Roslyn Carter once said Ronald Reagan, "makes people comfortable with their prejudices." Trump didn't create MAGA, he just brought it out from under its white sheet and put a red hat on it.

Just to clarify. I loathed him, before I even knew what party he might have affiliated with. He was, to me, way back in the 80s, the epitome of what used to be called 'The Ugly American'. I loathe him even more now. I just want him gone. Fuck trump 8647 #TheAlliedForces

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes

We grew up so poor we could only see Le Miserable. It was just one miserable up there, wavin' a flag and singin' and firin' a cannon and whatnot.

"Democratic governors and state legislators need to realize that this is no longer about fairness; it’s about fighting back so that they are not engineered out of the House forever. And I get that Dems don’t have the stomach for this kind of warfare--- find it."

Stoking and channeling boiling contempt for the ultra-rich is a pretty essential element of what needs to happen if we're gonna get out of this. And folks, they've given us a lot to work with. Don't tone police that shit. When it gets out of control, remind people why that's happening.

"It's not a golden idol forbidden by the Lord because we're not in a cult, y'all!"

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Rep. Justin Jones burning a Confederate flag during the special session on Tennessee redistricting Jones: “It’s a form of Jim Crow terror — this is about race. This is about power. This is about silencing communities that have historically been excluded”

The biggest international "deal" of Donald Trump is convincing so many countries to deal with the U.S. as little as possible.

"Let me see . . . should I listen to my child's pediatrician or the former heroin addict who cuts the penises off roadkill to take home? Yeah, the dude with the racoon penis, not the dude with an MD. Boy, that was an easy decision, y'all!"

waking up and reading about the results of the locals and feeling very

This is Penny. She had her first vet appointment today. Was diagnosed with a case of the eepies. But other than that passed with flying colors. 12/10 (TT: misspennyperry)

If we can take the Senate this fall, who's good with ousting Chuck Schumer and getting a new speaker?

John Roberts if you don't want to be perceived as a political actor stop acting like one. Dick.

Only in America can one party control the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, win the popular vote,and hold the majority of governorships... and still blame the other party for everything wrong with this country

He’s going to use nukes.

It is not simplistic to say the Trump Administration is evil. It’s accurate. In America, and on the world stage, they are the bad guys, period.

It is interesting how Trump quietly accepted the Gulf states denying U.S. military access to their airspace for Iran operations after blasting NATO countries for doing the same thing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

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Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

It’s not just that Trump lies all the time. It’s that the lies are to cover up corruption, incompetence, and confusion. And, largely, the lies work.

Hard to believe the number of large-brained, Data Driven thinkers who are getting paid handsomely to argue that the political center is the place to be when the data shows this unambiguously that it's toxic to voters.

the Secretary of State disappearing during a war to protect his 2028 chances of winning the presidency tell you a lot about how things are going

They're really stopping an election that's already under way to erase my people from the map.

We went from "armed gunman mere seconds away from shooting the president is killed by Secret Service" to "guy with a shotgun falls down on a different floor well outside the entrance of the ballroom and we can't find the bullets because that just happens sometimes" awfully fast.

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Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

This will sound very nerdy, but when I was a kid, I revered the Supreme Court. If they could rule unanimously against segregation in 1954—when the two other branches of government would *never* have been brave enough—I thought they're the lone voice of good. That is all trashed now. They're garbage.

KIMMEL: “You know how sometimes you wake up and the First Lady demands you be fired? We’ve all been there, right? — I agree hateful, violent rhetoric is something we should reject… a great place to start to dial that back would be to talk to your husband.”

Bravo to this dude for pulling this together in just a couple of hours. Interesting stuff.

Trump's "art of the deal" has always been about "negotiating for the right to save face after losing catastrophically on a dumb gamble, followed by furiously jumping into another investment so as to erase the memory of the last loss". That's his career. Nothing has changed.

Trump Friday: ‘Peace with Iran’ Markets soar & oil prices drop on the jubilant BS. Trump Sunday: ‘I might have to take out their bridges & power plants and Pentagon Pete just fired on a Eye-Ran tanker! ’ Market futures drop & oil prices climb. Rinse, repeat. This is a crime.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

But they seem so sober.

This shit won't capture the moment unless they replace the angel with Nero playin' the fiddle and whatnot.

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

Talking about Donald Trump having dementia just gives a sympathetic excuse for inexcusable preexisting conditions. Donald has *always* been a mean, self-centered, incoherent fool who says stupid and ignorant things.

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

I am reading a biography of Henry Fonda, and the combination of solid progressive left-wing politics and being a fairly terrible person to everyone in his life just seems to suggest he'd be great on social media.

SPOILER 'LERT. The ones pulling the stories of minorities from museums are the bad guys and whatnot.

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From a post: “Told my wife to have dinner ready by 6 or I'll obliterate her entire civilization. So anyway, she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free, and I didn't get any dinner, but I'm pretty sure I won that exchange.”

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

🔥 @rokhanna.bsky.social to Democratic leadership: “Get out. Let a new generation lead. You’ve been ineffective. The base doesn’t like you. The base wants fighters.”

Y’all are acting like you’ve never seen a 79 year-old sexual predator wake up on Easter Morning, snort some Adderall and insult the world’s 2 billion Muslims while threatening war crimes against a country he illegally attacked to distract you from ‘Epstein Files’ before?