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An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

Journalists, you’re smart people. Find a way not to do this

🚨🚨 So ICE removed all Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's personal effects--wallet, phone, etc--after shooting him before they put him in an ambulance. Is that normal law enforcement practice? Or does it suggest a coverup or attempt to manage information was underway from the beginning?

Abolish ICE. Really.

The “Platner team” needs to go away and leave us alone. We have had enough of you.

Good on the Maine Democratic Party for not only rejecting these overtures, but publicly rejecting them. The Platner campaign has lost their democratic mandate and no one needs their personal views on which other candidates are progressive. Pretty sure people can figure that out!

Argh. He’s so good sometimes & then sometimes very bad like this. Choosing candidates is literally what parties & party insiders do, everywhere around the world. We need stronger & more parties. Having two that are far too weak is exactly how we’ve gotten here: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Kalshi and Polymarket are poison dressed up as wisdom of the crowds. No. It’s tech bros gambling on stuff they can manipulate or (wrongly) think they are experts on 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

Unless you personally know and have fought alongside a politician or they have a long, long, loooooong track record, you can’t just embrace them and then deflect every attack or scandal. These people don’t deserve your trust, only your suspicion. This has to change and it has to change fast.

shout out to the guy who spent an afternoon on here screaming at me for thinking the tattoo was bad

Global warming: the steadily climbing temperatures throughout 2024 were exactly as indicated by climate scientists. Things are unfolding precisely as we were warned they would. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It’s kind of astonishing how mainstream the belief Trump is lying about his “assassination attempts” has become. Could it be because Trump is more interested in investigating made up crimes against the reflecting pool than any of the alleged attacks on him.

The irony of Trump calling FIFA to overturn a red card for Balogun because he knows the U.S. can’t win without Balogun, who only qualifies for the U.S. team because of birthright citizenship, which Trump just tried to overturn.

If this is true -- a very big if -- it is surely how McConnell would have wanted to go: exploiting the timing of the death of major figures (Scalia, RBG) for cynical partisan gain.

The best thing about the contrast between Obama's presidential library speech vs. Trump's July 4 display today is Obama gave Minneapolis protesters a shout out while the marchers who turned out for Trump are literal neo-Nazis. Says it all about the two Americas on display here.

Now's the best time to talk about how Mitch McConnell is one of the most malignant figures in American history because you won't end up getting screenshotted and put in a Breitbart listicle for "disrespecting the dead" or whatever.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

No, JD Vance and Peter Thiel don't believe in free market capitalism. They support Trump's decision to establish state ownership in a series of key industries. And they look to oligarchic capitalism as the model for the future which will enhance the position of the tech bros.

Donald Trump made more than $2 billion last year while lying that affordability issues are a hoax and prices are going down. Never in American history has a man exploited the White House for such corruption and self-enrichment.

In light of this decision, the federal government should rethink if it can continue to buy Americans' location data without a warrant. I'll keep pushing for black-letter law that would stop the sale of your data to anyone, including the government.

When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. https://apnews.com/article/earthquake-venezuela-us-deportees-immigration-hotel-survived-783140c04b418de2308f548402ace9af

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

I do find it a bit upsetting how the world became a noticeably kinder place in many ways as we grew up and that seems to have made some people furious

Trump bought up to $5M in Axon stock, a taser company, two weeks before ICE sought a contract for tasers. He’s also bought stock in Palantir, Dell, and Nvidia — all of whom have been awarded massive government contracts. Has a president ever profited so brazenly from the office?

Jokes aside, the stakes of judicial reform are existential. But true justice would require steps not merely prophylactic, but punitive.

Textbooks should be updated to reflect the three official branches of the federal government: the nine-man council of wizard elders, the Federal Reserve, and a senile real estate developer with with unfettered rule over everything else.

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

Coming from the most corrupt Administration in American history, this is an honor I'll treasure forever.

the founders did not foresee every problem the nation would face, because they lived hundreds of years ago and also because many of them were awful slaveholders but they knew men like Donald Trump and they were extremely clear that such men should never be President

If you are wealthy, I think you should spend more money on clothes. There's no pride in buying clothes for the lowest possible price, as this puts downward pressure on garment worker wages and increases the likelihood of exploitation.

This seems correct. I’ve covered many many dem campaigns and what voters seem to want isn’t so much about ideology as about saying things with your whole chest.

Why… does he have to do that?

RELEASE THE ALGAE FILES.

Thing Person Saying Seems To Call For Sad Face

Donald Trump doesn't own the White House. He didn't own the East Wing. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is not his, either. They are ours and his acts of destruction are attacks on all of us.

The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

yeah unfortunately the point at which security agents started manufacturing crimes to so they could arrest people to support the delusions of a single personalist ruler was the point at which the story stopped being silly heavy-handed metaphor and started being of real concern

Arresting people for touching the failed coating in the reflecting pool feels like a resounding “yes” answer to the question, “Can things get any dumber?”

News you can use from the opinion editors of the Italian right-wing daily Libero: "TRUMP IS AN ASSHOLE" www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/esteri/...

this is just an expression of the conservative belief that it was outrageous for barack obama to try to win an election

I thought this was Chris Kattan in an old SNL skit at first. But nope, it's actually the Washington Post's new right-wing opinion podcast.

The number of people at the Knicks parade today were roughly equal to the combined population of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana & Alaska. So if you heard about any issues in NYC today, but not about any crimes in those states, you know the agenda of that media.

Talarico goes all-in with attack on Paxton plea deal in child sex abuse case. Paxton bailed out a former roommate and GOP donor who had been sexually abusing a child for six years.

Crazy how none of these people have ever or will ever be loved.

Netanyahu is reportedly trying to influence the final Iran deal by using right-wing media figures like Mark Levin and friendly Republican senators to pressure Trump, according to CNN. 1/

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing.