You cannot simultaneously believe: A. Israel is so powerful that it can force the US government to wage war in Iran against our will. B. Joe Biden had sufficient US power to restrain Israel from committing genocide in Gaza, power which he chose not to exercise.

you really get the sense on bluesky dot app that some users really do just want to say slurs, but leftishly

you know what? If you come on here and you say, "There is no use in voting. We're never getting out of this by voting," you're going to get pushback. And you should. If you have suggestions, fine. Make them, but right now, we are actually flipping districts that haven't been Democratic for 40 yrs

A lot of people epically failed to accept the basic reality that the 2024 election was an election with huge moral stakes and a clear right and wrong answer (for a wide range of reasons). They now are twisting themselves into knots to protect themselves from accepting that moral failing.

Their leftist friends told them she would. Social media told them she would. That cool streamer told them she would. Columnists for prominent magazines told them she would. And why would they *all* lie? It's not like they all had their own reasons to ratfuck Dems and see Trump win!

JFC i'm talking to some people who are like, "i don't know man, i'm not convinced kamala wouldn't be bombing iran, too." are you some kind of asshole?

the ratfucking campaign against Jamelle Bouie is racist and undignified, and there's no basis for accusing him of transphobia.

Bernie & Trump have the same vetting process, which is: "Have you said nice things about me? Yes, then you have my full endorsement."

The horror of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza has enabled me to convince many of my Boomer Jewish relatives to be more critical of Israel, and not to reflexively assume pro-Palestine activism is antisemitic. If Platner becomes the leading anti-Israel voice in the Senate, that work disappears overnight.

tbh, I think a credible, high profile case of the American left successfully policing antisemitism would ultimately do Palestine more good politically than one dipshit oysterman.

The Platner pattern of getting caught doing something Nazi-adjacent, huffily disavowing it and then doing another wink-wink nudge-nudge signal to the extreme right is pretty much the Trump 2016 playbook

Growing antisemitism feels like a cultural symptom of the decline of democratic institutions. Just massive blaring alarm bells that things are awry.

Before you cape...we are years away from the presidential election and still 8 months away from the Maine senate election.

So-there's going to be a "a report, in writing, setting forth the circumstances necessitating the introduction of US Armed Forces, the constitutional & legislative authority under which such introduction took place; and the estimated scope and duration of the hostilities" w/n 48 hours. Right? RIGHT?

if i felt trump were getting away with pretending to be anti-war i would try & alert people to that not attack democrats in a way that validates it

A lot of people whose position used to be “Democrats should force a vote to get Republicans in the record supporting the unpopular thing” have now decided that, alas, this too is the Wrong Rock.

Hell yeah

I'm going to go one step further. You don't even have to say she would have been worse. If you say, with a straight face, that Hilary, or Biden or any other Democrat would be the SAME as Trump then you can go to hell.

this seems like a good day to reiterate that if you are the sort of brokebrain to say this in your weird little oppositional-defiance childishness--let alone to believe it--you should never interact with me again

the former host of celebrity apprentice and the former host of fox & friends weekend are launching bombs and destabilizing the world for generations all because voters decided their biggest issue was a trans kid playing jv tennis with their friends 4 states over

Gonna re-up this for the people on this cursed website that see Trump doing a unilateral attack on Iran without congressional authorization as an opportunity to immediately attack democrats.

Our foolproof plan of electing a big dumb criminal has hit a bit of a snag.

Do we have a Constitution anymore, or is it just optional? Because if it’s the second thing it opens up a lot of options about what to do with these guys

I think I can safely say that my support of trans rights is pretty fucking clear from my posting, and yet I'm on a good dozen or more so clearsky lists as a transphobe for arguing with dumbasses about issues that have nothing to do with trans rights.

This may be controversial, but I don’t think President Kamala Harris would be sending us to war with Iran this weekend.

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If you wanna see deranged replies and quotes today, watch this skeet. I'm actually more worried about the mental state of the American electorate than I am about Joe Biden's mental health.

She Got Game weekend. July 16-19. Viva Las Vegas.

Just a hunch, but I suspect many of the same people who found the covid chaos under Trump a ripe opportunity to steal big from the government are using the general chaos now to steal even bigger. But we're on ballooning deficit holiday due to there not being a Democrat in the White House.

every person who dedicated their time and energy to bring us from point A to point B here has blood on their hands that will never wash off they’re the ones who should be exiled from society instead of trans people

So, the Trump DOJ failed to release files concerning an Epstein accuser with claims involving Trump... but did manage to accidentally reveal that the files existed? Americans are fed up with this administration’s mix of incompetence and corruption. Time to come clean.

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

After last night's State of the Swamp event, headed to Old Ebbitt for a nightcap with film legend, democracy warrior, and my friend Robert De Niro (photo by one of my absolute favorite people, Lewis Friedman).

fuck these people trans rights are human rights

Fact: In a one hour and 47 minute speech, the President only spent 2.9 minutes on affordability and 3.8 minutes on health care.

Abigail Spanberger being a more unapologetic liberal as governor of Virginia is a sign of what happens when Democrats have a bigger majority in their state legislatures. We saw the same thing when Tim Walz went from being a Blue Dog pro-gun Democrat to being a progressive as governor.

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gotta say i don't love that elon made a cult of personality out of how much he showboats and now every other guy who has successfully exited a startup feels the need to pollute the ecosystem with their gpt-tier motivational trash because they think it'll make them him

Robert De Niro on Donald Trump: “He’s an idiot. We’ve gotta get rid of him. He’s gonna ruin the country. Everything this country has worked for, represents, he is ruining it. I want my country back. There are more of us... #BlueCrew

Allowing the least cool people in America to think they matter to real culture is one of the biggest reasons you can't trust the media. Bill Maher is pitching to like 8 people but the execs who make shows agree with him so he gets a show. Epstein Class shit.

Pritzker demands a $1,700 refund per family for the people of Illinois after Trump's tariffs were ruled unconstitutional. Dems, pay attention. This is your midterms message.

Alysa Liu, daughter of a Chinese refugee and pro-democracy activist, brings glory to the USA. 🇺🇸 🥇

I was told over and over Joe Biden was in "late stage dementia" (you know when you can't talk and forget how to eat) and other variations on that, any ways here he is out and about interacting with random members of the public over a year after his Presidency

I also think it’s a bummer Trump didn’t get imprisoned for J6 but I think it’s sort of important to remember he was in fact prosecuted for that and likely would have been convicted by a jury, except John Roberts and the other Republican justices bailed him out

Megan Keller broke their ankles and ripped their hearts out so it's pretty nice that they can go to the doctor for free

Baseball media may be dead and buried in five years, but even so I will still have gotten the chance to ask a legendary Japanese slugger a question that prompted him to reply in English: "Fucking shit." soxmachine.com/2026/02/mune...

The power of the people is so much stronger than the people in power.

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I see they settled on a framing in the donor group chat

I am not v interested in continuing the “the Democrats will betray us on #$ISSUE the moment they get into power” B/S because a. There’s no way to falsify it and b. It’s fundamentally rooted in a nihilistic doomerism that nobody believes anything, we’re all gonna get betrayed, nothing matters anyways