That’s one area where some of the critics of Democratic Party leadership have a point (even as I find other critiques reflexive to the point of not engaging with the evidence, or not thought through about the reasons for doing things, or unduly online hothouse and detached from normal folk)…

Bring these ICE monsters to justice.

madison cawthorn tried to warn us

This sort of heavy handed intimidation is more likely to backfire. The battle for 2026 isn't going to look like this, it's going to be "who counts the votes". Trump is insisting he has the authority to decide. The courts *will* disagree.

I keep seeing this kind of post & wonder why *US citizens* would be intimidated into not voting. The number of people it would take to cover every early voting center for weeks, every dropbox & every election day polling site is larger than you think. Of course, this fails utterly for mail in voting

I would be so stoked to get the country back from the evangelicals, tbh.

I /like/ Mamdani but I do not like how he gets wielded like a cudgel constantly, getting stuff like this where you become the enemy even if you say you support him but not with the right words or enthusiastically enough

Wait, did I miss something? Is Mamdani not the nominee? Because if he’s the nominee, & she says she supports the nominee, how is she not endorsing Mamdani, who is, you know, the nominee? Psst: The mayor of NYC isn’t particularly important in national politics. Not De Blasio, not Adams, not Mamdani

RFK told him "they give babies too many vaccines" and Trump said "got it, because the babies are so small they can't fit all the shots in 'em, of course" and stopped listening

Just a reminder that, despite what these freaks would have you think, antivaxx is extremely unpopular and we need to attack them relentlessly for putting insane dipshittery over our health

Just because the low hanging fruit of fascist overreach gets resolved first doesn’t give you the right to begrudge anyone a win, nor should you shit all over people who have shown they are willing and able to band together and do things DO ANY OF YOU EVER DO ANYTHING IN THE REAL WORLD, EVER??

If you do any organizing at all, you already know that the most “active” activists are doing 20 things at once They’re canceling their Disney+ accounts WHILE ALSO protesting ICE or raising money for refugees

I see the tired scolds have already started posting “oh that’s nice you got Kimmel back, if only all of you cared about (this thing that is way more important)” these people are wrong on many counts

Trump once suggested that injecting bleach could help cure COVID. RFK has a long, long history of peddling medical misinformation to enrich himself. Please talk to your doctor. Please talk to your doctor. Please talk to your doctor.

So many coverups. Release the Epstein files. Release the Homan tapes. Release the Venezuelan fishing boats evidence.

we have arrived once again at the Chronic Goon Shortage Problem as for how they're supposedly going to do paramilitary intimidation at every polling station in America

the most extreme anti-democratic outcome they can realistically manage is to voter intimidation on e-day and declaring the results fraudulent. but neither of those actually means much - Americans are not going to be intimidated like that and his declaration would be meaningless legally

like i was saying

I keep saying these people hate their God. Politically propelled by rank idolatry.

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

The funniest part of this is acetaminophen is the (perfectly safe) drug. Tylenol is a *brand*, and by attacking the brand and not the drug, the US government has just given Kenvue a massive gift when this goes to court. Their lawyers are likely drooling right now.

A lot of politics of this era is breaking ancient truces and assuming that the other-side won't fight back

Important to note that Congress has never passed any law giving the President authority to designate anything as a “domestic terrorist organization.” As a result, this would appear to have no direct legal effect beyond acting as a statement of policy for the Executive Branch.

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

!!! *DISNEY SAYS JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE SHOW TO RETURN ON TUESDAY

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

I see a lot of of you are falling for the ratfucking polls put out by Atlas Intel, a right wing hit shop.

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

This position of knowing, worldly cynicism is just another way to feed into the permission structure of reactionary violence. It's giving up and marching into the sea.

Who in the Democratic Party leadership is trying to make nice with him now? I sincerely ask, I’m not trolling. I see them doing plenty of things wrong sometimes, strategically and tactically alike, but I do not see them trying to make nice with him.

PA would be much better served with Lamb in that seat than Fetterman.

"Margaret S Barnes" here used to be "Carter P Hayes" and posted left leaning misinformation about Costco and abortion pills. This is an engagement farming account that plagiarizes and paraphrases posts from Reddit and here. Really seems like it should have been banned by now bsky.app/profile/joce...

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

he came to trump's attention by lobbying to pardon other war criminals, including a guy who decapitated a teenage civilian in front of his squad and whose own men fucked up his sights so he'd stop shooting random women. he belongs to a church which considers slavery and marital rape to be mandatory.

essentially every business he has ever been involved in is fraudulent. he preferentially does business with dictators. he sent thugs to threaten to kill a baby. pete hegseth stole money from veterans. he lies about being involved in war crimes. he's a serial rapist and domestic abuser.

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Its a cult for one man and one man only

Facilitating Ignorant Racists Everywhere The charity for the right to say the N-word

The fact that Republicans no longer feel they need to even gesture at acknowledging the humanity of their opponents is the entire problem.

Rapture theology - that the holy will be beamed to heaven before a period of tribulation - is a concept younger than the steam-powered locomotive. It's neither widely accepted as a Christian doctrine nor widely believed outside the United States.

The central question of our political era is “who was president before Jan. 20th, 2021?”

Or maybe part of the campaign is a better way to put it, since it's clear now the tech elite decided they wanted him back so they wouldn't have to deal with regulation and empowered labor.

I think given that not a DM last night we can safely conclude Trump was explicitly violating social media TOSes in a way that more than justified a ban, no coercion needed, and removing the bans was the result of an orchestrated gaslighting campaign to memory hole Jan 6th.

FIVE HOURS of Charlie Kirk Memorial in the midst of an NFL FOOTBALL SUNDAY??? lmfao this seals it, conservatives gave up football in the national divorce. the gridiron is left-coded now

Not enough people realize that the online right thinks birth control is a mind control drug

a lot of the abortion triangulation stuff is pundits imagining an electorate that does not exist

who was President from 1 Jan 20 until 20 Jan 21 continues to be the defining political question of our time

Nobody who comes to regret their vote (and lots already do! it's no small chunk!) wants to hear oh well you were fooled but it's not your fault. They want the misgivings they already had, and their reasons for defecting, to be validated, and to throw their support to the people who got it right.

A democratic opposition coalition has to be big tent, for sure, but it doesn't grow by pulling its punches on the core message. You make the wannabe autocrat the bad guy, push down his popularity, denounce him as a malignant traitor, and rally against him. You can't half-ass triangulate that part.