There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

"what's this button for?"

Yes, there are many things to call it. But the people behind it call it the Network State. That's important because *they are telling us what they're doing.* ...Creating a network of aligned billionaires, VC firms, corporations, political movements, religions, media outlets to push toward autocracy

my god it never ends www.propublica.org/article/dona...

1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists." It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries. But it's funders and motivations have been secret. Until now. It's a GOP dirty tricks operation. 🧵

every 80's station on Pandora has the potential to end up with you being Jame Gumb cradling Precious over the abandoned well

Using a steam catapult to launch an ally under the bus

Arguably the most slam-dunk, lights-out, game over case against Trump was his attempt to steal the 2020 election in Georgia. The Republican most responsible for standing up to Trump to stop the steal just got crushed in the GOP primary for governor.

Trump plans to shower money on the Americans with a known proclivity for committing violence on his behalf, while building a $1 billion bunker under the White House grounds that will be ready in the fall of 2028 I wonder what's up with that?

Every American who doesn't willingly shovel right wing media into their brainbox should be incandescently angry. If not, we are toast.

When the "resolution" to your wholly corrupt president suing the IRS is a $1.7 billion settlement for a slush fund for his insurrectionist pals, your democracy might be on the ropes.

“The America that I’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real and, regardless of its faults, is a great country with a great people, so will survive this moment.” Bruce Springsteen - Manchester, England, May 2025

This is absolutely amazing.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge To which a scoundrel clings. Steal a little and they throw you in jail, Steal a lot and they make you king. - Bob Dylan, Sweetheart like You From the article.

"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

She's gonna run.

Don Jr. and Eric launched Trump Moblie in June 2025 and promised a "MADE IN AMERICA" gold-plated Trump phone by August. They started accepting $100 deposits for pre-orders. 11 months later, the Trump phone has not materialized.

screaming bloody murder of crows in our neighborhood this morning

Also, Republicans control the Supreme Court. Democrats can’t simply do the same things to disregard their state courts and constitutions that Republicans states get away because they control the federal govt. Dems have other options for responding—especially for 2028–but this one’s unrealistic

The best argument re: Virginia decision I’ve heard. Also, even when Democrats win, we lose, because we haven’t been rigging the game like Republicans.

One especially infuriating part of this ruling is that past GOP gerrymandering may have enabled it. Democrats narrowly lost Virginia’s House in 2021 using the prior GOP-drawn map. That gave the GOP the power to appoint two justices under Gov. Glenn Youngkin—one of whom was in the 4-3 majority here

"you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote" - Donald Trump, July 2024

“Despite The Jungle’s focus on the possibility of rats or the occasional factory worker winding up in a hot dog, the true horror would be higher meat prices due to an overprotective nanny state.” 😂

Not this again

Republicans are going to make taxpayers pay for Trump’s ballroom. All Trump’s claims over 16 months that “donors” were going to pay for it was always a lie and just another con. You will pay for it.

All of us

Celebrity Jeopardy: making the rest of us feel better

The difference between “MAGA Republicans” and “Moderate Republicans” is that the latter only gerrymander AFTER ongoing elections have finished.

Excellent piece drawing parallels to Hitler's manic spiral.

Excellent piece.

A big difference between liberal regimes and authoritarian populist ones like Trump-MAGA is former treats the whole polity as citizens while latter treats the opposition as despised enemies of the Real People, but right populists must obscure this so they invent fake persecution at the hands of libs

Russell Brand on Piers Morgan is the most cringe-inducing thing I've watched since the original "The Office."

So politically, we ended up building the torment nexus.

In our meritocracy we're told if we work hard we'll succeed, but the reverse logic is if we don't succeed we haven't worked hard enough, & in that system immigrants and benefit claimants are seen as the least deserving, those who get something for nothing, driving a sense of meritocratic humiliation

“Pathetic,” Eeyore said. “That's what it is. Pathetic.”

Finally some good news.

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

This is flat-out evil.

Of course.

Palantir wants to bring Starship Troopers to life. "Do you want to know more?"

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

As right wing America continues its quest to turn us into a nation of medieval peasants with nukes

‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The best part about Dr Jesus Trump fighting with the pope is the inevitable cognitive dissonance to be experienced by religious Trumpers as they simmer in the reality that Trump doesn't have a religious bone in his corpulent wreck of a body

1. Coachella performers, including Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G, are funding the MAGA movement. Let's follow the money. 🧵

No one says it better than @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

If we don't do it, the Republicans will.

Fantastic news for our burgeoning theocracy.

One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war