Not that the quote isn’t awful or it isn’t obvious that this administration is violently targeting trans people, but he’s quoting Liam Neeson’s character in Taken, like an asshole.

I can no longer maintain any principled distinction between history, empirical science, philosophy, art, religion, sociology, etc as separate areas of study or inquiry. It seems me they all collapse into each other as limited human attempts to grasp at and translate the ineffable sublime.

We don’t talk enough about how Marxism-Leninism poisoned and leftist discourse forevermore.

Boy, you have a lot more faith in the Democrats’ political messaging machine than I do

Ham biscuits!

Democrats wrongfully believe they are entitled to the loyalty of everyone left of center as an institution. Even those who generally vote blue do not have to stay loyal to the party or its apparatus.

Do you live in any of these cities? Do you like good music? Go watch my friends play.

Also - Napoleon? Rumored to be bi. Caesar? Almost certainly had a tryst with Nicomedes IV. Alexander as bi twink is such a commonplace historical fun fact it hardly bears mentioning. And Achilles? If you can’t read the homoerotic subtext with Patroclus, you’re crazy.

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During the Bush v Kerry campaign I was in college, working by installing networks in people’s homes. I spent election night running cat-5 in the home of a wealthy tech executive in Westlake Hills. Despite being gay as a day in May, he voted for Bush. His words: “I like money more than dick.”

If they take away the avenues for the Democrats to legally offset Republican cheating for the 2026 elections…

SHORTER SCOTUS: It’s fine for states to redraw districts to protect partisans, as long as those partisans are Republicans.

She is an infinitely better candidate than Newsom and fairly superior to Pritzker.

Imagine how hard International Relations would be if reading the Melian dialogue once in uni didn't totally suffice to understand it. The mind boggles.

For those of us with a more, shall we say, rock bent, I'd like to propose: Aerials by SOAD Bring Me to Life by Evanessence In the End or Numb by Linkin Park The Middle by Jimmy Eat World Girl's Not Grey by AFI (though I'd pick Leaving Song Pt. 2 personally) The Black Parade by MCR

They drink shit bourbon and hold lit Cohibas, have never shot a gun outside of a range, and do vanity lifts in gyms.

We, uh, we listened to different music.

Oh look, we're suddenly doing Odyssey discourse again. You all should stop it. My definitive, discourse-ending essay is available. www.hipcrimevocab.net/there-was-ne...

Any time spent tolerating tankies remains a mistake.

“Vile” originally meant low or base born (see Henry V, “For he to-day that sheds his blood with me / Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, / This day shall gentle his condition”). Villain meant a VILLager or commoner.

I am beginning to suspect an uncomfortably large number of white leftists are just nazbols.

Stock: they just had elections for the holyrood, dark lord! Rowling: oh good! i'm ssure that after our relentless decade-long campaign of public transsphobia and the institutional capture of all british media and government that not a ssingle transs persson wass elected, right? Stock:

This is what happens when you let plague goblin boomers run the country.

Not that I can eat pizza any more, but change this out to queso Oaxaca and white onion sprinkled on after the pizza bakes and I’d have eaten it.

Your daily reminder that empathy is free and kindness costs you nothing.

Cenk has no relevance to the modern left, just what the american commentariat believes is the modern left.

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

She began her political career by hounding teenage school shooting survivors as crisis actors.

The guy who promoted the Tara Reade rape lie and then Reade defected to Russia? That guy?

If the Supreme Court is concerned about its declining public legitimacy and thinks too many Americans are calling the Supreme Court illegitimate, the majority could try not issuing bad faith rulings that illegitimately distort law in pursuit of undemocratic partisan power. That’s always an option.

I mean, I’ve heard worse ideas than gulagging the lot of them.

Semiannual as an English word dates to 1775 and biannual dates only to 1837.

weigel gets a lot of shit on here and i don't know why. everyone wants reporting without editorializing that neither lies to nor infantilizes the audience. true, he is probably not as far left as you, my angriest reader, but he doesn't bullshit you.

She might as well be a turncoat. She personally helped plan Trump's inauguration.

I don't know why anyone thought that the midterms were going to be when we would electorally defeat fascism. Fascism has a plan, and democratic expression is easily done away with when we're already in a fascist state... which we are. There is no electoral way to fix this anymore.

I just do not understand how blue MAGA can be all "WE HAVE TO CRUSH THEM AT THE POLLS" when the news is that they are literally stopping elections where people have ALREADY VOTED to redraw the maps. We're beyond getting our daily antioxidants at this point, we need fucking surgery!

The lesson from this election - if you don't tell people the truth about the state of the country, they will fall for the lies of populists.

The fact that so many Southern states immediately went back to Jim Crow once SCOTUS gutted the VRA is proof we still needed the VRA.

The true praxis

The party of local control has decided that "local" means wherever they have control www.texastribune.org/2026/05/08/a...

app.mybirdbuddy.com/media/odessa... The Worst is back

The nymph

Rittenhouse was heard to say, "Time was in this country you could only be bitten by a white recluse, but thanks to Joe Biden's open borders, now there are all colors of dangerous immigrant spiders that will happily envenomate you in the name of white genocide."

trump and hegseth are presiding over one of the great Ls in american military history.

Since this is getting more quotes: 1. I am leftist (anarchist) carrying on our proudest tradition of the circular firing squad. 2. I thought it was probably a bad look for Harris to campaign with Liz Cheney both from an ideological and practical standpoint.

Before you make a cute joke about how I should switch to OpenOffice or LibreOffice or Word97 or a typewriter: none of these things are an option, this is not a casual request, and this is not a suggestion that will do anything but piss me off and get you blocked.

People can bitch about the negative effects of free trade and all but I bet you’re not going to like regional warlordism any better.

The wellness industry is just Puritanism in dreadlocks and patchouli, packaged and marketed for sale to gullible rubes with no understanding of empirical science or human psychology.