Incredibly important to remember: When politics is polarized and we keep hearing about how "we need to start talking to each other again"... If people aren't talking to each other, then they shouldn't be voting in accordance for what they think everyone else wants. Nor should they ever.

"Even as anxieties grow under Trump, these swing voters aren't ready to back Democrats." ... "Swing" voters? *Cough* Fuck you *cough*, swing voters. www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...

@ghostpanther.bsky.social we need a movie that focuses on low-info / low-propensity voters who are oblivious to Trump's corruption as it's happening, instead of in reflection, like with Vice and the Big Short And if I may suggest: the title of the movie should be "The problem is you're stupid."

Trump's MAGA primary victories aren't really an indictment on Republican voters, unless the people who voted for the Republican incumbents decide to cave and vote for the MAGA challengers. In a sane world, even when the MAGA challengers win the primaries, they'll get obliterated by Democrats.

"Trump thought he could Wing It at His Summit With China's President. Not Exactly!" "Winging it" sums up Trump. The people who credit this guy for "tapping into Americans' emotions" forget that he doesn't have the attention span to read his daily national security reports slate.com/news-and-pol...

Wow @colorado.gov , you just commuted the remainder of Tina Peters' sentence, and she turned it around and spit in your face. You gained absolutely nothing from your decision, except humiliation.

The mission should not be to make Republicans look like a disaster, it should be to improve the overall well-being of Americans everywhere. It's a mission that transcends politics. It is, however, okay to trounce on the party that wants to make people's lives worse for their own monetary benefit.

This is a friendly reminder that Bluesky has a block feature, and you don't need to reserve it explicitly for MAGA troll accounts. Blocking can also apply to people who try the "both sides" argument. In the here-and-now, Democrats are the good guys and Republicans are the bad guys. Full Stop.

Seems like Republicans really really really want a brawl in the streets.

Oh darn, you turned off the ability to respond.

"You can do so much more in 24 hours than you can do in 24 minutes." - Ted Turner I believe Ted Turner was coming from a good place, I believe he had the best intentions. But today, all CNN proves is that you can take the same morning headlines from the TODAY Show, and stretch it across 24 hours.

“I can finally sleep (...) For four years, I couldn’t sleep because I was so concerned about where we were going.” Beth... You've BEEN asleep. You're still asleep now. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

@pbsnews.org , why on Earth do you bring David Brooks onto the News Hour? 2.5x as many Progressives support political violence versus Conservatives? Fuck you, David Brooks. You've never been right about anything, and Republicans are the party of extremism, full stop.

Never ever assume that just because everything that's bad can be attributed to Republican, that Republicans would stay home or vote Democrat. They'll do neither. They'll continue voting Republican anyway. They'd vote Republican even if Republicans told them it'd get them killed.

I've noticed that political figures like Jeanine Pirro, who starts a sentence with the words "Make no mistake", are usually making mistakes all the time. "Make no mistake..." Sincerely, THE U.S. attorney with the record for most failed-attempts at a grand-jury indictment.

Per www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke... This part about Dan Scavino is just...wow...

@karlbode.com great interview on Tech Won't Save Us, that was a nice surprise to see while catching up on podcasts.

What kind of a headline is this? "Trump Administration Takes Steps to Refund $166 Billion in Tariffs"? They "took steps" because they were ordered to do so by the courts. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

Remember when AI generated image used to be called deep fake technology? "Deep fake" sounds so abrasive, but also much more honest. "AI generated image" is meant to provoke curiosity about how it can be used. "Deep fake" makes me want to ask "so, how does this technology serve the public good?"

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A good sign that institutional investors comprise too much of the investor community, is when markets rally just because Trump said his made-up war in Iran will end soon. If individual investors made up the majority, they would know not to trust Trump & stocks would continue (rightly) to plummet.

"(...) Democrats are desperate to show their voters that they are doing everything they can to get Trump out of office." No, Axios. Democrats are not trying to put on a display for their voters. They're desperate to remove Trump because he's unhinged and senile. www.axios.com/2026/04/08/t...

@driftglass.bsky.social, @bluegal.bsky.social, @proleftpodcast.bsky.social If I'm not mistaken, the Sarah Palin Floor has collapsed? www.umass.edu/news/article...

State control of big media is one of the first steps to total consolidation of power.

@driftglass.bsky.social, @bluegal.bsky.social and @proleftpodcast.bsky.social , I feel like you've touched on this on more than one occasion.

Gonna be a lot more poo-dollars out there now.

A (close) approximation of Donald Trump's negotiation tactics with Iran: - Trump is portrayed by George - Iran is portrayed by Susan's parents - the house in the Hamptons is Trump's negotiation tactics youtu.be/o2NQGzUJqjU?...

Interesting theory by @emilyhorne.bsky.social that the NBC News report about Trump getting his updates on the Iran War through a video montage might actually be a White House plant, with the goal being to get the public to view Trump as badly informed by the military, instead of being incompetent.

@todayshow.com , when you cover Trump's 15-point Peace Plan, you do a disservice to viewers when you only show the part where Trump says that "no nuclear weapons" is point #1, and then choose to omit the part right after, where he says it's also point #2 and #3. Viewers need to see this nonsense.

"He suggested that he would use the standoff over funding for the Department of Homeland Security as leverage to pass his voter ID bill" Yes, that's it. Keep making lines at airports get longer. THAT will make me look good so I can pass strict voter ID laws. Moron www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/u...

The last time MAGA regained a scintilla of moral high-ground was when people celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk. This post proves it was all faux-outrage. MAGA is in the final gasps of relevance, no one can look at MAGA now and argue that we need to understand their plight. It's all BS.

"Iran attacks wipe out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity for up to five years" Qatar gave Trump the $400M Jumbo Jet and was the likely place Trump would store his illegal gains. You have to wonder whether Qatar is now mulling whether to leave Trump high-and-dry. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

@toddzwillich.bsky.social I'm listening to 1A right now and to paraphrase your question "how can Congress do nothing to rein in Trump as he blunders through Iran", we all know the answer: "because: Republican". Like police unions, Republicans back their own, even when they're in the wrong.

“There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” Trump posted to Truth Social. For Never Trumpers, this show already sucked from the first episode onward. For MAGA, this is Season 13 of a show that lost its luster after Season 2. thehill.com/policy/inter...

@fetterman.senate.gov I'm surprised to read that you voted against the War Powers measure. I cannot imagine a situation in which this doesn't come back to bite you badly in the polls. It is highly unlikely that your voters are going to gloss over this, even 2 years from now.

"Cornyn faces a challenge from MAGA favorite Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, and U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt (...). The three Republicans campaigned on their ties to Trump, who has not endorsed in the race." ...MAGA hasn't learned a damn thing. apnews.com/article/texa...

@ironorchid.bsky.social just saying hello to a fellow web developer :-)

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Bravo Lindsey Graham on @meetthepress.com , you just admitted that you don't care whether a President asks Congress for permission to use military-force. To you, it's just a formality. It literally makes no difference to you whether a President asks you or not, you'll approve either way. Bravo.

@gregsargent.bsky.social just listened to the pod with @anamariecox.bsky.social , and Ana, I'm sure there are a lot of people who voted for Trump who aren't MAGA cultists. But there are also a lot of people who knew better, and they're not going to let the ones who voted for him forget it. Ever.

"Government can never work!" "Time to run for public office to prove it!"

"We will never go back to where we were just a short time ago." - Donald Trump No Trump-voter is going to remember this speech by November, and depending on how much more damage Trump does between now and then, they might be begging to go back to where we were just a short time ago.

"The sheer possibility of the daughter of an American WWII hero being sent overseas, through no fault of her own, epitomizes a broken system," her attorney Emily Howe said in a statement. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n... No, it's not a broken system that this epitomizes... (1/)

Elizabeth Warren: "This one is to me not even open or arguable. How would the US government keep money that the Supreme Court said it did not legally collect from American businesses, that it did not legally take away from American families that ultimately paid this?"

NEW: Trump’s DoJ ordered New York SVU and New Mexico to stop investigating Epstein in 2019. www.justsecurity.org/132230/fbi-s...

“Cutting 240 hours of vital classes from a 584-hour program — classes that teach the Constitution, our legal system, firearms training, the use of force, lawful arrests, proper detention and the limits of officers’ authority.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

This one hits hard.

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

A 10-year-old boy recounted fleeing Thursday morning as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation began near his school bus stop in Lindenwold, New Jersey, saying, "We all were scared."