Reposted by Nick JackelsonDavid Hogg @davidhogg.bsky.social · 07/10/2025This is why I left the DNC 2937787
Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 03/10/2025AOC continues to act as the moral center and near-only example of leadership in the party. God I hope she runs so bad 020
Reposted by Nick JackelsonAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 02/10/2025I actually don’t think the Dem spin on who did the shutdown is necessary because it is probably a good idea to try to limit government functions if you think the ruling party is doing accelerated fascism 661683213
Reposted by Nick JackelsonAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2025Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it." 5223318710849
Reposted by Nick JackelsonKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America. 18143391710490
Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Republican chuds who have spent years calling every school shooting a “false flag psyop” are now swallowing every word the FBI says about political violence. 000
Reposted by Nick JackelsonCosmos Lionheart @cosmoslionheart.bsky.social · 24/09/2025yeah i dunno dude incrementalism starts to look real fuckin dumb when an opposition party can completely wipe away 50-75 years of progress in just a few months 516437
Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 24/09/2025My beautiful wife bought me Tylenol so I can get farther on the spectrum before they take it from us 000
Reposted by Nick Jackelsondr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/09/2025congrats to joe brandon and all the purported defenders of democracy who normalized cracking heads on student protestors in order to cover for israeli genocide. you really greased the skids for ol donnie trump to formally submarine the first amendment 344470900
Reposted by Nick Jackelsonshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 13/09/2025charlie kirk was a bigoted sack of shit and he thought random gun deaths were an acceptable consequence of having the second amendment, i wonder if he revised that opinion in the brief time between getting shot and dying. didn't think your number would come up, didya charlie 20385221124
Reposted by Nick Jackelsonshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 12/09/2025in the US conservative mindset cishet conservative white men are top of the hierarchy and thus it is bad to shoot them, but also they are allowed to shoot people, so if one kills another it's just a wash. cancels out. thoughts and prayers, nothing to see here 213959755
Reposted by Nick JackelsonLiving in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 04/09/2025There's a great argument against Vote Blue No Matter Who: Eric Adams. Oh, and Joe Manchin. And Kyrsten Sinema. And Joe Lieberman. And John Fetterman. And Debbie Wasserman Schultz. And Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. And Elissa Slotkin. And Henry Cuellar. And Josh Gottheimer. And... 4630272
Reposted by Nick Jackelson“james adomian” @jadomian.bsky.social · 29/08/2025“Centrists”: We support enriching the police state because it’s necessary to suppress the left. Nazis: We’re grabbing that police state and ramping it up 4000% with a lawless paramilitary coup, concentration camps, and an apocalyptic bloodbath. “Centrists”: Oh. Well see that’s the leftists’ fault. 333748
Reposted by Nick JackelsonDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 31/08/2025I am in the blog chair for the last Defector Sunday Shift of the summer, and treated myself by writing about Mark Teixeira's greasy new congressional campaign and Pondering The Void: defector.com/mark-teixeir...defector.comMark Teixeira Is Ready To Do Whatever It Is Congress Guys Have To Do | DefectorAs Texas congressional districts go, the 21st is pretty easy to parse. The outline of it, which dips into Austin and enfolds a vast swath of the San Antonio suburbs, looks like a lumpier than average ... 1718016
Reposted by Nick Jackelsonshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 29/08/2025genuinely saw a liberal talking about newsom as doing some things wrong (anti-homeless policies) but some things right (trolling trump on the internet) and i really wonder about the worth of that second thing, there. is that doing anything at all 872893430
Reposted by Nick JackelsonGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/08/2025Turns out when you treat teachers well, invest in students, and focus on improving schools, you get real results. Illinois now ranks third in the nation for our education system for a reason. 894489895
Reposted by Nick Jackelsondr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/08/2025media.tenor.coma young man is giving a thumbs up in front of a computer screen that says " very cool "ALT: a young man is giving a thumbs up in front of a computer screen that says " very cool " 821911
Reposted by Nick Jackelsonmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Dem electeds want influencers in media to say stuff like "I sure do approve of the job our wonderful Dem electeds are doing" when the thing Dems need influencers to actually say is like "the shitty economy is really shit right now huh" 381229140
Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Gavin proponents are like, yeah, he’s got a terrible voting record, but at least he’s extremely unpopular with voters in both parties 000
Reposted by Nick Jackelsontinybaby @tiny.baby · 20/08/2025i don't think you guys understand. when the dem politicians and strategists say something is a distraction what they mean is anything they could do about it would be hard work and bum them out so they're simply going to choose not to 1120826
Reposted by Nick Jackelsonshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/08/2025pointless to say this but the democrat leaders should be out there banging the drum that they're going to tear these agencies apart & prosecute every single masked fash who ever did some shit while refusing to identify themselves 241838466
Reposted by Nick JackelsonMelanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 12/08/2025There’s a reason why progressives pushed for: - campaign finance reform - expanding the Supreme Court - voter protection laws - DC statehood …because we knew moments like these were inevitable. …and we were told these democracy protections were “too radical.” 21447128
Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 03/08/2025If Jerry Seinfeld was president in 2001, he woulda armed Bin Laden 100
Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 30/07/2025We’re seeing clear evidence that Dems cannot continue to sit back in silence as fascists take control of our society. Dems have to start deliberately calling out and campaigning on revitalizing education, supporting working people, and dismantling the police state that this admin has built. 000
Reposted by Nick Jackelsonjosh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Nothing better than cracking open an ice cold beer and seeing what's inside 1654690
Reposted by Nick Jackelsondr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/07/2025i disgust and dismay my wife 3242829
Reposted by Nick JackelsonKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 24/06/2025The cool thing about a leftist getting close to winning an election is that you finally get to hear from people like Obama and Clinton when they invariably show up to denounce them 572883353
Reposted by Nick Jackelsonicookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Nobody plays the victim better than the one who caused the damage. 271509242
Reposted by Nick JackelsonSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 17/06/2025Tonight, I introduced legislation to stop Trump from from leading us into an illegal war with Iran. Another war in the Middle East could cost countless lives, waste trillions more dollars, and lead to even more deaths, more conflict, and more displacement. 16158061122
Reposted by Nick JackelsonThe Onion @theonion.com · 13/06/2025Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla theonion.com/democra... 654068705
Reposted by Nick JackelsonBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started theonion.com/netanyahu-ca...theonion.comNetanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started 422105992298
Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Okay, we’ve got the strongly worded letter, we’ve got the strongly worded speech. Now Newsom will follow through with defending the people of his state from a military incursion, right? 110
Reposted by Nick JackelsonWraith LaFrentz 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 10/06/2025People talk about how some treat politics like a team sport but it's actually worse than that because fans of sports teams at least allow each other to say their team sucks. There are no Rockies fans rn who are like "Mentioning the record is what Giants fans want us to do, this is a distraction." 37710
Reposted by Nick JackelsonDavid Sirota @davidsirota.com · 09/06/2025The pretend surprise that oligarchs aren’t fighting an oligarch president is only topped by the genuinely deranged assertion that “business leaders used to stand up to power.” Just absolutely crazy stuff right here — completely beyond parody 1717040
Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 10/06/2025After an immensely destructive fire, and immediately preceding civil rights demonstrations, Mayor Bass has decided to cut Firefighters funding and and give millions more to the LAPD. Astounding lack of awareness. www.foxla.com/news/bass-pr...foxla.comBass' proposed city budget includes more funding for LAPD, cuts for LAFD 010
Reposted by Nick JackelsonJohn @notheotherjohn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025You would think "American children should work in mines and factories and rich people need another multi trillion dollar tax cut" would be a pretty easy political platform to defeat or at least message against but nope that ball is still just right there sitting on the tee 06917
Reposted by Nick JackelsonMelanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 09/06/2025When people said “abolish ICE,” this is why. The politicians from both parties who called that “radical,” blindly funded them and called it “immigration reform,” because they were getting campaign donations from the corporations getting ICE contracts. And now we’re here. 753653921
Reposted by Nick JackelsonDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/06/2025Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda. 764115152797
Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 31/05/2025I threw up through my nasal passage And now everything smells like vomit 000
Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Meanwhile Hogg’s ousted from a Dem leadership position for calling attention to Slotkin’s garbage policy 010
Reposted by Nick JackelsonKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025The current budget bill is an atrocity and out-of-touch leaders like Chuck Schumer laid the groundwork by voting for the CR. Appeasement and complicity do not work. When you bend the knee, they’ll break your leg. 439193793966
Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 13/05/2025@davidhogg.bsky.social was so accurate in his diagnosis of the failures of the DNC that they’re trying to excommunicate him from the party. In doing so, they’re highlighting the current leadership’s commitment to oligarchy and gerontocracy. 010
Nick Jackelson @shidass.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Great to see Democrats getting an early start on losing the 2028 election 000
