the hack Republicans discovered is that by rigging the judiciary you can not only essentially stay in power despite losing federal elections but you can sabotage the other party's president and undermine him in his own coalition

You're laughing? Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham are in hell being sewn together into a human centipede and you're laughing?

Yeah this would be an Atlantic piece of course it would

Mamdani wants to make it easier for consumers to cancel gym memberships and magazine subscriptions…so, just like Trump’s authoritarian overreach.

Schrödinger's Diaspora Jew: Simultaneously existentially threatened as a Jewish minority always on the verge of extermination without a Jewish state to keep us safe, and yet also too pampered in our comfortable homes in New York to lecture Israeli Jews facing constant danger on how to keep safe.

If the argument here is "Brad Lander is too safe as a Jew in diaspora to tell Israeli Jews how to keep safe," that sits uncomfortably with the argument that a Jewish state is necessary to keep Jews safe.

Thinking about Archbishop Desmond Tutu's statement that he would rather go to hell than a homophobic heaven

It's important to do what's Sam's doing here and parsing the law & Constitution, but we must keep in view the forest: This is a huge advance in the US's transition into a presidential dictatorship. It gives the dictator effective authority to cancel laws by firing those tasked with enforcing them.

Not really about Cenk or these comments, but like him and Grim and all of these people seem to be on what looks like tv shows but aren’t actually on TV. Is this just like streaming on YouTube or Twitch? Do people actually watch this stuff? Why does it try to look like network tv?

The Necrocracy extends all throughout American life. Take for example the countless property owners forced by courts to follow the single-family-restrictive housing covenants of 1930s klansmen developers, because violating them would be a "violation of the constitutional rights of the deceased"

Necrocracy. Rule by the dead. We have members of Congress dropping dead in office, running while dying, signing bills while nearly comatose, vanishing for months at a time, and now a president who is "leaving instructions" for what to do if he passes.

Get Wydenpilled.

This is of course all just downstream of the insecurity that Vance and all of his Yale Law buddies have over literally never having held a real job.

In general, our society just severely undervalues legislators, and engages in this fantasy that drafting legislation ~just happens automaticall~ We don't elect ~legislators~ in this country; we elect celebrities and then blindly assume that they'll put good legislators on their staff.

I don’t disagree with this, but everyone killed in detention or by detention merits this fury as well. Everyone who dies in the mountains or the desert because our border killed them should make you furious. The state does cruelty in so many ways and you should keep organizing until they all stop.

I think this an underrated YIMBY angle: absent a lot more (revenue-generating) infill development, there's about to be a tidal wave of suburban bankruptcies and/or significant service scalebacks in the coming decades.

A candidate having a Nazi tattoo is what we call in the political psychology biz an "information cue" or "cognitive shortcut"—a simple & salient piece of information that can stand in for a much larger set of facts & allows those who have it to approximate the behavior of someone with the whole set

insecure cosmopolitanism is one of the defining pathologies of our political elite, we are in a ten fucking year crash out from a specific set of urban cosmopolitans very insecure about the fact that they are urban cosmopolitans and I'm so sick of it.

There's only one kind of affirmative action program that conservatives love, and it's their own crusade to prop up their unpopular ideas and force them on college students. Massive funding, entire programs devoted to the cause, even mandated courses now. And it's still not working.

We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.

You know, I support this on "let government do things" grounds, so I don't *really* gaf; but also, like, dude, I'd be pissed to hear my taxes were subsidizing other people's choice to hold dogs captive. And I'm not even an "owning pets is EVIL" kind of person. But like, don't do it on MY dime, man

Unfortunately then you go online and the DSA international committee has posted about how Pol Pot was unfairly maligned

The government is taking stakes in private companies, launching Potemkin gas stations, giving no-bid contracts to party-aligned companies. The line between crony capitalism and the worst aspects of socialism sort of hard to see.

What? Which voters?

You know, the more I keep reading random bits of Jewish history, the more it's becoming obvious that the Rebbe's fame was actually just "most convenient lightning rod for the post-67 wave of religious zionism and Kahanism"

So many of the self-appointed leaders of the American Jewish community have obvious disdain for the fact that the community is what it actually is, and not what they want it to be.

more broadly than just the looksmaxxing weirdos i think the Influencer Era is going to be a golden age for Weird Celebrity Deaths unseen since hollywood in the 1920's. giving people the national fame of movie stars with the institutional mental health support of the wrestling industry is a bad combo

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

he got into combat sports and, presumably, combat sports related drugs

When your brain develops cognitive tools to ignore one logical/ethical inconsistency, it will inevitably deign to use those tools again.

Yes, you were correct. But you were correct TOO EARLY. I was incorrect until the proper moment - right now, long after you - so really I’m the one who got it right. You still suck! ⬆️ From supporting the Iraq War to championing Platner, this has always been a particularly obnoxious form of cope.

New AP polling of Jewish Americans— Mamdani (+5): 44% Favorable; 39% Unfavorable Netanyahu (-27): 32% Favorable; 59% Unfavorable Trump (-42): 29% Favorable; 71% Unfavorable Where's all the breathless wall-to-wall coverage on Netanyahu & Trump making Jewish people feel unsafe?

Republican Atlantic Commentator: "Donald Trump creating state Gas Stations is bad. But he wouldn't be doing it if not for the Muslim Extremist Zohran Mamdani giving him the idea with his communist grocery stores."

Zohran up 32 points over Bibi among American Jews should scramble a lot of very dumb narratives

Antisemitism is a real and growing issue in American politics and culture, but the fact that American Jewish organizations like the ADL and AJC went harder on Mamdani than on Platner is part of why we are making no headway in fighting it.

If "Platner campaign strategist whose voice gets progressively, insanely high pitched and strangled as he talks about vetting the candidate" was a bit it, it would be insanely funny. But we don't need to invent it.

God DAMN lmao. Feminism most vindicated social movement in history?

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

But "America was not founded as a Christian nation" is not some instance of historians "bending history to comfort their audiences" — it is the natural response to a decades-long project by Republicans to erase the Enlightenment from our nation's collective memory in service of White Identitarianism

The only substantive historiographical disagreement in this argument about how liberal historiography is bad is... "liberals should cede that the United States is a fundamentally evangelical nation, over and against the wishes of its Founders, because some of the 13 Colonies were theocratic."

Kevin. Honey. You were removed from the House Speakership by notorious sex trafficker Matt Gaetz.

embarrassing as the Platner situation has been, it is not lost on me, nor is it unappreciated, to see how differently Democrats react to credible rape allegations versus how Republicans do

Man got Chotiner’d without even agreeing to an interview. Astounding

Said it before. I'll say it again. Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson genuinely believed that the Roman Republic fell apart because it didn't have a Land Value Tax, resulting in extreme wealth inequality in land ownership.

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

Paine was also an early — maybe the first! — Land Value Tax Guy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agraria...

I just read a book about Brazilian public opinion in 2023 and it’s literally all like this. Increasingly, I think the thing that makes you the most out of touch and unrepresentative in society is having a coherent ideology.