Weird that the sacrificing European theory only applies to hot days and not cold ones. Super strange.

He’s so fucking stupid, it’s unbelievable. Starts off stating that the heat is a public emergency that has killed and injured many people, and then goes on about how Europeans are just tougher and more noble than Americans for suffering through it. Ridiculously stupid man.

Racism dot com's writer of the year and his editor in chief, the warrior god king of concern trolling, saw all your AC flame war posts and decided to go to the brain gym about it

The guy who harassed Wiener out of the trans rights parade (an issue he's supported his entire political career) is a straight white guy who hates YIMBYs like Wiener more than he hates actual Nazis.

Another brainpan-tumbleweeds banger from the least essential columnist in America www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

What are we doing here

The issue is that nonpartisan, independent, and fact-based (good goals for journalism) have been replaced by centrist and equally critical of both parties, neither of which are journalistic principles. So confronted with a radical wing of the GOP, legacy media invents equally radical Dems.

JD Vance made up a horrific and racist lie about a group of people, and now those people will be deported because the Supreme Court refuses to acknowledge, let along regard as disqualifying, the clear racial bias of this administration.

I'm not really sure how the first gay person to mount a serious run for President could have "expressed their queerness" more "boldly and proudly" than regularly showing off the man he was married to and kissing him on stage in public, there's really nothing more queer than queer love.

This narrative during Pride month was absolutely intentional. The corporate media is fully in for fascism and desperate for you to agree.

I just want to put this "fun" blast from the past here--an article in late 2004 in which Democrats can be seen blaming gay marriage activists for losing John Kerry the election by bringing lawsuits to enforce marriage equality. This article was not the only one.

also de Blasio froze the rent three times! Mamdani has pushed it up to a two-year freeze, but the main thing here is also that he's very good at *taking credit for doing things.* This is praise, not criticism! It's extremely important for politicians to do this.

It is more acceptable in elite intellectual circles to be a Nazi race scientist than it is to think it is acceptable to judge people morally for being Nazi race scientists.

I remember when non-binding language suggestions from university HR departments were national news, subject to repeated outraged columns in multiple media outlets. Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?

New York freezes rents for almost one million homes in political success for Mayor Mamdani

air conditioning is the European version of the Onion article, "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens"

Just like the “gender critical” braintrust, every few months lab leakers release some HIDDEN DOCUMENTS or WHISTLEBLOWER REPORTS that end up proving the opposite of what their conspiracy theory says

Bethany Mandel everyone: normie Jewish people I disagree with are the servant of Nazis but not like our cool Nazi friends

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social knew all along

new take™ www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNFi...

That’ll teach those kids to be born to a poor mom

The number of people enrolled in Medicaid and Affordable Care Act plans fell by more than 5 million in the last 12 months. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hard to overstate just how much of the Brexit campaign was based on lies. Looking back it’s a sad case study of a country voting to immiserate itself due to the mendacity of right-wing politicians and tabloids. But it’s almost never framed that way in UK media. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

FUCK

hetero in the sheets, homo on the feets

Can't believe it's been 10 years of being told that you mustn't call ignorant bigots ignorant bigots. You just have to politely live with the mess they've made

Good news LGBTQs

"What, Starmerism rather daringly asked, would happen if we ran on deliverism without delivering?"

"based on the best available data, the model reached a sobering estimate: The shift toward vehicles with higher hoods caused about 3,000 deaths from 2016 to 2024. The estimate is conservative in many ways." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The lives, happiness, and dignity of real human beings matters more than whatever philosophical point you are trying to make is basically the entire basis of my ideology now.

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

This is real GDP per capita growth since 2007. US growth is something like 1.3% per year; the UK is almost zero.

This is excellent. Worth looking past the electoralism headline since this is really a moral argument drawing on civil rights history.

This puts the lie to centrist argument to "move to the center where the voters are"- This shift was not organic- young Republicans didn't shift like this on their own, it was driven top down from the movement influencers. That's why they're called influencers!

this is so insane

I'm open to being corrected but my perception from abroad is that there is very little Keir Starmer did during his tenure that could not have been a Rishi Sunak policy. If you sweep away a wildly unpopular government and then emulate it, you will eventually inherit their unpopularity and then some.

No joy to be found today. No satisfaction. Just frustration and a profound sense of squandered opportunity iandunt.substack.com/p/the-traged...

To me it looks like Starmer tried and failed to triangulate between a moderate left and an extreme right, satisfying neither and exacerbating the split.

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

genuinely laughing so hard i'm running out of oxygen

Ditat Deus

Look abandoning progressive principles in a vain attempt to appease rightwing bigots may not have worked this time or all the times before but one of these days it'll click just you wait

Their point was: a lab origin is technically possible. But they were missing something key: actual evidence, in particular that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had a precursor. ▫️2/5

It's been incredibly obvious for a while that Labour's strategy of "loudly agree that dangerous foreigners coming to our shores is the number one issue, hope the right wing press give you credit for what bastards you are to aforementioned Johnny Foreigner" would not, in fact, reap dividends. But...

amazing thread where you can see who's east coast and who's west coast ideologically

For my latest video, I found this absolute masterpiece of a Clinton smear ad from 1995. Is this YOUR vision for a better America???

It is absolutely true that Dems need to win swing voters to win elections. The misdiagnosis is that swing voters are “moderates.” They are not. They have almost entirely incoherent politics. You don’t win them from the middle. You appeal to your base with conviction and hope swings like the vibes.

I actually disagree this is even minor anymore. It’s millions of dollars of graft and corruption and they’re about to start railroading random citizens through the justice system with who knows what charges to cover it up. This would have been a major scandal ten years ago.

this is a reference to a propaganda theory that Muslims are responsible for organized arson attacks on churches (also synagogues, and oddly Shinto temples). Their evidence is that more (in absolute numbers) churches that burn down from fires in the US than mosques.