Palestine isn’t the first issue that parts of the populist Right have taken up to cosplay as anti-establishment insurgents. For over a decade these same players have claimed to oppose neoliberal inequality & the hollowing out of the middle class. Have they fought for workers?

Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.

I don’t think this is *just* desensitization to violence against the president. Every day there’s violence that was once horrifying and shocking. A Mosque is attacked, a guy drives a car full of explosives into a synagogue, school children are mass murdered. Violence is expected and normal now.

The establishment narrative on antisemitism views it in isolation from other forms of bigotry & oppression. In that narrow frame, there’s no way to understand why page 4 of the alleged manifesto left by yesterday’s San Diego mosque shooters reads:

As someone pointed out to me offline, this is a really funny typo in Alito’s mifepristone dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I wish every politician had this kind of ambition!

The news cycle really has me out here going "Yaaaay, layoffs :)" 2026 is the weirdest year

LOL of course. Musk ripped off OpenAI, which ripped off — well, apparently the entire internet. Just thievery all the way down, in the slop machine industry.

By 2040, it is projected that 70% of the U.S. population will live in just 15 states. This means 30% of the population—disproportionately rural, white, and conservative—will control 70 Senate seats.

A broken Congress produces an overpowered presidency and Supreme Court. The ways in which Congress is broken are a consequence of the electoral system. None of these things improve in any viable long-term way without structural electoral reform. It's not a nice-to-have, it's the bedrock necessity.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Every one of these anime nutjobs is only going to make the mass surveillance and the police state progressively worse for everyone.

It'd sure be nice if Kamala Harris' campaign organization wouldn't constantly promote Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and whatnot. But oh well.

Warsh may be a reasonable guy and capable economist just playing a role here. But if integrity and independence are qualities we value in a Fed Chief, he does not have them. Every nominee who dodges this question tells us that they have no meaningful commitment to American democracy.

looking forward to alito declaring that our grand colorblind constitution means that white voters can permanently gerrymander racial minorities out of political representation.

“Oh but Republicans would…” Lemme stop you right there. I know that Republicans are okay voting for men accused of sexual assault. Republicans are also okay with voting for racists, child rapists, genocidal maniacs, and whatever the fuck pathology is a “Ted Cruz.” So miss me with that argument.

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May 2025)

BREAKING: Donald Trump sails through the Strait of Hormuz fulfilling one of the requirements for the US/Iran ceasefire. #Iran #TACOTuesday

they prematurely declared air supremacy, then lost a fighter jet for the first time in decades, then lost a bunch of other aircraft during rescues it’s a colossal fuckup amid an illegal war but sure I bet those bombs really “lit up the silhouettes of the surrounding mountain”

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

I’m no lawyer but I find it interesting that Christian conversion therapy practitioners have the right to tell kids they aren’t trans but those kids’ teachers apparently don’t have the right to say they are trans and people on the internet may not have the right to affirm them being trans either

How can therapy be regulated as an evidence based therapeutic intervention if therapists have a First Amendment right to say anything to any client? If therapy can't be regulated as a therapeutic intervention, why would insurance pay for it any more than it pays for newspaper subscriptions?

Another important detail is 35% of the arrests were "collateral" rather than targeted. That means these are folks that federal agents swept up at bus stops and sidewalks as they roved the streets. That jibes with anecdotes but doesn't factor for all the "collateral" people caught and released. (3)

sorry but it's so funny to be one of the last actual human beings getting paid a decent rate to review books for legacy media and pull this shit

Former WH Chief Strategist Steve Bannon suggested on his podcast this week that deploying ICE agents to airports is a “test case” for sending them to polling places on Election Day. History tells us that it’d be wise to take this seriously.

That's called a casino.

Pretty dark

Pretending like you are going to war instead of a baseball tournament and then losing at baseball is super funny

They’re all quite mad.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

It is horrific what happened to this man’s family. But some Jewish American children worshipping at a synagogue in Michigan are not fucking responsible. This is another case of blaming all Jews for the actions of Israel. This is why we constantly beg you not to do that. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

Maine can't get an actual progressive candidate and has to settle for a former Blackwater mercenary with a Nazi tattoo, while Illinois has a stubborn Rep splitting the progressive vote and handing the senator post to a corporate/crypto/AIPAC shill who opposes Medicare for all. Unreal!

"we are focused on the wrong 1 percent" absolutely cooking

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

So it begins. They're going to level civilian infrastructure in Iran, just like they did in Gaza, including hospitals. I also bet this is the green light Iran was waiting for, to launch more serious attacks on the desalination plants in the region, etc. Ugh.

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congress needs to stop this madman

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.

Rubio's justification for attacking Iran: Iran would have retaliated against the US if Israel attacked Iran. Therefore the US acted preemptively. So, why didn't the Trump admin just restrain the principal recipient of US military assistance from launching such an illegal attack in the first place?

Rubio just said a president doesn't have to get Congressional Authority to send us to war. This entire administration is lawless, top to bottom.

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

Whenever an institution announces that it has "banned DEI" at Trump's request, it is now an explicitly white supremacist institution. Just remember that and plan accordingly.

This really feels like an Orban/Erdogan situation in which the aspiring dictator is making sure his friendly oligarchs control as much media as possible www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/w...

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Ilhan Omar is the bravest woman in Congress and one of the most courageous in the country.

This blatant xenophobic racism against an entire group of immigrants is unacceptable, and every member of Congress who cheered it is a horrifying stain on America.