new colbert just dropped

'the middle class really resented the working class doing well because it costs them cheap servants' is very obviously true of the Biden years, it's been confused because the most vocal members of the middle class online somehow wrapped this in leftist language

really worth remembering that you can fight these people in court and win don't let them intimidate you into preemptive compliance.

People who want a parliamentary system forget they have produced people like Berlusconi and Bibi and made it almost impossible to get rid of them. Margaret Thatcher ruled the UK for more than 12 years.

The people who can't be bothered to vote every two years demand a lot from Democrats.

We can conclude that socialists believe in nothing but ruin, then. Looking at the scoreboard.

Same. HUGE gap between experts & everyone else. This was already expert consensus 2 years ago. Now? Trump's horrible & evil war have wrecked the perception of oil & gas as stable and cheap in the decade when solar, wind, batteries, EVs are SURGING worldwide www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

Activation of some brain area does not constitute an explanation of a psychological phenomenon - certainly not a better explanation or the real explanation

Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social. AI is now offering neuroscience the same deal. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...

8. Article III of the Constitution (as noted in this good piece from Justin Briley) gives Congress the ability to set SCOTUS' appellate jurisdiction. Including - if we want - taking it all away. www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

I outlined some of the steps we could use right away here but - for those of you who aren't into clicking links with long articles, a brief thread summary follows: thehill.com/opinion/judi...

one side makes a decades-long plan to capture the supreme court involving painful and expensive tradeoffs and one side tweets "pfft you can't scare me into voting by talking about scotus seats" and you'll never guess which of those sides has all the political power

I don’t think a lot of progs understand that the non-vibesession explanation is the worse option for them. It means Americans are much more sensitive to inflation than mass unemployment and wage stagnation, which is kind of a death knell for a real, sustainable workers politics in this country.

Republican leadership intended to vote to gut the Endangered Species Act today… and then didn't have the support needed, so they pulled the bill. Happy Earth Day! 🌍

Despite the best efforts of Republicans and their billionaire fossil fuel donors EV’s are here to stay

A note for the US midterms: I will point out today that many Hungarians who will have voted for Magyar's party were not in love with him, know his many flaws, and are not all 100% satisfied. But in the face of Orban's party, the voters were enthusiastic for the better, if not perfect, choice.

I'd like to impress upon Americans that the Hungarian people removed Orban and his fascist party from power... By VOTING. That's the real "they don't want you to know this...". They don't want you to figure out that voting is powerful, and that we the people hold that power - unless we give it up

And that, dear reader, is why it is critically important that you vote even if you are in an area where, mathematically, your vote doesn't "matter". Every vote matters. Every vote is a rebuke of fascism.

Maybe the real civilization that Trump wiped out was the friends we made along the way.

I'm so tired of the "THEN DO SOMETHING!" responses here. What Frost is saying is correct. He has very little power to do anything but say it. Would you rather he didn't say it at all?

It's really not that hard, and people are choosing not to do it for the simple reason that blaming Republicans won't make them go as viral.

www.instagram.com/reel/DVt63k8... This is a negotiation take on politics and speaking my language What he describes at the beginning is the ultimatum game, a famous exercise done at Harvard Project on negotiation and by Chris Voss too 1/

trump's holy war in Iran is going so terribly he's now muslim.

Remember, the people's revolutionaries said Harris would also be doing this.

OMG that's amazing. And he very much is and should be the 28 front runner

For the record, the Nazis are spreading terms like “zio” and “zog” into leftist spaces intentionally as an on-ramp to fascism. This is what cryptofascism means. They explicitly talk about doing this on their forums and telegram channels. You’re being played.

Indeterminism means pervasive indefiniteness, not determinism-plus-randomness. Henry Potter, @wiringthebrain.bsky.social & George Ellis explain why this is so and what it implies for the free will debate in their new paper in my Topical Collection, see link.springer.com/article/10.1... #FreeWill

NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act. The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."

NEWS: The Supreme Court has ruled that the president’s inflation-driving tariffs are illegal. This is welcome news for those of us who care about making life more affordable and ending needless price increases. www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/p...

Newsom throws trans people under the bus. Do not vote for him in the primary. However, IF he ends up winning the 2028 primary, I will still vote for him, because I realize it's not all about just *my* demographic. If I can't vote to save myself, I'll vote to save other oppressed minorities.

But the whole "we can't win but we know what wins" routine is tired at this point. If you know what wins, go win. You don't need someone else to do it for you.

It is weird how few people seem to want to replicate Mamdani's strategy when they repeatedly said he was going to be a referendum on the entire Democratic Party.

This style of post is literally every second thing I see on here and it’s utterly absurd. Van Hollen in particular could not be a worse target.

Anderson Cooper: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." There's a lot of people here in Minneapolis who are sick of the lies being told by the Trump administration about Alex Pretti

yeah i generally think that there's mounting evidence that the trump admin does not actually think that the troops are willing to be the boot on people's necks like they're hoping.

Whenever the shutdown ends, you should blame republicans for the horrible things they do, and you should understand that people who tell you to blame dems instead are not really interested in fixing anything.

ICE and CBP agents need to understand they're going to be wearing those masks for the rest of their lives.

There seems to be a lot of "we want to complain" but not much of "we want to vote" or "want to run for office" among a certain group of people. I suppose that is one place where AOC gets credit. She actually ran! And won!

It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.