Max. 27. liberal internationalist. grad student. I’ll stop using this app eventually
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This Haley Stevens thing reminds me that gas in Michigan is $4.57 and diesel is $6.68 because the President started a war with Iran that Mike Rogers has been wanting for his entire professional life.
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You should do your homework before making a fool of yourself. My father was a staunch Democrat his entire life breaking away only twice: he voted for Nixon because of his stand on China ("I don't think we can sweep the millions of Chinese under a rug" and for Reagan because he was a loyal friend.
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The thing that John Fetterman, Haley Stevens, and Brianna Wu have in common is that they all believe that they are more entitled to speak on behalf of Jews than actual Jews are
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Remember Chuds, voting is for sissies and losers — real men are staying home this week to wage culture war by Anakin-posting and watching Malfoid slop.
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As Haley's friend, I can't be silent.
Yesterday morning, afternoon, and evening, I spoke with @HaleyforMI several times.
At 8:58 this morning, she told me she intended to remain silent.
I don't know what changed in the two hours that followed. I want to believe she was being truthful with me.
I've known her fiancé, Jason Turkish, for years. I respect him as a brilliant lawyer and advocate for disabled Americans.
But I have become deeply troubled by his behavior.
I've heard serious concerns about his treatment of Haley's staff, friends, and allies. My own experiences have only deepened those concerns.
It is painful to watch someone you care about go through something like this. It is even more painful to worry about the influence of those closest to her.
I don't know what happened this morning, and I won't pretend that I do.
Haley is my friend. I am deeply concerned for her well-being. She deserves dignity, independence, and the freedom to make her own decisions.
But at the end of the day, this is bigger than any one person or political controversy.
We cannot lose sight of the people affected by these decisions and this conduct: her constituents, her staff, her friends, and the people who have placed their trust in her.
They deserve respect, accountability, and answers, too.
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Average swing state Democrat: "ohhh god I’m so nervous, are we gonna win by 6 points or 10???"
Meanwhile, the Michigan side plot:
As Haley's friend, I can't be silent.
Yesterday morning, afternoon, and evening, I spoke with @HaleyforMI several times.
At 8:58 this morning, she told me she intended to remain silent.
I don't know what changed in the two hours that followed. I want to believe she was being truthful with me.
I've known her fiancé, Jason Turkish, for years. I respect him as a brilliant lawyer and advocate for disabled Americans.
But I have become deeply troubled by his behavior.
I've heard serious concerns about his treatment of Haley's staff, friends, and allies. My own experiences have only deepened those concerns.
It is painful to watch someone you care about go through something like this. It is even more painful to worry about the influence of those closest to her.
I don't know what happened this morning, and I won't pretend that I do.
Haley is my friend. I am deeply concerned for her well-being. She deserves dignity, independence, and the freedom to make her own decisions.
But at the end of the day, this is bigger than any one person or political controversy.
We cannot lose sight of the people affected by these decisions and this conduct: her constituents, her staff, her friends, and the people who have placed their trust in her.
They deserve respect, accountability, and answers, too.
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It’s frankly delusional to argue Haley Stevens is making a principled stand against Abdul El-Sayed.
She was on TV just days ago urging everyone to vote for him. She’s done that for months. Stevens is mad his campaign spurned her—that’s it. There’s no honor in that.
I spoke with Haley Stevens yesterday.
Feeling a bit absurd in pointing out the obvious and being far kinder than I should have been, I reminded her that the outcome of this senate race will be viewed in the light of a future Supreme Court vacancy, and I expressed a hope that all of us understand the stakes.
She assured me she's supporting Dr. El-Sayed, sent me a video of a recent speech she gave blasting Mike Rogers and said this: "Still stands. I promise."
She also said she's been sending this video to other folks to make it clear where she stands on this race.
Again: that was yesterday.
I have known Haley Stevens for years. I have counted her as a friend and an ally. We've had many thoughtful conversations about this country, and she has never failed to remind me that her mother is a fan of my writing.
Whatever other political differences we have, she has always made it clear to me she would stand with LGBTQ people. It was a red line she refused to cross.
Instead, she has made the inexplicable decision to endorse a man who views LGBTQ Americans as second-class citizens unworthy of full equality.
I can't help but wonder what her mother must be thinking right now.
I have no idea what has happened to the person I thought I knew, but clearly, she has completely taken leave of her senses in endorsing a Republican who is little more than a Trump sycophant -- less than 24 hours after promising me that she has not wavered from the bigger picture.
I am disgusted with her cynicism and cowardice in this moment. God forgive me for trusting her.
If you're a Michigan voter and as disgusted as I am, get to your polling place and vote for Dr. El-Sayed.
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D+11 Michigan, D+7 Texas
The final Times/Siena polls of the campaign find Democrats ahead in all seven of the states likeliest to decide the Senate
nytimes.com/2026/11/01/us/po…
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Haley Stevens and I came into Congress together in the Blue Wave of 2018, and sadly, we fought a bruising primary in 2022 after redistricting. 1/5
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Lots of fancy Texas early vote analyses out there, but here's a simple fact: in the 23 counties that voted for any statewide federal Dem this decade, early votes cast are at 91% of '24 levels.
In the other 231 all-GOP counties, early votes cast are at just 79% of '24 levels.
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The story here is that at a dinner Stevens and her fiancé had with the former Dem Gov of Michigan two nights ago, her fiancé was, according to the former governor, kind of bullying her about having endorsed AES. To the point that the former governor stepped in to defend her. If this was happening at a dinner with an acquaintance, at best, you can imagine what must have been going on behind the scenes.
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It’s impossible to construct any standard of behavior toward religious minorities that El-Sayed fails but Rogers passes. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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What’s truly insane is that last night Haley Stevens credited Abdul El-Sayed for criticizing the Rebellion PAC ad
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I didn’t think it was possible to combine primary-loser-sour-grapes & Islamophobia into a more toxic cocktail than Andrew Cuomo. But Haley Stevens has managed to do it.
If she wants to betray civil rights, reproductive freedom, immigrant protections, and working families by endorsing Mike Rogers and trying to give control of the Senate to J.D. Vance and Donald Trump, I guess that's her business — but it’s appalling, oddly patronizing, and simply false to claim that it’s in the interest of Michigan’s Jewish communities.
Our safety comes from welcoming the stranger, fighting for universal human rights, and building pluralist democracy — not from endorsing neo-Nazi adjacent MAGA fanatics.
Fortunately, there’s a powerful response of solidarity and shared safety, that every Jewish & non-Jewish Michigander can do on Tuesday:
Vote for @AbdulElSayed
"gutsy" lol more like "batshit fucking insane"
Haley Stevens isn't dumb.
She knew before she backed Mike Rogers that she was abt to become the Democratic Party's greatest pariah this cycle. And that she'd never resurrect her political career if she did this.
If AES loses, she gets blamed. If he wins, she looks weak.
There is no political upside to what she did.
And yet she chose to do it anyway. Bc clearly she felt it was the right thing to do -- despite all the voices in her ear telling her not to.
Gutsy.
EXACTLY! blue no matter who cannot be one-way and we cannot afford to hold grudges. Trying to get progressives back for uncommitted or whatever (and I reject the equivalence between that and the current situation) just proves mods are equally strategically incompetent
