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
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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
This is very true.
The one upside of this is that we never have to pretend Republicans believe in the constitution, freedom, states rights, freedom of speech, America, democracy, the economy, jobs, children, decency or family values ever again.
Yeah, bipartisanship is dead. We need openly partisan Democratic newspapers. We need I've Had It to be full on regime pilled.
Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast
Vance has no rizz. He will have trouble leading the rightoid herd.
Just another day in the land of war crimes and genocide. Just another day of silence from the west. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Trump has normal human feeling for only three people: Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and, for some reason, Theo Von
Sending in the troops to every American city just to die like two weeks later would be an incredible bit.
I think the right really made a mistake by not having any ideas or values whatsoever. They barely won the house. Trump is the only thing holding the house of cards up.
We must sit down every Republican and force them to watch the new Elephant Graveyard video A Clockwork Orange style.
I don't know why every Florida Democrat doesn't just move to Georgia and North Carolina.
The fact Ukraine still has an independence day in the 4th year of my 3 day war shows I remain a master strategist. #деньнезалежності
This is true that the Never Trumpers seemingly understand how bad the Republican Party is better than a lot of people on the left.
Donald Trump, who I do not support, has every right to investigate John Bolton,who I also do not support. by Glenn Greenwald
If you say that our govt has been taken over by literal nazi sadists trying to expel every non-white immigrant, imprison all the liberals, push Black people to sharecrop the fields, kill social security, ban birth control & let grown men marry 14 year old girls, no one believes you. But it's true.
This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day
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.
basically *everyone* bet the farm on "we can free ride morally and logistically on blue voters in swing states to prevent this guy from getting back into office" in order to avoid confronting the moral depravity of the massive portion of the electorate who want to do and see evil
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvR...
“Republicans always destroy the economy and are an anti-science death cult. That is why the Democrats should be more like them.”
What does that bozo even believe in other than laundering right wing talking points?
At the end of the Guilded Age was the Progressive era. We have to keep fighting.
Yes, I’m afraid it has to start at the state level. We need a new labor movement from the ground up.
Silicon Valley has not had a good product since like 2010.
Unfortunately at this point, any Democrat who can should leave Texas. It is a theocratic hellscape at this point.
Laura Loomer is one of the top five evil Americans.
A Centrist is just complicit at this point. They are corporate stooges who don't believe in anything.
Huh I thought it was nostalgia and latent racism
He cooked his brain on X the Everything App
Gerrymandering is an inelegant solution to the problem, but the only one we have. Unfortunately, the only real way to solve it, disenfranchisement of all Donald Trump 2024 voters, is not on the table.
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
Marx was on point with his analysis of the Lumpenprols.
I know it's cliche to point it out but if this happened with the other party in office the president would be impeached and likely executed.
In the last week, more than 200 veterans have volunteered to attend immigration hearings with Afghans who worked with U.S. forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan, according to Kyleanne Hunter, CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. #OnYourSide www.kpbs.org/news/border-...
Stiff competition but this may be the worst vibe July 4th in my many centuries of existence
I did not like the era of "musicians and actors should never express political opinions and should quietly exist as ideological homogenized mannequins that happen to make art" and I'll be thrilled if our dance with authoritarianism results in an actual counter-culture with teeth
it was always destined to get here, it was just that enough people were not aware of or educated on the fascist zionist project. but you can't commit a livestreamed genocide & not have people become aware of exactly how vile and depraved your bullshit ideology is.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/o...
Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it
Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly
After 70 years of trying to show that the self-destructive and society-destroying capitalism that Marx described didn't necessarily follow from private ownership of the means of production, we've had a generation of capitalists trying to prove Marx right.
No Kings includes Draft Kings
The Trump Administration is just George W. Bush but with added destruction of science sprinkled in.
RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview
All Western institutions have failed. It is a very bleak time.
congratulations assholes, you’ve bullied Gavin into getting off his right wing podcast circuit and back to pretending to care about his constituents again that’s a hell of a fuckup on your part
new york democrat: corruption is BAD. we should RID the city of these VENAL LIARS and make PROGRESS new york democrat after encountering one hundred US dollars: today i would like to announce my support for corruption
In 1936, FDR closed out his re-election campaign by bragging to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that “organized money” hated him “and I welcome their hatred.” He took 60% of the vote in a 523-8 electoral college landslide. FDR knew having the right enemies could be a useful thing.
For some reason immediately thought of this tweet
Elon schizoposting himself into federal prison a minimum of three and a half years before Democrats would have even had the chance
Shareholders haven't traded on fundamentals since the Pet Rock went public. Probably longer than that.
all of this, on the holiest of days no less.
The important thing as this Trump v. Musk feud escalates is that I want them and their teams and all of their supporters to suffer as much pain and humiliation and degradation as is possible, and I feel as if a few strokes and fistfights and the odd stabbing would be proportional as well
I've been saying it: SpaceX is unprofitable, and as of the first quarter so is Tesla (ex-ZEV credits). Elon is all-in bluffing the president of the United States with a hand consisting of a two of diamonds and a business card from a clown college.
Best day since Prizoghin got drunk and started marching on Moscow
If I were Grand Vizier, I would simply never fall out of favor. I would always be in the emperor's good graces. I would never be blamed for bad policies. I would outsmart all of my rivals. I wouldn't be ousted. I simply wouldn't be.
Posting for no particular reason at all.
This is a big day for couples that are one super online person and one normal
today
Mike Johnson’s district is the 419th in the country in terms and of wealth and he is playing phone tag with demented billionaires.
Xi is aggressively owning trump right now and Xi isn’t even really doing anything; it’s like when I’m playing tag with my toddler, I just walk slowly and wait for him to trip on his own foot
its really funny how cillizza can't reason outwards from anything more than a few feet outside his own experience. "I was a huge dipshit who lost his high paid legacy media job -> therefore this is happening to everyone and is the lens to view every new development through"
😕 pretty much
Ah yes, the ideological capture of our universities has been known to churn out the radicals who have led this country to 50 straight years of deregulation, privatization, and financialization! Soon this country may as well be Communist!
I decided to stay out of politics. Here’s why I went on a 30 tweet bender about politics last night. by Elon Musk
It is an administration of deranged criminal ghouls and goblins.
I started writing something important to me tonight. Not really sure what it is, but I’ll share the end of it. Watching the tech industry do what it’s doing sickens me, and I want people to know why.
They need to read FDR's renomination speech from 1936. What is the point in even voting for the opposition party when it stands for everything Americans have hated for 40 years? The most "woke" campaigns the democrats ran were 2008 and 2020 and they won easily.
A large portion of the U.S. population bases their entire worldview off of the Bible.
“Who needs a good story” said no well-adjusted human ever.
Matt Stoller, Matt Yglesias, and Jake Tapper should be sent on a spaceship into the sun.
Axios is a steaming pile of dogshit of a publication.
Every single one of these people are sick and should be escorted out of the country by fighter jet.
"CentristFest" off to a predictable start: —Condescending ("Politics" isn't changing people's minds, it's treating them like Unchangeable Rubes) —No conviction (if polls say people don't like something, why fight for it?) —Lies (Don't Say Gay bill actually polled *negatively*)
why it's almost as if the entire abundance argument is a bad faith attempt to pre-empt genuine progressive reform as a counter to authoritarianism, instead replattering stale 90s vibes-based deregulatory corporatism as if it wasn't directly responsible for bringing us here in the first place
AI is Getting Worse, but It's Getting Worse
Garrison’s The Liberator was founded in 1831.
The problem with Matt Yglesias is that his politics would be talking down to the abolitionists in the 1840s.
I'm only half-watching this Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, but it is hard to overstate how unprepared the committee's Democrats are to fight these nominees. A bunch of elderly statesmen bringing decorum to a gunfight. Pathetic. Get these losers out of my face forever.
Unitary executive theory except for the fed chair is the funniest constitutional theory
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In this Florida tattoo parlor/strip club/gun store, hurricane season still means when the U of Miami starts playing games. But they do know this: Under Trump, FEMA has finally rid itself of pointy headed scientists talking down to Americans with their elitist facts.
Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?
there’s a valuable lesson here for democrats in that voters want politicians to be bold and clearly stand FOR SOMETHING but i have a feeling democrats will continue opening TACO trucks in front of the white house or begging for war with iran instead sadly
Yes. They know a Republican can't get elected in a general election citywide so back the most corrupt or right wing Dem they can with huge amounts of money. The media happily plays along and still pretends Cuomo is a "liberal" even tho the constituency he actually represents is bosses and landlords
Part of why we're in this situation is because places like @axios.com only quote Republicans on fiscal issues, like in this article, which quotes only Republican officials & politicians and Jaime Dimon, who said "get over it" about Trump's tariffs, which caused this problem (which isn't mentioned).
People whose business models can’t exist without free money respond to ZIRP dying by pivoting to a sector where you can get free money from the government. This isn’t new or limited to defense; Ross Perot made his fortune with Medicare claim processing contracts (which he may have overcharged for).
Republicans up to the time of Eisenhower seemed to be trying to prove that capitalism promoted human dignity and well-being. Republicans from Reagan to the present seem to be trying to prove the opposite.
spoiler: no
Honestly, when you get to interview folks like this, the interesting things to ask are less about what was going on behind the scenes than why they chose this work in the first place. "Why did you decide to take and stay in a job that had you lying to people every day? Let's unpack that."
lol
Conservatives just want to force their beliefs on their children they don’t want them to be their own person.
This hurts