The replies are all people saying ‘Piker is just joking’ when he says something horrendous

And I thought that in the age of Donald John Trump we maybe should not accept that BS anymore.

With the 2026 elections 6 months away, now is your best opportunity to be part of building the better Democratic Party to win back power and wield it to improve lives and fight authoritarianism and autocracy. Look at joining your local committee - ours meets next week!
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We’ll need to build the world where this is possible, not just ask for it, by working to elect democrats (and better ones) overwhelmingly across the ballot but especially for senate. A democratic administration being anything more than a caretaker means winning senate seats now in 2026 and in 2028.

Orbán gone, pipeline fixed: EU unlocks $105B for Ukraine Ukraine is about to get a much-needed infusion of cash from the European Union. It's a sign of how politics are shifting in the wake of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's election loss.

The European Union is providing Ukraine with $105 billion in funding.

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We got the Brother laser that just will never die.

With the 2026 elections 6 months away, now is your best opportunity to be part of building the better Democratic Party to win back power and wield it to improve lives and fight authoritarianism and autocracy. Look at joining your local committee - ours meets next week!
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We’ll need to build the world where this is possible, not just ask for it, by working to elect democrats (and better ones) overwhelmingly across the ballot but especially for senate. A democratic administration being anything more than a caretaker means winning senate seats now in 2026 and in 2028.

I’ve started seeing proposals like “DNC party bylaw banning candidates over 75” but we don’t control who goes to state elections offices and pulls paperwork they’re legally entitled to. We have pretty limited control over ballot access in the states where we have any.
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One beautiful spring day in April 2010, after moving to Lowell in 2009, I decided to walk out of my apartment and get lost for the day. The journey took me through Francis Gate Park, where an older gentleman on a park bench invited me to have a seat and learn some history of the city. It was neat.

In Massachusetts to get on a major party’s statewide primary ballot (governor, US senate, attorney general, etc) you need to file state paperwork and get at least 15% of the party convention’s endorsing vote. Being old could be a reason you get under 15% but we couldn’t legally impose an age cap.

Filing for elections is state paperwork, and you can’t stop legally eligible people from filing. In some states, state parties have the ability to place or bar candidates from statewide primary ballots, but those are state parties, in not all states, and not for age reasons.

Dems just forced House Republicans to pull votes on a bill to weaken the Endangered Species Act, after their support buckled. Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌏🌎

People wont take us seriously until we actually knock out the bully. In 2029 Dems must throw these dogs into a cell they’ll never hope to crawl out of

From the GOP to the “free” press, these people must fear us

Not everyone has decades of being a national avatar of wealth and success and the professional affinity of the media from being a tv show host to offset any harm to electability from being offensive.

While two week pay periods are very common, I get paid weekly, which is also fairly common. Monthly is quite rare.

My state Senator, Vanna Howard, will be voting for the PROTECT Act (and speaking for it on the senate floor). Will yours?

I had been unhappy with Facebook even before then because Meta has long been a malicious entity pushing far-right radicalization and actively abetting crimes from lynch mobs in South Asia to Jan 6th. It was worse than pre-Musk Twitter. The junk feed made it easier to quit.
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There are some interesting results in here. I’ll note that while I retain an account to keep in touch with people on Messenger I’ve barely used Facebook since 2021 because its feed is an unusable avalanche of junk, and I deleted my X/Twitter account in 2024 as it had become really just Musk’s blog.

The extent to which social media platforms made the experience demonstrably worse over the period in question is a truly fascinating phenomenon. Only some of it was the Musk fash madness. Lots of it was just financial decisions dominating UX considerations.

I largely stopped using Facebook in 2021 because my posts were invisible in the algorithm to even my wife and the interface became unusable with the feed dominated by ads and other promoted content. I retain an account there though but I deleted mine on X/twitter after the election in 2024.

Democrats Once Loathed Gerrymandering. Now They’re Pushing for It.

The words "North Carolina," and "Missouri" do not appear in this piece of shit article.

Neither does the word "decade."

"Florida" and "Texas" appear in subordinate clauses, after words like "After Virginia ..." and "Gov. Gavin Newsom of California framed ..."

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this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

They think you're stupid.

This fits with what I was saying yesterday - the (later) ad campaign was very straightforward about what they were proposing and why bsky.app/profile/john...

Interesting - the early weeks of the yes campaign had more bipartisan messaging but they switched to an anti-Trump angle, which worked better www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

I once worked on a story about Guinea worm disease and it is truly horrific and painful. It's nickname is "Little Dragon" because of the pain caused by the worm exiting a person's skin.

This has been an incredible effort by The Carter Center.

These are not serious people anymore and we need to make sure they get beaten the way their dangerous unseriousness deserves.

Nina Turner reposting BJG reposting Stew Peters reposting Tucker Carlson, a real nightmare turducken there

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

It did not look like it was going to produce a commercial aircraft, because the physics of flight are just not good for supersonic passenger planes, so it was probably going to just waste a lot of money. Now that they're pivoting to power I'd be shocked if that produces a commercial product either.