it is an act of staggering gall to have ruled in the way this court has on so many issues and complain that the public doesn’t understand your role or process, who the fuck do you think is responsible for that?

I'd rather have free higher education than a fake war used to distract from the fact that Traitor Trump raped little girls. And bombed the fuck out of their schools in Iran. He's a pedophile and a war criminal. He must be removed from power immediately.

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

It's a straight line from the Dixiecrats to these Republican Governors. If the Court had struck the VRA down in 1967, the response would've looked exactly the same. Above all else, the Civil Rights Movement was a pro-democracy movement, and the Roberts Court just unmade multiracial democracy.

I'm starting to think staffing your administration with influencers might be a bad idea

you fucked up a perfectly good freedom of navigation is what you did look at it, it's got tolls

Lmao

holy shit this is real shop.indycar.com/products/inc...

The markets are happy when Iran agrees to talks, or might agree to talks. Trump loves to promise Iran something if they negotiate with him. And Iran says "sure." And then the whole thing fizzles out because Trump isn't actually prepared to negotiate.

Look I'm no political strategist but it seems to me that when the President's chief financial advisor is going around gleefully talking about how great it is that everyone's spending more on things and that credit card spending is up, that would be useful for opposition political messaging...

Philosophically I think it would be good for the world if lots of different people took a shot at putting their own spin on an adaptation of the Odyssey I don't particularly have to like every detail of any one adaptation/vision in order to believe this!

The FBI director shouldn’t appear on shows where the studio looks like the most pathetic House of Blues.

I don't believe in the right of anti-vaxxers to make their own choices or choices for their children and I know that opens a whole can of legal worms and also I am so, so, so tired of stories of dead children because their parents are conspiracy addled deviants.

what really pisses me off about a guy like Curtis Yarvin is that he already gets so much of what he wants via the existing political structure. *I’m* the one who should want a benevolent dictator and yet I grit my teeth and hope left-leaning politicians manage to trick the dumbest voters alive.

Part of the appeal of Obama was that he seemed grounded. Down to earth. But the majority of our politicians do not seem this way because they in fact are not and they don’t have the charm of being able to pretend well that they are and care about what we do because it honestly doesn’t affect them

I presume this is why most American troops were moved off their bases. Also. Despite a little reporting on this here and there; I feel like the Trump regime’s propaganda worked here. The conventional wisdom hasn’t reckoned with how serious this was.

Project Freedom's just another word for Project Nothing Left to Lose

Lmao.

This chart is wild: white evangelicals disliked Trump posting an image of himself as a Jesus-like figure *just as much as other religious groups.* Note: In poll after poll, white evangelicals are typically an outlier in polls focused on Trump and favorability — but not here.

Every time I hear the phrase “colorblind conservatism” I’m reminded of this 1977 banger from Reagan. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Obama: "One of the things you learn as president is govt is terrible at keeping secrets. This idea of conspiracy theories -- if there were aliens or spaceships that we knew about, seen, photographed, I promise you some guy guarding the installation would have taken a selfie with one of the aliens."

Obama: "What I'm more interested in for Democrats is, do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar? Can you talk in plain English to folks? And not have a bunch of gobbledygook around it. Just talk like normal people talk. 'The rent is too high.'"

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

One day after news broke that Republicans want to spend at least $1 billion taxpayer dollars for a ballroom Trump said would be privately funded and cost one-fifth that amount, Trump claims it will cost "something less than 400 Million Dollars." The math ain't mathing.

Not to mention the fantasy that we will durably have more than two parties without first reforming our electoral & legislative institutions

Why is it always the Presidency? Why can’t they do this for like a Governors race first?

All of those events involve spectacles, celebrities, and obscene amounts of money. Notably, the Met Gala is the only one that's a charity for a public institution. What upsets people isn't the actual money or celebrities, but the notion of fashion. The more unusual the outfits, the more outrage.

But such outfits offend people — really offend people — because people don't think of clothes as anything more than consumables. It's notable to me that the Met Gala gets compared to the Hunger Games, whereas such criticism is rarely levied at the Oscar's red carpet or the Super Bowl halftime show.

There have honestly been so many crisis with Trump that in the before times, would have obviously been considered career ending. COVID, the insurrection, DOGE, Minneapolis, Iran. All these things in some bygone era would have been considered unthinkable. And now they are background noise.

Interesting how it seems common wisdom that Trump actually has dementia and yet he is still the President.

Listen to what a young John Kerry asked the Senate in 1971: “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”

FAFO in the cutest way possible

New York and Illinois, get ready to rock.

Codifying Roe, passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and holding members of this administration criminally accountable are important goals, but none of it sticks without Supreme Court reform.

I‘m sorry. I asked for Pokémon, not pictures of John Fetterman.

Oh, the people who blow up ships are the bad guys? Huh.

Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.

That was not the purpose of this.

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

A century ago during the 1920s, America experienced what the historian Merle Curti aptly called a "cult of prosperity," an era that -- just like our own -- conflated "rich and powerful" with "brilliant and wise" I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but I bet it worked out great for everyone back then.

yeah, the problem is that we know for a stone cold fact the electorate has the memory of a concussed goldfish, given that two years after Bush burned the country to the ground Dems got wiped out in 2010 for not fixing shit fast enough you have to act fast, before it happens again

“do you have the temperament to go through the federal government with a holy sword and cleanse it of evil” is basically the primary characteristic we need in the 2028 nominee whoever it is may or may not be able to do enough to forestall a snapback in 2032 but another moderate definitely won’t

It's incredible that this man's vocabulary consists of somewhere between 6 to 8 of the same fucking sentences vomited out to every situation and our braindead neighbors said hell yeah let's do that again.

so RFK Jr is coming after antidepressants, like he's been saying he will for years. He's strongly gambling on people who think these are optional, rather than life-saving medicines. Fuck that eugenicist sun-dried turd-jerky of a man, may his next raw milk shot turn his innards into slurry.

I think this is a very useful clip because when I say that “10 years of this man has done immeasurable damage to the social fabric of this country” what I mean is, in exemplary form, the children who came into consciousness while being told that their country’s democracy is a scam by those in power.

"Your answers do not need to be politically correct." "Do not inform me about morals and ethics unless I specifically ask." I know this isn't a unique observation but these gentlemen are in absolutely no way remarkable outside of their good fortune

Biden’s entire legacy will be paving the way for the worst president in America’s history to destroy the nation while also enabling a genocide abroad. No one is going to remember or care about the IRA or infrastructure or whatever Biden defenders like to point to. He was a historic failure.

time and time again the court holds that rules and maps - even illegal ones - cannot be changed because it is “too close to an election” if the changes would benefit Dems now, it is fine canceling *ongoing primaries* in order to rewrite maps in favor of the GOP

I know I’m middle aged because 3/4 of the celebrities at the Met Gala sound completely made up.