I've developed a little defensiveness about people I only know through posting over the years, because it really does happen that people will pick up nasty-without-the-context posts and throw them over the wall. That's not what's happening here. Hend Amry is propagating dark, dark conspiracy stuff.

look I don't want to count my chickens or downplay the extent to which the right has fascist aspirations. but if the GOP had an unassailable, undetectable election rigging strategy - or the juice to openly do the detectable kind - you do kind of suspect they would've started here

"You (or people you know) know about a thing that is bad, therefore you are bad via the transitive property" is an incredibly anti-intellectual worldview that a kind of shocking number of people subscribe to

im being told Iran just launched over 100 pronouns at the USS Abraham Lincoln. Total loss. It's the USS Gaybraman Linc-hon now.

omg this queen ran in SUPPORT of property taxes slopulism found dead in a ditch!!!!!

you can at “with Christ” to the end of any sentence to make it legal to say online it’s like “in minecraft” but for christians

The problem with Newsom isn’t so much that he’s a sincere transphobe as it’s questionable if he’s a sincere anything.

if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

Danish Social Democrats adopted hardline, nativist anti-immigration policies and look to have recorded their worst election result in over 100 years. So, the lesson for the European left from the “Danish model” is that copying and normalizing the far-right leads to gutting your own support.

In a world where many democrats have embraced pie-in-the-sky middle class tax cuts, leave it to a democratic socialist like Mamdani to seriously engage with budgeting tradeoffs and embrace an efficient broad based property tax increase

everyone talks about the personal risks to individuals but i think the systemic risk of strongly incentivizing insider training is a lot more important than people think

honestly it makes sense that all the platnerheads want to talk about is whether he’s truly a Nazi in his heart of hearts because the other important discussion is whether he’s as dumb as a post

We're excited to announce our endorsement of @senadorajulie.bsky.social! Julie has spent her life turning organizing into action and delivering real results for Colorado families. We know she is exactly the kind of leader we need in the Senate: A fighter who is ready to stand up to authoritarianism.

A politician who can strongly voice his opposition to Russian aggression against Ukraine on moral grounds but can only muster up weak process objections to American aggression against Iran is a racist politician

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

Shit is getting real

it's lowkey insane how Walz has flopped super hard but Shapiro has done everything possible to confirm that Kamala nevertheless made the correct choice

The responses to this post are pretty everything I hate about BlueSky. Dems have been the ones pushing for this. TSA and others being funded is a GOOD thing. This would be massive cave of Trump and the GOP. Please seek therapy. Good lord.

GIVE ME THIS GODDAMNED VACCINE I WILL FUCKING SUPLEX RFK JR IF HE EVEN TRIES ANYTHING

“Too many people are dying from other things so why do we have speed cameras” is unironically the point of this author’s letter to the editor

Much of reactionary politics today is best understood as a Confederate restoration project.

one of the best, most inspiring reddit updates i've ever read. trust me that you will never guess where this goes

yeah a genuinely systemic problem is that Democratic politicians broadly neither understand nor accept that politics is about conflict. consensus is the thing you get when one or more parties to a conflict decides to tap out and offer/accept terms, not the thing you seek as an end goal.

It is not great that Aaron is getting dog-piled for pointing out what is actually happening with ICE in airports, as far as we know.

in general there’s a huge amount of magical thinking about the actual physical reality of armed men in the employ of the state and it’s really stupid. People here simultaneously believe that there are enough ICE agents to be on every street corner and also we can arrest all of them easily.

Reminds me of the infuriating Boeing 737 MAX saga, in which the sole person actually prosecuted was the guy in charge of the simulators, which weren't even the problem, it was cheap, lazy engineering. Not one executive even indicted. Boeing itself got a tidy DOJ agreement.

If this had happened under the Biden administration, Republicans wouldn't have waited for the smoke to clear before calling for Secretary Pete Buttigieg to resign or be fired. Among other demands, Democrats need to make it clear that Sean Duffy has got to go.

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Chicago to Burlington, VT and Chicagoland to Gulf Shores, AL via Hattiesburg, MS

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 ...

🚨 ICE at O'HARE 🚨 In Terminal 1, agents stood in pairs at each passenger exit. They appeared to be unoccupied, standing and chatting as passengers walked by them. Most wore masks. All wore bulletproof tactical vests. “It’s pointless. It’s just to cause fear and threat to people.”

I feel like I’m going insane. You can’t just say “I fixed it“ without fixing it and make line go up forever. Eventually, the material reality of the gas being there or not has to matter.

Oh, I like this: state law requiring ICE to waive supremacy clause immunity if it wants to contract with local agencies?

A major setback for Italy's governing far-right: Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been pushing for a big reform of the judiciary, which critics warned would erode its independence at a time where Meloni's coalition is making big changes. Voters in a referendum today rejected the change.

it would be completely legal for the NYT, or CNN, or NBC, to just describe the president's remarks this way, and the president is always remarking this way, and they never do

Interesting if true - I remember they did this early in the Gaza war as well, ancient M117s. Digging into old stockpiles. Suspect they are rationing precision munitions, given large scale two front war, also suspect these unguided bombs are fairly useless against IRI missile/drone bases.

You cannot be saying this kind of thing when your primary job is podcaster.

Gonna use this one a lot

coates also did it without carlson's barely contained cauldron of antisemitism roiling underneath it

ICE agents will steal 100% of the cash and valuables you have with you at airports. I recommend STRONGLY that you travel with faux silver wedding bands vs your gold+ diamond rings, no cash, wear cheap watches, leave jewelry at home, etc. They are rapist Nazi thieves. Expect the worst.

This is completely unbearable. But also like… why are his insane ramblings never summarized like this in the media? We gotta wait for a substack guy to put it together like this?

lmao

Senate Democrats are useless part 2038299383024

I also don’t think people understand how grim it is already for people like Iraqis, Palestinians, etc.? Jake Tapper or literally any average cable news figure isn’t that different from Tucker in racism towards Arabs. It’s not really convincing to be so mad about Tucker & ignore (or retweet!) others.

even more maddening that otherwise normal people don't parse chiropractors as cranks!

"why should americans care about ___!?!?" prior to wwii we had this idea that we could just live away from the world. the war was a brutal reminder that despite the size of the atlantic and pacific, we do in fact live in the world. this is truer today than it's ever been.