Reading through this thread right as an edible kicked in is the closest I've come to experiencing the tunnel scene from Willy Wonka in real life

trying to pull a "sorry, what was that? i'm driving through a tunnel" on a live video interview is a bold and creative move, i can't believe it didn't work

The President is taking a *pre-noon* nap. In public. At his big event. On World Peace. This will go mostly unremarked upon outside here. Meanwhile, the commentary class thinks it deeply important to inform you that AOC said "uhm" a few times in response to a question on the same topic a few days ago

Ryan Coogler's 'X-FILES' series is now in the casting phase. #TheXFiles #RyanCoogler 🔗 www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The other takeaway to make is that, unlike the first term, you're seeing less people being forced out after Trump sours on them. I assume this is because the entire admin is Trump loyalists, compared to the first term where some members were picked to appease the party and Trump hated them for it

We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism. There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision. Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man in the history of humanity is, objectively speaking, just a straight up Nazi also the next democratic administration needs to throw him in prison

i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.

i think a bunch of this is downstream of classism. “only yokels are actual white supremacists”

Not only is the conclusion here dumb, the premise itself is wrong. Voter turnout last year was very high, as in historically "highest we've see in decades" kind of numbers

Yes. This is it. Some people believe their politics; other people adopt politics as an excuse to hurt other people for fun and tell themselves it’s for a good cause and they can’t be blamed. The internet has let all the people in the latter group find each other and make better rationalizations.

Interesting seeing how many takes on this topic amount to "It's elitist and wrong to force people to pay $500K to study liberal arts, you should only have to pay $100K for that," especially because college is a terrible way to learn the humanities (which is what most people are really talking about)

This and "Biden and Bernie were each other's supporter's second choice" are the kind of thing that seems more obvious the less time you spend poasting

They know they have almost all of the USA regardless and going international is the safe bet

I can accept that libertarian ideologues hate Trump and always have, but most self-described Libertarians are just Republicans with a handful of pet issues and should be treated as such. Actual libertarians, imo, will just call themselves "politically homeless" rather than Libertarians

This kind of clip is why I'm convinced Ossoff should be the 2028 nominee. He got the crowd to organically go from cheering to laughing to booing to chanting in under a minute, he's got the juice in a way none of the other major candidates do

okay look, i support whatever she could plausibly say she's going to do here, but it would be really, really funny if It Happened tomorrow

People are getting mad about a black woman playing Helen of Troy for "historical accuracy" reasons. Meanwhile an actual ancient Greek person would be more mad about the woman part than the black part, but would still prefer Lupita Nyongo to a Germanic "barbarian" like Diane Kruger for the role

The main value of a violent fringe offshoot of a political movement is to make the main body of the movement look better by contrast

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I didn't celebrate too much during the elections last November, because I figured a 13% swing in an off year election represented the ceiling of what we could hope for this year and we'd get something closer to a 4-6% swing, enough to flip the House but not the Senate. But now?

I finally got around to watching OBAA, now I need everyone to redo the past several months of discourse about it that I skipped over to avoid spoilers

we haven't finished out year one, what the fuck

I'm not sure why HCR is catching a stray, but aside from that I understand and even agree with what Nate says for once. If we do get the "dem tea party" people (including me) have asked for, it would mean perfectly reasonable career politicians getting primaried by "do something" types who think (1)

I took on the mythology of the "Kamala is for they/them" ad. Since the morning after the 2024 election, trans people have been scapegoated for Harris' loss, with that infamous ad at the centre of recriminations. But a deeper analysis shows that voters are largely indifferent to trans people.

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

This is something I get annoyed with quite often. I don't doubt for a second that most senior members of the executive *want* to commit genocide against us, but they wouldn't be able to get away with it because even most transphobes would be against that

The reason I don't doompost or tell people to flee the country is because it's tantamount to telling all of these resisting citizens that their actions are pointless and that they should just lay down and die.

The one bit of good news about the Atlantic article is that it seems like Musk isn't (yet) involved in military planning discussions, which wasn't something I thought I'd have to worry about two months ago but is good to know anyway

i think the takeaway we should have for the idea that "staffs exist" is that they actually don't; the government is being run by a few hundred people under the tight leash of a few dozen people. this is because there is no constituency anywhere for the constellation of views held by administration.

hooting and hollering as me and boys stomp on some guy named Lucius in tuscany

The funniest possible outcome is if right wing conspiracy theorists are right (for once) & most anti-Trump protestors were just being paid to protest, but Trump cutting off their $$$ just creates a horde of newly-unemployed experienced protestors who have a grudge against Trump so nothing changes

This, to me, is liberalism (laudatory)

This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.

The entire Democratic party voted in unison last week to defend trans people from discrimination and this entire site consciously refused to acknowledge it while jerking off over a single out of context quote from a Republican. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

After the Gaetz nom got torpedoed I get why dems thought agreeing to vote for Bessent and Burgum might've gotten them the support to stop Vought and Gabbard, but after those noms sailed through hopefully the democrats have learned their lesson and are going to be a proper opposition party now 🤞🤞

I just finally watched I Saw The TV Glow. Incredible movie, I wish trans people were real 😞

As the forces of hatred are on the march, my promise is this: Our trans neighbors will continue to be safe, protected, and welcome in Minnesota.

removal of Musk's goons from GSA and Treasury's payment system and appointment of an independent prosecutor that Trump can't fire to investigate what happened should be the table stakes for any Dem votes on the budget or debt ceiling. Should get more than that, but that's a bare minimum.

Yeah, “whoever controls the treasury controls the government” is such an unheard of concept that only a genius could think of that it was the first fucking thing Henry I did in 1100 after his brother William II Rufus died

checked out doomer lefties, trolls and 5th columnists: "the Dems won't do anything and even if they do Trump will just ignore the law" relatively normie lib gen Xer Jamie Raskin: 1776 WILL COMMENCE AGAIN

The constitution includes a very robust set of tools that the other branches have to reel in a president like Trump, but the Republicans that control those branches are just pretending don't exist, and the "liberal media" are refusing to point any of it out

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options. Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

Anti-Trump demonstrators in Los Angeles have taken over the 101 freeway to protest ICE deportation raids. 🎥 ktla