I don't think you can find a better example of the unwillingness to update priors because of political bias. They said the rallies would be radical anti-American hatefests. It was the the opposite, and on a massive and undeniable scale. Nevertheless...

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Israel has already killed least 51 people in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect, now it’s resuming airstrikes.

It doesn’t make more aggressive forms of protest and resistance less effective. It makes them more effective. It can raise public tolerance for protest, introduces new people to acts of resistance, and lay the groundwork for larger networks of solidarity.

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

She’s not saying these things because she believes them. She’s saying them because she sees an opportunity for a power grab.

They're welcome to be here, none of us are required to listen. If that frustrates them so much that they leave, that's their choice. If they can't compete in the marketplace of ideas, that's not my problem at all. We don't need to artificially boost alt views just for viewpoint diversity.

Honestly, the "everyone is 12" theory is probably overshooting the age estimate by 3 or 4 years.

It is true that Vance's approach to toxic comments is hypocritical, advocating for Kirk critics to be fired but dismissing racist Republicans as kids. But he is consistent when you consider that his aim is only protecting his/Trump's power. www.pbump.net/o/whose-side...

In retrospect, perhaps trusting all of the government's systems and data to Elon Musk and his band of 20-year-old cybercriminals was not the smartest move.

There is hope yet for our media and we need to celebrate, support, and voice our agreement with these actions.

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment rage at a system that’s rigged against most people. Democrats should ignore the carping of corporate-backed Wall Street Democrats and embrace Zohran Mamdani and other young progressives as the future of the party.

The Trump administration wants us to believe that they are all-powerful forces who control everything and can be reined in by neither Congress nor the Supreme Court, but if anything goes wrong, it's Mastermind Chuck Schumer's fault.

It’s fine to use “antifascist” or “antifa,” but it doesn’t matter much. They operate under the Friend/Enemy paradigm: EVERYONE in opposition to them is considered THE ENEMY in their eyes. What matters is getting comfortable being seen that way and refraining from engaging in splitting on our side.

“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”

This is a direct result of stigma and racism and nothing more.

"Drugs" isn't a medical emergency. A medical emergency is a medical emergency no matter the cause. They should rot for not seeking help.

hey, white friends, in case you thought being white and normie lookin' was gonna keep you safe from our fascist secret police, it will not. it matters that they are coming for ANYBODY we must fight their stealing ANYONE AND: all our liberations are, as always, intertwined.

Meanwhile, in the West Bank/not in Gaza:

Federal law prohibits ERs from treating people differently based on their ability to pay or citizenship status.

ICE agents shooting an unarmed priest feels like a metaphor.

"Did the FBI find any photos of President Trump with half naked children, as a witness has insisted?" First response: Listen, fuck *you* Second response: (icy silence) That's a lot of tapdancing when a simple "no, of course not" would have settled things.

For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again. burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live...

Here in Wisconsin, we’re working to lower costs for working families and give folks a little extra breathing room in their household budgets. And our actions stand in stark contrast to Republicans who claim to want to do the same.

“The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.” The flag code. uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...

if you respect the law and the constitution, the trump administration has no use for you

This whole framing is so insane. 1. "You've probably notices an illegal alien" - based on what, exactly? 2. People with health insurance are less likely to go to the ER.

MW correctly reading the room

If you're blaming the Democrats for the shutdown of a government that is run entirely by Republicans, why stop there? Go wild, man. Blame the shutdown on leprechauns, or the Seattle Mariners, or maybe the cast of "She's the Sheriff." You've decided facts don't matter, so have some fun with it!

Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.

Gabapentin has only ever showed evidence of therapeutic benefit in very few, limited conditions yet it is the fifth most prescribed medicine in the US. The continued extreme focus on prescription opioids has created entirely new problems that are not only being ignored but don’t even have solutions

this guy has no idea what the american military is (the most sophisticated logistics operation ever assembled in human history)

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I am going to take possession of your home unless you opt out of my All Ur Bases Is Belong To Me plan. I am going to start spending your retirement savings unless you explicitly refuse to let me. — I don’t think this sort of unilateral creation of obligations is legal.

What would the reaction be if Democratic politicians went on TV every week to talk about how scary and dangerous Louisiana was, or how bleak and depressing life in rural Mississippi is, or how Oklahoma ranks last in education and “God, can you imagine being from there?”

his brain is jello. media is still running more "BIDEN WAS OLD" stories than questioning trump's slipping sanity though

Mass Irish immigration in the 1840s and 50s was a major driver of the first wave of abortion criminalization. Nativists thought that US-born Protestant white women would be outbred by Catholic newcomers. Editorials at the time scolded women for going to the opera too much instead of having babies.

Anyway back in 2008 when racists were claiming that Obama was a Muslim, it was absolutely the wrong move to try and correct the record and claim he was a Christian. The right move would have been to say, “So what if he was?”

I mean I *am* stupid but it’s not for racial reasons.

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

remember when bernie sanders directly asked lee zeldin at his confirmation hearing if he agreed with president elect trump that climate change was a hoax

Basically, poverty dropped a bit at the end of the Trump admin because of anti-pandemic policies, and dropped a lot under Biden b/c of temporary policies like the Child Tax Credit. Biden tried and failed narrowly to extend those policies, and poverty predictably increased. Take that, Joe Biden!

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autism is wide spectrum and thus is under-diagnosed hope that helps

Untreated fevers cause pregnancy and birth complications, and forcing someone to be in pain when pain also causes pregnancy and birth complications means there are 2 ways this leads to objective medical harms beyond just guilting and torturing pregnant people

“If you’re pregnant, don’t take Tylenol” would be malpractice if anyone else said it. Maybe it’s actually bad that some people are above the law.

800 detainees are missing after being held in Alligator Alcatraz in July, showing no record of their location in ICE’s database. Other detainees have been mistakenly deported or sent to detention centers thousands of miles away. The cruelty is the point.

“Reward for Hamas” okay recognition of a Palestinian state also includes the occupied West Bank which is not run by Hamas, so this is just dipshit peddling misinformation lmao