And the thing is!!! With Ossoff actually running right now, it's clear he understands this is a winning message.

Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."

Excellent breakdown here⬇️

Jamal is too nice to say "utter hypocrisy," but that's what this is. Today's #SCOTUS treats *all* coercive relief against the executive branch as imposing irreparable harm on the government. For that proposition, they cite a 2014 opinion by ... Chief Justice Roberts. Its absence here is deafening.

This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.

If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.

Take all the tech billionaires' money and give it scientists.

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

I think part of the reason the Pope thing is hitting so much is that modern life is so devoid of *any* morality, any system of right and wrong that is not completely hollow and fraudulent, which hits as halfway sensible and opposed to Trump and those like him, feels absolutely revolutionary

that they are freaking out this badly over a surtax on second homes worth more than five million dollars - the most excessive rich person thing imaginable, which doesn’t even affect most of them - really makes it clear how little attention you need to pay to the freak outs

We can turn the homeless into slaves, as Louisiana plans to do. Or we can solve homelessness by giving folks homes, like they do in Finland, where their housing first approach has dramatically reduced homelessness, bucking the trend of the rest of Europe. www.huduser.gov/portal/perio...

Conservative economics: rich people are not "elite," but people with status (cultural or political) are, no matter how little they have in the bank. IOW if people like what you have to say, your opinions should be written off, but if you got rich on stocks or influence peddling they're scripture.

This is great. A nonprofit news operation in DC set to expand in the wake of Bezos' gutting of the Post. Hiring many laid-off Post journalists. A nonprofit is the ONLY way forward if we want to rebuild the watchdog press that the oligarchs and hedge funds have destroyed.

lmao they’re doing the gifted kid discourse for internet nazis

Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump’s huge military budget would be the largest in American history—more than WWII. @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

So the media is a bunch of villainous Jews and Trump is Jesus. I fully expect the NYT to sanewash this antisemitic lunacy. So far, they’re ignoring it.

President Manbaby lashes out at the Pope by harming children.

Haha I was waiting for Charlie Pierce to talk about AntiPope Vance and @theshebeen.bsky.social does not disappoint www.esquire.com/news-politic...

And the most vigorous defense from allies amounted to “well, we have to hear them out.” shit is comedy.

Conservatives built an entire ecosystem to uplift anti-social strivers of dubious quality while insisting Black people had stolen all their opportunities.

Is Pope Leo XIV the right person to lead the Catholic Church? We asked four evangelicals at a megachurch outside of Nashville.

A+ headline. defector.com/president-ex...

The Constitution and a court order both say that the Everglades detention facility must allow people access to their attorneys. Instead of complying, guards are cutting off people’s phone access and beating people who speak up.

/6 It’s not so simple, she said, with customary patience. Taking the Lord’s name in vain means invoking God’s name for our own selfish purposes, whether that’s swearing or convincing someone we’re telling the truth or justifying something we want to do. It’s using God for what we want.

People should laugh in the face of Trump flunkies who blame this on Biden. Biden left him decreasing inflation! On a platter.

I suspect Trump's political divorce with MTG prefigures what will happen with him and Tucker, Alex Jones, Candace Owens, Catholics, and others. He's constantly shaving off ppl from his base because he views conciliatory gestures as an unforgivable loss of face. Nothing less than domination will do.

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Hungary under Orbán was not a classic fascist or monarchical regime. It was a species of what political scientists call "competitive authoritarianism" — where elections are generally free, meaning not formally rigged, but held under extremely unfair conditions.

one of many reasons i will never accept abandoning my trans siblings or the broader queer community for the purposes of "a bigger tent"

The greed is wild. Apple is worth nearly $4 trillion but can't tolerate a single store with unionized workers because they're so against workers getting what they deserve.

So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.

I lol'd at this.😆

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

2/2. Trump used the Iran War as a pretext to lift energy sanctions on Russia, and even personal sanctions on individual Russians. Does anyone expect those to be reimposed? Of course not.

1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.

just following onto this — trump picked up the phone from an *msnbc* reporter *in the middle of a war meeting* but sent jd to voicemail twice 😂

This is really worth your time. His co-hosts wind up laughing at him.

“We believe representing the voters will get in the way of our election by the voters to represent them.” DO YOU HEAR HOW YOU SOUND GUYS

The media arm of the party that is running cover for a pedophilia sex trafficking ring that implicates their president thinks the *real* problem is that not enough teenagers are getting pregnant these days.

The DNC Resolutions Committee has passed my resolution to hold Trump Administration officials legally accountable for their crimes. Assuming the whole packet passes on Friday, it will become the official position of the national Democratic Party.

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

Excellent. I literally just taught my US History survey class where I give them two halves of King's 1963 MOW speech (unattributed) and ask who they think gave the second speech. <insert Pam from The Office meme: "they're the same speech">

Every Confederate officer above the rank of major should have gotten the chop, the drop, or the wall.