Here’s the thing Electing old people in blue states to the Senate is actually pretty low risk Purple and red states it gets far more risky People are conflating said risks

I’m pretty late to the bandwagon, but Interview with the Vampire is my all-time favorite AMC show.

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

the way that pregnant people are being treated by the red state legal system is so deeply broken that there is no way we can heal this country until we restore the right to abortion nationwide

"Mocking Susan Collins for her tremor isn’t only unnecessarily cruel to Collins. It suggests that anyone with a tremor deserves to be mocked, that any noticeable disabilities are worthy of derision." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...

The crash out political news media has after Democrats win big in November is going to be second only to Trumps

Woke 1 is dead, Woke 2 is struggling to be born, now is the time of monsters.

I was told over and over again that "a single phonecall" could totally control this specific foreign country's military behavior because they were "a vassal state"

democrats only want one thing

As ever, I'm reminded of a Spitting Image sketch in which the Thatcher government's response to a privatised BT still being useless is to privatise it again. "Well, we obviously didn't privatise it enough"

I say this like 78% seriously: this is the ideal use case for blocking. When you block somebody you almost completely agree with except for one thing, or when you think their vibes are just rancid, you’re not enbubbling yourself by simply blocking the person. Just making things better for everyone.

Teacher with school tour group outside the Supreme Court: ok everybody! Who can tell me what the Supreme Court does? 16yo, under his breath: fuck things up

all of my enemies are rapists and pedophiles who want revenge for taking away their abuse network

Trump and Republicans passed the largest healthcare cut in history. In 140 days, we will vote them out.

"REAL friends do abusive pranks to friends they think are insufficiently performing masculinity" my dude you are 56 years old

Just like Trump voters, this is very much what Israel asked for by backing Trump and they deserve every inch of this

Dems should, in fact, run against this deal and attack it! It is one of the most insultingly bad foreign policy flubs this country has made in decades! It is ready-made for the 2028 Dem nominee to say "Trump started a baseless war without provocation and ended it by giving away the farm".

real

ok genuinely though i would like to buy this hat

Sorry, teens. You'll have to get your weekly Beatles rankings elsewhere.

Continuing sidenote that just Obama margins in the rurals basically caused the entire GOP falling apart.

Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race.

Also, from the other end, the single biggest predictor of whether Confederate men volunteered to fight was whether they came from a family that owned slaves

At this point it’s like they’re trying to reunite the New Deal coalition against them.

It's uncanny how exactly it played out like Covid, right down to the stock market acting as if the whole thing never happened

Oof! Ken Paxton’s own impeachment defense lawyer just endorsed Democrat James Talarico for Senate. Dan Cogdell—who defended Paxton in his 2023 trial, represents top Texas GOP figures, and donated $6,500 to Paxton’s campaign as recently as last year—says Paxton “has lost sight of his core mission.”

Further proof that the fertility “crisis” is actually the result of a dedicated — and successful! — campaign to reduce teen pregnancy

The Democrats should be already running scare ads with headlines about Doge/Trump cutting screwworm control.

Graham Platner is undeniably the most scumbag piece of human garbage to enter Democratic politics in the 21st century so far and every elected official defending him right now is being dragged further into the muck by pure association each day they refuse to renounce him. He is a one man Nazi bar.

Liberalism is just the least racist ideology by default, man. Anything to the right of us goes into "it's wrong to interact with other cultures, we're too good for them" territory, anything to the left of us goes into "it's wrong to interact with other cultures, they're too good for us" territory.

“If he were running in Jersey, he’d either be thrown off the ballot or buried under the Meadowlands,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) said Friday, citing the latest allegations. “I think people in Maine should consider a different candidate right now” GOTTHEIMER FIGURED IT OUT??? Josh Gottheimer???

The coalition both supporting and opposing are made up of a large swath of the dem coalition. The dividing line appears more to be whether you think anything matters anymore or not

"Platner is Schumer's fault because he didn't give us an alternative to Platner that we liked" doesn't really address the fact that *you liked Platner.*

One thing the whole Platner situation reveals is that a whole lot of supposedly progressive pundits and politicians would have been much better served if they actually WERE ensconced in the supposed Bluesky bubble, 'cause everyone I know on here had this clown figured out from the get-go.

I'm frankly a lot more comfortable making this a litmus test in the Democratic party than old posts or tattoos because the thing is that for the guys you want to keep out they tend to overlap.

Roxana Hall (British, b.1974) "Laughing While Leaving," 2017 Oil on linen 90 x 90 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

If Graham Platner was a sitting senator today you'd be calling on him to resign. And then he'd announce he's changing parties.

There's a reason it's happening. There's a reason you went looking for a Democrat that looked like Graham Platner, and there's a reason he turned out to be Graham Platner. Learn the lesson. Abandon the aesthetic. Embrace the cringe.

I've been saying it for a decade: never trust an edgelord. A person whose political identity is built around offending sensibilities or defying convention for its own sake is not a person you can trust to hold true to progressive politics. Because transgression for its own sake is not progressive.

talarico is, by all accounts, a fundamentally decent person, and paxton is, by every single account, a fundamentally horrifying and criminal bastard, and not only does he deserve to lose, talarico deserves to win, and we all need him to

Graham Platner trying to explain away his behavior as *living a regular life* really evokes *locker room talk* for me. The normalization of men’s abuse of women has to stop. Abusing women is not regular or normal or in any way okay. I hope this gets called out by lots and lots of people.

I think it’s strange Chris Hayes didn’t ask Platner about saying he’d rape a home intruder to dehumanize him - especially since the campaign told the NYT they did not dispute the remarks.

“There may be.” FFS. Forget the flags. I have a literal masters degree in public health, I’m an actual union leader (in my second term as chapter president,) I’m a college professor, and a reproductive health advocate. And people are quibbling over if he abused his exes enough to be disqualifying.

Which, by the way, IS THE ENTIRE DAMN POINT of the “Nazi bar” anecdote everyone loves to pass around.