The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
Sure, yeah, there was a negotiation in Hitler’s bunker right before he topped himself.
I'm PhD in graphic design and Cracker Barrel's REAL problem is they didn't go *far enough*
you’ll notice that Third Way isn’t concerned about management speak as much as they want Dems to use *their* management speak.
Huge error on the part of the Trump admin- if they are testing the waters for raids in critics they should have started with a Democrat because Dems in Congress are 10x more likely to defend Bolton than one of their own
Looks to me like they are just going with a simpler, cleaner design. If this guy wants to blame anyone, he should blame Cracker Barrel management. Executives love to do "rebrands" (including logo redesigns) to create the illusion they actually do something of value for their bloated paychecks
They took away the cracker and the barrel
Interesting. But was this from before or after Linehan lost his career and family due to his transphobia? Unless he’s come to his senses—haven’t kept up.
I also have to wonder how the troops themselves see/think/feel about this.
Jesus Christ. Who is able to do this sort of calculation? —and then also run with any sense of sincerity or authenticity?
Not even stepping on rakes; picking them up and bashing their face into them.
“We’ll do it to them if they do it to us” should be the Team Timid position. The Team Fight position should be, “We’ll do it to them whether they do it first or not, because our aim isn’t fairness with them, it’s stopping them.”
One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts
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Unbelievable. Instead of parroting @nytpitchbot.bsky.social they head straight to @theonion.com
Every time I see this guy trying to move people away from Epstein I get a vision of the little old Wizard of Oz standing on an apple box and broadcasting through a loudspeaker.
This is horrible. Just devastating.
I have never felt more confident that the government has zero evidence of extraterrestrial life.
“Homeland” is one of the most fascist words imaginable. Anyone talking with a straight face about “the homeland” is a guaranteed psycho. Obama should have torn down DHS 20 years ago based on the name alone.
worth saying that waving through egregiously unconstitutional decrees without even a horseshit rationalization is sawing away at the branch underpinning SCOTUS legitimacy. they don’t have an army
The same Supreme Court that tripped over itself in a rush to stop Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan in 2023 signs off on Trump’s plan to illegally dismantle the Dept. of Education two years later: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
this is monstrous and the Democrats running on anything short of 'elect us so we can put the government officials who do this on trial' is offsensively milktoast in response (not that I expect a party of genocide to step up on that)
The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before? That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators. My how times change ...
Do we still need stories about an aspirational immigrant who's so devoted to his adopted country that he regularly puts himself in danger to help even those who fear and distrust him, and who's primary antagonist is an egotistical tech billionaire? Yes, fucking obviously. You numpties.
Please click the link, it's like diving headfirst into a crisp, cool reservoir of 1997, a totally immersive experience
the basic message of the republican party is “fuck you, you’re on your own.”
Deacon Blues
The bill has passed. Republicans are going to push insane lies. Talk to people about what this legislation does. Post. Be a nuisance. Don't let the lies dominate. We will make sure this vote sticks to their foreheads, is all anyone sees of them, the cruelty and evil they're drenched in.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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.
I continue to be struck by this language of “in accordance with the president’s priorities,” which treats the executive branch as an extension of the person of the president, and not a mechanism for instituting the will of Congress
All 53 Rs (including Tillis & Paul) voted for the "current policy baseline" gimmick to make the Trump tax cut extension free. So the "Medicare for All for One Day Act," followed by making M4A permanent under a current policy baseline, is alive and well for the first Mamdani administration.
The vote-a-rama votes are mostly nonbinding, but it is notable that Collins and Murkowski have sided with the Democrats on a number of these votes so far. The expectation is that they'll stick with the Republicans on final passage, but... (this is a call your Senators moment)
The Trump administration is dropping charges against ms-13 gang leaders after the gang leaders agreed to use their power as gang leaders to support Nayib Bukele politically in El Salvador. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...
The Senate vote-a-rama is a bizarre and in some ways irrelevant process, I'll try to explain it.
A lot of people think the bill has already passed (no one's shared with me yet where they're getting that information). IT HASN'T! And it's very important to share the info today and tomorrow. People will take fewer actions and be quieter if they think it's a fait accompli. LET'S BE LOUD!
Thank you.
What we're going to do is the "One Day of Medicare For All Act of 2029," followed the next day by a permanent, costless extension
Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:
It’s tempting to think prominent Dem leaders like Jeffries are doing this as part of a grand plan to ratfuck Zohran and lay the groundwork for endorsing Adams for reelection. But I actually think they’re just cowards. They won’t endorse against him but still want to distance themselves from him.
Groups and activists have been pushing for this for at least a week -- this was not a given. I hate that we had to fight for it but regardless, this is a WIN and big shout out to everyone who has been calling and pushing and organizing around this
Lots of Democrats begging to primaried in their next go-round. Must be assuming that the AIPAC money will buy more votes than they lose with their support of genocide and/or Islamophobic comments. That might’ve been true in the past. Not so sure that’ll be the case going forward.
Do you really think that AIPAC money will buy more votes than you’ve lost with your shameful and cowardly comments about Mamdani?
What has Mamdani said about Jews that you disagree with. Quote it. Please. Lotta Dems begging to be primaried.
The rise of people like Lander and Walz, whose ideologies don't exactly match mine but have the exact right combination of "love thy neighbor" and "fuck you, asshole" attitudes, is massive positive for people who care about left of center politics
you love to see it hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-...
![We're in such a weird position right now where members of the business community are now thinking that they're gonna throw their weight behind Adams again. What do you think of that? [Lander laughs for about five seconds. Catches breath.] I genuinely find this hilarious. Like, they lit $20 million on fire, and all it did was boost Zohran's numbers. And in no small part because they corrupted their own souls by supporting a person they know to be a corrupt, abusive asshole.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6yde3jzbwuuxqmp2ibtrbo3e/bafkreidktjtuygib3kwdu36e4l6uz3fyc3hzo4ifps4lvbmcim7yp57jci@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Wtf Literally every interview or debate some form of “you’re Muslim, so do extra pinky promise that you don’t hate Jews?” has been asked and answered. Apparently @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social wasn’t the only Democrat hiding under a rock during the entire campaign.
Clown. Do we need to explain the difference between a primary and a general election?
Sharing this profile I did of Andy Ogles in light of his disgusting call to deport Zohran Mamdani. This is a guy who appears to have lied about: Speaking German, Japanese, and Russian. Being on the board of a YMCA. A job at a nonexistent company. And much more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Paul Newman started Newman’s own with 40,000 dollars and it’s made over 600 million dollars for charity and somehow he’s not considered a genius businessman but this guy is
The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.
Ah yes. “She misspoke when voicing concerns that he would keep his people in line. She did, on the other hand, share that he gave her assurances that he was not one of THOSE Muslims. See. Not racist at all!”
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
Senator Gillibrand called on Al Franken to resign. I think she should resign for falsely smearing Zohran Mamdani as a terrorist. He has never invoked a ‘global jihad’. This is a nasty, Islamophobic racist smear from a sitting Dem senator.
I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.
If you are not alarmed at the type of thing these people now feel 100% comfortable saying out loud that they would have been scared to type into a group chat 10 years ago for fear that anyone might ever see it, I don't know what to tell you.
Love too reinvent antisemitism from first principles.
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Seeing some more centrist folks imply that it was solely the focus on affordability that won the race for Mamdani. Absolutely bread and butter issues are key. But it was also his moral clarity. Economics and ethics. Prices and principles. Freeze the rent AND free Palestine.
THANK YOU!
lol. GOOD!
Hey you’ll never believe this, but the thing that everyone who knew anything about this said over the last dozen years would happen if you bombed the Iranian nuclear facilities happened
refreshing to find out that some bombs are too unseemly to drop
BREAKING: the Murdoch Broadsheet has discovered historical materialism
it like doesn’t even occur to him that he could do something other than posting (eg threaten through back channels to cut off weapons)
Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.
the thing with Mamdani is that he’s obviously an incredible political talent - the campaign he’s run has been extremely impressive even if you don’t like his policies the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes
Bill Clinton’s just chilling in his living room, watching ICE kidnappings on tv, when the sex pest election trouble alarm goes off in his kitchen. “Not cuomo,” he says to himself. “Not another member of the brotherhood”
Trump is propelling the U.S. into an unjust and catastrophic war of aggression and Dem leaders are over here releasing heavily qualified, three paragraph memos that are extremely wordy ways of saying “you should have asked us first.” Like yes, but also, isn’t it more important to denounce the war?
Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.
The RISK of war?
Hakeem Jeffries says “the risk of war has now dramatically increased” How is this not already war???
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.
i never get tired of that thing star trek does where theyre like "one day you'll be a great composer like Mozart or Beethoven or Plexmodiar, 7th of his name, first son of the Omega Realm"
All these years I thought the New York Times only knew how to write headlines that go like, “At a Gaza hospital, explosions appear.” Turns out they do know how to write in normal English!
I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC
This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...
Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.
🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...
ICE turned back in Somerville So many Somerville community members came out that ICE simply retreated. Nonviolent resistance works when communities come together to protect kids and families.
The problem with a "Joe Rogan of the left" is that the right just wants to tear stuff down, which requires no deference to experts, whereas the left wants to build working govt programs, which necessitates a deference to expertise that is antithetical to the Rogan shtick. This is a basic asymmetry.
It’s like “the Death Star of the rebel alliance,” like… the alliance doesn’t want to blow up planets full of innocent people.
The Wall Street Journal had a piece last night that the Judicial Conference of the United States — the policy making body for the federal judiciary — is discussing whether the Judiciary should have its own armed security force rather than rely on the U.S. Marshals for federal judges’ protection.
This is the second time in one year the FBI has visited me over a document I lawfully published. If you want to know why media constantly refuses to publish things, here's why.
Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309
"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
The new Pope didn't tweet once in 2024. In 2025, he's posted 5 times, in which he: - Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus - Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies - Retweeted twice about the Pope's health - Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
seeing the U.S. "could an American be the next Pope?" headlines feels a lot like having an overly proud but poorly informed parent speculate about one's future
it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
Sez you, a terrorist and gang member.
What if the secret to winning elections is somehow Trump's syntax. We need a guy to say stuff like "But we're going to abolish billionaires and we'll be doing it very soon. They'll be paying very high taxes but it'll be very fair. And frankly they haven't paid taxes in a very long time"
There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group: “amazing job” “Excellent” “👊🇺🇸💥”
Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
Comfortably Numb 