It is not true that 70% of Republicans would support free healthcare for black people and immigrants and you are lying to yourself with statistics if you've convinced yourself this is the case.

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

Circling back to this. Is this true? Did people end up mobilizing?

Trump has even lost Rasmussen now

DHS has a bajillion dollars in approps funded through FY29; the only way to get checks is via the other approps, but they can function just fine w/o FY26 approps Yes this means there is minimal leverage, yes the reconciliation bill was trash, the 2024 election has unchangeable consequences

the level of murder perpetrated by the iranian regime would be a huge foreign policy scandal under any other president - especially so if any other president had warned iran not to kill protestors and then in response seen the regime kill more people than the CCP did at Tiananmen

Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."

Pointless saying this but all organized opposition was "supposed" to disappear a year ago when Elon unplugged the Liberalism Machine somewhere in the federal government without anyone in the press wondering out loud if he's mentally ill

What do House and Senate Republicans think about the DHS killings? What do they think about Noem, Bovino, and Miller's defenses of the killers?

my great power rival told me corruption purges kept jailing his bureaucrats so I asked how many reforms he has and he said he just goes to the civil service exam results and gets some new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding bureaucrats to purges and then the PLA started crying

i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant. a face that says well, on we go

When I was a kid, evangelicals were obsessed with the nobility of hypothetical martyrdom, and I really don't know what to say about the fact that a president that most of those evangelicals voted for is busy turning people into modern martyrs and they're busy making excuses for why it's justified.

The first professional police force in the US began in 1838 in Boston. In 1854 only three cities had police forces: NYC, Philly, and Boston.

Not one more cent for DHS and ICE. We have the power to end this.

ICE and DHS are out of control and making our communities less safe. I will not support funding for DHS without clear accountability and stronger controls over the agency. It is time for the Senate to do its job and rein in this lawlessness.

it’s remarkable how much GOP resentment is driven by grievance over the impact of COVID and state response and now they’re recreating all its impacts through state-sanctioned terror

My personal guiding principle has always been "agree where you can and fight where you must." And I believe this is a time when we must fight back.

miller is regularly blamed but vance is not held to any account at all for having started the chain of events that got us here

total breakdown in communications across the executive branch, they’re all panic posting now without any real message coordination at all

These monsters are sick.

I'm getting livid all over again. Harris said the military was going to be used on American citizens and a bunch of well paid Politics Knowers said she was lying

I am not a fan of how 1850s american politics is feeling right now

A huge shoutout to all of the earnest nerds who have leveled up from "we need to fix the zoning" to "we need to fix the building codes". Just A+ commitment to the big picture "what does it take for cities to build housing that everyone can afford".

Inasmuch as every strain of trumpism is a reflection of the man himself, worth remembering that he is a compulsive, insatiable rapist. His happiest years were spent competitively acquiring and assaulting underage and unwilling women; transgressive domination is the only thing that gratifies him

Substantively this is just the 2022 NDS, with 30 pages of gork generated partisan trump fluffing added and also a page on how JSOC gets to keep blowing up boats

this has flown under the radar, but we are doing third-country detention in a country with a worse human rights record than North Korea

My area of Cobb County is expected to get .15-.25 inches of ice. The rain itself is projected to start at 1AM on Sunday and last for a few hours

My Lord of the Rings Legos arrived before Snowmageddon completely shut down the state, so that's good

Maybe we shouldn't deport anyone else to Iran. (I don't think we should be deporting most people, but especially not to Iran)

Broce said judges often call for services beyond what DFCS recommends, which also drives costs up. She gave examples including judges ordering more parental visitations than recommended, adding costs for transportation, or ordering multiple drug tests per week for parents.

And I mean, Garland DID start rounding people up from the jump! They arrested nearly a thousand people! The actual roadblock they hit was an openly corrupt supreme court that defined executive privilege as "our boy Donny gets to do whatever he wants."

Why were five Republicans absent from the DHS vote today? Does Johnson think he can wrangle Trump-district Dems indefinitely?

Saw some people yelling about gerontocracy and I just wanted to remind everyone that we yeeted the old guy from the nomination and put in a younger candidate and the voters rejected her. In 2016, 2020, and 2024, the older candidate won! The youth candidate won in 1992, 1996, 2008, and 2012.

At a time of unprecedented daily scandals, this this whistleblower complaint, and the memo it reveals for the first time, breaks through for me as beyond the pale. It's the federal government conspiring in secret to subvert the Fourth Amendment. Read it here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Did Trump's plane really turn around mid-air? What does that signify, if anything?

"Unsolicited prophets" implies the existence of "solicited prophets"

if I lose every single one of my followers I will die on the fucking hill of making people understand that this is the consequence of Republicans winning in 2024: they get to make the laws and policies that govern our nation, and there is not a whole lot that the minority party can do to stop them.

Using public voter files, Peter Lutz takes a first-of-its-kind look at partisan registration among pro athletes by league.

So far, I am only seeing TPM, Mediaite, and Daily Beast focusing on this. We live in a world where the president calling an ethnic group "very low IQ" and "bad for our country" while insisting they "ought to get the hell out of here" barely makes headlines. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...

This is very good

the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Is "Make Heaven Crowded" a mass suicide thing

Beyond the fact that this bugfuck insane letter was written and sent to the leader of Norway, the State Dept agreeing to distribute it to other heads of state instead of objecting and honorably resigning or at the very least planning some kind of coverup is a sign of deep institutional collapse.

Remembering what people said twelve months ago is cheating, Star. Dumb jokes aside, you're absolutely correct

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

always_has_been.meme It has been.......interesting, that we got hard evidence in March there is no unified chain of command beyond the Pentagon and the entirety of the GOFO corps just pretended that didn't happen

it’s because the Christian right is demonic

So here's a question, we spent 2024 (and honestly a lot of time before that) being deranged about Biden's mental state. will there ever been accountability for the people covering for Trump's mental decline? like are we ever gonna admit we all watched it live?