I don’t like a lot of these orgs (I’m mostly fine with DSA). But if you want to complain about anti-war activism being monopolized by the far-left, you need to actually do liberal anti-war activism.

going to war with venezuela would be stupid and evil and also i think allying with russian stooges and weird cults is not a good way to make that point

I'm not far left or far right, but I tend to think this guy's assets should be nationalized and he should be investigated by the FBI.

So many of our supposed free thinkers cannot live without endless validation and shift towards anyone who provides it, even if it comes from criminals, white supremacists, fascists, or conspiracy theorists. They desperately crave the approval of others, and it overwhelms any inner creed they have.

frankly every vote for the Laken Reilly Act, even if it's naive to believe Trump's DHS needed congressional sanction

*summoning circle for the +13 Democratic swing from last night's special election in TN to hold next year and finally lead to Brian Fitzpatrick losing* 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯

It’s really funny to say “gosh, these views are incompatible with this district” when his PAC is trying to push an anti-abortion blue dog in my D+24 district

This is actually only about immigration benefits being decided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which has nothing to do with immigration judges. Immigration judges hear cases where the government is seeking deportation. This, by contrast, is just an application for a benefit.

Argentine standards.

The OU story is transparently a conservative student exploiting our political moment to get a transgender instructor fired, and all of the liberals on here being like "well technically by the letter of the law she shouldn't have gotten a 0" are credulous tools of fascism who should be embarrassed.

I get it, it really, really sucks when your choice is an Article 15 (or maybe even prison) now and prison later, but trust me, now is better. Trump isn't going to be in office forever.

Waiting for Yglesias to post that dems should support this

This year has made it so blindingly obvious that news medias "the presidency is too important to be left in the hands of an elderly elected official" crusade wasnt about any sort of actual merits and was instead entirely about aesthetics and furthering personal vendettas

I love sicario as a movie but this is pretty spot on

I wondered why replies chastised me for calling the boat strikes war crimes, saying I'm helping Trump when I do, as if "war crime" is positive. Then I remembered some use "war crime" to mean "foreign policy I don't like," rather than "use of military force in violation of the laws of armed combat."

Invoking "color revolutions" as a boogeyman like this really goes to show how much these guys have cooked their brains on Russian propaganda specifically.

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

Athletics loses money but football doesn’t. The reality of what you’re proposing would make America less competitive at the Olympics and also be the equivalent of suckerpunching the concept of women’s sports.

Its because you are

They should do a Law & Order episode that represents the nobility of modern journalism: a year after a serial cannibal is acquitted, a star journalist comes out with a hit book that features evidence and a full sneering confession.

We should Glonzo this

From the people who brought you "oh so it's racist to say that white people are better than black people?" comes "find me a single place in the law where it says not to commit murder."

This is buying the propaganda of these orgs. Their policy on YIMBY bills is set by Anya Lawler and people like here. It is not lived experiences, dialogued. These orgs’ land use positions are not coming from whatever grassroots interactions they may have.

I took a college course on the history of espionage and the professor was a cold war liberal who had an oddly consistent worldview where he regarded Reality Winner and Chelsea Manning as patriotic whistleblowers but despised Snowden as a traitor and told the entire class he should be hanged

That brand of Snowden’s, ensconced in 2013 and unwittingly reinforced by the likes of Bernie Sanders, John Oliver (and very very wittingly by Greenwald, Taibbi, and Tulsi Gabbard) was so strong, it took until Russia’s war on Ukraine in 2022, and Snowden’s loud silence on it, for the bubble to pop.

this is getting some traction on the other place, but might as well bring it over here

as a moderate i am willing to compromise on the issue of whether there should be a trial

This rules.

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

Which is the whole point he’s making. The most vocal far right figures and the people that follow them are inherently well off financially. Every MAGA person I know makes 6 figures

The far right will adopt whatever economic views that best enable it to accomplish its true goals (harming/killing immigrants, blacks, jews, and other minorities). Josh Hawley will try to be a red brown candidate in 2028-2032 and you will see lots of rubes praise him.

As I keep saying, the liberal left should be less defensive about the culture war. You're goddamn right we started the war, it's a holy war against millennia of oppression and we damn well mean to finish the job

buddy you're running a government which is likely to let danny kruger set social policy for LGBTQ+ rights in the next parliament

Sure, Nuzzi isn’t all journalists. Sure, Larry Summers isn’t all academics. Sure, Musk isn’t all CEOs. And also, if you don’t think their prominence & behavior tells us something about those professions & our National Conversation™️ in this authoritarian era, I don’t really know what to tell you.

yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything

Thanks to Democrats like Ruben "why aren't women hot anymore" Gallego, who voted for the Laken Riley bill, this young woman cannot be released on bail while her appeal is pending. She's in Lumpkin, GA.

like Democrats have had to and have won with shitty, superficial, both-sides slanted journalism before. they lost this election. but Trump's comeback was in an environment that was favorable to him in almost every way

If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.

The lion DOES concern himself when ICE invades his city. Swipe for the receipts.

sometimes you just need to take a step back and marvel at the absurdity that is the left-NIMBY mindset these are not normal, rational people. they have descended into a bespoke form of madness

the takeaway is that the entire media was so delighted at a lie by a serial fabulist who fucked her way through all of her sources and editors to get where she was that they ignored anything even vaguely revealing a public responsibility

Lizza too. The fact that he sat on this only to use it when it benefitted him personally doesn't speak well of his journalistic ethics.

the Jordon Hudson crashout is going just as well as one would assume lmao

The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.

never a good time to fedpost but now is a particularly bad time to fedpost

It's not that simple. I read a piece recently (can't recall where) about how a regulatory change that allowed distributors to charge small grocery stores higher prices helped kill them and *create* food deserts. In other words, antitrust protection rollback created unfair market conditions, et voila

You realize that cheap delivery just fixed this entire problem, right? There's now an economy of scale in delivering fresh produce. Walmart+'s fresh produce section practically made *me* do this meme. And I'm not exactly rolling in money here.

Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup

this is obviously intended to chill dissent but i think it's going to backfire on them. what the lawmakers said was just directly true. and trying to get them for it is just going to raise their profile and the salience of what they said!