It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Anyways, it turns out that focusing entirely on healthcare on the shutdown has turned into a really good idea and it's got the WH scrambling even according to politico.

good things still exist

Kat Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague... It is not normal to have masked men repel down from helicopters into apartment buildings, to arrest families in the middle of the night.

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

it's funny how Silwa hates Cuomo more than Mamdani

"‘F***ing Dumbass’: Trump Officials Want Howard Lutnick Sidelined After Epstein Comments" Trump's commerce secretary called Epstein ‘the greatest blackmailer ever' & his colleagues are now super mad at him. Another scoop from Zeteo's newest reporter @swin24.bsky.social:

this is like half of r/ups now

Since I see people have once again noticed that the Sinfest guy has further slipped down the slope of hateful crankdom, it's worth mentioning that he's clearly been reading esoteric Nazi shit for a while.

yeah any Catholic working for ICE should be put under interdict

Nate Silver has absolutely pickled his brain on Twitter

If a high ranking Democrat ever said "the NFL sucks" it would be looped endlessly on the news as proof of how out of touch Dems are for the next 40 years.

A brave man dies but once. Donald Trump dies every month.

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

I think we should do Trump-is-dead speculation every time we get a clean chance, it’s clearly great for team morale. If you’re not into it, I dunno, post cat pics or something and enjoy the downstream benefits of other people being in a good mood

Isn't the value of a gadfly like Haberman supposed to be she should know the President is alive or not

that this is a terrible look for republicans on shutdown political optics kinda leans in the direction of this being about delaying the epstein discharge petition, which is also a wild look

i think its a very open question as to whether the president knows that he's not actually in the slop videos of himself he's posting

you know the Dems are winning the shutdown fight because Republican operatives keep posting cope about it

1. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality. 2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms.

i think this is *much* easier said than done, but i have wondered whether playing up the bad boyars might motivate trump to want to temporarily play good tsar. no idea how you make that work in this media environment, though, you probably can't.

exact same for me. Fetterman *simply was not like this as Lt Gov,* there was no grand conspiracy to knife his constituents, what happened was a stroke

This is the first thing they've done that exists outside the scope of my imagination. It's incomprehensibly evil.

comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

i have no idea how we get *out* of a shutdown, but i do not think that cocooning yourself in AI slop videos and refusing to leave your room is an effective way to win the politics of a shutdown

It’s clear the president of the United States is not the president of the United States.

"I made cool skull badges for my fbi agents", good job making crafts, you twelve year old!

you cannot be out here arguing with the whole userbase even if you hate them and think you’re 100% in the right you cannot do this

Pete Davidson just became the only victim of 9/11 to get reparations from the Saudi regime.

ironically, the whole Riyadh Comedy Festival has given me a worse opinion of every one of those comedians except Pete Davidson. there's something to be said for without shame demanding, "you guys kinda killed my dad, I'm gonna need $2 million for an hour's work."

Literal months of cope and rationalizing just for a sitting democratic senator to come out and say “yeah so turns out they’re scared shitless of trying anything”

Chris Murphy getting it is insane.

This is a horrific story of an American basketball player facing possible lifetime imprisonment or even death over possession of a few cannabis gummies. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

I’m gonna say something controversial: I actually don’t think chickpea anxiety is real

The most powerful enemies of our first amendment rights in our nation's history

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I would like to know how we can identify the specific persons at CNN who researched, wrote, edited, and approved this and hang it around their necks for the rest of their professional lives.

Enjoying the juxtaposition of these @liberalcurrents.com skeets. Signing up for TikTok was a sacrifice we were willing to make

But somehow Trump not just breaking a promise but intentionally misrepresenting his entire extremist, revolutionary agenda to absolutely devastate and reconfigure US government is treated as, more or less, Trump Just Being Trump.

If a Democrat promised to, say, not raise taxes, and then entered office and signed a bill that raised taxes, the media would freak out - "Will President Harris's broken promise doom her in 2028?"

But for some reason, our media doesn't want to talk about it like that. Our political class, which considers things like "if you like your insurance you can keep it" to be five-alarm whoppers, acts like Trump has a mandate for Project 2025 and it must be respected. Again: it polled at FOUR PERCENT.

It is the greatest political lie ever told in American history. Not just some busted campaign promise, but an entire campaign on false pretenses. Literal cartoon supervillain behavior: waiting until you get in office and implementing a comic-book plan to annihilate US government virtually overnight.

There is not a single example in American history of a president doing something like this: having a secret agenda that's incredibly, unbelievably unpopular, spending the entire campaign pretending it's fake, and then, upon winning, going "psyche!" and not just embracing it, but expanding on it.

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

In an incredibly lawless administration this still stands out as one of the most black and white, totally unjustifiable crimes imaginable, and every day they just get up in front of the camera and joke about how fishermen are scared while the military just keeps murdering people

Trump: we will do project 2025 Harris: he will do project 2025 Public: oh that’s bad Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it Harris: he’s still gonna do it Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios

oh cmon she was trying to pull a fast one here

I'd call it more of a betrayal than a failure. Theirs was a conscious choice.