Austin Ahlman

86-year-old former congressman Barney Frank joins CNN to discuss the future of the Democratic Party

Not even an epic whiskey guy but doing all this just to put some Jack Daniels in it is really funny

Good story. Noticed that the lobbyist here represents the group opposing the data center moratorium that Mills vetoed and legislature couldn't override on Wed. Story says they spoke that night & after Mills issued exec order. Also, (1/2) mainelobbying.com/profile/client…

Never flying Spirit again

“I say, look, if they’re bankrupting the country or covering up for pedophiles or starting another war or spying on you without a warrant, I’m sorry, that’s when I deviate from the party,” says Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). nytimes.com/2026/05/02/us/…

This is enough money to make community college free and expand Medicare to cover hearing, vision, and dental care. And instead we threw it away on another pointless war.

This is the plot to The Outer Worlds dude it’s so over.

I don’t think the problem with data centers is that they aren’t using enough resources or doing a good enough job of symbolizing wealth extraction and inequality,

Sopranos this, Mad Men that. But fucking Deadwood, man. Fucking DEADWOOD!

In NE-02, Democratic Majority for Israel was set to buy ads attacking John Cavanaugh until a second Super PAC backed by the New Dems upped their ad buy. The paper trail is clear. Denise Powell, the beneficiary of this ad, has said publicly she would reject AIPAC or DMFI support.

When @TrackAIPAC says Denise Powell got $750,000 from pro-Israel interests I think we can call that fair regardless of quirks in methodology.

The latest Jacobin article attacking data center moratoria weaponizes social justice language to shift blame from the Big Tech billionaires onto working class Americans fighting to protect their communities against further exploitation. Let's debunk some of these absurd claims🧵

The worst part of discourse is when the rats circle. Let’s hear about petty theft & progressive chic from a writer who blamed beating his girlfriend on rap music in his memoir! No? OK, what about a writer who argued there was a legal way to kill children? Still unconvinced?

FEC should consider this an in-kind contribution.

Nevada is a stand your ground state

The “we didn’t fail, the voters did” mentality has destroyed the Democratic Party.

oh, youvve read a few academic papers on the matter? cute. i have read over 100000 posts.

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.