MAGA, you can be honest. Do you ever get tired of having to defend the whiniest beta male on the planet? I would.

I just want leaders who have a moral compass. Stop worrying about the voters and be true to your values. The voters will come along with you if you are authentic. Nobody can predict the future. I just want to trust you will do the right thing.

Why are they so obsessed with immigrant predators? Are the people who fund the GOP worried about the competition?

It is absolutely by design. Theyr’e tired of white people sympathizing with Black and brown folks. That’s why they’re so mad and confused in Minnesota. All the nice white people yelling at them to get fucked. It’s like their dads are yelling at them in a bathrobe. They can’t cope.

This is America

nine years old

I’m glad our president has the courage to take his ball and go home. Brilliant gambit sir!

Looks like I’ve found my weekend plans and I will be exploring new cultural traditions.

Natural Born Killers With Big Naturals

Add this to the tally of times GOP members talk about the President like a toddler. Murc's law is undefeated.

This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Nothing is ever enough for him. He needs everything.

Trump openly told oil execs in 2024 that he'd govern in their naked financial interests if they raised $1 billion for his campaign. He's now taking this further, telling them they'll reap great riches if they buy into his vision of imperial hemispheric dominance. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2049...

Did everyone forget that Trump asked the oil companies for bribes of $1 billion for his campaign? They are getting what they paid for.

Now that Trump is trying to hand Venezuela to US oil companies, that incentivizes execs to give big donations to his PAC and WH ballroom in a "vicious circle" of corruption, @normeisen.bsky.social says. MTG gets how this betrays MAGA. On the pod Norm lays it all out: newrepublic.com/article/2048...

Still still fighting it, Ben Folds. Please advise.

Western North Carolina is the most beautiful place in the world, and I'm so proud to call it home. We deserve a representative who is proud to be from here — and who will put WNC over political games in Washington. #NC11 #WNC #WesternNC

GOP: If you hold people accountable for unapologetically saying racist stuff its cancel culture! Also GOP: If you say or post anything online we don't like or we interpret as something we don't like we will f*cking kill you!

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

Having to click through and hope a mass shooter is a white guy so the event hopefully won’t be used against vulnerable groups is really a sign of the times.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

This is where we are at as a country. Millions of people not dying a premature death is bad for businesses because of pension costs.

We have been brainwashed to think everything is an individual choice and no company or leader is at fault. We have a predatory economy. From global warming to even getting scammed. We blame individuals instead of the systems that have failed to prevent us from ending up where we are.

"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

the actual sources of Trump's power are not Trump himself - a feckless and lazy incompetent - but the media and judiciary, who swoop in and clean up all his messes after the fact.

Newsflash: we're NOT gonna be able to care for our children. Or anyone else. Here in rural WNC, we're going to lose our one (1) hospital, several primary care practices, and also our nursing homes. Fun!

The silence of every single democrat in the country on every single issue that I have made up in my head is deafening. And their refusal to condemn all of the made up things that no one has ever even thought of that I am writing down on this piece of paper is frankly why they lose elections.

Good thing Microsoft didn’t already spend $13 Billion on this slop. Get ready for another bubble to burst Gen X!

socialism (noun): “any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods”

What if we wish for America to finish fifth behind a bunch of more talented countries that worked harder and then spend the rest of its life complaining as if it should have won

Just a reminder, Yuengling is an enthusiastically anti-worker, anti-labor beer company.

People really seem to resist the idea that they are talking about X rather than Y because some wealthy, powerful people decided to keep X in the public eye & suppress discussion of Y. It makes them feel like pawns, being used. But guess what? You're a pawn, being used.

“Crimes rates are dropping and we’ve got to get these kids into the system any way we can.”

This is a beautiful piece of writing. It is refreshing to see a pro golfer who has some perspective and doesn't only care about success on the golf course.

Scottie’s Run of Success

Democrats should loudly let it be known right now that anyone who is carrying out corrupt orders—or illegal ones— on Trump's behalf will not be able to hide behind bureaucratic obscurity later. They will be held accountable—politically, or if needed, legally as well. newrepublic.com/article/1980...

the commonwealth of virginia in the 21st century is a diverse, cosmopolitan place where some of the best of the old and the new mix to form something exciting, and these people hate it.

Maybe this is all a ploy to goose the economy every couple of months. Threaten tariffs. People get scared and go buy a bunch of stuff to avoid them. Pause the tariffs. Rinse and repeat.

Brief Congress update: my very own district in "deep red east NC" has been drifting to the center for years. It's flippable in '26. I'm so ready for this, I'm doing FARM FACTS FOR KIM HARDY. For every donation to this link I will post one (1) farm fact! secure.actblue.com/donate/nc07s...

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

“The history inside the museum still reverberates through our country. It’s impossible to understand social, political, & economic inequality w/o understanding forces that served as its catalysts. This is why so many have worked so hard to silence this history.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It took years of activists fighting to get more people enrolled in Medicaid so our uninsured population was finally going down in this country. The GOP reverses all of that progress with one bill. It is frustrating how slow the progress of helping people can be and how quickly it can be undone.

Can someone ask Bondi the next time she testifies in front of Congress “If you found out Trump was in one of the Epstein videos, would you resign?” You need to corner these folks with yes/ no questions.

The Senate just passed a bill that rips health care away from hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians, puts our rural hospitals in danger, leaves people hungrier, and rolls back progress on our clean energy economy that will cost us thousands of good paying jobs.

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.