Crushing victory by Dems!

Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.

I have been hearing that “legalize a ton of housing and wait 5 years” isn’t a solution to the housing crisis for 10 years at this point

this is catastrophically untrue, and the fact that it's even come close to picking up currency on the left is a complete disaster for leftist governance. if you expropriated the entire wealth of every billionaire in the country, you could pay for the federal government for one year. that's it.

you do not tax billionaires to fund universal healthcare. you, yes you the person reading this, and everyone you know, pay more in taxes to fund universal healthcare. you tax billionaires to take away a gun that Elon Musk is pointing at your head.

any Democrat who is too much of a coward to stand up to War on Terror era hysteria should be driven from office. copperheads out!

People keep saying gutting the VRA and Trump were reactions to the first black President being elected but this is all shit that conservatives have been obsessed with doing ever since the VRA originally passed, along with dismantling the Great Society and the New Deal.

"That's anti-white" "This is the logical conclusion of generic primary/Sunday school lessons going back to the 1970s" "Woke Marxism." Also a *lot* of nonsense that seems tied into living in a pre-Hart-Cellar world.

Yeah, so much of the tension is just "why aren't we living up to what we said we believed in?" Because some folks thought it was a lip-service detente. But the young never signed onto that.

. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."

Maybe can live in a society that collectively funds public goods that we all benefit from rather than giving up on governance and joining a tax cut bidding war that we'll inevitably lose to shameless republicans...

It's such a breath of fresh air to see @aoc.bsky.social stand against gutting our tax base.

The Virginia state govt losing most of its electoral support and getting six months of bad press and constant attacks in order to scrape out four new districts while Florida does it overnight with no discussion or controversy is going to be the story of the next few years of post-VRA gerrymandering.

the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country

the u.s. is shooting itself in the foot with a tactical nuke american universities are *so* good and it's a virtuous cycle: smart and ambitious people attend, elevating the whole enterprise. if we alienate the world, it becomes a vicious cycle headed in the opposite direction

States are co-sovereign so CA must accept unequal representation in DC because it’s very important to Respect State Sovereignty, we are A Union Of States, also if CA tries to regulate the meat sold in CA markets to Californians only, fuck you, let us torture the pigs we sell to you

yeah, a liberal organization claiming that they must cancel solar fields due to “banks” and “profits” is symptomatic of one without any sense of reality or values. like a syphilis infected brain manifesting in the person’s gait

The role "the Epstein files" have played on the public consciousness is to transform sexual abuse from a societal problem that we all have to collectively grapple with to a baroque conspiracy committed by faraway, unrelatable villains that you get to righteously fantasize violence against.

Still technically accurate!

I am not worried about Trump actually convicting Comey, or building any kind of functional machine to stifle criticism or steal the midterms, but he has completely vaporized the norms against this kind of selective prosecution and thuggish intimidation, and there just isn't any way to rebuild those.

Yes, this argument drives me crazy - if you think Medicaid is corporate welfare, that would make Medicare for All the biggest corporate welfare program of them all. But neither would actually enable corporations to lower wages. Workers who are less desperate are able to hold out for higher wages.

If this happened under the Biden or Obama Administrations and it leaked that there was a White House connection it would have been a huge scandal, but because Trump boasts about doing it to openly punish his enemies it raises new questions about the muscular assertion of presidential power.

I mean this is the problem: Americans believe our immigration system is extremely liberal and *will not believe you* when you tell them it’s extremely draconian (and has been for decades). But yeah, if you can sell Americans on “Trump made our system evil and we should liberalize a bit” then sure.

I mean really what can you say about the GOP energy policy except that it's a death cult It's not even a question of "if X is better versus Y" it's quite literally "after being thwarted at every other turn we will resort to using taxpayer money to bribe companies to do the Objectively Worse Thing"

the voters, in fact, did have a say in the gerrymandering in Florida: they voted for a Fair Districts amendment that would prohibit exactly this kind of map the Florida Supreme Court, however, has determined that this is irrelevant and the will of the voters should be explicitly ignored

The source of all this is Americans thinking single-family housing as the equilibrium market rather than a luxury good that's heavily subsidized from exogenous costs at the expense of every taxpayer.

we're not even pushing the downright punitive taxes yet and they're shitting their pants. these are modest revenue-raisers and they're losing their fucking minds! all the more reason to go whole hog and destroy these people who oppose even our most moderate plans

The lawless slaughter at sea continues. More than 6 months into this make believe armed conflict, the Trump admin still won’t disclose who these “Designated Terrorist Organizations” are. The armed conflict is fake, but the killing is real. There’s a word for premeditated killing outside of war.

It would be nice if an act of political violence could still result in simple, uncomplicated condemnation rather than happening with the elephant in the room that the sitting president of the United States has repeatedly and eagerly tried to get his political opponents murdered.

this is the worst thing the trump admin has done, and it's not very close. probably a million dead already; 14 million expected by 2030. it's a horrific genocide that has few (some, but few) parallels in history.

education polarization can only take you so far when phones keep enabling slightly more sophisticated conspiracies to hijack literate people's brains "airplanes make chem trails" doesn't work on college students but "data centers are using up all the water" apparently does

i worry for how long Democratic electeds can hold out before their staffer class gets infected or they succumb to the temptation and give in to Glonzo

the most powerful enemies of our free speech rights in our nation's history.

Rowling’s response here is also deeply revealing. Her friend has “female-coded energy” because she is “gentle and kind” and is more woman-like since she “was a gay man pre-transition.” Just an extremely stereotyped vision of gender for somebody allegedly very concerned with transing tomboys.

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

“If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.” ― Herbert McCabe, Faith Within Reason

"...the only God we know is the God of the poor, the God who takes sides in the struggle, and that any God of consensus who is supposed to belong to both sides is an illusion and a dangerous one. " Herbert McCabe, Holy Thursday: the mystery of unity

If you put me under a tornado warning I want to see pictures of a dang tornado.

I see that once again people are neglecting to mention that Mr. Yglesias has already addressed this issue explicitly, it's just that these particular students, unlike him, aren't important and don't matter.

An entire generation of pundits and contrarians made this their pet issue and now that it is happening at a level never seen before, it’s just:

Again, the effort to break every promise this country has ever made in the service of the most racist people you have ever met is extremely hard to take.

Trump was right derided for threatening to blow up Iran’s bridges and power plants. Putin has actually attacked literally every power plant in Ukraine Anglophone left why are you like this

The TrumpedDOJ claims donors who contributed to SPLC's successful effort to dismantle the KKK were defauded because SPLC used paid informants...to dismantle the KKK The transparent effort to weaken SPLC/intimidate other civil rights orgs should, and likely will, fail, as @lizdye.bsky.social explains

Trump also possesses a deep terror at the idea of death or infirmity and this causes him to disdain people who suffer them as losers and weaklings (because viewing them as fellows means he too could be subject to such things). He shared this with the RFK faction of his cabinet.

It’s really fucking bad how thoroughly the sense of impunity to any and all consequence is ingrained into the American elite.

"But all of these reforms require constitutional amendments..." This is nonsense, and I wish people would stop repeating it The Judiciary Act of 1789 wasn't a constitutional amendment. It was a statute enacted by Congress and signed by the President. It can be amended like any other statute

The numbers are appalling, but the NYPD's attitude -- at the individual and organizational level -- will not surprise anyone who has ever covered transportation in New York.

The thing about Camp of the Saints is that...when it was written, it wasn't some hazy prediction, the author said "This is happening RIGHT NOW!" and yet, FIFTY YEARS LATER, and society persists as a place where immigrants live side by side by people when they're not being brutalized by fascist thugs

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