Reposted by Larry GlickmanDavid S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 5hWow — Cook Political moves *eighteen* House district ratings in D direction this morning 625754
Reposted by Larry GlickmanLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The assertion that "powerful cultural institutions" and the Democratic Party "treated more tradition-minded Americans as evil or backward" has become such a cliche in the punditry that people who say this feel no need to offer examples (or a single example) and journalists rarely ask them to do so. 1830452
Reposted by Larry GlickmanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18hHe doesn't even deny his son-in-law is a white supremacist. He simply claims it's out of bounds to ask about his support of white supremacy because he's family. 613575795
Reposted by Larry GlickmanDefective Cook @novaoulx.eurosky.social · 19hOverall, it's a bad night to be a Mike. So why not help out Aaron as he shows us how bad their day is. 626523
Reposted by Larry GlickmanAdam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 16hNot only did Aaron cover the El-Sayed and Ossoff debates, he also gave us Trump trying to tweet us into a race war, Kimberly Guilfoyle’s corruption, Mutterin’ Markwayne Mullin-and more Plus he STILL gave us incredibly astute political analysis If you haven’t signed up yet what are you waiting for 8999214
Reposted by Larry GlickmanMicah @rincewind.run · 17htroy jackson came to play, huh you love to see it 113218511
Reposted by Larry GlickmanKevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 18hIts telling that when Trump's allies ask for patriotic sacrifice, it's always asking working folks to pay more at the pump, more at the grocery store, more for health insurance, and never to ask their millionaire donors to pay more in taxes to pay for the pointless war Trump started (and is losing) 17026
Reposted by Larry GlickmanJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 19hOssoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru... 212095485
Reposted by Larry GlickmanBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 18hThis is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do. 1138931259
Reposted by Larry GlickmanTiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 19hlol El-Sayed dropped a “my guy” in the debate, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social 232169227
Reposted by Larry GlickmanNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 18hanyway. I don't fully trust Ossoff on policy (he voted for the Laken Riley act among other things). but it's hard to resist the appeal of finally having a democrat willing to say that the nazis are nazis. 524223
Reposted by Larry GlickmanDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 18hWould Ossoff be the best candidate for 2028? I have no idea. But I do know you're not gonna win if you don't go on the attack just like this. 715833
Reposted by Larry GlickmanVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 18hI'm glad a Democrat is being honest about who these folks are. It is shameful it took so long. 217826
Reposted by Larry Glickmanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19hjesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent 441166522582
Reposted by Larry Glickmanmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters. 1203067539
Reposted by Larry GlickmanLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ronald Reagan came to political prominence in CA with his opposition the Rumford Open Housing Act--"If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes...it is his right to do so,"--opposed the Voting Rights Act, and called the Civil Rights Act "a bad piece of legislation." 328575
Reposted by Larry GlickmanCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026A much-needed explainer from @citizencohn.bsky.social about those $500 checks (bribes) Trump is sending out as an alleged Obamacare "refund." Looks quite likely to be illegal. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...thebulwark.comDonald Trump Is Buying Votes at $500 a PopHe’s calling it an Obamacare “refund,” but it’s nothing of the sort. 16356162
Reposted by Larry GlickmanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb 91158431748
Reposted by Larry GlickmanMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026the “militant identity politics” of whiteness meanwhile gets a huge pass with this nonsense 19521
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026To be fair, it was Slade and not the NY Times interviewer who came up with the phrase. 110
Reposted by Larry GlickmanKyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I turn to my "what traditions are those?" goose only to see that the wait list for the goose is over 24 hours 44416
Reposted by Larry GlickmanJohn Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026But you can't just brush by the data without explaining it. The spectacle of a major political party suddenly rejecting ALL its own ostensible, platform values - trading out Reagan three-legged stool for a Trumpian dark triad. Doesn't that say something? 'That the Democrats were mean.' No. 1303
Reposted by Larry GlickmanBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026May as well name the blue wave for No Kings. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...offmessage.netThe Anti-Tyranny BacklashThese people think we owe them gratitude and votes in exchange for bribes and false promises, while they they govern like they answer to no one. That’s precisely why they’re losing. 612720
Reposted by Larry GlickmanShoshie Rules @shoshierules.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Read Brian... ..."Today, everyone knows Trump is to blame. He imposed unilateral tariffs. He started and lost a war. He tells his voters they’ll have their data centers and like them...his constant lying is ...transforming frustrated-but-loyal supporters into opponents who regret their votes." 0285
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Correction: as some of you have pointed out. In the first post of the thread, the quote was supposed to be "excesses of woke," not "excesses of work. My apologies. 2997
Reposted by Larry GlickmanJohn Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sigh. The piece is so absurdly, excessively apologetic for regretful Trump voters that - what's possible the analytic point? You can argue that the conservative movement is not ALL Trumpist id. It has - or had - a Reaganite superego, too! Hence might again. People are complicated. Parties, too. 2224
Reposted by Larry GlickmanWilliam 🧐 @miltownbucky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Man, back in the day journalism really was…..something. 0155
Reposted by Larry Glickmanmichele collins @michelecollins5411.bsky.social · 07/10/2026saint ronny 02510
Reposted by Larry Glickmanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic” 19370291101
Reposted by Larry GlickmanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask? 8636861439
Reposted by Larry GlickmanBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It happened again! Another leaked audio of Ken Paxton from his supporters or aides! Must be because they all love this guy and want us to know him better. www.axios.com/2026/10/07/k...axios.comExclusive: Paxton privately blames campaign woes on Iran war, gas pricesThe GOP Senate candidate told donors he doesn't "know what was behind some of the decisions." 615229
Reposted by Larry GlickmanJeff Barrus @jeffbarrus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Such a strange coincidence that so many people left the Democratic Party for the Republican Party after the Civil Rights Act became law. 1855
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I must have missed Trump justification of DOGE as an effort to "protect individual liberty." 321722
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The assertion that "powerful cultural institutions" and the Democratic Party "treated more tradition-minded Americans as evil or backward" has become such a cliche in the punditry that people who say this feel no need to offer examples (or a single example) and journalists rarely ask them to do so. 1830452
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ronald Reagan came to political prominence in CA with his opposition the Rumford Open Housing Act--"If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes...it is his right to do so,"--opposed the Voting Rights Act, and called the Civil Rights Act "a bad piece of legislation." 328575
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Fusionism was undoubtedly a significant force in the growth of modern conservatism, but the reliance on "3-legged stool" (free markets, virtue, anticommunism) framing can lead to the underplaying the role of opposition to the Civil Rights Act and other civil rights laws played in this growth. 424329
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Other than an aside on the "white nationalism that has emerged out of the dark corners of the internet," (which she she pairs with the "excesses of work") Slade makes no mention of the role of race in the construction of the modern conservative movement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...nytimes.comOpinion | With Trump Flailing, Some Conservatives Are Having Second Thoughts About TrumpismWhat is the future of the conservative movement? 3468797
Reposted by Larry GlickmanJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler. 322942640
Reposted by Larry GlickmanAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Tillis is a coward who, even as his political career draws to an end, cannot bring himself to say Trump is bad. He still says the worst problem with Trump is advice he gets from *other people* 661254191
Reposted by Larry GlickmanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026RUHLE: Why do you think the president is taking this position? TILLIS: Uhhh. I think he got bad advice RUHLE: Why do you talk about advice? He's the president! You said he's got great political instincts, and millions of Americans are suffering 4783975882
Reposted by Larry GlickmanMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Today would be a particularly great, long overdue day for the Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin - Madison to get up in front of microphones & explain to the public, voters, students, & their families that we are facing an existential crisis because of the GOP’s illegal federal funding cuts. 2335108
Reposted by Larry GlickmanSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Waist deep in flop sweat. 917730
Reposted by Larry GlickmanG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 06/10/2026people keep saying "when trump campaigns, he gets the base out" but trump keeps campaigning and GOP poll numbers just keep going down 27804117
Reposted by Larry GlickmanToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026youtube episode of my conversation with @larryglickman.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=yalk...youtube.comThe end of free enterprise rhetoric?with Larry GlickmanYouTube video by Political Philosophy Podcast 121
Reposted by Larry GlickmanLe Pain in the Ass Quotidian @etgq.bsky.social · 05/10/2026bsky.app/profile/pett... 0142