Who could possibly have foreseen?
Who could possibly have foreseen?
I am from Missouri and do politics for my job, and am just now learning of this sit-in to protest attempted RW seat-stealing.
Wild how normalized the words "safe parking lot for unhoused schoolchildren" have become in this country.
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
So I'm grumpy that we seem to be once again creating a dynamic in our party where the people who got to the right answer sooner are marginalized for doing so, while people who were wrong get credit for changing their minds once it became obvious they were wrong. (See also NAFTA, Iraq War, Gaza.)
If Dems do get power again they will do this with Tariffs. That's why Trump is forcing them through and ensuring his inner circle has the 'fulcrum' seat. It is going to be a vital line item to keeping the Government running no matter whom is in power, but Trump's ppl are now benefitting up & down.
They live in a fantasy world if they believe they can have soaring profits while no one else has a job. Like who do they think is going to buy their products and services when nobody has a job?
Just a reminder that we were told over and over that Democrats had to get tough on immigration in order to win elections and then they ate shit and voters have just continually moved in the opposite direction. It’s a racket. Top to bottom. Moderates more concerned with money than any of our fates.
1,000 leftists: this policy is dogshit, it will kill children Liberals: shut the fuck up 1 nazi: this policy is dogshit, it doesn't murder enough children liberals: Welcome to the resistance
A ground stop for VIP movements from Andrew’s Air Force bace in Maryland according to the FAA website.
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
Another absolute banger from @boltsmag.org and @taniel.bsky.social . If we win this war, it's going to be because we've fought one local battle at a time.
Personally, I think the implied threat of a military takeover of an American city is worse than an AI drawing of a man wearing a stetson. But what do I know
Ok so we could be exactly like them let’s do it
Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
I'm not gonna learn what abundance is and neither are most of the voters they're gonna vote on vibes like they always do go JB Pritzker
we’re going to have to throw a lot of people in jail after all this is over
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.
Centrists “Karl stop being so hyperbolic the republicans aren’t waging war against the population stop telling people the republicans are gearing up to wage civil conflict”. The republicans :
Building more housing could decrease rents but the system we have incentivizes development to maximize ROI, not to create affordable housing. Developers will not build to the point where it lowers their ROI.
After people left the city* Housing is still unaffordable, homelessness is still rising, and as your article stated, the benefits are temporary because development stopped when rents lowered. So best case scenario this strategy hasn’t solved the actual problems and its benefits are temporary.
It’s a quote from real estate and housing economist Danielle Hale.
Yeah if only we just create another pandemic and then recall all of our remote workers every time we need rent to be cheaper this will work everywhere:
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
I wonder if they’re starting to understand that the anti vax stuff is killing off their supporters and this is a way to try to get them to come back to reality a bit.
He gives them money because they work for him, it’s pretty obvious.
They’re just making worse versions of what we already have by setting piles of cash on fire.
This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want. It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.
Why do thy all sound like characters from a pirate novella
if you are inclined to puppy-kicking, why would you ever sign on to anything but the maximalist position there? these voters are not gettable meanwhile, anyone who has a conscience will be demoralized by the barbarity someone shove this study in the face of everyone running as a Dem
Bottom line: No - accommodation *does not* help social democratic parties. Yes, it *does* hurt them.
The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.
Using a triple-differences model, we show that the biggest negative effect of turning right was among the party’s own supporters
If the objective was to win support and squash the electoral chances of Reform UK, then the strategy had the opposite effects. ❌ Labour’s vote intentions dropped ❌ Reform UK vote intentions unchanged (or at worse better)
on the one hand you have a bunch of voters who do not want to kick puppies on the other hand you have the gleeful puppy-kicking party "we should kick puppies, but responsibly" is and has always been a terrible strategy, and now we have a study backing it up
so Department of War is more like a nickname. like, DOD’s teacher wouldn’t be allowed to call it Department of War in Florida.
"It's only then you realize while you're talking about organizing and committees, the extermination has already begun."
okay who had "director of DOJ" plus "honey pot" plus "hinge" plus "Epstein"?
[samuel l jackson voice] i have had it with this mother-fucking worm in this mother-fucker's head
Really starting to understand why they’re not normally allowed to get that old
I pondered the question of why people to my left get so angry at me, now off to my big pundit event where I share the bill with Nazis as we explore our overlapping policy vision
there arent many jobs out there where you can admit to being this fucking stupid and keep your job but i guess energy secretary is one of them
Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
RIP CBS News
Roberts is the political fray
Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
Harassment is not activism.
So sick of these centrist impurity tests. Not everyone can meet your standards of being a huge piece of shit, sometimes you have to just grit your teeth and vote for someone good even if that goes against your principles
Trump can lose in the streets, in the polls, and even in the courts, but he's finding victory in Democratic politicians and leaders of elite institutes working hand in glove to rubber stamp, expand, and streamline his push towards authoritarianism.
"Carlson and his fellow travelers on the far right correctly identify the Second World War as a pivot point in America’s understanding of itself... Today, a growing constituency on the right wants the nation to unlearn them." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
"did you know a baby can commit premeditated murder?"
Yeah he’s definitely corrupt
this is what annoys me so much when JD Vance does his anti multiculturalism ranting too. Like bro you are a Catholic convert married to a Hindu woman either stop lecturing me about how the founding fathers didn’t want a pluralistic society or stop living your life like pluralism is fine!
The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team
A story about Meta’s community standards.
Conservatives getting mad that del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN is too critical of the doctor and too sympathetic to the monster is the kind of shit that doesn't even play as a joke. It's too stupid to laugh at.
there is *no* organic push for Gavin Newsom. there is marketing and there are marks. if you're caping for Newsom and not getting paid, I've got bad news about which one of those you are.
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
If my mockery is cruel it’s only in direct proportion to the danger these foolish people have placed us in.
This is literally word for word right-wing propaganda:
Literal nazi propaganda coming from A sitting congressman claiming America is a fascist country and always has been on national tv Literal verbatim nazi and white nationalist revisionism propaganda America is fully through the fascist looking glass and if we do not act we will never recover.
Happy to take the birthrate people seriously the second one of them is like omg, have you seen the black infant mortality death rate? We’re losing out on so many lovely black babies!
theres nazi guys on twitter, in their moment of ascendancy both on that platform and in the country broadly, who still need to come here to screencap just to feel something
1) There’s a lot of crime because there’s a lot of people. That’s how numbers work. Theres less crime now. 2) The Chicago metro population is ranked 7th in growth 3) the Chicago metro population is ranked 7th in growth
Maybe read the articles you share? These numbers are estimates from mid 2023 that have been revised to show a reversal of that trend because of the hard work of the mayor and governor: greatcities.uic.edu/2025/05/15/c....
Are you ok buddy? It doesn’t seem like you remember what you’re arguing about here.
Lmao. Read this headline again.
You said people were leaving Chicago because of the crime. Crime is down and their population is up. You’re clearly a moron.
Relatedly, as Palestinians have been saying, what they are being subjected to by Israel and the U.S. will not end with them
Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted. One officer who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter now has a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast.
“Alleged” meaning they have no idea
your base does not want you to find common ground with trump it wants you to put him in magneto jail
A key lesson of Watergate was that the lawyers have to go to prison.
He’s also just not a good candidate. The right hates him. The left hates him. The center starts every argument for him with an “I know everyone else hates him, but… ” They have to know this is a bad idea right?
I’m saying I won’t vote for Gavin Newsom because I won’t vote for Gavin Newsom, I don’t really expect Dems to make a smart political decision either way.
twitter libs will be like "I'd rather stay with nazis than go to bluesky with the lefties" and think that says something about the lefties
it’s so cool that we had 2 incredibly unwell, close to death presidents in a row
We no longer call it ‘micropenis’ from here on out it is Bone-Petite.
Certain media types hate this place because, while they of course also get treated like shit on twitter, only like 1% of people on twitter even know who the fuck they are. But on here every single user knows them and despises them
It’s going to be fun watching Republicans do for Trump what Democrats did for Biden
Have they tried draining 40 percent of Trumps blood? That’s what they did for George Washington.
www.lawcommentary.com/articles/sup...
People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
It is “we” though, you’re just so insulated from reality you don’t see how much the average person despises AI.
I like this site but it would be a lot better without these fucking nerds showing up every few months to tell us we're not using the Internet right.
All of these lines could have been in Get Out
Rudy’s statement makes him look more guilty of something than the police statement does.
with trump and giuliani edging right up to the border of death, the comedic rule of threes now screams for blood
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
I’m here at BWI Airport to say, “Hey hey, ho ho! Avelo and ICE have got to go!” #AveloOutofBWI
Ok so why are you arguing with the people doing that?
How do you not understand yet that this is losing democrats more votes than it’s gaining them?
