none of them ain't ever gonna admit they were wrong; the thing is, we don't need them too, but we do need the discourse gatekeepers to slam the door on them - instead they continue to get columns, major media bookings (often from each other), and there ain't no end in sight to that.

All the "free speech" folks from the last fifteen years have taken the position: "This is bad, but it's the fault of the left for going too far."

it's not immediately visible in the US unless you are in DC, where practically everybody is—at maximum—one degree of separation away from someone who got DOGEd

A path to citizenship not only polls higher than any Trump policy, it’s a moral call to action. Against corruption, exploitation & division. We not only need a path to citizenship for our neighbors who build our community, we need one for the polluters & billionaire data barons who’ve plundered us.

Also, even if that were true, that’s fucking monstrous? Are we not supposed to care when people who have other health problems die?

It makes you think! bsky.app/profile/brad...

The fact that Trump had appointed a totally unqualified donor to be Secretary of the Navy leading into what turned into the biggest crisis for the US Navy since World War 2 could be covered like the media covered Michael "Brownie" Brown during Hurricane Katrina. They choose not to do this!

According to the WSJ, Hegseth abruptly fired the Navy Secretary in the middle of a crucial wartime naval blockade because he was jelly of his closeness with Trump. These are the dumbest, most embarrassing, childish nitwits alive - and they are in charge of the world's most monumental military might.

There is a necessary cultural project we must undertake that will have to extend after all of us (except me) are dead and it will be the reconstruction and reinforcement of the social contract as a duty each and every person is born into. Nothing we do to save our nation will matter otherwise.

I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society. You do not want to live in that kind of society.

Ok, so "At least the last guy only pushed the "Golden Fleet" to flatter Trump, the new guy believes in witchcraft" is a sentence one could write about Navy Secretaries in 2026. Is the idea to wave a magic wand to open the Strait of Hormuz?

The more I think about this war, the more angry and exasperated I get, until I just sputter for minutes on end.

I will say, this war has really exposed a failure among both political and senior military leadership to identify where military power comes from. 'We destroyed their air force and navy' - who cares!? That's not where Iran derives its military power from and hasn't been for a while!

This is what I expected from the coverage but the full podcast is much more sinister, they are disappointed because Trump has been insufficiently fascistic. They wish that instead of invading iran hed focus on crushing liberalism. bsky.app/profile/thep...

Take it from those of us who’ve learned from hard personal experience, twisting into knots to predict what will appease (or distract or deter) doesn’t work. You only end up at the mercy of the dominator—who WILL keep grinding you into dust

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

Just watched "No Other Choice" and holy shit - why can't America make movies about class in the same way South Korea does? Like the two best movies about class in the last decade have been from South Korea.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

it's also remarkable that *no one else in the gop was willing to explain this to him.* Greg Abbott was in a solid position to tell Trump, "this is probably going to backfire; maybe reconsider." Abbott has his own power base, and still looks like a solid lock for governor. but nope, wouldn't do it

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

It’s good that MAGA is fracturing. But for the love of god do not embrace this piece that’s breaking off. Do not hand it to them. Do not share their statements.

uh oh there’s a whole store that only sells stuff that will make birds come over to your house and the people at the bird feeder store are very friendly, i think the birds are paying them off

if this wasn't (1) deeply disingenuous and (2) animated by the sense that jews have too much control over the world, i'd be less inclined to say get fucked

Every pro-SCOTUS argument directly ignores the public actions and words of the conservative wing as they gleefully set fire to the 20th century

Trump pressured Republican states to rig their electoral maps, because he saw a midterm disaster coming for his party. He knows they will lose big without rigged districts. Virginia can level the playing field and stop his newest scam tomorrow by voting YES for fair election maps. #VoteYesVirginia

Yeah North Carolina has a 10-4 R-D split on a 50-50 population, and they literally redrew the maps LAST year to boost that to 11-3, to pretend that didn't happen is just lying

If you go back and watch a movie like All the Presidents's Men, it will really hit you how massively our country has changed in my lifetime. It was unthinkable for any of today's headlines to ever even exist back then. A lot of you think it's always been this bad, but it hasn't. It really hasn't.

A more correct way to write this is: "Republicans, who famously love gerrymandering in every other case, are flooding Democratic and Black voters' phones and mailboxes with ratfucking mailers and texts falsely claiming that Obama, Spanberger, and the DNC are against the ballot measure."

The press is intent on whitewashing Republican agency out of everything.

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

It’s important to remember that these people, though dangerous, are also stupider than dirt

We all in CA need to call our assembly members and state senators and get rid of the jungle primary as soon as possible. Ranked choice voting now.

Happily Congress is not bound by SCOTUS’ understanding of “bribery” on which nothing qualifies unless you’re caught on video accepting a giant sack covered in dollar signs while hollering “THANK YOU FOR THIS CORRUPT QUID PRO QUO, I AM CURRENTLY DOING A CRIME”

to get to the reince priebus level, fox mccloud has to solve a series of puzzles (his name is an anagram for i.e., prince rebus) & when you think you’ve won, it’s the keir starmer second stage. if you use your trans party member, he gets a +60 buff when he attacks with his eerily rectangular head.

Keir Starmer is not a real person’s name. Keir Starmer is the name of an alien invader who, along with Reince Priebus, constantly gets his ship shot down by Slippy Toad, Fox McCloud & Falco Lombardi.

The common through line through American chattel slavery through the Nazis to the IDF is how horrible we can become when we exist in systems that teach us that some people aren't people or are lesser and that absolves us of guilt for any cruelty and wickedness directed at them.

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

Unfortunately, this is one of those issues where I think every single liberal on Bsky is in agreement but if you try and talk to the people who will actually run or staff the next Democratic Administration they will just hear WAH WAH WAH WAH like you're an adult on The Peanuts. Total conceptual gap.

It's like what says @diplomatofnight.com regarding Democrats and Israel, the reason they're willing to spit in our face and assume there won't be any consequences is because there is a long track record of them doing exactly that. If we want that to change, we're going to have to actually change it.