This is an important point. Same thing for ICE surrounding polling places – they don’t really need to, they just need to sow enough fear.

harboring unauthorized immigrant who is your niece: admirable, family-oriented harboring unauthorized immigrant who is your girlfriend: romantic, possibly cinematic harboring girlfriend who is your niece:

I'm pretty grateful that up until right this moment I had no idea who Hasan Piker was.

The list of things Mike Johnson hasn't heard about continues to grow.

It's important to point out in the sea of horrible news we see all the time: They keep losing! And seemingly at greater frequency every week.

There's a long time between now and November, and the damage that has been done is a lot more than a few good election cycles can undo, but it's pretty important to get a first good election cycle ASAP...

I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks

Why is the eagle's eyes blurred out?

So the actual directi e isnt quite as stupid as the headline suggests. The proposed order would direct the Pentagon to buy electricity from coal-powered plants, not actual coal.

Big win for Democrats & the country given all House Dems voted against this dereliction of duty along with the 3 Republicans that realized they shouldn’t give up Congressional authority. Minority Leader Jeffries continues to run circles around Speaker Johnson despite social media not knowing math.

if you're taking this seriously as something that can actually be done now instead of a weathervane fossil trying to find off a primary challenger, congrats on being a mark

"I don't speak fluent spanish..." Okay, I don't either. But I can Google "certified Spanish language translator"

this is one of the big problems with a too-online campaign - they were utterly convinced they'd memed their way to victory rather than riding the global anti-incumbent backlash wave (where they did worse than most) people the world over just wanted to throw the bums out, that's all it really was

Oh man, it must be REALLY bad.

Less than 80k decided the vote in 2016 that ushered in Trump & determined the makeup of the Supreme Court. There's a reason the GOP are going all out to suppress/obstruct voting & intimidate voters this November. If you're depressing votes for the midterms, you're enabling the GOP.

I swear to God, Bluesky is a text based social media app where a significant portion of the userbase functionally cannot read

Kid Rock makes music for people who know the age of consent in all 50 states, but none of the capitals.

The main policy I'm for for Dems right now consists of winning. Because unless we drive Our Nazis from power nothing else matters. So do whatever you need to do to win.

Aparently there's some big football game on tonight?

An hour later and this outrage-farmer has been corrected on this over and over and over, and yet this post is still up. PATHETIC.

Compare how Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Editorial Board treated Republican redistricting in Texas and Democrat redistricting in Maryland and Virginia.

we should recognize that a lot of these overperformances would be flying under the radar were it not for @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Hey, remember twelve days ago when there was an election in Saint Paul, crawling with ICE agents? And the Democrat won something like 95% of the vote? Online whiners can be scared of ICE all they like. Regular voters aren't. We'll get out there and win.

"They're going to put ICE at the polls in the midterms!" Cool, but why aren't they doing it now? Like there are elections happening all the time. Some of which are big deals, like the one for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the NYC mayoral election. Why is Trump not deploying ICE for those?

“.. This is a 37 point shift left.”

Again, if Trump was capable of stealing or rigging elections, or putting ICE at polling locations, they'd be doing it now.

Americans want idols. Kings. Gods. "great leaders". But in a democracy it is the VOTERS who are supposed to lead. Place NON psychopaths into positions of power. We need to do better. Be wiser. Make better decisions. When you get to that final Y junction every 2-4 years, be smarter.

In a binary system we use our vote to give one side more power OR the other. There is no magical 3rd outcome. 2 party system. Our actions move the needle one way or the other. Had Harris been elected, the nation and the WORLD would be better off. That is a FACT. Anyone pretending otherwise is lying.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

It's a special brand of nihilism they offer: "both parties are the same and would have been equally bad for human rights, but Democrats should have convinced people otherwise and I'm angry at them alone." It's an argument for voter suppression or powerlessness.

So Apegate (fuck yeah I'm bringing back the gates) is a prime example of how this administration is too fucking incompetent to actually handle anything. Guys can't even handle spinning off a tweet lmao

What’s great about JD Vance is that unlike Miller, he doesn’t *want* to be hated. You can tell it eats at him that he is the object of universal scorn—that yet again he has given up everything in search of love, and found only contempt. This is what he deserves.

KL: He did it. But it was harmless. White House: It was a mistake. It was an intern. Random observers: He really didn’t see what he posted. Trump: YOURE GOD DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED

AltNPS stole this from Regina Medina's article in MPR. It's basically word for word. The second paragraph is LITERALLY word for word, with a single change. This is one of those times where we have to ask: does AltNPS think we're stupid?

Lawl. Screw you couch-fucker.

Leader Jeffries: "Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior"

I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

STOP NAMING THINGS AFTER LORD OF THE RINGS. READ ANOTHER BOOK

To recap the White House's official position, the racist video was posted erroneously by a staffer and they took it down, but even if it was posted on purpose, the outrage would have been fake because the post was fine and inspired by the Lion King

I'm calling it. It's way past time to start calling these jackasses "weird" again.

And that situation is terrifying but also, for a writer, paradoxically boring in one sense. The most important thing to say in the moment is obvious to the point of banality: The people ruling us are corrupt, lawless authoritarians who demonstrably lie constantly about everything.

But we are now in a frankly cartoonish situation. It really just sort of IS good vs evil. There aren’t actually many good points worth considering on the MAGA side, and it really is all just lies and bigotry. And people who thought their job was teasing out nuance are having trouble adapting.

Which is to say, pre-Trump, it was more often than not the case that an analyst was doing useful work if they tried to combat the tendency toward caricature & tease out for the reader how things are more nuanced than the cartoon, that there are valid points worth considering on all sides, etc etc

For most of my adult life, very broadly speaking, it has usually been the case that partisans and people who don’t get in the weeds of policy want to see politics through the lens of a simple, cartoonish moral binary with a good side & an evil side. And *usually* it’s more complicated than that.

So a thought about why so many mainstream pundits seem not to be rising to the moment. Part of it, of course, is that the laziest way to perform the journalistic ideal of neutrality is a reflexive both-sidesism, but I think it’s more than that…

No, he waited his turn and entered "the right way," but was targeted based on his appearance and ejected anyway.

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump shared a video on social media depicting Democratic former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as apes, invoking racist imagery long used to dehumanize people of African descent. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Whether it's Donald Trump postings images of Barack Obama as a monkey or Barack Obama appearing at press conference in a tan suit, both men have presented Barack Obama in a less-than-flattering light.