Graham Platner trying to explain away his behavior as *living a regular life* really evokes *locker room talk* for me. The normalization of men’s abuse of women has to stop. Abusing women is not regular or normal or in any way okay. I hope this gets called out by lots and lots of people.

Let’s be clear: we have annihilated crazy ideas like “let’s plant some nice trees, make a free-to-use broadband network and have a government factory making generic drugs”, apparently so we could have racist rioting, chat about civil war, genital checks at toilets and protection for genocidaires.

So it does in fact seem that a willingness to excuse a nazi tattoo eventually involves excusing other abhorrent behavior as well!

In response to this people ostensibly in opposition insist we have to at least accommodate it a little.

Saw a clip of that guy from Staind saying that Bruce Springsteen duped us with Born in the USA because it’s actually not patriotic but I don’t think it’s really duping people to ask them to listen to more than four words of a song

Turns out he lied about the nazi tattoo. He knew exactly what it was.

There is genuinely a double-standard here and it can't be unacknowledged anymore. Jeffries and Schumer and Gillibrand and everyone and their mom in leadership demanded repeatedly that Mamdani "reassure" Jewish voters but they can't even say a single word about Gottheimer et al smearing Hamawy?

I think it's bad that the House Democratic Leader can't just unequivocally condemn a racist smear from a racist newspaper against an army combat medic veteran who just won a primary to join his caucus next year.

University admins two years ago: all opinions must heard on college campuses even if they threaten our students University admins today: no more student speakers at graduation, here are 40 emails about how to handle “disruptions” at commencement because we don’t want students using these two words

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

The Israel I made up in my head doesn't have Netanyahu or Smotrich or Ben-Gvir or Bennett or Eisenkot and it's actually bigoted for you to care more about the actually existing Israel that does than my version

Frankly it just seems like these members don't want to vote on this because they personally support US support for Israel's war on Lebanon but don't want to say it on the record lol

Good example of a headline that is literally just untrue and amounts to malpractice— there is no "seeing" settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank as illegal, they are factually illegal. UNSCR 2334 and the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice from July 2024 say so.

This has been the default centrist Dem strategy my entire life: never attack Dems to your right, endlessly critique Dems to your left. The end result has been backsliding governance, rising fascism and corruption, and GOP control over every branch of gov't. Then again, maybe that's what they want.

all other things aside, this guy is the scion of the suozzi family of long island grandees, and their law firm's roster of labor union clients fully funded this guys nepobaby life and career

‘no enemies to the right’ is of course longstanding policy within the democratic party but it’s also a longstanding white nationalist principle

I would really like for outlets to, after stating the government’s allegations, at least mention the fact that the car ran into us. An ICE agent drove into a crowd. Of people. Who were peacefully protesting. And then the government tried to paint us as a lawless mob.

Queer people vote for Dems at a higher percentage than any other demo except Black women. Those responsible for the decimation of our human rights are the fascists, the Democrats who never stand up for those communities, & cis/het white men who tell queer and Black voices to be silent and grateful.

However much you hate centrists, it's not enough.

it’s crazy that they still do this event every year while this post exists

the median american voter wants free hamburgers for life and have the one neighbor they hate starve and catch on fire

The idea that Suozzi "won a Republican seat" makes it sound like he crafted a moderate pitch that flipped a historically red district instead of serving three terms, leaving to run for governor and then winning the seat back after George Santos was expelled

"sorry folks, you have to go elsewhere, our 600 bed hospital is closed because the detrans unit the Texas government forced on us used conversion therapy on an out-of-state-resident who sued and until it's settled we can't run"

This is so good and so important.

Legislatures could also pass laws, but, you know, that seems like a pie in the sky. The point is that there are options beyond "lawsuit lawsuit lawsuit."

‪The institutional inheritance that results from electoral victories cannot be transformed in the directions actually required of a social revolution and it is not sufficient for a socialist movement that actually wants to win and a working class that wants to really take power ‬

It’s fucking incredible that techies will not engage with people whose entire job is to understand and mimic human cognition. Chiang in particular understands computers better than most people, too

i can’t vote for this guy in november. i just can’t. dems will probably still win — it’s california. but they’re gonna have to do it without me

Reconstruction 2.0 sounds cool and all, but Democrats couldn't even stomach "defund the police" and have disavowed Black Lives Matter as fast as they could.

The median American, seeing an adult with tremendous power say something so cartoonishly absurd that you just scream: And that's why kids can't run for office, or even vote! Because they might do something like this adult guy did and will certainly just keep doing, for years, who knows how many!

Is it good that all the companies who use AI scramble and say that human-made finished products are obviously preferable when questioned about it

We just use broken glass in the early stages of scrambling eggs to make it more efficient, obviously the finished breakfast doesn't have any broken glass in it

80+ villages have been nearly or totally destroyed by Israel, 3,200 people have been killed, more than 1,300,000 displaced and yet there are people “fuming” about this resolution?

a lot of Americans have heard the words "Israeli Arab" and decided in their minds that this is some magically distinct group from the Palestinians of the occupied territories but neither they nor the Jewish citizens consider that to be really true and you can see how that id the case here.

It's not really ever discussed seriously in the West but in Israel the idea of expelling the Palestinian-Arab *citizens* of the state is unmistakably a mainstream idea. Yesterday a Jewish supremacist MK disrupted a Knesset panel held by Hadash on ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and said this:

every time this lady opens her mouth the most frightening part is, i think she believes herself. it's weird. the idea that you can be brought in as an ideological hatchetman and drone on about trust and mutual respect, lmao. when and where did that enter the calculus

every once in awhile i remember that schumer’s prized recruit for the senate seat in maine wanted to keep the filibuster and think again that i simply will never believe things can get better in this country as long as that stupid piece of shit has a leadership position in the party

the democratic party (as it currently exists) seems to specialize in delivering anywhere from nothing to at most half a loaf and then blaming its voters for not being sufficiently enthused in the following elections when they hinge on many of the same issues they already failed to deliver on

In general, the idea that every voter suppression tactic and attempt to erase Black representation is actually going to backfire due to xyz is a really easy way for people to convince themselves they don’t have to actually do anything.

It’s the logic that’s gotten us multiple election cycles of “if you’re in line, stay in line” as a talking point under the idea it’ll “fire up” Black voters, but once you go through three or four cycles of it, it just feels like no one is actually interested in helping.

these people are, first and foremost, fucking stupid, and cannot survive outside the cushioning biome of right-wing media

The Democratic Party still hasn’t matured at all on Middle East foreign policy if House leadership can’t convince themselves to support a war powers resolution that would block Trump from supporting Israel’s annihilation of Lebanese villages

Every single thing about the world that used to bring joy or value is being ruined systematically from the top-down, but the fallout from that, in all its particulars, is being blamed almost exclusively on the people at the bottom with no ability to change it.

Is there any decision they made in the last ten years they would change, if given the chance? I'd say: only to go further and harder with the crackdowns and flag shagging.

how am i supposed to push hamas left if i don’t vote for them

Calling it now- This weirdo ass "but maybe the fascists are right about this one thing even though we don't even have a set definition if what ultra processed means" will ultimately lead to cutting even more food stamps and more denials of insurance coverage because its YOUR fault for eating it

the point of "ultra-processed food" is to group total nonsense with actually bad things and be like "bad things are in the group, so the group must be regulated" it's a stupid term and serious people using it just makes them look dumb

I've done numerous episodes about the insane protein fad and I'm not some protein evangelist. But articles about things should be about those things? These claims have nothing to do with protein!