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I do not have a fully formed take on this yet and it might be a while but it is striking to me that yday was overall a strong progressive showing but the independently wealthy progressives flopped
ICE flights. Tuesday, June 9, 2026.
At least 73 flights on 25 planes, including six removal flights to Mexico alone, plus five more removal flights.
was doing research for a longform project and stumbled across this Harvard grad video I’d forgotten about…actually cracked me up how they cut me off mid-sentence that was obviously going to close with something like ‘and we have a duty to use that power to help people’
obsessed w the progressive candidates willing to go up against the party apparatus to prove pivoting center to fight fascism is dumb as fuck
the Alabama governor unilaterally voiding election results and it barely making news just seems kinda ominous to me idk
when I saw she literally used the word vouch on page 4 I knew I was in for a wild ride
post abt how dem mayors/govs should be clearing out police forces that they feel won’t follow orders, get ‘they can’t do that’ replies; next day post abt how AL Gov is unilaterally voiding election results, get ‘how can she do that.’ feels representative of the dem understanding of U.S. politics rn
