this is the thing about people who say they need to be exposed to more perspectives: no you don’t right wing perspectives are dogshit, especially these days - it’s either vicious, preening meanness or it’s the most obvious bad faith trolling you’ve ever seen there is nothing to be gained from it

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The premise of the 2004 comedy-drama Melinda and Melinda was that any given story can be told as either a tragedy or a comedy. I submit that Carl Sagan's "Demon-Haunted World" and Mike Judge's "Idiocracy" validate that thesis.

I think the fundamental answer here is nobody has any hope for the future and nobody thinks anything will get better. Increasing wealth inequality, the rich and powerful acting with impunity at the cost of the average person, corruption on a massive scale...

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

These prosecutors who made my family’s life hell for a year are criminals. I want justice and we’ll seek it. This can’t happen again.

Among the more than 50,000 words in the DNC’s 192-page autopsy of why it lost the 2024 presidential election, here are a few that do not appear even once: Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Jewish, Muslim, foreign policy, protest, genocide.

They should just impeach over everything. Create a massive Declaration of Independence style list of crimes and misdemeanors. He's not going to get convicted unless he becomes so unpopular the GOP begins to shit its pants, so the only point is messaging and headlines

Incredible. The newly-published DNC autopsy of 2024 is 192 pages. *Zero* mentions of the words "Israel," "Palestine," or "Gaza." (DNC Chair Ken Martin concedes the autopsy does not meet his standards, nor would it meet yours).

“Oh so some fella with an Irish-sounding name has gone and desecrated The Odyssey, is that it? Homer’s own Odyssey? The absolute cheek. And tis the talk of the town, is that what I understand you to be saying to me? And people very upset altogether? Sure I never heard the like in all my born days.”

Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma

Talking about “polarization” is not only a lazy euphemism to avoid talking about the far right authoritarianism. It’s also mostly a lie, repeated over & over again in polite society & the newspapers, despite overwhelming evidence that large supermajorities of Americans agree on all kinds of things.

Starks ask Joffrey Baratheon to be merciful this one time

"The US’s poor track record at mitigating depths of inequality unseen in other industrialized nations, is largely a story of a state impoverished by half-a-century worth of tax cuts." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

If they don't like us saying tax the rich we should simply eat them.

The degree of political asymmetry on what judges/justices are up to these days, AND what politicians are doing to courts, is one of the most staggering aspects of our moment.

BREAKING—Tennessee Republicans have voted to draw new maps that will *eliminate* the state's only Black-majority district & the only seat held by a Democrat. @justinjpearson.bsky.social: "As long as we never quit, they cannot win. We may lose some battles along the way, but this war is a long one."

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

Why not both? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VJv...

Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

Let me be blunt: Democrats should gerrymander the ever living shit out of every state where we have unified control of government. If we need to gerrymander our way to electing a Congress that will ban gerrymandering, then we should fucking do it. open.substack.com/pub/santiago...

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

After the insurrection, Cori Bush was the first member of Congress to suggest expelling members of Congress who supported Trump's coup attempt. AIPAC spent millions to throw her from Congress, and the leaders of the Democratic Party didn't stop them. She was absolutely correct. The coup continues.

I went to SCOTUS oral argument last week. I sat ~15 feet from the dais. I can confirm it has room for 4+ more chairs.

lmao far right content makers are getting almost all of their revenue from rich benefactors and supplement sales, not paid subscribers. It's smoke and mirrors.

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

Restructure the court. Go to 13 seats (to correspond to number of circuits.) Go to term limits. Retroactively if possible. Investigate and if appropriate prosecute/disbar justices who have been on the take. Establish strict enforceable ethical guidelines for the court. Then move on...

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

Again, today of all days is an important time to recognize that the Democratic Party's 2026/2028 platform must be institutional reform. <Every policy> everyone wants <follows> from that, not the other way around. There will be <one> chance to fix things. We can't waste it again.

"Electrifying industrial heat in India is now cheaper than producing heat from natural gas and oil across all temperatures, and cheaper than coal in three of five temperature bands, representing 55 percent of the country’s industrial heat needs."

They have more money than they could spend in 100 lifetimes and they're still terrified of losing any of it. This is scared loser shit. It's pathetic. I just ordered takeout that will cost me more of my net worth than any tax would cost these fuckers. That makes me braver than all of them combined.

*Spins wheel* ex Mormon... *shakes magic 8 ball* pornstar doula *throws dart* former Tulsi staffer Motivated by *spins larger wheel* his Qatari data center getting bombed

If you think AI surveillance cameras aimed at drivers’ faces is a good idea (no matter how well intentioned the justification), you are a naive fool. This data will be harvested, sold to fascists, and used to imprison activists. Oh, and car companies will 100% use it for ads you can’t turn off.

For all the talk that Graham Platner will be another John Fetterman, Mills said she would have opposed the resolution to block arms sales to Israel, which John Fetterman did. www.pressherald.com/2026/04/17/j...

I mean, you have to strip it of its accreditation at this point, right? As in strip in by tomorrow morning. Texas Tech is no longer a place of higher education at this point.

The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.

It’s a huge problem that voters think the Democratic Party doesn’t stand for anything, but it’s almost worst that the Party Leadership has decided to make the *one thing* they keep publicly going to bat for over and again be something that’s thermonuclear levels of unpopular with their own base.

The Roberts #SCOTUS is nothing more than a closed Super Senate without any accountability. Sure the justices should be impeached but in order to have a functioning judicial branch - next Congress must enact structural reforms stripping them off all powers not listed in Article III.

I spent two weeks looking into accusations that Hasan Piker is antisemitic. What I found was damning: prominent organizations and leaders have spread total falsehoods about him. Whether he's antisemitic is for you to decide. But everyone should care when the ADL & politicians spread disinformation.

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

It really is amazing seeing the most brilliant people in the room suddenly discover what us dummies have known for a decade.

You know who won WW2? Who got us to the moon? Who launched the Artemis rocket this week? GOVERNMENT, BITCH

Someone sent me this.

At this point does woke just mean literate

Sorry, but if you think that Ms. Rachel is bad in any way, shape, or form, no one on the planet should listen to your opinion on anything else.

this + if any Supreme Court justice *doesn't* reject Trump's attack on the constitutional order in the birthright citizenship case, Congress would have good cause to pursue impeachment it's that flagrant 9-0 or they've got to go

Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years