i owe so many video game designers an apology

In case Ezra Douthglesias is looking for things that voters support far more than the six pet issues with yellow check marks around which to organize the Abundance of Popularism Agenda:

yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.

The Washington post ran a piece a week before the election lining up Harris’ and Trump’s positions with voter preferences—and the showed that Harris’ positions were “way closer” and more popular than Trump’s. But please go ahead and share your *feelies.* www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

This is why Gavin Newsom is a non-starter for me. Sure, he's "a fighter" who's landed a few good punches on Trump, but that's not the same thing as a leader. A real leader doesn't fight back against an authoritarian takeover by using the most vulnerable as his shield.

Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light. newrepublic.com/article/2023...

"Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good." - J.R.R. Tolkien

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

Dear Leader is refusing to help hungry families buy food... and somehow that’s OUR fault because we were greedy enough to want to help Americans afford health care.

Notable that the people carrying Trumpism don't act like they believe they're carrying out the will of the public, they act like dictators terrified of a spontaneous uprising so swift and massive it overwhelms their protective services before assistance can arrive.

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

Excited for 2028 when some state SoS kicks Trump off the ballot, Federal district and appellate judges uphold it and then SCOTUS issues an unsigned 6-3 shadow docket rulling staying the lower court ruling, allowing Trump to stay on the ballot and schedules arguments for the case for February 2029.

The ADL is trying desperately to curry favor with a Christian nationalist right-wing that will never truly accept them. And the rest of us will suffer. www.jta.org/2025/10/29/u...

Hearts of Iron IV player be like

This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.

I think a major thing in our culture that changed is a bunch of Dem elites also now believe false things too because they're cooking their brains on Twitter, a fascist controlled brainwashing machine, all day.

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

The only Paradox game that should be used to understand politics is Vicky I because it is incredibly broken in a spiderweb of ways nobody fully understands so the brokenness can’t be gamed effectively

Trump could ensure people don’t go hungry, he’s just choosing not to. Just like Speaker Johnson could bring House Republicans back to work to lower healthcare costs, he's just choosing not to. The American people don’t have the luxury to choose.

This sort of article essentially amounts to "Mamdani was in Muslim political circles, and so were people we consider bad." And Jews should not engage in this sort of "six degrees of separation" campaign, because it is often used to link all Jews to pro-Israel activists. nypost.com/2025/10/25/u...

Jews rightly recognize that one of the exigencies of being a small minority group is that you sometimes have to be in rooms with people with views you disagree with, and therefore demands that Jews refuse to associate with Zionists are in effect demands to have no community.

But if we recognize that is wrong to do against Jews, we should also recognize that it is wrong to make that demand of Muslims, that they only enter in rooms with people with politics we consider perfect. In practice, it is a demand to not have minority communities at all.

Boy howdy people on this website should understand that a description of the facts does not imply approval of them

SNAP not getting covered in November is one of the current regimes actual significant FAFO moments. Over 40 million Americans suddenly losing access to a good chunk of their food is going to have unpredictable negative consequences

"things get bad when people are hungry" has been the #1 rule of societies since the literal beginning of civilization as a concept to the point saying hunger causes unrest isn't a prediction so much as it is an observation

Gonna wear a suit, tie and glasses for Halloween and tell everyone I’m dressed as a soybean farmer / treasury secretary.

This is the danger of tying your economy too strongly to only one customer. (Same principle applies to a business with too much market share to one customer.) If that one customer falters, so does your economy. I'm still a big fan of trade but diversifying it is a wise decision, especially now.

Bezos: Here's a pile of money for your new ballroom Bezos's paper: We are lucky to have a President brave enough to build this new ballroom, who is lucky to have such generous donors

sometimes you'll be like: hello maybe don't say Jews are a rootless people who don't belong anywhere, that's a very old antisemitic trope & the other person goes: sorry if my being anti-genocide offends you & you're like: it doesn't, just don't say this specific thing abt Jews & they block you

Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.

🎯🎯

Democrats should hold a press conference and announce that if Mike Johnson has no interest in running the House they'd be happy to do it for him

In areas with increased SNAP take-up rates, grocery prices increased *less*

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Politics is the art of making people care. Effective movements *shift the polls* by framing issues as moral questions. If the fascists can make people care about conspiracy theories like QAnon, we can make people care about freedom and democracy. (George Lakoff wrote several books on this.)

Without downloading new pictures, what's it like dating you? (Though I've been married for... awhile, so this is what it's like being married to me)

I genuinely need us as a political bloc to stop alienating left leaning & human rights affirming veterans. Sure we're gonna fight the revolution while all the people with the tactical knowledge to train revolutionaries are pushed out. (Btw don't go commenting on this post, no harassment, etc)

I want to add to this: especially for those of us in the "west" with few exceptions we have benefited from centuries of colonialism and neocolonialism. That doesn't make any of us in the west inherently bad people, even as we often perpetuate the system often by being unaware of the harms.

It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.

This is among the most corrupt things a president has ever suggested, and I hope the press treats it that way. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

the panting over-enthusiasm for Platner is another example of how you should never be horny on Maine.

Really appreciate you sharing this bit as the journalist who spent hours researching and analyzing the info it would be great if you could link back to the original work: popular.info/p/ice-boosts...

So Platner has a tattoo that is a Nazi symbol (the SS Totenkompf). His story that he got it at a Croatian tattoo parlor in 2007 when he was in the marines without knowing what it was is believable to me. But the rest of his response defending it out of the Portland Press Herald is pretty bad.

this is accurate along multiple dimensions they’re getting dumber and more right wing but they are now smarter and more left wing in comparison to the people they see on twitter all day (stupid nazis) which also leads them to be even more prone to dismissing criticism from the left

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

Tearing apart a historic building (the Peoples House) for his own ego