In older times people had sufficient dignity to open their own stomachs when they were such catastrophic failures.

Not the point of your comment, but this is oddly inspiring to me as a “content creator” who gets worried that “someone has said this thing before so it’s not unique” Doesn’t have to be unique Get it in the training data Ty

if you have no trust in our ability to effectively allocate shared resources, you’re not a progressive, you’re a libertarian who hasn’t realized it yet

Assuming IRCP theory holds, the rise of the internet, and the resulting explosion of porn availability, probably also explains the *timing* of modern right wing politics going so far off the rails.

jesus fucking christ lmao

this is happening

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

Government-funded Nazi paramilitaries is precisely what the regime wants and why the White House is pushing for this so hard. They’re the brownshirts that can work with ICE acting as the SS.

its funny both left wing reporters like chad loder and far right terrorists like tarrio agree that the slush fund is designed to buy arms for right wing terror orgs. the media is still framing the objections as "rewarding people who assaulted our beloved cops." like its actually much worse!

now that is an incredible quote "The U.S. has depleted much of its inventory of advanced missile-defense interceptors after expending far more high-end munitions defending Israel than Israeli forces used themselves"

Making a slogan poster of “restore trust, punish villains”

If you have any sort of politics besides fascism or anarchism, this is Very Bad

Russia hacked into real users’ Bluesky accounts to post fake content, the social media platform said.

Oh God no, never. Because importantly, when they talk, they talk to their shareholders not the public, and shareholders HATE costs going up, so they'll be quiet as the grave about stuff like that. It's the inverse of bragging about how many people "AI" lets them lay off

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

Not only is Trump the most corrupt president in U.S. history, you could make a persuasive case that about a dozen things he has done this term would earn him that title even if he’d done nothing else. And we’ve learned about two of those things just in the past week.

Raising taxes to pay for expanded and improved government services is literally the opposite of austerity politics. Anti-tax leftism has got to be strangled in the crib before it destroys what scant hope we have of ever implementing a social democratic system in America.

San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city. This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...

This is how you deal with trash

Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™

The first job of an American political party is to get pols elected & reelected. This goes deeper than the Senate, it's an open attack on the Republican Party by its chief. If a former Senate Whip isn't safe voting with Trump >99% of the time, they're all in danger, in a way they can actually parse.

The anticipation is delicious

exactly one Jan 6th protestor received proportionate punishment and she received it on Jan 6th

Donald Trump sure signed off on a pretty sweet deal for Donald Trump

I want Democrats who are ruthless and whose life mission is to destroy Republicans. I want a Project 2029 that seeks justice and repair, yes, but one with a deeply ideological mission hellbent on locking these people up and using the newfound executive power to go full throttle on our enemies.

All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days

see this is one of those things where I have actually changed my mind after the last decade. no more ethnostates. for anyone.

Voters as far as I can tell worldwide cannot process elections as about choices made for the future but only as referenda on the present or past. It is perhaps the number 1 most damning feature of democracies and a genuine strength for autocracies

minnesota gov. tim walz has signed a bill banning prediction markes (kalshi, polymarket). first state-level ban of its kind. (sports betting via traditional/mobile sports books is still illegal here too)

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

Wikipedia is what the internet could have been, now it's a lone beacon in the wasteland.

American science right now is basically 10,000 of these stories, all with their own heartbreaking specificity Lost careers, lost progress, lost discoveries I feel so sad every day for all we’ve lost and continue to lose 💔

kilmar abrego garcia's lawyers should publicly demand a chunk of this money, i'm dead serious

"INTOLERABLE" is the right word

I don't think this is negotiable and people need to come out and say it this is maybe most corrupt action ever taken by a united states president, it is an egregious crime against this country, and nobody involved should walk away unscathed

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Justice department didn’t settle *shit*. This case can’t be settled because the plaintiff and defendant are the same fucking guy. It’s just Trump in his professional capacity directing funds for Trump to use in his personal capacity.

I don’t think a functioning court system should recognize pardons in this specific offense, where everyone involved was necessarily colluding with the president

They just straight up dont want to do news bc its more work than being stenographers for a guy they are largely still huge fans of

there’s a huge number of votes to be won by basically doing radio rwanda against the tech industry and politicians are going to figure that out

imo white collar crime in general deserves extremely harsh punishment. other crime, no, we know that stuff doesn't work anyway, but getting popped for public corruption (which this is) or financial crime SHOULD ruin your life.

The two types of anime fan are “As a rightist, I adore Gayqueer McTransmarx, a character I believe embodies conservative values,“ and “As a leftist, I’m a big fan of Hitlerhito Tokyonazi’s ’Manchuria Deserved It’ franchise.”

As far as I can tell, the root of a lot of this is tech CEOs being radicalized by the experience of the late-2010s where their workers had substantial bargaining power and used it to try to bend their workplaces to be more inclusive and less hierarchical - and the CEOs have never forgiven them.

Oh, I agree. It is coming, I think, out of an emotional response where they feel like they've tried everything else. Elon Musk tried being a pro-environment democrat and it didn't make people worship him. He tried buying the public square and still, not enough people worshiped him.

And it drives the progressively more crazy because society refuses to bow to their vision and the obvious conclusion - they aren't owed worship and deference - is unacceptable. So they reach for ever more insane things. They tried putting an absolute madman in charge, so what is left?

unfurling a "white replacement" banner should get you permabanned from MLB stadiums

Cassidy will have indirectly killed several magnitudes more of people because of his Senate votes than the people he helped as a physician