it is actually good if the justice department prosecutes criminals. it doesnt matter if those criminals are former presidents or billionaire pedos. i dont understand this reflexive attitude to defend democrats who clearly fuck up the basics of their jobs.

Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.

Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it. He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted. Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.

the Dems keep operating like this cynical shit has no effect. It’s why their core voters don’t fucking show up. When they say “we fight for you” nobody believes them, because they constantly pull shit like this and say “what else are you gonna vote for.” But then people STAY HOME.

what if everyone else is UNDERthinking

10/10 take. No notes.

It’s the same reason the shutdown has now hit a record 36 days— there was no plan for this other than “and then the Democrats cave.” They never considered something as simple and obvious as “well, what if they don’t” because, well, why would they?

Not to over-meta stuff, but the redistricting fight is a glaring example of how so much Republican strategy revolves around assuming Democrats won’t fight back. They truly didn’t fathom that California and certainly now Virginia will retaliate, and they have realized immediately they are now fucked.

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Man alive. The contrast between the courage of voters and the absolute cowardice of Democratic leadership is just undeniable and the story of the moment. The question is which will win out in the end and that question just got a whole lot louder.

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

read for filth by an alien from the 30s, smh

correct

Emperor Palpatine has just endorsed Cuomo.

The Apothecary Diaries is a story about accidentally becoming important at work.

Why is everyone suddenly talking about baseball

The President of Peace

A common theme of Trump II is an utterly cowardly class of elites while everyday regular people have risen to the occasion

In many countries it’s the young people who are driving the rise of extremism, this is another clue about what’s happening. (It’s social media.)

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

However much you, a politically engaged person, think the average American knows about what's going on, I can promise you: it's way less than that. No matter how low your estimation. It's lower than that.

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.

We've hit the point where a lot of our dystopian sci fi now feels hopelessly optimistic

democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.

the right understands information warfare is the major battleground. theyve been engaged for over 50 years. the left has just not bothered to show up.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Republicans want to demolish the White House and build golden ballrooms while millions starve is neither inaccurate nor difficult framing.

While I'm on this I find it very weird everyone's discussing these "tricks" they think Trump might use to run for a third term. I don't think he will, but if Trump decides to run for a third term here's how he'll do it: he'll announce he's running for a third term and Republicans will let him.

Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.

It was supposed to be a metaphor! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.

I would argue that in a pretty literal sense society is a mechanism for making people care about stuff. Ideas, values, events. And what has gone wrong in modern politics is that that mechanism is BROKEN, in large part because liberals have entirely withdrawn from playing any role in it.

Next time the Democrats say 'we can't do that' remind them that Trump bulldozed the White House and nobody did anything. Not a word. Not a sound. Not a whisper.

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

Real talk I am pretty sure Trump doesn't know what's getting posted on his social channels anymore.

Trump has always given me the impression that he’d enjoy mass murder committed on his behalf. He’s proving it w/ the boat attacks & I believe will ultimately prove it again in the streets of an American city yet to be determined.

So whoever wrote the original Deus Ex predicted where humanity was going so well I feel like they should be given some kind of award.

nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

I AM 40 YEARS OLD NOW AND I'VE STILL NEVER WORKED HARDER THAN I DID WASHING DISHES.

you have the right to not hang out with assholes. you deserve not to hang out with assholes. you are under 0 obligation to socially interact with assholes in your free time. it is truly terrible that our culture tricked so many people into thinking that they’re obliged to be friends with assholes!

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

I'm sorry WHAT

If you know who the Portland Frog is no you fucking don't.