Birth rates are lowering *literally everywhere.* The only countries which keep growing in power will be the ones which continue to grow, and without immigration that will not be “the West.”
'Gib fish n. The male of the salmon. No single truth does not mean no truth.
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Birth rates are lowering *literally everywhere.* The only countries which keep growing in power will be the ones which continue to grow, and without immigration that will not be “the West.”
Satire is dead.
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.
Indeed. The Goat Herder’s Guide to the Galaxy.
congressional members of the GOP are an unholy coupling of careerism and abject fear of the man they purport to love
Why are so-called progressives up in arms about RFK. Jr., who I do not support, removing the head of the CDC yet said nothing when shitlib Phil Griffin removed me from the regular rotation on M$DNC? by Glenn Greenwald
Stephen Miller has the eyes of Joseph Goebbels, the eyes of a man born without a soul.
Peter Thiel is a first order threat to national security.
Believing all the January 6 bullshit aside, how dumb do you have to be to crawl through a broken window toward a cop WHO IS POINTING A GUN IN YOUR FACE TELLING YOU TO STOP? Really really fucking dumb..
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚
Israel has become the tomb of the Jewish soul.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
If children are gunned down while literally praying, I'm going to hazard a guess that additional thoughts and prayers are not going to be of much help.
Those Reform nutjobs reminded me: "Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, grabbing an Indian curry or Turkish kebab takeaway, then going home to sit on Swedish furniture & watch American shows on a Japanese TV, while being suspicious of anything foreign."
Bonus Quote of the Day politicalwire.com/2025/08/27/b...
OLLINS: But the Pentagon reviewed this wind project in 2023 & found that there were negligible national security impacts BURGUM: In particular there's concern about radar relative to undersea drones...people with bad ulterior motives to the US would launch a swarm drone attack through wind farms
Out, damned spot!
Our slide into authoritarian rule would not be possible without Trump's willing accomplices. William Pulte's corruption of the bureaucracy to single out the mortgages of Trump foes like Lisa Cook for "investigation" is the perfect example of this. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
"I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States." Les Etats-unis, c'est moi.
Nutlick, he shall be, now and forever. NUTLICK.
Snoop is a business, man.
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
Whenever I think about Trump supporters and wonder, "How could they be that stupid?" I remember this and recall, yes, easily, they *can* be that stupid.
The Civil War never ended. We just had a long half time. It's now over. Confederate Payback politicalwire.com/2025/08/26/c...
By overthrowing democracy and seizing control of big business, Trump is carrying out the right kind of revolution. by Susan Sarandon
Time to Stand Up and Fight politicalwire.com/2025/08/26/t...
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
The ubiquitous right wing talk about getting swooped up by gubmint "black helicopters" was always a form of aspirational projection masquerading as anti-government libertarianism.
As a Constitutional originalist, I have always believed strongly in states' rights. But only when the president is a Democrat.
just tell him if he forces Putin out of Ukraine the prize is his, otherwise forget about it Trump May Not Have the Votes for the Nobel Peace Prize politicalwire.com/2025/08/25/t...
What can Democrats do to communicate better with regular Americans? Josh Barro and Ross Douthat drop by to explain.
Still waiting for someone of prominence to admit it was not about eggs.
Mad Men?
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett. They need that kind of fire.
If the fossil fuel industry didn’t have our president and corporate America by the throat, we could have nice things like this too.
Trump's splotchy hand and swollen ankles raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
Yep. Cops dressing and acting like thugs, and thugs dressing and acting like cops dressing and acting like thugs, are a prescription for tragedy.
The latest thing Trump has done to DC: Scare the visitors away. Damaging all the businesses, large and small, that depend on them. Along the National Mall today, 1pm, on a stunningly beautiful Saturday afternoon in late August. (Article and more photos to come later today.)
We are days away from Bondi announcing they found a hidden note from Jeffrey Epstein.
the only talent they will need is undying fealty to mr trump
Dear Jen, if the people hit the streets en masse and the military does too, you really think the denouement will be impeachment, conviction and removal?
Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.
From yesterday, by me, on why Newsom is doing the right thing, right now. Save any talk about 2028 for later on. It's a distraction. We have to deal with the emergency in front of us. fallows.substack.com/p/which-side...
this should be posted on the door of every white christian fundamentalist church, just to make them have to confront for a second or two who they actually are behind all their daily posturing. this is their reality.
no comparison. Unlike Chick-fil-A, Cracker Barrel doesn't have anything to do with actual crackers.
Bonus Quote of the Day politicalwire.com/2025/08/19/b...
he calls them from a special phone booth in the middle of a cow pasture in rural New Jersey somewhere
what would these clowns be doing if there was no ICE? probably they'd be doing time.
Cool I guess, just so long as they don't start rollin' coal
or perhaps riding a triceratops
ask a fundamentalist what a coffel is. odds are they'll have no clue.
resist!
extraordinarily beautiful real photos of nature must now be accompanied by metadata or we can't believe them
we'll need to talk about duration
regrettably, in truth she's very active
Yeah but you're still here and now any TV show ever is available streaming. Forever.
of course, in the age of AI any given version of this will be accorded zero credibility by MAGA media, and thereby plausible doubt with our low information public
as if this isn't happening now and for a very long time everywhere across America
I don't know if Gav (yes, it's Gavin, but I get so many texts from him every day I feel like he's in my Ohana) is smart or stupid to be doing this, but I'm sure enjoying it.
How beautiful. God I hope Trump doesn't see this.
whitewashing in the most literal sense. boy, did Orwell call it.
If the intervention had promised him a Nobel premised on leading the removal of Russia from Ukraine, but otherwise absolutely no chance he'd ever get it, the problem would be solved.
tepid sound and fury, signifying nothing
For “warfighters” read “carpetlayers.”
these guys are all studies in ineptitude
and why not
The only reason any MAGA would not be sickened by this photo is they didn't see it. And they won't.
right now I like a weather vane that knows which way the wind is blowing
He's modeling right behavior. We should all put our Newsome baggage in storage (I have plenty) and give him the respect his behavior deserves right now. Maybe that will give other Dem politicians the courage to emulate him, and to reject Hakeem Jeffries and his absolute inability to read the room.
Trump's publisher rushed out a new, post-Alaska-Summit edition of "The Art of the Deal."
Saturday Afternoon Humor 🤪😜🤣
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.” — Antonio Gramsci
If you live in Ohio, SC or WV you should be complaining to your governor nonstop about this.
Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."
Ukrainians didn't surrender in 2014, when the world refused even to recognize russian aggression. Ukrainians didn't surrender in 2022, when the world expected us to fall in 72h. Ukrainians won't surrender in 2025, either. For us, freedom and sovereignty are not empty words.
Important.
is there a quick way to repost this 100 times?
identifying with the regime's politics is doubtless the most important, maybe even the only, hiring criterion
As Daniel Berrigan foresaw 50 years ago, Israel has become the tomb of the Jewish soul.
Not to mention, why rape victims don't report, or if they do, soon wish they hadn't.
