Give me a Manhattan Project for mRNA therapies of all sorts. Gene therapies, vaccines, all of it. Invest a ton of money in figuring out how to reach hard-to-target tissues. We could have it so good.

Psychoanalysis is really just astrology for a certain type of left leaning person.

Why can't I find a hat with the IRS logo. Not some dumb "Abolish the" + logo shit, just the logo.

Art of the deal babyyyyyy

Oh no please don't pump some right-wing third party oh no we'd be so owned oh god please don't

Working in the industry I know margins on these sorts of titles are slim, but public domain publishers could really stand to invest a *little* in cover design.

To this point, Congress has tried (and failed) multiple times to establish a federal database for police misconduct. This is just relatively straightforward data reporting. Imagine the pushback if we tried to use that database to bar rehires.

He should be grappling with the real issue: "Dumbocrat" looks like it should be Dumbo-crat instead of Dumb-o-crat.

Somehow, Louie Anderson has returned.

Some of these chuds are definitely angling to be the next Riley Gaines.

Found the most cursed store in New Hampshire.

RIP all VTI shares

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Bluesky still got it babyyyyy

This makes me so happy.

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

Astoundingly idiotic thing to say. Wow.

lol

This fucking sucks.

No you're not. That's not true.

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

This is what it looks like to not meet the moment.

All paths to restoring representation in the South go through Democratic majorities in congress, and blue state gerrymandering is one tool we have to achieve that. Seems pretty straightforward to me?

The irony is that the same people pushing this line are the ones who are all in on the most ham-fisted workshopped-and-poll-tested-to-death messaging that people find totally disingenuous.

Before his current role suckling at the teat of right-wing donors, Shaprio's biggest accomplishments were adjunct faculty and lecturer positions. Probably not the guy best positioned to adjudicate merit imho.

Six days ago.

We obviously need to strip his name and image from everything -- full damnatio memoriae in 2029 -- but it would be really funny to just swap in Biden or Obama. He's lose his fucking mind over BidenRX.

Rediscovering universal healthcare through the power of racism.

You might be able sell something like the Faroese TAKS, their Central Income Distribution Institution, to low-info voters in terms of "getting rid of HR" and annoying tax paperwork. No idea if that would work given how niche a policy it is.

Sam Moyn has somehow made a right-wing court gutting the VRA about the libs. Impressive, even by his standards.

Silver lining in this decision (and the wave of red state gerrymandering that is sure to follow) is that it'll force the hands of Dem electeds when we have power again, and if we're gonna do something, might as well go all the way with single mutli-member districts + proportional representation.

This the place on Lemon Street?

God this shit makes me so mad.

NIMBYism for concentration camps is a kind of NIMBYism I can get behind.

I prompted it with something like "German antisemitism is a growing problem, where do you see it leading" and the response was yeah, the Jews are a miserable people whom Germans rightly distrust, but the teuton is too naturally greedy to expel them. Distilling your racist uncle into an LLM.

I'm here you fuckaas bitch

Lmaooooo

Guy on CSPAN talking about how this is a real chance for Trump to offer an olive branch to the media lol

If there's not already a heist reality show where we can marvel at the craft, there needs to be.

Imagine if other elected Dems were a fraction of the hater Lucas is. We'd rule for a thousand years.

Goes roughly like: opinion writer asks "did the left go too far on xyz?" because a piece on "orange man bad" is cringe. This gets picked up by right-wing media who repeat it ad nauseam. This in turn gets reported by mainstream news outlets as "there is a debate about the left going to far on xyz".

After seeing the aftermath of Abdul El-Sayed asking Olivia Reingold what she meant by a Jewish state, I became convinced it's a question that should be asked more often. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Two things about this. The most plausible case isn't that the median voter has an Atlantic subscription but that these takes are amplified on more mainstream media by those that do. The other thing is that we shouldn't underestimate the degree to which opinion writers are cooking their own brains.

I don't typically think of Ezra Klein as a reactionary centrist, but boy, this interview with Alex Bores sure has that flavor. It's wild how hard he goes at him on policy details as compared to the right-wingers he's had on recently.

The House cleaning continues.

I am begging, pleading for you people to consider the conditional probabilities here with a calm heart. Deep breath. What is more likely out of the mouth of a socialist and politics sicko who has often spoken about his admiration of FDR?

What is in the water today? Why is half this website committed to the most tendentious readings of easy-to-parse language? What might Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, mean by invoking FDR and the New Deal?