crazy that basically every person complaining about "woke overreach" over the last 12 years is also in the epstein emails being like "thanks for the pussy, jeff ;)"

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

Great moments in American oratory: "Give me liberty or give me death," "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice," "It's not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein."

Important for people to realize that like 30% of all the bad stuff in society is already explicitly illegal it's just not enforced.

They don't give a single fuck about their own supporters. It's particularly galling that they no longer care if they live or die.

I love that Trump can’t win with his Kennedy center, so he’s just closing it for two years! What the Kennedy family should do now is ask for their name to be taken off Trump‘s center and have some wealthy donors build a brand new Kennedy center.

I don’t know how much time people in our age bracket have left but I do know the rest of our lives will be consumed with learning about one Beyond Watergate level scandal after another from this admin.

All bodycams are going to do is facilitate a surge in prosecutions for “assaulting agents” and improve data collection about protesters so good work everyone who pushed for that big reform.

The great part about "the conservative version of a thing they've decided is too liberal" stuff is that not even conservatives want to watch it. They want it to exist because they think it Owns and Triggers the right people, but you could fit everyone who will actually *watch* this in a phone booth.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

The media is so bad at this. A film that is going to cost $75mil for 20-day documentary and purportedly made $7mil with no international audience and limited ability to make money back has strong sales? Comparing it to other "documentaries" when most don't get $35mil promotion is disengenious.

Self-Awareness: the Right might not have it.

"It's a non-fungible token, Jerry!" "Non-fungible? what does that mean?" "You know, it means you, uh, you can't funge it!" "No funging at all?" "NO FUNGE!"

a thing i think about a lot is that the median tech billionaire enjoys a level of privilege, wealth and comfort that even the most profligate medieval king could not have dreamt of, with absolutely none of the responsibilities that king would have had, while constantly demanding to be thanked for it

ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org

What side is this guy on?

The last time we heard Trump on the phone talking to people in Georgia he was asking them, specifically, to find 11,000 votes for him in 2020 and he's in the White House today and not in jail. Anyway.

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser. What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

One of the many problems with the modern Supreme Court is that the conservative justices spend basically all of their time telling each other how good and correct they are

The US had - what? - 3 decades of gradual moves towards equality and the backlash is so vicious, they could end up back in the 19th century.

A key way that the Reaganite right came to power in the late 20th century was by building a massive, alternative media apparatus that equipped conservative activists w/ simplistic but powerful counter-arguments to what they were reading in the MSM which they were trained to call "the liberal media."

For a long time John Roberts was supposed to be the Supreme Court's savviest *politcian*, in terms of preserving its image while pushing his conservative agenda. But "I helped Trump win and now I'm locking this place down" is pretty good evidence he lost the thread www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Also, it's pretty well understood that former Supreme Court clerks generally trade on their experiences with their justices in the private sector, but "also they read up on old secret case files and use that info to their clients' advantage" is a notably specific detail to include here

Am I the last one who can’t forgive autotune and quantization

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language. bull$#!% = nonsense/lies chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly horse$#!% = nonsense/lies dog$#!%= low quality ape$#!% = wild bat$#!%= crazy Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

Van Hollen has been much better than most Democrats, but once again, I am asking elected leaders to stop providing running commentary like a common pundit or beat reporter and instead tell *us* what to do about it or tell us what *they* are doing about it.

Imagine what the news would look like this very moment if any student group to the left of MAGA posted anything that even vaguely hinted at what this post screams

As Black History Month begins, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers who built this city into the “gorgeous mosaic” we call home. Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).

Very different behavior when they don’t have a gun.

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.

Probably tens of thousands by then.

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

This right here!

Nonviolent protest also requires discipline and self-control. It’s HARD. Your instinct as a person is to escalate or even fight. Part of why everyday Minnesotans are winning is that it’s very obvious that the side without any discipline, the side escalating to violence on a whim, is ICE.

hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism

"A crypto venture linked to Donald Trump accepted a half-billion-dollar investment backed by an Abu Dhabi royal days before the US president’s inauguration." The level of corruption in this administration... www.ft.com/content/188b...

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

Hmm, Paul Weiss, where have I heard that name before?

The conversation centrist Dems don’t want to have about Graham Platner is the way you stop his candidacy is by not having run the most asstastically craptacular candidates for three decades beforehand

After his emails with Epstein were made public, Musk has made more promises to protect children than he ever made after Grok was found to be creating nonconsensual sexual material of children. Let that sink in, I guess.

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

*Way to go Denmark #skininthegame

77% of Democratic voters believe that Israel is committing genocide and 75% are against sending the any additional military aid. And yet the party leader says it his JOB to fight for "all the aid that Israel needs."

I've been a critic of NYT for two decades--sometimes as a job--but I don't have monolithic view. There are great reporters working there. Headline writers, not so much. This is actively misleading. By framing it as a question it takes a side, asserting that he wants to w/out plausible evidence.

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Tech elites in California are at the center of the push towards techno-fascism + rampant inequality. They view themselves as a class with specific interests opposed to ours. The fact that they feel the need for this PR stunt is telling. Push the rats into the sea. itsgoingdown.org/good-night-t...

If Dems lied at Trump’s scale, media coverage would instantly become: “Democrats descend to Trump’s level.”

imagine choosing to run on this, in minnesota, this year