⚡️Police disperse protesters in Tbilisi after pro-Russian government refuses to negotiate EU accession. Protesters claim that the refusal to negotiate accession to the EU by 2028 is "a betrayal of the country's interests."

Idk how many “gotta hand it to Zizek”s I got left in me

Weapon Added To Each Thanksgiving Place Setting In Preparation For Blowout Family Argument

Crockett: The fact that we have Americans that are saying, wait a minute, are you saying that tariffs are going to negatively impact me? It's kind of like that wall that we are still waiting on Mexico to build, that they are going to pay for. No, we are going to pay for it.

Tommy got his Putin talking points scrambled.

I think it depends. Id argue that there is still a strong anticlerical sentiment among progressives/liberals but the post-2000s backlash against New Atheism has undermined our ability to talk about these things properly. Skepticism towards religion is still very much correlated with the left though.

My favorite example of this is Lyman Stone, who is praised for his theological knowledge by people I otherwise respect, thinks that non-christians like me and my family are contributing to the moral decay of the US for that reason

Good morning, Nancy Mace, a horrible woman, has already tweeted about Trans women four times this morning. She has amassed a collection of over 350 cruel and bigoted tweets and retweets in just a week.

the wealthiest man in the world having his mom go on TV to say she finds it "degrading" when people refer to him as the wealthiest man in the world rather than "the genius of the world" is some real tinpot dictatorship state-run TV shit

Think I'm gonna put my head through a wall.

Because in fact, it is condescending if someone is like “I hate you. I want you to die“ and your response is “you poor, poor economic anxiety sufferer. I’m so sorry that I haven’t reached out to you better.” It’s a response that says you don’t think you’re dealing with an equal

1. Looking more and more like we’re going to enter the Trump administration with a 217-215 House of Representatives. This is due to Trump poaching a few members for his administration. But a two-seat margin puts the GOP in a very rough position.

Here’s the maturity and professionalism our new NIH director brings to the table when discussing doctors who treat sick people, unlike him. He’s blaming us for the loss of trust in medicine. We are the bad guys in his narrative. Laptop class dictate the heroes. More…

Bill Kristol seems genuinely very offended by how the GOP is treating Sarah McBride. it has been extremely surreal to watch his turn-around

if you live around conservatives, a common bumper sticker reads “liberalism is a mental disorder.” you’ll see effigies of dem politicians, unhinged screeds about satan-worshipping dems written on lawn signs. this stuff gets ignored while any hint of condescension from liberals is treated as endemic

low key the most egregious condescension is this idea that conservatives do not have agency and are not making choices but are purely reactive and have no mind of their own

Man. I just don’t know if I have it in me for four more years of “if electing libs important to keep bad things from happening, why bad things happen when cons win elections?!” >:(

“Zelensky’s war”

And just like that, Donald Trump gets away with his insurrection. Something that would have never happened in any other democratic country on earth. Astonishing.

According to a nationwide survey of grocery prices prepared by the American Farm Bureau Federation, the cost of this year's Thanksgiving meal is now at its lowest level since 2021.

Thank God Merrick Garland waited nearly 2 years to appoint Jack Smith because, after all, nothing is more important than preventing the optics of politicization.

NEW GOP Rep. Nancy Mace as recently as last year called herself “pro-transgender rights” and said she supported children exploring gender identities with different hairstyles, clothing and preferred pronouns, a stark contrast to more recent comments that have put her in the national spotlight.

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all. Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

Good thing Trump’s new HHS Secretary RFK Jr is an advocate for raw milk. That pasteurization stuff that saved hundreds of thousands of kids from bovine tuberculosis and other diseases is all deep state nonsense. 🙄

Love to "drain the swamp" by making... - A tobacco and mining lobbyist Chief of Staff - An Iraq War hawk Secretary of State - A Qatar and Amazon lobbyist Attorney General - A billionaire Wall St CEO Commerce Secretary - A billionaire hedge fund manager Treasury Secretary

I think it sucks that we live with an electorate that would not tolerate Sarah standing up for herself directly, but given that we do I think her best strategy is to keep talking like this every single day and have other cis Dem elected officials stick up for her directly

Subtle

*totally not Russian asset voice* the F-35 and NGAD programs are a massive waste of taxpayer money and i hope Elon and DOGE cut this unnecessary bloat immediately

Sarah McBride: "It is an attempt to distract ... Every single time we hear them say the word 'trans,' look what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare."

I am watching a whole crop of DC policy people turn their social media feeds into a machine designed to get Elon Musk senpai to notice them and follow them back in the faint hopes he will amplify their policy ideas, super bleak stuff

Joe Rogan comes out as genocide supporter

Ukrainian boxing legend (and brother of Kyiv's mayor) Wladimir Klitschko responds to Joe Rogan...

Sad commentary on society that someone who’s shown only grace and class has been the target of a relentless smear campaign by small, petty people desperate for attention and clicks at any cost.

Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94. His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.

This is one of those videos that you could work on forever, but suddenly it felt very important to make it, so I finally did: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pn...

Many people assume that the principle role of the media is to tell people what to think. Whilst this is partially true, in reality the TRUE power comes in telling people what to think ABOUT. They frame the parameters of the argument and of the conversation, and in doing so 90% of the work is done.

I think this is true, but conditional on designing the free college program to expand overall access rather than just redistribute it. Something like tying the subsidies to colleges creating more capacity.

Know 👏🏽 your 👏🏽 worth! 👏🏽

My "left wing twitter" is like 30% bird pictures and for some reason that makes perfect sense?

We remember when they pretended to not know what this was like it was just a few weeks ago. Oh wait…

people really don’t get how ahistorical the last decade or so of passing major legislation with razor thin margins is

Kind of telling that rightwingers get furious when you mention leaving for Bluesky… but those on the left couldn’t care less if conservatives left our feeds. Almost like Republicans know that the value of a platform comes from having the left there.

LA Times owner getting his money’s worth for nixing the Harris endorsement

⚡️Taiwan’s former president urges US to prioritize aiding Ukraine over Taiwan, Politico reports. "A Ukrainian victory will serve as the most effective deterrent to future aggression," former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said during the Halifax International Security Forum.

let's check back in with sean o'brien when the trump administration has neutered the nlrb and allowed employers to run roughshod over every worker in the country

with Sheinbaum in Mexico and Sanchez in Spain being the only incumbents to gain vote share post-inflation-surge, the implications are clear: to win elections the Democrats need more politicians who speak Spanish

He watched democracy die in his home country of Hungary. Here is his advice to Americans getting ready for a second Trump term.