All the knives in MAGA land are out for each other. The next step is to make them testify against each other, then prosecute from top to bottom.

The fact that double-party-haters prefer Dems by 31 points is pretty incontrovertible proof that most voters think Dems are feckless and don't fight hard enough. Not that Dems are too far left on policy.

This might be the largest party lead I've ever seen among the double haters www.cnn.com/2026/04/03/p...

There really isn't any kind of comparison for this sort of behavior among Dems. It would be as if you put the weirdest, most belligerently factional shitposting offsplit of DSA in charge of the whole Pentagon. Most Americans still have no clue how weird and extremist Hegseth is.

So like is the first amendment a thing anymore or

But let's be honest: there's a large cadre that basically cheers on chasing off any lib/centrist/academic who's the punchbag of the day. There's a culture of saying "fuck off back to X, then". And the anti- bedtime leftists set too much of the culture.

This is sobering. It makes me want to curtail my own bad habit of letting the scolds, cranks and people who live for the pleasure of screaming at their mostly-allies define my experience here as much as they do. And we need more people posting about fun cultural stuff in the spirit of conversation.>

this is weird

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

It says a lot about where we are that one can read the entire @nytimes.com story on the firing of the Attorney General of the United States without a *single* reference to that officer's duty to uphold the Constitution—which might just sometimes make it just a little hard to do the boss's bidding:

The US Department of War Crimes.

If my job were primarily to run cover for a powerful pedophile, and that pedophile proceeded to unceremoniously sack me with maximum public humiliation, I would simply stop running cover for said pedophile.

Feels like this should be an obvious wedge between the Third Way guys and the Yglesias/WAR guys...

Pam Bondi still has to testify, under oath, in front of the Oversight Committee regarding the Epstein Files. This does not get her out of that bipartisan, lawful subpoena. We will see her soon.

"Iran has slowly realized that, unbelievably, it can actually get away with throwing a tollgate across the strait." prospect.org/2026/04/02/o...

Bondi, Noem and Gabbard deserve no sympathy. But it sure says something about Trump and MAGA that is he only firing the women in his cabinet. Unless you are a straight white nationalist Christian man, MAGA will never love you back.

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

LMAO - so much for Mikey calling the Senate's DHS bill "a joke." 🚨 House's MAGA Republicans just caved on DHS funding. Credit to Schumer & Jeffries holding the line. BIGGER CREDIT goes to the Democratic base - including millions who just marched last weekend pushing the Dems to hold strong.

This all depends on how you define national interest. If you define "national interest" as "bringing about the biblical prophecy of the apocalypse" then US policy makes sense. If you actually think about it from any other perspective, then it doesn't make sense. I would further add...

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

I don't think it's a "different" reason. Ever since covid people are perceiving that prices are rising higher than most of their wages, especially for housing. And they are mostly right. Even when they are wrong, people notice price spikes much more strongly than their own wage gains.

New bombshell mayoral poll from LMU’s Center for the Study of Los Angeles: Raman 32.5%, Bass 17%, Huang 16.6%, Miller 13.4%, Pratt 11.5%. Nearly 48% of those surveyed said they prefer a democratic socialist for mayor: lmu.app.box.com/s/i6jtszzmyo...

Year-old but still highly relevant thread to understand the mentality of Wall St investors right now. They aren't afraid of losses. They are afraid of missing out on the TACO rebound.

The American people need answers here. Russia is helping Iran kill Americans and Trump just keeps going out of his way to help Putin. I don't know how at this point it isn't treason in every sense of the word.

"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

Brick by brick, Jeff Bezos is dismantling the Washpost. With no stated game plan for how to turn it around.

Curious: A. What was her business there? B. What was his business there? C. Did they take the bedroom jet? D. Who paid for it?

Direct costs of Iran War reached $25 billion on March 26, per figures cited by CAP, not counting indirect. The Blue Dog Coalition were very concerned about a *potential* deficit impact of $15.8 billion a year from the Build Back Better Act of 2021! (Treasury found the BBB would make money.)

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

A 2024 study found 96% of residential land in California is zoned single-family only. Cities reserving 95%+ of land for single-family homes were 20 percentage points whiter than the state average — and had significantly higher median incomes. cayimby.org/blog/more-ho...

It would be difficult to find an organization that has done as much in so little time to damage its own stated goals as AIPAC has done. Truly incredible own goals there.

They started an illegal war of choice during an ideological, racist and sexist purge led by right wing podcasters calling targets on a sieg heiling billionaire’s website, believing their superior genes and brutality would lead to rapid victory and are now facing defeat bsky.app/profile/dunc...

i'm increasingly convinced they got Victory Disease from Venezuela and thought they could get Iranian Delcy in place or the protests to reignite after repression and had no plan when neither happened

It is common to make fun of younger people for eating out too much. But honestly the price of groceries and the immense value of time means it's pretty rational, and not spoiled if you have a moderate above minimum wage. Consider a fairly cheap meal I made tonight for myself and the two kids: /1

🧵I'm going to be writing a piece called "Why there is no liberal media." Main points: 1) There's plenty of money on the left 2) It's locked up in wasteful TV ads 3) There are some prosperous left media outlets, but they almost never help small or medium people 4) The right wing does the opposite

It's no surprise that Nazis have teamed up in many ways with granola NIMBYs: they are both degrowthers.

What taxation without representation looks like for blue states under Trump's Republican regime powered by John Roberts' MAGA #SCOTUS. ↘️

America under Trump is now part of an axis of evil

How do you fix a situation where a corrupt president can have his allies make bogus lawsuits against our own government, and then direct his corrupted "Justice Department" to settle and shell out taxpayer money to his corrupt friends? We need to start thinking about writing laws around this *now*.

Jfc this is grim

Hard to tell what's working toward the Führer and what's just they know this guy is mush.

Traders have learned one lesson in the last 15 years: don’t panic-sell. COVID briefly got them to panic because the economy broke and they couldn’t ignore it. But the takeaway is that they won’t sell in meaningful size until something noticeably breaks.

just some quick napkin math on this, $375 million is 0.18% of meta's reported 2025 revenue of $200.97 billion, or 0.62% of meta's reported 2025 profit of $60.46 billion. $375 million is the maximum penalty allowed by law. the system just like, fundamentally doesn't work lol

This is one of the most important issues with the global food system, yet it is often ignored. Put simply, we don't actually grow much *food* in our farms around the world. Instead, we grow grossly inefficient animal feed and biofuels. drawdown.org/news/only-ha...

By the way, the S&P 500 e-Mini trades through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and accordingly @jbpritzker.bsky.social and @kwameraoul.bsky.social might want to investigate the anomalous lucrative trading of that security from 6:49-6:50am on Monday, March 23, 2026. Just a thought.

Surely a state law-enforcement authority can determine who did this, how they knew etc? Yes? Not everything has to wait until Dems win a House majority or the presidency…

Good. Making education overtly worse in the name of equity isn't progressive. It not only fails to advance equity, it worsens education for everyone and shifts voters to the right. Glad there are some needed reforms here. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...