The usual suspects need to start asking themselves whether they actually want to win elections and get good policy passed or not. If the only candidates you'll vote for call themselves socialists and want to eliminate Israel, good fucking luck with them ever winning.

initially i thought it extremely inappropriate for jd vance to travel to another country and try to meddle in their elections and now i think he should go stump on behalf of every right wing reactionary party in europe, give him a special budget for it, i don't care, get him on the local news

It's true that some kinds of election tampering can't be beaten by sheer turnout, but the gerrymandering and suppression stuff can be overwhelmed by numbers.

Fantastic that Orban got booted, and a lot of really good things are going to come from that. I think it bodes well for us taking the House and a slight Senate majority here in Nov. We'll still be stuck with Trump for a while, since we won't have enough Senate seats to boot him, but it'll help.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Excited for the crash outs from the “you can’t vote your way out of this!” crowd.

you can in fact vote your way out

It's good to see ICE protecting us... By arresting an 86-year-old French woman who was married to an American ex-soldier. They lived in Alabama, but she had never gotten a Green Card. ICE arrested her, cuffing her hands & feet, three months after her husband died. She remains in detention.

So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.

Biden actually did this but nobody covered it. Look at all his clean energy reforms and infrastructure bolstering and tell me it wasn’t earth changing.

Good luck, Hungary. We're rooting for you out here today.

My grandma learned to drive in secret with a neighbor while he was at the mill and didn't tell grandpa until she had the license. She had 9 children and no hs diploma and he controlled her as much as he could, this is the world they want for us all.

Same here. Dad's mom was born in 1908. She once told me her own father used to beat her for trying to sneak out to go to school. He didn't think girls needed any education. Also still remember my mom getting refused a Sears store credit card in her own name.

One of the comments to this is like “of all the things to be mad about, not being able to get a credit card is low down the list” and y’all being able to leave shitty men is so important and cannot be done without money.

Every vote for a Democrat has done more to make the world a better place than anything the anti-Democrat left has ever done.

My biggest objection to the fetishization of (supposed) blue-collar white guys as some sort of champion of the poor: The poverty rate for white men is less than 10%.

So people have pointed out that as late as 2020 and 2021 Graham Platner was using slurs, both homophobic and anti-disabled slurs I never ever imagined he was so stupid, and so hateful that he would still be using them today, to a journalist, in print

This might piss people off, but it's true and more of us should say it: so far, Dems in office and the "shitlibs" who vote for them have had a way WAY better track record on trans rights than social media lefter-than-thous with empty words who refuse to vote blue. And it's not particularly close.

If I knew for years that someone powerful was a piece of shit BUT I also wasn't in a position to expose them publicly (or privately) for whatever reason, I sure as hell wouldn't be bragging about that the moment that someone else finally exposed them. I'd be feeling quietly relieved.

“If you just watched this three hour video you’d see why him calling an elderly refugee a bitch was actually fine” fucccck offfff

Eric Swalwell and Graham Platner are reminders that Democrats need to stick to their principles or face consequences We don’t have room for sex pests or Nazis

"In all of this emptiness — this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe — you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist in together.” — Astronaut Victor Glover

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

I am Tom Steyer's strongest soldier now.

Whew!

Odd thing I keep seeing from non-USians bewildered that we're not laying siege to the WH: The belief that all of us, Democrats included, own at least one gun, if not more. Some Democrats do own guns, especially if they're dependent on hunting for survival. But ~80% of us don't.

Yeah Ruben Gallego can fucking shove it about how "indefensible" he finds sexual assault until he feels the same way about Platner saying drunk women deserve it.

Wait Mamdani and Abughazaleh are liberal zionists now?? When did that memo get sent out?

Stochastic violence is not a progressive value.

If ever actually constructed, look for it to be the first DC monument gleefully destroyed in every future disaster movie

AP publishes a good multi-state rundown on pushback all over the country against plans for huge Trump prison camps: apnews.com/article/immi...

I'm just going to be very blunt here and say that if you think Democrats in Congress should be spending their time "trying to force an impeachment vote" right now, you are being a willful idiot. Stop being stupid.

please sir, if we don't make the gop say no to impeachment, how will the american public *ever* know they support donald trump??

this is gaudy and terrible even by the standards of neoclassical architecture, unsurprisingly, it looks like a las vegas / theme park / casino version of neoclassical architecture

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

Although I enjoy both, New Wave is musically superior to punk. Punk is message delivery over musicianship, which is fine and as it should be, but New Wave has message too, with a lot more musical skill and complexity.

okay, this is how this conversation always seems to go "god, Graham Platner sucks, look at this horrible thing he did/said!" "uh look at him winning! check mate Lib!" like the betting market doesn't make him a good person or a reasonable choice.

Some people genuinely seem to have trouble understanding that winning an election doesn't make you a good person, which frankly stuns me

I think if he wins his father should be reinstated as president

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

Even if this was true, and it isn't, it would be totally irrelevant any meaningful solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Antisemitic freak.

If the goal of Melania’s speech was to make people stop talking about her, Epstein, and Maxwell—and definitely stop reposting all those photos of them—not so sure that was an effective strategy

A Black congresswoman faces 17 years in prison for visiting an ICE facility. Jan. 6 rioters got pardons. Trump’s DOJ isn’t pursuing justice; it’s sending a message to every member of Congress who dares do oversight. Stand with Rep. LaMonica McIver. @replamonica.bsky.social

This is driven by a huge drop in 13-17 year olds getting knocked up with no recourse so just take that into consideration

A Graham Platner fan vehemently defending his supposed right to use homophobic slurs is so on brand for that group of assholes it's almost a cliché. And he's even using the "some of my best friends..." thing to justify it. Ye gods.

seeing a post that was obviously written by trump himself hammers home how many of the recent ones were ghostwritten by viziers. this is the good stuff, you only get this quality right from the source

okay, *now* i am beginning to think the coalition might actually be cracking up

You can tell how much transphobes think women are pathetically weak and inferior to men because they think banning trans women from DARTS makes sense.

I prefer my intelligence local and artisanal and situated in my own brain, thank you. No subscription required!

Good lord, I knew it was bad, but 3%?? And for that 3% you must now pay more than Netflix monthly while being splattered with ads, porn, ads for porn, Nazis, ads for Nazi porn, every half-coagulated thought that dribbles out of Elon Musk’s barf-hole, & ads for Nazi/Musk barf porn.