Internet: I just want to see Dems *try*, even if they fail I’ll give them credit for the attempt Dems: *try, fail* Internet: The fact that they failed is actually evidence that the attempt was fake and they never wanted to succeed in the first place

The thing about a politician who only does things for your vote is that it's good & how things are supposed to work.

What the Republicans have done is unconscionable, which is why I will spend the rest of my life attacking the Democrats for not doing crimes in response. I will not specify the crimes I wish them to commit, however.

Musk's takeover of Twitter has clearly been a net-negative for social & economic justice oriented coordination, and I can only hope this distributed, billionaire resistant ecosystem eventually is able to pick up the slack. But it's a slog so long as our media betters prefer to hang out with Nazis.

We need at some point to talk about the hyper-aggressive effort the American & international right is making to seduce Jews into abandoning progressive causes, and how the progressive camp is COMPLETELY failing to assuage or soothe Jews - that in fact some see driving them out as a victory.

"Dr. President Trump..."

I prefer this place to the other one, but I don't have many followers here yet. Help me with the odd share if you like what I do. Ta.

Gonna be interesting to see how the media manages to ignore when he starts dropping racial slurs on camera.

this is very clearly and directly genocidal: "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" is explicitly listed as a genocidal act in the 1948 convention, and Russia's intent to destroy Ukrainians as a people has been made clear over and over again

Update: that project has now had its GitHub keys compromised. www.aikido.dev/blog/mini-sh...

The solution is a cultural shift away from bad faith dogpiling as a form of social climbing. The only way to do that is to ban people for participating in it. As it is right now, participating in these dogpiles with the most entertainingly cruel insult is how you get more followers. Rinse, repeat.

learning for the first time that some people use a male commander shepherd in Mass Effect, presumably through some kind of mod?

Perhaps the only question harder to answer than "who was president in 2020?" is "who was president in 2008?"

Perhaps the only question harder to answer than "who was president in 2020?" is "who was president in 2008?"

Bluesky really not beating the "site by bedwetters, for bedwetters" allegations, yes the midterms are still going to be a GOP wipeout, how are you all getting this panicked over a 40 seat landslide maybe shrinking to 35 because John Roberts committed institutional suicide to make it so

Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

As I’ve said before, Platner is a good example of how perceived electability advantage, often afforded to white men like him, can weaken Democrats’ fidelity to their values and make them more willing to engage in Trump-like excuse making for inexcusable behavior. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/o...

under woke 2 we’re expanding the metro to georgetown just to torment these shitheads

So Dave Weigel is a disingenuous hack, but I do think he’s being earnest and extremely literal when he says that Donald Trump “makes news.” As in, he believes that “the news” is a type of quantifiable energy or natural phenomenon that is literally generated by politicians and celebrities.

I don't think this is correct. The answer is that Republican courts are not thinking and the Republican staffers are accelerationists.

and without doing some sort of questionably (if not blatantly) illegal stuff by the legislator. People have CTs about Johnson refusing to seat members. That is how you get him to not seat newly elected members.

Again, the thing is in Ohio the court never actually made a legal map. They insisted the legislature do it, who repeatedly refused. The court should have said "fine, we'll do it ourselves" but they never did, leaving the only map ever made by anyone the illegal one.

We definitely need more fight on our side but if you’re posting “all hope is lost, fuck it, Democrats will never accomplish any of this, we’re fucked!!!” you’re actually part of the group that’s got no fight

it’s so crazy that Virginia voters amended the constitution to allow redistricting while Florida voters amended the constitution to ban gerrymandering… but the Republican hacks on both state supreme courts overturned the will of the voters to ensure that republicans get their preferred outcome

if you show up at the trump white house on their request because your child was killed in action, you know he's going to make a mockery of it, he's made a mockery of it countless times over the last several years, and your attendance is an endorsement of and complicity in that mockery

Under the existing VA map Repubs rep districts Trump won by 12, 5, & 0.2. Barring a colossal screwup I expect Dems to flip VA-02 (Virginia Beach), probably VA-01, & w Repubs in free fall & the economy likely to get significantly worse, VA-05 is prob in play. That would be only net -1 vs new map

Nephilim as extraterrestrials as "the origin story of nonwhite races is alien demons breeding with White people" is a recurring feature in a lot of semi-obscure white supremacist literature.

"Once all the laws are flat the Devil won't turn 'round on me!"

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virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Folks complain a lot about unfair exercises that exaggerate enemy capabilities, but there's something to said for training harder than you fight.

It is notable to me the relative amount of time and effort these people spend attacking a liberal midwestern antifascist activist versus, you know, actual fascists Like why not try to cyberbully Stephen Miller or Nick Fuentes?

the politics of the latest Guy were a very bad sign for where this is going if people become convinced voting won’t work that’s not the profile you usually see from someone who tries something like that, and you really do not want to be in a situation where his profile becomes the new normal

So you enjoyed the game so much you BEAT IT then SAT THROUGH THE CREDITS and only *then* did you find out she was involved and got mad? Sounds like you don't actually care about games just about if your politics are being catered to.

the one good point i saw is that most republicans live in a world of AI where trump is depicted as a cross between the uber-mensch and a super saiyan.

this is not the quote a person who gives a shit about racial justice or equality.

This is textbook nonviolent resistance to highlight injustice. Teach everyone this

Yes. I think many, perhaps most, elite conservatives fundamentally view the Civil Rights Act as liberals breaking the social contract.

I got lectured to over and over about how 1) It was dumb to worry about Roe, Republicans didn't actually even care about it (?!?!?!) 2) We should simply abolish the Supreme Court 2016 turned me insane.

"Callais didn't happen because Harris botched 2024, it happened because Clinton botched 2016" people should gently and slowly insert a red-hot iron rod into their mouth

All those leftists who talked up MTG need to own this shit

RIP to everyone banned by the mods for their hubris but I'm different. and better. maybe even better than the mods

Can one of yall just hire Thorne? Like for real.

incredibly funny how the outbreak happened after the two main countries involved, the united states and argentina, completely obliterated their public health and regulatory agencies for insane kulturkampf reasons