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Anti-BDS. Gay. Southern Ute/Hispano. Center-Left. Burqueño. Broncos fan.

Albuquerque, NM
Joined March 2009
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
They’re not making leadership decisions to own leftists. They’re simply ignoring leftists because Tues night made that crowd irrelevant. I’m guessing your media diet gave you a false sense of where things are at. You probably shouldn’t watch pundits who lie to you!
Replying to @hutchinson
Watching the centrists response to this election is ruining my excitement. They would rather have ineffectual leadership run the show to own the leftists and risk losing in 2028 than actually get anything done.
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
Ossoff, Andrews, Jeff Merkley, and Ben Ray Lujan also generated larger swings with young men. Clearly El-Sayed's team wants people to believe he hit on magic here but it's just not true.
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
Replying to @dwallacewells
Here is the 18-29 men comparison. El-Sayed did worse than Talarico, Brown, or Roy Cooper — those other guys just weren't as effective at getting someone to write them up as Young Man Whisperers.
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
The DSA has 100k members few of whom have jobs so of course they are calling
These numbers are going up, by the way: A Democratic House staffer told me their office got nearly 800 calls about Jeffries on Friday alone. Most of the staffers I'm talking to describe this as the most call volume they've ever experienced. axios.com/2026/11/06/jeffrie…
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
The “normal lib” faction is currently the strongest it has been in the last two decades. Shapiro, Warnock, obviously Ossoff, we have *several* candidates that have extremely broad appeal and would cake walk in 2028. This reality will slowly sink in for the arsonist dem faction…
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
This is so funny Jennifer Welch deserves every bit of this
Replying to @BrianAtlas
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
Left bloc was hoping Dems would do worse in the election and a small majority would let them old the Speaker vote hostage to force Jeffries to hold these counterproductive floor votes to set up more primary challenges, but a big majority means he can just tell them to fuck off.
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
Don’t listen to anyone who wants you to lose every single time
Replying to @mattyglesias
Left bloc was hoping Dems would do worse in the election and a small majority would let them old the Speaker vote hostage to force Jeffries to hold these counterproductive floor votes to set up more primary challenges, but a big majority means he can just tell them to fuck off.
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
This is, unfortunately, what it's like talking to 90% of socialists. They can't discuss Marx, they can't discuss capital or labor value, they can't even properly define what socialism *is.* It's a completely brainrotted movement, filled with authoritarian half wits.
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
Looks like Jennifer Welch’s podcast is bleeding sponsors.
Replying to @BrianAtlas
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
Under discussed element to all of the last week is the movement of white working class voters towards the Democratic Party.
Fact: 84% of the House districts Dems are on track to flip this year contain a Cracker Barrel, and just 59% are home to a Whole Foods. By contrast, 67% of the districts Dems flipped in 2018 contained a Whole Foods, and just 56% were home to a Cracker Barrel.
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
Having the leaders of both houses come from the same city is a reasonable complaint I think. But I will point out that during the post-WWII era of Democratic dominance, Boston and Texas dominated the party leadership. We had two Speakers and a President from Boston, and a President, Speaker and Majority Leader from Texas. They called it the “Boston-Austin Axis”
My issue with a Schumer-Jeffries leadership is that it’s just NYC. The Democratic Party has long seen its leadership come from the coastal states. We in the Midwest and South have felt ignored
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
Guess the trust funds aren’t enough, because they paid themselves $2.49 million from their grassroots donation pool
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
I expect the left to knife Ossoff because they want a long bloody primary fight and Ossoff will probably end it on Super Tuesday.
I get everything wrong except democratic presidential primaries which I have never been wrong about (for better or worse!) I was a Kerry Kid, Obamabot, Hillary boi, Biden man, Biden-must-drop-out-and-Kamala-will-be-better Bro) and right now I am tentatively an Ossoff-er.
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Replying to @amyklobuchar
Hey Amy can you work on fighting the rising antisemitism on the left. Please. I've literally voted for you for every office, every election you've been in.
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
These people need to be viciously mocked and ostracized. They are the reason stuff is going to shit. They're rich, populist pundits making money from whining while offering ZERO solutions. Zero policies. Zero legislation.
Trevor Noah argues the Avengers are actually the bad guys “The Avengers is the perfect allegory for the Democrats in America.” “They like to fight against the bad guy, but they do not like to do anything to prevent bad guyness from happening again.” “They’re not willing to sacrifice anything to prevent it from happening.” “At least Thanos had a vision… He was willing to sacrifice something.”
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Remember to thank all the Chorus influencers who told you to accept the DSA to preserve their big tent. They let these arsonists into the tent
The DSA aligned vs establishment war is fully underway! The first big test is whether or not Hakeem is confirmed. Right now, progressives are working double time to make sure he’s not. Watch how this plays out very closely
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
What Shapiro has done in Pennsylvania is incredible. He’s single-handedly repaired the Democratic Party’s image for PA citizens by demonstrating good governance and avoiding academic, ideological fights. He could only win by 23 points by bringing in independents & republicans.
Governor Josh Shapiro says he is “thinking about right now governing with a Democratic trifecta for the first time since 1978” instead of running for president “I think coming from the swingiest swing state in America, we’ve got a little bit to say about that, and I definitely intend to be a part of that conversation about what our party looks like going forward.” Source: CNN
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
Something people should consider (but they won't) is that Ossoff winning by +8 will get a lot more progressive agenda items done than AOC winning by +2 because of the coattails extended to congress in 2028. Even if he is less progressive than her. This comes back to the "what if Bernie" won idea, where people have deluded themselves into thinking Bernie 2017 would have been anything other than zero legislation getting passed, certainly no big ticket transformational change bills.
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Tom🏳️‍🌈 retweeted
The left is always so confident about how much sway it has in national primaries but it has no reason to be so confident! They have never won even one of these lol. They are one faction in a party with lots of factions. Calm down.
Do you support the Green New Deal? Ossoff [smugly]: no Do you support Medicare for All? Ossoff [smugly]: no Do you support abolishing ICE? Ossoff [smugly]: no Any poll that has Jon Ossoff or Gavin Newsom as more likely to win a general election over AOC is a junk poll.
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