Reposted by Shawnthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8hmost importantly, don't *only* do it in campaign ads in the fall of election years 1324
Reposted by Shawnthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026no other Democrat can do this, not without planning. the emotional appeal and the core backing of the facts. she's the one. she speaks the language of the base. she gives them a voice. 39910
Reposted by ShawnDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 26/09/2026we saw a wave of "woke is overrrr!!!" pieces after the election, mostly typed one-handed. just now we're starting to see some very sotto-voce "we need to talk about woke 1" pieces, whether that's the lesbian bar piece or the nikole hannah-jones education piece.liberalcurrents.comWhat Is Woke 2?Woke 2 is Woke 1 with an honest relation to power. 430447
Reposted by Shawnthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 23/09/2026this is why I don't find the arguments it would be better for her, socialism, or the country that she run for Senate or try to create a path to Speaker. the times demand our best. 4686
Reposted by Shawnthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 22/09/2026transphobic Dems will go the way of pro-life Dems ultimately. but they stuck around for a while. we should seek to hasten their exit 39015
Reposted by ShawnKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026For my newsletter, I wrote about Democrats coming out against "trans surgery for kids" (which do not happen) and how the myth took over our politics. www.burnsnotice.com/the-trans-ki...burnsnotice.comThe "Trans Kid Surgery" MythThe big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts 111296485
Reposted by ShawnMatt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the actual position that Kendra et al seem to hold is that professionals should stop migrating to the US’s most prominent cultural hub and wealthiest city, which is an embarassingly stupid thought to have 1243736
Reposted by ShawnNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"You should be allowed to kill your children" is a bedrock conservative principle. 943095
Reposted by ShawnAirship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm being legit serious that when you're going on about hating "transplants" you're supporting the repression of queer people and people of color. We're people. We have no special, mystical connection to the land. We do have a universal right to movement. 1172
Reposted by ShawnMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole." 12457541512
Reposted by ShawnDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18/09/2026i think all historic preservation boards should be abolished 817316
Reposted by Shawnthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17/09/2026when more Democrats by the day are coming out with anti-trans rhetoric this is not as convincing as you want it to be. those Dems are doing coalitional arson. not trans people. 1111417
Reposted by ShawnTamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is the nail in organic's coffin. Yes, it has benefits! I support it as a agricultural niche for those beneftis. But the yield penalty is generally 20-50%, which means you need 25-100% more land to produce the same amount of food. Organic cannot feed the world. 3192
Reposted by ShawnKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry. 323973901
Reposted by Shawnjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons. 1025972948
Reposted by ShawnErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2026Seems like a good time to re-up this post. It is a list of 26 Dems at the statewide/national level that have made anti-trans statements or voted anti-trans policies. I do not advocate for abstaining from all of the ones on this list, but if the worst offenders who call us “biological men,” I do.erininthemorning.comThe Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By StateThese are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle. 741821604
Reposted by ShawnNiao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I feel like ‘Taiwan should make a deal’ falls under the same genre as ‘Ukraine should make a deal’ where the pundit is less interested in engaging with the actual geopolitics as they are in wishcasting for a world where the US doesn’t play a role 25812
Reposted by ShawnKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10/09/2026i don't care what the issue is, if your election opponent is running millions of dollars in ads about one single issue, you cannot, under any circumstances, say that your opponent is right about the issue. 142808564
Reposted by ShawnEmma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026What cis liberals need to understand about our political situation is that the Democrats turning on us is far, far worse than the Republicans winning, because if we lose the Democrats like we lost Labour in UK, we will have our rights stripped and no path to getting them back. 314739
Reposted by Shawnrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 06/09/2026the real answer to "how do you defeat the far right in an election" is "you say they can't run." 15983126
Reposted by Shawn#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 08/09/2026Banning all trade with Israeli settlements within the first few months of the new presidency is the obvious bare minimum promise that should be extracted form everyone of the potential Democratic nominees 2727110
Reposted by ShawnWaschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I understand and appreciate why AOC is doing the awful MAHA shit and also freely acknowledge it sucks ass no matter how necessary or useful it may be 3666
Reposted by Shawnthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 03/09/2026no one who thinks BDS should be illegal is actually a liberal, I feel comfortable saying this 36410
Reposted by ShawnNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I know I'm just preaching to the choir here, but I cannot get over how much mainstream discourse on 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 insists on framing it entirely as a theoretical or abstract philosophical issue, instead of a conflict over whether a state should be allowed to deny self-government to 33% of its population. 1252584
Reposted by ShawnTamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Excellent news! The blight that wiped out American chestnuts kills the trees by producing oxalic acid, which the trees can't metabolize. Wheat can, and introducing one wheat gene gives the tree the ability to withstand the fungus (so far!). I'm a huge fan of this project. 49222
Reposted by ShawnNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026What we see again and again from the modern American elite is the insistence on receiving the prerogatives and deference due to their positions without any of the accompanying obligations. 11598128
Reposted by ShawnNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026One of the global hallmarks of the anti-trans movement is that it's pushing people to reject levels of gender integration that were completely uncontroversial as recently as a few years ago. 152816631
Reposted by ShawnWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Man I'm usually in the 'can't really ban it' camp because it's fundamentally a technology and you can't uninvent those. But like, maybe it shouldn't be legal to host CRIMES_BOT openly? 1029229
Reposted by ShawnErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/08/2026I will never vote for a Democrat that abandons transgender people. It's a cancer and I'll take the pain of a Republican over losing Democrats as a party and therefore losing our rights for an entire generation with nobody left to fight for us. We cannot reward this at all. 702019404
Reposted by Shawnmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"Tearing down Trump's ballroom without permission" is actually a fantastic case for the next D President to demonstrate they can just ignore some Supreme Court decisions. Successfully defying them will weaken their perceived power elsewhere. 744462
Reposted by ShawnSam @samd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026the HRW statement is insane: “yeah Orban was bad but you’re moving too quickly to clean up his mess and kick the fascists out of government!” it’s legitimately a bad parody of liberalism. these people have lost the fucking plot. we do not have time to navel gaze while restoring democracy 411248195
Reposted by ShawnReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 30/08/2026simultaneously democrats have an extremely hard task and an extremely easy one, because it basically hinges on "working legislature capable of passing normal legislation with a simple majority" 447351
Reposted by ShawnSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The entire reason people defend this so aggressively is because they believe they purchased indulgences and they really don't want to grapple with the idea that they may have been scammed 754359
Reposted by ShawnNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A big part of why "Liberal Zionism" is such a discredited ideology is that this has been the main way it has presented itself to the Western public over the last thirty years. 533770
Reposted by ShawnWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/08/2026In terms of people who would otherwise have lived dying there’s a case for it being the worst thing any leader has done this century, easily one of the worst, but people usually on about Amerikkka are often silent because it is something good the US was doing that stopped in the worst possible way 171524180
Reposted by Shawnjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs. 171146243124
Reposted by ShawnNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The single most impactful social/cultural development over the last decade (that virtually no retrospectives of "woke" have engaged in) is the new elite consensus that moral judgement is itself inherently illegitimate. 331667355
Reposted by ShawnDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/08/2026In my opinion, a failure to understand the white-hot rage so many people feel about ICE's campaign of terror and oppression is what has taken some establishment Dems by surprise in their primaries. Abolish ICE and Nuremberg 2.0 is basically the floor for what the Dem electorate is demanding. 241417303
Reposted by ShawnNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026You will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever under any circumstances whatsoever be condemned or censured or chastised by the American media for killing people. 131218161
Reposted by ShawnSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026And here's the best part: "Tehee but at least agriculture uses the water to make food!" Uh, you'd be surprised! Farmers are INCENTIVIZED TO WASTE WATER. To use more than we need, to grow thirsty crops in deserts, etc. A whole lot of that massive ag water use DOES NOT MEANINGFULLY GROW FOOD. 181040214
Reposted by ShawnSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture. 7236481228
Reposted by ShawnWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18/08/2026yeah at minimum, don't take data center water shit seriously from anyone who isn't also extremely anti-farmer. they have pumped so much water that the Central Valley is literally sinking. it's not "food on your table 🥺" it's shit like alfalfa. they do this because water is basically free for them. 2178986
Reposted by Shawnmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Many people think this but it's not true! Data centers are a small rounding error compared to agriculture. And it pains me that this is the case as a golf hater but golf no longer consumes meaningful amounts of water as most courses in the southwest have switched to graywater irrigation 232291239
Reposted by Shawnmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE 984772786
Reposted by ShawnNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The anachronistic assumption here is that the A-bomb was thought of as some qualitatively new form of warfare that required special justification; the plan was to use nuclear weapons the same way they used ordinary bombs, whether or not an invasion went forward. The nuclear taboo didn't exist yet. 81179
Reposted by ShawnDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Relatedly, the idea that Japan was going to imminently surrender immediately dissolves on contact with the fact that even the Peace Faction was utterly delusional 319525
Reposted by ShawnDjinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026No, that's not actually true, the raising of the Volunteer Army (the conscripts who were to contest a landing in Kyushu) is a matter of official record in the Japanese Diet. It was the actual plan. 2068355
Reposted by ShawnAirship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Don't know how much stock I'm putting in this sentence, but imma use to continue a point I was making last night re: people hating on @goldwagnathan.bsky.social for being a "doomer". How do we do materialist politics where people vote against prosperity and their own improvement? 162
Reposted by ShawnAirship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I'm sorry but I really don't see much of this as bad. Some of it even good. Conservatives and reactionary centrists are just fucking weak. 011
Reposted by Shawnlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/08/2026"no one will be normal about AOC if she runs for president" is both true and a bad reason for her not to run. you could run the most milquetoast middle of the road clean cut straight white man alive and the right is still going to act like the deranged freaks they are 933910419
