It's depressing to know that the best years of your life were likely in the 2010s and we'll all be looking back in a decade or two wondering how this country could be so stupid to throw it all away. We can't say they weren't warned because they were. Unfortunately, people only learn from disaster.

So realistically, we're just going to have to deal with Republicans having substantial structural advantages for decades while we watch everything around us degrade and crumble. Living standards, cost of living, education, healthcare, the environment, etc. will all just get immeasurably worse.

People point to Hungary but it took 15 years to get Orban out and that's after he destroyed the country and made it the poorest in the EU with a massive brain drain. Unfortunately, that's the only way out. Republicans have to fuck up so badly that the voters finally say enough, and even then...

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

Thank you, @esqueer.net for putting this into words.

TODAY: @tomtomorrow.bsky.social with a personal history of MAD magazine and a youth spent “reading back issues and plugging nickels into a mid-1970s photocopier to make poor-quality, barely-legible Xerox copies of my favorite pieces.” flaminghydra.com/r/1eaa49bd?m...

Actually, it fool’s gold.

Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, just reported its 2026 Q1 results. It lost $405 MILLION on $900,000 in revenue.

some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

LOUD AND CLEAR!!!! #Epstein #TrumpFiles #EpsteinFiles

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Some people have a breakdown and go to Paris or buy a sports car. I eat bread.

CBS "News" to Cut Ties With ‘60 Minutes’ Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi After She Outed Meddling By Right-Wing Hack Bari Weiss sg.news.yahoo.com/cbs-news-cut...

My mind boggles at the people who are still saying, "But, but, the rules say...but but but...the process is..." Listen, Republicans don't care. They make shit up, bend the rules, ignore them, change them at will. Democrats have the majority in VA. Use your powers, be creative, & implement the map.

Greg Palast wrote about sneaky GOP voter suppression techniques that occurred in the swing states, tactics that helped Trump win the 2024 election. also-"voting machines are easy to hack." Musk

Let’s keep posting & reposting. Remember Virginia. She and the other victims/survivors matter. They deserve justice. The guilty will go straight to hell. On earth or eventually. No escape. #Pinks #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

ok but we’ve learned laws don’t really matter anymore, the governor should just act and sign the new seats into law just like texas and florida. fuck it

I wanna be as useless as the Door Close button in an elevator

Zelensky has issued a presidential decree “allowing” Russia to hold its annual Victory Day parade in Moscow. The decree provides exact coordinates of the Red Square that shall be excluded from the list of Ukrainian strike targets. Phenomenal power play.

TELEVISE IT

US House Democrats will hold public hearing on Epstein files controversy, with testimony from Epstein survivors, on Tuesday in Palm Beach, Florida

One way that grifting has become deeply embedded in the culture: the major social media platforms' bottom line heavily relies on permitting fraudulent scammy ads that a local newspaper would be ashamed to carry.

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

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Those people? Children, retirees, and veterans are going hungry. Not enough money to help you or your families as costs go up, but just enough for Trump’s golden ballroom.

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week, Illinois. It's an opportunity for all of us to admire the talent and creativity that our teachers bring to their classrooms — you are the heart and soul of our communities. To all of our teachers, thank you for believing in our children.

Yet democracies are sustained when ordinary people continue to speak, listen, question, repair, vote, protect one another, and imagine something better together. Beautiful things do not emerge because chaos disappears. They emerge because people refuse to abandon one another within it. #proudblue

these knuckleheads will publish an entire opinion with a *howling* scientific error (because none of them nor their clerks know the first fucking thing about chemistry) and they just get to issue a correction www.eenews.net/articles/pos...

funny who gets their shit thrown out because of technical screwups and who does not!

Today is Military Spouses Day & I want to express how grateful I am to our military spouses for their sacrifices. Congress must do more than extend its gratitude; that’s why, from housing to affordable child care, I'm fighting to give military families the support they deserve.

It’s an never ending sludge of Leonard Leo infection. Today’s edition www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/05/08/r...

Sen. Mark Warner: "Democrats will still show up this November, we will still compete everywhere, and when the votes are counted, Virginians will send a strong message about the kind of leadership they want.” bluevirginia.us/2026/05/brea...

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“Jimmy Neutron” 💀 I want to bottle this rage and hand it out to every American voter this November. Memphis:

She's a Republican. Pornography and perversion is just another Friday for them.

I don't live in a pornhub world. These ppl are nuts.

Feels like US taxpayers should be a lot saltier about all the kleptocracy

Why are they all so fucking WEIRD 🥴

I always knew PornHub was wholesome good family stuff.

Check the Duffy's hard drives.

Air traffic Control is in crisis, planes are crashing, TSA lines are around the block, airlines are going out of business. And this fox news bozo went on a seven month-road trip while we were paying him to be transportation secretary? Do I have this right?

I’ll vote for whichever 2028 candidate promises reconstruction 2.0 at this point

Patricia Bath helped restore sight to people around the world. She invented the Laserphaco Probe, a device that improved cataract surgery, and became the first Black woman doctor to receive a medical patent. She gave people the chance to see the world again. #SheShed

Its either an end to Trumps Presidency or an end to the United States economically - www.youtube.com/shorts/2gTel...

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Patel: the story is not true and also we need to polygraph the people who leaked the story