one thing i wish i could impress on a lot of you is that trump et al are not the only people with agency

I’ve always felt this way, but this last week, watching the federal government invade my city, watching my neighbors resist it, watching congressional Dems essentially pretend it’s not happening - I have never so keenly felt that Democrats in Congress are profoundly useless and irrelevant

You either learned the lessons cartoons were trying to teach you, or you're just on borrowed time ticking down to when the hyenas eat you alive.

A casino is a factory that's been optimized and streamlined by centuries of careful research to turn a raw material - your savings - into a finished product - their profits. The fact that they have to let a few people leave with winnings is less of a feature and more of a marketing expense.

Corey Booker announcing his legislation to make ICE wear body cameras a week after the entire Republican Party excused an ICE officer murdering somebody by showing the video the officer took with his own cell phone of him murdering them is a testament to how stupid Democrats think all of us are.

(playing ace attorney) bitch i swear if you tell me there's another secret autopsy report

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

I would argue that the Biden administration had One Single Job and they just never fucking acknowledged it.

actually we can and we should.

Never let anyone tell you that kids are doomed.

It's important to know who said what and when because 1) it shows who to trust in terms of analysis 2) it shows potential targets of the state who to trust in terms of protection. If they had power and didn't take Epstein or ICE seriously before 2025, they're bullshitting now. And that's dangerous.

we’re never returning to “normal “ that world is dead and gone we create a new one, or we live in hell

I want to know who that ICE agent is and I want him in jail for the rest of his life

Masked ICE agents, it seems, are now killing American citizens on American streets. Any Democrat who doesn’t support abolishing ICE should be instantly primaried and run out of the party. This is non negotiable. You cannot support the continued existence of this fascist murderous secret police.

Nonstop lying. Abolish ICE

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

ICE is murdering Americans in the street.

Greenland is happening. Not a joke, not trolling, not a distraction. He has already made up his mind and nobody who matters in the inner circle will try to talk him out of it. Some of them want it precisely because it will destroy NATO. There are no adults in the room. They really mean to do it.

theyre invading venezuela and destroying our vaccine program but it was too much to ask biden to get rid of the guy who fucked up the mail

this notion that the republicans being evil fuckwits somehow absolves the democrats of the duty to do their jobs is so wrong

Trump’s presidencies have been almost nothing but a series of increasingly alarming, threatening episodes. But our elite class is jam-packed with fake Serious Adults who lack the intelligence or nerve to independently assess what Trump is doing and respond with an appropriate level of alarm.

I kind of wish someone with power would at least pretend to care.

the president lied to congress multiple times saying he would not attack venezuela and he then attacked venezuela while we were all sleeping

my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them

There’s a big old record of these developments over the years on Twitter — often the sole record left now that articles and archives are erased — so think about what you’re doing before you run off to delete history to show up an oligarch who doesn’t give a fuck about you and wants records erased.

Directly into the microphone: "The 1990 film 'Ghost' starring Patrick Swayze is an isekai"

All the prosecution has managed to do is to convince me that he didn't do it, which is funny because I did originally believe that he did it.

ha yeah

This is, contrary to what Jeffries says, not the rule of law at all. Signaling defeat from the start, this kind of mealy-mouthed, toned-down rhetoric signals to everyone listening that there are going to be no consequences for anyone. This only change by voting all these bums out.

blue maga types simply cant understand that - the media sucks - it is the job of the democratic party to launch issues because the media sucks - the democrats shouldnt be given a pass for not doing their jobs - nor should the media

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

Your yearly reminder that Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz is a Christmas movie.

i cant believe a republican president lied us into a military confrontation. this has never happened before.

In Lufia and the Fortress of Doom you don't have to actually find the Purple Newt to continue the game. If you return to chef of Herat after speaking with the Wizard of Taste, he'll proceed as though you had the magic flavor, skipping the whole quest. This appears to be due to a missing flag.

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

There are four types of guys online. No exceptions.

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.

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.