Also, some of those people may still vote for him. Which is fine. Good, even. Dems should take any votes they can get, and maybe those people’s views evolve over time if your message is reaching them. But as leaders, dem politicians shouldn’t hold or encourage views at odds with basic rights.

Platner sounded good and gave superficially plausible answers to questions in the Pod Save America interview. However, those questions completely lacked follow-up and were the most softball versions of “explain why this looks like a Nazi tattoo” possible.

George Soros : wait there were how many protestors? Aide : over 7 million sir George Soros : i am never gonna financially recover from this

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For posting AI generated videos of Himself flying a Plane full of Shite

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

Legally, the videographers did a real service of the woman’s case when they got him to say he was arresting her for her costume. Factually, we have three uniformed men walking away with a giant penis—in handcuffs. Hat’s off to every non-cop there.

Rando person with vaguely lefty politics posts one lightly insulting thing toward conservative Americans and it becomes a national scandal. President of the United States uses taxpayers money to generate a video of himself literally shitting on his constituents and… what?

The notion that regular people could be political agents outside of elections isn’t threatening to them, it’s incomprehensible.

ooh well done

Nothing short of my sister’s wedding would’ve been enough to keep me from the streets today. Of course, she is in fact getting married today, so I have to settle for dressing like this while running last-minute errands for her big day.

No King but King Swiftie

The lesson from 2024 is that “just governing” and quietly implementing policies that make people’s lives better is a losing formula if you don’t also shore up democracy itself. That includes a new VRA since SCOTUS won’t let us have the old one and packing the court so we can keep the new one.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

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Two things can be true at the same time. You can draw a straight line from Nixon, through the Republican Party as an institution, all the way to the open fascism we see today. And also, this is the very worst that any of this has been during that periods.

You wanna convince your base that you care more about Palestinian lives than Trump? Stop doing this shit. You wanna convince the center that you really believe Trump is an existential threat and not just a guy who pisses you off? Stop doing this shit. Just… stop doing this shit.

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

They killed American democracy. The least we can do is greenlight a third Nicolas Cage Ghost Rider movie

That was the worst game I’ve ever seen. What a great win for the Vikings.

I have never wanted to burn a flag. This shit makes it tempting.

Corporate legacy media has major problems. Sometimes it IS a problem. In the current media environment, it is rarely, if ever, THE problem.

Hakeem Jeffries is the Merrick Garland of Nancy Pelosis.

everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air

Nvidia gifting OpenAI $100 BILLION dollars of investment for assurances they will use Nvidia chips is exactly the kind of financial circlejerk President Teddy Roosevelt railed against. We would need over a decade of progressive majority politics just to clean up this mess.

We shouldn’t dance on his grave. Murder is bad. But the circumstances of someone’s death also don’t redeem their works during their life, and his works during his life do not even deserve respect, let alone official government “honor.”

I thought The Onion was supposed to be satire

You know, I was skeptical of “abolish ICE” when it first became a slogan. I think there are legitimate reasons for immigration enforcement agents to exist. Seeing how quickly ICE became Gestapo 2.0 makes it clear that I was missing something.

I am back to reading, but mostly because of a conscious effort to do so. Also being on paternity leave and being physically exhausted instead of mentally exhausted helps. (If “not exhausted” is an option in your 30s, I haven’t seen it)

if you wind back the clock a year and say “trump will be president, he’ll tear up entire agencies without any legislative authority, ignore court orders, build a concentration camp, and send troops into multiple US cities” you wouldn’t ask “well how many troops?” before deciding what this describes

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

Thank U Casey’s lol #abolishice

Counterculture requires subversion. AI is the opposite of subversive. It regurgitates a kind of mathematical average consensus of its inputs.

This is a nothingburger, and even more so because shes repaying everything. Technically newsworthy I guess but you can’t make me care.

Actual notes from an actual closing argument I gave to an actual jury earlier this weak.

I suspect my reach on here will be in the low to mid single digits, but this sounds fun. And my first few thoughts actually were about politics, so coming up with some truly apolitical stuff is probably good for me.

The story about Colbert being cancelled because…. Trump doesn’t like him, should be a warning shot to everyone. The oligarchy has the power… they will use their money to silence you. Time to rise up.

We intentionally did not put Rosie in the headline because this is not about Rosie O’Donnell it’s about everyone

Don Bongino desperately misses the attention that comes with being an online shitposter and is bored to death having a real job. If he resigns, that's why.

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/

There are actually quite a few undocumented Russians in the US. Anyone have any videos of ICE forcefully deporting them? Or just the brown people?

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation. Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...

Wife and I saw Weird Al in concert last night. Most fun I’ve had in a while. Sadly, it was just a short-term distraction from our creeping descent into fascism.

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans