Man, nothing makes the state of politics more apparent than when a warmongering monster who actively made life worse for millions of people dies and the supposed resistance party stalwarts come out of the woodwork to talk about how they’re going to miss their friend they had so much fun with.

It’s cool that every one of these Republican ghouls are used for their power by MAGA and then immediately recycled into conspiracy theory fodder after they die. Just the kind of transactional, dehumanizing end they deserve.

I’m just glad Graham lived long enough to get the war with Iran he’d always lusted after and then had to watch the US get its shit stomped in.

It never ceases to amaze me how much this guy who is succeeding because he’s getting things done while communicating just common joy is continually being painted by projection.

Say what you want, but the Atlantic is on a historic run as of late. Genocide laundering. Breathless selling of the Iran War. Endless attacks on the Left. Fearmongering about teens in urban areas. Keeping eyes peeled for a sex panic before the week is out.

There’s been such an absence of actual leftist politics that for years it’s been represented by a bunch of contrarian edge lords whose main concern was seeming cool to their audiences by critiquing liberals, goofing on people worried by growing fascism, and never offering anything to help anyone.

It's cool that almost all resources are hoarded by a class of people who have no incentive to make things better and are almost to a person dedicated to destroying democracy and carrying out a historically evil agenda.

For fuck’s sake no one can ever just leave or disappear. Shut up. Stop talking. Leave everyone the hell alone and go get help.

Love every time there's some article about the end of literacy or the educational crisis or the epidemic of conspiracy theories and it's always presented as if these are things that *just happened* and never really get into the fact that these are the consequences of a deliberate agenda.

It’s cool and not at all telling that a senator can just disappear for weeks at a time and no one knows whether they’re functionally dead or not. Tremendous situation we’ve got here.

My god does the block button feel good sometimes

There’s not a thing in this world that fucking malignant narcissist can’t get his stink on. I swear to god.

The US looks fundamentally lost. And yes, this applies to the team and, well, everything.

Unless you personally know and have fought alongside a politician or they have a long, long, loooooong track record, you can’t just embrace them and then deflect every attack or scandal. These people don’t deserve your trust, only your suspicion. This has to change and it has to change fast.

Appreciate we’re getting a crash course in how many people are fine with corruption if it serves their interests.

Just looking at a liberal personality's YouTube with 150k+ "subscribers" and like 300 views per video and thinking about how interesting it would be if people started asking influencers and commentators whether they've bought fake bots and who all is paying them behind the scenes

Probably a good idea for a lot of liberals to take a look at Michael Cohen getting back into bed with Trump for a radio show after years of grifting their money as a “resistance” influencer and start asking themselves exactly what they’ve been and still are supporting.

It’s going to make your fucking head spin how many mainstream publications and voices sound the alarm over the threat of leftism as it gains popularity and support. We’re inching up on a major battle and the lines are being drawn every single day.

I would like just one aspect of our culture and our lives that this motherfucker doesn’t have to get his greasy, corrupt hands on. Just something somewhere that can be enjoyable and unsullied.

It was thoughtful of the fascists to give us an air show featuring all their weapons of war that they purchased with our money instead of making sure we had food or homes or healthcare or education.

No better metaphor than an embarrassingly bootleg performance of the Angry American while the dumbest and most grotesque firework display goes off, DC is overwhelmed with smoke, and Trump is bored and scrolling on his phone.

In case it wasn’t obvious, the battle between the Left and the Fascists got its official kickoff today.

I’ve never gotten it until now but Trump performs the office of President like the long-standing emcee of a local Moose year-end award banquet who’s giving his last performance before everyone agrees it’s time to call it quits.

Huge get for Trump booking Lee Greenwood. Can’t believe he wasn’t busy.

American celebrations of independence get it all wrong by focusing on the Founders. The actual spirit of revolution lies with the people who fight the powerful and it exists everywhere and cannot be destroyed, no matter how hard the wealthy might try. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/notes-on-t...

Listen, I’m not one to sit around and gloss the Founding Fathers but to take what they did do that was remarkable and then somehow say it could’ve been automated to happen quicker is some of the most braindead shit I think I’ve ever seen.

American celebrations of independence get it all wrong by focusing on the Founders. The actual spirit of revolution lies with the people who fight the powerful and it exists everywhere and cannot be destroyed, no matter how hard the wealthy might try. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/notes-on-t...

I actually low key love the Fourth of July. Halloween gives people permission to let their freaks out and the Fourth is for displays of some of the stupidest shit the country has to offer.

Callers on CSPAN are very worried about “socialism,” including one who just said WWII was won by US companies that “fed Russia” and listed one after another that collaborated with the Nazis. Confusion. Confusion abound.

CSPAN is airing John Adams and Thomas Jefferson impersonators as if they’re in an actual debate and is treating the whole thing like it’s real. Thrilling. Absolutely thrilling.

Watching a New Year’s Eve-style countdown that’s just obsessed with Taylor Swift’s wedding following barely intelligible rantings from the decaying president in front of Mt. Rushmore is probably exactly the right way to ring in the 250th birthday of this country in free fall.

Everything from offsides to instant replay in all sports needs a “really cool fucking thing happened” clause that just overrides the rule. I know this makes no sense and couldn’t work but it’s spiritually correct.

Eliminate the electoral college and the Supreme Court and ticky tack offsides while we’re at it.

Floating Universal Basic Income as the tech oligarchs eye the destruction of what remains of gainful employment is just a weaponized mirage. The political class isn't going to pass this. Neoliberals are relentlessly destroying even the meager social programs that remain. Stop it with this nonsense.

The middle class is being legitimately liquidated and there’s almost no attention being paid to it and corporate media is too busy chasing the market’s profit to really even discuss what is obviously an epochal moment.

There are so many consequences coming down the line that are being hidden and downplayed and ignored, but holy shit pretending they’re not there is only going to make it worse when they erupt.

It helps to keep track of the unhinged anger of the oligarchical class because as their rage builds we can begin to anticipate and prepare for escalations of oppression, surveillance, and violence. We're in a new chapter of this crisis. It's kinetic and volatile and real.

It’s cool that a lot of Democrats would rather put trans kids in danger and throw them under the bus and constantly say “I don’t know, this really doesn’t poll well” rather than just start constantly pushing back with “why are you so fucking obsessed with kids’ genitals? What’s wrong with you?”

Trump’s $2.2 billion dollar crypto “profit” isn’t from public purchases, they’re bribes. The scandal isn’t that Trump made that much money, it’s that he’s manufactured one scam after another that has made it possible for the wealthy and other nations to bribe him with impunity.

They’re not obeying in advance. They’re on board with it.

It’s cool that they’re going to push the most uniformly unpopular positions as necessary to “win elections” and when that doesn’t work they’re just going to turn up the fearmongering as high as they can.

Love that nobody really wants to talk about the fact that an insurgent group appealing to a supermajority of Americans who don’t feel represented is being opposed by a bunch of hacks who can only talk about how great Wall Street is and their allies who were Republicans a couple of years ago

It’s a fun thing to realize both parties have essentially given up on-the-ground organizing in favor of a system of siloed consultants and tech-fueled goons and have become sclerotic and vulnerable to new candidates with actual ideas who are willing to do the work.

We’re all such beautiful fucking weirdos and the difference is between people who revel in their weirdness and the people who are like fuck you if you call me weird I will beat the living shit out of you

So…Ben Shapiro is saying the capitalist and landlord classes are violent and murderous and our best choice is to just allow them to gouge tenants so they won’t set everything on fire? Because, I mean, guy’s getting so incredibly close and yet so far away.

Fucking monsters to a person. I cannot wait until these criminals are held responsible on a level that makes Big Tobacco’s reckoning look like a slap on the wrist.

Oh wow if only anyone paying attention had been saying that all the incentives were behind this conflict continuing on and on and every attempt to pretend like peace was just around the corner was just market manipulation. What a surprise. I mean, truly.

Legit love it when dudes in the summer are just walking around like little toddler boys their mom got dressed for a daytrip to the park

For the people who have spent years replying to every milquetoast, quisling Democratic post with "why don't you fight back?" I hope you're paying attention to what actually motivates these people to play hardball because you're getting a generational lesson right now into how this all works.

Yeah, can’t imagine why people prefer this over a political class that says they can’t do anything while insider trading and dining on the boots of their favorite billionaire benefactors. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/n...