Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Micah @rincewind.run · 23hwe're seeing it in the senate and we're seeing it in the house: a lot of Rs who haven't had to run a competitive general election in years - or ever, really - are suddenly in a position where they have to, and none of them know how to do it 291399184
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 23hBeto O'Rourke led Abbott in a single poll in november of 2021 a year before the election in 2022. Gina Hinojosa has led Abbott in 4 polls since September. That is to say, this is a competitive race. 1498
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 18hwe have to consider how fucking lucky the Republican party got crashing the plane in 2008 and 2020, just in time to hand off the fiery wreckage to their democratic replacement. 69410
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 18hwell it's time for the party of donald trump to reap the whirlwind. 1462
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 18hwell that luck's run out. and now we're having the midterm reckoning we should have had then, and donald trump has two years left holding this flaming bag of shit. two more years for every misery to be blamed on him and the party he conquered and built in his own image. 2617
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Fuck yeah this is awesome A court in Kyiv has for the first time in independent Ukraine's history recognized marital relations for a queer couple! www.instagram.com/p/DLqHC8loHW... 215429
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Nobody believes in taxes in this country. The citizen sees the state like how the average serf saw Mehmet Bey when he came on tribute collection. Hide everything, give as little as possible "Others" should pay. Nobody 161
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 08/10/2026People are just in denial about our finances trajectory. The opposition meanwhile proposes only less taxes and more infinite pension recalculation, after PSD thoroughly sank the special pensions reform btw. Plus Simion meets Cozma lackeys promising infinite coal subsidies 231
(((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁 @rightwingliberal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026So public servant salaries maybe? 000
(((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁 @rightwingliberal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026How is this going to end? 100
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Militant Nerd @militantnerd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026 1258
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026the thing about Lula is that the objections to the investigation of him and his party were all procedural or political and none of them were substantive. he has a reputation as dirty, and he is, in fact, dirty. 522412
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Mehmed Pasha: 444456
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ken Paxton is the worst Senate GOP candidate since Blake Masters. Losing by 6 in Texas with a Trump+12 electorate is diabolical 713822
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Oct 7 attack by Hamas was a horrific act against Israelis that made everything worse for Palestinians, the Israeli government committed war crimes, Hezbollah is a fascistic organisation that exploits its community, the IRGC feeds off endless war at home and abroad All these things are true 1332446
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026That substantial portions of the European and US Left struggle with the idea that it is possible to condemn criminal actions by the Israeli government while also condemning the vicious brutality of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continues to baffle me. 96580117
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 05/10/2026empire is empire. sometimes you find yourself on the historically vindicated side. often you don't. 1525
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 05/10/2026just because NATO is on the right side in Ukraine does not mean justify every NATO intervention. just as being involved on the 'right' side of the Angolan Civil War or Cuban Revolution didn't make the brutal attempt to conquer Afghanistan justified because ostensible leftists were doing it. 1574
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026many of them have no idea that there are even ethnic minorities in russia in the first place 1564
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 05/10/2026the USSR had its moments of sponsoring liberation but was fundamentally an imperial project like the Russian empire before it and Putin's Russia after it 29010
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Imagine being so antisemitic that you get a red triangle poster calling you out 745553
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026 1453239
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It is hard to keep a coalition of bigots together. Trump has done an amazing job with that over here, but even MAGA is fracturing. Turns out, bigots hate each other too. 0241
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Queerhawk 🏳️🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🇬🇱 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Lt. James McCullin Jr. died for your right to be hateful and willfully ignorant, but you could best honor his legacy by choosing to be neither. 0793
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 06/10/2026Early voting turnout in Virginia is jaw dropping stuff among Latino voters. Across all other demographics, numbers are well ahead of 2022 at the same point but Hispanic/Latino turnout is 50% higher than it was in 2024-- a presidential election year! 18707121
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 06/10/2026i think we have to consider the possibility that Trumpism as implemented in v2.0 effectively did a CA prop 187 self own, but nationwide this time 1236330
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My hottest take is that South Carolina Senate is more competitive than Florida Senate. 19754
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026inshallah i'll move there in a year 3421
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i love Quebec (serious) 11839
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Linke saying "well fine, just piss off" finally to Wagenknecht and tankies around her actually reinvigorated the party to the extent to which it is now in an increasingly successful process of reinvention. Maybe the CDU can only survive if it takes that ruthless step in ejecting its waverers too 56321
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In his memoirs Zhao Ziyang says in mid 90's that the future belongs basically to Reagan and Thatcher, and he mentions he was hardly the most extreme of reformers If not for the CCP elder veterans, seeing the country as their war inheritance, the party was blindly speedrunning into its own oblivion 1211
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yeltsin destroyed the USSR on pure god damn vibes. He was convinced that everything they lived since 1917 was a perverse farcical detour from the "normal" path of development, then seen as US Reaganism by basically most everyone 1201
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The power of vibes is undefeated, people always are drawn to following whatever the Zeitgeist is really. Elites will democratize as quickly as they go to autocracy if the intellectual mood of the period fosters it 1311
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Chile recovered its democracy because in 1988 we are at the peak of the democratic world wide wave and domino/'contagion' theory works in our favour to 2343
Reposted by (((Konrad Adenauer Thought)))🇺🇦🍁People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Uri Avnery's ghost cackling madly at his total cultural victory 0341
![Race, 2022 Count (Share), 2024 Count (Share), 2026 Count (Share)
Asian or Pacific Islander, 7,293 (3.61%), 19,832 (3.43%), 15,827 (4.59%)
Black, 27,395 (13.54%), 85,589 (14.82%), 56,985 (16.53%)
Hispanic or Latino, 4,260 (2.11%), 14,508 (2.51%), 21,577 (6.26%)
Native American, 71 (0.04%), 285 (0.05%), 509 (0.15%)
Uncoded, 818 (0.4%), 1,512 (0.26%), 87 (0.03%)
White, 161,779 (79.99%), 455,802 (78.9%), 249,021 (72.22%)
Unknown, 639 (0.32%), 169 (0.03%), 820 (0.24%)
Total, 202,255, 577,697, 344,826
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