The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

we did it! a perfectly structured democracy. it's got checks, it's got balances. this thing is made to last. there's only one weakness: bad guys. if somehow some bad guys who don't care about decorum got elected they could basically just tip the whole thing over. luckily such men are unelectable

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

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let's pretend, for the sake of a particularly stupid argument, that this is true and Trump ordered a military incursion to kidnap a foreign leader to distract from the Epstein files. So what? This is a monstrous, illegal act and divining his motives doesn't change anything.

One of the things about Zelenskyy being an actor is he knows how to say something without saying something.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

I’ve never seen the two of them together in the same room before. Just say’n.

big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

What exactly is the point of having a Congress if it’s going to be run by spineless sycophants whose only function is to let America’s most special little boy do whatever he wants.

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

If I was trying to paint my political opposition as murderers, I would simply not openly admit to breaking the "do not murder people" law.

Okay, but *why* would somebody have pretended to be donald trump and written a little play about trump and epstein being friends and then drawn a prepubescent girl on it and then signed it as donald trump and given it to jeffrey epstein twenty-two years ago

*pinches bridge of nose* Even if, somehow, this DoE statement were true (which it isn’t), it would STILL BE GOOD to use solar and wind energy for the goodly fraction of the time it’s sunny and/or windy. Jesus Christ.

The last 100 years of US politics

This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary

I’ve had nothing to do with that pedophile since he stole all of my teenage masseuses.

Anti porn feminists are just white supremacists with better branding

i wrote about what it feels like to live in the collapse of the american empire "a flake of shale in a great upheaval of the earth" buttondown.com/theswordandt...

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Fascist Dynamics: criminality is institutionalized

If I could afford to buy antidepressants I wouldn't need them in the first place

Earlier today I didn't even know NYC had ranked choice voting, and now this. More like this, please

The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.

** Evidence You Might Be In A Cult ** You follow one charismatic Leader. In your Leader’s mind, your Leader can do no wrong. In your mind, your Leader can do no wrong. Your Leader demonizes dissidents & outsiders. Loyalty's the ultimate measure of your devotion. You don't know you're in a Cult

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Did you know natural & artificial flavor can be the same chemicals? The label is based on the starting materials, not the final chemicals. EX: butter flavor is 2 main chemicals: 2,3-butanedione & 3-hydroxy-2-butanone. 1/

Hey just for the record, Free Palestine.

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

Don't be gaslit: They are Nazis. This is a Nazi salute. They are not hiding it, or dog whistling, they are announcing it. They have come out as Nazis. Show the people in your life these images all together. Make them understand this is not an accident, or a fluke. It is happening here.

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.