Yesterday Democratic-leaning accounts got more engagements with posts about the Trump Ballroom than any other topic. So I think they are talking about it? datawrapper.dwcdn.net/4Oo4T/1/?utm...

i feel like people are underestimating the very likely possibility we get a steady drip of what platner blacked out looks like. some of which i’m willing to put money down will be Serious Crimes

dare to dream bigger you miserable people

so The Tribunals have to happen on the just-razed grounds of the Epstein Ballroom, yeah?

imo a bad sign if your candidate keeps coming out with clarifying details about stuff that looks bad only after that stuff comes out on its own

Yep, the wokest newspaper of them all strikes again.

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People were saying the same thing about the Millennials in the 1990s and there was this big push to encourage interest in reading, new creative writing classes got additional funding, and no barely anyone remembers that there was even a scare. This is is a very fixable issue.

if Cuellar isn’t even really budging on the shutdown I don’t think anyone else will or should

my first takeaway from the Platner-Mills poll isn't about Maine at all: any Democratic senator over 70 is acutely vulnerable to a primary

‪ It's fascinating to watch a man so used to being told yes to every idiot notion that enters his pea brain that he's out here having a months long public meltdown in a manner that a 6 year old with basic self respect would consider beneath them over an electorate disagreeing with him

I can work with this

“155% tax rates for billionaires at home and 155mm for billionaire dictators abroad”

Look The Third Reconstruction government is gonna have to do a little regime change

Enver Hoxha coming out of retirement for one last job

Argentina is basically the adult who lives in his parents' basement and identifies as a libertarian.

this is a pet peeve of mine. "war crime" is not something that means "bad thing I think is wrong". it is not a war crime to murder thousands of retreating enemy soldiers. it is a war crime to paint a Red Cross on a truck. if you think something is morally wrong just fucking say that.

yeah, i was policy-agnostic on billionaires except as an incidental casualty of broad redistributive taxation/spending but now its us or them honestly

As it turns out when your only policy plank is “JUST DO HEALTHCARE” and you don’t have enough of a spine to defend multiracialism the social programs you build get whittled to nothing by fascists who think The Other Guy shouldn’t have them, but surely what failed for Obama would work for St. Bernard

there's not enough video games where you get to shoot Confederates or, even better, Neo-Confederates. it's pretty much just Bioshock Infinite.

Really makes ya think about why the side of the progressive movement that are actual working class heroes and actually About This Shit is overwhelmingly women, overwhelmingly non-white, entirely from cities, who all get immediately pushed aside at the first sight of some giant gringo with a gimmick

*whispering* Bernie’s personnel judgment has always been shit and it would have been a real problem if he’d won

Incredible what a great Rorschach test the Platner tattoo is. Almost no one I have respect for is defending it and almost everyone I think is a dishonest hack is coming up with excuses. Like, cutting across ideology even!

at some point they have to find a better way to do gender than “men today are worried they might experience a consequence or inconvenience; how can democrats expect to win them back if I, a man, experience a consequence or inconvenience”

It’s actually fine and admirable to have a college degree. It’s fine to live in a city. Achieving professional success and financial security is laudable. Being civically minded and patriotic about our tradition of democracy and constitutionalism makes you a better person and should be celebrated.

In a just world the Ed Davey regime would drag that wretched rain-soaked island back into the European Union bound and bawling but unfortunately the British Median Voter somehow manages to be even more depraved than his American cousin

Very well then Janet Mills send his ass to the Shadow Realm

I think something uniquely corrosive to the US, and not other countries, is that their legislature *effectively does not pass new legislation anymore* and the electorate has spent the last decade plus going absolutely stir-crazy from that fact.

THE STORM IS COMING

everything about Trump would be too hacky and on the nose for fiction

Immigration is one of the most important moral tests in politics, and having that moral clarity is why Ed Davey and his LibDems will probably never have power again

When did being "anti-war" become shorthand for "let the tyrant do what he wants?" Pretty sure most Ukrainians are anti-war. Unfortunately, the Russians didn't ask their opinion when they started bombing their cities. I fucking hate these people.

You have two cows: the government raise the price of imports so nobody wants to buy your cows. So the government buys two more cows from Javier.

i like that bluesky is the unc twitter cuz it means i'm extremely unlikely to ever fall victim to reading a teenager's opinon

Honestly impressive how they're burning so much political capital to not actually help the argies all that much

huge priority for hostile foreign actors trying to sabotage the next republican administration: try to connect specific 4chan posts with specific republican staffers

China routinely has protests where the government reverses itself, being an authoritarian state does not mean that the public is completely powerless

There is no incentive in the American media-political system to do anything productive. This is the exact same thing we've seen with the politics of crime; any attempt to actually take credit for reductions or improvements simply gets you condemned for not taking it seriously.

I don't see Grijalva as a dry run for post-midterms. Procedurally those are radically different things, but more to the point, Johnson is faceplanting over delaying one seat in a recess even when the rules technically allow him to. This is not a template for successfully imposing a rump Congress.

yup. i dont think it was *impossible* for harris to win but there was clearly a feedback loop between Vichy Twitter's manipulated algorithm and the coverage in other kinds of media as we got closer to the election that produced overwhelmingly anti-Harris public perception.

The great thing about the Democratic Party is that there is absolutely room for both Spanberger and Mamdani

My policy preference for El Salvador is a less friendly and forgiving version of the invasion of Operation Just Cause

I'm somewhat skeptical about the savings people hope for from single payer (doctor supply is a big part of US prices), but I still support it out of a basic feeling that you should not ask people to understand if this is a sensible financial decision

it remains very funny to me that there’s a slightly-moderated democratic socialist in the NYC mayor’s race and it’s not the guy who used to look like this

Plump Shantae alts for those who love a good squeezable tum! 🤎

One of my least rational beliefs is that if you pull off a heist without hurting anyone or getting caught within a day, that's your stuff fair and square.

Personally I view the new synthesis as less committed to internecine disputes of leftism vs liberalism and more committed to the global triumph of “did I stutter”ism

"Recession indicator" wrong they listened to this tweet