there's a reason the republicans grab any right-wing influencer who can string half a sentence together and flood them with cash and media appearances, and why the democrats steadfastly refuse to do that, and it's the same reason. two sides of the same wealthy coin, trying to maintain their position

Liberals on here freak out when I criticize Pritzker for dodging estate taxes but I'm telling you, if workers can't find a way to take control of international capital, we're all going to be living under the feudal rule of like a dozen family dynasties

anyway, the malthusian math here is quite easy: there are simply too many young conservative men, and they must be culled this is the kind of bold yarvin-style dumbass-with-logorrhea thinking that all of the newspapers crave, have your editor call me and i'll gladly write an article for you

It's been said plenty of times but it's really hard to overstate would corny losers these guys all are. "What would you do with a billion dollars?" "Uhhh, I'd probably hang out in tourist traps with all the worst people in the world."

good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein

I have a lot of respect for the Knives Out movies just as an exercise in people making solid B+ level entertainment where everyone seems to be enjoying the experience without it needing it to win Oscar’s or make 3 billion dollars. It’s like going to a good steakhouse.

No it didn't. No it fucking didn't. Lmao. At no point did SCOTUS genuinely think ICE would police itself or do anything than be a nuGestapo. We gotta stop acting like these people don't know what they're doing. They know what they're doing.

Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.

libsoftiktok is now the third most powerful branch of government after the president and supreme court

since i'm not a politician, so i can just say the thing i know is true and not worry who it'll upset: a variety of social systems, including absolutely *pervasive* abusive parenting, have made these folks blinkered, selfish, cowardly, and servile. and you can't change them without *leverage.*

many options here, most likely you want a mix of shit bribe them with a functioning society manipulate them with propaganda discourage and marginalize them politically fight them fundamentally these people are abusers & bootlickers at heart, changing them does involve breaking their power, too

"guys you don't get it, yes she voted for the Put Trannies Through The Torment Nexus bill, but the important part is that she VOTED and that's what we DO because we're AMERICANS"

Because that money was spent to suppress communism. Now that the USSR is gone and the "threat" of communism making things better for everyone feels more distant, the capitalists have moved on to trying to fabricate a new Cold War with China.

Fun fact: these are mostly the same people that NYT always interviews. Like, they'll straight up call the same people who told them last year that they love Trump and hey, turns out that they still do. Journalism!

Q: Why are the libs glazing MTG so hard? A: They're fucking gagging for "sensible, moderate" Republicans they can work with so they can ditch the left. Having to slightly hand it to us in 2020 gave them all PTSD.

this is all vibes based bullshit - if they admitted that ~25% of the country are bloodthirsty fascists hoping for the death camps to get fired up yesterday they would have to act accordingly (ie not like wishy-washy liberal squishes)

Impossible to hate the IDF enough

Incredible lol

but let me just say: random dude approaching daycare with cameras should not be given access to kids.

White dude with camera arrives at daycare and demands to see kids. Daycare workers keep doors and windows closed. White dude alleges fraud. Every Republican backs white dude. That's the current story in Minnesota.

Netanyahu has murdered over 414 and injured over 1,145 more Palestinians since his "cease-fire" in October. As the ethnic cleansing continues. bsky.app/profile/jord...

using "the other guy sucks!" as a voting tactic is bad both because 1) if you announce you're willing to vote for a bad candidate just because the other guy is worse, that's all you'll get & 2) it clearly doesn't work, as evidenced by how the worse parties win at least half of the time anyway

“elections & polling data bear out that almost everything this woman stands for—especially the crazily anti trans stuff—is an electoral loser for democrats & everything in life is about elections. so here’s why we should expand the tent for specifically her *and* why you should smile as we do it.”

it's bad when someone uses normal legislative processes to restrict rights and threaten the health of the vulnerable and if your argument is that at least a legislator used legislation to do it instead of by fiat then you're arguing process outcome matters to the exclusion of policy harms.

What benefit do you get out of MTG? What coalition dos she bring? How would they be helpful? Have previous people like her been helpful or instead have they not brought any converts/ reverted back to being fully evil when it was advantageous?

The Marjorie Taylor Greene conciliation tour is fascinating to watch - it doesn't accomplish its stated goals of damaging Trump any more than she was willing to do on her own, but it's still an excuse for centrists to browbeat leftists for "failing to think strategically"

No people are not right to want people incarcerated for cheating are you insane

I don't think Trump should get access to standard medical care, he should have to let RFK Jr treat him

It would be intensely funny if the fbi would ever be willing to admit that this post is a federal crime

Worth remembering: some of the most horrific policies in history were enacted through “proper” legal processes. The Nuremberg Laws were passed by a legislature. Jim Crow was law. Apartheid was law.

This is why I don’t trust the "Never Trump" Bulwark guys. They’re perfectly comfortable with real people being harmed, so long as the harm comes via a process they can label “liberal democracy.”

I genuinely think people are underestimating how much influence never Trump conservatives have in the Democratic coalition right now and how their influence is acutely felt by the people they’ve targeted throughout their political careers.

my new bill kill all cis white men has passed a Congress, which is an unalloyed good according to the stupidest man alive

josh barro once told me if donald trump campaigned on making the Democratic Party illegal, won, and did it, that would be liberal democracy. conservatives don't just oppose liberal democracy they don't even understand what it is

we cannot continue to have a republic when impeachment is dead and the anticonstitutional superlegislature says violating the first article of the constitution can't be charged as a crime

anyhoo, i think anyone searching for daycares this way should be put on a registry with their hard drives seized in advance as a precaution

Basically this

What's unclear is if she will back up this rhetorical shift with anything of substance, something she is notorious for lacking.

It is pretty funny that most of the people who scream about Uncommitted or Dearborn or so on are themselves very pro Israel and plainly happy with the Trump admin's position

democrats will support this war by 2027 and run on being able to win it in 2028 and pretend to have always been against it in 2032

Even Phil Gordon, national security adviser to Harris, praised Trump on multiple occasions since January 2025.

Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times

The context here is landmark work that our organization has done on something so basic that people often look at me in disbelief. Over the last 10 years, we've gotten 100,000s of people out of jail who were or would have been jailed solely because their families lacked cash.

Imagine calling basic constitutional rights like the opportunity to speak in court "cutting corners." Even more alarming, he's saying all this in service of jailing people indiscriminately "by the busload" who are presumed innocent (and only if their families don't have the listed cash payment).

Obama's legacy is Trump. Obama came in with a mandate and the oratory skill to move political mountains. He left with so much disenchantment with the party, that the country elected a gameshow host known to prey on teenage beauty pageant contestants.

Not looking forward to Marjorie Taylor Greene launching Lincoln Project II and instantly getting more money from Dems than every desperate trans person's crowdfunding put together.