Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.

the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

For the umpteenth time: The most obvious answer is most always the correct answer. Donald Trump most likely was a client in Epstein’s pedophilia ring, and Trump most likely sexually abused & victimized young girls. That’s always been the most obvious answer here.

“Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.”

So the party line from Trump and Republicans is that it's Democrats' fault people aren't getting their SNAP benefits while actively appealing and breaking court orders to pay those benefits. Sure doesn't seem like a smart strategy to me...

"There remains no appetite whatsoever among Democratic voters for conciliation and bipartisanship. We tried that. It didn’t work. Now is the time for unbreakable political will and confidence and a nationwide back burn to save representative democracy in the United States."

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Eventually western governments are gonna have to grapple with the choice between X and democracy. You can have one or you can have the other.

The media is rushing 300 “New York Jews worried about Mamdani antisemitism” fetch essays based on nothing but Mamdani being a Muslim meanwhile the Republican Party from top to toe has the confidence to wear nazi makeup every day knowing the press looks at it like the westworld bots seeing a polaroid

I think it would be helpful today to remember the No. 1 rule of American political punditry: Nothing can *ever* be a good development for the Democratic Party.

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

This is a kinda hot take here but maybe Schumer didn’t endorse Mamdani or anything because he didn’t want to hurt his campaign by connecting it to a party leader/brand that is exceedingly unpopular across the political spectrum

Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)

The thing you have to understand about Republicans is that they love to call American Jews stupid, dangerous, despicable, threatening, etc. That's because they hate American Jews.

they are breaking the law to deprive children of food while they build a ballroom so they can host even more lavish parties for themselves

bomb threats to dem leaning polling locations on election day have somehow become normalized

they know they're supposed to be blaming the Democrats for the shutdown making people's lives worse, but they're so passionate about the concept of making people's lives worse that they can't stop themselves from talking about how they think people's lives should be worse

Democrats should start highlighting shit like this and emphasizing that when they're back in power they will prosecute these people in pursuit of getting taxpayers' money back

government of, by, and for violent criminals

If your newspaper is not telling you what happened it’s not a newspaper

An amazing story of this decade was the ADL turning all its fire on Israel critics while tech companies dismantled their censors and Hitler-lovers came roaring back.

I’m less concerned about part of the White House being torn down, and more concerned about the fact that it’s being replaced with a $250m privately funded ballroom. I don’t think people who intend to leave office in 3 years typically spend a quarter of a billon on a 4 year construction project.

Never forget they aren’t telling the truth when they say they care about stopping political violence. Few acts in history have done more to incentivize political violence than the January 6th pardons. And virtually every mainstream Republican supported letting them all out.

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

Ah yes, it's the administration that cares deeply about combating antisemitism...

This is the most important politics story in a long time. Twitter has radicalized the young GOP into overt Nazism and white supremacy and the news has spent years pretending not to see. It’s a gleefully racist and antisemitic party now. Stop pretending otherwise www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Don’t tempt me with a good time

Ambulance. Saw. Iron. Umbrella. Where my Baltimorons at?

Even a broken clock is right twice a day, and if this actual proceeds and a lasting cease fire is reached, Trump will have accomplished something very very good.

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

I was curious and just looked up the monthly listeners of Bad Bunny and Lee Greenwood on Spotify to see just how absurd and bad Faith this suggestion is… Bad Bunny has ~80 million. Lee Greenwood has less than 500 thousand. These losers are just mad that they’re no longer the target demographic.

"Democratic strongholds" in this militaristic context makes it sound like we're terrorists or insurrections or warlords. I cannot express how angry I am at American journalism for enabling this moment.

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

This was posted by the President of the United States—a job once held by Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and FDR. Meantime, has the price of groceries or housing gone down for your family? How’s your kid’s job search going in the Trump economy?

lol. Lmao even.

I regret to inform the haters that Taylor Swift is still great

Useful reminder here in some of the replies that people who share your politics are also capable of using them as a pretext to be awful to people and feel righteous about it bsky.app/profile/ocas...

I know a LOT of phish fans and they’re all way more likely to be defensive if you shit on Steely Dan than if you shit on Phish.

if your response to this - a basic statement of sympathy about an attack on a synagogue - is to bring up Israel, please delete your account

it's so funny that Greenblatt bent over backwards to these people and annihilated his organization's credibility with anyone left of center to get absolutely nothing from the right

Imagine being the ADL rn. You suck up to maga so hard only to have Elon denounce you and then the trump fbi retaliate against u for basically nothing

if the Trump Hegseth address had been an email www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

I don't think people - and certainly not the American media - are really prepared for how much they're going to lie, cheat, and steal to prevent the Dems from making any gains in the midterms. And if they're successful in doing so, boy oh boy is shit gonna get BAD here...

I'm going to leave this here because I even see a lot of leftists regularly speaking about 'what the country wants' when in fact NO. MOST PEOPLE DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS MAN and LESS THAN 50% of people who voted actually voted for him.

Jimmy Kimmel isn't returning to the airwaves because of "thoughtful conversations" with Disney executives. He's back because consumers sent Disney a clear message: selling out our fundamental rights is not an acceptable cost of doing business.

I have zero fucking sense of humor about this rfk shit. besides the obviously gross misreprestation/othering/etc of autistic people it's catastrophic from any sound scientific POV. any doctor who consults governmental guidelines for anything at all under this admin is guilty of malpractice

This administration is so cartoonishly evil that they make TED CRUZ sound reasonable