Totally insane that Trump wasn't jailed pre-trial. Further the hugely preferential treatment he got was a total violation of equal treatment under the law. Garland should have been fired/impeached for treating Trump FAR better than any similar defendant.

No, the silliest / dumbest thing was Ds mocking Elon instead of blocking the deal, especially when Elon wanted out. Biden totally failed in that instead of dismantling right-wing media after J6, he let a nazi MAGAt take over Twitter.

This is a great example of what happens when a guy who very likely has a Nazi tattoo himself, see another person exposed for having a Nazi tattoo.

Why would anyone who doesn’t want Trump to succeed in dismantling US Constitutional democracy want to “take down the temperature”? You can’t possibly counteract the White House’s incessant temperature raising. Do you really think the problem is not enough complacency? People are caring too much?

What the hell Bluesky? We can't even criticize Hitler anymore?

Weird can't even see the 17 replies, prior to replies being disabled. Odd haven't seen that before. Most were likely and rightfully mocking him for being an unethical moron for throwing the 2016 election to Trump.

Republicans are “Nazis.” Democrats are not “evil.” Democrats are not responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk. Republicans are responsible for the murder of Melissa Hortman. Republicans are enemies. We’re Americans.

Charlie KIrk believed that empathy was a "new concept" that shouldn't exist, so anyone who expresses condolences for him is being VERY disrespectful to his beliefs right now. please keep him out of your thoughts as he begins his transition into worm food. thank you

Honestly insane that the dissent hasn't pointed this out already. Another act of cowardice and dereliction of duty.

And they forget Obama and the Ds never pushed filibuster reform that would have only required 50 votes when they had 59/60 Ds. Which would have made Lieberman largely irrelevant.

1) it will be difficult — but not impossible — for the opposition to win elections; and 2) if the government overtly steals an election, it can be toppled via widespread popular mobilization *if* the security services split or abandon the regime.

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

Wild how every single day under Trump 2 is a confirmation of the worst fears of what his return to power would mean & yet everyone in a position of power to stop it from 2021 on, or leading nominal formal democratic opposition now, seems to mostly not act like this is a singular unmaking of America

So you're a moron that hears Republicans and right-wing media say high-ranking Ds and elected Dems use those terms (even though they don't) and then as a gullible fool, you internalize the propaganda and lies. How dumb and worthless are you?

If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.

I think it's really dangerous to frame the problem as "Ds can't win important elections" because that suggests that the thing to do is focus always on the next election. that was biden's strategy; it's why he didn't prosecute trump vigorously.

under Biden, Ds did great in midterms and specials. but that's all kind of nullified because Biden didn't go all in on crushing MAGA, and now fascists are just destroying the country almost unimpeded.

the problem for Ds right now is not winning elections. they are doing fine at winning elections. the problem is what happens *between elections.* as in, if you don't fight fascism between elections, election outcomes start not to matter. 1

a lot of people seem to conceptualize what happened to Twitter as “they stopped censoring the Nazis” but what actually happened is they rebuilt it to create Nazis

Like everything else, it is downstream of control of the information environment.

An expressed desire to look forward, not wanting to deal w/the past was fatal strategy by Biden. Whether seriously bad at danger assessment or incredible arrogance, it was arguably an inordinate amount of dereliction of duty — somewhere between complicity and aiding & abetting. I can’t forgive that.

Everyone who says "slavery wasn't that bad" gets to be the new slaves.

On the flip side, I'm not okay with democratic partisans who don't really hate republicans.

It's amazing how dumb and cowardly the people who think Trump shouldn't have been jailed are. How can they be so blind, when South Korea and Brazil are literal counter examples to their idiocy right as we speak?

Citizens United isn’t one of the 25 worst decisions of the Roberts Court

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

Say what you will about secret manuevers in the dark, in the plain light of day Biden's Israel policy was disastrous and Trump's blank check to Netanyahu follows Biden's refusals to halt arms deliveries, halts required by US law. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/18/b...

I cannot tell you how many times liberals would justify Obama’s/Biden’s refusal to take some action because “SCOTUS would never allow it.”

If there aren't enough things Biden totally failed at due to cowardice, totally screwing the US. I'm still going to be sick when we inevitably find out that Biden /Garland could have and should have prosecuted Trump for being a pedophile (or at the very least exposed it during the 2024 campaign).

The three special prosecutors have been organized on an unprecedented scale. Together, they are authorized to employ up to 560 personnel, including as many as 120 prosecutors. Considering that South Korea has approximately 2,200 prosecutors in total, the magnitude of the effort is considerable.

These cowards are so pathetic and worthless that they now argue Biden shouldn't have even attempted to enforce the 14th sec3 in 2021 after J6 because... of a ruling in 2024. Scum like this just want to roll over and beg on their knees to be slaves to right-wing dictators.

trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether

We're going to need Nuremberg trials when this is over, yes, and to send a significant number of people currently in the federal government to prison. But we're going to need an unwavering commitment to ostracizing the supporters of it, as well. Never accept them again in polite society.

Holy shit this graph that went viral was wrong! Corrected graph from the NYT:

5 of 6 Supreme Court justices appointed by Republican presidents were confirmed by a GOP-majority Senate where the Dem minority had won more votes & represented more people than the GOP. 3 of those 5 were appointed by Trump, who lost the popular vote, & 2 by GW Bush, who lost it for his first term

*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

concern trolling over not having the "perfect" protest is evergreen

Musk's illegal dismantling of USAID and other foreign aid projects has killed 300,000 people most of them children, and will kill 25 million over the next 15 years. We don't need to rehabilitate Hitler because of his principled vegetarianism.

Trump has pardoned multiple convicted fraudsters — including a former GOP Congressman and two reality TV stars.  He's also dropped or halted 100+ enforcement actions against corporate offenders — including 34 companies that funded his inauguration. Is this being "tough on crime"?

This was the failure. You absolutely fault Biden for assuming there were 10 reasonable Rs. Their was absolutely NO reason to believe there were any good Rs, especially post 2016/2020.

again, Brazil literally prosecuted the asshole who tried a coup. S Korea impeached their would be dictator. France disqualified theirs because she's an embezzler. 1

Federal - The Liberals will form the next government We will have to wait to determine a minority or majority

I, for one, can't believe the OP forgot about greats like Steve Bainbridge and Andrew Baker in this list.

these days if you tell me you’re into “wellness” i assume you are too stupid to breathe

The far right has no lessons for us. We do not need to re-examine our beliefs in light of its claims. It has nothing to teach us. It is wrong, liberalism is right, and that’s the end of the story

lol he actually deactivated, but here’s a screenshot

All sources, there were studies of Sunday morning talk shows years ago, like Meet the Press, that showed R/conservatives guests and opinion far out numbered those on the otherside (and therefore were often unchallenged). And things have only gotten worse / more slanted towards the Right since then.

It's hilarious when people don't realize blocking destroys their own comment chains and people's access to them. Replying to and then blocking a post is just hilariously stupid given the way BlueSky works.

Corrupt judges let a criminal get away with treason and run for president. Propagandists masquerading as journalists lied to enough people that the criminal won. Then the criminal sold a half share in the presidency to the world's richest man, whom no one voted for. That's what happened, folks.