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"Trump, with his tacky, mobster-esque authoritarianism, values two things above all else: fealty and malleability. People with core, immutable values, people in public service, people who would sacrifice themselves for a cause — these are not people who can exist within the modern Republican Party."
🚨BREAKING: Utah Supreme Court REJECTS Republican legislatures’ motion to continue using existing congressional map. Lawmakers must present a new, fair map by Sept. 25. www.democracydocket.com/cases/utah-c...
wow
He really is treating him just like a son.
I feel like the last 48 hours have just been the entire world going full NYT Pitchbot. "Whether it's the people on the right saying we should shoot everyone on the left as terrorists, or the people on the left saying we should give everyone on the right health care, both sides are---"
House Dems should drop a ‘Charlie Kirk Gun Safety Act’ on the floor just to make Republicans go on record voting against it.
This is Sarah Sanders' AK! 23-year-old Mason Lee Gipson who raped and impregnated a child in Arkansas was sentenced to probation, a small fine and--get this--mandatory PARENTING CLASSES🤬🤯 Fuckin unbelievable. www.wwnytv.com/2025/07/18/m...
As I said elsewhere, the ONLY person Donald Trump cares about enough to stage a massive cover-up for on their behalf is…”Donald Trump.”
STOP THE TRUMP/BONDI COVER-UP RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
The reason everyone assumes Donny is implicated in the Epstein Files is that there is just one human being alive he cares enough about that he would cover things up on their behalf. “Himself.”
It’s shocking but yeah 🦋💙🦋 When these two are the good guys Republicans are in deep 💩
I’m pretty sure MAGA-Mike is himself in those files.
Good Christian, Mike Johnson, is protecting a cabal of sexual predators. One of those predators is Donald J. Trump who spent 15 years in the company of Jeffery Epstein and these young women. What a good Christian Mike Johnson is by doing everything he can to cover up for Donald Trump.
“(Stephen Miller:) The malformed space vampire from Buck Rogers, lurching through government like an animatronic prop. And the punchline is this: we’d all guffaw—howl, wheeze, piss-our-pants laugh—if this grotesque party-store monster didn’t actually have outsized influence over the lives we live.”
5 years ago.
The most important question about this utterly bullshit announcement, even if true, is whether Donald the Worst will himself be present and speaking when it’s made. Or whether he’ll be nodding mutely in the corner, possibly while wearing sunglasses. #WeekendAtDonnies
Let us pray 🙄
ATHEISTS We’re growing in numbers Get used to it.
I sorta knew Donald Trump would rather die than release the Epstein Files, but I didn’t think he meant it quite so literally.
When it comes to who is more trustworthy at predictions, I would observe that at least psychic mediums can do math. Unlike AI.
Sometimes, I amuse myself. I have decided that the correct thing to note when Orange Caligula gets something *right*, is not “Stopped clocks and all that” (which had been my default), but: “When monkeys are throwing shit at a wall, they inevitably hit the bullseye sometimes.”
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
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Not surprisingly, I agree with Carl.
Yes, I think it's fair to say that Jefferson Davis Vance is proverbially denser than a neutron star. They are also clearly too dense to realize that Gavin is mocking *them* too.
Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll have a heart attack and die from taking a walk.
There was far too much racism back then even in the North. My dad once opined that if Lincoln had just *let them go*, they likely would have come crawling back a few years later when it all imploded. And we could have had all the victory with none of the bloodshed, or moral courage. Worth it? 🤷♂️
Eyes on the prize. Save democracy *first* and worry about who the best Democratic Presidential candidate should be when we get to 2027 and 2028. Gavin Newsom is a useful attack dog right now. He can be *very good* when he has a target to punch up at.
just because gavin newsom is doing extremely useful things right now does not mean he will be the Democratic nominee, so calm your shit down. it's fucking 2025, not 2027, not everything is about who is running for president. right now, everything is about saving our right to vote for president.
Remember the victims. Remember the survivors. #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
On a broader scale, when Democrats push back, the house will be more representative of the popular vote. Do I have that right?
Trump is weak. The Epstein scandal has rocked him. The Economy is tanking. His poll numbers are dropping. This is when you FIGHT, not when you bend the knee and concede.
I guess Dean "Worst Superman" Cain probably did it for the signing bonus. His Christian supremacy movies must not be paying the bills anymore.
Trump's approval ratings are tanking. He hasn't done squat to help the working class. The Epstein scandal haunts him. He's a tyrant with his back against the wall, so he's lashing out with troops in DC and rigging elections in Texas. These are signs of weakness, not strength.
A former exec at Trump's Atlantic City casino told CNN that Epstein & Trump brought three under-21 girls to the gambling floor. Of course, Trump's White House calls it fabricated. Lying liars lie. #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
Here, fixed it.
Democrats, especially professional political Democrats, too often operate under the theory that we have a politically-engaged citizenry. We do not. Most people's reaction to jury duty is to try to get out of it. They don't watch the news. They barely vote. You cannot assume "The truth will out."
Probably. Maybe it's time we stop pretending the Civil War ever ended.
If hell exists, James Dobson is about to experience the ultimate Find Out. #FAFO
More of this please. NYT? Washington Post? You watching?
I have decided that, because he likes changing his name so much, our Vice President shall henceforth be known as: "Jefferson Davis Vance." I will be taking no further questions at this time.
Well Jefferson Davis Vance, Republicans decided it would be a good idea to shutter all the mental health facilities and turn people out on the streets to be cared for by "Christian charity." Turns out there isn't a lot of that in America. So they just go untreated. And that's how we got here.
Exactly. He lied. The mainstream media let him get away with lying, so his voters bought it. What part of me saying "they were misinformed" was unclear?
^^^This. Costco hasn’t caved, they just never sold it and the anti-mifepristone people are claiming it as a victory. It’s a little like declaring victory on family planning because Catholic Churches no longer dispense condoms.
Corruption is bad, and members of Congress shouldn’t trade stocks.
Honestly, the funniest thing about this is that over the past 50 years, there have been more Republican presidents who were male cheerleaders than those who have been in combat.
#ProudBlue Let’s not forget the files & the victims. Let’s keep fighting for them.
I’ll give the guy this: back when he had more of his marbles, Donny was a truly gifted con-artist and grifter, better than Joseph Smith or possibly even P.T. Barnum.
Once upon a time, Donald the Worst would just have been a carny barker, con-artist, or snake-oil salesman. Those used to be the only callings available to charismatic cranks. Well, I guess he could have started a religion. 🤔
And @barackobama.bsky.social was President. And Donny was answering his only real calling - as a game show host.
Trump and Republicans are gutting the VA. Thousands of doctors and caregivers fired. 7 million Veterans left hanging. The people who served this country are now paying the price for his cruelty. #DefendVeteransBenefits
But here’s the Big Question: Do the proponents of “A.I.” know this? Is it all a con-job? I don’t think so. I think the believers working on “AI” have bought their own hype. But I also think there will a lot of people who end up with egg on their faces. It’ll be Web 1.0, but worse. 2/2
Hot take: LLM AI’s aren’t going to “get better.” They’re not based on an algorithm that can improve. Their “accuracy” is a psychological trick: like the way people who go to psychics think their minds are being read. LLM’s won’t improve because they don’t learn. 1/2
After his trial runs in LA and DC, Trump is now reportedly planning to permanently keep 600 National Guard troops on standby to deploy into any American city facing protests. This is the stuff fascism is made of.
This is misinformation to rile you up about Costco. Costco never sold it and ADF is claiming victory over nothing.
Polestar 3 sets a Guinness World Record for longest drive by a production electric SUV—581.3 mi (935.4 km) on one charge. Achieved in the UK with a single-motor RWD model at 12.1 kWh/100 km. It’s the SUV champ, though the Lucid Air sedan still holds the overall EV record at 749 mi (1,205 km). #EVs
ALABAMA: “The verdict is in. The state’s tough immigration law just isn’t working out… American workers not mentally or physically fit enough to last one day…”
France has plans to adapt for 4C by 2100. But fossil-fuelled capitalists have plans to keep on making as much money as possible by burning our world right up to the collapse they know is coming. Temperatures will not stop at 4C. And our civilisation will not make it to 2100.
I think his support is probably about evenly split between the “don’t knows” and the “don’t cares.” I have no trouble believing that ~25% of the country are awful. The other 25% really are just that uninformed/misinformed.
It is mind-blowing this could be true and definitely constitutes journalistic malpractice on the part of the media.
🚨BREAKING: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling Thursday, striking down Louisiana’s state legislative maps for violating the Voting Rights Act. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
“The heatwave would have been impossible without human-caused climate breakdown.” We’ve had 1 year above 1.5C. Scientists warn of 4C+ in our kids’ lifetimes. Governments are in the pocket of fossil fuel lobbyists. & the public are distracted with inanity & bile. Blows my mind.
Here’s a big problem in the United States: Half the country thinks Kyle Rittenhouse is a hero and a guy who threw a sub should be jailed for life.
ICE is too tainted to be reformed. It must be abolished.
Clearly he thinks that the Norwegian government has influence because parliament selects the members of the Peace Prize Committee.
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee is based in Oslo, and its members are appointed by the Norwegian parliament, but: - It’s an independent body. - The Norwegian finance minister has no influence. - Trump is still an idiot.
If Donald ‘actually’ won the last election in a ‘landslide’, why would he need to be pressuring so many states to redraw their maps before the midterms? Yes, this is rhetorical. We know why.
Why do religious people always fall back on their bullshit: “If you pray to God for truth, you’ll believe.” Atheist: “Tried that. Didn’t work.” Theist: “Well, clearly you didn’t do it RIGHT.” Or, try this: maybe your imaginary friend isn’t real.
You’re back to “you must believe to believe.” Because, according to you, God won’t reveal the truth if I’m skeptical. And you know this because you believe it. Your “logic” is circular. I was a cradle Catholic, I went to parochial school, I was an altar boy. Been there, done that. Nothing.
Still waiting for you to present one shred of your so-called “evidence.”
Science is about “fact,” and explanations, not “truth.” If you could prove the existence of God with a scientific experiment, you’d be world famous. You can’t, you have assertions. I’ve heard no proof from you and no evidence, just the same tired old saw: “I believe it, therefore it’s true.”
Put another way, you didn’t go in to that field “open-minded, but with skepticism and rationality.” You went in to that field looking for proof the treasure was real. So of course you claim to have found it, even though you have nothing tangible you can point to.
- Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. - Theology is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there, and shouting "I found it!" - Science is like being in a dark room looking for a black cat while using a flashlight.
Sorry, Donald. Wrong again. Even Barr’s Justice Department rejected that false smear years ago. But while we are the subject of confidential information, how about releasing those Epstein files? We are still waiting…
I wonder what the Venn Diagram is of techbros (and others) who believe that LLMs are “A.I.” and those who buy into various forms of pseudoscience or religious hokum? Because I’m betting there’s a LOT of crossover.
How? What proved it to you? Because if one has to accept it first, you’re circumventing the hard part. “If you believe, you’ll find your proof” isn’t “evidence,” it’s a tautology. It’s also the first step in the mentalism con.
You don’t want to debate, you just want to preach. I am engaging in good faith. Provide your “evidence.” It must be verifiable.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney - addressing me directly - says there’s no such thing as prisoner work details outside the facility in the federal prison system. Yes there are. I have receipts.
Vladimir Putin is a skilled intelligence officer, trained in the dark arts of manipulation and deception. Donald Trump is an unapologetic moron who thinks Alaska is in Russia and that windmills cause noise cancer. Their meeting should go well.
HOPE WALZ (Gov. Walz’s daughter): “Kiss my a*s, Fox News. Y’all are so boring and typical… you have warped the realities of a large chunk of this country… you can tell Fox News thinks their viewers are stupid… Fox News - Y’all are fucking embarrassing. Get a life.”
Offhand, I’m gonna say it’s “Economists” who have credibility on the economy.
“Democrats should ignore the carping of corporate and Wall Street Democrats and embrace Mamdani and other young progressives as the future of the party.”
By all means, present your phenomenon, and your hypothesis that explains it. A valid scientific experiment looks to *disprove* a particular explanation for the phenomenon. If it *can’t* be disproved, it’s not a valid hypothesis. I shall attempt to disprove it. That’s the scientific method.
Now, the most ardent believers have drunk their own kool-aid. It happens. There are mentalists who think they have real powers, because they do their tricks instinctively. But that doesn’t mean they have supernatural powers, anymore than it means anyone gets special instructions from “God.” 3/3
Man created God in his image, not the other way around. “Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.” - Voltaire. I *know* you don’t get any special instructions from God because I don’t. You’re not special. If you want me to believe you are, you have to fucking prove it. 2/3
What “truth” is this? I’ve been around and around on this. I have debated it with Christian Brothers, Jesuits, and Paulists. I’ve read Aquinas, Pascal, Lewis, and many, MANY others. I even dated a Mormon and read through *their* book of fairy tales. And it all leads to the same place. 1/3
“Objection! Counsel is leading the witnesses.” “Sustained.”
Provide evidence for something we can’t explain any other way using things already proven to exist. Bonus points if you can predict outcomes accurately. And before you say “that’s impossible,” it’s exactly the same standard reasonable people apply to explaining every other phenomenon.
TLDR: “Personal subjective (and biased) experiences do not constitute proof.” Plenty of people before you have tried using reason to prove the existence of God, including Thomas Aquinas, Blaise Pascal, and C.S. Lewis. Most of them eventually get to “Faith is not about reason, it’s about belief.”
Now, are you an ahamsterist? Or do you believe in Giant space hamsters? That’s the crux. You’re trying to *prove* the existence of God, we’re demanding theists provide evidence, any evidence, that lacks a simpler (i.e. “real”) explanation. 5/5
There are many other things that flatten crops, from herds of rampaging animals, to weather events, to humans playing a prank before we get to aliens, giant space hamsters, or “God.” That’s what’s meant by “extraordinary evidence.” You must first disprove other, less-fantastical, explanations. 4/5
Is it POSSIBLE that those things are evidence of God? Yes, but the skeptic says “You need to fail to provide any better explanation.” Because that’s how reason works. If I go outside and see crops flattened, it would be unreasonable to assert it was caused by “Giant Space Hamsters.” 3/5
And, put bluntly, we have other explanations for those that are *better* explanations backed up by other evidence that they are real phenomena. Using “God” to explain a psychological event is like using “Zeus” to explain weather. Sure, it’s AN explanation, but there are better evidence ones. 2/5
None of what Christians call “evidence” meets the definition for evidence of the existence of “God.” What believers typically call “evidence” amounts to “spiritual experiences,” or, more accurately described, “good feelings. 1/5