It's not that it's annoying that extremely online Americans have developed an ideology mostly centered around "you should be allowed to smoke on the bus" — its annoying that they are convinced that this is actually what Marxism is, and all fill-the-bus-with-smoke-opposers are free-market neoliberals

Assuming no D defections, 3 R House members and 16 R Senators would do it. So 19 people total.

This is exactly how I feel about Winston Churchill

Fellas is it bad for my California Republican Party if the ballot measure to nuke our districts is winning Orange County by 25 points

Hideo Kojima's THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER

We aren’t one step away from Stephen Miller going in the radio and telling his supporters to kill all the Democrats, but they want you to think that so you’ll be afraid. This is a propaganda exercise to make them seem more powerful than they are and some of you are dangerously susceptible.

Maybe I’m naive, but this government hasn’t even meaningfully gone after the genuinely unpopular groups they could call domestic terrorists—PSL, In Our Lifetime—I’m not terribly confident they’re going to be successful going after National Organization for Women or whatever

I think Twitter wants the crackdown very very very badly but the administration knows it isn't really possible

Something visceral about the fourth reich is how much more performatively empty it is. I guarantee you a significant chunk of that arena has no idea, in practice, who kirk is.

trump correctly grasps that conservatives do not believe there is a real distinction between their movement and the state

Spilling all of my secrets as a 50 year old DOJ deputy chief on the second date with [checks notes] a 23 year old nanny

always interesting to me that these people to reach to european reactionaries for resources to think about the united states. almost as if they are trying impose ideas foreign to our political traditions

Anyone who abstains in 2028 for any reason is dead to me

Occurs to me that Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force that the regime is already consolidated and there's no point in resisting. Which I don't think will work, but also shows how important public acts of noncompliance are.

They're gonna try to take away jury trials before this is over

Creates a tough political problem for the admin's other goals if they're suddenly sensitive to the political whims of swing voters in California

I knew Trump would win after listening to how stupid my neighbor's TikToks were for months.

I think it's best to read the Maxwell move as an act of insane desperation

Elite backstabber move by Vance to draw attention to the letter and goad the WSJ into publishing it

This is true but anyone who abstains in 2028 is dead to me

i think the dynamic is like: college applications are where a bunch of spoiled very special upper-middle class snowflakes face rejection from the system for the first time in their life bsky.app/profile/liza...

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump administration says it is ending deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles.

Harris ran a great campaign optimized for 2016, Trump ran a shambolic campaign optimized for 2024

Hearing from UFW spokesperson just now that this man has died.

Seems like ICE is returning to large-scale operations now after a few weeks of only running small snatch teams

I think the likely expression of poor ICE morale looks more like work slowdowns rather than mass resignations, and it’ll be hard to see from the outside

“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..” @niemanreports.org #Hellsite niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

For the past ten years or so, anti-liberal ideas have dominated the public intellectual landscape. I now believe that these ideas are in intellectual decline — that the naked authoritarianism of Trump's second term has set the stage for a liberal revival www.vox.com/politics/418...

incredibly funny that Zohran is running the "ignore the groups, kitchen table issues, listen to Trump voters" that the centroids keep saying they want and they've never been more mad

Elon's AI is now actively recommending a second Holocaust

The impeachement vote two weeks ago was fake and it didn't matter that Dems voted against it

Not usually put this directly but New Yorkers love Zohran because Zohran obviously loves New Yorkers

Now that I'm the target of it I completely understand why US COIN strategy doesn't work

The people running our government are so delusional they genuinely believed that MS-13 would shoot at massed federal agents in MacArthur Park at 11am on a Monday.

Major speculation that this raid was a photo op, but it’s worth noting that activists who were tipped off showed up to the park early to throw up flyers and comb through the park to alert neighbors A full soccer field that was active this morning was completely cleared by the time ICE arrived

Don't think they even arrested anyone? This raid leaked hours ago.

I suspect this was something DC asked for. ICE stopped doing big militarized raids and started doing small plainsclothes snatch teams because those are WAY more effective. Can't imagine why they would go back to big raids except for optics.

Area weathervane suddenly pointing in opposite direction

The reality is that in our current media landscape the NYT story about Mamdani's college app won't move the needle one fucking millimeter and that's why newspapers are so mad nowadays

I keep getting some combination of this post despite multiple explanations about it. So again: Hospitals operationalize Medicaid finances far into the future. Budget cuts, layoffs, project cancellations, closures, etc. will begin -immediately.-

Guess he's retiring then

genuinely found myself wondering this recently. where do these people come from. I recognize this is a difficult world to be a good person in, but the level of craven evil that seems to have gravitated to the top of every power structure in America is fucking alarming

Guy who only watches Dems Suck content watching Republicans pass the OBBB: Getting a lot of Dems Suck vibes from this...

incredibly funny that the UK is the only one they've bullied into a deal

- Medicaid funding penalty for states that use their own money to cover undocumented immigrants is OUT - Gender-affirming care ban for Medicaid IS OUT!!!!

ok maybe AOC can actually win 2028

CENTCOM is our IRGC