A lot of people are trying to justify their own desire to surrender to Trump early in the year

At best, you can impose consequences and let pain teach them how they benefit from the rule of law.

basically, you do not gotta hand it to her, etc.

At this point, there’s a real command in control question here, like, does the president not know what he’s ordered (and instead believes the rumors he sees on teevee/phone), or he’s just admitting to covert action without any regard for opsec and putting troops lives at risk!

Every year around this time I do the same thread and it has been a lot of fun. Tell me something you did in 2025 that you're proud of that you want everyone to know about. Did you write a book? Did you get a promotion? Did you survive the year? I want to spend the end of the year celebrating you.

Anyway folks, remember there's a reason the Ranger Sequoia is engraved with FOR HONORABLE SERVICE/AGAINST ALL TYRANTS www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ria3...

well fuck, we're now at $12,500, that was fast and that also means we're aiming higher. can I see $15,000? any guilty rich progressives looking to atone with their annual bonus or something? secure.actblue.com/donate/bring...

I have reasonable self control around anything and everything but if you ever want to distract me for a full weekend throw me a good basebuilding game and I will be setting up logistics chains and aesthetically pleasing housing for me and any other people involved"

If the US started directly striking Venezuela, that is huge. The silence from the WH, DoD and Venezuela is so bizarre.

look it's nice of Newsom to keep handing every other 2028 contender so many nice sharp shivs with which to absolutely wreck his shit in the first debate, within five minutes it's going to make Warren hitting Bloomberg with both barrels look like she was endorsing him by comparison

It's going to take longer to remove everything and all the damage he's done than it will take for Trump 2.0 who Republicans convince themselves is totally different than Trump to just get back to it, it's a structural problem that building things in the fed government is harder than destroying them.

At this point, Trump is not a mere politician but a symbol—a representation of the Schmittian capture of America under his watch. If you're a supporter, you know with full conviction that there's nothing you can do that he wouldn't pardon. You support Trump—that's the only thing that matters.

unstoppable force (US/UK boomer need for care labour) vs immovable object (the global g20 rage against immigrant labour)

And this is what actually pisses me off the most about this: after DOGE, Democrats really should’ve realized that the Republicans are never, EVER, ever bringing up fraud in good faith. It is always a pretext. But here we are! Playing the game on their terms!

If you have a billion dollars, you literally have enough money to never have to hear any criticism for the rest of your life. Just because they’re all addicted to going online and getting yelled at isn’t my fucking problem.

so we definitely hit...something

Also we need to be real that the GOP is using “Haitians” or “Somalis” or such with a hard R

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

🇺🇦 SLAVA UKRAINI 🇺🇦

sharon's not saying this but i am: there are certain bluesky users about whom some people have absolutely and inexplicably lost their shit and they are almost exclusively women. basically women and jamelle.

Trump guys on Twitter are using Grok to “hunt” daycares in their nearest city to see if there are kids in them and, if there are, if they’re Somali.

>uncovering the relics of the past, searching for noble efforts abandoned and unkept promises >New York City's first metamodernist mayor WELCOME, WIDE AWAKE ZOHRAN MAMDANI 👁

please do not teach the goats italian

in case you need a brief intro to the candidates I'm asking you to support:

It's sort of worse when you realize that David Sacks and Co. are publicly stating that they are going to fund primary challengers to even the most Silicon Valley-friendly Democrats. Dems should view tech regulation as a matter of self-preservation at this point.

two more generous donors have brought us all the way to $9,252, so fuck it, let's go for $10,000

elon spends all day posting explicit white nationalism on his nazi platform, zuck is vastly more concerned with looking cool to MMA bros than anything else, these are not people who are interested in even pretending to play nice with you anymore treat them as the enemies they are

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

(writing about an open antisemite who accosted a school shooting survivor on the street and devoted her life to erasing trans people and sending immigrants to concentration camps) hey boss i got a great quote from the nice lady about being christlike let’s pull quote it

Jan. 6, 2021: “history will remember” The history rememberers:

this is *by far* most important for non-incumbents btw. PACs and donors assume viability for incumbents and will almost automatically invest if they think the incumbent needs it. so if there's a challenger or a candidate in an open seat you like, now is the time to give

even honest campaigns talk about FEC deadlines for a reason: sophisticated large donors and PACs with resources/attention for a limited set of races will use FEC reports as a factor in determining who to back. give by New Year's if you can—to any federal candidate you like, on or off this list

Ro Khanna is one of the worst to ever do it.

Keir Starmer was the model for centrists and popularists who insisted that moving right on issues, especially immigration, is how you win at politics. Wonder if there will ever be any self-reflection here! Ah well nevertheless

'I Was Just So Naïve': Inside Gregor Strasser's Break With Hitler

We do not in fact need to do anything with Marjorie Taylor Greene other than [TOS VIOLATION]

what the fuck are we doing here

Straight up I'm gonna call my legislators about this.

We could make it a strict liability crime/tort if your image generator is used to generate CSAM of a real person What‘s that you say, this would effectively outlaw image generators? Feature, not a bug

NYT confirms some sort of action: “American officials said that Trump was referring to a drug facility in Venezuela and that it was eliminated, but provided no details. Military officials said they had no information to share, and the CIA declined to comment. The White House declined to comment.”

Won’t do a big thread of what I wrote this year because there’s not that much of it, but I am quite proud of this one

It’s funny but we gotta get serious about the hitler “youth” movement that this is meant to mobilize longterm

like don't get me wrong, this is Good, I do not want to roll the dice on the Cool Zone at this time, but it's a full if tacit admission that even they know Trump is cooked

wow so it really took less than a year to sink dreams of a third Trump term huh www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

you, an idiot: we should have universal health care me, a TV genius: the average american is going to lose 400 pounds next year

Because she reported the truth.

a realization you have pretty quickly as a trans person is that nobody likes being in the bathroom and that everyone is trying their hardest not to notice the other people in there