precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Honestly, white people would be like COMMUNIST!!! We already know this, there is no magic candidate who will make southern whites choose the greater good. That said, I am in favor of AOC for president. 0100
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Got it. And that makes sense. Anyone nervous about Platner, as I am, please do what you can to support folks like Sherrod Brown in Ohio. The more seats we add, the less we have to worry about this guy -- or Fetterman. 170
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialPenelope, High Priestess of Blocking DSA @bollymama.bsky.social · 08/05/2026When Minority Leaders Jeffries or Schumer, VP Harris or even now private citizen Jaime Harrison skeets out a message, the leftists and “do somethings” descend on them like buzzards on a carcass. Ken Martin gets dialogue completely devoid of vitriol while the DNC backs a Nazi. Seriously?? 0145
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Platner went further than Sanders, he appeared on two podcasts that are devoted to Shadowy Jewish Cabal talk. Dude is an antisemite. 120
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Pretty obviously antisemitic. It strains credulity to say otherwise. He looked at that tat on his chest for 20 years with no curiosity about what it meant? Nah. He's embracing Shadowy Jew talk, he's on the pods. If people think he's better than Collins fine, but gotta be truthful about the bigotry. 100
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialAuthor Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I fully support a boycott of all SEC athletics 3418392
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialEric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The Democrats who stood behind Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and then Kamala Harris have been TELLING YOU that this was ALL coming! And some of you are acting like this is new information? You just weren’t listening. 911065281
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 08/05/2026It's inane to claim the public would've been like "oh damn, better vote because SCOTUS" - look at who and what athey voted for! And Harris DID talk about the court. No, she didn't make a list of judges she'd appoint. Anyone who thinks American voters needed to see a roster of appointees is on drugs 150
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 08/05/2026that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it 193080699
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The problem—which both the GOP and the milquetoast institutionalists seem to not be grappling with here—is that the more you close off avenues of political change through the democratic process, the more you push people to see extra-institutional mechanisms as their only option 542429492
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I don't think people are giving up. Theyre going to vote, but they have clear eyes about what may happen. Democrats are going to win some court cases, but every election an R loses will result in some sort of court challenge. And Rs will win some of those. 100
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 08/05/2026What will you say when the Florida Supreme Court permits DeSantis to overrule that constitution? If you really think this was merits based, I don't know what to tell you. We've got to face reality. 100
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/05/2026When the voters approve a map to help Democrats, it's nullified. When Republican legislators approve a map to help Republicans without going to the voters, it's allowed. The system is rigged to help the fascists. 26961348
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026So you get euphemisms like “the groups” and “purity politics” from more sophisticated political actors which is clearly understood by less sophisticated political actors because they turn around and plainly interpret it as “we should’ve never mentioned water poisoning in Flint” 115122
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialDon Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I have completely lost confidence in the judiciary's ability to protect fair elections. We have courts that won't stop GOP attacks on democracy but will stop Dem attempts to fight back. 08215
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I see it the same way. As a recovering lawyer, all I can say is that when the rule of law dies, bad things happen and we are literally witnessing it. Consent of the governed doesn't exist when the law is used to subjugate one side. 092
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/05/2026This will make for the quite split screen for when Florida's conservative supreme court likely ignores the state's 2010 constitutional amendments and blesses DeSantis' +4 map. 636297
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Blue states having less partisan courts while red states can stack their courts with partisan Republicans is kind of a disaster. 1452583
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Respectfully, we don't really know the answer here? Partisan and racial gerrymandering is really important because it works. 120
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Gerrymandering for me but not for thee, the Republican way. 251249299
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialJ. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 07/05/2026"her campaign never explained the importance of the court" she explained it constantly, over and over again, in simple terms, and people would NOT shut up about how the Court was not a good reason to vote for someone who wasn't Bernie Sanders, please stop lying to our faces, Dave 823841
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 07/05/2026They are yelling at everyone to speak more like humans and yet, they keep saying "strong" when I think they mean "not evil" - but like, encouraging them not to be evil racists in gentle language is a total waste of time. The opposition party shouldn't be evil, but they are. 060
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialLeon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Obama and other liberals keep saying that they want a "strong GOP". Well, this is what it looks like: a brazen and gleeful rejection of Black people having anything worth respecting or defending and alignment with an openly white nationalist agenda that holds nonwhiteness in contempt. 361858538
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 07/05/2026To not know how he would play with Black voters indicates JVL doesn't know any Black people and has not listened to any, either. What a joke 010
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialCharles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 07/05/2026@jvl.bsky.social wrote this: "We don’t know how Platner will play with black voters nationally, esp. if there’s a guy like Raphael Warnock in the race." "Platner’s authenticity is actually bolstered by his old social media posts and his old Totenkopf tattoo. They’re proof that he’s a real person." 467517
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Piker lobbying Platner to go on Tucker is perfect illustration of how the whole "Harris betrayed us by breathing the same air as Cheney" was manufactured bullshit. Tucker is one of the most antisemitic people on the planet and yet we need to find common ground with him? Come tf on. 141
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026And so this presses upon us the following question: if America cannot be called democratic anymore, what, uhhh, what should we do about it? How should we regard this thing that calls itself our government? 518932
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 07/05/2026This makes sense because of all the elections Platner has already won in his life. And all the debates he's done in his life. A woman literally would never get this coverage from you. Qualified women get nothing but trashed by you. 3292
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Men are all so horny for other men in jeans and cable sweaters. It's fascinating. And y'all make fun of women and our concerns but... the entire premise of Platner is he's sexy to white dudes. lmao 2364
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialR. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026It's amazing how quickly White politicians in the South rushed to PROVE exactly why we needed the Voting Rights Act! 21492672597
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/05/2026/3 This noisome pretense was pushed by the mouthpieces of the Right like the Federalist Society and eventually enough minions formed a majority on SCOTUS to enact it. So: to avoid the racism of noticing racism, you can now disenfranchise Black Americans. 686597
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/05/2026/2 ...some Very Clever Boys came up with a new argument: oh yes we sincerely agree that racism is bad, but we're color-blind now, none of that history of deliberate discrimination matters, and we're actually discriminating because these people are DEMOCRATS, not because they're Black. 7936106
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Bulwark: Voters Like Nazis. Ergo, Yay Nazis! 030
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialKacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Based on everything I see, I think certain folks are truly unconcerned about Black folks losing their voting rights in various parts of this country. I think some of them are low key thankful this happened, because they never stopped wanting Black folks to be on the front lines to save them.😒 39219
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.social2strong2silence.bsky.social @2strong2silence.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Gee why did Jamie speak out? Because he knows that white voters in his own party don't want to hear the truth about themselves. 13311
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 07/05/2026And then cry and bitch and scream when your preferred white person didn't put in the work to win over Black voters. lol 110
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 07/05/2026It's actually pretty easy to listen to Black voters on this; their opinions aren't hidden. But white Dems aren't eager to listen. Losing the presidential race- with an entire team you inherited - isn't a killer, either. We've just seen that old norm shattered. A lot of Democrats like and respect her 010
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026There will be an elite media effort to rebrand Rubio as "the grownup in the room" when the GOP 2028 stakes heat up. It will involve a lot of magical thinking, but it will happen. 1291710264
precedentandprose.bsky.social @precedentandprose.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Everyone on here who got mad when we questioned Platner thought he could be contained to just that race. I warned them... the media will say the entire party should cater to bigots. Welp. 031
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialFoxyMoneybags @foxymoneybags.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Can’t wait for the Politico article unironically pitching a Platner/Fetterman 2028 ticket. 4195
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialMiss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 07/05/2026the tent is a solution…you’re part of the problem. If you need carrots dangled in front of you to vote…you’re part of the problem. If you think the working class is only made up of white people…you’re part of the problem. I could keep going but at the end of the day a lot of y’all chose this. 219440
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialMiss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 07/05/2026talking about identity politics and class war…you’re part of the problem. If you’re still pretending to care about Brown people 7,000 miles away but can’t bother to care about the Black and Brown Folks down the street from you…you’re part of the problem. If you think allowing bigots and Nazis in 118541
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialMiss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 07/05/2026that was on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women and laughing about Epstein liking them young. America got to today because voters overlooked all of that and did so in 2020 and 2024. I say 2020 because it shouldn’t have been that close for Biden either. If you’re still running around 116833
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialMiss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 07/05/2026change anytime soon. These same folks continue to blame everyone but themselves and find any excuse to not vote for democrats or shit on them. It wasn’t RBG that did this. She was 1 seat on the bench. These folks gave Trump 3 seats. It wasn’t HRC being a bad candidate. Trump was a racist bigot 318437
Reposted by @precedentandprose.bsky.socialBowiegrrl🍩 @bowiegrrl.bsky.social · 07/05/2026@sanders.senate.gov triples down on election denial, claiming @democrats.org haven’t had a fair primary since 2008, and again denigrates “identity politics” aka equal rights, as standing in the way of appealing to the “working class” vermontdailychronicle.com/bernie-bashe...vermontdailychronicle.comBernie bashes Dem overuse of identity politics - Vermont Daily ChronicleBernie: "And then you get to what we call identity politics. You're black?, ‘you’re wonderful, you’re tremendous.’ You’re gay? ‘You’re the greatest human being on earth…’ Rather than say ‘what do you ... 4010729
