“Jesus said love your enemy, but not me, the guy who is definitely not the antichrist”

I hate how fucking hilarious he is when he desecrates both civil religion and the true faith at the same time without even realizing he's doing it.

Again already? That's awesome. I have prepared a complete history of the Rapture leading up to Tuesday's Rapture:

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

“Sincerity” has been the sand trap of American public life for a century. So many conflate it with virtue in itself; so many others, encountering ugly politics, focus on what they then imagine must be their lack of sincerity, rather than the facts of real, sincere, brutality.

Some pundits praise Erika Kirk for her forgiveness, calling it an example for all. This is witless. One needn’t question the *sincerity* of her statements to do the basic work of reading public politics as such, by asking “what does *she* mean? What do her followers hear?”

A funeral is definitely the right place to air all your violent grievances if you’re the President of the United States and it’s not evidence of a broken cruel lunatic

I enjoy that our political media just ignores the linear flow of time. Questions like "was the summer of 2020 before or after the election" are irrelevant.

There will be some Dems who vote for this out of fear of being soft on crime and those people need to be ousted from office. If you can't explain this in simple terms, you shouldn't be a politician.

The 2001 AUMF's natural conclusion

i try to be respectful of different religious traditions, but the way that i see some evangelicals claim that God is in direct and constant communication, constantly showering them with little gifts and miracles, makes me feel uncomfortable because it is so out of step with my own lived reality.

im perhaps a bad christian but i think part of faith is learning to be comfortable with uncertainty, with a lack of perfect clarity, with your own weakness and inadequacy before God and that He doesn't operate like a vending machine, bestowing health, happiness, and wealth upon you for devotion.

A major problem is that we've collapsed every aspect of criminal justice under the umbrella of "policing," and therefore police officers are de facto judge, jury, and executioner

MSNBC’s report didn’t cite the case by name, but it sure looks like Biden DOJ officials thought SCOTUS’s ruling in McDonnell would prevent them from prosecuting Homen unless he committed an “official act” after taking/related to the alleged bribe.

A terrible case and a terrible line of cases – and like many of the worst things in our society: totally bipartisan.

It's gonna be TRICKY without a doubt. But (counterintuitive as it might sound) it's actually ENCOURAGING how much attention this is getting already. Like, the broader public might be shrugging (for now) but a LOT of people are talking about this and SPECIFICALLY about the illegality.

This position of knowing, worldly cynicism is just another way to feed into the permission structure of reactionary violence. It's giving up and marching into the sea.

the only policy stance more odious to me than NIMBYism is antivaxx. literally risking the life of your own children (and others who are immunocompromised) simply because you’re a total fucking moron

Are you prepared for the takes about how libs posting Great Khan memes proves they love war crimes because that is going to be a thing that happens

JB Pritzker is gonna say he supports Ukraine in the 2027 primary and all the Anti-War people are suddenly going to wake up again.

Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales wrote a whole book about this in 2003, and it has only gotten worse since then en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_... bsky.app/profile/mtan...

*tearing my hair out at the notion that Trump or his policies have anything to do with free market capitalism*

How many times has a major police union/association been busted running a major drug trafficking ring in the last year. It’s been at least 2, correct? Wow, and those are the ones that have only been accidentally caught, you tell me? lol

“In Mexico, they don’t talk about the cartels controlling X and Y” that hasn’t been true for decades but, notably, realize that that is the truth here. All it will take is for the cops to suddenly decide that an explicit turn towards criminality is in their interest. Now to check in on what DHS… !

When I say that America is ripe for cartelization, this is a great example of what I mean, actually.

FUCK IT!!!!! TIMELINE CLEANSE!!!!! ROLL THE CLIP!!!!!!

I continue to be gobsmacked by the way modern American conservatives are basically just doing EVERYTHING we were supposed to hate the Soviet Union for doing

libertarianism doesn't work because eventually you run out of other people's money and have to borrow it from the US taxpayer

“if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance; thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance.“

I…hope the next admin adopts some illiberal policies we all agree are Wrong and Bad then we ban said practices by 2033, ideally about 1-4ish dozen of which are acts that uh cannot be undone

Reading the article you’d never know that the gun range in question is operated by the Katy Police Dept.

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

won't you spare a thought for the poor sod who had to program this particular constraint into ChatGPT.

It is a black mark on the military that this is being done, and everyone involved in each of these strikes from Hegseth down to whoever pressed the button to launch missiles- should be subject to a military tribunal.

To be clear, launching military strikes on civilian vessels- *even if* that civilian craft is engaged in criminal activity- is a war crime. It is probably the earliest military action to be recognized as being illegitimate.

I do *not* think that Mitt Romney was unfairly maligned: he ran for president, politics is a contact sport, & he gave as good as he got. But I do think that a certain kind of relatively low-info person on both the right & left doesn’t grasp just how big the gap between someone like him & Trump

Sounds like terrorism

it's incredible to be judged harshly by guys like that. all of them grappling with incredible personal demons. drug addictions, alcoholism, rage, narcissism, painful daddy issues, mommy issues. stephen miller is so full of self loathing he once painted on hair before a TV appearance. fix yourselves!

While the country bitched at lefties for using phrases from sociology courses because “real people don’t talk like that”, nonsense like this eases smoothly into the pundit machinery. Maybe someone smarter than me can explain what the hell “distributed public-private form of speech policing” means.

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

i feel like it's an even simpler lens for them (not to entirely discount their rank misogyny): if you get ill that's your fault and that's your problem

I think the issue of Trump's banning is actually one of the hidden things lurking behind the Levy piece being shared today

And yeah, in a very real sense their cause IS being stolen out from under them & they ARE being cast out into the darkness again sometimes without so much as a thank-you. It's a real bitch of a situation & one we do need an organizational answer to. Usually you reward these ppl with Party positions

To be fair, the harder core activists are all that keep causes that would otherwise be seen as helpless alive during the long dark periods. It’s just that the personality type that is sufficiently obstinate to keep the flame alive in those periods is just very different from most people.

yeah I think this is a good metaphor for the tension between people who do longer term activism and the more normie types who join in moments of unrest and momentum like the present. warriors who regard the conflict as a part of their identity, vs. soldiers who want to win and fucking go home.

So now we’re going to have a third right wing ratfucking social media platform people won’t admit they’re addicted to but will insist they can’t get off of?

My prediction here is that I doubt an algorithm will make young people more transphobic or racist, but an algorithm that promotes those things will cause more left-leaning young people to leave, while elite influencers have their brains cooked by right-wing contest. Post-Musk Twitter part two.

Easy fix, we just train more doctors. How long does it take to make a doctor, maybe 3 months tops?

it is impossible for a newspaper columnist that is active on social media to not have heard obama's repeated statements against cancel culture, both in and out of office