criticism of the current Israeli govt be labeled antisemitism. The bad faith of people like Greenblatt are spreading antisemitism more than your pop-up DSA challenger. 120
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This isn't a Dem primary thing though. Israel is a global pariah. As disgusting & menacing as Trump has been towards Europe, Bibi's even more disliked there. Wanting nothing to do with that govt is just basic & obvious, not antisemitic. 000
Reposted by Ben WeinbergBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The Dem establishment and Dem centrists can wring their hands and complain about the results in Colorado. Or they can learn a lesson: Their repudiation was in large part about their perceived unwillingness to stand up firmly and unhesitatingly to Trump. So start doing so! 731765334
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Doing whatever you wanted until someone stops you is underrated in effect compared to the alternatives. 000
Reposted by Ben WeinbergAlex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Amanda Gonzalez, tonight’s D primary winner for Colorado SOS, was instrumental in making Colorado the first state to require polling places in every jail. That’s been a transformative policy change and an example for other states, where the bar for jail voting access generally couldn’t be lower. 118442
Reposted by Ben WeinbergVoteHub @votehub.com · 01/07/2026VoteHub projects Melat Kiros to win the Democratic primary for Colorado U.S. House District 1. 1043373
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I'm not sure of anything, but I'm confident he'll win. I mentioned those groups specifically b/c that's where the article+poll said she's strongest. It wasn't off the top of my head. 100
Reposted by Ben WeinbergMichelle Rheault, MD @rheaultm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026How do you sell Paella to Minnesotans? “The hotdish of Spain” 😂 1483623388
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Lmao, he's gonna crush into her favorable demos of men, non college grads & gun owners. 100
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 30/06/2026He has to not change parties to maintain maximum leverage. He has repeatedly said he doesn't support that type of use of leverage. He's not immune from pressure at all. GOP charm offensive has worked on his toddler level diminished EQ. 120
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Fetterman will not remain in the party if it requires playing hardball. This is just factual application of his repeated refusal to leverage the budget/shutdowns. He will not be part of maximal resistance. 140
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Fetterman is not going to remain in the party if they're playing hardball. This is just the factual record of his open, repeated position on shutdowns, which is the basic point of leverage. He's not going to be a necessary vote. 000
Reposted by Ben WeinbergJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026One of the biggest mistakes made on both sides of the Atlantic in the last couple of decades is people assuming that once a battle for rights is won, it's settled forever. It is not. You have to continue to defend those rights. 2447145
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Project 2025 is his job. It's the political opposition's job to force otherwise. 000
Reposted by Ben WeinbergMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport. 205107483187
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Good thing 2/3's of the federal government's sole mission is blocking the effect of elections at will. 000
Reposted by Ben WeinbergMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026They're plundering the national treasury. 37869062748
Reposted by Ben WeinbergMelissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 30/06/2026About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship. 383136807
Reposted by Ben WeinbergChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/06/2026It’s important to understand that the Court is now just an arm of the oligarchy. This decision strips the people of the right to limit the role of money in politics. It gives billionaires special rights to buy our elections. A precondition of oligarchy. 14830161109
Reposted by Ben WeinbergDavid Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Full statement by NPR Editor in Chief Tommy Evans on retracted Alito story 4136682
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I don't think people are connecting the court's radicalism to their willingness to make voting in change impossible. They approve the dictator's pretext, the masses take to the streets, and he kills as many as necessary. 000
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Fetterman is such a degenerate piece of shit, his openness about depression has restigmatized it! 000
Reposted by Ben WeinbergNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Obvious lies about the reflecting pool, and a pathetic excuse. But still, it strikes me that even with their imagined story, the *defense* is that Trump is so incompetent he couldn't even protect downtown DC, not even for the president's special project with additional deployed security forces. 39819
Reposted by Ben WeinbergRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Klein's description of the Dayton video is also surreal. To support the lie that Haitians were eating dogs in Springfield, Rufo pushed a video of Congolese men "grilling cats" in Dayton. (It was likely chicken.) That was close enough for Rufo. It was always about dehumanizing Black immigrants. 141045124
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 30/06/2026We need pieces on how SCOTUS being in favor of the coup/autogolpe will be felt in practice. It's just Nixon+. "If the president & 5/9 SCOTUS do it, it can't be illegal." 011
Reposted by Ben WeinbergSen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 29/06/2026*kisses fingers* 125975658
Reposted by Ben WeinbergKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 29/06/20268 "Antifa" members just got a combined 450 years in federal prison. The prosecution leaned heavily on an "expert" witness who never spent a day in government or academia - but who spent years at pro-Israel advocacy orgs: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/450-years-...kenklippenstein.com450 Years in Prison for Saying “Anti-Fascist"How the Prairieland Eight got convicted as domestic terrorists 451704703
Reposted by Ben WeinbergJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The Supreme Court’s Corruption Must Be Broken talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...talkingpointsmemo.comThe Supreme Court’s Corruption Must Be BrokenThis likely goes without saying. But I’ll say it anyway and add... 15429138
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Being able to shoot someone in the middle of 5th Ave is good. So going ahead & shooting someone there eventually becomes good too. 021
Reposted by Ben WeinbergMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Oh my god we **did not have a president** for the first, we date America's birthday to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, I'm losing my mind. 1773312553
Reposted by Ben WeinbergBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026We should “stop calling the Court ‘originalist.’ The Republican faction’s monarchist view of the separation of powers is its own, and neither history nor the text of the Constitution have anything to do with it.” Via @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/the-...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comThe Roberts Doctrine: Royalism, unless it affects my portfolio - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyAs was almost uniformly expected among Court sickos, the Court overruled a perfectly sound 90-year-old unanimous precedent on executive power, while underscoring the incoherence of the holding by carv... 57226
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I'm in the district. It's the same 2-1 margin as Lander if forced to a H2H. There's zero practical fucking appetite for Laura Fine or Dan Goldman. It's not even a race. 030
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 29/06/2026It's not even close. Quasi rule of law, quasi protects your wealth. 010
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 29/06/2026He's not trying "voter suppression." Idk why people keep saying that. It's purely about election chaos, distrust of process, disregarding the result. Will require a semi miracle to keep these 5 votes when he keeps coming back. 000
Ben Weinberg @bweiny.bsky.social · 29/06/2026It started w/ Scalia's death more, IMO. They got a Merrick Garland parlay of no SCOTUS + failed AG and netted 2 seats since. 110
