And for those watching from parliamentary democracies, the American people made a bad choice in November of 2024 and our system doesn't have a mechanism to unmake that choice even partially for 2 years, at least not in any systemic way.

if you don’t think you can campaign on abolishing this agency and prosecuting the people involved - if you don’t think you’re able to make that case using this video and other like it - get the fuck out of politics

It's the kind of day where you fervently want to believe that hell is real and God is just

Loss of public support is a problem for even the .ost authoritarian regimes. What the Trump administration is testing is, what if they are unaware of this fact?

So depressing how often the answer to "why dont dems do/say X" is that they did and nobody gave a shit

Read theory

most powerful international cooperation in history, born out of the ashes of the worst thing our species has done to itself, and this rotting rapist corpse burns it all for the Mercator projection just fucking kill me man

America is worth fighting for, as is Greenland, as is Europe, as is Taiwan, as is every last scrap of liberal territory on this godless earth. There is no refuge, and there is no Great Ledger by which we are judged. Justice and punishment must be effected, and almost always the juice ain't there.

Yeah I feel like the explanation isn't "Americans don't care about NATO and are thuggish Redcaps," it's "most Americans assumed NATO was a fixture of the diplomatic universe, because who would be stupid enough to sacrifice it?"

Yes it's basically the cargo cult fascism traveling roadshow and circus lol

The major story here is that the most vaunted correspondent for a small, but influential magazine is an anti-vaxx, pro-Trump nut and shaped her coverage to support those views. The blast radius over this hasn’t extended remotely far enough.

Forget the Bechtel test, why about the “this woman is a stand-in for the writers’ distaste for Hillary Clinton” test because I gotta say that trope keeps playing

There are only 2 real policy responses to a housing shortage. You can either get to work building enough housing for everyone or start making a list of the types of people you want to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

Yes but on the other hand: I can't believe voters fell for it again. I will be bitter about it until my dying day.

One of the most valuable lessons my father taught me was to use my voice to speak up whenever I see wrong doing. Thanks to every researcher who spoke up against this unethical study and for every reporter who amplified. Advocacy matters. @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Headlines out of the UK about the Tories remind me uncomfortably of the 2016 Republican primary. Watching various conservative clowns eat shit at the hands of Trump was funny at the time...

Okay, fine. Donald Trump is magic so there's no point in resisting or trying to make sense of him. What a profound and useful insight!

The US got the benefits of empire without a lot of the costs but we elected a guy who doesn't believe it's real without his name on the side and it turns out neither do a plurality of voters.

Goddamn Labelmaker Ozymandias.

You know, i cant help but feel that if they're successful they're going to regret it. Unfortunately they're too dumb to realize that.

New Gallup figures in these charts. Well, so much for that emerging Republican majority people were writing about in November 2024. Was evidently a mass overreaction to Trump's win and failure to acknowledge softness of support, and thermostatic politics www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...

I get emails from my mom:

i’m sure ICE guys with their guns and masks fancy themselves big brave men, but when you see real, honest courage it knocks you on your ass. it’s a glimpse of something holy.

twitter cooked a lot of brains among the reactionary elite but it’s got nothing on their degenerate group chats where apparently everyone is sharing tips on fascism and how to sexually exploit 22 year old stanford grads

The world's reactionaries having coalesced into a single giant katamari ball of ideology, I'm curious what happens if we beat them.

The problem is not civility! The problem is that a man shot a woman in broad daylight, on video and may well get away with it because he is the armed goon of a mafia state that no longer believes in justice, but only in power. That is not a civility problem! Nazis are not a civility problem!

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

People are going to want more assertiveness and I respect that but I think the reason Walz and Frey are skeptical of pitting state and local cops against CBP/ICE is because most state and local cops sympathize with Donald Trump over their own elected leaders & communities.

Two things can be true at once: 1) Trump and Miller were hoping a civilian got killed by ICE, so they could have a big public fight about it. 2) This killing may not work out how they hoped.

So given that ICE agents are standing literally behind him is this the official position of the government?

I work for ICE. Going home after a hard day of pushing over old ladies in wheelchairs. Driving my F350 Super Duty, monthly payment of $1550. Wearing mirrored oakleys, black gaiter, armored vest, desert camo, and beige Adidas superstars. Gonna kick my dog + scream at my wife. I am the hero we need.

every day i am haunted by this from First Reformed

This may be correct but it would still be worth a shot to get this asshole.

There is no amount of 'Being Right on the Internet' that is worth that future. There is no amount of domestic political clarity that is worth that future. Touch the stove if you must. Please do not use the gas stove to blow up the house with me still in it. You do not want that future. /end

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

I had an old post on Twitter about this. The US spends about 18% of its GDP on the social safety net and 3.5% on military. Germany spends about 24-25% of its GDP on the social safety net and 2% on the military. Our military spending is not why they can have nice things or why we don't.

i must not triangulate my politics. triangulation is the mind killer. triangulation is the little death that brings total electoral obliteration. i will remain firm in my convictions. i will use rhetoric to convince others that my convictions are virtuous. when triangulation is gone, virtue remains

Wrote about the kidnapping of Maduro as just another content creation project for a regime of natural-born posters badfaithtimes.com/they-did-it-...

Welp, I think that’s a lock on the “VP bribing Trump into doing a coup attempt on their behalf” theory.

articles of impeachment from the minority *are* strongly worded letters

So does Gustavo Petro play Valorant or is this just one of those group chats that just kinda got out of hand because the nerds decided to start talking about professional stuff?

Okay here’s an actual take: the fascist international is at war with the very concept of legitimacy.

Only 3 more years of this.

Ok, that's it, he's gotta go

… Speaker Jeffries statement:

This is actually on of the reasons Trump is so dangerous. The US military is a terrifyingly powerful instrument in the hands of a genuine moron. This is a problem!