zohran mamdani announced a plan to seize properties from bad landlords and private equity if tenents suffer from neglect and i genuinely do not think i’ve seen rightwing circles this mad in reaction to anything i’ve ever seen before lol

One narrative democrats should push for the next decade, minimum, is that full Republican control of government turned America into “the plaything of billionaires.” This meant cuts to programs for regular people, billionaires allowed to run wild with pollution and tax evasion and protecting pedos.

There’s no fixing people who would vote for Ken Paxton. They’re beyond repair. We must focus on utterly defeating them to prevent them from destroying our country.

"Let’s say it plainly: There has never been a president as corrupt as Donald Trump. There is no close second in our history." Read more here: https://bit.ly/4tXXqeW #TrumpCrimeFamily

And then we have this www.ibtimes.co.uk/north-caroli...

From Mark Jacob. Those aren't scare quotes around moderate Nazis - from an actual NYT headline in 1935.

We are living in the most proximal prequel to Idiocracy.

I really thought he’d die a septuagenarian before this cringey birthday sideshow of his. A bug infestation is nice, but they need to come a little harder. Wasps, deer, and Lone Star ticks, fire ants, mosquitoes…

i think you have to understand an argument like the one in this book as fundamentally about stitching together an electoral coalition because as an analysis it falls painfully short, i.e. at what point in our history were americans ever united in “common purpose?” bsky.app/profile/chri...

Rahm nearly destroyed public education in Chicago. He has little credibility on any issue, but *especially* on anything related to education. Voters don't want what he is selling -- his "standards and accountability" approach was bad enough in K-12, it has no place in higher ed.

Abigail Spanberger vetoing a bill legalizing collective bargaining for state and local workers shows that she's fine with a government that offers worker benefits but not one that gives workers power, Harold Meyerson writes. prospect.org/2026/05/25/h...

rules out any 2028 bid. we can't afford someone too dim to realize they're deflating their own powerbase with this kind of crap

trump has exploited the glitch in the media of constantly reporting on "announcements" that arent announcements (coupled with the press' inherent bias in favor of gop framing)

I'm sick of hearing about this man as some moral leader for Democrats.

GOP has "abandoned the idea of crafting policy. They are a full-time media operation, trolling and creating content. The president is checked out. There is no turnaround coming as long as Trump/GOP are in power." On the pod, @dceiver.bsky.social nails the moment: newrepublic.com/article/2108...

As a Serious Objective Scholarly Person I want to disagree with this but I can't. Ten years into the Trump era & this is basically correct.

Who could’ve predicted Our media acts like all of this is normal because the people who own & run our media love Trump & think he should get to run the country forever

Delaney Hall must be shut down immediately. ICE cannot be allowed to continue operating in this way. 2/2

Some Memorial Day thoughts: According to the Congressional Research Service, in the post-WWII era, the US has sent armed forces abroad somewhere roughly around 350 times.

a disgrace not only to the office of the president but to military families who have lost loved ones

Centrist brain rot. I don't hate the White men he mentions (Ossoff, Talarico, Cooper- they're all preferable to Booker) but they do not represent "fresh" in any way.

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

In a functioning democracy, we could count on the government to give us something approximating the truth after a fatal shooting outside the White House. But in whatever transitional system we’re in now, we automatically assume the regime is lying to us.

From 2024:

This entire situation is nothing less than shocking. The academic dishonesty alone should disqualify everyone involved from any science-related position, permanently. I think it may actually be impossible for me to overstate how treacherous and dangerous this is.

The NY Times apparently thinks fairness in journalism means having no values at all. Trump assaults one of the key factors in America's rise to global leadership — immigration — and the best the Times can do is call it a “risky pivot.”

Billionaire Jeff Bezos said doubling his taxes wouldn’t help regular, working people. So we did the math, and the results are staggering.

lmao yeah if anyone thinks Harris lost because of tRaNs pRiSoNeRs and not because of ignoring voters on Gaza and multiple other issues, they actively want us to keep losing

We got a very welcome 0.82" of rain last night at our house in in Piedmont NC. Not nearly enough, however. Strikingly, that was the largest one day total since mid October, an almost unheard of drought in our time here. 1/2

And Trump’s reliance on idiot golfing buddies: During talks with Iran European officials were stunned to find themselves explaining basic uranium-enrichment concepts to the American team, Reuters reports.

The IRS has agreed to not audit Trump's taxes. In 2024, we found the IRS concluded in a long-running audit that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on a failed Chicago tower. That audit could have cost him more than $100 million. (From May 2024 w/ @nytimes.com)

AOC: I think it’s pretty unbelievable that Gaza would not be mentioned once in the autopsy report. I think it was very clearly a major dynamic and a major thread that was happening in 2024. The fact that it’s not even addressed, I think, is a major oversight.

The main process argument against the death penalty is that it’s irreversible in the case of wrongful conviction but the fact that executions can’t be carried out with 100% certainty is also a clear process argument that it is “cruel and unusual” punishment.

The "batteries are just as bad as fossil fuels" stuff is so fucking stupid, so easy to refute with just a minute or two of rational thought, so *obviously* a piece of propaganda, that I just have no sympathy at all for people who fall for it. Gonna block everyone who drags it into my feed.

"Democrats dislike a guy who killed people with a gun and like a guy who didn't, square that"

NPR: Swing voters in North Carolina say they are frustrated with President Trump and the state of the economy, but aren't ready to abandon him or his party as the midterms inch closer. If they always vote for Republicans, then they aren't swing voters Headlines like this, piss me off

The IRS leak that was the subject of Trump’s suit occurred in 2018-2020, when he was president. So, in effect, he was suing over what his own IRS did. Then he dropped the suit after he got his own Justice Department to give him a $1.8B slush fund to reward his thug army. What an outrageous scam.

After some early promising signs it looks like Spanberger is pivoting to shitty centrist

Liberal arts education profoundly changed my life.

Billionaire fascist enabler Jeff Bezos says Trump has been "more mature" during his second term. More mature. You can build a corporate juggernaut and make mountains of money and still be a pathetic fascist tool. History won't treat the tech capitulators kindly. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/b...

The deepest challenge to student learning is the transactional system of education they've been steeped in. Harvard's actions have just turbocharged this problem by making the desired outcome of the transaction scarcer. More stress, more dishonesty, more AI use, less collaboration. Good luck, fools!

I think Democrats like Cory Booker should take a hard look in the mirror and consider why Jeff Bezos loves their tax cut proposals so much. Billionaires would love to see a weak state with a gutted fiscal capacity.

The NY Times embarrasses itself with a story that says, in effect, "Until Todd Blanche approved Trump's $1.8B thug fund and his tax cheat immunity, we thought Blanche was a moderate." The story doesn't even mention Blanche's dirty dealing with Ghislaine Maxwell.

You know the U.S. is most of the way to a dictatorship right now, and heading further in that direction, right? Can you please let the mainstream media know about it? They seem to be actively trying to downplay the biggest story of their careers.

The media need to retire their lame descriptions of the many financial scams of the crook-in-chief. It’s not “a break from norms.” It’s not “highly unusual.” IT’S CORRUPT! My Stop the Presses newsletter.

"The media covering Trump should use the word 'corrupt' more often...it’s abundantly clear that a corrupt enterprise is operating out of WH. The media shouldn’t keep it a secret." I like this test from @markjacob.bsky.social: Will coverage convey full measure of his corruption to *casual* readers?

i think one of the best grifters has to be alyssa farah griffin, who went from posting birther stuff w her dad at world net daily, to trump white house staffer, to campaigning with harris and now co-hosting the view. excellent scam. and the liberals totally fell for it.

if we ever get a democratic president again and he or she says one fucking word about "turning the page" on this gop criminality i think ill riot.

Gross stuff from this woman

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3