the bargain between Trump and Kennedy that basically sealed the election for Trump in exchange for handing American health policy to the most dangerous and irresponsible people on the planet will go down as one of the most costly deals in human history

Genuinely horrifying. Everything Israel has done since October 7 has shown they treat Palestinians as sub-human. The parallels to 1930s Germany are both ironic and devastating.

American political and economic elites continue to pal around with a guy who killed 750,000 kids.

Look at how many of these people have spent less than 10% of their vast wealth on charitable causes, then realize a wealth tax is not only moral but necessary.

The Tight End prostate cancer screening ad was the clear winner. Whoever though of that, and executed it, is a genius.

Phenomenal article grappling with the incontrovertible fact that humans like meat, and the absolute necessity that we find a different way to produce it.

The fact that this man has the complete support of his caucus is such an indictment of Senate Democrats. Nobody should, or will, take this advice.

I keep hearing people crow that “only” 41% of this country supports ICE. ONLY? FORTY-ONE FUCKING PERCENT is still ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY MILLION MAGA SHITBAGS. Fuck majorities, Anything over 5% is a disgrace that this country should never be allowed to live down. “Only,” my decrepit old ass.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

It would be incredible to imagine a world where international law applied equally to all nations.

The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”

Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Have to wonder what the Pope is thinking right now, as a divine miracle caused an entire nation to take the Lord's name in vain. God says... Go Bears?

Gavin Newsom is precisely as slick and weasely as he appears, with no discernible moral compass. The sooner he's officially dispatched from the 2028 contenders list, the better.

Almost every owner is right-wing, but you sometimes get a glimpse of which ones pretend to care about their communities, and which ones are just happy to have money and power.

That's a curiously specific figure for a fine. $0.10 per innocent person killed in Gaza?

Terrific syllabus language about the dangers of Generative AI

We've become an "I need to see your papers" country, and it's infuriating. There's no reason for any of this, except that a segment of America is virulently white supremacist, and that segment currently holds power.

There's absolutely no moral justification for this. Only what bad politicians perceive to be good politics by helping authoritarians. We have two morally bankrupt parties and no legitimate alternative option.

Elected Dems imagine themselves sauntering back into power on the strength of being polite. Anything else would be uncivilized.

Absolutely spineless. At best, they stand for nothing, and at worst, they support the majority of the authoritarianism. Either way, indefensible.

Acts this heartless, by people this cruel, with no repercussions. The president disparaging her memory and calling her a terrorist while her partner and child grieve. There is no justice in this world. No karma. No greater force balancing the cosmic scales. Just the worst people being barbaric.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

People, and specifically children, are going to die as our leaders continue unfixing a solved problem.

I genuinely have not laughed this hard in years. If Rob Schneider ever made me laugh as much as the least funny roast in this thread, I don't remember it.

Democrats should start explaining what they will do to ICE if they win in 2026 right now. Show these videos. Help people understand that ICE is not law enforcement. If you are active on this site, you probably know how bad ICE is, but not everyone does.

CBS and Fox are both effectively state media at this point. The internal immune system is still fighting it at CBS, but ultimately the directive to protect the administration will outweigh any journalistic concerns.

I endorse this Canadian propaganda. Until the US government demonstrates an ability to be responsive and effective, it's difficult to make the case for our system of government.

No painting could be a better representation of Internet opinions, as the speaker in the painting believes he's speaking truth to the masses, but really he's just forcing everyone to hear his terrible take (not rebuilding a school that burned down to save on taxes).

Sadly, they're right. Due to volatile US leadership, allies can no longer rely on the US Nuclear Umbrella. The world is about to get more dangerous, and nuclear risk about to grow, because our president doesn't like democratic allies and decided to squeeze them for a couple extra bucks.

If physicists prove existence is not a simulation, but I'm too dumb to understand the rationale, am I still obligated to accept their conclusions?

I have no idea what might be in the Epstein files. But the framing here - that an incomplete tranche of *heavily redacted* files somehow exonerates the powerful and wealthy - is exactly why mainstream media has lost all credibility.

Youth delight in rebellion and transgression. When liberal society (rightly!) expands the boundaries of what society will accept, what remains unacceptable is only the outlandish. Anyhow, Nazi Youth.

If Democrats have a window to passing anti-corruption legislation - and could do so in a way that would undermine the GOP House Speaker - and the Democratic House Leader chooses to torpedo that effort, it doesn't just raise questions, it answers them.

At a certain point, the volume of outlandish actions overwhelms your nervous system, and it becomes impossible to register shock. But seeing so many egregious acts listed together really hammers home what a dystopia this is.

every article about Elon that doesn’t start with the fact that he starved thousands of children to death is malpractice this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society

The strikes are obviously illegal regardless of location, but this is a WILD breadth of strikes.

I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned. Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.

this has always been the most baffling and depressing thing about the political hellscape we have lived through in the last decade there is nothing there at all except a rapacious, all-consuming need for praise, no humanity at all, nothing but a carnival barker's ability to work the crowd

The Supreme Court's use and abuse of the Shadow Docket is *how* Chief Justice John Roberts legitimizes Donald Trump's authoritarian takeover of the government. Me, in print for a change, in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

Accurate. What I use this platform for: 1) Gaining information from smarter people 2) Seeing funny things 3) Shouting into the void Persuasion does not happen, either here or on X, and posting is not meaningfully impactful action.

It's very clear where social media, and specifically FB/IG, stand on fascism.

Any vote of 116-2 in the UN means something horrific is happening, and everyone agrees except the two countries perpetrating the horror.