Hoooly shit. If the @nytopinion.nytimes.com hated Mamdani before? They will absolutely fucking loathe him now. This is literally everything they fear from a progressive leader: Tax the rich, get government buy-in for the people, do not cut services to those most in need. It's a centrist nightmare!

I agree that losing old Twitter is certainly net negative, but MuskX was what killed it, not the flight to Bluesky. But also, the extent to which Twitter and institutions were caught completely off guard by Mamdani's massive win suggests to me that Blueksy is not the fishbowl.

Imagine being this stupid? I would delete my account and never show my face in public again.

Correct.

Holy crap. 70% disapproval.

This is the same court that has repeatedly said we can't make changes several months ahead of an election bc or was too close. But only when it benefited Republicans. They're not even pretending to be neutral now. Pure Calvinball.

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

And no one will go to jail. Funnyhow that works.

You can hear it both in the panic from Republicans and the shrill "Both parties are the same!" bothsiderist crap from the alt-left. They know this is their last chance to end democracy and ensure white minority rule. If they blow it, the backlash to fascism will be extreme.

Two months after it passed the Senate by a huge margin, Trump endorses the housing bill. He name-checks Tim Scott but doesn’t mention the bill’s other author, Elizabeth Warren. Bill has hit turbulence in the House, but if Trump wants it Mike Johnson will likely give it a vote.

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

bwahahahahahaahah!

Holy shit. This is, dare I say, epic.

To a Republican, DEI was always code for "Things we want to take away from the people we hate the most."

if i were going to run a left campaign for the democratic nomination for president i would also spend a lot of my time in black churches, fwiw

"Trump’s oil shock is going to hit sometime in June or July. It’s going to hit hard, and it’s going to hit fast because, for some insane reason, the legacy press is pretending it’s not coming at all, so the general public really doesn’t know about it."

That's some ivory tower shit, right there. She has no idea what is happening in the real world.

Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Anyone who tells you they can't vote blue because of (insert reason) is telling you they have so much privilege, they don't mind watching Trans people eliminated and immigrant children tortured. Fascism just isn't enough to get them to vote. How fucking nice for them.

But noooooooooooooo........

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I feel super bad for all the far right hate groups that have lost their funding. Someone has suggested that Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire is dying because it's lost its foreign funding. I wonder how many other outlets will start failing soon or be forced to turn to American fascist billionaires?

Racists lying about racism? No way!

Democracy is unconstituional? Really? Fuck you.

"We cannot save our democracy and our civil rights by offering up a sacrifice. Throwing June under the bus will not mollify the Republican Party. There can be no compromise with a death cult."

It’s a $70k Pinto only uglier and less practical 😆

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

The golden age of corruption.

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Is Trump eligible to run for a third term? At some point, playing to an audience of one just makes you look stupid. This judge should hang his head in shame over this non-answer. Any middle school kid knows a United States president cannot serve three terms.

and again, all of this is happening in the name of “equal protection”

haha!

It's important to remember that the legacy press crusaded against Joe Biden for FOUR YEARS, screaming about his health. Now? An aging, ailing president is no big deal. Republicans are not held to a lower standard. They’re held to no standard at all.

Trump reverts to threatening annihilation of a culture.

Remember: Anyone voting for or supporting RNC candidates is now committing an act of treason. You cannot support people who ignored the constitution and destroyed our country to get what they wanted. Well, maybe you can, but that does make you a traitor. This isn't up for discussion anymore.

The racist, mediocre white men always get another bite at the apple they’ve covered in shit and filth. Until we say they don’t. Until we say, “Fuck you. No more of your bullshit. Sit your bitch ass down and shut the fuck up, spoiled little white man.”

We must come to terms with the fact that anything that Donald Trump or any member of his administrations says is automatically a lie.

Why is the President of the United States shilling so hard for cryptocurrency? Because the entire industry is a Ponzi scheme — and he's the conman-in-chief.

Political corruption is even worse than you think. To build a functioning one-person-one-vote system where oligarchs don’t pull the strings, we need to make anti-corruption the central focus of our politics. @davidsirota.com explains why.

More proof that Trump is a fucking imbecile.

Trump is mentally unwell. That has never been more clear.

"Wednesday, April 15th: Almost a disaster! Again, this was almost entirely in my head, and I knew it was. That didn’t matter at all. I sat on the couch in the living room and could barely move for almost four hours. Jesus fucking Christ, anxiety and depression are the fucking worst!"

"The Tech Bros are pulling one of the greatest scams in history and it is shocking to watch it unfold. LLMs are not AI, they are fancy parrots created by shitty pirates." - Margot Potter

Don't call it "expanding" SCOTUS. And, for God's sake, don't call it "court-packing." Call it **right-sizing** the Court. (There are 13 circuits now -- not the 9 circuits there were when it was set at 9 justices 157 effing yrs ago!) Or call it *modernizing* the Court. Thank you.

Republicans are the biggest sore losers on the planet and no court should allow this. Except SCOTUS will. Unless a blue state does it. Two sets of rules for Republicans and Democrats. Republicans are scumbags from top to bottom.

it is not judicial activism when it is going after what scalia called a “racial entitlement.” you know, voting rights.

Think it's time to reform the Supreme Court? Here's how.

They would not be pledging their loyalty to the Dear Leader, making them unworthy of his blessing.

That's what windfall taxes are for. Trump will never sign one but there's no statute of limit on one, is there? Democrats should run in 2028 on a $200 billion windfall tax. Minimum.