Trump is posting AI videos featuring things he never said to promote policies he hasn’t signed that would introduce medical equipment that doesn’t exist.

A lot of conservatives are unironically afraid of places that look like this though

fwiw I think one possibility that people are discounting when they read these median voter profiles is that lying is cognitively harder than telling the truth. so people give bullshitting answers that sound dumb

one sign of progress is that he at least seems too ashamed to tell the interviewer he is a two-time trump voter

This bananapants Yarvin tweet is a perfect example of why it's more useful to think of the US right as a movement defined by emotions and imagination, more than it is a movement defined by anything we could reasonably call "ideas." Yarvin is a first-rate reactionary fabulist, and a 7th rate thinker.

Fleeing immoderately from suspicion of involvement, Musk crosses over to implying he knew enough of what was up on that island to “REFUSE” but told no one and did nothing to protect the victims.

I really would rather they do this than not. Because it gives their primary opponents fodder for 2026.

to be honest a bunch of the founders would have probably been less concerned by "mohammadans" than irish catholics like walsh

Trump can't be held accountable for his lies because he's a liar and can't be held accountable for things he says he'll do because everyone knows he's a liar which means you lie if you tell the truth about what he says he'll do, even if it's true. Checkmate, liberals.

the president just said the military should start shooting american civilians if they want to

We’ve grown numb to it but people being referred to as “illegal alien” is absolutely fucking insane and total dehumanization

What is even the point here other than "Woman BAD?" These Gamergaters don't even try to pretend they're not misogynistic.

Man i know this gets said a lot but god twitter has really turned into such a fucking hell hole

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

More than anything, they want to be patted on the head and told they're a good boy by the liberal elites

Thune's word means shit if a CR is a polite suggestion to the king he can revise infinitely at his leisure

A big hand to John Roberts for shutting down the government in a week.

I hate to be like "its all gender" but the Dems=Mom, Rs=Dad dynamic really does track. Dems have to fix everything Rs broke *&* appeal to ppl that hate them *&* overcome sabotage from Rs *&* not complain about any of it. Rs get to be shitty with no expectation of long term consequences.

So of course they end up being burned by a 'seriousness,' bc, @purrtah.bsky.social notes, whenever they lose theyre supposed to go thru a struggle session about why they suck & are hated but when Rs lose theres no expectation that they change to attract voters in deep blue states.

Its a deeply dysfunctional dynamic where Republicans are allowed to not provide for the material welfare of the country, to treat their own voters poorly, to treat the voters of the opposite party viciously, & just generally be destructive. Meanwhile Dems are expected to fix all that as their role.

Like an oldest child in a broken home thats expected to take care of their younger siblings, the burdens of responsibility thatve been placed on them cant do much else but breed a seriousness while Republicans manage to escape all obligations to the country or agency for their own actions.

I think it was Bouie who noted a few weeks ago (paraphrasing here) that Dems are trapped within this affect of seriousness that actually often works against them, which I think is true but also that comes out of the fact that the country writ large has decided that thats the role they must inhabit.

also everybody who wrote a 'Don't panic, liberals. I have known [X appointee] for twenty years and they are a principled upholder of the law' should be laughed out of the room every time they voice an opinion in future.

until there's a Republican congress and a Democratic president, in which case it will suddenly be very important. the country cannot function as a real democracy with corrupt, partisan serial liars controlling the Supreme Court; it has to be the first priority of a new administration.

This feels like something that would be politically advantageous for the GOP if SCOTUS stopped it. Yet they allow Trump to do it anyway. (Wink wink nudge nudge duties on foreign goods.)

Kinda hard to say there's a reason to keep the government open if there really isn't one I guess. It's Trumps piggy bank and he spends our money as he sees fit. Pretty sharp lines on that one.

elon musk: the only reason any westerner might have for living in thailand is pedophile sex tourism also elon musk: there might be any number of reasons for visiting little saint james island that have nothing to do with anything unsavory, from the pristine beaches to the intellectual fellowship

Although I do think YIMBYism would benefit from a lot more anti-landlord aesthetic trappings. No real change in policy needed

Braids are a great way to keep your hair out of your face, especially when ICE teargasses you. Also they don’t get caught in a respirator. 10/10 would recommend.

My #MESen take: The best-case scenario for Dems is that Mills runs but loses the primary. It'll mean a candidate with serious chops has emerged—and discredit Schumerism. If Mills wins the nod, then she'd better be as popular as Schumer thinks. Worst-case: Mills runs and other Dem candidates bail.

I'd bet my entire life savings that this doesn't only apply to immigration. That pandering to the right on ANYTHING has the same effect. I never want to hear the word "bipartisanship" again.

If anyone ever tells you academics are some privileged caste that imposes its woke agenda on a guileless political class, you can point to the sheer, stubborn refusal even to entertain the lessons of a significant current of research about far-right normalisation.

The evidence for this argument has grown and grown, and become increasingly convincing. The policy remains difficult, unavoidably. But the rhetoric is clearly wrong. Critically, the centre left must directly challenge the slow normalisation of far right ideas for both moral and tactical reasons.

white supremacists and capitalists got so mad at one 18 month stretch of increased labor power that they've agreed to reverse the most complex economy in human history to an agrarian state

Reminder that James Comey is more than any one man the reason Donald Trump is President.

One of the key differences between the current day Labour politics and Reform type politics is that while both parties dislike immigration, Labour tend to see it as a management problem while for Reform it is a corruption of the correct moral social order.

PSA: New York Times Voter Interviews are deliberate rage bait.

This is the kind of thing you hear from lazy sports analysts about an inferior team that gets an early lead but then blows it.

yeah this guy is dumber than donkey shit

i really wish our law enforcement and media werent telegraphing to mass shooters that messages written on bullets will be breathlessly and uncritically publicized with no further examination

Again it's wild how the Dems basically gave republicans a layup and they're so committed to fucking over people they're like "nah"

They're not even gonna call attention the fact that the only people shot/killed/injured were people held in their torture prisons?

America First but from the left, I guess

the lesson of the kimmel thing is that a corporation that previously caved to trump was forced by its audience to defy him. they're afraid of him but they're more afraid of you.

Every other country be like: "Tisk tisk America. How dare you fall for the obvious lies of the world's most obvious conman? Unlike our own far-right, who bring up valid and intelligent points about immigration."

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.