You are choosing a representative from a limited number of possible options with extremely large ramifications for society as a whole, not buying a fucking car! Take your role as a citizen seriously.

once again pointing out that Trump vs. US is a treasonous decision--the Supreme Court equivalent of January 6--and the justices who voted for it have forfeited any claim to legitimacy (or indeed due process) whatsoever

the american left has a consumerism problem, part the infinity

So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding? Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.

That people are already staking out strong takes on voting in the 2028 primary on this website is simply further evidence that people need to get out more and do literally anything. Even laying in a field and looking at clouds is more productive

People talking about Newsom as a serious candidate are like the people who talked about Bloomberg as a serious candidate. He won’t survive first contact with a primary challenger. We don’t have to talk about this asshole just because he’s a more familiar name right now than other candidates.

Hanania being confirmed to be a pedophile will be the least surprising news ever when it happens

The biggest political divide on here is not between left and liberal but between "politics is real and involves real outcomes for real people" and "no it doesn't fuck you"

"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine. Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.

We’re going to have to invent new levels of hell for these people.

My position is that I do not intend to vote for Gavin Newsom in a Democratic primary, that I would vote for any Democrat against JD Vance in a general election, and that Hasan Piker is both an idiot and a bad person.

This is the crux of this ongoing & silly disagreement: Gavin Newsom believes in nothing cares about no one but himself, & would destroy us all if it serves his purposes. He's also a member of a party that would under every feasible circumstance ensure it does not serve his purposes.

Shoutout to GOP Senator Cassidy, who was the deciding vote to destroy health care research in the US

The incredible @saulelbein.bsky.social reported this harrowing, vitally important story for us. It’s just the beginning.

Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell

There's no "centrist" difference-splitting on this. We have to make clear that some beliefs held by loud pressure groups are simply contrary to democracy, and we can't indulge them.

when this is all over there will be a whole lot of "well I just didn't know" and yes you fucking did you don't get to "oops" your way out of this one

This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.

this is very funny www.foxnews.com/media/jd-van...

They fired so many good reporters so that they could focus on what really matters to their club: defending pedophiles

we should proceed with prosecutions with the presumption that the president cannot pardon crimes he ordered to occur while simultaneously advancing court-packing legislation.

“13 men on the field”😬 Georgia Dems use former UT coach Derek Dooley’s abysmal coaching at @utknoxville against him as he tries to run against @ossoff.senate.gov

Jokes aside, I think another thing Democrats need to do is start vocally explaining how presidential immunity will not protect any contractor that offers to demolish public buildings at the president’s behest, and it will certainly guarantee they never see a government contract again.

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

hard to overstate just how much Houston nailed it with the dunking astronaut logo

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

the Great Cycle: a stupid right wing asshole starts a global war, it blows up in his face and gets 100 million people killed, including himself. everyone is like "man, let's not do that again." years pass, the war generation dies off, memories fade, and hey presto: another stupid right wing asshole!

You could imagine similar situations in which members of the media coordinated in solidarity around Lemon to direct sustained negative attention to Trump over this story. Instead the political press spent the earlier part of the week making up a fake story ("new tone") to help Trump.

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

Goddamn, there’s that number again (27%)

the best explanation i have is it’s a cope because facing the reality of the task before us can be daunting and discouraging. but it’s been years of this shit, at some point you gotta stop cowering under the sheets and accept it, these fucks are simply not up to this fight and must be replaced

Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent

I think it speaks quite poorly of us as a people that we allow this grovelling servant class to so prominently represent us.

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

Like unironically the “I support secure borders, only prosecuting criminals, and creating a clear legal path to citizenship” position is now 100% consistent with nuking ICE from orbit. That’s how bad it is! It’s widely discredited with millions of people forever!

The real issue is that they subscribe to a theory of electoral politics in which pissing off your base is a cost-free way to earn votes from the "middle" and, nonetheless, keep losing to outright fascists. 2/

I, personally think its wrong that the White House took away Bovino's social media, and its censorship to take away his phone. Its his right as an American to keep answering increasingly detailed factual questions as he melts down emotionally

We are going to win

A thing worth remembering about this is that the man he pardoned for killing a BLM protestor is also a pedophile.

You should hate them for what they believe, hate them for what they do, and hate them for their lack of conviction. There is nothing redeemable about these people.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming. no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics