"the Democrats are weak, corrupt losers who transparently believe in nothing" is a horrific perception for the public to have of the opposition party under a noxiously unpopular president, and Democratic leaders have thus far evinced zero interest in rebutting any part of it

Trump has posted 3 AI slops in the past week, blamed himself for the shutdown, and if you're to believe Schumer, doesn't know how disasterous his biggest piece of legislation will be. No swing voter paying attention will blame the Dems. Those not paying attention will blame the party in power.

Bengals, my Bengals. 😑

standing three feet from the tv with my hands on my hips, just repeating “can’t be doin that”

I'll put this marker down now: if we go into a shutdown and Dems actually hold the line and don't immediately cave, their poll numbers will go up 90% of the reason their numbers are so low with non-Rs is they've managed exactly zero concrete opposition so far

"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.

Don’t worry, once we’ve helped them come for immigrants and trans people, they’re sure to be appeased and dedicated to solidarity in our great big tent and not come after anyone else, as history teaches

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

@jessicavalenti.bsky.social is very right that Ezra Klein is very wrong, both morally and strategically, with this argument that throwing half the population under the bus (the half that already leans more Democratic).

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

oh how I would love to see someone with an actual spine primary my Rep. Greg Landsman, who stands for absolutely nothing at all

Damn. This is exactly it.

1 transgender shooter GOP: "We must institutionalize all transgenders!" 47,209 white male shooters GOP: "This is the cost of freedom."

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs. 2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar. 3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

Christ, imagine being so devoid of culture or intellectual curiosity that your greatest political grievance is that there aren't live lobsters at Wal*Mart like there were when you were a kid. Wtf.

My school just got a faculty senate. Literally, last year. Prior to this, the president ran our faculty meetings and made every decision for us. Shared governance is more than just feeling okay about ourselves; it's actually a really important mechanism for empowering faculty to own the curriculum.

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

Mr. Beast: We have to have a kill switch Enginer: OK yeah, this one will stop the fire Mr. Beast: No, that's not what I mean

Perhaps Elon and Matt Gaetz noticed the capitalized "I" in Identity. Christian Identity is not Christian identity. There is no question about this one, friends. I HAVE NOT EVEN HAD MY COFFEE YET what is happening today (3)

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers: 38-54 (Quinnipiac) 39-60 (AP) 40-56 (Gallup) 41-58 (Reuters) 39-56 (Economist) On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

Klein kept asking "what do you do when 30% of the country believes things that are beyond the pale?" and the answer is that you hold the line even more firmly! He seems to think that we should should compromise with them but that's a doomed project electorally and indefensible morally.

Disinvite them from the tailgate. Do not go to the baby shower. Call out their bullshit on Facebook. Do not just purse your lips and nod politely. Ostracize the living shit out of them. Leave their church potluck casserole untouched. These people are extremely vulnerable to social shame.

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

Extremely important Larry Goone update:

accepting immigrants is the easiest solution to the aging population pyramids of developed countries, and one of the big symptoms of a worsening climate crisis is going to be increasing numbers of refugees

INTERVIEWER: As you know, we are a nation beset by myriad horrors. What are you doing to fight back? SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.

Lol. No. What radicalized these aasholes is racism. I witnessed *so many* seemingly reasonable white dudes absolutely lose their fucking minds at a Black man in the White House. They'll say it was the economy. But I watched it in real time. It's white grievance all the way down.

The Trump Administration's DHS officers appear to be carrying large weapons around downtown Chicago in camouflage and masks. This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidation, instilling fear in our communities and hurting our businesses.

There are fighters out there if we’d just let them fight.

“Why are you blaming democrats for the actions of republicans” Republicans are the fire, there’s nothing to be gained in trying to reason with them. I am blaming the firefighters who are scared of getting wet.

Every word of this is more bleak than the last

the more nazi shit trump does, and the more democrat politicians enable the nazi shit, the madder online libs get at people who want healthcare and think genocide is bad

We cannot normalize militarizing American cities and suburbs. Make sure you know your rights and stay alert.

So considering he reposted that AI medbed thing last night there's a nonzero chance his own advisors have been showing him AI Fox News clips in the oval office and he thinks they're real

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Hey, if you think that the "MEDIA" isn't covering something - DM me and I'll send you links to the people covering it. Are there gaps in the "media's" attention? YES. But it's rare, usually it's just that your social media feed sucks.

Reminder that rapture theology was made up by some unhinged white lady in the 1700’s and then popularized by an equally unhinged white man. Revelations was about the Roman Empire. The Bible is pretty clear about no one knowing when “The End” is.

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

My dearest Alice: I write to you from a city under siege. The horrors have become inescapable. We are surrounded on all sides by an enemy who has left no corner of this place untouched by its poison. I speak, of course, of our old foe: gratuitous punctuation in business names

No one protects pedo rape cartel ringleaders quite like you, Speaker Johnson.

these kids aren't Alex Jones or Steve Bannon. the dude who fired at an ICE van and shot himself was not engaged in a cunning long term political gambit. The term "non-political" here means their motivation was not in furtherance of some sort of cohesive partisan project. they did it for the lulz.

the scene now in war-ravaged antifa Portland🦆

"I will also say this: avoiding this unknown element will not prevent us from joining together to raise our voices and call for an end to the federal government’s unwanted, unneeded, and un-American deployment to the city we call home."

"President Trump has directed 'all necessary troops' to Portland. That number of 'necessary troops,' however, is zero, in Portland or any other American city."