The fact it is effective and popular is exactly why the wealthy are so aggro about opposing it

They should hold Nuremberg-style trials in the Epstein ballroom once this is all over.

The idea of political taboos, "third rails" sounds so quaint now. He can announce he's ending social security and he'll use the savings to build the Scrooge McDuck money bin. What are you gonna do about it?

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

I’ve been reposting all of the crowd videos of today’s NO KINGS rallies because at some point they’ll try to say it didn’t happen.

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

Demagogic president seizes money to pay standing army, arrogating to himself legislative power, while his cronies keep Congress out of session is honestly more or less exactly how the Founders thought this would end

there are through lines, but if you can’t see meaningful distinctions between Bush-era conservative kids and the modern young anime Nazis I’m not sure you’re the savvy one

Pretty sure this race for NY mayor has been going on for about 3 years now

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

A divide. What kind of headline is this. One side is constantly breaking the law and one isn’t.

Alito is an especially whiny bitch but the general "you are not allowed to notice when i am full of shit" is pervasive in DC

if Kash can go back years and fire people for kneeling or displaying a pride flag the absolute least the next Dem admin can do is fire every one of these assholes who are assaulting people on camera (and then prosecute them)

States should withhold all taxes from the federal government during a shutdown.

The reason centrist pundits can only beat up on the left is because if they ever admitted that the left was correct about anything they’d have to admit they were correct about a lot of things and that ends in full on existential crisis territory for those guys

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

You've heard of the "no angel" thing, well, behold the "angel actually" thing.

as always i encourage u all not to post things that may attract the attention of an authoritarian secret police with unlimited power to surveil american citizens at this time

the cross-section of leftists who are crazy enough to do this and actually capable of planning and executing a successful military operation is at most like 3 people

Someone on here has said that violence against civilians is never okay, in relation to Charlie Kirk, and I'm like, I dunno man, do you disagree with the punishments that were dished out on the operators of Radio Rwanda? And were they not civilians? And is right-wing media not pretty damn similar?

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

I'm thinking there's a decent chance that, whoever the Dem nominee is in 2028, the conservative media establishment does such a good job of misleading Americans that most of em walk into the voting booth genuinely believing that the Democratic nominee is someone else entirely. Probably Biden again.

Holy shit go see Weapons

We need some kind of grand theory as to why & how liberal politicians became such completely passive objects in the modern era.

people have all kinds of takes about this but as a student one of my greatest strengths was I whip ass at Blue Book exams. I have read the material and can riff on it, on command. If life had kept offering me Blue Book exams I would own half of California

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

Is this good

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

Posting my twelfth "good times create weak men" meme right before I post several times about how terrified I am of public transit.

There isn't a fiction writer alive who could invent Eric Adams.

Why do characters always get upset when they learn they were an unplanned pregnancy. Wait... I was an accident? Yeah, you were. What, you wanted to be deliberate? War crimes are deliberate. Is that what you want? You want to be war crimes?

Most people still can't really even begin to wrap their heads around how brazenly defiant of basic facts the modern Republican is. Pete Hegseth once lost an election, and, in his book, he blames the loss on the "communist" Minneapolis Star Tribune. The paper had *endorsed* him.

This is politics as community building and social bonding. Participate, and engage with others. Dems should do more of this. The GOP has tapped into a much more destructive version of this via QAnon and the manosphere.

The American justice system knows that the rest of the world can *see* them, right? www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...

This is my first "skeet"! I hope Bluesky is a kinder place where context matters, patience is king, compassion comes first, God is king, love thrives, understanding goes a long way, curiosity is celebrated (alongside X-mas), lies are debunked, porn is challenged & destroyed, & Jesus is queen 🌱💗

Americans really just don't think white-collar crime is really crime. That might kinda be our biggest problem actually. Like, fully our biggest one.

one forgotten reason about why newsom blows ass is that time he vetoed a *unanimous* vote in the legislature that would've capped copays for insulin at $35. stated reason was because CA was going to start making its own insulin. that veto was in 2023. CA still ain't making its own insulin.

Boy do I not get baseball.

Hungry men create lunch times, lunch times create sleepy men, sleepy men create nap times, nap times create hungry men

Mamdani needs to win and win by a lot so the establishment understands people are done playing around and it carries over to the presidential primaries

The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.

i’ll never get over how blatantly and proveably lying is one of the best political strategies of the modern age

Newsom can't be President because he's an asshole with bad politics but he can absolutely goad the current President into doing dumb and loud shit and there is no greater need in the moment than a loathsome fuck to anger and annoy the other loathsome fuck

I think what’s so hard about trying to make people understand this political moment is that it fundamentally doesn’t make any sense unless you’re extremely online and have been for the better part of a decade

being in ICE or Border Patrol must be so crazy right now, you’re walking around as the disposable henchmen you can kill without qualms in the coming century of films and video games

This is the real Katherine Johnson. Let’s use real historical photos.

This is the best they can come up with to say "the city's dangerous" without also saying "I'm scared of the city."