Lawyers and spooks are the vanguard of American democracy.

Fuck.

Is it possible that a hot, 30-year-old Asian woman just saved America? Yes. Yes it is. And I think that's beautiful.

I thought for sure that Rubio would be one of the first to get ousted by this administration. Very weird to think that there is a verifiable tug of war going on between Russia hawks and Russian sympathizers within the same administration. Just incredible amounts of dysfunction.

Ah, and we were so close to a peace deal. Oh well.

The implosion of the GOP is only beginning. And it will accelerate. But we can't just sit by and idly watch. We need to keep pushing for accountability—and ultimately for impeachment and removal of the president and his cabinet (of which the vice president is a member).

Yeah, so it looks like the GOP is openly revolting against Trump over the $1.8B slush fund? We're all seeing the same thing, yes?

It's concerning that the average person holds low-grade Kaczynskian regard for technological progress (I assume) because Silicon Valley is full of opportistic right wing chuds. Like, don't let the fact that these guys are idiots steal the future from you. That's just silly.

The problem with TV writers inserting their politics into their work is it almost always makes the final product worse. Not because it became political, but because most people's politics are shallow, vacuous, and incomprehensible, and being a good writer doesn't change that.

We gotta do something about television writing because I'm getting real tired of great shows having garbage endings.

"Tom Steyer didn't know who I was! Everyone should be outraged!"

Okay, that's enough. I'd like off this ride please.

Get in nerds, we're resuscitating the liberal project and doing turbo globalism.

She has unimaginable quantities of the juice. I would drain my savings account for her if she promised to make a Russia hawk her NSA.

Should have flattened Red Square.

Donald Gibb had one of my favorite (incredibly brief) cameos in an episode of The X Files. Just a random biker bartender whose lake Okoboji tip advanced the plot. RIP big fella.

This is one of those "if I had a billion dollars and gave a shit about democracy, I'd buy prime time TV air and play this exact clip" moments.

The most unserious administration ever, many people are saying.

The list of countries capable of doing this covertly is laughably small. I mean, I'm a Ukrainian 73rd Naval homer as much as the next lib-brained NATOWave enthusiast, but this would be a big ole stretch even for them.

If MTG gave a shit about taking a moral stance on genocide she wouldn't be openly pro-Russia, but Grim is willing to ignore that because it fits into his own narrative that is sympathetic to Russia. AOC's political instincts continue to be vastly superior to everyone else in the Bernie coalition.

Ignore it, kick it to SCOTUS, let them rule for republicans. I’m in full heighten the contradictions mode.

Look, the God's honest truth is that the country will not survive very long if only one political party is permitted to exercise their political power. If conserv. courts are allowed to defy the will of the people, disenfranchise entire racial groups, and let one guy ignore the Constitution, well...

The DOD's UAP file release page looks like something out of an X Files promotional website lmfao

Good lord, no wonder Iran doesn't give a shit about making a deal right now. Hard to look at this and see anything but a decisive American failure. Hell, if Russian ADA was remotely as capable as USAF SEAD is, we'd be having a wildly different discussion right now.

Trump's first presidency ended with a plague. His second? TBD.

"Animorphs was always a war story. Wars don't happily. Not ever...even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows, and grieving parents"

If these people cared in the slightest about a transformative movement they would put the entire weight of their organization (which, lol, isn't much right now) behind AOC for 2028. But they don't want that. They want to live out their little October Revolution at the polls fantasy ad nauseum.

One thing I am absolutely certain of is that the Biden DOJ should have aggressively pursued Logan Act violation charges against Elon when he talked to Putin about Ukraine. Could have spared us the torture of being lorded over by a race-hating junkie who has lost touch with reality.

Just getting word that the 2025 FIFA Peace Prize winner has failed to make peace.

Lmao this means fuck all because this isn't a plan that will satisfy insurers in the slightest. At best this is the umpteenth PND on Wall Street cope chumps so the admin's insider traders can clear an easy few mil on a Monday morning. At worst, the admin is flailing hard and tossing shit at the wall

I really don't know what exactly happened to society (maybe we were always this way!) but this is the kind of thing you'd see a third rate conspiracy page on Facebook make up a fake story about. Except now they're just actually doing it. Has everyone lost their mind? Are we all broken? Like, wth?

Why do congressional Republicans keep vagueposting "pray for Trump" on their government accounts

Ate a chili MRE for dinner (not a psycho, just camping lol) and holy hell, MRE cornbread has absolutely no reason to taste so damn good. To the folks at Sterling Foods in San Antonio, your shit rocks.

Man, the energy in this country after we got bin Laden. If we could have just bottled that and tapped into it whenever we hit some partisan gridlock bullshit, humanity would be vacationing on planets in other solar systems by now.

This is cartoonishly stupid. Like, if you explained this situation exactly as it is, point by point, to a guy in the year 2003 he would just assume you stopped taking your meds.

We could end this all so quickly. Just need a reporter to say: "Mr. President, I bet you draw the best clocks on the planet. Could you demonstrate this talent for me?"

Brother, they have a power vacuum because you killed all the guys holding their government together.

Proposing a new Democratic election strategy: A hot 30-something CIA officer for every Congressional election in the country.

The political winds are telling me Dems need to run a Marine with coke issues in all 50 states

This entire admin is Elite Baal Knowledge

I think we should do AI goblin discourse because it would be funny and SV types tend to believe there are real, actual higher dimensional goblins running around in the DMT dimension.

See this is what I mean by feeling like I live in the future now. This is future news.

Zoomer: *Posts a sarcastic critique of hipster food culture* Random millenial on the internet:

a really cool proposal here from justin briley to not just break the court, but break it up--to reconstitute it as a random panel drawn from the circuits for each case www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

Being positively polarized into supporting the Catholic Church/Christianity broadly because the American right has so thoroughly and blatantly devoted itself to biblical definitions of evil has been an interesting experience. I've floated between agnostic and atheist since I was like 12. Lmao

Blexas is coming and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. We will have the House, and we will have the Senate, and we will have a legislature imbued with the fighting spirit of American democracy.

Pitching emotional porn starring an AI avatar of yourself and a dead celebrity is just so incredibly bleak, man. That kind of escapism is the stuff that erodes society in ways that we genuinely might not be able to recover from.

Genuinely wild that we have a real-world case study in how literal brain damage turns you into a MAGA Republican and the media just kind of ignores it.