Raising taxes to pay for expanded and improved government services is literally the opposite of austerity politics. Anti-tax leftism has got to be strangled in the crib before it destroys what scant hope we have of ever implementing a social democratic system in America.

The most accurate portrayal of the pro-Jim Crow, white nationalist Roberts Supreme Court I've seen yet.

I think it’s bad that the Republican Party has decided that people who disagree with Trump don’t have rights.

do Republicans think Ben Garrison cartoons are real

Absolute truth from Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich. We warned you. You did it anyway. At that one moment, all you had to do was check the right box for a thriving, peaceful and successful life. And now every decent American is under complete, life-threatening assault.

think this bsky.app/profile/owil...

TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody O'DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you?

They think you're stupid.

the pedophile rebellion of 2021

I went to college in the South. The failure of Reconstruction and accountability for the Confederacy meant monuments to the confederacy on my college campus and streets named after Jefferson Davis.

Sickeningly evil. Donald Trump must be impeached.  When will it be enough for my Republican colleagues to grow spines and remove him from office?

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

apparently my litmus test that democrats should destroy trump's ballroom was a bridge too far. i oppose fascism and conservatism. that means my natural enemy is the gop and conservative movement. it would be nice if the fucking democrats could muster up the courage to join us.

They started an illegal war of choice during an ideological, racist and sexist purge led by right wing podcasters calling targets on a sieg heiling billionaire’s website, believing their superior genes and brutality would lead to rapid victory and are now facing defeat bsky.app/profile/dunc...

Decades of diplomatic work could go up in smoke because we elected a child rapist and he needed to change the news cycle for a few weeks.

trump kills americans, abducts college students and the democratic leadership tells their caucus not to make a scene -- and people take the side of the leadership! insanity

i hope you and your social media team at least consider delay-posting to vichy-twitter (posting there only an hour after you post on other platforms - if they want to see potentially news-making statements immediately they then need to leave X)

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

🔥 VAN LATHAN: “ICE. MUST. GO. — if you’re a politician and you’re asked if ICE should be abolished, you are a weakling and a coward, and I will not vote for you.” @vanlathan.bsky.social & Rachel agree it’s a “whose side are you on?” situation.

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

For sale: Nazi coat, gently worn (Size small)

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

FWIW, I think Hakeem Jeffries is fair game for criticism on many fronts. But as someone Bluesky liberals regularly think is him, I do sometimes wonder whether aspects of his background help explain the intensity and tone of that frustration. Could be coincidence. But some of y’all make me wonder.

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.

What is underway is the most American response possible

They’re trying to break us and make us submit. We will not submit. We will not comply. There are more of us who believe in liberty and freedom than in submission and subjugation. We will win.

We need progressive legislation paired with Trump style selling of that legislation. Would be unstoppable.

It's a website, not an ancestral home occupied by foreign invaders. Just log off that one and log on somewhere else, which reduces the network effects attracting people to the first one. The perverts and pedophiles relegated to a fringy echo chamber with no one to harass sounds bad because... ???

“but andrew half the country thinks biden stole the election” they are stupid and we can call them stupid and dismiss their opinion

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Incompetent courtiers being put in charge of key technical positions and then totally botching them was a recurring feature and major weakness of historical absolute monarchies and authoritarian regimes. Anyway, Bari Weiss,

this is the correct way to react to anything the president says-

??

The president of the united states is a pedophile rapist who was best buddies with Jeffrey Epstein and spent hours with an underage victim at Epstein's home. Now he's currently huddled in the situation room directing a cover up about it like it's a seal team 6 operation. Do I have that right?

the situation room? the national security crisis management center at the white house?

If you’ve got a Senate Democrat who is not calling for new leadership, they’re part of the problem. We should no longer trust Senate Dems who decline to come out against the leadership that led us here. Until proven otherwise, we should assume they were in on the game to fool their own supporters.

Yup, pretty much sums it up

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

This is intentional, the Dem caucus caved and nominated those 8 to take the fall.

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means. Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

Democrats should embrace progressive positions AND do so with an aggressive, combative style. This energizes progressives and tells people who don’t care about politics you actually stand for something. You’re never getting the Fox News addicts and you should stop obsessing over them. They’re nuts.

twitter is making mainstream reporters dumber, and because they're all getting dumber together, none of them can recognize it and they actually think they're getting smarter

Trump is practicing dementia in the right way. by Ezra Klein