People better start talking guillotines if they want anyone in charge to care.

I don't think you need complex political triangulation when the president is shrieking "I am sending in the WAR DEPARTMENT because Portland is AT WAR!" You should just keep saying that he should be removed from office because he is plainly insane

this is the housing market but at least we're investigating what happened to amelia earhart

They made my existence into an "issue" then complained I'd become a single issue voter

#NeverNewsom ever

The biggest problem with the world is nazis, pedophiles, and nazi pedophiles.

Feel like if this is how the law works, there’s no reason to make a budget deal because there’s no reason to believe anything that you win via Congress will actually happen anyway.

What I hate most about this moment is how it’s killing my empathy. I find it harder and harder to have anything resembling sympathy for people who’ve been safe and done nothing serious being shocked and WRONG and I hate that because that’s not who I try to be as a person

Congress:

are people "giving in to doomerism" or are they just actually gonna die when Medicaid cuts kick-in? Are they actually being defeatist or do you just not like being reminded that not everyone can outlast this situation?

Probably no man bears more individual responsibility for electing Trump the first time, and this is also transparent bullshit bsky.app/profile/phil...

Not even 20 minutes later and I guess we’re doing 50% tariffs on IKEA for some reason. He’s a man with a plan to make life more expensive and he can’t be stopped.

One of the truly weird culture war flashpoints of this era is how an anti-parasitic on the market for 35 years became the right's cure-all snake oil and popular way of signaling contempt for modern medicine.

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Being autistic is a fine & cool thing to be. Some people need extra support, some don't, it's just a normal part of human life. It doesn't need 'curing' or 'preventing' & the people who want to do as much are, straightforwardly, part of a Nazi legacy.

If it's not obvious, Republicans turn the anti-trans dial up whenever they want to distract people from their own failures and abusive behavior.

No, supporting trans rights doesn’t cost elections! “43 percent of voters were more likely to vote for a candidate who stands up for transgender people. Just 21 percent of voters would be less likely to support a candidate who supports trans rights.”

Please, please start right now with “bodily autonomy is for all, no matter the group they’re in” because they’re going to keep going down the DSM finding groups few will fight for.

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

This is the least surprising thing ever.

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

Starmer's speedrunning the coveted 0% polling, he's found ways to alienate everyone that shouldn't be physically possible, he's out of bounds, he's zip-skipping, he's manipulating code by picking up items and dropping them a specific number of times and then punching himself in the head

From founding to 1968ish, the south was a totalitarian government. It escapes comparison to the Stalin era USSR or Nazi Germany only because we won the great conflicts of the 20th century and it’s fucking backwards

Republicans are ecstatic that he's dead because they wanted to make someone unimportant a martyr.

I never really liked how often American white Christian nationalism is compared to other countries like Germany or what have you because this is very old and very standard Klan speak.

The entire world has the vibe of "we gotta get the fuck outta here"

1984 broke mainstream Democrats brains, and 1992 was when they reset the break incorrectly, and they’ve been unable to function correctly as strategists ever since.

Pfffffft.

I'm kinda okay with mainstream journalism dying if they're going to keep acting this way otherwise.

So let me get this straight. You misrepresent data on how many people detransition by counting former transbinary people who went nonbinary as being 'detransitioners', you get your data from antitrans hate group orgs, and generally misrepresent data. The fuck's economic about false data?

Barf.

Bipartisanship is collaboration and should be punished as such.

I'm old enough to remember when the narrative was that the US was solving the climate crisis and China is the problem because it uses coal. Now the narrative is that China is solving the climate crisis, but this is bad, while the US is currently denying that climate change is even a thing.

Fascists treat debate like you're trying to plead with them for permission to exist, and they can withhold it and say you didn't convince them. It's not about the facts, truth, or human rights to them. It's a performance to indoctrinate people and put a target on their opponents.

There is a term for people who tell you to abandon your morally & logically sound principles in exchange for mass appeal; enemies.

The Abundance Movement is willing to compromise EVERY human right with the GOP to secure their economic goals. They're not concerned with you. They're not concerned with me. They're concerned with Money Line Go Up.

this exists it is called thinking

Anti-trans bullshit shows Democrats can be just as anti-science as Republicans when it suits them.

"...we have to take into account biological factors such as muscle mass..." MUSCLE MASS CHANGES WITH HORMONE THERAPY! Please learn something, anything, just the most basic things about trans people before weighing in on these "concerns" or you just end up looking like an easily duped fool at best.

The thing, too, about saying Dems should run pro-abortion candidates in red states, or abandon "woke" and trans rights, is that it's easy to suggest *someone else* in the coalition sacrifice core protections. But which core protections are white male Dems willing to sacrifice?

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Gavin Newsom https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-gavin-newsom/

What the fuck are you even asking people to support if every position is negotiable and every line is movable? 'Vote for us, we'd like to be in office?'

Americans often forget we have a giant regulatory apparatus because Democrats never use it.

Democratic elites are almost as out of touch as their Republican friends.

"We have to throw you under the bus to win." They lose anyway. "We have to throw you under the bus to win." They lose anyway. Over and over and over.

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

Even the vote Blue no matter who crew knows this is true.

I think even more than this is that they know that if Democrats nominally take power in the future - it will be DEMOCRATS who will let them off the hook and start bleating on about bipartisanship as they kick their own voters in the teeth. What is there for the GOP to fear? NOTHING.

Anyway, I'm glad our liberal intelligentsia is sacrificing science, morals, and objective facts to appease an orange-faced goon with congestive heart failure and his small cadre of rich Nazis because they think it'll put Black, brown, queer, and poor people in our place.

White centrists / liberals don't think Charlie Kirk was a gentleman, a scholar, and a free speech hero because he engaged in spirited debate. They know perfectly well he made a living ambushing and bullying college kids to make viral content for fascists.