What is the investment in this guy by national forces? He’s never held office before. Do they want the right to say “fags,” blame women for getting raped, and wear Nazi symbols without critique? Is that what’s going on here?

Trump's ballroom donors include: -Google, whose CEO thanked Trump for "resolution" of an antitrust case -Palantir, which has lucrative contracts with ICE -Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, who would profit from Trump's regulatory rollbacks for private equity Pay-to-play.

Your daily reminder that the Right does not care about hypocrisy. In fact, they revel in it. They love nothing more than rubbing your face in the fact that you have to play by a set of rules they don't.

I am left liberal so I'm mad at myself

"How do you expect to win back men...?" We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.

oh nooo, now we'll have to settle for... *checks notes* the progressive governor who told Trump "fucking try me" to his face over trans kids during the peak of "woke lost election 😔" panic

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

I voted for Nader 🥴

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

once again, I am begging people to listen to those of us *who have actually worked with former security contractors* because a few of us have been warning y'all for weeks now that there is NO SUCH THING as a good person that volunteers to work for a Blackwater-adjacent security firm.

Yup. The perception of “working class authenticity” is still just as white-coded for the left as it is the right, even though non-white people are by far the largest working-class demographic in this country.

I very much mean it when I say that people who went ALL IN on Platner based solely on “is young” and “has beard” need to feel some accountability for it.

Wild. The epilogue is incredible. One thing that makes me think we might be alright: we are being terrorized by very stupid people. Malicious and dumb af

You cannot expect people who have never protested before to go from zero to civil disobedience, or you can but you're gonna be disappointed and miss the biggest opportunity for a mass movement of our lifetime so far

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.

This is definitely one of those things that people would’ve called you hysterical for predicting a year ago. Trump is going to destroy the East Room of the White House without even asking Congress and build a ballroom with funds from private companies that are seeking favors? Settle down, lib.

If you’re a journalist who started following me bc of Paul Ingrassia this week, you should start with this story I wrote over a year ago.

Sir a second group chat with racist young Italian American Trump staffers from New York outer boroughs and Long Island has hit POLITICO

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Does your post trivialize that profound effect that ACA has had for tens of millions? Yes. Does it imply you don't know about the medicare expansion (and the disparate health situation in states that have and have not accepted it), or previously existing conditions, or lifetime caps etc? Why yes.

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

These are only "contradictions" when one believes that everyone is equal. It's not contradictory when the Marie Antoinettes of our society believe that what is for me is not for thee. #ItHasHappenedHere

Zohran Mamdani makes videos educating people about a trans activist and Donald Trump posts an AI video of himself shitting diarrhea all over American citizens. The news media is trying to stop the former and help the latter.

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings. In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.

Trump's circle read the Nazi playbook but following it is harder than posting memes. Even when they attack the weak they're scared. They'll drag away housecleaners - but need masks. Bomb unarmed fishing boats - but fear media reporting the names. If opposition continues, democracy can hold. 4/

Male loneliness epidemic solutions are all around us for those with eyes to see

possibly the best sign of the day

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

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These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.  Looking forward to No Kings Day.

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

“Elect Mamdani and all the most racist cops in the city will fuck off to Florida” is a pretty compelling campaign message, to be honest

He’s going to win in a landslide.

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

that male loneliness epidemic is a real mystery

Someone just asked me what this might look like. Well, I suggest Dems could go into these cultural spaces and say, "Look, we have an alternative. We don't have to live this way. All of you chafing under this jackbooted thuggery have an ally in us." Like this: newrepublic.com/article/2018...

yeah it kind of bugs me when people go "don't you get it! acting respectable won't protect you from the cops! they're gonna attack you anyways!" like yes. exactly. that's kind of the point

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

men are not socialized to be equitable partners. They are socialized to believe they are dominate partners

It is really bad for progressive ideas if a very professional administration whose break from austerity in favor of pro labor policy to keep wages high can't run on the success of its progressive programs because it hasn't fully cured poverty or whatever

Every billionaire is a policy failure.

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

"Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don't want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on." Hillary Clinton 2016

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.