That took a turn or two

JFC this whole era in this country is just so fucking insulting

I need this on a bumper sticker or T-shirt or skywriting or postcards or something.

The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'

Who? Who the fuck says this? Fucking who?

National media or just regular folks that do NOT know what the fuck they are talking about once again being loud and wrong while MN is struggling with tragedy. How don't you have MN sources who can verify basic facts like "is the legislature in session?" Shut up. Quit your job. Log off. Fuck you.

Watch the media today to get a feel for whether burning a Waymo is considered more newsworthy than shooting a state Senator.

I saw Eugene Mirman (voice of Gene on "Bob's Burgers"—I'm enough of a cartoon dork to recognize voice actors) having lunch at the same restaurant. He ordered the charcuterie and I tried sending him a refill on the pâté because *Gene*. But the waiter was, like, "dude, no, we don't refill pâté."

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

"It would be better PR to wave the American flag than the Mexican flag" How about you shut the fuck up and go to the protests with said American flag, where you will no doubt be welcomed, and stop policing the cultural identity of unrelated human beings.

For some reason, I was just thinking about how Trump’s former chief of staff tried to warn us right before the election that Trump was a fascist who wanted to rule us like a dictator … and the New York Times put that story on page A12

Better.

Is… is this a dare?

An event to elect the most divine cat is called a catclave.

Point understood and appreciated here. But it's weird how many people responding to this feel that agreement permits insulting the existence of the country and its language. Like… do you see how "Luxembourg's made up hahaha" and "Canada is the 51st state" are kinda symptomatic of the same impulse?

American communists: colonialism is good actually as long as it's Eastern Europeans that get colonized.

I’m a really annoying scold about this but politics is a public-facing business. The Republican who’ll whisper what he really thinks about Trump to a reporter, anonymously, doesn’t matter. The Democrat who won’t put his name on a quote criticizing their strategy doesn’t matter.

I see everyone taking the Axios bait though.

I demand viewpoint diversity in the nation's police forces. From now on, every city has to hire 40% liberals.

Imagine not realizing who looks bad in this scenario

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

My research on civil rights movement found nonviolent protests were generally more effective for growing coalition but, in absence of police and vigilante repression, many news outlets deemed peaceful protests not newsworthy. Same challenge remains. frontpages.freedomforum.org/gallery?regi...

It's weird how people think due process is something that protects you from prosecution instead of being *prosecution itself*. Also, like, *half* of the Bill of Rights spell out the rights of people accused of crimes.

Devon Archer defrauded the Oglala Sioux, in one of the poorest U.S. counties, of $60 million -- used to prop up his businesses, buy jewelry, etc. He's also a former Hunter Biden partner who flipped to aid Trump, who's now pardoned him Just outrageous nativenewsonline.net/currents/tru...

Wooooooboyyyyyy!!! Democratic House Rep. Melanie Stansbury went off about Republicans discussing efficiency standards for walk-in refrigerators. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Dr. Girlfriend from "Venture Brothers" plus Lily Munster

The highest level of friendship is a friend who, if it really came down to it, would kick your ass to keep you from embarrassing yourself. Only half-kidding when I say this is how you can tell America’s oldest ally is France.

Hard to believe this party hasn’t won a statewide election since 2006.

"The People's Whip" seems like a good title for AOC.

Seriously, what the *fuck* is wrong with New York? From top to bottom, it's just perplexing watching it from several Great Lakes away.

I've decided it's constitutional for a member of the House to disappear a member of her state's Senate delegation and take the seat.

Have you seen this video of Zapp Brannigan’s voice actor doing Trump quotes? m.youtube.com/watch?v=VA8v...

Christians are persecuted in some parts of the world. We sent Christian refugees from those places to a concentration camp in Panama.

👏👏👏👏

In this current harsh world, let's warm a few hearts remembering the events of 7-8 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town. For perspective, that's roughly equivalent to 25k people suddenly landing in Hastings [Thread] >> 1

The reason Republicans win is because they indulge, even encourage, voters' love of paradox. And voters love paradox in large part because the press will only dutifully report what's wanted, not what's feasible, so voters feel only a responsibility to demand, not self-govern.

Bad news about food aide, my dude.

It's amazing how many people accept a blind quote in Axios at face value.

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

I have absolutely no idea how you appeal to a base that's furious and to swing voters who don't follow politics but say they want 'bipartisanship' because they watched the fucking West Wing.

I'm sorry the speech wasn't sufficiently dramatic for everyone.

lmao, article with no original sourcing, whose primary sources are axios and politico, filtered through an additional layer of new yorker obfuscation, chef's kiss, etc., never change, bluesky

every day on this website, i get a reminder that cheap and shallow outrage is what we're buying and that's why our national press sells what they're selling

I often have used the term "civic vandalism" to describe GOP voters' motivations. It's a succinct term that cuts through the equivocation, euphemism and rationalization that politicians, journalists, pundits and voters themselves use to avoid reality.

a super annoying thing about this is that politico and axios and even the big politics reporters at the NYT do this on purpose; you never hear about some moderate centrist republican interest group trying to get the party to moderate, it's *always* one-sided reporting, *and that is by design*

The dummies occupying the WH don’t know that the Constitution was also translated into Dutch and German so that everyone involved in the ratification debate could read it.

It's remarkable how few of you have read a history of France.

I love leaving voice mails for my senators where I say things like "the USPS is very important to our country" as if I'm helping a small child with a book report or describing our civilization to an alien