I think he also feels a need to be the most physically attractive person in a given room, which goes a bit of a ways to explaining why everyone in his inner circle looks like a Dick Tracy villain.

Welcome back, Propagande Due.

No! No! The time has come When we must not be dumb! We must awake We now eight million strong, Must strike sweet freedoms song! And lease ourselves, our wrong! Our chains MUST break! -Underground Railroad conductor Joshua McCarter Simpson, ~1853 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMnM...

"[The song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] embalm[s] pleasantly enough the monstrous traditions of an uninteresting and, one may almost say, a justly exterminated race" - The New York Times, 28 December 1855.

these are GOPpocalypse numbers which coincidentally was also the result we got last week Tuesday

Happy belated exploding whale day

in the 19th century, there were extraordinarily graphic religious tracts condemning lesbianism and bondage. these were sold for relatively high prices to people who wanted to read about lesbianism and bondage. QAnon is that, but for pedophilia.

i like it when my enemies have a lot of enemies. i try not to redirect anyone when that is happening. this is easy because it mostly requires me to sometimes do nothing

the correct way to handle truly odious defections from an enemy is just to refrain from spitting on them. you don't have to make friends with them and you absolutely shouldn't trust them. just refrain from spitting on them when they are attacking your enemies

THE HEAVENS BEND TO THE WILL OF THE ALL-CONQUERING KHAN OF THE PLAINS.

both Hochul and Mamdani have characterized their private conversations as substantive. Politico is desperate to play up the tiniest disagreement, without considering any outcome *except* one where these two are going to get in a big fight. They're both way too smart for that. Use your fuckin brains

At this point I think I’m actually over blaming Schumer for the cave-in, yes he’s a bad leader but it seems at this point that he just threw up his hands in frustration at the Durbinite rebellion Durbin himself seems to be going off the Rommel Strategem and it’s serving him exactly as expected

Rep. Ayanna Pressley on whether Sen. Chuck Schumer should step aside as minority leader:

Oh we're worried the administration is misusing appropriated funds. Is there some way to oppose that?

"It is true that in us are impulses unhappily tending to strife...But the true civilization of nations, as of individuals, is determined by the extent to which these evil dispositions are restrained". Happy Armistice Day.

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

i mean like you are aware the house leadership was opposed to this right. fine to dislike jeffries but senate brain is a really specific thing

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

I know I'm beating a dead horse here but I do think this kind of pervasive nostalgic pessimism - not about anything SPECIFIC but about just American life in general - is really toxic. It's a direct driver of the same revanchist cultural undercurrents that helped produce Trump.

i don't think the consul general of China in Osaka should threaten to behead the prime minister

Everyone is discoursing on today, the solemnest of days.

"Hey, we're all pals here on Capitol Hill regardless of what's happening outside" didn't work last time, and it won't work this time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_rul...

We need lab grown beef so bad

Do you plan to support a challenger to Schumer, and primary challenges to all the yea voters, or is this just talk?

The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.

Why does the 1844 Presidential map have a strong correlation to how Vichyist Senators are?

do not lose sight of the fact that the sitting DNC chair telling Senators they are Voting Bad is a real thing that happened today

Exactly this. Either you are calling for Chuck Schumer to step down - immediately - or you are complicit. That includes you, @markey.senate.gov.

okay, so, with Dems successfully keeping anyone up in 2026 for voting for this turd let's take a look at who's up in 2026 anyway: 1. Cory Booker - apparently involved behind the scenes, constantly looking for bipartisanship. I don't dislike him personally but he doesn't have what we need. Primary.

I actually do feel for House Democrats as much as they suck because they universally held the line aside from one guy who I get the sense they no longer talk to and as a result you now have bland centrist frontliners releasing absolutely furious statements calling to burn down the Senate

Woke Great Awakening www.axios.com/2025/11/09/c...

One of the things I learned watching the Noj Rants video about how the Soviet government worked under Lenin was just how many powerful people were completely content to give up that power if it meant that their jobs got easier. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jsh...

I’m extremely mad that they caved, but I am extremely heartened that the uniform reaction from every Dem voter has been “fuck these people”

katie wilson please win we need a W so fucking bad

this country won its independence by the ability to hold together while retreating. it would obviously have been preferable not to have lost the battles in the first place.

i mean. good. that means challenges.

Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when

Happy "Day that a Lot Of German Things Have Happened", by the way.

some day everyone will have understood this all along

I'm sure JD Vance, who was so strongly and publicly critical of an alleged 'prayer ban' outside British abortion clinics, will be all over this like a rash. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Sooner or later this thing is gonna have a stop on the freedom trail.

God, I hate Orban so fucking much.

"Well, depend upon it, this democracy, which the victorious usurper feels himself constrained to flatter in the brightest moments of his triumph—this democracy will either make out of Louis Napoleon a tool, which in spite of itself serves the democracy, or it will crush him." -Lajos Kossuth, 1852.

"Many have wondered at the momentary success of Louis Napoleon, and are inclined to take it for an evidence that the French nation is either not capable or not worthy to be free. But that is a great fallacy".

You are about to see harrowing footage of a father in Fitchburg, MA being brutalized by masked ICE agents while holding his terrified, crying baby. The Trump admin and every ICE agent who terrorizes our communities must be held to account for their inhumane, illegal actions.

When he calls for volunteers I’ll be taking his orders to be clear