Democrats will call this treasonous fascist "my good friend"

I think this is a great example of the limitations of polling. Collins is polling at 44%, and where the Democrat polls is just a function of "have you heard of this person?"

Republicans are fucking psychotic.

this is the dark truth. you are never going to convince an Asian engineer who hates immigrants and white-collar jobs that we need democratic socialism. you're just not. we just need him to spend Election Day sitting at home playing GTA VI instead of voting.

One of the many things that I think is rotting civic society into irrelevance these days is the constant willingness of public figures to assert that they believe things that should have revolutionary implications while clearly acting like they don't.

This is the future of climate change denial as it becomes more difficult to ignore, it'll just be endless scapegoating

I'm sorry, I hate Platner as much as anybody, but if you can't see how the door to people like him is opened by establishment Dems being pretty weak on this and other issues, IDK what to tell you.

People on here mock the British sometimes for being obsessed with rules and regulations but the American pathology increasingly seems to be a refusal to believe that your actions can affect other people.

It’s hard to describe to Gen Z pre-Trump this was a conservative parody and now it’s the real thing.

I sincerely hope every single Hispanic contractor who has ever considered voting for a Republican realizes that if they are victims of an ICE murder their workplace supplies will be used to smear them as a drug dealer too

Good: The temperature today is not so oppressive. Bad: Because the sun is bloated out by a thin layer of Wildfire Smoke.

Graham Platner is a rapist with a Nazi tattoo who has no real political experience. Abdul El-Sayed is a left-wing Muslim who ran the health department of one of the country’s most populous counties. To “Jewish Insider,” these are apparently the same.

JD Vance is telegraphing that he is going to run as an antiwar candidate in 2028, based around a Dolchstoßlegende that absurdly blames Israel for being the sole cause of the Iran War. And that is going to awaken levels of antisemitism in the US that we have not seen in decades.

These are the 103 House Democrats (plus Massie) who voted today to cut off U.S. funding for Israel. Everyone else voted no, present or didn’t vote. Final vote: amendment failed 104-314.

Convinced that Argentina is scoring all of these late goals to win games because their bodies are finally waking up around 4:30pm local time.

The thing about basing the political culture of your movement around baseless conspiracy theories is that you run the risk that your followers will fall for conspiracy theories about YOU.

Ed Case is quietly one of the worst Democrats in Congress and his district consists entirely of the Honolulu urban core, massive opportunity for an upgrade here

I choose to believe this.

Have to admire Haley Stevens’ shamelessness in voting to keep the Israel gravy train going during a close primary where she’s also trying to laughably pretend she’s tough on Israel. She thinks Democratic voters are stupid.

cabo verde held both world cup finalists to a draw across 90 minutes and almost took argentina to penalties, easily the best performance anyone has put up against either team all world cup

Pelosi and Clark both being yeses really hammers home that Jeffries's decision not to whip against this was because he feared a majority of his members would expressly disobey him

england score within 15 minutes, sit back, lose 2-1 with an 87th minute goal is a very credible scenario

I think that if CA used eminent domain to seize all of the alfalfa and almond farms using Colorado river water, and built solar and wind power on the land, it would solve like 2/3 of the climate issues in the United States once you consider second and third order effects.

i think the rural revenge stuff is silly and bad but it is genuinely quite fascinating to me how many people have a weirdly uncritical Jeffersonian ideal about rural America

Thunder Bay, Ontario:

I’m supporting England because I want a South American team to win, but after France got eliminated yesterday I have no other choice

red states routinely compromise the ability of their cities to do basic self governance but if you ever dare suggest that urban Americans act in their political self interest it's endless "do you have no SOUL, those are REAL people, how DARE" and it's fucking pathetic. have some self respect

in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors

This is amazing news. I still think we should brand everybody who ever worked there with a cattle iron but it’s gone.

been trying to figure out what it is people want youth to Do with every activity and space being taken from them, internet starting to be walled off, but adults not liking them at home either and i think the unstated desire is "some kind of constantly running summer camp, but one we don't pay for"

"Best! Beat! Ever!" (proceeds to tell an anecdote about a senator telling her to go buy a dress before she's allowed to write a story about him in the wake of a racist mass shooting)

low info voters are constantly being convinced that Republicans have more moderate policies (and Democrats more left wing policies) than they actually do and the mainstream media is a huge accomplice in this effort.

All that changed after Noem was fired was the publicity-seeking. The illegal policies were the same.

Their model: 1) Racism is largely individual not systemic. 2) Racism only exists if it’s egregious. 3) Racism is only egregious if it’s outlandish/one explicitly states their intent to be racist. 4) Even then, it’s probably just words that won’t extend to action, and they didn’t *really* mean it.

roberts et al have a mental model of racism as being defined entirely by the most atavistic mania of the jim crow south. if it isn’t that, if it wears suits and ties and speaks the language of national security and executive authority, then it not only doesn’t count, *it’s not racism*

Hakeem Jeffries is going to be primaried at some point. He will enrage the Dem Base.

Care homes should be putting on the beatles and the stones by now. Sounds like a dig at boomers but it's not: residents would genuinely vibe with it more.

toy story 6 and the villain is a police body cam that keeps turning itself off

Genuinely the guy is like "yeah, some settler gangs kidnapped me, but let's still send the state more bombs and interceptors". This shouldn't be hard to outflank!

Jupiter From Below (Enhanced Color) - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/RM55b7

you tell them they can't hang out in the park after dark. you chase them off the basketball courts. the skate parks have all been dismantled. all their third spaces have been ripped from them. i don't know what you expect them to do that doesn't cost money

most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Two new ICE killings this week and they aren’t even bothering to claim a legitimate reason for using deadly force. This is homicide as policy.

ICE agents shouldn’t be executing people on the street even if they ARE the target of the warrant

this is the closest ICE has ever come to saying "yeah we just murdered a guy"

small business owners are a deeply cursed class, small business owners *in the South* are forsaken by God

To date, immigration officials have shot and killed 11 people, including two Minnesotans. Across the country, they operate with no respect for human life, the law, or consequences. There's no reforming this agency. Rip it apart.

very disinterested in trying to triangulate through "what if a minority person who has experienced racism is themselves pretty racist?" the answer to this question is i do not give a shit