i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

they're doing it for gender, imo

Congress has the power and responsibility to authorize the use of military force and declare war. Congress has a duty of oversight. Congress must serve as a check, not a rubber stamp, to the President. The fact that Maduro is a dictator who committed grave abuses does not suspend the Constitution.

it's very comforting for people to believe that there's a shadowy cabal of people who are shaping the world exactly to their will. but in reality, even the most powerful people exerting all their might can do little more than a gentle push to get things moving the direction they want.

So many Trump pundits strike me as being something like Ptolemaic astronomers adding ever-more epicycles to their model to explain the observed motion of planets, unable to abandon the central geocentric assumption. In this case, the assumption is that Trump is in full possession of his faculties

Look it's simple the Dems need to invoke 'the doubler' rule wherein all their votes count twice, boom easy impeachment and veto overrides for everything (I'm not doing the math on this if it's wrong imagine I said tripler)

Republican gets elected President. > Starts saying/doing racist shit. > Cuts benefits for the poor. > Cuts taxes for the rich. > Dismantles democracy. > Crashes economy. > Starts another war over oil. > Cuts funding for sustainable energy. If only we could have known somehow before the election

American voters will lose more than just elections if they don't vote to get every Republican out of congress as they can in 2026. They will erode any chance we have at fair and free elections in 2028. And that is because too many of you apathetic assholes don't vote like your lives depend on it!

Trump voters have turned the most powerful country in the world - the longtime leader of the democratic West - into a violent rogue state. In doing so, they have smashed any semblance of international law and order. This ‘might is right’ world MAGA have inflicted upon us endangers all of humanity.

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.

And another thing I’m worried the media will do in 2028 is frame every question to Democrats as “how are you specifically going to fix everything? Why haven’t you fixed everything yet? Aren’t you being divisive and looking backwards by saying you’ll undo and investigate everything the GOP has done?”

bluntly it is because the only women they will allow to give them orders are in porn

GWB: I am not paying a lot of money just to shoot a rocket up a camel's ass. Trump: Let's just do a Battleship thing and I'll call out coordinates and you bomb them.

wouldn't put it past these ghouls to have the extent of the objectives be "let's kill brown people to own the libs"

FUCKIN FACTS 💯

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

If you are outraged that Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate in TX, but insist that a racist, Jew-hating, rape-victim-blaming, ex-Blackwater mercenary, self-described communist with an effing SS tattoo is "a great candidate" for Maine, you just might be a racist, Jew-hating POS.

Look man, I want to live in a society where even if you don’t hold virtue in your heart, society is constructed in such a way that pretending you’re virtuous is coterminous with getting ahead, and demonstrating that you lack it leaves you behind. That’s better than where we are.

ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.

without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

if article 2 can just, by fiat, nullify a section of the constitution, and article 3 rubber stamps it and article 1 stands by and allows it, we don't have a constitution, we have the societal equivalent of an anime swordsman who just cut us in half but we haven't fallen apart yet

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

You don't want to buy a farm, because you do not want to wake up at 4 am to deworm a goat whose past time is sexual harassment and assault

Even with just wars, Augustine says, “If anyone either endures or thinks of them without mental pain, his is a more miserable plight still, for he thinks himself happy because he has lost all human feeling.” If this is the case with just war, how much more inhuman is Megyn Kelly’s glee over this?

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

everyone will agree to my national housing program if we make the housing all art deco and mid century modern

How it started / How it’s going

If my parents were like "gee it's completely fine if the president ordered to murder everyone in your neighborhood even you." I don't know if I could find value in speaking to them again.

me and the boys deploying to Caracas because theo von convinced our friends who dropped out of high school to vote for Trump

There is an extraordinary sense of entitlement behind the belief that there ought to be political party that aligns 100% with your own opinions.

Western Values is when you marry your daughter to her uncle in crusader kings 3 to secure a big enough army to keep Europe white

for all they scream about "importing the third world" it's the most idiotic, base tribal clannishness they aspire too as well. fuck rule of law, fuck the law, fuck rules, fuck neutral institutions, fuck universalism, fuck meritocracy.

We are living at a time when university leadership amplifies anti-intellectual tropes and technologies These are very troubling times

The unifying aim of all Trump pronouncements and actions is to trash the constitution and impose a white supremacist militarized autocracy by EO and truth social decree - the latest attack on naturalization and birthright citizenship is an ugly new escalation of that barbaric aim.

I am begging you to look up the filibuster that requires 60 senate seats for all legislation, and which they literally tried to eliminate, only for Manchin and Sinema (who are no longer Democrats) to vote no. Begging you.

Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

i truly do think that like 70% of cost of living discussions come down to the fact that a lot of people think "roughly 50% of Americans cannot afford the median American lifestyle" is an indictment of the economy instead of just like, math

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

the lack of manufacturing consent regarding Venezuela is crazy i don't think there's gonna be anything approaching a formal declaration, we're all just gonna wake up one morning to a Truth Social post that we started bombing them six hours ago

The media fell in love with Trump — the most mendacious person in the world — because he gave them “interesting stories” and now they’re doing the same with her for the exact same reason

Do you think they talked about the tribulations of having Aloof Wives

why on Earth did that one guy vote no on the Epstein thing lmao your name is gonna be DC bar trivia for the rest of time