The fact that there aren’t daily riots over gas prices, unaffordable housing, and the cost-of-living crisis kind of puts to bed whatever remained of the “rugged, rebellious, don’t-take-shit-from-anyone” American identity. If that ever really existed in the first place.

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america should iterate toward a system that can eject presidents as speedily as the UK ejects prime ministers. each time they tossed one, it was the right choice!

it's fascinating that in the midst of a historically unpopular presidency driven almost entirely by voluntary choices made by a rapidly declining president with an adversarial relationship with the press, we see a complete dearth of "gop needs to change course" thinkpieces and coverage

I am not an advocate for violence--normally. But CEOs thinking they can slap their employees is a sure sign that people aren't being punched in the face enough.

"[T]he team's supervisor [..] orders the agents to stop following." "A few minutes after the orders to terminate, the agent's SUV strikes a curb, blowing the front left tire." "Nunez accelerates on the flat tire, crashing into the [..] red Explorer." #Illinois #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

The thing about AI becoming a pervasive presence everywhere, and I’m really hoping it doesn’t, is that everyone seems to assume that all the people and all the businesses will all have access to top-tier products. And absolutely nothing about the digital age has shown that’s how it’ll go.

The fact that the same people doing this also oppose minimum wage increases reveals their preference for maintaining a permanent underclass.

Corruption should and likely will be a massive campaign theme for Democrats and these quotes should figure prominently.

This story is simultaneously heartbreaking & enraging. When we say that Americans don't believe you when you tell them what Republicans actually want, vote for, & enact into law when you give them power, this is what we mean. Trump's bill impoverishes disabled children to fund billionaire tax cuts.

"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars

They should do it anyway if they have the votes since we don’t have a single fucking law right now.

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The President is telling the IRS to give him $10 billion rn

What radicalized me? You asking me for money when I don't even have Healthcare.

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Gerontocracy is fine. Nothing to see here.

Enten: "We're talking about a record. President Trump -- 79% of Americans disapprove of him on gas prices. This is a record high in terms of looking back at every single president this century. It's scary if you're a Republican looking at these numbers."

Personally, if I were filing a lawsuit to stop South Carolina Republicans from breaking up the state's only majority-Black district under the guise of "partisan politics," I would put Rep. Ralph Norman's "this district is WAY too Black for Republicans to win!" quote in the very first paragraph

btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now

“Notify anyway” iMessage, what kind of monster do you think I am?

My daughter's pithy summation: "Covid reminded people they lived in a society; and they hated it."

This is such an important observation by @jamellebouie.net about how the GOP thinks/operates, and it's highly informed by decades of the religious right aiming to "transform" communities to (their) Christianity by imposing it. Crucial read more broadly, as per usual www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/o...

Say a prayer for the women married to the men who can’t stop talking about AI. (This story is spectacular and, speaking from personal experience with all due respect to my spouse, spot-on.)

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They say we can’t afford to feed everyone or house everyone or have free healthcare, but what we really can’t afford is having billionaires. When the company says it can’t afford to keep workers or pay taxes, what it really can’t afford is a CEO making millions a year. It’s never a lack of $.

"The event was so unserious that it could’ve been an SNL skit, and at the same time it epitomized the whole pathology of this administration—which, to be fair, certainly might be affecting people’s will to reproduce." And yes, it sounds like Gilead! By @lebassett.bsky.social:

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That’s the fighting spirit we need!

If not for America being bat**** racist and New Yorkers not trusting Republicans as far as they could throw them, Hakeem Jeffries would be a center-right Republican. Eric Adams would be a MAGA Republican.

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Our current Acting CDC Director said his entire plan for pandemic preparedness is to fire everyone responsible for it.

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About the best thing I can say about this is that those students are getting a hard lesson in 21st century America: you can prepare and work hard and good well, and a bunch of old bigots in authority will still knock you down and ruin your childhood because they’re stupid and cruel.

an incredible speech and crowd reaction that shows us the moment we're in

I admire the hell out of these Texas Tech students, who held a funeral for academic freedom: pen.org/texas-tech-a...

Feel like this is the bare minimum Democrats need to do to turn us back toward the ideal of America. Democracy.

“'I would think that maybe a woman might like a larger package down there,' one 55-year-old manager in Southern California, who is into scrotal expansion." Some men will do anything except actually listen to what a woman wants.

The clear answer is to fatally shoot myself in the chest so that not only is my injured friend now horribly alone, but he must kill me again when I inevitably come back as a zombie. I hope he feels like it was worth it to call me “Fatty Magoo” in front of the entire class in 4th grade.

When I said centrists Democrats were trying to pivot away from climate change due to big money interests a few months ago, a swam of Democrats including a Biden employee swarmed me to ridicule me. Now they're just saying it out loud 🤷🏽‍♀️

The decision marks a significant and terrifying moment in our democracy as the court allowed an election to be cancelled after its completion.

Florida just ignored its constitution to gerrymander. Ohio has repeatedly defied court rulings to gerrymander. The legal infirmity here, which is wholly invented, is also piddling next to those. Revise the statute and push the map approved by voters into force.

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

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