The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Extended prison sentences for these guys will be required, not only because of the constant vile, inhumane criminality of every single one of them, but also as a public safety issue. Not only to hopefully avoid another terror attack like on Melissa Hortman, but to start to rebuild community trust.

Unlimited jihad on all sports gambling apps

No Kings includes Draft Kings

i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol

Making people who broadly agree with you feel like they have to traverse a minefield to be able to work with you to solve problems is bad for effectively solving problems.

Hurriedly retitling my script about the Defenestration of Prague to “Yeeted Rivalry”

It’s not a troubled newspaper, it’s owed by the second richest man on earth who could fund it forever and not notice the cost. This is an intentional self-inflicted wound.

*Comes for the law posting, stays for the dog posting. *Comes for the dog posting, stays for the law posting.

With the (major) caveat T is president & the others are media hosts, I do wonder about Trump as an icon after It Happens. The right chucks everyone overboard after they die. They're avatars, not people; forgotten when gone except as a prop or cudgel for the latest cruelty.

The section on the Wiz-ards! encapsulates my feelings about the Davis and Young trades, in a way I've not seen anyone else do. I do not, and cannot, understand any front office reasoning behind Avdija. Especially timeline considerations, hard enough to take before, but impossible now.

It's been pretty frustrating that the obvious takeaway ("they'll try whatever they can, most of it either won't work or doesn't have an actual method of working, but they'll try and it'll suck") gets split instead into "they won't try and if they do it won't work lmao" and "they'll be successful"

Taking notes.

A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

I think this, to a degree, is because it's a "story that writes itself." Everything I've seen from journalists is that expected output has skyrocketed, while resources for most of them have dwindled. And if you're gonna write about R's you're writing on bullshit while presuming seriousness.

Unless I've missed it since, but by "nothing" I've assumed they meant actual evidence against Democratic pols.

Bluesky is that special place where someone will take time out from serialposting about how ICE can never defeat one mid sized midwesern city to post about how ICE is going to commandeer every voting booth in the US and all is lost

This pack of winners allows for a few definitions of blunt.

Going into vanguard ex-musk from now on

Tom's specialties include all-timer threads. Here's another.

98 out of 435 House districts have a Partisan Voting Index between R+5 and D+5. Another 90 are +6 to +10. My math says you'd have to roughly double ICE and CBP's current combined headcount to send *one* goon to each polling place in each of those 188 districts. They. Do. Not. Have. Enough. Goons.

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Rapists all the way down www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...

I would like my ideological allies to stop being dipshits please and thank you

Davis to the Wizards? What the fucking fuck is this?

i decided they needed a statblock

Exactly it. They had 3,000 agents in Minnesota, so... one agent per polling place in the entire state, at most, during the midterms? I think there will be serious attempts at fuckery, but one or two agents per poll isn't going to slow anybody down.

How'll they "surround the polls" during midterms? Where will they find the agents to do so? Will they be surrounding everyone's home in vote by mail states? Will efforts at intimidation work when it seems like they'll just piss people off more? How many polling places are there? How many agents?

"You can pull this lever and it will protect your child from dangerous diseases both right now today and for the rest of their lives" "No thank you" "Okay, off to jail with you then"

MAGA types saw themselves fill space because people agreed or were scared of them, not because they were loud, obnoxious assholes no one wanted to deal with. They're learning people are ready to deal, and that in these spaces what they heard as others voices were only echoes of their own.

I'm genuinely looking forward to this, and it giving me the excuse to revisit BSG. "No, no, I've claimed the tv for the next month or two for reasons. Very, very good reasons."

A corollary of this is I do not take seriously any "leftist" that denies or defends any massacre or genocide carried out by nominally left-wing dictatorship regimes. People are people and they do not deserve collective punishment. Looking at you, PSL and Code Pink.

Anti-slavery (sold his business and came to fight for the Union) & primogeniture.

The fact that the three ICE/CBP agents involved in the two Minnesota shootings have nearly 40 years of combined experience should be the nail in the coffin of any "training" rhetoric

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

Anne Frank likely died in a typhus epidemic that spread through the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp History rhymes, it rhymes Close the camps, set fire to the prisons

This is how you do it. No waffling, no bullshit, no excuses, no "well, maybes..."

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

One must assume from their having a Twitter account and posting there that these folks are pro-CSAM billionaires.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Day out for the staff.

Each time I point out that the Republican platform is simple (they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it), a few people think I'm exaggerating, and usually some small number of people think I'm being sardonic or something. I mean it quite literally.

They come up with these weird ideas, all to capture more data and prove that workers are an enemy of profit when workers ARE profit. Just weirdos. Shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near basic needs or civic services.

Well, it worked. I've subscribed.

Pedofascism

It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles

here’s why this completely reasonable strategic move upsets me: anyone who demonizes trans people should be shouted out of the room. i don’t think it’s too much to ask that dems proudly support trans people, like they do with any other constituent, instead of viewing them as a liability to manage

We should be saying this more. Involvement, approval, or turning a blind eye to it appears to be an actual requirement for advancement and good-standing in the Republican Party.