Centrist Dems won’t shut up about how we’re too mean and condescending to Trump voters and how electoral expediency requires us to welcome them back into the fold. Maybe that’s true and maybe it’s not, but it’s bizarre not to extend the same argument to people who already vote for you.

Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."

this being the thing that crosses the line for many rightwingers is so illustrative of how they don’t really care about anything real that actually matters. their problems are all entirely fictional

Having driven uber / lyft for several years and being intimately familiar with the economics of these apps I can 100% promise you that this is complete bullshit. You couldn’t get $11,000 in tips if you sucked everyone’s dick at the end of the ride.

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

evangelicals eagerly, gleefully pretended not to see the myriad ways trump is the most heretical politician to hold american higher office in modern history so i don't think we should take their outrage as sincere now that they need a way out of his sinking coalition

“lmao i’m not in a cult, bro, I’ve just got all these pics saved of my favorite politician as Jesus because it offends the libs! lol they hate my many private AI photos of him as a jacked god. I’ve also got his name on most of my clothes and my car and in every room of my house”

Lmao

Every time I remember the US is bombing fishing boats in the Carribbean to create snuff films for their unwashed Nazi fanbase on twitter I feel more rage calcifying in my soul

Average GOP Congressman: We err...uhhh...don't uh need uh...oversight of the DoD because uh...we trust the President to decide what's best Donald Trump: I AM JESUS CHRIST RETURNED TO EARTH THE POPE ISN'T MAGA AND HE'S WEAK ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS I AM GOING TO BUILD A HOTEL ON THE MOON

you ever think about how fucked we'd be if this was happening when Donald Trump was 59 instead of when he's 79?

excited for the Senate Parliamentarian to return from the undisclosed location where he's been hiding since Trump's inauguration to resume the important work of preventing Democrats from doing anything good

based on their actions over my lifetime I have zero confidence Democrats will do even a tenth of what's required to repair all this, let alone inoculate the country against a recurrence

I'm an immigrant. When I talk with anti-immigrant types they universally say, "We don't mean you." Because I'm white. They also don't mean "immigrant." They mean not white. It's not about "immigrants" it's about race. Always was, always is.

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

It’s not a coincidence there is far more empathy and patience for the Joe Rogans and Theo Vons of the world than people who, once again, didn’t work to actively drum up support for Trump.

Look, it’s not even that it’s false that there’s a wag-the-dog element here, but talking about threats of genocide as a “distraction” from egg prices is grotesque.

You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.

I say this as a working class public servant and elected member of a Democratic Party parish level DPEC: What kind of person must you be to take in the enormity of this moment: the confluence of official cruelty, incompetence, and bigotry, the elite impotence, and decide the solution is "tax cuts?"

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II

true i suppose but i don't think age is the big barrier preventing me from being an astronaut, it's that i'm stupid

Nothing I could say about the GOP base is as illustrative as the fact that Trump understands that posting black people in what his audience considers a “white space” will make them incandescently angry bsky.app/profile/atru...

People on here rightly are pissed by the way Democratic politicians post as if they are witnesses to what's happening instead of ACTORS in what's happening. It's absolutely pathetic and weak.

When AI in public schools comes up, I think it's always worth remembering the articles about the schools the tech barons send their kids to, where screen time is either outright banned or severely limited, and the kids have multiple arts and handicrafts lessons. Their kids learn to knit.

Remembering that this moment from the Somnium Files made some chuds so upset that they said Uchikoshi wasn't actually a Japanese man but a teenage girl from California cause no Japanese man would EVER write such dialogue always brings a smile to my face.

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

hmm

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Of course, a couple decades ago the idea that a pluralistic liberal democracy was superior to a hypernationalist authoritarian empire effectively run by its secret police might have seemed too banal and uncontroversial to register as a political commitment, but maybe not so much these days.

neither a garrison state nor an apartheid state, just a normal country, a bastion of democracy even, that happens to subject an ethnically distinct population to a different, militarized legal system complete with capital punishment

Terrible answer from Beshear www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Britain and America actually have a cottage industry of 'Russian historians' who say things that have been largely dismissed as incorrect in their field since the end of the Cold War, but they follow a pro-capitalist political line and know that you probably haven't done the reading.

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

as an outsider, i see myself in harry potter (rich, famous, most important person in the world by birthright, friends with most powerful person of all time, head of the police force, best friend is the prime minister)

THEY'RE ALL WHINING ABOUT PRIVATE CREDIT, AND THEY HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN REAL DETERIORATION IN THE UNDERLYING CREDITS YET.

so much of the time when one of these guys says "i would do ANYTHING for my family" they mean "i fantasize about using violence to defend my family" and not "i'm willing to do some cooking and cleaning and spend time with my partner and kids doing things that interest them"

When twitter was perceived as liberal it was a bubble and people should not take it seriously. But now that it's a cesspool of right-wing propaganda it's the Soul of America and the libs ignore it at their peril

kinda the fundamental thing about this is that *he lost*. war isn't like art where it's subjective and you and I can have different favorite paintings and both have reasonable positions. we checked how good Lee was at war objectively and the answer is "not very"

Today it's the airports, but soon ICE will be omnipresent in our lives unless they are stopped. Public spaces. The polling place. You name it. This is textbook authoritarianism and as long as the corruption of liberal democracy continues there will be more and more power vacuums for the fascists.

picture, thousan words, etc etc

ICE agents have become synonymous with terror, not safety. Trump’s goal in deploying them into our airports is to push ICE’s menacing presence into more & more places. Organizing & public pressure pushed them out of Minneapolis. So we’ll have to get louder in saying it here: Abolish ICE.

I'll say it again: everything you need to know about Trump is visible & evident on the surface. You can understand him entirely, without remainder, within 30 seconds of hearing him talk. He's perfectly transparent, perfectly consistent, utterly without depth or mystery. Which means ...

He started a war, didn’t know how to win it, was immediately over his head, became quickly overpowered by an enemy he vastly underestimated, and now is trying to sue for peace and then convince you that this was a victory. Dying empires produce leaders like this

IRAN FOREIGN MINISTRY: NO TALKS WITH WASHINGTON; ACCUSES U.S. PRESIDENT OF BUYING TIME AS REGIONAL DE-ESCALATION EFFORTS CONTINUE

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

"Well well how the turns have tabled" x.com/JonnyMicro/s...