Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Look I will own up to stepping on a LOT of spotted lanternflies 000
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Cannot disregard the possibility that whipping up Watergate trutherism gets extremely confused Floridian retirees to vote for a Senator Nixon 0253
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Severe misjudgment by Vance of which side of the jock/nerd fascist dichotomy he falls on 001
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Re-popularization on Musk Twitter of medieval antisemitism and RADICAL SHARIA LAW type nonsense about the Talmud a truly batshit thing to witness 131
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Imo it’s a question of what party emerges from the midterms; a win by Abdul and a strong performance (not yet willing to get my hopes up too much for a win) by Nixon sets up AOC as a plausible leader of the party for 2028 much better than an Abdul loss and a weak Nixon performance 030
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In conjunction with this, the Official Axios View of AOC running nationally instead of being 1 of 100 is not very subtle lolaxios.comSwing-state Democrats shun AOC in fall campaignsThe snubs could hurt AOC's standing as a potential contender for president in 2028. 030
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also more skeptical of Pritzker as a candidate than I was in early 2025, partly because he didn’t rise all that much to the occasion in response to ICE attacks on Chicago and partly because Steyer failing makes me doubtful of Dem electorate appetite for virtuous ultra-wealthies. Not a hater though 000
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026AOC running to be the leader of the party is a very different proposition if that party elects Mayor Andrew Cuomo and Senators Hayley Stevens and Angie Craig and Janet Mills in 2025-2026 than if it goes another route 040
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Don’t really understand the Ossoff hype tbh. Love having him in the Senate, love his attacks on corruption, but nothing special about his voting record and presidential chatter largely seems like nostalgia for white Southern men who are also libs 010
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Senator AOC was much more appealing when Schumer looked like a formidable figure who needed a formidable opponent to knock him out. But now, a Brisport or Lander can plausibly do that and AOC is better deployed in what will be a thin progressive POTUS lane if it doesn’t have her or Bernie 130
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Total waste of talent if it happens (I am skeptical it will)—Schumer’s sufficiently unpopular that a non-AOC progressive can beat him and vote the same way she would, whereas the progressive Dem lane for 2028 is pretty empty without AOC or Bernie 100
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026He’ll be a James Buchanan, a one-term president presiding during a period of escalating crisis that he was completely unfit to deal with 000
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hey she’s been a useful go-to example for the last decade, you can’t expect a centrist to analyze present day politics with reference to elected officials actually presently in office 100
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Look, we can’t disregard how much damage Cynthia McKinney/PSL/the Fourth International are doing right now by not caucusing with the Dems 020
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is no way to talk about the Bayreuth Festival 010
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Being freed from tight word count limits has killed his social media skills 000
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can’t have “to each according to their need” without developing the industrial capacity necessary to make that possible 040
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I do not necessarily disagree with this but think Gordon Wood (maybe specifically The Creation of the American Republic) deserves a plug for the far-reaching changes of the American Revolution that went beyond just breaking from the UK 000
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Tbf, even if it’s too broadly phrased, I do appreciate Nathan’s point which is really about the right-wing commentary 020
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Omen of the coming millennial social hegemony, solidified by President AOC crowning with the eponymous fruit a national Limecat in 2029 081
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Much of the making fun is coming from those of us with first-hand experience with these scenes and dynamics lol 170
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There’d never have been a First or Second International if the delegates and sections all had to like and fully agree and get along with each other 030
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Crazy things are happening in politics these days (extremely bad) but also crazy things are happening in politics these days (potentially good) 000
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Harriet Miers’s nomination has been retroactively vindicated by how much more terrible Alito turned out to be 000
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The doom and gloom talk about risk here is really undermined IMO by Bernie’s unsuccessful presidential campaigns, the unsuccessfulness of which didn’t at all mean that it was bad they happened in the first place 161
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There’s actually a big distinction here, which is that Mamdani was discussing this in the context of improving infrastructure rather than 90s-style “broken windows” policing—you’re ignoring what policies were actually being advocated for 020
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Very curious now whether he meant this in a Nixon-to-Kissinger way or in a stroke-addled attempt at “my expert on Jewish matters” way 110
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Also the Hochul angle, which was significant in the initial commitment to keep Tisch on. Not sure how important that is these days (and it can be made less important with a bigger progressive Dem bloc in Albany) 000
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026CNN leaving out a stirring “And then everyone clapped” conclusion 0241
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Zombie Pierre Gemayel shaking and sobbing to have named his political movement after the Spanish Falange only to see this discourse about his Shia foes 0111
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Really outlandish way to characterize the George Wallace, Orval Faubus, etc. generation of Southern Dem politicians 100
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If Nixon wins, the only rational conclusion is that AOC campaigning for her is responsible and this new shaper of the political world must be nominated for the presidency. Sorry, I don’t make the rules 010
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Yes, sometimes a trans person might have an especially strong reaction to transphobia, that is something that can bear on intensity of posting 1191
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Something familiar about this…washingtonpost.comA history of President Obama being called ‘anti-colonial’Why did Rudy Giuliani use that term? 000
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Always unfortunate when a real reporter decides to fly too close to the poster sun 132
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Look you can’t go suggesting that people react to events, the only sound explanation of why anyone thinks anything is Eternal Hatreds 030
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Being an adult who talks a lot about how dumb the kids’ beliefs are these days is just never a good path to start going down 010
Hal Incandenza @halinc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Canvassing: good for both winning elections AND for becoming less of a weirdo by being forced to talk to non-politicos 040
