One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

fascism is so pathetic—what do you mean your ideas are so cringe and unlikable that you have to seize power and force people to listen to you and make it illegal to criticize you and give yourself made-up peace prizes?

if you’re a democratic politician and you aren’t using your platform everyday to show how your republican counterparts hate their constituents and hate democracy, then idk 🤷🏼‍♀️ if you’re not punching right, you’re just punching yourself in the face

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

maybe given the current political situation, finding things about which to say “the president has a point” is not only not a good look but actively bad and fucked up? Maybe maybe resist the impulse to say “well I agree with this chump” and find something else to talk about instead?

the supreme court has basically anointed this potus a god king and we’re going to have dozens of op-eds trying to convince us that the birthright citizenship case actually has a fair shot—like, yeah, okay

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences

imo if you want to get back in power your slogan should be "If you elect us we will prosecute everyone in government who has violated the law"

It’s always fun to see the clips of the Sunday political shows because you get to go “yep the news lets people lie to them for an hour and airs it”

The NYT and the Washington Post are simply ignoring the rapidly growing constitutional crisis in the White House. Almost nothing in their news coverage or opinion sections. They are as culpable as anyone in this.

very funny to watch major media outlets feign outrage at potus saying slurs or his cronies calling for the suspension of due process when they’ve spent the last decade creating the permission structure for these people to do all of that and more with impunity

This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.

to put it lightly, it’s embarrassing enough to have all these losers do the worst job possible at EVERYTHING but to have every major media outlets trying to out-downplay the magnitude of mediocrity while scolding us for requesting a smidge of accountability or—god forbid—a consequence? get a grip

Ryan Lizza is doing with his Substack what YouTubers have already perfected: taking serious allegations they’re personally involved with and turning them into melodrama to deflect from any of their own culpability and wrongdoing and monetize the shit out of it. Not journalism plus it’s embarrassing

dems voting to condemn socialism while mamdani fresh off a landslide victory in nyc is charming the pants off our fascist-in-chief confirms that primary-ing all these cowardly losers is really the only viable path forward

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

any historian able to tell me what stage of democracy it is in when the leader is saying “off with their heads”

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Imagine looking around America in 2025 and thinking, "What we need less of is morality."

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

the sooner people internalize this about the dems, stop projecting their fantasies on the party, and start demanding more, the better off we’ll all be.

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

The DOJ is suing to stop California’s redistricting map. Apparently vote approved maps are a problem, but partisan gerrymanders done without public input are just democracy working as intended?

15 year olds are not adults, 16 year olds are not adult, 17 year olds are not adults. Have you ever had a conversation with them?

Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

we need to bring the hammer down on wealthy and connected elites. it’s been desperately needed for a long time. regardless of party or politics.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

this is literally never not accurate

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

So fun that I can’t believe anything I see on the internet is real anymore. What a great future. Good job rich guys.

Richest nation in human history

Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy

no, I don’t want to do your quick survey pollpleasegiveusyourdata because I hate you <3

Suicidal for centrists to be begging for moderation when now would be a great time to pass some big, ambitious policies and remind people why Democrats are better than Republicans.

dems sweeping all these races the media spent months trying to convince us were competitive is actually a condemnation of “both sidesism” reporting—stop giving these losers an edge they don’t have

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

I love when rich assholes threaten to leave New York City or California or wherever like they haven’t figured out yet how much ordinary people hate them and how it’s actually hurting their cause

There are more of us than there are of them.

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

nuance aside, it’s nice to see that most folk think these losers suck

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people