I was there this lady (I guess also running in this district) really thought she was doing something and everyone in the room was like “uhhhh…” She handed Kat a bottle of Trump cologne (???) to wear in jail (?????). She didn’t think the bit through. Mandatory improv class for all Republicans. 2/10

Bizarre stuff from Pillard, Wilkins & Garcia on the DC Circuit. Two of their colleagues (Katsas & Rao) undermined the district courts with a flagrantly improper order for partisan reasons. The least they can do for the rule of law is formally reverse that order, rather than whatever this tripe is.

i get why you have gordon in there but if it was achane that’s a 99 yard td

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

I want to say thank you to everyone who reads and supports Strength In Numbers. The organized backlash I'm getting from hacks and the centrist-contrarian-consultant industrial complex is proof of the value SIN brings to an otherwise insular and epistemically closed space. You make it possible! <3

At Least Nazis are Nice to Me and Other Uninterrogated Thoughts from a Featureless Mind by Tom Nichols

If Americans cared about stopping fascism they would be gathering in the dark, quietly, using offline channels I am not invited to and cannot perceive

America can't be fascist because I'm not doing anything about it

they can come into the tent when they admit they were wrong and change their views we all joke about Woke Bill Kristol but he is for the most part the perfect example - he has, legitimately, become much more progressive you can’t bring in people who are mad he’s not delivering on horrible shit

if my grandpa did that i would make sure i had the number of a funeral home in my phone

probably nothing that our 79 year old president Bruises who just got a MRI for no reason is busting into rooms he shouldn't be in to mumble about the afterlife www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

there’s some truth in this, but the gap between deep red and blue states isn’t explained by voter suppression alone. the white populations in deep red states vote republican at very high rates. both things are load-bearing.

i’m gonna be furious for the rest of my life that this guy was not only allowed to walk free but re-enter public and political life. just such a profound and pathetic failure.

he didn't even have the decency to tag it adult content

what’s really keeping bluesky from popping off is theres not enough michael thirst traps

I am, apparently, following the most straight laced group of politics posters on this site

the sooner people internalize this about the dems, stop projecting their fantasies on the party, and start demanding more, the better off we’ll all be.

not to beat a dead horse but they do this not out of some belief about maximizing electoral returns but out of an aversion to rhetorically committing themselves to doing something about epstein/corruption/ICE/whatever other issue they’re avoiding, should they win power back

YESSSSSS

They are planning to do to us what they did to L.A. and Chicago. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/n...

the climax of the season 1 finale of the OA is genuinely one of the most unintentionally funny scenes in television history.

now that dasha is in the news again I'd appreciate it if one of you posted the "praaaxiiss" video please and thank you

The line is not that Marjorie Taylor Greene has seen the error of her ways and realized that she, in all her idealism, was snookered by bad actors and conspiratorial pedophiles. It is that she enabled them until it became so obvious that she either had to turn on her masters or share their guilt.

Not to get all Sun Tzu on it, but when the enemy is weak and divided amongst itself, you do not relieve the enemy by allowing their partisans into your camp. You drive them closer together, force them into tighter company, and intensify their conflict.

schadenfreude delivery from the bad place

There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago. And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.

See what I mean

Some ducks look like they should have arms. Others, not so much

I got an actual "Your silence on this subject is deafening" message this AM, so, super-quick: Nobody here owes anyone commentary about anything. This is a public park. It's full of interesting people. We hang out here, make friends, and chat, and then we leave to do whatever it is we do. That's it!

Criterion channel has this streaming again as part of the Nakadai tribute collection. It's also free on Tubi!

Can you kick in the door that's already rotted off its hinges if you insist on slashing both your ACLs first? The major question of our time.

This is could well be a historic midterm for Democrats. Don’t waste it on centrists who won’t come through when it matters. Run vocal progressives. You won’t end Trumpism without anti-corruption crusaders and warriors for social and economic justice who believe in taxes & big, universal programs.

it's incredible how badly they've bungled this despite near total elite buy-in or at least acquiescence in industry, finance, higher education, political media, and especially congress and the courts

thinking about getting a big print of this from the norman rockwell museum and framing it and putting it up over my desk. while I work, I'll have a visual reminder of what we're fighting for and who we're fighting against. idk is that weird

You were first on the list!...Because it was alphabetical, and "5-4" comes before "Abughazaleh" (whatever happened to her?), but still!

every once in a awhile I'm reminded that the new republic listed me and my cohosts as among the top 24 political influencers of 2024 and laugh. I like to imagine like, idk, being pulled over for a DUI and asking the cop, "do you know who I am?? TNR listed me as a top 24 political influ

What regular people want, and downward mobile out of touch lefties like you don’t understand, is to minmax the efficiency of their recreation to achieve optimal Economic returns for all parties.

Besides the other ways this is silly, I’m always struck by the language of “cross-subsidization” in these contexts. The assumption is that profits are fixed (or nonexistent) so the only way for one customer to pay less is for another customer to pay more.

Olivia Nuzzi whenever someone runs the garbage disposal: I should call him

as much as I talk shit about Jeffries on here, he's still miles better than Schumer/Durbin and almost certainly better than anything Schatz/Murphy could deliver, because the Dem Senate caucus itself is a major problem and Jeffries benefits greatly from simply not being in and poisoned by it

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

They should ask this about every movie. Why isn’t Pennywise in Nights in Rodanthe with Richard Gere and Diane Lane?

accusing donald trump of being gay with putin: boorish, tinged with homophobia saying donald trump sucked bill clinton off: ok to find funny as it actually happened

the Democratic Party should have 2 major goals for the next time it holds power: (1) completely rebuild the destroyed federal government capacity, and (2) crush the GOP, which enabled so much corruption and immiseration. destroy their funding, jail their leaders, make it so a new party has to emerge

sink their lifeboats