If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.

Trump said Direct File was too expensive to operate. This feels like an indictment of our willingness to build things. Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, had *more lobbyists* than the Direct File team had employees. The cost of Direct File is a fraction of the tax breaks given to Intuit.

*Nkrumah laser eyes.jpg*

The AP, the NYT, and any other outlet that wishes can frame Trump's behavior in whatever way they like. It doesn't change the fact that he got his foot caught in a bear trap, is thrashing about exhausting himself, and is bleeding support by the day.

I am pretty sure that if a Democratic US President was in office, lashing out at the supreme pontiff, and blasphemously depicting himself as the savior, the headlines would describe this papal response as defending the church and not “hitting back.”

Juan Linz thought remains undefeated.

It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.

I don't know, guys. The president started a war with no plan and crashed the world economy, is building immense monuments to himself, is making billions off the presidency, and is now attacking the Pope while presenting himself as Jesus. Maybe the political class should abandon the inside voice.

So Trump's really done with his whole "trying to buy my way into heaven" gambit then.

"If I wasn't in the White House, Leo wouldn't be in the Vatican" I don't actually think these two events were connected, but if they were it's only because Leo was chosen *in opposition* to Trump - making this a hilarious, accidental (?) bit of self awareness.

2026 is starting to look very similar to 2006, when an unpopular war in the Middle East and a 2nd-term president with fading approval ratings helped Democrats win a surprising takeover of the Senate. W/quick look at key races: (GIFT LINK!) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A lot of left criticism of Biden on this website seems to elide that he had the narrowest legislative majority in history, with which he managed to confirm a record number of judges, do a massive fiscal stimulus, and get an $800b climate bill passed with a literal coal baron as the deciding vote

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

this is a boring take but if we want this from a Dem President in 2029 we need to deliver the type of huge legislative majority Magyar just achieved and not the razor-thin one that Biden was forced to work with.

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

biggest winners: hungarian people second biggest winners: anyone who wants the EU to actually work and become a balance/bulwark against the authoritarian international

ed blum is straight up just trying to eliminate educational opportunities for black kids under the guise of “equality.”

It's darkly funny that, already, there are people on Bluesky complaining about how Peter Magyar isn't Lenin reincarnated.

Send him to Moscow.

Been spending the week in the Berkeley/SF area (first time) and I'm walking away absolutely charmed by how kind and nice people are here. That said, as someone who's gotten used to the pace of NY/Boston foot traffic, I'm not built for the slowness of Berkeley sidewalks.

Imagine how they'd have covered VP Harris if she'd failed on not one, but two, major assignments from the Biden admin *in the same week*

maybe the one solitary piece of bipartisanship I can get behind right now, none of these folks should be in office

Orban eating shit would be incredibly good news. That was the Epstein/Bannon/OG alt-right pet project for years and their model for how they want to gain permanent power. If they flip every lever there and still lose, there's real hope.

One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.

I think this is at least partially responsible for the cavalier way politicians are responding to the crisis we're living through. They think it'll pass and when it's their turn to govern they'll still be governing America as they understand it. They probably won't

Molly Shah and Joe Rogan are the same person, running the same grift.

one reason you dont elect racists is they think “it will be so easy” to win a war in the middle east based on nothing more than what they believe is their superior dna

At Thanksgiving in 2024 everybody in my liberal, Harris-voting extended family agreed that the restaurant we were at having trouble finding service workers was proof that young people were lazy and the economy was a disaster and that's when I decided we were basically all doomed.

they like Trump and they want to help him. This is why 3% unemployment under Biden was presented in headlines as a failure and rising unemployment under Trump gets "the plan is working" headlines.

call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism

No one who tries to have a sexual or romantic relationship with their subordinates should be in a position of power. Full stop. Even under the most charitable circumstances of consent and mutual adoration, an elected official should resign before dating.

I am convinced people do not know the plot of the movie black panther.

The whole thread gets at the core highlights, but you could say even more. It’s remarkable all he doesn’t find important to say in this season of life and that’s not because death offers him a wiser perspective, it’s because death offers him an escape from reckoning with his true legacy.

Ben Sasse is at least providing us with more proof of something I’ve always suspected was true: unfortunately, many people do *not* in fact find more wisdom and introspection when their time of dying draws near.

Nothing demonstrates the rotted mentality of even self-proclaimed conservative “intellectuals” like the fact that Sasse is on his deathbed and he and Douthat still seem to think the #1 issue facing America is “liberal arts professors who don’t vote the way I want them to vote.”

a spacecraft landing is literally like ALL THE SCIENCES AT ONCE textile strength is important and wind and water are important and what kind of metal they used on the outside and the trajectory of re-entry and the distribution of weight and mass inside the thing and atmospheric conditions and

I hope liberal and left-wing Americans defeat Trump and all he stands for, but if they want to put America's relationship with the world on a more sustainably realistic basis they need to stop viewing every geopolitical crisis or conflict as a mere externalisation of domestic American culture wars

Sometimes you think “damn maybe every man would do sex crimes if given enough power” but I think it’s more that men who want power are often the type of men who do sex crimes

Just saw the dumbest thing I've seen in a *long* while: a cybertruck with a bike rack and bike on it. If it's a truck, what does it need a goddamned bike rack for? Lunacy.

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

Heads up for people who know other politicians with "open secrets." You may not be able to break the story about their misdeeds, but you can *certainly* communicate reticence about them and not help bury the story through your inaction. In fact, you should. Not doing so is a moral failure.

There's always some dude who is like "Well, the right got Kavanaugh so why can't we have--" BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT OUR OWN FUCKING KAVANAUGH, ZERO KAVANAUGHS IS ENOUGH KAVANAUGHS.

are people generally aware that the artemis program has been very deliberately designed to create a sustainable human presence in deep space

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

romans would have loved Microsoft office more than their children

BREAKING WSJ: Trump has repeatedly promised his top administration officials pardons before he leaves office, according to people who have heard his comments. "I'll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval," Trump said in a recent meeting. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

messaging gold for Dems right here. $17 billion here, $17 billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

there really isn't much to the American ideology that refers to itself as "conservatism" beyond rejection of the New Deal reforms of the 1930s and the civil-rights reforms of the 1960s