Ian Miles Cheong: Everyone must go back to the country where they are born. Please don't tell people I'm living in Malaysia, where I was born, but spend my entire life complaining about America. Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Yo what’s up chat. It’s ya boy Sisyphus, back again with another Eternal Boulder Any% run. If you’re new here, smash that follow button like Zeus smashed my hopes and dreams.

I just remembered why this meme and the discourse that follows is particularly egregious. You’d think if it was just about Dems voicing support for clout on domestic issues but being warmongers, you’d ever see literally any other domestic issues mentioned but the civil rights of the marginalized.

⚠️ Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning from Congress as of January 5, 2026. She cites harassment and death threats and not wanting to put her family through a primary. Once a QAnon conspiracy theory adherent, she says: “There is no ‘plan to save the world’ or insane 4D chess game being played.”

What if, hear me out, I had energy

once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred. As ALWAYS, this is about $$. We're about to become REALLY "great"... shorturl.fm/xs7gY

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

The baffling part is how many people were giving him the benefit of the doubt in January and now don't approve. They got new information and changed their mind. But he was already president before! How did you not already know he sucks??

I hate this "queer is an ideology" nonsense, but that's how you get straight cis women like Yasmin Nair calling themselves "politically queer" talking about how it's anti-queer for gay men to get married and adopt children. I'm not a normie, but we need queer normies to advocate for freaks like me!

You know it's a bad day online when i have to remind someone as a civilian in Venezuela that actually there is a very large difference between a hypothetical democratic administration doing shady diplomacy to remove Maduro and a hypothetical (very close to the actual) republican one doing bombings.

Why has everyone decided that they should START their political career in Congress? When I tell people to “run for something,” I mean school board, city council, board of supervisors, town select board, water board, state house/assembly, maybe even mayor. 1/

I wandered into for one second into discourse on how maybe leftist memes in 2025 shouldn't act as if a rainbow flag is a sign of being unserious or that LGBTQ people are so universally supported right now and catered to. And I regret it. Y'all bring the worst of Twitter discourse to here.

LGBTQ people get blamed by the entire political spectrum every time Democrats lose an election. Even by many leftists. LGBTQ imagery is constantly invoked as code for Democrats not addressing REAL problems. I'm tired of uncritically accepting the sacrifice of LGBTQ human rights for leftist clout.

What if the political ideology of the people in charge of the armed forces impacts who gets bombed? Does anyone think Kamala Harris would declare war on South American fishermen? Could perhaps having people who think brown people are subhuman in charge of our military impacted matters?

the worst leftists not beating the “gender is a little treat you get for good behavior” allegations

It annoys me when nominal support for LGBT rights is used instrumentally to push for clout or unrelated goals. But I *really* hate it when it’s treated as basically a cringe bourgeois affectation, whether it be the right, left, or center that’s pulling out that old canard.

The meme is this left and right bigoted dogwhistle that if you want to present an issue or party or politician as unworthy, then you add a rainbow because LGBTQ human rights are considered feminizing, unserious, trivial.

I am once again reminding people that making election day a national holiday would disenfranchise the customer service and tourism industry, who never get holidays off. It's not a progressive position, it's one that prioritizes middle and upper classes. Vote by Mail and early voting are much better

Urban planning Twitter kind of discourse has been going strong on here this week, and like…does no one on this website have kids? Do they think no one who lives in a single family house has ever lived in a city?

My most woke opinion is that the whole point of society is to collectively help each other. My taxes should be going towards housing and feeding everyone. No one should be without food or shelter. Rich people should be contributing more towards this. It shouldn't even be controversial!

a largely true story that right-wing propaganda and sundry irritable "leftists" convinced a critical mass of people was fake? do tell

When "I won't vote for somebody who doesn't support trans people" is considered a hostage taking purity test but "I won't vote for somebody who DOES support trans people" is NOT considered a hostage-taking purity test then we aren't against hostage taking, we're just choosing our preferred hostage

Remember the suburbs only exist because white people abandoned the glory of the dense urban center for far-flung sprawl in order to get away from people of color, which is why *checks notes* 60% of people of color now live in the suburbs

Voter ID is just a way to deny voter IDs to people you don’t want voting, though. You do it the same way you do it with drivers’ licenses but even more so. In Texas you’d have voter ID registration centers only open during business hours, only accessible by car, only in white areas.

never thought I could see federal law enforcement so depraved that it would negatively polarize local cops to the left, but nothing is impossible for ole Donny Trump

NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

It's hard to stay calm and even-tempered when your precious little boy comes home from school and says that the kids were being mean to him and calling him names. It's especially hard when that name is "Scribble-Scrabble Dude"

wow did we dodge a bullet by not making this guy the fed chair - thank you Liz Warren share.google/fcG45VOuDB6F...

Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems. "Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map." Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I guess the divisions come up more distinctly here because the site skews progressive, but progressives in Dem-run states vs. progressives in GOP-run states are one of the biggest divides I see here. Not even the same country sometimes.

we’re debating the politics of the south once again and I once again remind you the divide is not north / south it’s urban / rural

Okay, this is the *core* thing that bothers me about the fuck the south discourse

The two biggest strategic reasons to invest in red state Dems IMO are: 1. You've got to build a firewall and red states are the laboratories for democracy destroying ideas. 2. Those red state Dems know how to fight the GOP far better than most, bc they grew up doing it on every political level.

But plenty of Republicans live in blue states and plenty of Dems live in red states. More Harris votes in Texas than in New York, more Trump votes in Los Angeles County than in West Virginia etc etc

It's crazy to me that we're constantly told about the wonders of breastmilk and breastfeeding. It's a perfect food, it's created to be exactly what your baby needs, etc. But then, after you have a baby, the pediatrician tells you the baby needs daily vitamins D drops if they're not formula fed lol

Behn: My biggest pet peeve in politics is when people who don’t live in the South say, “You get what you voted for.” I didn’t vote for the highest maternal mortality rate in the country. I didn’t vote for the highest inflationary cost of groceries in the country.

Voting patterns across the USA now look mostly similar - denser areas vote more Democratic, less dense or rural areas vote more Republican. Whether you are in a red state or blue state is mostly a function of how urban your state is (and some other factors like how white it is)

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable

Quite the racket, to raise prices on ordinary Americans and refuse to lower them unless you're given literal gold bars as a gift.

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

Politically, the concern over people losing trust in the institutions has been disproportionately focused on Trump's supporters: "Oh, but they might never again trust the judiciary if Trump is being held to account in court" - stuff like this, over and over. But it's foolish to focus on MAGAs only.

it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are

PBS did us a solid and dropped the whole Epstein emails. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

as someone with two children who are talented at math and need (especially the younger one) a lot of help with social and emotional stuff this makes me want to scream please help your children learn to interact with the world, it will make their lives (and everyone else’s!) so much easier

Petty rant here - my Dad's family (except his cousins) is non-religious, partying business California Republicans. I'm married to a woman, have 3yo and twins on the way. His family has never liked or commented positively about our little family, but they consistently do for my brothers'.

Homicide is the No. 1 way pregnant women die, research has showed, but a new study finds that they are even more vulnerable than other women of childbearing age when there’s a gun involved. https://cnn.it/49M5XLr