doing some research for work and came across this 2011 moment. in case people think the right just became insane overnight.

we can do better than a vague embarrasment, Tesla should be a specific indictment of our entire society

I've been watching these terrible Washington Post podcast clips on YouTube, and dear god, this is bleak. Also, the view counts are just... how are they so low?

I will reiterate the point made by @jamellebouie.net : if you really wanted online political influence, you’d be making vertical video. you’d be learning how to do little booty dances while talking about political theory. you’d be mastering doing BTS fan-cams while talking about anti-capitalism

ENOUGH ALREADY WHEN WILL THIS MADNESS END? WE ARE KILLING EACH OTHER HERE

just use the starship troopers template. im serious. TRUMP IS USING YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO BUILD A BALLROOM -- WHILE GAS PRICES SOAR FOR AN ILLEGAL WAR. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? youtu.be/3cktmS-yaxM

Yesterday a few folks pointed out that Trump has changed major details about his reflecting pool project since he announced it in late April. I've created a video with graphics that point out how much he's lied about it. This includes edits of longer rambling statements.

good on house dems for holding this hearing and generating news

i think its "funny" how the right says systemic racism isnt a thing and we dont live with its legacy

what liberals/leftists/democrats need to learn to do is something i call "sexing up" the truth. thats the term the brits used for making sketchy iraq war propaganda palatable to the public to push for combat. only we should do it with the truth. probably mostly with video, tbh.

Inkling suspicion everyone who spent the last three weeks demanding the discourse be entirely about Hasan Piker are suddenly going to never mention him again

its just bizarre to me to say that bluesky is a siloed off bubble detached from real debate when everyone over here hates the president with a 30% approval and everyone over there thinks things are going so well that we have entered a 1000 year conservative reign

Enten: "It's not just one poll. The five worst polls ever for any president on inflation, they all belong to Donald Trump and they have all occurred in the last month. What we're talking about here is the worst numbers ever. Joe Biden isn't in there. Jimmy Carter isn't in there."

we are largely being led by the people and mindset that lost to george w bush and donald trump. twice. and they insist only they know politics and not dumb, naive progressives. its wild.

i think the most telling media episode for democrats is that when the narrative turned on them re israel the response wasn't to use the platforms to create a counternarrative. instead the democratic president signed legislation to kill tiktok. thats the dem donor/party mindset. and its dumb.

Mike Johnson is the natural successor of the Jim Crow registrars who used to require Black people to correctly guess the number of jelly beans in a jar in order to register to vote.

the thing with losing to these guys over and over is that along with all of it, they just suck so bad. we should be trouncing these fuckers.

When you’re posting about Joe Scarborough criticizing Trump remember he was among the first media figures to go kiss Trump’s ring at Mar-A-Lago after Trump won.

What liberal media, continued

Mr President a second Trump term has just hit the economy

WASHINGTON (AP) - Wholesale prices jump 6% as energy prices soar, raising pressure on US companies to pass along costs to consumers. @apnews.com

The Republican Party is to the economy what the 9/11 jets were to the World Trade Center

Donald Trump was handed a stable, growing economy that was the envy of the industrialized world (incl. China) and drove it directly into a wall.

Never forget Tom Friedman’s “suck on this” analysis of why we had to invade Iraq. youtu.be/ZwFaSpca_3Q?...

tom friedman trying to talk tough:

extremely normal things happening in right-wing media

I think the trick is that a. if you look at the entire population, virtually no one is reading text based political discussions. b. if you look at people with some measure of power and influence, a lot of them read text based political discussions.

Me for the last 22 years when I think I’m done writing about media issues

Just call it Operation Thrusting Unit, Pete

Keep in mind that in 2020, James Hohmann — seen here rolling his eyes and saying “screw this” about racism effecting health disparities — was still on the news side and anchored the leading politics newsletter, read by hundreds of thousands everyday. But I’m sure he was “neutral” and “objective.”

“Fox News, which once portrayed John Fetterman as unfit to serve in the Senate, has now become a major promoter of the Pennsylvania Democrat as he turns against his own party.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

“Between Feb. 14 and May 1 of this year, Fetterman made at least 30 appearances on Fox News’ air, according to data that Media Matters for America compiled exclusively for Daily Kos.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Fox News goes all in on Fetterman www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

PabloReports: Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender. AOC: I think it’s funny that he’s been taking a government paycheck for 23 years but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here.

Sundowning grandpa

The frame for 2028 and all future elections is The American People vs The Billionaires

🧵 🧵🧵 The constant bitching about Bluesky community and the obsession around it in certain parts - is not really any different than the dynamic around blogosphere/netroots circa 2003-08 (until those spaces became coopted). (1/6)

Jeff Bezos, who is worth over $250 billion, says it’s wrong for govt to provide moms with diapers. Fuck Bezos.

Actually it would have been smart to use Fortnite to sell infrastructure. “You build virtually, I build in reality.”

Bingo

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

I’m shocked shocked U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

this is absolutely BONKERS behavior from the director of the FBI. it's a disgrace to his position and the entire US government.

imagine if the obama or biden white houses had done things like this. "government, bitch"

youll never convince me that he isn't trying to lose, lol

people think coke and pepsi spend billions every year for stuff that doesnt motivate people to buy their products

some of the best propaganda was used to motivate the world to fight the most insidious fascism ever. it was great stuff.

ill never stop loving this idea that propaganda doesnt work on democratic voters. anyway.