Here's a paragraph about one of the most powerful figures in right-wing media, someone with a huge following and the ear of the White House. Seems like a bad situation. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Here's a paragraph about one of the most powerful figures in right-wing media, someone with a huge following and the ear of the White House. Seems like a bad situation. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
German Chancellor Merz called Putin “possibly the most serious war criminal of our time,” stressing that there can be no leniency in dealing with war criminals.
The higher quality the content and contributors, the more we should expect to see dwell time and less shitposting.
Capitalism has become the ideology, and there's this idea that not making a profit is a crime. Too many people believe: If the president of a capitalist nation doesn't make a profit, they're not competent.
Everyone knows Free Speech is a right. Rights can be abused. When rights are abused, there must be consequences.
It's not possible tolerate the intolerant anymore.
My love of music is increasing all the time.
Democrats must take a stand on all the illegal actions of the GOP. Such as “We will not recognize…”, “We will resist…”, and “We will fight against…” Especially the big ones like Article V, presidential immunity, and leniency on 1/6 perpetrators. The GOP needs to know these crimes have a cost.
Yes. This is a big deal. 1) Voters must not be able to cast a vote that results in a loss of rights… Such a vote is invalid. 2) Government leaders must not have loopholes enabling them take away rights. Any attempt to do so should result in immediate unconditional removal from office.
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Everybody is sucking in digital media all day long. We focus on the fools who are still on X but most consumers use social media as a passive one-way portal to consume content. Like television.
So what, we should be like our neighbors and get our news and education from TikTok?
JD Vance is already meeting with potential VP candidates.
Even the most centrist, moderate Republicans have a live-and-let-live, it’s-a-free-country-they-are-entitled-to-their-opinion, why-can’t-they-be-proud-of-their-heritage regard for the KKK. The KKK is a terrorist organization. It must not be allowed to exist in any form.
🤦 Scientists in the 90s: We cloned a sheep and landed a robot on Mars! Scientists today: For the last time, the Earth is ROUND.
Public safety in California is on the rise. Last year, California had the second-lowest homicide rate since at least 1966, decreasing by nearly 12% overall since 2023. We're going to drive that progress forward up and down the state.
An Instagram reply to the White House’s post bragging about Trump’s economy
Yet another of Trump's two-week deadlines for Russia ends today. Ready for absolutely nothing to happen?
As long as there are negotiations over funding any Democratic governor will get roasted if they lose funding over a minority’s entitlements or rights. Therefore the only tenable policy is NO Negotiation.
MSM has to stop allowing for the possibility that the administration has good intentions. No way in hell is there any evidence of anything but malice in this administration and it’s not normal or healthy or even traditional to wait four years to see if they kept their promises.
Nine former CDC directors: Americans should be alarmed. Their health and lives are in danger. Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It is just wild to me that the largest facility used during Japanese internment will now be used to intern immigrants from ICE raids, people who are disappeared by masked officers off the streets, and there is still a debate about whether naming and shaming those doing it is fair.
In America we've set up a cool system where, when you get *super* rich, you actually pay *lower* taxes.
The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution are not infomercials about the perks of membership if you sign up and join the American Revolution. These are universal statements about how we believe all people everywhere should live.
Too many of us assume the word “right” is universally understood to mean “what all people must have” and that there’s some tacit understanding everyone respects or even knows about at all. There is no authority that grants us all rights if we are not that authority ourselves.
Too many of us assume the word “right” is universally understood to mean “what all people must have” and that there’s some tacit understanding everyone respects or even knows about at all. There is no authority that grants us all rights if we are not that authority ourselves.
Government must respond to the needs of people, but not the opposite. Parties must not be allowed to dictate to their constituents what they should want and need and invest astronomical sums of money to market their agenda into homes and smartphones.
If American citizens are ever able to vote again and can elect a sane, intelligent, competent, non-criminal into office, I think the first orders of business have to be to shore up democracy. They have to safe guard elections AND the judiciary. They have to reinstate accountability and fairness.
If anyone wants to implement a “replacement theory” plan it will be the architects of MAGA. They want to replace uppity free-spirited educated people with bowing, kneeling, paying customers who are grateful that their permission to live has been extended for another day.
Yes. How long will it take for middle America to realize this administration has nothing to lose by creating massive poverty, sickness and starvation? That is the plan. Make America Great Again means mostly empty, the few survivors are submissive, and parcels of land are up for bid.
I’m absolutely begging reporters to stop suggesting that Lisa Cook stated that she would use both properties as a principal residence on her mortgage APPLICATIONS Mortgage APPLICATIONS and mortgage AGREEMENTS are not the same thing We have no idea what she represented on the APPLICATIONS
Yes, the good guy doesn’t wear a mask.
No because that is the tip of an iceberg; it speaks volumes about their real agenda.
Part of citizenship and part of democracy is that each of us is personally responsible for what our government does. If someone tries to talk down that responsibility they are trying to take away our rights. We always have to ask, do the ends justify the means.
This is absolute truth. Add in I've read the Book of Mormon & done a little bit of Jehovah Witness readings. I'm not being arrogant when I tell Bible thumpers that I probably know their book BETTER than them..I'm WARNING THEM to not TEST ME🤷♀️
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
"RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy...it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism." Were he not a Kennedy...and wealthy...he'd likely be living his life out in a mental institution. Diagnosis: Dumb-Fuckery.
Crazy how some of the same people who think teenagers are too young to transition also think they are old enough to get married and have sex with adults
Feel like it's worth periodically reiterating that "conservative" is not a protected class. Being a minority puts you in a protected class. Hating minorities just makes you a dick. There is no moral or legal requirement for any organization to have some minimum number of dicks.
A massive opportunity. For whom? Use your imagination.
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
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I don’t want to impeach the president. I want to indict and arrest the entire administration. I don’t want any residual support for it.
Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
Don’t count on this ruling to do anything at all. And we’re never going to know where the money went.
The same people who villainize Dr. Anthony Fauci, an actual doctor with a speciality in immunology and research in virology, are praising RFK Jr who has never seen the inside of a lab.
The thing about Ashli Babbitt that I kept saying is that, for most of history, most countries would have strung up a bunch of the J6 folks in the capitol steps as a sign. And for good reason. This is what happens when you don’t.
It is better to have NO president for days, weeks, or months than to keep the president we have. I trust an empty oval office much more than I do an oval office with those poison pushers.
Americans having a spine looks like: We have the guts to say what is wrong, throw the assholes in the White House out, and feel that our laws are in our best interests instead of a small slimy class of manipulators. We The People must become whole.
It is of course extremely important to put front and center that Robert E. Lee was literally a traitor and he was a traitor on behalf of the institution of slavery which he strongly supported. But in the battles we have over public memory - which is what the statues and portraits and base names ...
Science: Trump supporters are assholes.
Any president who is not clear about their mission ought to be sacked, not by voters but by federal law. We don’t have any laws to protect us from this creep that don’t require his congressional majority to pretend to be mulling over a decision and then give him a free pass.
Karoline Leavitt: “The president has the authority to fire those who are not aligned with his mission.” What exactly is his mission?
remember, y’all: we hang together, or we all hang separately. (as ben franklin famously said) you cannot fight your way out of authoritarianism by telling the authoritarians that you’re willing to offer up a group in exchange for freedom. it only gives the bullies the signal to divide & conquer
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
It would be correct if everyone thinks the way you do but most don’t. They think their job is to pick a card from the hand dealt them, to pretend to fuss over it “she doesn’t look presidential, he looks foreign” and then wait for the dealer to wink when their hand hovers over the right card.
So far so good
What this administration wants to achieve is “your neighbor wants your cookie, better report them to your neighborhood patrol, but be sure to do it before curfew.•
This is truly one of the best illustrations of what is happening in America.
Nobody listens anyway. There is no test to determine if anything they do serves public interests. Executive Branch: Here’s your agenda if you want your PAC money and our attack dogs on your opponents. Legislative Branch: Yes Sir.
South Korea's former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo has been indicted for aiding ex-president Yoon's attempted coup last year, joining Yoon's wife, defense minister, military leaders, and police who have all been arrested. America, this is how to hold an entire administration accountable for treason.
Every Judge can tell him no, every person can sue him, every state can offer their stances, but the only people who could hold him accountable he controls. He isn't going anywhere without force. Ever since he released the 6thers, I knew he chose violence to stay in power. He chose it last time too
As long as people end up hating the entire government it’s a win for the GOP.
Much more compatible and passionate than Bert and Ernie.
So the head of Health and Human Services is anti-human… The head of the EPA is anti-environment… The head of the Department of Education is anti–public-education … The head of Consumer Protections is anti-consumer… And the head of the Justice Department is anti-justice.
I think what Roberts is saying is in a zero sum mindset, rights are reserved for a select number of individuals who deserve them according to some value system and pecking order, and when some people lose rights, it’s good as long as it’s not you; because rights must not be wasted.
And by quitting they are complicit with the administration’s primary directive: Abandon The Public.
Trump is going to send anyone any money ever.
Just a little more penguin dust
Sadly agree.
I am idealistic. I tend to believe that good deeds beget more good deeds and intentions. But at my age I understand what you mean here clearly. It's a reality that cuts a hole in the concept of democracy; you never get that close-to-one-hundred-percent vote on the issues that help everyone.
Except we can't agree on core values or if they exist.
That's the "We're all just plain folks who want what's best for our families" fallacy, that politicians just won't give up.
Yes! And people who say this are making *precisely* the mistake I'm talking about. "We all want the same things, we just differ on how to get there, can't we just come together in a sprit of cooperation & work out our differences?" But we don't. We don't all want the same things!
Send in the troops.
It is always wrong to say there is a relationship between existence and perception. In any universe. It's wrong to say wave and particle cannot exist simultaneously. It's wrong to say matter and energy are distinct. The only thing that changes is the instrument we use to observe. Nothing else.
Not traditional 20th century war. This is war with deal-making mixed in.
I understand your service to this nation is officially completed but many Americans such as myself pray that you use all you power to help the nation in this unique time of need.
As long as y'all understand you DO NOT HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS as a part of Canada as you do in your current (maybe former at this point) system of government. We are extremely similar but we are different. With that said, we are cousin nations. We are family. You are all welcome here.
The erosion of basic principles like due process and the expanding use of our military on domestic soil puts the liberties of all Americans at risk, and should concern democrats and republicans alike.
I am just going to say this again bluntly: Blue states are going to need to become the federal government. Mutual aid compacts, mutual defense compacts, healthcare, taxes, trade the whole deal. Literally create a new system outside of the fascist federal system.
So when will we have a constitution that says you must only make, change, or abolish laws based on what the majority of citizens want and not anything else? When will we make it illegal for senators and representatives to do anything other than follow their constituents scrupulously?
Morons will bleat that “Japan has low crime bc it has few immigrants” and totally ignore the almost total ban on guns, the cameras everywhere, and the 99.9% conviction rate
I'm not sharing the face of the child being interviewed after today's school shooting. I am going to point that showing his face is highly unethical even if parental permission was obtained, because we know from prior mass shooting events that survivors and their families are harassed by deniers.
Russia is a “democratic capitalist” country run by a popular, beloved president. Russia is also a dictatorship run by an administration that strictly controls media and public opinion. And so is the USA.
They have been trained since prep school to a particular interpretation of the US Constitution and now it’s showtime.
People who acquire and maintain power: "You mean, if enough people vote for something, it happens? Okay, get me the votes." This is why American politics is inherently corrupt, because the winning skillset to be a successful politician is not aligned to public service.
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!