It was not that long ago when conservatives had a chokehold on every branch of Wisconsin government, piles of Koch and Uline money, and seemed unstoppable. People worked FUCKING HARD to change that shit and now look at em. Change is always possible and never ever easy.

Republicans doing something extra evil, stupid, or both? Better get out there and make it Democrats’ fault.

Y’all want an absolutely SCALDING politics take this morning? Curtis Sliwa is more left wing than Graham Platner.

I’m sorry, but you don’t get to fall back on the “but Netanyahu told me he had my nose and wouldn’t give it back unless we bombed Iran!” if you’ve spent the past fucking forever years painting yourselves as hard men for a hard world who wouldn’t get suckered like those soft effeminate liberal types.

This is a good statement and she’s right that republicans are the load bearing impediment to stopping it. Can’t help but note though that when a Bluesky-disfavored Dem politician says something similar they’re deluged with “SIR YOU BELONG TO THE INSTITUTION THAT CAN IMPEACH HIM”

“Gas prices are terrible “I agree, maybe we should build some transportation infrastructure that will make us less dependent on cars?” “Fuck you that’s communism”

There’s a whole group of people who think they want a violent revolution, correctly don’t want to do any of the things that would be involved in that, so instead take perverse pleasure in individual violent acts as if they are part of that non-existent revolutionary movement

the POW/MIA flag is a good example of how we do dumb shit to appease The Groups

If the Democratic Party fully embraces slopulism that’s going to make me a lot more bearish about the long term prospects for American democracy.

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

people understand that this is intended to target EVs, right? It gets rid of the gas tax, which only affects internal combustion vehicles, and replaces it with one that disproportionately hits EVs, which are much, much heavier for a given body size. That is why GM and Toyota are promoting it.

Do you think that the guys whose companies are vitally contingent on globalization like, *knew* what they were doing when they picked the "destroy the globalized economy" party? Like was this a calculated risk?

A big part of Donald Trump's appeal among his ~30%, ride-or-die core is that he's the first president to be sincerely, authentically stupid and incurious in the exact same way as the fabled Median Voter. *Nothing* about his unintelligence is a gimmick or a put-on.

the NCAA women's tournament getting Red Panda and the NCAA men's tournament getting the Chainsmokers is a great example of how toxic masculinity harms men too

i think we had enough foolish 25A fantasies during the first admin, and this cabinet is significantly worse than the first one. congress is the only body with the power to stop this, and if the republicans in congress won’t, then say that instead.

no one in a position of power, in or out of government, really wants to deal with the fact that we have a demented chief executive, because if they acknowledged that, they'd feel obligated to do something about it and they don't want to risk their own careers or status doing something about it

The pope is tweeting like a wide receiver. cc: @dennycarter.bsky.social

Has anyone studied the psychic toll of years spent waking up to the unhinged rantings of a vicious madman who could kill us all — and then going about one’s day per usual?

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

So when cis people are like BUT YOU DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH THESE BOOKS MATTERED TO MEEEEEE, they sound completely ignorant of how much these books mattered to so many trans, nonbinary, and otherwise genderqueer people.

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

Like we could just have principles and not be like oh but this person is very popular online with assholes

Hasan Piker’s a moron and I actively think less of the people going to the mat for him and you should too! Why don’t the Democrats want their people talking to the guy who constantly attacks the Democrats? That’s a real fuckin’ mystery, man.

The thing that's really annoying about this discourse is that Hasan has said so much ignorant shit over the years that there's a lot of very justified reasons reasons to not like him but it always gets portrayed as a vehicle for Israel-Palestine discourse

here it is. one single picture that perfectly captures why we have a housing crisis. it’s not blackrock. it’s not the developers. it’s the boomers who will yell at any politician who wants to build more housing

Americans are astonishingly wealthy and a deeply attached to the idea that they are increasingly impoverished.

As a queer person covering the Bulls, the team’s response to Jaden Ivey's homophobic comments came as a relief. But the guard’s beliefs — and willingness to vocalize them — were not a surprise. If Artūras Karnišovas can’t vet his trades, why should he continue running the Bulls front office?

Sometimes I feel i am crazy because I can remember things from 6 years ago

This is not the "reasonable minds can differ" kind of area. This is "we fought a bloody civil war in no small part because of Roger Taney's perfidy; how dare you recreate it, you fucking shitweasels."

With all seriousness, I suggest that the citizenship stripping caper is an attempt to revive the institution of slavery. Don't believe me? Ask Stephen Miller. I explain on to @ianmasters.bsky.social on www.backgroundbriefing.org

love to be poorer forever because the dumbest 20% of the country has terminal oppositional-defiant disorder

so cool that this administration was handed the basis for more or less an economic renaissance and instead they decided to shoot the global economy in the gut—and then the head—before killing the freedom of navigation for shits and giggles

The key to understanding Trump II is that it’s an administration predicated on doing a national murder-suicide for the crime of embarrassing Trump in 2020

People wanting to ban institutional investors in housing generally have no idea what they’re talking about or what the implications of these policies would be. Want to stick it to landlords? Build a lot more housing - landlords openly say this will result in them making less money.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Most money in politics flows to people who already agrees with the donor.

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

From cycling under the light of moon on a beautiful night, to looking around and adding up the obscene amount of money we spend on cars, this article echoes so much of my thoughts about riding a bike and how CONNECTING it is- to people, to nature, to life- and how cars sever that connection.

i think we should lean into the idea of the face of trump resistance being female, because gender performance — hatred of women, love of a twisted eternal boyhood, sexual assault as worldview — is the one major thread behind trump administration

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

Ah, you think No Kings is going to accomplish anything? It's nothing compared to my approach of never being around other people for any reason

The problem IMHO is that some people on this site define "working class" the same way the right does and thus generally see the people who go to No Kings as being worthless or even as being outright enemies to the "cause". Not helpful.

I'm glad Zohran has made progressive technocratism palatable to a lot more of the left but like we were here the whole time.

And I think about what we’re in for when our wealthiest and most powerful oligarchs—mostly in tech—go out of their way to avoid rigorous, messy thinking. The consequences go way beyond shitty writing

77m Americans wanted this specific outcome and it’s their fault. It’s all their fault. I don’t care for nuanced takes on this.

The critics of Israel were mostly right and the hyper-zionists who believed 90% of gentiles are one bad day away from becoming Hitler were also mostly right and I have no idea what to do with that information except try not to cry.

Unpopular opinion alert: Chuck Schumer deserves credit for keeping his caucus in line until Republicans folded.

the fact that bezos and ellison have destroyed their outlets in pursuit of the mystical right wing news viewer who doesn't like fox is a cautionary tale for others who want to do this. it also undermines the idea that trump is popular. those are both good things!

I keep bitching about AI, and I'm seeing instances more recently of relatively credible engineers using it very successfully, but I'm also seeing numerous instances of seeing people who don't understand where the limitations are mandate using it in ways which are technically stupid also.