Comparing people’s living conditions in 1901 to now is already silly & serves no meaningful purpose so let’s talk about numbers that matter to Alive People In 2016 Elon Musk’s wealth was 11 billion dollars. Today it is 800 billion dollars. Federal minimum wage in 2009 was 7.25. Today it is 7.25.

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic. Boy, did they screw up.

And the oil business executive, a big brawny man with tears in his eyes, came to Trump and said, sir please keep up the Small Dick Energy, the begging pleading for negotiations energy so Iran will let you back out of this war which you’ve lost control of.

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

ICE Agent Goes Viral For Telling Woman She’s Going in a ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Database For Recording Him Mediaite

Liar. Liar. Liar. Liar. Liar.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

PERIOD.

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

2025 was a really good year for sadists.

A whole life of infinite privilege upon privilege and still a victim. In my experience & estimation the most troublesome toxic characters walking this earth are the ones incapable of shedding their sense of victimhood & grievance.

We're all so desensitized by the daily debasement of America that there's no more energy for appropriate outrage. But think about this, it's astonishing, really. All news outlets should be talking abt POTUS saying "things happen" & blaming the victim & protecting the killer. (Narrator: they won't.)

#JDVance IS A DIRTY LIAR… but he’s an educated man, who knows that banks in America did not give 30 million immigrants loans so that they could buy houses. Republicans want to keep voters uneducated forever, so they can fool them with ridiculous lies. #ProudBlue #Pinks #ResistanceUnited 👇🏼

Our almost head of DOJ. How did we get here? Every day is a new revelation of the full scale of depravity in this administration.

This is one of the ugliest aspects of this cruel policy which I worried about from get go. It empowers regular creeps not just officials w ever more bullying power over the vulnerable. it’s a disgusting and very fascisty structure, encouraging reg people to threaten and snitch on others.

Why aren't media pundits more like Greg Sargent? They are so high on and deluded by their own pundit-brain! This whole thread is it!!

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

Suck it, Bill Ackman.

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Trump and Musk both endorse Cuomo. I mean....

I am kind of enjoying how the Cuomo vote began by claiming very noisily that he was "the only one who could stand up to Trump" and now, well

YES.

we're now a hair away from it being "treason" to utter a single critical syllable about Dear Leader on any topic whatsoever

The Trump administration is a fascist administration, but the United States is not yet a fascist state. Total state capture takes time. Every obstacle we can present as individuals, groups, communities, and institutions helps slow that process. Everything we do to resist matters. It ALL matters.

Absolutely chilling.

This is the GOP brand now. This and the Young Republicans chat. A brand this tarnished, smeared with this much shit of ugliness and cruelty and hate and spite should be slinking into extinction. Yet they wield enormous power and millions support it. My brain cannot process.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... "A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

Saturday morning thoughts from Josh Marshall The Age of Monsters talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-a...

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Thanks a lot father of so and so for foiling the plan to botch this investigation for a bit longer. At least until the figure of a transgender black person wearing an Ultra Woke Radical Antifa Fighting for Open Borders t-shirt is forever etched in people's minds. Damn you!

General reminder that people who engage in political assassinations often have pretty muddled world views.

Remember: If it turns out he’s a leftist, that indicates a pervasive problem of violence on the left. If it turns out he’s a groyper, that means nothing whatsoever and he will disappear from the news cycle immediately.

That's what I'm talking about. Buy one get one free. NYT takedown and Mamdani ad all for one low price.

10 years of this shit. Cancel the NYT.

And thus, a cancer for U.S. period.

The most depressing birthday of America I've ever lived through. By a mile.

The Times editors see punching the left as their most sacred duty, and this garbage allowed them to do it.

This part. Every day. They are absolutely blind to their own bias. The hateful ones get a pass. The racists get a pass. The people calling them out don't. It's a way of enabling cruelty and abuse.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Thank you Senator.

Collaboration has allowed Democrats to negotiate concessions and horsetrading on legislation, to kill some very bad bills and make others better. But as the GOP has grown ever brasher in its pursuit of a radical conservative agenda, the fruits of that inside strategy have become ever-less bountiful.

Turn off CNN forever please.