gross event gets grosser

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I guess you can quantify the massive disconnect between party leaders and the party base they loathe

its especially humiliating for the Cave Caucus that he's not even trying to pretend that he might do this.

like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure

Two-thirds of Democrats say their own party makes them feel frustrated. By far the most commonly cited reason is that the party is not pushing back hard enough against Trump. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

Great news, everybody! The ACA is materially undermined, no concessions were secured on any other front, and Donald Trump will be able to declare this a personal win. But poor people did starve for about a week there, so there's that.

The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.

If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately. He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go. Literally resign tonight.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

oppressors gettin skittish

check your training for bias

Good longer read on Justice Jackson’s response to a very tricky situation tonight from @stevevladeck.bsky.social: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

The Onion, yet again, FTW.

Meta itself estimates that it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the United States lol

I’ve never seen someone try as hard as Trump to not feed hungry people.

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

There are no words for how evil this is

There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.

Let’s check in with people who threatened to leave Zohran Mamdani’s NYC: defector.com/lets-check-i...

predator badlands is fucking rad

schumer is a tumor

OpenAI has lost the crucial “dunce” vote.

just realized how many people still haven't seen frankenstein yet. that's a bummer for those people

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

Outside of Mamdani himself, I don't think anyone deserves more credit for ending Cuomo's miserable public career than Lindsey. She fought like hell, and motivated thousands of other New Yorkers to do the same.

So much of what happened yesterday is a direct consequence of Lindsey’s courage, both in speaking up initially and then campaigning to ensure the world didn’t forget about what had happened, even as it seemed like it would all be ignored

oh my god they actually did it lmao

Not to replace substance with message but I genuinely do not think that the GOP establishment is prepared, nor capable, of regulating itself in a world where all high profile democrats are directly staring into a camera and telling Trump to go fuck himself.

always important to consider the signaling effect of elections. one likely outcome of tuesday is to encourage the strongest candidates to throw their hats in the ring.

Y’know how the vibes are immaculate right now, and so you’re constantly refreshing the timeline? Bluesky didn’t cause that. It channeled it. Good times make good platforms. Bluesky, as a platform, has been saddled with trying to scale amidst bad times.

And also every single county in Virginia shifted blue, two statewide posts in Georgia went blue (for the first time in two decades), three Pennsylvania judicial races went blue, a Maine vote went blue, a Mississippi state senate seat went blue ....

Federal prosecutor, in his rebuttal, is in the tough position of hoping the jury forgets about the hundreds of MAGA folks pardoned by Donald Trump for vicious assaults on law enforcement on Jan. 6 and takes a sandwich case seriously.

I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

If at least 26 billionaires can waste at least $27 million trying to defeat Zohran Mamdani, then those same billionaires can afford to pay an extra 2% on their income over $1 million to make New York a better, thriving city for everyone — including themselves.

Amazing how much 2025 was a hyper correction for the fact that in 2024 voters clearly didn't know what they were voting for because the media didn't report on Trump's actual policies/voters refused to believe what they were voting for.

guy at the event i'm working keeps talking about large loads

This is about as clear that Fox signaling gets. Audience of one and all that, and trying to get through his head that he's fucking it all up.

god all of this shit is so funny

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

The only thing that the Supreme Court majority is calculating is whether they'd be helping Trump politically by preventing him from continuing chaotic tariff policy that's pretty obviously fucking up the economy.

they absolutely should keep doing all of this stuff. and also, you know, execute. but the vibes must be maintained

Before AI-generated "art" emerged from the pits of hell, there was another garbage trend: YouTubers upscaling anime to 60 frames per second.

Gorsuch finally speaks, and oh yeah, he's against Trump. Alito also sounded skeptical, which is surprising to me. Regardless, there will plainly be a lopsided majority to strike down the tariffs. The government better start working on its Plan B...

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods