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It truly was horrifying to watch the left turn itself inside out in order to avoid the fact that Biden was the most leftist president since FDR. How exactly do they think they'll move the Overton Window if they don't celebrate progressive shifts in politicians?

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

The "ego-ization" of politics brought on by the internet has become toxic. We lose proportionality. We see our own very subjective opinions about how politics should be as the only possible way to see things. + that is how we talk ourselves into ALLOWING a psychopath like trump to become president.

To think that an election that will effect the lives and deaths of MILLIONS of people (even billions) is mostly about YOU? That x candidate must serve YOU personally, your particular political niche first and foremost, "earn" your vote? How selfish can you get?

My entire life, the same basic thing. People obsessed with attacking candidates like Gore, Kerry, Hillary, Harris, Obama, etc. And for what? What good has all that negative energy produced? (rhetorical) Nothing good has come from this. The opposite. So please, do better. Be smarter. Cause + effect.

I should not even have to say any of this because it's so f**king obvious. And yet much of this very website seems completely confused about it. Willfully so. So please try to turn this ship around by VOTING this year. Voting blue. Flipping congress. It matters and it IS doable. So do it.

If more people had gotten it straight in 2024, there would BE no ICE invasion of Minnesota. Alex Pretti and Renee Good would both still be ALIVE. Healthcare subsidies would not be gone. Millions of families would still have affordable health insurance. Cause and effect. Actions and consequences.

If more people had gotten it straight in 2024, it would have saved MILLIONS of USAID recipients. Don't argue. Just absorb that reality and think about it. Use it as a reason to do better this year. And in 2028. Don't think up excuses NOT to vote blue. Do the opposite.

The entire framing of "x candidate must EARN my vote" is invalid. These elections are not just about YOU and YOUR vote or who is pure enough to "earn" your blessing. It is about the BALANCE OF POWER. You either vote blue or trump and his regime get all the power. SIMPLE math. Get it straight.

Voting blue is not about "rewarding" politicians who you may not be 100% enthusiastic about. It's not even really about you OR the individual person you are voting for. Voting blue is about preventing fascists from doing whatever they want to the country and the world. Don't get it twisted.

The man of the people, who tells it like it is, who supports the forgotten man in a coal mine, in a diner

Too many people praise Mehdi Hasan as an unbiased icon of journalism when he's always been an agenda driven propagandist. Here, he allows Jennifer Welch to spread debunked lies. Biden could not release the Epstein Files because they were still tied up in court because of Ghislaine Maxwell's appeals.

All those people demanding Trump be put in prison don't seem to grasp that he was heading there until November 2024. He was convicted, and about to be sentenced when these same people refused to vote for Harris. And then he became President, and everything just went away. Consequences.

The vile video is racist. Period. And it came from a racist White House. If you can't say that, what are we doing here.

To recap the White House's official position, the racist video was posted erroneously by a staffer and they took it down, but even if it was posted on purpose, the outrage would have been fake because the post was fine and inspired by the Lion King

March they kept the courts open and ended up getting rid of doge and elon. Last time after the longest shutdown ever they got them to fund SNAP until September 2026 right before the midterms. No more SNAP bribery. That was until now. And now this below. That's not "caving." That's WINNING.

“Positioning himself to the left of Clinton on healthcare” gives the entire thing away because there was no way in hell to think he was to the left of the author of Hillarycare unless you, like Chris, Ryan and Brian, were letting misogyny guide how you judged politicians’ positions and sincerity

“I hate when people use this to show Chris Hayes is a moron because I, too, was a moron, so who can judge?”

I'm sorry but this story is bullsh*t. Katie Britt was so worried about Liam Ramos that she did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP HIM? Come on. This section right here shows Britt's true self.

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

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

Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

$4 billion for Trump and his family. Higher prices for you.

btw, in case you're curious and unaware, an exact 21/21 flip - with a margin this tight - is a huge flex on Jeffries' part and a gigantic fuck-you to Mike Johnson, so perhaps put some respect on his name the next time you utter it

WSJ: SpaceX trying to push the bag onto index investors ASAP. Can’t describe how predatory this is and if index providers carve out an exception for them or other large IPOs it’ll be a huge hit to their credibility IMO.

Soon-Yi Previn (Woody Allen's wife) wrote lots of emails to Epstein over the years, thru 2018 In one, she describes her sneering contempt of a 15 year old girl, calling her manipulative, despicable & disgusting, says she preyed on the "vulnerable" Anthony Weiner www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A lot of big businesses had mostly decided to eat the tariff costs, thinking Mad King was blustering like always, he'd change his mind like he does 20 times a day, or the GOP would rein that stupidity in...

NIH banned fetal tissue research to appease anti-abortion extremists—and at a committee hearing, the NIH Director couldn't provide scientific evidence to prove otherwise. I demanded to know how many projects will be halted by this anti-abortion policy decision.

People pull the smol bean "I still vote for them so what does what I say matter" thing but to believe that one has to ignore 10,000 generations of human social behavior. We all know the threat of outgrouping is more persuasive than facts or logic -- it's why you dogpile people.

If someone is concerned about ICE potentially scaring away voters, it would make sense to volunteer as a poll watcher or organize something akin to the escorts at abortion clinics. But I'm sure the OP is doing something like that and not just doom posting. Right.

I've seen maybe 2 or 3 people point this out, sadly, and it's nowhere in the Popular Account Discourse.

People are so mad about this, but this is what's on the table for *right now*. If you wanna talk about what could be possible in 2029, that's fine, but don't confuse it for the set of things that are possible *within the next 2 weeks*.

this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway

Again, I know everyone wants to yell at The Democrats & Chuck Schumer & Hakeem Jefferies, but there are 10-25 people in Washington who could literally end all of this tomorrow, & none of them are Democrats, & they continue to get 24/7 free passes for being absolute oath-violating cowards. Focus.

#Mariners fans, you're gonna want to read this - just a lovely story, my oh my... 🥹 @lookoutlanding.bsky.social @mariners.com #GOMS

Sen Chris Murphy: A UAE investor secretly gave Trump 187 million dollars and his top Middle East envoy 31 million dollars. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke decades of national security precedent

RFK jr. & his grifting MAHA movement are encouraging people to get sick & suffer lifetime health consequences because they make money on selling supplements, protocols, retreats, tinctures, devices...all in the "wellness space" Remember: "health" influencers & podcasters make millions off "MAHA"

I don't know if non-lawyers understand how insane this statement is. I honestly can't think of anything remotely comparable in non-lawyer speak. I guess the closest would be a surgeon saying "Imagine if I had to wash my HANDS before doing surgery!"

Kid Rock, the proper kind of content for families watching the Super Bowl per TPUSA, Vance and the religious right.

We don’t owe them anything. They spent a decade ignoring obvious evidence implicating the most guilty while fabricating insane accusations against the innocent.

I was just put on a new list 🙄 They're not sending their best.

...and Trump didn't want the continued drumbeat of cancellations and people speaking out about it being in the news anymore. "Closed for renovations" is the fig leaf that his ego demands.

Gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Larry Gagosian was an old friend of Jeffrey Epstein: he was part of Epstein's 2010 Christmas at St. Bart's, along with Fed Chair nominee Paul Warsh & Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. The New York art world was awash with money, scandal, and Epstein pals who needed legal help - hence Brad Karp. 6/

Brad Karp of Paul, Weiss was so close to Jeffrey Epstein that Epstein could ask him for a "personal favor" in 2018. Seems like it was for the corrupt art dealer Larry Gagosian, already busted for tax evasion in 2016, who got sued in 2018 over an even bigger fraud. Epstein asked Karp to help. 5/

When questioned last month about his relationship to Epstein, Brad Karp denied any personal or even business relationship and said he knew Epstein only as a legal adversary. Guess it's time to call him up at Paul, Weiss and ask those questions again. 4/

Chris Geidner points out that Brad Karp had agreed to dine with Jeffrey Epstein the year before, 2018. 3/

Brad Karp, chairman of Paul, Weiss, settled with Trump only six days after getting Trump's crazy demands. No fight at all. The New Yorker, baffled, thought the issue might be that a Paul, Weiss partner had worked for Robert Mueller. But maybe it's all even simpler. 2/ web.archive.org/web/20251105...

Yes, this friendly 2019 Jeffrey Epstein email exchange is about the owner of the Patriots, Robert Kraft. But it's more important who it is WITH: Brad Karp, the chairman of Paul, Weiss. And Karp was still chairman when Paul, Weiss became the first law firm to cave to Trump's demands in 2025. 1/