Babe wake up the Secretary of Defense is dropping another worst policy decision anyone at the DoD has ever made in their entire lives again

... which is why Harris should have taken it

I think "Hasan doesn't want his taxes raised" is an underrated explanation for his behavior

damn you're telling me that sin taxes work to reduce consumption of socially harmful goods while keeping them legal and thus avoiding the problems of criminalization?

PASSED: the House just passed the resolution to end Trump's tariffs on Canada. Not many crosses from Republicans, a lot of vulnerable incumbents took a dumb vote here to stick with Trump and GOP leadership. Goes to the Senate, which is likely to pass it. Will share the vote sheet when I have it!

Yeah sorry but those of us who noted that there was a pretty hideous amount of antisemitism being legitimized on the left under the guise of "Gaza" are being vindicated in increasingly disturbing ways

Holy shit. The prosecutor who just resigned from the D Minn in revolt against orders to investigate Renee Good after her murder is local counsel for Don Lemon now in Minnesota. Wow.

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

"please subscribe" left is honestly a great term because a lot of beefing does really boil down to content access and who is perceived to be entitled to it

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text. Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

"construction jobs are way up" [EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

fish, water, etc

counterpoint: unaccountable party bosses generally have a better record of selecting candidates than The People

I mean, yes, but let's also just remember what this entire website (Americans in the hemispheric sense and non-Americans alike) was posting about furiously less than two days ago. American soft power may be in decline but pretending it's dead is wishful thinking.

“We have invented an offense that you committed, you must publicly apologize to us” - the people who say this are not looking to politely bury the issue and if you surrender control to them they’ll take more

The fun thing about being a registered member of the Democratic Party is you don't need to pay dues and you actually win elections

The people who wrote “we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal” really meant what they said very seriously. They also owned slaves. This contradiction basically drove the next 250 years of American history. Our ideals are good and we should live up to them

None of those ideals were “genocide.” Rather tellingly, none of those ideals were even “slavery,” and its absence in the founding documents is striking evidence of the guilty hearts of the men who wrote them, given its prominence in their actual lives

Say what you will about Will Stancil but his critics are, without fail, some of the most abjectly stupid people you will ever encounter on this half of the political spectrum

okay but like the burden is literally on us

The problem here is: the GOP has gone completely fucking insane in the last 10 years And well, this may have been obvious to Dems and/or anybody actually paying attention, most people genuinely did not believe that the Republicans want to do the things they’re currently doing until, uh, they did it

And this generally works because their team won’t move that much and so even if they shift a bit or the team shifts a bit, they’re still close enough in broad strokes that most voters are happy with the outcome. If you liked Bush 43, well, the next GOP candidate’s gotta be pretty close yeah?

I actually think there’s a polisci explanation for this: established political parties don’t shift all that much or that radically in the course of someone’s lifetime, so once a voter figure figures out their basic politics in their early 20s, they basically then just stick with their team

Nothing to do with youths, everything to do with the dumbass leftists who spent the entirety of 2024 brow beating everyone who suggested that maybe, just maybe, it was actually really important to vocally support Harris over Trump.

Pretty wild to me how many students were willing to occupy university buildings to protest something happening halfway around the world, but not in response to those very same universities caving to an authoritarian administration setting up concentration camps in our own borders

And the DSA has some really, really bad views when compared to other sub-orgs in the Democratic wing.

I think it’s just a matter of “Republican” being a firmly defined category in many minds. Trump, by virtue of being a Republican, is therefore perceived in that mold. Information that conflicts with this is simply not internalized because it goes against this core truth.

I swear to God, Bluesky is a text based social media app where a significant portion of the userbase functionally cannot read

It's funny that this seems to be the one issue where people adopt a "only Republicans can do things" mindset as if half the governors aren't Democrats, including the ones surrounding the capital, and that a non-zero number of R governors would follow their lead

“American Indian” is not an offensive term and the weirdos who searched through my tens of thousands of posts to try and find something they could use to label me a racist are not acting in good faith. The game of trying to set up rhetorical tripwires to attack people you hate is incredibly toxic.

It's very annoying that for some ppl America can't just be bad in certain ways, it must be uniquely and irredeemably bad in a manner unmatched by the rest of the world

of the people i know who have a) quit drinking, and b) don’t have kids, a small handful still get out and socialize, but a lot of them have become excruciatingly online, even by my standards, which isn’t great

MR. TRUMP PLEASE TAKE THIS DEAL IT WILL TOTALLY CLEAR YOUR NAME EVERYBODY WILL DEFINITELY BELIEVE HER!!

i broadly agree with the thrust of this; I also think woke 1 failed b/c arguments to not use certain language (e.g. "unhoused" replacing homeless), which much of the public chafed at, were used as cover for attacks on the broader goal (e.g. anti-sexual harassment/racism stuff, which elites HATED)

The dream of YA tumblr still lives on Bluesky, where emotionally unstable weirdos will invent an entire range of social justice transgressions out of thin air for you, and then use them to declare you unworthy of life

I still don't know what the fuck Kurt Cobain was saying

this is exactly why i’ve started calling myself a “public school democrat.” they took me to independence hall on a field trip in elementary school, and i latched on to the soaring, righteous propaganda, hook, line, and sinker. i bought the hype, and the imperative to make it real

As a person who has, at times, expressed concern about the climate of free speech on campus in years past... This is much worse. This is 1000% worse. Extremely worse. No good, very bad, much worse. Obvious First Amendment violation worse.

The funny thing about that show? Not a word of it was in English, but it was one of the more patriotic halftime shows I’ve seen. “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”

"I went through my 'I'm jaded with America' phase; don't do what the founding fathers did, but listen to what they said motherfuckers" I promise this is an accurate transcription of what was said, no ruthkanda here lol CC @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

Discussing this (bad bunny flags) with my "I vote dem 24/7 but also I ignore politics because it depresses me" friend who is my normie barometer Her (completely unprompted): "yknow I'm gonna put up an American flag in the front yard, I'm sick of this shit with those assholes, I'm reclaiming it"

Hot take: Ossoff is in fact a bit cringe It's just that being a bit cringe is a good - even necessary - thing because earnest optimism and believable goodness are sorely needed in a presidential candidate "America is an aspirational nation" and all that

There is nothing more American than reaffirming your Americaness in the face of nativist adversity 🇺🇸 🇵🇷

Orthogonal to the point but "black and brown bodies" is one of those phrases that never ceases to annoy me

The US deficit is approaching ww2 levels as a percent of GDP. Because of the “Big Beautiful Bill” that GOP voted for. We are spending more on INTEREST than on anything else including the military. This is a time bomb, and the GOP is responsible. Fiscal conservative my ass

Bad Bunny “together we are America”