Whether it's Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference or Donald Trump calling for the execution of Democrats, both presidents engaged in norm-busting behavior.

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Maybe the tent system is the problem? Let’s try something more structurally sound than a tent, it might work out

in the actual real world secret police are disappearing americans on behalf of an openly white nationalist government but george packer’s latest is a novel about a world beset by woke totalitarianism

I am not kidding when I say this is idolatry and blasphemy. It is wicked and will prey on people Jesus loves. I call on the church to declare this anathema.

Whomst ever heard of books looking similar so they look good on a shelf together in a collection? Whomst, I ask you?

My favourite part is “they’ll want to COLLECT ALL THE BOOKS.” Harlequin called, they said you’re late to their party.

I feel a bit embarrassed at the “people who only started reading romance five years ago” discourse because I’m in that demographic (thanks low stakes pandemic comfort reads!) But at least I have the humility to realize I was picking up a genre with complex publishing history!

The number of people ok with anyone being recorded at any time and the recording shared online for the sake of online vigilante “justice” is genuinely distressed. And pretty darn dystopian.

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Chuck Schumer is caving in on ACA extensions the right way. by Ezra Klein

Schumer would sell his soul to the devil for a box of Cheezits and a promise that Satan will totally think about torturing him less.

Eight democrats just caved to a fascist government and couldn’t stop patting themselves on the back for how they saved us all. One of them actually said, on a national broadcast, that if the Republicans don’t do what they promised, the whole country will know who is to blame for higher ACA costs.

We're getting rid of Schumer in 2027. Non-negotiable. He has to go the MINUTE we have more seats in the Senate

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I censor myself on here a lot— not because I am afraid of the repercussions but because if I actually let all my rage run wild it would burn down everything in near proximity. It’s the needless suffering and the total lack of empathy from our leaders that just really makes me want to breathe fire.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

If only Democratic voters could bring a class action political malpractice lawsuit against elected Democrats.

2026 Elections in the middle of the shutdown: Massive rejection of MAGA and blue wave for Dems Senate Democrats: Hmm, sounds like a great time to cave!

@kaine.senate.gov, this defeat is on you. When Virginians see their ACA premiums soar and want to blame someone, many will blame Democrats. They will be right to do so. You have failed us.

If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?

in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

How do the Democrats that are caving expecting this to go?? They think that the people they represent, who have been sitting through the longest shutdown in history, will just pat them on the back and say “good try”? When they achieved absolutely NOTHING? GTFO. I will be DONE with this party.

Unacceptable. There are 189,000 people in my district who will be paying 50–300% more for the same, and in many cases worse, healthcare. I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”

Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.

There’s no reason ever again for any Democrat to suggest moderating on trans rights. There was never a moral reason but now there’s no political reason either. Somebody tell Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg. it’s joe-ver.

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

THIS

Young Republicans leaders praise Nazis. Here’s why that’s bad news for Zohran Mamdani. by Jonathan Greenblatt

Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that. But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal. You can’t negotiate with people like that.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

WHY DID’T THE NORMAL PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THIS TIME LAST YEAR!!!??

It’s satire… or is it?

Tacky Christmas is the best Christmas

Stanley Hauerwas: "One reason why we Christians argue so much about which hymn to sing, which liturgy to follow, which way to worship is that the commandments teach us to believe that bad liturgy eventually leads to bad ethics...."

"You begin by singing some sappy, sentimental hymn, then you pray some pointless prayer, and the next thing you know you have murdered your best friend."

They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence They want you to require easily controllable software to form your understanding of the world, and to express that understanding to others. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-want-...

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

Please understand that people will not be "going without SNAP/EBT/food stamps" - people will be going without FOOD. Actually and literally.

The most vocal Christians never mention the Beatitudes. They demand the 10 Commandments be posted in public buildings. That's Moses; not Jesus. No one demands the Beatitudes be posted anywhere. Blessed are the merciful in a courtroom? Blessed are the peacemakers in the Pentagon? — Kurt Vonnegut

I read this recently. Do not recommend for your mental health

Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.

I think what the Mamdani's-dad's-cousin-is-his-aunt non-story reveals about white sociopolitics writ large is not merely that they will turn anything into an opportunity to distrust a person of colour, but "extended 'family'" is anathema to a certain flavour of whiteness, out of ignorance or spite.

Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”

Outlets like the NYT have to post things like it’s *exceptional* to go 48 hours without using AI in order to establish dependence on AI as normal. It is not normal! You are not a weirdo freak for refusing to acquiesce to the robots burning the planet and stealing intellectual property

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever