Appointments that must be confirmed by the Senate: • Executive branch officers • General officers in the armed forces • Libero for the Thomas Jefferson Middle School Lady Patriots

Yes. If you knew anything about indigenous communities in Latin America, you would know they have faced genocide and many still do at the hands of the governments. This might be surprising if you’re white, but Latin America isn’t a continent full of indigenous people happily living together

It’s Hollywood’s fastest growing segment, so about time

the one thing you have to realize about the filibuster is it keeps both parties from basically taking hard votes on policy they profess but personally know would destroy them in the next election cycle removing it is a good thing, but there is a reason that Senators don't want to give it up

Political analysis in the US really should start and end at “Do voters like X or not?” Once you get into “Voters like / don’t like X because [separate assumption about their beliefs]” you’re probably making too sophisticated a model for 90% of political topics

The same climate journalists using their “lived experience” to push back on eliminating street parking in NYC doesn’t understand why Canada’s per-capita emissions are higher Simply unexplainable why emissions would be higher in a more spread out, colder region that’s subject to US extractionism

again, imagine if there was a strong stigma about admitting ignorance of the NFL but you really didn't care about it at all, someone puts a mic in front of you & asks who you think if going to win the Super Bowl. you panic & mumble something about Mahomes being a good first pitcher. that's them.

this discourse is enormously tiresome but i'm sorry, this is apologism for fascism and a breathtakingly racist false equivalency to make; if you think this way you should be ashamed, of both your racism and your inability to think critically

This is not just stupid, it is dangerous. In fact, it constitutes a danger for any pro-democracy person in the U.S.

Don't. Walk away. No esteemed deed is commemorated here.

It really didn’t hit me how well I am positioned to opine on this as a MS —> OH transplant

I’m starting to think the transphobes actually just want all the T to themselves

My parents came to this country with collectively less than a couple grand to their names and no professional skills, so I really just cannot tolerate Americans who think moving states is some insanely unreasonable thing. Sorry life includes doing difficult things, but this is a you problem

I'm currently in rural America. Volunteer with the local party and help candidates. I've seen candidates run on platforms laser focused on local issues. Schools to roads to farms to broadband. They lose to a guy whose only platform is how he wants to shoot immigrants from helicopters.

everybody i know that's not from a major metro area is just this guy:

Brother they wanted the State Supreme Court upheld the surrounding white counties annexing the land the airport is on The high school I went to had all its books and furniture stolen in the 60s by parents fleeing integration, and then the parents opened a private school with our shit

Trying to imagine New York democrats treating upstate rurals the way that Mississippi republicans treat Jackson and I literally can’t. It’s unfathomable to me.

red states routinely compromise the ability of their cities to do basic self governance but if you ever dare suggest that urban Americans act in their political self interest it's endless "do you have no SOUL, those are REAL people, how DARE" and it's fucking pathetic. have some self respect

I wonder why are people correctly clocking this post in particular as lipslop? Seems identical in form to a myriad of viral posts on here

The thing I like most about AI datacenters is how they're used to steal intellectual property. We should sell them down the river because they're bad politics, but stealing IP and obfuscating that theft is an affirmative public good

What’s the cultural reference you must frequently have to stop yourself from making at work, because no-one else would get it? Mine is “ze price stabilité is ze most important thing”.

pretty much all talk about rural disenfranchisement tends to ignore the fact that the reason for rural disenfranchisement is because the white majority votes to disenfranchise rural blacks, again and again, and they’re the people who have endless shooters trying to say we shouldn’t hate them

Rural areas are poor because they're rural not because of government policy which bends over backwards to subsidize the shit out of them lol

Defunding rural services is a step towards progress because rurals are holding back society in every measurable way.

Something you will see a lot of in reposts is white people specifically getting made about “eugenics”

"My parents' generation could afford a decent starter home where they could raise a family. Today, a monster named 'Glonzo' has eaten all of those homes. That's why I'm ordering the Washington State National Guard to find Glonzo's lair atop Mt. Rainier and finish him once and for all."

Hi, as someone who grew up in a rural area and realistically can never return, I am fine with conditioning farm aid/highway and infra money/Medicare and Medicaid/etc on rural deNazification efforts.

The senate does not vote to confirm Graham’s replacement. No one votes to confirm him. The governor of South Carolina (a Republican) just does it

Libslop makes me unreasonably upset lmfao

Those companies are overwhelmingly organizations *selling gas to you.* This is a such a stupid way to think about, because the natural conclusion of this post, the way it is written, is to make gas a luxury item normal people need to ration. I bet you that plan is not as popular as these words

Maybe don’t live away from society and demand other people’s taxes be spent on ameliorating your choice to live in a shitty place

How Regimes Rely on ‘Loyal Losers’ New research sheds light on how low academic performers with poor career options tend to be assigned the most brutal tasks, including torture and murder. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

The AI bubble looks a lot like the dotcom bubble. • It’s clear the technology will change everything. • Massive adoption is a matter of when not if. • A lot of companies are spending a lot of money unprofitably and will crash spectacularly. • There will be big winners and It’s not yet clear who.

It’s crazy the legs this meme has. Feels like a random, 1-off that dies in the thread it was made. Ro Khanna is just built different I guess

counting votes is much harder now.

A GOP senator died. No, not that one. Also a state party will have to replace Graham as its candidate. No, not that one.

The PTSD-riddled collapsing brain of a raging narcissist is currently leading us into war based on persecution fears Great.

Personally, Janet Mills is just happy she got through this without anyone finding out about the six years she spent as a mercenary fighting in the Rhodesian Bush War from 1969-1975.

Sorry, this is very silly, and it’s exactly the same thing we saw during the campaign: A handful of media folks who dislike Mamdani on policy grounds desperately scrounging in bad faith for something they can gin up into an antisemitism narrative, because hey, he’s Muslim, slam dunk, right?

That Platner's weakest numbers were with the "working class" shows how cooked the brains are there. Everyday blue collar workers saw this child of privilege with a nazi tattoo, sexual abuse and told pollsters this doesn't meet our values, while Twitter users screamed how he was a hero to them.

The focus on AI seems forced? It was a take home test! They likely all cheated off each other He said some answers were weird and he suspects AI, but also I bet more than 70% of the class compared answers with peers (likely filled it out together)

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

I met up with Mitch McConnell today and we beatboxed for twenty minutes.

Alright folks, I’m calling for an immediate moratorium on gender until we figure out what the fuck is going on

Am I to understand correctly that this person A) Was a prominent Platner supporter B) Immediately posted about being personally shaded upon hearing a woman was forced to go public with her sexual assault experience

I’m tired at looking at these fucking UKMTO files man I don’t even know what a UKMTO is