1. Kansas, outside of Kansas City, Lawrence, and Manhattan, is MAGA Land.
2. The idiots are so bad at writing referendums that even their supporters get confused.
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the Rich Boy Winston of speedrunning • dumb weeb with money • huge weather nerd • 30yr software dev • he/him but not particularly enthused about it anymore
![Simon Rosenberg (born October 23, 1963) is a Democratic political strategist and blogger. He was the founder of New Democrat Network (NDN), a centrist think tank and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.[1] Rosenberg shuttered NDN in March 2024.[2]
According to the 2002 book How to Hack a Party Line: The Democrats and Silicon Valley, Rosenberg and NDN were instrumental in shifting control of the Democratic Party away from labor unions and toward Silicon Valley businesses.[3] Rosenberg said in 1999, "Our problem as a party is that the biggest source of our venture capital now comes from labor, which is a group that's becoming less and less important, and representing less and less of a percentage of American voters. ... We have to replace labor's investment in the party with investment from another source, and hopefully from a source that's growing."[3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks5e55phe7kiob4yjgjm44sh/bafkreidiaz7f5irdnluqbtpjbstjpljnam52em72zvoh7o6j5oqffghi5u)
![George Washington's Farewell Address, September 1796: "However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks5e55phe7kiob4yjgjm44sh/bafkreihkc3k66oarbmrgrkskjinmehzubsa6da62c74dbcwcedcmasf6gy)
![Headline: "Senators reach deal to advance [Trump] Cabinet nominees, avoid weekend session"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks5e55phe7kiob4yjgjm44sh/bafkreih7mwqnalbdypq3h4t7kxjdb7akb6md6cqxxan7c4ppb64pkg2hpa)
![Screenshot of PEGI's rating card for Balatro justifying the 18+ rating, with the utterly bonkers statement "Because these are [poker] hands that exist in the real world, this knowledge and skill could be transferred to a real-life game of poker."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks5e55phe7kiob4yjgjm44sh/bafkreibgrlzg2z4fn5k4ktrk2u75nvqc2bo33t3a63fy6km3loponzx4na)
![From Twitter: [Pennsylvania] Governor Josh Shapiro comments on the arrest of [suspected UnitedHealth CEO murderer] Luigi Mangione: "Some attention in this case, especially online, has been deeply disturbing as some have looked to celebrate instead of condemning this killer. [...] In America, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy"
Reply from @danishacarterr: "killing people in cold blood to resolve policy is precisely how america was founded, actually lol"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks5e55phe7kiob4yjgjm44sh/bafkreibfxzr63sq6umcuxbabpxldyxggfedf5guxlqzegy6q6axzlmyejy)
