One day you see savvy Mamdani effectively governing NYC and next you hear crazy quotes from DSA platform- and you wonder how is this the same organization? Answer is it's not- NYC's DSA chapter is radically different entity from the national leadership. /1 nathannewman.substack.com/p/the-sane-n...

FIFA has always been corrupt. Trump has always been corrupt. Americans & Europeans should both know the score on how corruption works by now.

When the govt of a nation founded on religious liberty has been taken over by Christian Nationalists, abusing state power to impose their anti-Constitutional vision, I’d like an opposition party leader to speak the truth about history instead of adopting the Cristian Nationalists’ preferred fiction.

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

OH FFS, a "safety plan" is not "going after tech companies." You know what is "going after tech companies"? Smashing them into little pieces or prosecuting execs for crimes committed in pursuit of fame and fortune. Do not let sensationalist headlines fool you into thinking Dems are acting tough.

One of the best discussions of issues at play in Trump v Slaughter www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/did-...

Originalists wondering why if the election is in November, inauguration day is at the end of January...

To prove they're good guys, Democrats (when returned to power) will quickly re-establish civil service protections, leaving MAGA apparatchiks cemented into the bureaucracy. They need first run these people out.

I think a lot of people bought into the idea that the United States does nothing to save lives anywhere in the world and cannot admit that they were horrifyingly wrong.

The PSL challenging Sherrod Brown is legit the dumbest shit I have ever seen. what a bunch of LARPing freaks

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Protect Social Housing Funds: Stop the Taxpayer Deception Act!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/prot...

Is this little thing at the "Great American State Fair" in DC supposed to get people excited about Trump's idea to build the real thing 10x larger (250 ft high)? If so, it's not working!

we need to build a lethal ballroom around the reflecting pool to protect it from antifa

We're doing that thing where each side agreed to a dramatically different version of the deal (except Israel which agreed to nothing) and they fight over who is correct before it all falls apart.

If Iran actually gives up the uranium and dismantles the nuclear program, and opens the Strait, which I doubt, I say we screw the Gulf States and Israel and let them work out how to survive under Iranian hegemony. If we're lucky Iran and Israel will bankrupt each other in a protracted war.

You should have to be older than a tree to cut it down

1/ There’s a quiet army you probably haven’t heard about. Hundreds of retired federal judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are coming off the sidelines to defend our courts and our democracy. What they’re doing should give you real hope. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

We have no idea just how far behind the United States will be in 2028. We'll have nothing: no national science infrastructure, no agricultural progress, no medical progress. The oligarch class has decided to hollow America out in a hedge fund takeover. We are being robbed of our future.

NBA is rigged! when Spurs had 29 point lead the game should have been immediately stopped and Spurs declared winner. Instead officials decides to play "4th quarter?" and Knicks "somehow" score enough baskets to win. Fraud!

He has had over 100 chances to prove this in court and failed. 95% of them were immediately thrown out do to lack of evidence. Journalists have to stop letting him say this without throwing the facts back in his face.

the "dunk" culture of twitter did so much damage to this country, my god.

a lot has been said about how gen z has lived most of their conscious lives with trump as a political force but not enough said about how anyone under 35 has not seen meaningful federal legislation that’s primarily regulatory passed in their adult lives :)

My theory: the slush fund was always just a device to shield Trump's tax amnesty from fatal attacks. The absurd overreach of the slush fund was a typical Trumpian distraction: It takes all the heat, while the key grift slips past. Escaping tax audits is what most benefits the Trump Crime Family

98% of the posts on this site could be answered with the phrase "That will happen when you fail to hold anyone accountable for a coup and the perpetrators manage to take power." Sure Trump voters are ignorant but voting isn't a remedy for criminality. You either have a rule of law or you don't.

With friends like Israel, who needs enemies? responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-mi...

He's been doing this thing where he explains to his audience exactly what his low motivations are and they just chuckle like they're listening to some sort of amateur insult comic with no funny jokes.

Trump's history of narcissism-fueled incompetence. He tried to bulldoze big, bad NFL, claiming to be on the side of right, failed spectacularly bc his motives weren't righteous, he lied & acted like a stupid bully. It's akin to his starting+losing the war w Iran. www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/s...

DJT is a demonic shit golem. Shit is his superpower. He shits on everyone & everything. He makes shit up. He shits his pants. His mind is shit. Morals are shit. Makes people eat shit. He's got a shit-eating grin. He loves stirring shit up. He attracts shitty people. He spews & flings & smears shit.

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

The “evil advisor” is one of my favorite signpost tropes of early modern Europe. A divine-right ruler is by definition never wrong, so bad outcomes must be the result of poison in the ear: manipulative courtiers, unfaithful wives, scheming priests.

Is he bragging about it?

"He’s focused on the arch. He’s focused on his own personal legacy. He’s focused on vengeance. He doesn’t have a legislative agenda, so does he really need a Republican Senate?”

We could simply stop funding Israel and not hate any Jews.

Jews & Bibi. Christians & Donald. If so-called religious people supporting & empowering those 2 demonic psychopaths doesn't convince you that religion is at best meaningless & at worst, toxic, then you're delusional.

What if we taxed vehicles according to size

I know a lot of people have decided that it’s not worth voting for “the lesser of two evils“, even though I hate that phrase, but it takes more than just voting once. It’s a slow process to do progress right 1/

War impasse may reveal if Iran is truly playing a long game. If they want to destroy the US, they'll start playing as if Trump has won (while substantively retaining control of the strait, enriched uranium, etc), & facilitate normal flow of oil...to help GOP win in Nov, so Trump's regime...

It's painfully ironic that the age of tech designed to suck the maximum price possible for *everything* from individual consumers coincides with an age of laws & gov policies designed to allow the richest 10% to suck up all the wealth from US economy. The well is running dry, fools.

Nutlick has a peculiar definition of Trump's 'working': "The president sleeps less than me. The president sleeps 4 hours a night, working all the time. Most impressive thing you've ever seen." If Trump's sycophants think hours of shitposting & TV-watching are impressive work, that explains a lot.

So many people complain about how Jeffries is terrible at his job, but I think most of those people don’t actually understand what his job is… 1/

Capitalism - you’re gonna have to get rid of that before your pipe dream becomes reality.

Trump was overheard saying he'd make a great astronaut because he already knows how to poop in his suit.

Asking someone to risk their entire career for a country...the same country that voted this moronic demon into power, TWICE and some voted for it 3 times, is asking a lot.

Satanyahu has no interest in negotiating peace anywhere, because if his wars end, he faces a trial for corruption. He has Israel fighting endless wars in Gaza, Lebanon & Iran now; which will protect him from facing Israeli justice. So it's up to the rest of the world to nab him for war crimes.

You know what's really embarrassing about this conflict? Iran has a 90 percent literacy rate while 50 per cent of the US reads at the 6th grade level or below. Iran sent Phds to the ceasefire talks. The US sent realtors.