The first-term's "resistance" movement was populated by an enormous number of self-aggrandizing grifters, people who were great at making noise and directing attention towards themselves and not much else. Part of the quiet we are noticing is their absence, their collapse in legitimacy.

going after a somali representative while her community is being targeted by stormtroopers for the crime of not voting in a uncontested primary is something I would not be caught dead doing.

Idk why people even assume Democrats would abolish ICE. moot point

The best Madonna songs are the ones where I feel like I should be taking PrEP to listen to them

One common thread of bad online behavior over the last decade has been saying something risable explicitly to summon a hostile audience to "prove your point. "

I really hope the 2030s are more chill. I think we could have a chill Obama-esque decade before climate shit really kicks in

This is either the year that the wheels finally fall off the Trump era for good or when the cool shit starts happening

only takes i’ve seen on Iran are Zionist hawks going “i bet the left is PISSED 😈” and my Iranian friends concerned for the safety of their families

It's really cool how many people who make decisions or have big followings have been completely co-opted by an ethno-nationalist fascist movement

The Minneapolis observers are driving them absolutely crazy and they're likely spending as much time fighting against us as they are doing abductions - which is good, and the goal - but also deranged. At this point their primary mission is terrorizing the people who oppose them being here.

stop doing the epic wine mom shit please i beg you

Tf happened with this lady

I do tend to lean towards more cautious prognostications these days but I'm gonna be real it does actually feel like the world is ending sometimes.

My job is doing research and prep work for a news podcast and its mostly the easiest job in the world. Except

For better or worse, it's very hard to construct a politics based on disdain for elite expertise that also carves out an exception for central bank independence.

I know I sound like an unbearable snob talking about Gacha Games but I can’t help it. it’s like watching your friends give up their hobbies and just get into playing the slots and jacking off all day instead

This is the guy who accidentally let slip he pretends to be a tradwife online, presumably on another account

Southerners doing the same culinary elitism Italians do is so pathetic

Losing my shit at Ashley St Clair doing a reverse Naomi Wolf.

this is dated nov 1, 2024. was there an earlier serious proposal to do with annexing Greenland. would anyone like to argue that it is false that we are doing the Greenland thing because of a Thiel conference that also featured a data-driven orgy talk by Aella

Spilling a cup of coffee feels like a Biblical punishment

When Gavin Newsom calls Benny Johnson gay, it’s homophobia. When I call Benny Johnson gay, it’s called being catty

rwers love to talk about how you can always spot a trans woman even when they pass because socialization never goes away or whatever, but this is orders of magnitude more true for being able to clock when someone’s a redditor who carpetbagged to another site.

NEW from me: Job growth has been functionally zero over the last five months, as the US sinks from a “low hire, low fire” labor market to a “no hire” one. That slowdown is hitting young & low income workers the hardest 🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/the-no-hir...

Oh my god i was somehow not informed it was a fucking stolen land auction??? And you all were whining about CHANTS??

You could convince ~70% of the liberals on this site the “Putin opens the oldest vault” post was real for a news cycle if the implication was that he was going to attack NATO

i'm going to maintain caution until i see reporting that beyond reports of a nebulous "plan" that's not from the world's third dumbest newspaper.

this is still the most likely outcome fwiw, but Venezuela is fresh on people's minds a nominal "deal" that basically pushes forward the status quo that he'll parade around as a personal win, saying nobody had done it before, it's effectively ours, etc. etc.

Really do not think anything is going to happen

Rowling’s second thing after transphobia is regime change

We are heartbroken to hear of the passing of T. K. Carter, beloved by genre fans for his role as Nauls in John Carpenter’s 1982 classic THE THING.

>hear awful jazz that sounds like its from 1952 and 2017 at the same time >it’s always Wynton Marsalis

if you weren’t body dysmorphic as a cisgender straight man 3-5 years ago you don’t need to start now. everyone likes you as you are. the swindlers will try to convince you otherwise but you don’t have the symptoms to sustain another lifestyle

Remember that two year window we were supposed to take Coleman Hughes seriously as a thinker

Vice president beefing with Ryan Grim

All the kids in Matt Walsh’s basement escaping and running out like at the end of Weapons lol

Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

This is how Khameini has been tweeting

Joint UN protectorate against the United States and Israel

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

Gender affirming care is called “mutilation.” From Greene to Trump to the mainstream, the language of contempt targets young trans ppl. “Regimes of racial classification,” the language of racists, finds a welcome home in UVa leadership.

Remember you can criticize Israel’s government but not any of its policies, its supporters, any of the institutions that materially benefit from it or give money to it,

Basically impossible to overstate the extent to which public masturbation over the idea of getting to kill people has been the dominant mode of communication from the right-wing media and intellectual sphere for years now.

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

When George Floyd was murdered there was like a week-long window where even center-right types were like okay yeah that was murder. Ben Shapiro was on Joe Rogan saying Chauvin should be in jail. Much tighter message discipline this time

Immigration is the central issue of our century and progressives must defend it or lose absolutely everything to fascism