congress should think about sending a strongly worded letter to whoever controls the federal purse strings.

This honestly bugs me a bunch re: Odyssey critique. A lot of the Iliad and the Odyssey is Goofy Fun. People turn into pigs! Nestor gives long speeches about how he doesn't give long speeches! Trying to treat them with reverence is itself a desecration.

imo white collar crime in general deserves extremely harsh punishment. other crime, no, we know that stuff doesn't work anyway, but getting popped for public corruption (which this is) or financial crime SHOULD ruin your life.

Alien vs. Predator (2026)

Lmao I hope all the big pubs are paying attention. Fucking dopes selling out their 100 year old brands for the Anti American Pedo President. Gonna be out of work soon enough.

when have you ever seen this sort of story run against a prominent Republican by mainstream political jorunalists? bsky.app/profile/dmnd...

they like trump and want to help him. tallarico winning a senate seat would hurt trump so they want to run stories that make it harder for tallarico to win a senate seat, by emphasizing his perceived weaknesses with the electorate (SECRET VEGETARIAN!?) and downplaying his strengths

As MAGA and the media and SCOTUS scramble to anoint the thousand year reign of the Fourth Reich, quisling Dems will start becoming more brazen in their green room bonhomie with the enemy

Remember when AOC was declared to be a drooling imbecile for doing the Taiwan dance less than perfectly? Good times.

How AI Plans to Buy 2026 This election should be a slam dunk for Democrats. There are billions of reasons it absolutely is not. I'm going Paul Revere on this one and connecting the dots. One thing you can never say is that you haven't been told.

Fighter, Cleric, Mage, Rogue, Paladin, Ranger

Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, and Bottom

The whole GOP talks like this and it's cult-speak. It doesn't even work on its own logic: if hydrocarbons are so precious and lack replacements, we should minimize unnecessary use by implementing as many replacements as we can. Which means expanding solar/wind and battery use where possible.

In theory it should be insanely difficult to start a war for any reason but the imperial US president can just be like "hello yes I would like to commence an offensive war of choice" like he's ordering a fucking pizza. And if you object to this people treat you like a fringe weirdo! Madness

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A bunch of aging dorkwads talking about old Star Trek episodes that live rent free in the heads of our political elite

Imagine how many diapers we could buy with the $175B (billion with a b) more we pay in federal taxes per year than we get back in federal spending! But it's cool, keep sending our money to Mississippi for Brett Favre to steal or whatever, way better than spending a nominal amount to help new mothers

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Another fucking bad faith schoolmarm scolding article by The Erudite Fascist Magazine, this time deeply concerned about how the environmental movement isn't fighting back hard enough after being sabotaged for 50 years by oil companies. Like Henry II saying "where's my boy Tommy B at" energy

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

Donald Trump to a reporter: You're a bitch who is stupid NYT: Trump in testy exchange with female reporter Donald Trump: Americans are stupid and deserve to be poor, so I will take their money NYT: Trump proposes bold new redistribution scheme for middle class americans

incredibly depressing that the reimposition of jim crow districts across the entire south is getting nothing more than generic horse race coverage

“Guys, we need complete SCOTUS reform and a overhaul of campaign finance laws.” “Sir, this is a Pokemon forum.“

Entire 2nd Trump Regime has been Make-A-Wish for Nazis and the media ran with it

I am so sorry, ma’am, but we lost your son. Surgery was going fine but we decided to let RFK Jr. futz around a little on his insides with a robot. He was eating squash at the time.

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this hits so hard

Literally it was called "alternative culture" bc mainstream culture was an absolutely awful dystopian Reganeque hellscape. Those of us who couldn't stand it fled and found &/or made art / music / community /activism that in part told us it wasn't just us, but that wasn't what was served on main.

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

Part of the problem: there are no Dem-aligned media organizations that can run a story into the ground the way Fox News could back in the day, and force everyone else to run second-order stories on how politicians/etc are reacting.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

The definitive millennial song is clearly legend_of_zelda_System_of_a_down(1).mp3

It's already outrageous and offensive that people with unimaginable wealth view themselves as the victims, but the fact they feel comfortable saying it in public takes it to another level. Their brains are broken, simultaneous delusions of grandeur and victimhood wrapped in malice and shamelessness.

The "I don't trust the COVID vaccine because they came up with it suspiciously quickly" to "I heard of the Hantavirus 96 hours ago and have determined that Ivermectin cures it" pipeline

Dems Need To Talk About More Than Just Trans Rights - me, for the New York Times

merry christmas to all the moms out there

There’s a lot of “oh you tell me Dems *did* support this policy I say I like? Well why didn’t I hear about it?” from people with a self-curated Bluesky feed filled exclusively with people who have monetized hating their VBNMW mom.

The feminization of bureaucracy. Gov't jobs are for women and those people. HR are women. Doctors are women. The end result being that work, itself, is for women. Men are destined for greater things, like podcasting.

The only way you get anything out of Trump is if you hold him personally accountable, like his abuser, Fred Trump. Call him stupid. Call him weak. Tell him he deserves this. He will do anything to escape accountability.

Spanberger should pull a DeSantis and ram through the map. If Republicans can do it, why not the rest of us?

Yes. Very similar to plans for education, the GOP vision for healthcare is three tiers: The rich still enjoy science-based medicine, but privatized and exclusive Middle class gets woo and psuedoscience Poor get nothing - denial of medical care to them serves as a means to discipline the middle.

What did people think he meant when he said Republicans just had to elect him this one time and then they would fix it so no one had to vote anymore? Like what other explanation was there?

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

Michelle Obama warned everyone. Kamala Harris warned everyone. Hillary Clinton warned everyone.

insanely smug English majors are the only ones who haven’t rotted their brains too much to do investment banking. our time

I think what Democrats have been slow to accept is that the Second Civil War has already begun. Your only choices are fighting or rolling over and piddling your belly.

Institutionalism has become a bullshit means to subvert the will of the people. That's what I think. They can dross it up in legalese all they want, but it's revanchist, reactionary bullshit all the way down.

The way for Democrats to just talk like normal people talk is apparently to say “just talk like normal people talk” a lot. Because very few Democrats today are doing jargon-laden campaigns. Heck, few college seminars sound like that caricature either. The audience for this is pundits and donors.

He crashed the economy. Government, markets, and media will pretend he didn't for as long as they possibly can. But he did, and that will become increasingly apparent in the coming months. The country and world cannot adjust to an energy supply crunch of this size without economic disruption.

“The national counterterrorism strategy attempts to draw a link between transsexuals and the Muslim Brotherhood while the president glues coins to doors.” Dada ass republic. Fuck this place, honestly.