There's a certain type of person who codes as left only because they're an immigrant or a minority or something but they're absolutely thirsting to oppress someone as long as they can find an in group to be in. The USA no longer just excludes Muslims or immigrants, which is good, but here we are

Yes, but the last time we had debt levels like this we jacked marginal tax rates to the Moon and it worked for long enough to pay down the debt.

What I most remember was a bunch of people saying Reagan was crazy thinking we could win the Cold War and the Communist system was unbeatable. And when Communism fell, the same twits claimed its collapse was inevitable and had nothing to do with Reagan.

"Trump presided over catastrophic mismanagement of a global pandemic. Then he led an insurrection. And then we put him back in power again...that's damning." On the pod, @aselrod.bsky.social is great on what Trump's colossal unfitness says about our country: newrepublic.com/article/2089...

Yes, people are struggling. Yes, we have low information voters. But even low information struggling voters knew Trump was out to *hurt* others. People of color and women and the LGBTQ communities specifically. And they were FINE with that if... Trump made eggsd less expensive (which he didn't)

I have never forgotten this person - who said “I feel as though the weapon I built I built is coming to kill me and my people.” She wanted that weapon to kill other some ‘other’ people. I will not forgive a single one of them. I will not even try. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...

btw it was Hillary Clinton as Obama's Sec of State that changed policy to allow people to self-ID to change their passport markers (and introduced an X marker)

I think it's worth pausing to realize that Obama era liberals, like Clinton and Biden came to the conclusion that trans rights were a natural next step and with very little public pressure took steps to expand trans rights I won't say its a unique moment in history but worth noting

Being wrong sometimes is being human. Its okay to apologize and be a better person and more knowledgeable. Agree with this thread.

Some good news! There is hope for patients with KRAS driven metastatic pancreatic cancer. Five-year survival rates for pancreatic adenocarcinoma , which accounts for 90% of cases is 8%. Daraxonrasib (Revolution Medicines), which targets KRAS, increased patient survival. 🧪 archive.today/G7SdE

Me: So you were mad about giving Iran $1.7B? DJT: Correct. Me: But your deal would give them $20B… DJT: Correct, but also their enriched uranium! Me: The uranium they enriched after you tore up the JCPOA? DJT: Correct. Me: And that’s a good deal? DJT: Best deal I’ve ever made!

*taps sign*

The same people who couldn't bring themselves to vote for Kamala Harris because she campaigned with Liz Cheney, who got nothing in return, but wanted to stop Trump.

A small cohort of ("prominent"?) law professors are trying to portray John Eastman as some kind of innocent victim of viewpoint discrimination, and his disbarment as some kind of assault on the First Amendment. That's complete and utter bollocks. As usual, @gabrielmalor.bsky.social brings receipts:

Popular Front or Bust As @aselrod.bsky.social argues, that goes in all directions. Nominee more left or more centrist than you? Get on board anyway. Democracy, rights and rule of law have to be the priority. Policy matters a lot, but is secondary to a system that makes policy improvement possible.

When the next measles outbreak makes it to your hometown, call it “The Joe Rogan Experience.” (new @ms.now column)

Well, this is nuts.

“Opposition leader” is a Westminster-system role with defined powers. Schumer’s actual job, elected by the Democratic caucus in only one chamber of the bicameral Federal legislature, is managing Senate floor procedure and scheduling. People are grading him against a position that doesn’t exist here.

Between things like this, the FL/TX requirements that hospitals collect patients’ immigration status, and new Treasury rule requiring banks to reporter customer citizenship, it is striking how much the state is coopting civil society & private sector into enforcing immigration policy for them.

Barely more than a decade ago, Florida proudly and with a bipartisan vote passed in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants who had been brought here as children and grew up in Florida. DeSantis’ Lieutenant Governor was actually a champion of the bill. Things changed fast.

I'm fully expecting to see streamers just mainlining cartoonish antisemitism right out of premodern / early modern European carnivalesque festivals (which, by the way, that Borat clip is far more authentic to than you might expect), not even for political reasons but as a marketing/attention gimmick

Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data. n.pr/4sLetjV

Cenk’s smart enough to know that “Patriots versus Israelis” is just Die Volk versus Die Juden rephrased and that makes doing it unforgivable. It’s a play for the Fuentes set, and that he feels the need to go after that group to make money and gain followers should tell you something’s rotten.

Anti-migrant streamers and 'auditors' who generate millions of views on Youtube, while posing as ‘citizen journalists’, have a record of abusive behaviour towards women and sexual offences, a Byline Times investigation reveals bylinetimes.com/2026/04/17/t...

The calm with which he just keeps going after Vought is kind of beautiful.

The narcissism of small differences among rich or upper middle class 'elites' chagrined at their own status and trying to signal solidarity with the imagined American working class, in the process scrapping for kindling the career ladder used by actual working-class aspiring scientists like myself

From our perspective, a few examples of what this looks like: 1️⃣ One NIH U01 program canceled - "unsafe for Americans" (CREID). 2️⃣ One CDC U01 program, budget cut ~80%. 3️⃣ One NIH U19 program, NOA delayed by four months - work stopped. 4️⃣ No U-funding opportunities to apply for for over a 1 year.

U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year. For example👇 1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year). 2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants. 🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...

again, republicans and conservatives now routinely say things that were once confined to white supremacist messageboards, neonazi recruitment flyers, and mass shooter manifestos like that snuff film trump/dhs posted is literally the exact type of grisly agitprop that radicalized dylan roof

2/ INA 237(a)(C)(i) allows the Secretary of State to refer someone for deportation if they present "potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States." That's it. That's all it says. There's *way* too much room here.

1/ The full decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals upholding Mahmoud Khalil's deportation at Marco Rubio's specific request has just dropped. The BIA precedent on this was already bad & it was always going to have to be resolved by a higher court, so no surprises here. But a few things:

You always go long on the apocalypse.

Surprising no one who really knows payment systems, crypto didn't fix it: "Iranian officials have grown frustrated with a plan to generate revenue from shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, with little money collected despite expectations of significant income" www.iranintl.com/en/202604162...

my broad sense is that FIFA is trying to run something much closer to its authoritarian host country playbook in a country with a whole lot of complex federalized democracy so they're running into a lot of problems they didn't expect or plan for x.com/GovSherrillN...

Supreme Court Justices, upholding vouchers for religious schools: don't worry, this will definitely not result in an entanglement of government with religion!

You have to be a consciously malicious liar to say this, considering Christian charities were begging them not to defund the agency and they did anyway. And now hundreds of thousands are dying from it. What an absolutely depraved man.

Far Right populists are a big risk in European politics, but in most states they get stuck around a 30% threshold. Their success is then dependent on specific state constitutional and legal structures as well as responses from other parties.

A lot of very confused Anglosphere reactions to Peter Magyar's ideological themes is just another indicator of how much the stances of Angela Merkel and her wing of the CDU in the 2010s led too many in the US and UK to forget how damned conservative much of the European Centre Right actually is

There is a kind of karmic justice in how after proudly stating that he wanted to put the government bureaucracy "in trauma", Russell Vought is now begging Congress to find funding to prevent DHS bureaucrats and workers from quitting thehill.com/homenews/sen...

This is great news, but it nicely illustrates that, just like for science, nothing can replace government funding. NPR got a one-time gift totaling $113 million, which is not nothing. But Congress clawed back $500 million in annual funding from public broadcasters.

In all seriousness, military service is always a bit of a gamble and I do feel for people who find themselves in over what they had expected. Recruiters downplay the likelihood of this shit and 18-22 year olds famously aren't the best at thinking through what could go wrong.

My story, subject of the thread was published last week in Middle East Eye, co-written w/ Oscar Rickett. Sorry, not exactly a "short" thread. Sudan's war is the worst ongoing conflict in the world, with widespread CRSV, mass displacement & genocide all documented. May year 3 be the last.

This is a really genuinely concerning thing and I think people need to start internalizing it. There’s a lot of appetite for accountability now, and that’s great and needs to happen, and also once we have power there’ll be people yelling that we should do this or that policy alongside it, and uh.

We’re gonna be real busy digging ourselves out of a hole and trying to hold accountable the people who dug the hole and greased the sides, and we’re gonna have allies being like “lmao why aren’t you building me a luxury apartment outside the hole at the same time?”

I know it was popular for left of center folks to pretend that money doesn’t matter and that MMT means infinite money glitch for government investments, but the world after Trump II will not tolerate that polite fiction from the United States.

Even if Congress were functioning, SCOTU’ view, it lacks authority in to do anything that doesn’t conform to the Rightist Justices’ policy preferences. Eg, gutting VRA & Civil Rights Act since at least Shelby Co v Holder.

Not even then because a majority of SCOTUS Justices has replaced Anglo American law & Constitution with a hybrid of mid 20th Century Euro fascism (Unitary Exec Theory), pre Enlightenment Monarchies (immunity), & the Barbadian slave codes of the pre Civil War & post Reconstruction South (VRA & 14A).

We’re not getting universal healthcare, we’re not getting a brand new infrastructure bill. And it’s not because “deliverism” failed, it’s because it won’t be an option this time. If treats aren’t an option, accountability remains the only viable path to consolidating the political project.

People who built their entire personalities around being “against genocide” who then stood aside and allowed a man promising to inflict one on a demographic within the United States to be voted back into the presidency have no grounds to lecture anyone on “hypocrisy.”

Really fucks with the whole accelerationist model when you are building back up from rubble instead of just making social services we already had more effective.