Not content with the 2m people they have already Ethnically Cleansed from Southern Lebanon, Israel have now ordered the evacuation of their 5th largest city Tyre. The world is allowing Israel's invasion of Lebanon and doing absolutely nothing to stop it.

I'm concerned that there is a certain type of Dem so desperate to appear "tough on crime" that they embrace terrible ideas like teen curfews.

An assassination attempt has to include someone in immediate danger with a weapon fired at them. Only one of the four most recent incidents was an actual assassination attempt.

Electability bullshit in its very purest form. Don’t listen to yourself, listen to what I tell you about somebody you have never met who disagrees with you.

The idea of winning votes by running candidates that appeal to bigotry is so obviously wrong-headed. A voter who is going to make their bigotry the priority is just going to vote for the most bigoted candidate. You win by differentiation, not by being the weaker version of an existing flavor.

At a basic level, party leaders have collectively raised billions of dollars in political spending, the great bulk of which has been directed to ads instead of permanent organizing or media infrastructure. Generational strategic failure regardless of policy preferences and ideology. RIP OFA.

my autopsy of 2024 is that when joe biden fixed the fucking bridges he should have said "me and my party fixed the fucking bridges" and not "a smattering of republicans passed this legislation with us and you should give them credit even though most of their party was happy to have your family die"

Saw this coming a mile away.

Hell yeah!

The violence carried out against Muslims in our country is the embodiment of all the anti-Muslim rhetoric from those in power in our country. This is why condemning anti-Muslim rhetoric is equally as important as condemning anti-Muslim violence. Words lead to actions.

After hearing from religious people for decades how important "character" was in elected officials, seeing them handwave away all of trump's many, many character defects (to say the least) was the final straw in concluding that there are no bigger phonies than evangelicals.

Motorcycles shouldn’t be allowed to sound like that

Why is a 76-year-old man doing all the hard work in this moment? Where are the Millennial/Gen Z artists (ahem, Taylor Swift) to shake their audiences into sobriety about what is going on? open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

Maybe its a "vibesession" but I just heard that two long-standing locally-owned retailers are shutting down. Each has served the community for decades. Maybe vibes are real.

McConnell denied Garland a vote nine months out under the guise that there was an election soon and then jammed through Coney Barrett a week before Biden won. They have been flipping the bird to the concepts of norms and fairness for decades and the democrats have done jack shit to fight back.

This is actually the perfect time to raise fuel taxes. Doing so would do little to affect the ultimate clearing price of gasoline, but would ensure that the surplus collected goes to fund the state instead of into the pockets of oil companies.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

"We have a longstanding commitment to make sure the country that does genocide keeps getting the weapons it needs to do genocide" Cory Booker would be a shit President.

Just because this needs to be said again apparently. The median voter theorem is nonsense. And its nonsense because the assumptions it makes about how people choose candidates and/or political policy preferences are demonstrably wrong.

centrist liberals invented a character (nonvoting leftist who cost them the election) to avoid taking responsibility for the inherent weakness and failure of centrist liberal politics

Every now and then I remember Tim Walz’s “they’re weird” campaign and how close the dems were to actually shifting the way people perceive the right in a very real way and then they just…stopped

So, is the US Navy really going to commit itself to an ongoing mission of high-risk escort duty for the foreseeable future? Because that sounds expensive and impractical.

Depressingly many people who are aware that Israel is committing genocide and say they are opposed to it are still more worried about what will happen to citizens of Israel if we hold Israel accountable than than they are about what is currently being done to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Islands should be bristling with renewable energy since importing liquid fuel is expensive. Upfront cost is the obstacle, but Star Island has the bucks to do it. It has, among other things, the largest off-grid solar array in the state. www.fosters.com/story/news/2...

This shit gives me the willies. Keep your spiritual solutions to yourself!

Fucking poltergeists are the worst.

Israelis are deluged since birth that the Palestinians are subhuman, it’s the only way one group of people could carry out such extreme systemic cruelty and genocide against another group. It is not unlike the propaganda colonial Americans received about the indigenous.

Wild how centrist Dems claim to know the hearts and minds of America but still couldn't come up with a senate candidate good enough to beat a guy with a Nazi tattoo.

New op-ed by @jodika.bsky.social in @concordmonitornews.bsky.social re: new program for drivers on the autism spectrum: www.concordmonitor.com/2026/04/28/m... #NHPolitics

Yes we could prevent political violence by banning guns. We could stop a lot of this by banning guns. Why don’t we try banning guns first.

Maybe we can build a ballroom for every school and that can prevent school shootings.

The attack on Iran killed an entire building full of school children on day one. We've been executing sailors and claiming they were terrorists with no evidence and everyone just moves on. Spare me the "turn down the rhetoric" garbage

The attack on education in the US is not new, but the slow fuse that arguably started with Reagan is now setting off detonations across K-12 and higher education that are going to be incredibly difficult to walk back if we don’t treat this like the urgent crisis it is.

POW MIA flags are so funny, it’s like every post office having a flag that says “chemtrails”

It will never not be enraging that when interest rates were close to zero the US government did not invest in infrastructure and green energy bc the GOP was obsessed with austerity.

the level of islamophobia across the west is genuinely astounding. like, we're bigoted against everyone obviously, but with muslim/arab/arab-looking people it's truly next level. and for no good reason, people act like they're all terrorists who may come bomb us, while we literally go bomb *them*

Firefox browser needs a button that will take you to whatever tab it is that just started making noise.

It amuses me to see commentators talk about Iran not adhering to International Law or Law of the Seas. They didn't fucking start anything. America adheres to nothing ever, same with Israel. Israel has never signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Iran's not the problem. Never was.

A forklift is a tool that a single human uses to move objects many times her own body weight, provided that the object meets certain criteria, and that the environment is suitable for operating a forklift. AI agents are information forklifts.

And here I thought he was supposed to be working for the United States of America.

In this Op-Ed in the New York Times, an 84 year old columnist asked a bunch of people he knows (ages 54 to 91) why young people were not showing up at No Kings protests, and the reasons they came up with included AI, TikTok, and too much wokeness.

This is the Democratic party's problem in a nutshell. It would be easy to beat Republicans with a platform that is the opposite of what Republicans would do. But Democratic party leadership doesn't actually want the opposite of what Republicans are for.

This was the electoral map for the incumbent (in red) the last time there was a sudden spike in inflation after a long period of low inflation. Prices increased cumulatively 19.7% across Nixon's first term vs 21.5% across Biden's.

“Vote blue, but it actually matters who” is the lesson of the last four decades A weak democrat is effectively just another republican as a matter of how the government truly functions

Yes, we do!!

The 21st century will be won by the states that, in a developed world where skilled young people are increasingly in short supply, are able to overcome their own xenophobia to welcome the future

"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

the two most successful recent democratic presidential campaigns ran with progressive-coded messages -- obama 2008, biden 2020. the campaigns that adopt cautious centrism - harris 24, kerry 04, clinton 16, gore 2000 - fucking lose. so of course ny times editorial board wants dems to do the latter.

Al Franken did more than hug a woman for too long. There were fourteen or more allegations against him and he resigned as he should have. Stop with the poor Al bullshit

Greedo shot first!