A wonderful thread about hippos. Scroll up from this post to find the start.

This is exhausting.

It matters if the president is a bad person

Imagine losing “access” to this

Racism is the best-correlated variable for Trumpism. The problem is that the conclusion is repugnant (that an entire political party has mostly gone “gutter racist”) and this makes it hard to talk about without having that same party scream “bias!”

Me, 3 weeks later: *setting fire to the tent, kicking Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries back into the inferno*

If your big tent is large enough to accommodate Nazis, then it’s a Nazi tent.

the democrats do not have a secret agenda that you’d love that actually would do a lot to roll back fascism’s gains that also by all indications is quite popular but are for some reason saving for after the election to sneak on the public. that is not how they’ve ever operated.

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.

Note that if it's happening in the Fediverse it is ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY happening here on Bsky.

I wonder if the agenda-setting success of the AI CEOs, apart from the money they spend on it, isn't also because a generation that has never understood tech, still doesn't, and is still in power have the impression that they understand this one.

Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.

Now that we know what they mean by "the workplace," it's clear that women really did ruin that.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

"she needed money for braces" it's really hard to overstate how fucking evil these people are

I don’t like that it was such a good idea for me to move to the Netherlands. I mean, it’s nice here, but I was hoping to realize it was a bad idea and then move back to NYC. I’m still hoping.

We did this to ourselves. It didn’t have to be like this.

The people preventing measurement of a problem are always the assholes.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

Hedonic treadmill but it's in the other direction of being continually mad/outraged/angry at the Trump administration.

This is actually how you will know they don’t have the Democrats’ best interests in mind.

"Here’s the kicker: We even got them to agree not to pass the healthcare subsidies that we’ve been working for. You know, the ones average Americans rely on. Here’s how we did it: We asked, then they said, 'No way,' and then we said, 'Okay.' That’s how you win." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/gre...

As much as I find common cause with my more radical friends I (reluctantly) oppose the hardline proposals to summarily incarcerate every ICE agent. I urge everyone to consider the centrist compromise of abolishing ICE

This isn’t about left vs. right. This is about fighting back vs. losing. The regime’s threats are too real and the stakes are too high to settle for the feckless, loser version of the Democratic Party we saw this week. In this moment when fascists are on the march, we need leadership with a spine.

isn't the president literally the WH who is furious at pulte for convincing trump this was a good idea

He either can’t control his caucus (and should be replaced as leader) or he’s lying to our faces here (and should be primaried).

Just think about what the next capitulation by the dems will be about, the next big fuck you to the poor. Trump will, as always, take their capitulation as permission to escalate and do something even more cruel and stupid. This was just the most pathetic capitulation the dems have done *so far*

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Finally we have an updated answer to the question "If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for?"

Honestly I thought I was too tired to be angry and yet

they haven't got the slightest plan to fix any of this, and at some point the airport situation compounds enough that even if the shutdown ends and we get back to regular ATC staffing it's going to take weeks to unfuck things holidays are going to be a nightmare this year and it's one guy's fault

Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.

The Trump administration is removing, from foreign countries, monuments to American WWII dead from cemeteries full of American WWII dead. It increasingly seems like they think the wrong side won that war.

CNN: The guy worth half a trillion dollars has just been awarded a trillion-dollar bonus NYT: The president took a break from building a giant golden White House ballroom to eliminate SNAP benefits CBS: It remains baffling that so many voters are willing to consider socialism

getting two things out of my system at one time

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

How many people is an irresponsible company allowed to kill?

They’re not going to make noise about it, because they’ve been part of stoking the trans panic to distract from their predation on children.

This is murder. It is social engineering by oligarchs and politicians doing the will of oligarchs. It is cruel and brutal and results in death as surely as other forms of violence.

Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...

"The world" has already taken the win. Every country *except the US*🤡 now has access to cheaper power, cheaper cars, non-polluting buses, less dependence on coal and oil, which means slightly less geopolitical instability based on the price of oil. Oh, and as a side effect, will produce less C02.

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute. This is the *moderate* position, by the way.

All these Democratic leaders born before the color TV was invented are simply incapable of understanding that respectability can be performed by people who are actually bad actors intent on destroying the republic. The constitution can be set aflame with pinky extended.

Trump literally could not care less if you live or die.

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

This person took this when they called the race