Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah. It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.

The department of agriculture posted this bizarre video on X of children who look like their in a period piece horror movie drinking milk under duress and like I just want to know why? Like what the fuck is this? Why are they being weird about milk? Who are these kids? Are they ok? What the fuck???

Deploying essentially all of your available resources to terrorize one city at a time, in a very large country with many big cities scattered across a continent, is not a sound strategy for regime consolidation.

These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.

god these gambling app ads where there's action movie trailer music playing over footage of people on a couch in front of The Game but all silently looking at their phones are so nasty. these people are so far gone they can't even maintain their relationship with TV

Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.

Comrade Mamdani has given us the activation code. Woke 2 is a go

Chuck Schumer’s main goal as opposition leader is reminding us that he got a 1,600 on his SATs.

imo a part of Zohran Mamdani's appeal is he interacts with regular people spontaneously and enthusiastically in an era where most nationally prominent politicians respond to a Normal Person like a vampire seeing a cross

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

lmao, neighborhood Signal chat full of people who would otherwise be considered “wine moms” has turned against the New York Times for their coverage of what’s happening

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

I'm not saying President Trump is a pedophile, just that I can't think of anything he'd be doing differently if he were.

LOL

Verbal assault or, as it's legally known, "not assault"

Donald Trump has raised his offer to Greenland: $300 in Kohl’s cash to every resident

They're investigating the victim's wife, the victim's friends, the mayor and the governor too, but no, they're not even going to glance in the direction of the murderer.

The feds cutting off state authorities from access to the evidence and then not investigating the case themselves seems like a massive criminal conspiracy to me

STUDENT TEACHER: okay class, who knows what an oxymoron is KID: you’re an oxymoron STUDENT TEACHER: well yes technically that is correct

"Bluesky is dying" says the stupidest people you know. You lost. Stop hanging out on Social Media Epstein Island

Spin zone: this is how you know this app has the juice when it comes to sports

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Remembering how the Homeland Security secretary wrote about how she got mad and killed a puppy for misbehaving and presented her choice to shoot the puppy like it was a proportionate and relatable decision

People on the outside starting to realize Bluesky is the official app of sports @dennycarter.bsky.social

hard not to notice that as trump's polls crater and gop gets crushed in election after election, news orgs are not racing around hiring progressive commenters and boasting about how they're reaching out to real americans by following the will of the volk.

Do you all know the joys of the Danish Voice Actor for Starscream in the original Transformers cartoon? I promise you aren't ready for it.

At its core, ICE, and really this entire government, are simply Losers Who Are Bothering You

This hits on something that a friend said to me that I think is absolutely right: people who are not grasping the gravity of the situation & meeting the moment, where politicians have utterly abandoned us, are doing it because of the fear of confronting that there are no guardrails anymore.

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

Like how is this functionally different than saying, well, actually, we need to make Germany a wholly American territory to effectively administer our bases there. And Poland and South Korea and…

once again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.

i believe it's Kathryn Jezer-Morton in The Cut: "We are Friction-Maxxing" www.thecut.com/article/broo...

That there’s not a massive, credible, instant, bipartisan impeachment/25th Amendment move over these senseless and destructive Greenland threats is a sign of how broken our politics are — and especially how broken the Republican Party is.

🕯️My cousin Brian passed away last night. After a courageous 3 wk stint with ICE. He slipped on a fellow agent’s frozen peepee puddle & somersaulted many times in the air, yelling “yabbada yabbada yabbada” & tragically aspirating (a different) agent’s pee he’d been gargling. He hated women🇺🇸💔

From a Minnesotan: a hearty HELL NO to this. This man is a professional political consultant in DC raising $$ for a political party. There are endless better places to donate to actually help people here suffering and fighting against this nazi invasion. Here’s a start: www.standwithminnesota.com

i've launched a campaign to help a bunch of useless grifters send more text messages asking you to send them money to stand around and do nothing while blaming people for being on the streets when the fascists kill them.

The details are horrific. “He was just lifeless, like he had foam around his mouth... He had tears coming out of his eyes. I was giving him mouth-to-mouth, and I remember stopping, and I said, ‘I will give you all my breath ‘til you get yours back.’”

Suspiciously asking my wife who's funding her anytime she criticizes me

“We’re going to train the neo-Nazi who joined ICE in deescalation tactics” says the Democratic consultant who is entirely fine with ICE taking your children and putting three in your forehead

My mayor told me police keep killing his constituents so I asked how many constituents he has and he said he just gives the police more money for training afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just paying the police to kill his constituents and then Matt Yglesias started crying.

This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could

I like how some american commentators et al are still saying the trump Greenland stuff is a Distraction even tho it has already resulted in multiple European countries treated it like a threat of imminent invasion and have redirected military et al resources accordingly

Trump is openly waging war on the entire constitution and these fucking losers are still whining about a slogan people chanted for six months 6 years ago.

Joe Biden, I would note, made it very clear that he had the utmost contempt for academics and students who (silly them) believed in the first amendment and in their right to protest the US funding and supporting genocide. Biden made that contempt clear but it would never be enough for the right.

These are the thugs Trump is giving absolute immunity to terrorize American cities. www.latimes.com/california/s...

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

Yes, this breakthrough technology that we must all become completely dependent on - guess what, they can change the terms of service whenever they want. Sucks to be you dummy

As someone who uses ChatGPT for zero things whatsoever, the fact that they're putting ads in it is extremely funny