The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here. This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.
The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here. This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.
Trump: I am proud to announce that to end the illegal problem once and for all, we are building the Donald J Trump Gas Chamber! Thank you for your attention! Slotkin: the gas chamber is built in America, helps law enforcement, and puts us ahead of China in mass execution technology.
jesus christ
can we please not conflate murdering people in cold blood with not wearing a mask
I FUCKING HATE !important !!!! DIE CSS!!!!
but I liked these things before they were cool :( except matcha. I was behind on matcha
yes but again, this is like every single western government, everything is defined by how much people think the current govt sucks. far right parties offer a people a new answer. they also get voted out, even if they later get voted back in (see: US)
*meaningful* change is the key here. Biden strengthened things structurally, but as he said he would do, nothing fundamentally changed. I do think social media plays a part in it, but that doesn’t change the fact the fed govt has done nothing the average person would understand since Obamacare
realize is probably the wrong word honestly. but Americans *feel* it. they just don't always know how to identify it or how to channel it. they haven't re-elected a president since 2012 and flip-flop Congress every election (a trend I suspect will continue until meaningful change occurs)
Sweden's inequality has also notably increased after the previous decades. their far right party also only received 20% of the parliamentary votes
I think they think vile things about them because that’s the enemy the party has chosen. knowing you’re upset about your life doesn’t mean you know what the problem is
it is way, way worse than in 1980 and 1950. also my point is that people *realize* the inequality more after globalization. the west were more preoccupied with the Cold War and post-war things back then
they’re definitely offering it through deportation and tariffs. that doesn’t mean it’s true or that it’ll work but it’s what they’re offering!
probably because they’re all realizing they don’t have their fair share of the wealth
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
*Sinead O’Connor voice* child abuse, yeah
yeah and the “everyone who puts in effort” is rooted in the idea that you, as an individual, should be fully responsible for sustaining your survival. I’m not saying that these people are all at their core selfish individualists, but they have been led to believe this is how they have to survive
it’s more about relative conditions. they might believe socialism will impoverish them, but I think moreso the belief is that socialism puts them on a more even field with everyone else rather than allowing them to get ahead. not risking their belief in individualism in favor of their community
this country is never going to move forward unless it can get past its cynicism and internalized hatred of itself
New Dems 🤔 about to be the Old Dems 😂
there are three groups (or castes if you will) in the US: white, black, and the in between. to many in between, the goal is to be seen as white, part of which involves chastising the lower caste (and even lower subcastes in between)
Fuck it. We ride for the Khan. Pritzker 2028.
Democrats are losing because some person on bluesky supports a policy that virtually no Democrats do ?
being on the defensive about words the other side puts in YOUR mouth is an exceedingly poor strategy I don’t have a ✈️ to win the senate but I simply think they should address the numerous things Trump is disliked for. it worked in 2018 and if they do it right the blue wave could be even bigger
the median voter don’t even know what “‘latinx’ and ‘defund the police’ and ‘cisgender’” mean and if they do (or if they *think* they know what it means) they’re high information enough to have already made up their mind
this nuts
like many things, ”birthing person” is a perfectly normal term to use in academia, but using it with the average person more than likely will alienate them, which is why it really is only used in academia
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
every attempted explanation this guy gives for his decisions is total nonsense. just gobbledygook. www.scrippsnews.com/health/rfk-j...
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
along with this obviously not being true due to civil rights ending Dem domination of the south, Vietnam not only greatly helped Dems lose the ‘68 election, but it knocked LBJ out of the election entirely
we all know that the proof for the administration that an institution is not implementing affirmative action will be the percentage of nonwhite admits. the lower the better. any more than a smattering of black and Hispanic students will be evidence of illegal discrimination (against whites)
the last three presidential election cycles have been lost by incumbent parties. substantial changes to the system aren’t happening and Americans are unhappy about it, which is expressed through voting them out
kennedy is going to kill a lot of people
The idea that President can negotiate/dictate bilateral “deals” by using the full force of the federal government to punish and humiliate his perceived enemies goes against the whole idea of the rule of law. That should be the story, rather than normalizing this authoritarian behavior.
starting to think we need a Bulterian Jihad but for social media
my favorite thing is when people get really, really upset over being on an email list they did not expect
It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
the goal of Project 2025 is not to dismantle the country to hand over to Russia or whatever, it’s to reassert white supremacist Christian nationalism through deregulation of the federal government
your thinking is very pre-2024. Trump has never been a foreign asset, his insane changes of policy on a whim are evidence of that. he simply does whatever he believes gives him the most power and control. I say the difference does not matter because either way the outcome is the same
I don’t think it matters whether you are being evil or stupid when you work for the federal government. I don’t think it’s a mistake either. just matters how you deal with the problem. I don’t think you can assume that such a chaotic administration is secretly conspiring with a foreign government
I’m sure the Project 2025 people do, their lackeys in the administration probably don’t all understand it though
the “effectively and effectively” is simply “we need to cut the money to everything that we don’t understand”
the working class should own all of the stocks and none of the homes imo
never attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance
"I personally thought I looked very ambiguous in terms of any 'type' of person” what did he mean by this
We absolutely should not become numb to this
Reddit post from nine years ago that answers my exact specific question my beloved
I fear I understand what they’re saying and I kind of agree. it just sounds really dumb when they put it like that
this seems to happen every couple years
her vote was a NO, the bill was to stop funding the Israeli iron dome: clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025207
American culture in a nutshell
yes, because he’s on Team Gentrification
this is why I don’t know if I believe the Trump meddling theory. doesn’t really make sense to me. what does make sense is that no one watches late night anymore because it’s 2025
If Trump tries to fire Jerome Powell, it is a essential that every single headline note that he CANNOT DO THAT, and what he is actually doing is conducting a massive, dictatorial power grab of the US financial and monetary system. A financial coup d’etat
decentralized media made everyone stupid and crazy
Reports that a Canadian citizen who has resided in the US since age 10 was abducted at a green card interview. Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.
that was my bad for thinking the “cool guy” was actually a “writer”
this is the funniest thing I’ve ever read
this guy is 26??
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Republican Congressman Bresnahan recently sold his stock in Centene, a Medicaid health care provider. The stock has now fallen 43% since his sale. His sale seemingly coincides with his vote to advance Trump's budget bill that will kick 17 million Americans off their health care.
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
can you give me some examples?
Chris Paul hits a huge 3 to cut the lead to 40
thanks for the validation! expert trolling!
friendly reminder that the “lazy welfare queen” stereotype is explicitly rooted in white supremacy
can’t you read, they said it’s bad because it’s right wing, and it’s right wing because it’s libertarian! /s
and rezoning is not a law and regulation ?
A 1992 NYT article, “The Youngest, Cruelest Justice,” on Thomas joining Scalia in a 7-2 dissent that guards beating an inmate until he had loose teeth and a broken dental plate was not cruel and unusual punishment. It noted that Thomas backers suggested his childhood hardship would give him empathy.
I think it’s perfectly normal to hate an oppressive settler colonial state. you should want Palestinians to be free not because they are Palestinians, but because they are humans. but yes Hamas often harnesses this dynamic to their advantage (and to the disadvantage of Palestinians)
All the reactionary centrists attacking Mamdami every day will deny -- to us, even to themselves I think -- that they play a key role in enabling this kind of shit. But that is literally their function in the current US political structure.
Every time someone suggests that Obama should be speaking out more we get this "he doesn't owe anyone anything" defense that's ridiculous. In 2008 the American people gave him a lifetime of being taken seriously every time he opens his mouth; if he doesn't want to use it now, when will he?
100% fascism
yes, those medicaid recipients should just inherit their father's business and then sell it for a fortune, like sen. mullin did
Reminder that Eric Swalwell first ran for office by primarying Pete Stark, the only open atheist in Congress at the time, and attacked him for not voting to make “In God We Trust” the national motto.
So just to recap: - Parents can force schools to erase LGBTQ+ existence because ??? - The Court's opinion on birthright citizenship is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. - We're reverting back to the Articles of Confederation ig ??? Except our population is now 340 million and every court might be its own country.
It’s bad that Trump thinks he got elected Boss of America and the whole government is just his staff, but it’s much worse that a majority of the Supreme Court and the leaders of both chambers of Congress agree
all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.
blocking people I disagree with because I love my senile loser genocide facilitator ❤️
I sound insane yet saying a man who would’ve finished his term at 86 is fine is not? I’m not saying old people can’t win elections - I’m saying those widely and accurately perceived as old, on the presidential ticket. if he was on the ticket he was losing VA, NM, etc - that’s why he dropped out!
there has never been an 82 year old incumbent. that is a very simple reality and it could no longer be hidden after the debate. Joe Biden in 2024 was not Joe Biden in 2020, and he told voters as such in 2020! he overplayed his hand and showed himself to be a selfish egomaniac
and *even if* you believe these things, like most Dems did until the debate, the debate itself was such a nightmare scenario that was not sustainable to continue his candidacy. almost all Dems even continued to support him publicly up until he withdrew!
“personal ratings and incumbency advantage” does not matter. I’m sorry to tell you this. approval was bad, polling was abysmal. Harris improved on all of these things and still lost. Biden was going to be on the ticket in some form either way but Harris was actually capable of running a campaign
Biden never had a positive approval rating after his first 6 months and it never meaningfully went up until after he dropped out
Careful guys, if you don’t control migration you might turn out like the greatest, wealthiest city in the world.
Elijah Wood my GOAT
I think displacing people from their home because they don’t physically have a home currently is unethical
it was very, very well established that Biden was not a “well-liked” president, nor was he physically or mentally capable of being president of the United States until age 86 I didn’t say his reasons were right, but he *was* right
it was very, very well established that Biden was not a “well-liked” president, nor was he physically or mentally capable of being president of the United States until age 86
imagine writing this completely uncritically as if it’s a normal thing for a government official to say
Joe Biden should have never run for reelection
man the cowardice of democratic leaders who refused to oppose Cuomo looks worse and worse right now. primary them all
he was very, very obviously right about one particular thing
Leonid Baezhnev 