I don’t think it’s sufficient for Democratic officials to treat these rulings like partisan acts from an out of control activist court. They should be regarded as part of a criminal conspiracy against the republic.

By this logic, Tekken 2 made me a jeet kune do master

not only will major outlets not call them out, they'll actively help them undermine universal basic income's implementation, AFTER propping them up as good faith supporters of it. the real goal of extraction class media is giving the extraction class cover for its assholery

SCOTUS decided, to inject itself into an ongoing election & at this point no one can say otherwise. It has historically used the Purcell doctrine to ensure that courts aren't meddling in elections, and yet this court felt comfort in doing so. Everyone needs to understand this.

The Republic faces an existential threat from a far right authoritarian party that has totally given up on democracy & the rule of law. And yet, a group of Democratic Senators continue to insist that palling around with the crypto & AI techno-fascists & doing a bipartisanship is all fine.

Anyway, tldr is the past fucking sucked, anyone who is trying to sell you a rosy vision of life back then is selling you a lemon

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Every gesture toward decency from MAGA defectors gets treated like a profile in courage. But this is no time to confuse ex-Trumpers with decent people. https://bit.ly/4n4p73H

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people are in the streets in DC as part of the #MayDay day of action and solidarity. We refuse to cooperate with a regime that is killing people, ignoring the law, and destroying our rights.

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

A lot of Democratic politicians can be blamed for the current state of the Supreme Court but as far as I know only one (Rahm Emanuel, who told Obama to not focus on the courts) is running for president.

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markets skyrocket as lifeblood of modern civilization is completely cut off due to nonsensical geopolitical maneuvering of a single demented sex pervert

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

Turns out the military we spent $25 trillion on since 1980 is struggling against one that spent maybe 2% of that with extensive sanctions on it the whole time. Every defense contractor should be nationalized (with shareholders sued to recover fraud losses), the war-profits-first model doesn't work.

the only thing government does these days is erase black voters, denounce hasan piker, allow us to be infinitely spied on, and approve of grinding childrens corpses into a paste in the middle east

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By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today.

Congressional maps are going to look completely unrecognizable in 2028, and not just in the South. I would imagine NY/NY are going to implement near unanimous D maps, as they should. This is democracy unraveling before our eyes.

Every Republican you see is at least as racist as Bull Connor. Every one. They've all had their chances to be on the correct side of this issue.

Again, today of all days is an important time to recognize that the Democratic Party's 2026/2028 platform must be institutional reform. <Every policy> everyone wants <follows> from that, not the other way around. There will be <one> chance to fix things. We can't waste it again.

Cliver Barker: My terror of the Daleks was the terror of something that was soulless, that had no moral component whatsoever, and no imaginative component. John Carpenter: You're talking about Republicans in the United States, the Reaganites. (From "Horror Café". BBC, 1990)

We must understand the racist political rhetoric, the erasure and attacks on Black history, the reinstalling of Confederate names and monuments, all go hand-in-hand as the Court and Congress legitimize the taking of political rights and the end of multiracial democracy itself.

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The Iranian schoolgirl, the cancer patient whose clinical trial was cancelled, the African AIDS patient who can't get treatment anymore — none of these are "real" to our media elites. Can't imagine themselves in that situation or visualize it. But "panic at the fancy gala!" on the other hand,

what exactly is the challenge, he’s at 30% approval and 7 months away from being completely neutered, tell him to fuck off and reap good will

When the richest man on earth murders millions faces no accountability and instead he only gets richer and becomes a trillionaire, I think shoplifting a few fruits at whole foods isn't that big a deal. Of course, the reactionary centrist crowd only gets angry at the latter.

I really wish that Dems would also put the idea that the Dem-drawn maps have all been VOTED IN BY CITIZENS, front and center every time they comment on this. These maps have not been shoved down voter’s throats by late-night state legislative sessions like the GOP maps.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

They think you're stupid.

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

Two things can be true: Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–" yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

Correct.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

i don't like that platner guy because a) nazi tattoo & b) if a genuine progressive was revealed to have a regretted nazi tattoo somehow they would be subjected to relentless attacks over it from places that're suspiciously quiet about platner. i consider that telling

We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.

One thing that's worth repeating: There is *zero* evidence that "substack helps you get readers". The only thing that we've ever seen that helps grow an audience is other authors mentioning your blog or newsletter, which is not the platform's doing. Substack just takes credit for that!

Excellent. AIPAC candidate. This is what she sold her soul for.

we’ve reached a point where democratic hopefuls think they can prove they have national appeal by publicly criticizing a wing of the party that exists only in the minds of on right-wing podcasters…

So many Dems really have nothing to offer. They have failed utterly to respond to the moment in any substantial way, and they’re blaming everyone else. They participated in all the things that helped get us here, passively and actively, because all they believe in is proximity to power.

"You let someone get into office..." That's a lot of responsibility to be dumping on people you acknowledge are already pretty close to you in beliefs. Instead of berating them, you might consider what you could do to appeal to them, since, like you said, they agree with you on 90% of things.

Absolutely. "These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that." That's a pretty simple and effective message.

This is lib bait and it's NOT calling it like it is. It's giving a pass to bad campaigning and blaming voters in a state that was very clearly going to lose, those campaigns had been warned, and they didn't listen.

There’s a reason Republicans don’t constantly shit on their own voters and that’s because it is an abysmal strategy for winning elections

"How can we connect with working-class voters?" "Maybe we could just stand up against the industry that's making them poorer, sicker and less likely to find good employment?" "Meh."