If Steve Cohen just wants a Jewish guy from the Upper East Side who makes a lot of bizarre decisions, he could always just hire me to run the Mets

@siriusxmprog.bsky.social "State of the States" this weekend:

@jordanz.bsky.social for deep dive on flippable state leg races and ballot measures www.progressreport.news

@ohhousedems.bsky.social leader Dani Isaacsohn on their affordability agenda & candidate recruitment
www.ohhousedems.com

With Congress useless and state governments gerrymandered, the ballot initiative — direct democracy — is often the best way to effect change.

This year, there are huge initiatives on housing, civil rights, wages, and much more.

I made a website to help you track them all: ontheballot.news

Beginning to get the feeling that Donald Trump isn't actually a devout Christian?

Imagine if Joe Biden had done this instead of allowed literally everyone in Trump world to get away with all their crimes

My brain is so fucking fried from the internet that I can't even write for the internet

Big FlipStates.org update: I added links to all candidates and districts, updated races, and fixed some bugs. This is your one-stop shop for the most competitive and important state legislative races. flipseats.org

Fun fact interesting to me specifically: Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar is cousins with San Diego Padres outfielder Alex Verdugo.

Pam Bondi has a chance to do the funniest thing

Third Way's only constituency is the people who cover Third Way.

Not a fan of the government that throws people in concentration camps requesting Lists of Jews at colleges. Doesn't portend well.

A misleading “vote no on gerrymandering” mailer featuring Barack Obama, who endorsed the measure that this opposes.

Barack Obama endorsed the Virginia redistricting amendment, but one right-wing group is using his face and an old tweet in mailers to suggest he opposes it.

Excited to launch FlipSeats.org, a resource dedicated to tracking the most winnable seats in key legislatures around the country.

Democrats could win four trifectas this year and break several GOP supermajorities. I'll be updating this as new candidates emerge and primaries play out.

You’re right, I messed that up transferring data from my spreadsheets. Will fix asap!

Trump paying TSA agents without any deal to fund DHS may technically be illegal but it's actually a good outcome for Democrats. Now they have no reason at all to cave and fund DHS.

It's like he's reading from Dictators For Dummies and following all the steps

Carson Benge, Mets legend.

maybe the bird was expecting O'Neil Cruz to catch it

I LOVE This. Amazing resource

Thank you @jordanz.bsky.social

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It is just me! It's an offshoot of my newsletter: ProgressReport.news. But I always welcome help!

Excited to launch FlipSeats.org, a resource dedicated to tracking the most winnable seats in key legislatures around the country.

Democrats could win four trifectas this year and break several GOP supermajorities. I'll be updating this as new candidates emerge and primaries play out.

There's just too information coming at me at all times. Slow down the information, please. Reduce the content, news, and facts for a minute.

The Perished Kennedys

Reminds me of the Napster days, when you had to search for silly code names like "Less Than Jack" for the band Less Than Jake.

Yes I'm revealing a lot about myself with this post but fuck it.

Trump’s economic approval rating is lower than when half the country was unemployed during a mass extinction event

Mark DeRosa is still fully confident that the US can win this tournament

Venezuela defeating the USA at baseball in Florida in a stadium called LoanDepot Park is a twist you’d call too on-the-nose if you saw it in a movie

This one’s for all the oil

Inexcusable that Mark Warner does not have a legitimate primary challenge this year.

this is a terrific resource from @jordanz.bsky.social.

State leg races really fucking matter

We wouldn't be having 4/21 Virginia redistricting ballot measure if Ds didn't control the House and Senate - and when first passed last fall, House margin was 51-49. Senate 21-19