What we need most of all is a Democratic interested in self defense

a thing about these “priorities” is that they cannot be achieved without comprehensive Supreme Court reform, which means THAT is your actual priority

actual gestapo shit. "Video posted on social media showed two plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appearing to handcuff a man at a Las Vegas airport while he screamed in terror."

Millennial gray, along with other favorites like millennial licensing instead of buying, millennial economic precarity, and millennial once in a century crisis every 10 years

Solidarity during a crisis - no victim blaming Lionel Hutz: they got this all screwed up

Here’s the part that makes it hurt:

Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen

This thread has revealed that the biggest divide in our society is between the normal people who like sunlight in the evening and the sick freaks who want it to be dark at 5pm so they can get up to god knows what nefarious activities

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

An unfathomable clean air act violation. I worked in this exact field for years, including in oil and gas, and i still can't get over how wanton and obvious this crime is. Just stunning

I have a pretty good policy position record going back to when I was an annoying high schooler, but by far my biggest miss is legalized gambling. Oh my god did I underestimate how ubiquitous, destructive and annoying it would get, and how quickly it would insinuate itself into everything.

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.

NY Tmes exec editor Joe Kahn said in 2024 that the issue of democracy's survival was not a top priority in his newsroom's coverage. Now Trump is sending federal agents to NYT reporters' homes to deliver subpoenas over coverage he doesn't like. I wonder if democracy is a priority for Joe now.

Oh no, did the leopards eat their face? Maybe try to avoid getting him elected next time you dipshits

Someone said it looks like a suburban Thai restaurant lol

Got a feeling some of you sickos might find this useful in the next 20 minutes

The constitution guarantees due process before you voluntarily withdraw from a senate race

🫵😑THIS MF'S SOUL IS HEAVIER THAN A FEATHER

Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen

Historically authoritarian regimes that break the rules to steamroll Belgium have not done great

There's a lot of masculine anxiety out there among liberal or left-coded white-collar men when confronted with an alternative that seems more authentic and badass. That's not a good thing! It should be interrogated and rooted out! You're not less of a man because you vote for universal healthcare.

Nazi tattoo = bad Blackwater = worse This concludes our three week intensive course in selecting senate candidates

I can’t believe the nazi tattoo black water nepo baby is a shithead

the reason the discourse over this is reaching annoying heights that nobody wanted is because this guy is ontologically evil and is corrupting the entire moral fabric of this country in a way that is so transparent and humiliating that it is impossible to wash the taste out of your mouth

This is unbecoming conduct for a fifa world peace award recipient

Tbh I think what’s really going on here is that anyone who is advertising themselves as a “native” of a technology that has only existed for a few years is probably going to be some flavor of useless charlatan

Is the battle hymn of the republic too religious to be he anthem of a multicultural securely nation? Yes, of course. Does as he died to make men holy let us die to make men free go so fucking hard that all other considerations go out the window? Also yes.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic is not only a better and easier to sing melody, the lyrics are an affirmative statement of values and intent to bring liberty and freedom into a hostile world

Me logging in

Every inch given to the fascists over this disgusting, transparently artificial moral panic is an inexcusable surrender that will directly result in dead kids.

Some of you are a little too worried about a RED card in soccer and not worried enough about the ORANGE man in the White House!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mamdani: *fills potholes* Nichole: this is Stalinism, to me

the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!

my god

*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom

Serenity now...

Not to be that guy but if you are surprised by this you haven’t been fully accepted the extent to which the conservative justices are swimming in the exact same toxic sludge as the median Trump voter

Serenely remembering when Barrett argued that trans people shouldn’t be a protected class because there was not a history of formal discrimination against them

I think I could hazard a guess as to the relative cost of a few years of after school activities/summercamps vs having and raising 6 additional whole ass people to adulthood

lastly, funny how it is the court that determines whether something constitutes history and tradition. a century of established practice vindicated by a century of presidents, congresses and electoral majorities? means nothing because six harvard and yale grads read some bad scholarship

the claim of fraud is simply the claim that americans who vote for democrats are not legitimate members of the political community and their votes shouldn't count.

Preserving the fed carve out from the Slaughter decision is so comically bald faced calvinball that all you can do is laugh. There is absolutely no principle that would allow the president to fire anyone at any time except for the fed except for the principle that markets would freak the fuck out

this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!

Another think that stands out reading Roberts’ opinion is what he thinks the Senate’s advice and consent power is even for. Many agencies, including the FTC, have terms that extend beyond a presidential term. If the Senate wanted to keep unqualified hacks from these positions, it could. 1/

alito 100% thinks that the “blue shift” in vote counting represents a dynamic change in the outcome. to borrow from @kalimurray.bsky.social this is not a smart man

“’Centrism’ is just performative compromise devoid of critical thinking, policy, or ideology,” D’Arrigo wrote. “It’s a political vehicle that gives permission to do nothing in service of protecting a status quo that benefits large corporate donors and special interest groups who fund both parties.”

The cte it takes to believe that centrist democrats are not the definition of a failed status quo