Jesus Christ.
Increasingly radicalized dissident from Northern New England. Yale Poli Sci, advanced cynicism. ☄️ 🌎 2,405 followers 2,386 following 4,769 posts
Jesus Christ.
Or maybe it has something to do with the press conference day after tomorrow...
Wow: 78 year old congressman Jerry Nadler decides not to seek reelection, saying Biden fiasco showed need for "generational change." “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that."
Why do people fell a need to puritanize their interiors? Everything looks like it was decorated by strict 16th century Calvinists, but with less joy.
Trump is giving Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, now reduced to little more than a participation award for his henchmen.
He so mad he turned Bluesky into an - ism.
Jesus Christ.
If Dems actually knew how to make their case to the American public and stuck to it for months before a spending fight, they could potentially oversee a shutdown without taking full blame. Yet given how low they already poll, they stand to lose little and gain much by going hardline. But Schumer.
Likely because they have a multi-pronged strategy for rat*ucking the coming elections. Gerrymandering, draconian voting laws, hacking, ICE intimidation at polling stations, etc.
The world: "Yawn"
She always gets louder when elections approach and then, once they're over, immediately gets back to acting mildly concerned while rubber-stamping whatever inhumane and regressive shit her party wants passed.
What a country.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Todd Blanche is supposedly a tough lawyer, yet he treated Ghislaine Maxwell with kid gloves and didn't ask follow up questions when she told him that members of Trump’s cabinet were part of Epstein's entourage.
The racism of the Republican base really came out on full display in the 2008 election. I think it shocked even John McCain how radicalized they turned out to be. But then, these were the people his campaign tried to reach by making Palin his VP.
She always gets louder when elections approach and then, once they're over, immediately gets back to acting mildly concerned while rubber-stamping whatever inhumane and regressive shit her party wants passed.
The world: "Yawn"
"The impulse behind honoring Ashli Babbitt...blurs the line between lawful sacrifice and unlawful violence. It tells those who gave their lives in defense of the Constitution that their oath was no more meaningful than the motivations of the mob that attacked the Constitution."
It's a not very old Wren.
If this doesn't tell you that Democratic voters are desperate for any semblance of fighting spirit and leadership, nothing will. Just trolling Trump on social media shows more leadership than either Schumer or Jeffries can muster. The Democratic Party fails when its leadership fails.
Bari Weiss and her entire organization of clout chasing hacks and foreign agents can go hump a cactus.
Things that would have destroyed any other presidency #5327
This coming from a member of the white male demographic behind 99% of mass shootings.
Brief 🧵, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factors—but motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns
Happy birthday kiddo. Be back by midnight and don't get caught using fake IDs to buy booze.
There’s literally a video of her being warned several times by armed guards not to climb a barrier in an attempt to illegally enter the Speaker’s Lobby. And now they’re turning her into a martyr. These are the same people who think it's OK to kill Black teenagers for carrying candy.
One of these days, ICE agents will push someone too far and there'll be blood.
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Structurally, government can’t hold when stacked with incompetents. It falls apart with no one left who knows how to keep it together. Totalitarian regimes tied to a psychopath’s whims are dysfunctional - that’s why they use violence and rig elections to stay in power.
This whole administration is going to come crashing down simply because they keep sacking smart people and replacing them with sycophantic morons.
I'm amazed they haven't been put on a plane and sent home.
That would just make her worried.
My cat did a cute thing and the internet needs to know about it.
He's an opportunist.
He'll fill it with cement, like he did with Jackie Kennedy's rose garden.
Democratic voters are so desperate for leadership that they'll latch on to anyone who shows even a hint of fighting spirit. With such a huge vacuum to fill and plenty of opportunity for national exposure, it's surprising that more Democrats aren't stepping up.
I'm getting really tired of this "it's all a distraction" narrative from establishment Democrats. Whether or not it's a distraction doesn't change the fact that Trump is in the process of turning America into a military dictatorship. Maybe it's high time for party leaders to meet the moment?
Why the internet is shit now and what can be done about it? Review of Cory Doctorow's new book on enshittification.
Let's send Musk to investigate.
Paw in mid-knead, no less.
Exciting stuff! Don't worry folks, the DNC is on it! Next they'll be forming a committee to explore a time frame for considering a meeting about the possibility of discussing the formation of a committee to explore a time frame for introducing new coversheets for TPS reports.
Imagine being like that inside your head.
My cat did a cute thing and the internet needs to know about it.
No where is safe from the woke mind virus, dude.
I think we need to take a fucking flamethrower to this administration, and not necessarily as a figure of speech.
So there is 'no' precedent.
Are we there yet?
ICE should be treated like the French Resistance treated the Gestapo.
Oh dear, he used the 'O'-word! Won't somebody please think of Third Way?
I'm getting really tired of this "it's all a distraction" narrative from establishment Democrats. Whether or not it's a distraction doesn't change the fact that Trump is in the process of turning America into a military dictatorship. Maybe it's high time for party leaders to meet the moment?
You'll get a video of Hakeem Jeffries calling it a 'distraction'.
The main division, as I see it, is between those who want Democrats to go to war and those who don't. The party leadership deserves to be roasted for their incompetence and inaction, because they are standing in the way of what should be obvious to anyone by now - that we need all hands on deck.
I say arm up.
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Free speech is now officially illegal.
(permanently if possible)
What Democrats need right now are fighters. Policy debates can wait. At this moment, the only thing that matters is to keep hitting again and again until Trump and his movement are down for good. This is a war, yet too many Democrats are still too afraid of their own shadows to act on it.
Newsom shapes everything around the brute fact that Trump is serially breaking the law and using government sponsored violence and intimidation to entrench authoritarian power. He accepts this as the core fact of our moment. Me and @whstancil.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1995...
Trump is worried that he might die soon and go to Hell. He's evidently in poor health. Sources tell me that Vance is already humping the Oval Office desk chair.
The human species is like a swarm of locusts upon the natural world, and the planet will take terrible vengeance on us all.
Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 22, 2025 ~ Tipped by 2050? "Without the soy moratorium ... soy will once again become a major driver of Amazon deforestation, and this will bury any chance of Brazil meeting its climate targets" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The fascists are pining for a civil war.
Trump is worried that he might die soon and go to Hell. He's evidently in poor health. Sources tell me that Vance is already humping the Oval Office desk chair.
Meanwhile over at the Washington Post
I wonder if Vance knows how Fascism usually gets settled.
At this point, nothing would surprise me.
Establishment Democrats calling everything Trump does a districation is a distraction from establishment Democrats doing nothing.
What Americans really care about are kitchen-table issues! Trump attempting a coup, pardoning his accomplices, turning himself into a fascist dictator, and using the army to occupy blue cities are all just distractions from the price of eggs!
Cue a field of deeply uninspiring Democratic presidential candidates gushing over Ronald Reagan.
looking through some old posts and stumbled on this. the other day chris murphy said the military occupation of dc was a distraction from epstein. a month ago, they were calling epstein a distraction.
Republicans and their media pals would bring it up ever so often, to remind their viewers why it's necessary for Trump to clamp down hard on these violent leftists and their president-assassinating ways - and by extension, anyone and everyone remotely liberal. NYT would clutch lots of pearls.
Fox News would have been screeching about it for the past 8 months. It would have become a vital part of the entire conservative narrative. They'd be coining terms out their wazoos. Woke terrorism! Woke violence! Woke thugs!
What constitutes Russia today was, back then, forests, fur trappers, slave traders and Viking trading posts along the network of rivers leading to Kyiv. It was a wilderness.
Ironically, by following Putin's logic, Ukraine should actually invade Russia, since Kyiv was a power centre while Moscow was still a swamp. And then Danes and Swedes should invade Ukraussia. After which Germanic tribes, Anatolian farmers and Sami people should invade Scandinavia.
"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later" My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war" www.ft.com/content/9731...
The rhetorical thrust of my preceding assertion, though couched in the trappings of irony and suffused with the tincture of sardonic inflection, nevertheless retains its essential validity and continues to withstand scrutiny irrespective of its satirical presentation.
Is anyone even keeping track of all the criminal acts of this administration?
Tom Nichols should consider using words that "regular folks" understand and avoid terms like "machinery of government" and "middle management".
I'm surprised it doesn't say Vaterland.
Garland gradually merged with the wallpaper in his office. He may still be there.
Clearly, it’s the words! It certainly doesn’t have anything to do with uninspiring candidates, incompetent leadership, anemic messaging, or lackluster policy platforms with neither vision nor political courage. No, it’s definitely the fancy words!
That's only until SCOTUS torches what's left of the VRA in the very near future
Oh no! Fancy words! 😱 How will the unwashed masses... understund us wen wi us fansi wordses?
