The Purge Movies are actually great because they actually get smarter and more thoughtful as they continue about the setting, and that evolves them beyond mere horror films.

Honestly, if I was married to Stephen Miller I would also want to die.

MAGA just wants to turn America into a blood and soil hellhole.

I’m glad this is sinking in more and more: Post-Trump MAGA genuinely hates America in a way we haven’t seen since… maybe the Confederacy? And even the Confederacy used our Founding documents and deals struck over the Dec of Ind as a basis for its existence.

THESE PEOPLE ARE FILTH

Actual Evil

It goes without saying that these are the people who’d be licking the boots of King George in 1776 or fighting to destroy their country in the name of King Cotton in 1861. They’re many things. Grotesque. Vile. Sickening. Evil. And, let’s not forget, they’re fundamentally un-American.

I don’t care if we‘re 50 percent or 49 percent or 75 percent or 25 percent: we’re on the side of the Constitution and of right.

The Declaration of Independence doesn’t begin with “these truths are evident if [insert number] percent of people agree with them…” It’s begins with “We hold these truths to be self evident…” Equality is self evident. Inalienable rights are self evident. Government by consent is self evident.

When I taught Civics, I used Supreme Court cases to trace our expansion of rights to demonstrate democratic values. If I were still teaching Civics today, I would need to place the concepts of 'precedent,' 'stare decisis,' and 'rule of law' in the trash bin. This SCOTUS is corrupt.

Worth remembering that the last star-President managed to win everything except for DC and Minnesota. Say what you will about Ronnie, he had a way with words. We could use that in particular rn, and hey, if T-Swizzle and Sabrina Carpenter deliver that, then count me in for Swift-Carpenter 2028.

The investor class isn't real. And "we would like businesses to be run according to actual material reality and interests" is a pretty reasonable and pro-worker position.

I’ve said for a while that one of the loadbearing myths in right wing American politics is that, if they wanted to, they could just kill all the liberals. “We’re the only ones with the guns! Don’t piss us off!!!” and whenever they run into evidence contrary it TERRIFIES them

I love how the headline frames it like it was an accident.

So the White House just declared a needless war on Sabrina Carpenter. You know what? Let Sabrina Carpenter go Captain Marvel on their asses. They deserve an ass whooping from her of all people.

We'd have failed this because it's obvious the student didn't read anything. There's absolutely nothing from the actual reading here. We see so much slop anymore, we're merciless. One comment: I don't think you did the reading. F. Moving on. -OS

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For those who don’t know the Bolsheviks coupd the Republic months after the revolution because they correctly identified the root cause of the uprising was dissatisfaction with the war, not the Tsar directly. I’ve had to correct a lot of people on this site about this.

cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster

I AM ONCE AGAIN TAPPING THE SIGN.

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

I’m decently satisfied with Josh Shapiro as a governor and want him to win in 2026 (in no small part because Garrity and Mastriano are insane). If he wants to win the Oval, he’ll have to do better than bashing Harris for 2024 and just looking power-hungry. Like, take a page from Newsom and fight!

James David thinks that these are separable, that Russia and China aren’t and can’t actually be allies, because he believes that your skin color is your uniform

As much as I don't want Newsom near power, I do have to commend his press office for showing other politicians that nothing bad happens if they do some shitposting. That sort of flexibility matters a lot

The Republican oath: Do all harm.

Bullying works. Keep it up.

Joe Biden‘s legacy is very much an unfinished fight, but I will always admire him for being the most pro-LGBTQ+ POTUS so far. The Respect for Marriage Act and his EOs matter. But he also vocally supported equal rights & it matters too. In his home state, they elected the first trans Congresswoman.

Biden: So, folks, that's my message to all of us today, to all who love our country, to all of us are dismayed by the present state of the union: it's time to get up, get up and fight back. Get up. Continue to fight. What's the fight all about? Protecting the constitution.

The current guiding philosophy of the Supreme Court is “we’re going to give Trump as much power as we can while trying to minimize how much it’ll bite us in the ass if the Dems take power”. We should not look to the Roberts Court for power. We should look to an elected Congress that’ll impeach it.

I am glad professor Moynihan took this argument seriously for the purposes of demonstrating that nobody else should take it seriously. This idea that we are settling into an era where an explicitly conservative court is instituting a freely and fairly elected dictatorship is absolutely absurd.

the weak should fear the strong

It's really frustrating that a lot of the media just sort of frames the Trump admin as "wading into a hot debate over trans issues that have roiled american politics" when it's like, clear that they are motivated by a desire to demean trans people

There is one right answer to this question...

Sincerely, if I was a Dem executive and had an idea this was going to happen, I’d deploy armed officers to bar any intruders from the citizenship ceremony until it was complete. A sacred space and a sacred obligation, and letting fascist goons pick people off at the front door is an abomination

Just say you're a Republican Jake, this is getting old.

Many things are true at once 1. DSA is internally toxic and has bad shit in its platform 2. PSL and Code Pink are literal traitors 3. There’s a serious risk that we’ll enter a stupid and unjust war and large lib orgs like No Kings should use their reach to organize protests of normal people

They see Kamala’s campaign as *peak woke* and it’s almost entirely because of her race

It just really sucks. You have one bunch of people complaining she was too woke just for existing, and another complaining that she did nothing but brag about her big gun plus apparently Liz Cheney ran her whole campaign. Can't win.

I revile PSL and all they stand for but a gun on the line is a gun on the line

The scale of the terror going on in Sudan right now has completely broken my ability to comprehend it tbh

I'm hungry now

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

This isn't even a new idea. The Holocaust wasn't the only plan on the table for the Nazis. "Deporting" the Jews to Madagascar was very much considered. It just wasn't feasible after the war began. Israel isn't Madagascar, but it might as well be for these people.

“we love the Jews, but they should be counting my money in tella-eve instead of manipulating us with these hordes of criminal invaders” has been the conservative point for a bit now

Is it just me or are they talking about Jews.

So you gonna drop your lawsuit against us right, Pam?

In an even semi open society a tragedy like the one in Hong Kong should bring down the municipal government