Chuck Grassley has been a senator for over 20% of the country's existence

vance has to stay on the good sign of the teen nazis that are his primary constituency

In Defense Of Shoving All Your Toys Under The Couch

they declared it an unlawful assembly an hour later and broke it up with pepperballs and flashbangs, btw

I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

I do not like the pundit-strategist I want to build a wall of separation between punditry and electoral strategy

Popularism can never fail it can only be failed and the rest of us just aren’t hard headed pragmatist pilled enough to get that I guess

Not that it really matters because sometimes you do in fact just have to do the right thing but Democrats making CECOT and Abrego Garcia’s case an issue pushed Trump under 50% on immigration for the first time.

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

I love how nsfw content creators are being forced off social media platforms, but Ai adverts like "I'm about to fuck this horse but in the meantime follow this link for Roofing tutorials and supplies" are apparently ok

God I look at my Facebook group chat sometimes and all my friends turned 30 and seem ready to be dead. They always tell me to just give up on all my hobbies too. Dire.

The most effective Democratic messenger of my lifetime is the guy who broke every single rule Democrats are currently trying to follow: Barack Hussein Obama, the guy with the weird name who talked like a professor, made sweeping appeals to higher principles, and never once appeared salt-of-the-earth

Someone give this brilliant book to the puritanical angry moms who bullied payment processors into all but banning porn games. The reason we even have online payment processors is BECAUSE OF SEX WORK. It was invented to pay for porn!

Skipped the paperwork. Ignored the court order. Broke the law. Ignored the constitution. This ain’t immigration policy. This is straight-up defiance of the rule of law.

the specific callouts of “never go on dates” and “never pay taxes” are starting to make me think elon musk might actually be the only autistic person rfk jr is aware of

We literally just elected a sonofabitch who stuck with actual criminals as they were convicted & imprisoned, & refused to apologize for anything. And voters specifically said they liked that about him & wished they saw more fight out of pols. You can't sit around forever waiting for the right fight!

The media allowing Trump to pretend to disavow Project 2025 is one of the most horrifying failures of the century so far, even maybe above and beyond what happened in 2016, and they will learn absolutely nothing from it.

somehow ”trump is god emperor and if he wills it it will occur” is a belief that is shared across the political spectrum

Impressive how Rahm keeps finding new ways to suck after all these years

One thing about punditry and consulting is that there's like no accountability. Matt Yglesias went on Joe Rogan to promote his book called ONE BILLION AMERICANS about increasing immigration like 10x. Now he's like "how could Woke Pressure Groups make Democrats take unpopular immigration positions"

What a horrible, cruel woman.

RCV SURVIVES IN ALASKA

Tf, The milkshake Monday guy and Justin Trudeau collabed

Sarah McBride was elected as the first transgender representative and now Republicans trying to ban her from the bathroom.

[noticing a group of people having a nice time at the park] enjoy your echo chamber

Sometimes I really want to tell people "You do not hate leftists. You hate 23 year olds."

How tf am I already blocked by someone. I’ve barely even posted

you know what. I kinda like it here. real twitter 2014 vibes: occasionally irritating, but without the fear that the third reich will reseruct if you say you thought Stellar Blade was mid

Every post election (even ones we win!) seems to be like, "Democrats did poorly with these groups; how do we reach out?" and not nearly enough "these people are our loyal coalition; how do we reward them and make them more socially powerful?"

except “help people with porn addiction” was always an evangelical movement not based in reality www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...

the thing that strikes me perhaps most pertinently about the biden administration's stance on gaza for these 13 months is that in a nutshell i feel like there was a lot of constant gaslighting from people that he supposedly has some kind of 16D chess plan for "reviving liberal israel"

In general the decision to make everyone's default feed nonstop unpaid advertising was just one of the dumbest decisions in the history of social media. An entire social media site for people who enjoy being advertised to

Probably one of my biggest apolitical divergences from internet culture is I find the whole "get that bag" mentality extremely toxic. If you have to advertise scams in order to be financially viable, you are a scam.

Bluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site — this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.

I have an uncle who flipped Biden-Trump and I just now learned he is literally a pure swing voter, every four years he’s mad at the incumbent and votes for change

It looks as if this place is becoming what Twitter used to be; for now, at least, we can post stuff to a sigificant audience without being overrun by trolls and bots. For starters, here's my complete theory of the election, and probably my last word on the subject

A lot of what NIH does is fund basic research into public health that is not profitable for pharmaceutical companies to do. This is what you get with someone who does not believe in research.

Another thing: if we manage to eke out a majority in the house, we need to take every opportunity to fuck things up. People are stupid, they blame the president for everything bad that happens, so we need to make sure bad things happen

posting "Gentle reminder that it's okay to unplug today and take care of yourself. Pass it on." immediately before commencing a 19-hour, 277-post meltdown

the gradual replacement of “exchanging money for goods” with “exchanging money for a license to use goods as a service” has been one low key one of the worst changes of the 21st century

Biden stans when asked about poll numbers