I actually think we are above the worst-case scenario for the medium term because they have chosen to prioritize short-term damage. I don't think we're out of the woods re: authoritarianism but I don't think a Trumpist faction can pull it off

I'm absolutely fine with leadership offering to sit down and negotiate deals, so long as leadership doesn't actually sign any deals.

a lot of discourse about 'what do you do with the rapists,' not nearly enough of 'what do you to the fraudsters who bankrupt the vulnerable for a living'

my politics is really evolving around to 'capitalism with hannibal lector level restraints kinda works more than it doesn't'

No one wants to admit it but this was actually a very good play by Schumer

Girl Dad’s Burden

this is, of course, dishonest horseshit, but i also don’t think it’s very effective dishonest horseshit. especially since becoming VP, vance has been unable to sell water to a person on fire

The final boss of “misogyny is okay as long as you put ‘white’ in front of ‘women’”

There‘s a flavor of dunk on here thats basically “Oh, you had a nonzero level of faith in society? You thought norms, laws, and basic human decency had literally any value whatsoever? You dumb motherfucker. You worthless aas,” and like… calm down and stop kicking people while they’re down.

I was told that Jeffries was selling out every marginalized group...according to on background sources that Jael, Marker and Erin claimed were credible

Re-upping this because that stupid shitty article they're passing around is the worst kind of doomerism imaginable, do not let The British get you down

It all comes down to people wanting to excuse antisocial behavior by claiming society is the real problem. Which is literally the exact same ideology as The Joker.

I also think a lot of white people tend to conflate dignity with privilege and treat themselves accordingly.

Hazard, Kentucky. The place is infested with kudzu and I was told I looked like a drug dealer because I wore a hat and windbreaker.

Pripyat.

i have a seethingly hot take buried in my heart about how white people in America, in general, are not equipped with a sense of dignity - we understand honor, and shame, we recognise opprobrium and other peoples' fear - but we were not taught a damn thing about our own inherent dignity as persons

Hemlock's vibes are best described as "Lou Bloom from Nightcrawler mixed with Mengele and Matt Israel (look the place he runs up for what I mean)".

I read this and I'm all "kill the transvestigator in your head"

Transition will not turn you into a dead ringer for Sydney Sweeney because cis women don't look like her either, etc.

Blahaj Is so talented you guys omg. youtube.com/shorts/R_GG9...

Dream scenario for me is JB Pritzker cutting an ad that says something like "we here in Illinois have been pioneering the jailing of corrupt politicians for decades, and we are eager to bring our knowledge to Washington."

at this point can we really say unopposed when they're so clearly opposed by god

the British media still hasn't done the proper level of shame it needs to about this

I think a lot of this website will only be satisfied with Hakeem Jeffries if he wins back a majority like, with a gun

a related example (though contested, see replies) is the idea that our sunshine/transparency laws spurred greater polarization because special interest groups could observe committee votes and enforce greater ideological commitment from their officials, where there used to be dealmaking.

killing pork killed america, yup things were better when the way you pacified the flyover country was by giving them a new Lockheed plant. kept my hometown from being a hellhole for decades, until it didn't

And let's be perfectly forthright here, people like Prisonculture will 100% scream and howl that criminals will be going to jail. They should be treated as the cranks they were the entire time, not the avant garde of social progress.

I first read this like a month or two ago and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I'm still cracking up at "we have empathy circles where we discuss the conditions that led them to this and then we throw them in the fucking river"

addendum: I don’t think Senate Dems are going to acquiesce to a Hyde Amendment on trans healthcare; it’s not even clear that has enough R votes in the House. but if they do that would be the “mad as we all can possibly be at Chuck and the rest” scenario

And without an Evita that people actually like.

Excited to get the answer to the question of “what happens if a ruling party does Peronism but without any voter handouts?”

....A DEAL ON ACA SUBSIDY EXTENSION BUT THEY WILL SAY NO TO THAT. ANYONE CLAIMING THAT THIS IS ON THE TABLE IS TRYING TO GRIFT YOU BY SCARING YOU WHICH IS SADLY A BIG THING IN TRANS POLITICAL REPORTING.

I will be very clear and loud on this: NO ONE IN THE WHITE HOUSE OR EITHER SIDE OF CONGRESS IS DEMANDING OR DISCUSSING NUKING TRANS HEALTH AS PART OF ANY BUDGET DEAL. NO ONE. TRUMP TRUTH SOCIALED ABOUT IT ONCE AND EVERYONE IS IGNORING IT. THE DEMS *THINK* THAT TRUMP MAY DEMAND IT AS PART OF....

And the senate didn’t include it and the house gop didn’t put in their 7 week Cr. Parker, Erin and jael know this. They intentionally won’t report it because shitting on Dems sells more

I don't want to be, like, a person who people look to as a source on these things, but the information environment is toxic as hell if you don't believe me, the text of the CR that the Republicans want - what will be passed if Dems "cave" - is here no trans stuff www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Last sentence should be the credo of BlueSky dot com

the continuing resolution does not create any substantive policies that are not in the BBB, which does not have anti-trans stuff itself because of the work of Sarah McBride and Tammy Baldwin in removing it please stop letting idiots rile you up with panic

the article going around saying that Dems are negotiating banning transgender healthcare cites two sources: Trump talking about "trans surgeries for everybody," and a Reddit thread from someone who is confusing the FY2026 budget and the continuing resolution

continuing resolution /= FY2026 budget the anti-trans provisions people are freaking their shit about are in the FY2026 budget, the continuing resolution is what's being negotiated over ostensibly. the FY2026 budget is not anywhere near passing and Dems have not offered to negotiate passing it.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that the enemy wants us to be unhappy and terrified. I am enough of a hater to wish for us to deny him that.

"I don't know what a world without prisons will look like, but it will fundamentally transform our relationship with other people" is a pretty terrifying statement about something you *intend to pursue*, if you have any imagination whatsoever.

There's something really breathtaking in that cartoon, where she proudly states that she's not going to address the public's number one concern, then goes on to make very obvious critiques of our current society, and then never says *anything* about how a new society might function.

This is quite possibly one of the worst informed takes I’ve seen on this site. That’s not how any of this works. Stop dooming you’re scaring the sheeple.

I'm starting to understand Truman's response to Oppenheimer.

Sexual repression + guns everywhere = podcast

I have conservative relatives in Utah that get very annoyed with me (a NY-er who married into the family) for pointing out that like every true crime podcast is about how some whacko Mormon in Idaho/Utah killed their family to have an affair.

Just picturing a ‘how to protect your neighbors from ICE’ PSA narrated by Bob the Tomato.

Oh, yeah, we got veggietales in the cultural divorce.

There are two types of environmental activists: 1. The nihilists who just want everyone to freeze to death in the dark. 2. Those seeking responsible use of natural resources.