I went to children’s hospital Seattle to be treated for osteomyelitis when I was nine years old. It was very painful and I almost didn’t make it, but I ultimately survived a disease that used to kill 99% of the children who got it, because I had access to modern antibiotics.

boy is that true. in 2022-3, burrito taxis going up got about ten thousand times more attention online than the fact that it was the best labor market for low income workers in like 60 years

Seems like a great sound bite for attack ads

Never mind every other single abominable or corrupt thing to this miserable moment, the extrajudicial and unevidenced execution of 34 human beings by the U.S. Navy on the orders of a U.S. President acting in peacetime is sufficient for his impeachment and conviction. If we were a republic, I mean.

the through line of "got an accidental nazi tattoo while drunk" to "regularly takes shirt off at the bar" to "starts a senate campaign with no experience and no plan to address any of this" to "gets a terrible coverup overnight" is "total lack of judgment and impulse control"

The default cultural assumption is that only white yokels are Real Americans and it has broad purchase across the political spectrum

Struck me at the end of Trump's first term, post-impeachment, that even when he got bipartisan support (like for CARES) he didn't invite Dems to the bill signing. I think about this bc there's a kneejerk political media instinct to ask Dems how they'll unify the country and it's getting very silly.

These people thought taking down statues of Robert E. Lee was an apocalyptic affront to history.

so was planter just like, a chud who started listening to chapo a few years ago and found a different outlet for his antisocial impulses?

let he who is without an SS tattoo cast the first stone

sad for New York to reject him when his catholic, and in some ways jewish, mother survived 9/11 then died of cancer soon after moving to the city in 2003, a tragedy he was forced to relive in 2016 when his mother died of cancer. his only crime? a few fake charities and also every other type of fraud

The credulousness of this site towards Graham Platner is pretty hard to take.

But in all seriousness this is why, you know, people should retire

again, the sooner Platner reads the room and bows out with some kind of grace, the sooner a plausible alternative to Mills can be stood up

Real minisoldr vibes from Graham Platner

Pour one out for all the people on r/maine who saw one campaign ad and became fanatically devoted to a guy they had never heard of before

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Longmont, CO no kings looks to be about twice as big as the last one

Maybe this is cope but I feel like this rhetoric must be self-defeating at a certain point. Like, it has to be hard to swallow for normies that all the people they’re seeing on the streets are paid agents of CPUSA

Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over? lol. lmao.

It’s always worth remembering that this utterly horrific wave of mass death inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world was for literally nothing. It hasn’t even been for some monstrously cynical benefit to someone, it hasn’t saved money. It is just some of the purest nihilism imaginable

boy maybe we shouldn't have outsourced a major part of human relationships, especially for young people, to a system incentivized to maximize misery.

I have no opinion about the Maine Senate primary but "my guy is a world-historic political talent, and if he gets a primary opponent this is tantamount to him being forced out of the race" is a singularly unpersuasive argument

TIL I’m still young enough to be a “kid” according to the VP

my man, nobody is "sure to win" against Susan Collins, she is literally one of the most talented & successful Republican politicians of the last 60+ years. anyone who says ANY Democrat is a sure thing in Maine clearly has no clue what the fuck they're talking about other than their own vibes.

Thurgood Marshall wrote it in 1980, but it will probably apply again: “A plurality of the Court concludes that, in the absence of proof of intentional discrimination by the State, the right to vote provides the politically powerless with nothing more than the right to cast meaningless ballots.”

This hysterical bullshit is so annoying. Schumer is not “trying to throw” a senate election, he is supporting a veteran campaigner with a strong electoral track record. Planter may be a better option — he has a chance to make that case in the primary. He is not entitled to a free primary win.

The whining about Janet Mills jumping into the Maine Senate race is pretty hard to take. It's fine and healthy for our candidates to run in contested primaries. It's dangerous to simply nominate people by acclamation based on internet vibes. Mills isn't even bad, she's just extremely old.

Damn they’re really freaking out about middle eastern and south Asian democrats, aren’t they

I think it matters that to whatever degree we want to credit Trump with doing this as-yet-tenuous deal, forget the ten months of ongoing support for genocide, the support for bombing Tehran, etc.; Trump helped accomplish this by telling Palestinians if they didn’t sign on he’d see them all destroyed

boy the tiktok ban has really turned out to be one of the most singularly stupid things ever passed, huh? as if these people needed more help controlling the entire information environment what a shitshow

Tony Blair met with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in London during his time as prime minister, it has emerged

this is fucking obscene

Incredibly dumb and wasteful idea bridgemi.com/michigan-gov...

Imagine if ChatGPT tells your teenager to commit suicide. Should you be able to sue OpenAI? I think the answer is obviously yes. And this is something that an healthy supermajority of Americans are very much in agreement on, as our polling finds. www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-need-to...

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

I say this with love, some of you are going to lose your life savings to a man who says you have parking tickets that can only be paid in Target gift cards

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

it was in this moment, where the infamous white nationalist followed by the vice president of the united states shared the cartoon show that neo-Nazis had made about me, that I realized the modern world had gone mad and must end

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

Congressional Dems giving Trump another pile of cash to send out to Americans signed love from Trump would be the thing that fully Jokerizes me

Of course this dipshit wants to help Trump bribe his way to popularity

I can only hope that the admin that follows this one is one that justifies his fears

The only thing anyone needs to know about Bari Weiss is that she first came to national attention trying to get a Middle East Studies professor at Columbia fired for anti-Israel views, and yet somehow huge amounts of the US media elite think she is committed to "free speech" and "heterodoxy."

Man, I was just reading a Richard Hofstadter essay where he was talking about the myth of American invincibility and how it leads people to conclude that any American failure must belt definition be a result of a betrayal. He was talking about to Goldwater movement but I guess shit never changes.

I’m thinking this isn’t going to be nearly as big of a thing this time around, since Mitch is retiring

Never forget how easy it is to dupe these people. You don’t have to run anything resembling a platform for ‘divergent views’ or ‘a range of opinions.’ You just have to *say* you’re doing that and run the same right-wing slop you can find at 50 other outlets.

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content