Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
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Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
looks like i'm no longer allowed to self-identify as the worst parallel parker in the world
Love that one. Also very fond of "Sweetness Follows" and "Me in Honey" among their slightly less well-known tracks.
Aw, man. One of those guys who was never an unwelcome presence in anything.
ordered the necromorph platter
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
Republicans are on the side of mass shooters. bsky.app/profile/jaso...
checking out the festival reviews and thinking it seems bold of the industry to decide that Sinners is going to be the only really good movie this year
how in the world is this just now the first time i'm seeing this
pretty much all of the cameos in Popstar
I feel like people have been proclaiming his imminent demise for like eight years now.
A Trump voter imprisons your neighbor it’s law and order. Kicks their gay kid out its religious conviction. Shoots you dead it’s self defense. Kidnaps you, it’s border security. Invades your town, it’s fighting crime. Tell them you don’t like them anymore, it was all just “political views.”
would be interested in what percentage of right wingers think disowning your child for being, e.g., trans is totally fine
I think that might have been THE single most under-reported story of the first Trump administration.
ok i'll get right on that
Thank god.
More of this, please.
We will be jettisoning trans rights from the Dem Party platform over my room-temperature fucking corpse. We are leaving no one behind, and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise. A core tenet of American identity is that we, not the government, define ourselves. All of us get protections or none of us do
12 whole fucking years of our lives of non-stop assault on our minds & values & bodies by one single maniac. Average kid starting college this fall has this nefarious presence for the majority of their lives.
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anyone who uses tragedy to attempt to take away trans health care is a genocidal maniac who wants to inflict pain on an entire community
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House Democrats could force a vote on impeaching RFK any time they want. Of course it would fail. But do you want to make an issue of it or not?
This is such a no-brainer that the lack of a coordinated response feels deeply damning. A Democratic leadership team that can't mobilize an instant all-hands-on-deck effort on RFK Jr. isn't a leadership team at all.
I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”
"On that day, many will say to me, 'Lord, lord.'" www.wunc.org/2025-08-26/a...
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
It's never been clearer whose side you should be on. bsky.app/profile/cram...
“Enjoy the camps,” they say, not seeming to realize the person they’re talking to is heading there either way. What they’re really saying is “Please sign off on it so I don’t have to go too.” And you’d think that would be a situation they might at least approach with some compassion.
This really is the thing that gets me: this crowd is frequently rude, combative, and condescending toward trans people despite the fact that they’re essentially asking them to lay down their lives for the cause. They rarely seem to understand what it is they’re asking for.
a huge point that decorum-obsessed Democrats are missing is that everyone I know is literally boiling with rage 24/7 watching their country fall to fascism and desperately want to hear a politician acknowledge that and say "I am also angry"
There is no conceivable interpretation of the law of war in which a camera set up nearby legitimizes a mass casualty double tap strike on a protected civilian site like a hospital. The fact that Israel is citing it as if it meets some standard should, by itself, trigger a halt in weapons to Israel.
The world leader who spends multiple consecutive days passionately arguing that people want him to be a dictator probably has designs on exactly that; it ain't complicated.
I give it a couple weeks, at most, before the obligatory "I'm not a dictator, by the way" part of this gets dropped. bsky.app/profile/atru...
My family had a large litter of yellow lab puppies once, and it was exactly like this; they were so much fun. Miss those little dudes.
the weirdest thing about having a visible injury is the number of people who tell you "yeah, my foot's been hurting me lately, too" like that's something you're going to read as sympathy and not "oh, let me fetch the world's smallest violin"
this why i’m in the “primary everyone” camp. jeffries and schumer have been bad, but they’re more a symptom than the underlying disease. the controlling faction(s) of the party are committed to an untenable, elitist, and undemocratic vision of politics, and we need to change that
If you can't vocally, thoroughly, and unflinchingly condemn the military occupation of U.S. cities, you haven't earned the right to hold power.
Glad A24's got it this time, because Netflix did not treat Rebel Ridge right.
It's hard to take that because of a 1.5 percent margin in one election, our country will now commit suicide -- and take a good chunk of the rest of the world down with it.
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king. They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
what they want, their campaign wet dream, is to run a campaign against a candidate so unpopular that they dont have to do anything or promise us anything and get to just coast through their term renaming post offices. this is the dream of the people leading the opposition party
Lying in a recliner full-on shouting the answers to Um Actually questions at the television while there are people elsewhere in the house.
Today I spent half an hour trying to spin a top on the back of my hand.
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Because they create power structures that make it easier to get away with.
I don't think it was a financial decision at all. It was all about having power over other human beings, especially their own workers and servants, and MeToo, BLM and 3% unemployment all were huge threats to that power.
Sorry, that’s not what I meant — I was referring to people treating Newsom like the inevitable 2028 nominee. I’m refusing to vote for him too.
Trump has pretty much confirmed Chicago is next, so soon the spotlight will turn to Pritzker and he'll get the same boost. And I suspect, or at least hope, he'll do a lot more with it. Under Trump, a couple days can be a lifetime in politics; we have to stop surrendering to seeming inevitabilities.
We absolutely need to stop Newsom from getting the nomination, but also I think people are scaring themselves a little too much right now. California is under attack, Newsom is in the spotlight, naturally he's enjoying a surge in popularity over it.
He writes the same way I did at 15 years old when I was self-consciously trying to be a "good" writer.
Starting to understand how normal people lost their minds during COVID.
I have really got to figure out this having a broken foot thing without just doomscrolling all day.
It’s a boring answer, but seeing Star Wars as a child and having that realization of “You mean you can just make stuff up?! Anything you want?!” basically built my future self.
It's worth reiterating that the administration has never wavered from the position that it sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to an El Salvador prison by accident. Everything they've done since is calculated to obscure that and punish him for existing as an example of their own stupidity and callousness.
we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage
I'm a huge Jack White fan, and this has all come as great relief to me because honestly he was pretty high on my list of celebrities likely to do a villain turn in this era.
the era of small government is over and we can either have armed thugs with badges disappearing people or universal health care and high speed rail
A whole lot of not-very-tech-savvy people will be able to casually tell you what a VPN is within a year or two, I suspect.
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i love adore and i'm not sorry
every day on this planet I am just hemorrhaging brain cells
I...know I'm probably happier not knowing, but I can't help myself, so: to be clear, Cracker Barrel did not change their logo for political reasons, right? I'm not aware of any controversy about their old one. Is this just the way things are now? Something is different, must be Wokeness did it?
You can think what you want, but from where I sit there is no indication Trump intends on giving up power in 2028, and we should just assume he’s not.
This is the exact way I talk to my 6-year-old nephew.
just need one reporter to ask him to name these wars. just one
It’s fun to live in times where I could wake up one morning and find out we’re now at war with some country that wasn’t even on my radar the night before.
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
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Maple’s Pet Dinosaur is an excellent band name.
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.
Florida government sides with the Pulse shooter
just announced: economic suicide
"We've created one of the most anti human, pro capital nations on earth. What gives? Why are ppl dying earlier???"
Every single person who thinks a trans person should just pipe down until we restore democracy is, in my view, an enemy of democracy. I’m not doing it.
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God, we’re going to *destroy* our children if no one pumps the brakes on this.
just thinking about it makes me so angry. the worst kind of open race baiting in american politics since george wallace.
if you can't sell the american public on the idea that federal troops in the streets is fundamentally unacceptable then you have no business being in politics. and if you do not forcibly believe this at your core such that you can't shut up about it, that goes double for you
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I'm to the point where I'm not sure I'd trust a Democratic candidate who *didn't* get the Mamdani treatment from the establishment.
Yeah, like, I sure hope they do but I’ll believe it when I see it.
Just trying to remember that there was a time not long ago when Cuomo looked inevitable.
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Genuinely impossible to tell reality from The Onion at a glance anymore.
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I mean, I also no longer trust government stats, but definitely not for the reason this guy wants.
I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law
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It does make for an interesting thought experiment for how we'd handle it if tomorrow he stepped up to the podium and abolished ICE, ended U.S. support for Israel in Gaza, welcomed refugees, fired Kennedy/Hegseth/etc. It won't happen, but I am curious what it would do to our brains.
Most recent movie that did that to me was Dangerously Animals. Only gave it three stars, but also walked away quite satisfied.
the Trump 2.0 project is best understood as a national reimposition of Jim Crow
His only hope is that the universalists are right.
"oh they're distracting us with culture war issues" they're literally rewriting history if they want to fight a culture war, let's fight a culture war, we can win
More seriously: You cannot reckon with the current attacks on science without reckoning with the recent history of attacks on gender-affirming medicine. Conservatives were validated by the New York Times in a vibes-based overthrow of good science, emboldening them to move on to all areas of science.