i genuinely think the media is the problem. if we had a functional. rational media landscape. fewer people would’ve invented a trump in their heads that they liked

We are coming up on ten years of Bernie almost exclusively benefiting Trump, and it’s just unremarked on when he goes on every show that will book him to explain what Democrats should do and how their brand is tarnished like he isn’t personally and directly responsible for this.

It’s genuinely odd that everyone just pretends like there aren’t some political figures who you can’t criticize here without getting flamed and others who you can dependably dunk on for likes.

Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >

This is what the prediction markets people want! You know how you absolutely *hate* that every sports broadcast is loaded up with ads for draftkings and shit? They want you to have that feeling but for everything everywhere.

for those who don't know, Broglio is a very conservative guy, he was appointed to this job by Pope Benedict, he was vocally against ACA contraceptive mandates, against repealing DADT, and voiced support for Trump 1.0's Military trans ban so this is not some hippie.

One of my least favorite types of account is the guy who posts "woof, not gonna get involved in that Wretched Discourse am I right guys??" except it's regarding an issue where one side is so blatantly evil that abstaining from the conversation is... questionable at best.

the app that had hundreds of young Americans age 15 to 25 posting videos of their own faces saying that Osama bin Laden's antisemitic ravings were totally spot on and maybe 9/11 was good after all yeah no way mean old lady Clinton could have had a point...

Random account on here: it sucks how tiktok peddles disinformation "Yeah true it is troublesome" Hillary Clinton: it sucks how tiktok peddles disinformation "YOU WAR MONGERING SWINE, YOU ONLY CRAVE MORE SKULLS FOR YOUR THRONE"

But have you considered, how dare she point out that the Nazi brainworms video app is infecting people with Nazi brainworms.

Republicans In Disarray

So much of this shit is gambling! Robinhood is fucking gambling! Crypto is gambling! Videogame business models are gambling! It's all fucking gambling! Laws need to really catch up to the fact that the brain can be hacked by this shit.

Mark Warner, the top Dem on the Senate Intelligence Committee, says he reviewed the DOD IG's Signalgate report and Pete Hegseth either needs to be fired or resign.

Warner: "An objective, evidence-based investigation by the Pentagon’s internal watchdog leaves no doubt: Secretary Hegseth endangered the lives of American pilots based aboard the USS Harry S. Truman as they prepared to launch a mission against terrorist targets."

Warner also says the IG report found "several other Signal chats Hegseth used for official business." "It reflects a broader pattern of recklessness and poor judgment from a secretary who has repeatedly shown he is in over his head."

at what point does betraying your country become a crime or a violation in the moral sense? asking for 75 million Americans who did the right thing in 2024 none of whom wrote a lie dressed up as a hit piece

oysterman discourse again. I’d say an indicator of potential Fetterman Syndrome is when the primary candidate and their campaign/supporters seem more interested in beating other Democrats than Republicans

Against my better judgment I read part 4 of Lizza’s bullshit, and it sucks. Even worse written than other installments, a muddled mess, salacious but not additive. What a nasty shame for all of DC journalism that he and Nuzzi were *ever* prominent.

it didn’t *resemble* a nazi symbol, it *is* a nazi symbol, and he was told this, repeatedly, for years. tame your fucking boner for white working class cosplayers, this should be fucking embarrassing to write and publish under your own name

Over the past few months, I have had the privilege of traveling across our country to share the story behind 107 Days. Here are a few of my reflections from the road:

I think the fact that IDEA has never come close to being fully funded is a much, much bigger issue than whether some status-obsessed media people think too many students at elite colleges have extra time accommodations.

The thing with being an obvious hack like Nate Cohn very clearly is is it makes you predictable. There is no way in hell if this were a 15ish point shift right in a deep blue seat, Cohn would call this a "modest but clear win" but his pro-GOP narratives always come first ahead of everything else

There needs to be a serious discussion on the noticeable uptick in misogyny and toxic masculinity in nominally liberal and progressive spaces over the past several years.

The Brutalist is literally about a Jewish Holocaust survivor, even when we tell our stories they're marred by antisemitic pieces of shit.

Anyone who is dooming about this simply does not have the appropriate psychological disposition to safely use social media.

When 180,000 people vote in a midterm in 2022 and 180,000 people vote in a special election in 2025 and 38% of them voted for the Democrat the first time followed by 45% the second time, it kind of doesn't matter how well the GOP did in the election day vote!

way to totally miss my point, talking about ways Democrats are bad, even if they were true and not made up, is doing the Republicans job for them, its their job to tell voters Democrats suck, its Democrats job to tell voters REPUBLICANS FUCKING SUCK

Stove touching theory was correct. The stove is extremely hot and they don't like it.

JUST IN: Democrats have flipped the mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia, in tonight's runoff. GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him. (This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)

maybe April was too soon, but I think tonight shows that FL-06 was winnable (and might be in 2026 because Randy Fine is a crazy person) only we ran a joke activist, rather than a serious person, run serious people please.

I think the point here is: 1. Run a professional, Behn is a state rep 2. focus on what Trump and the GOP are doing, people are MAD! MAD! don't get lost talking about Dems, talking about this or that, Orange Man Bad! orange man hurt you! hit back at orange man!

The canary has burst into flames.

If that swing in TN-07 happens nationally in 2026 republicans get blown the fuck out no matter how much gerrymandering they do

San Francisco just upzoned the Sunset, the Richmond, North Point, and a bunch of the Marina. I truly never thought I'd see the day. Huge congratulations to the local activists at @sfyimby.bsky.social who worked so hard to make this happen.

TN-07

Few in the GOP media sphere have as hollow a soul as Megyn Kelly. Some actually think they're doing the right thing. Kelly though, she'll condone anything. He raped minors? Lol teens are fine, she probably liked it. He blew up a boat full of people? Lol I hope they died screaming.

Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.

If I were Keith Olbermann, I would stop posting about this.

Btw I find it extremely weird that so many people apparently decided Cory Booker's secretly gay because a bunch of slimy Fox News cranks decided homophobia would be a good attack against him.

it remains amazing how this keeps happening and the media keeps going "we couldn't possibly comment on the nature of the President's eye closing"

Pete Hegseth's nameplate during today's cabinet meeting featured an unfortunate error. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)

These are the kinds of people who had to pull the legs off small helpless insects as children to feel anything resembling what their peers called "happiness"

This is a really good illustration of the point that just because the Trump folks do something *intentionally*, it does not follow that it was a smart or politically astute thing to do.

@jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social is 100% right about Hasan. He isn’t just a kooky streamer who abuses his dog, he’s an apologist and bootlicker for the worst kinds of global authoritarianism and tyranny as long as it uses the right language, and he should 100% be ostracised by the broader centre-left

Tbh the dog story reaction was always weird to me because yes it’s repulsive but he has always been a repulsive guy! This is who he is! His guiding ethos is that it’s fine, if not actually good for poor and innocent people to suffer as long as they do it in service of nominal anti-Americanism.

"i'm yelling at the Democrats because they're the ones in charge" in the context of being a big baby bitch about Hakeem Jeffries really tells me everything I need to know about someones' relationship to reality and it's always other white guys saying shit like this, shocking nobody

what unites Americans is not a culture of food, or music, or religion, dress, dance, its a shared civic religion, belief in our system of government and the freedoms it protects is what unites a González to a Goldberg and everyone else.

Donald Trump, the pro-drug trafficking president

Never forget that for a hot minute there, legacy news media regarded Megyn Kelly as someone they could successfully parlay into being a "respectable conservative" figure within their ranks

The President of the United States is reposting Alex Jones