the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
I didn’t really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
Did someone need a baby goat video?? 😊 #bluesky #nature #animals
And it’s not just him! It’s also all the sociopaths he has appointed to do his dirty work.
I dunno about the family part, tbh. I mean one or two would be nice …
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“pass around party bottom” made me LOL for real
Or offer at least a half dozen paid vacations during that time?
Well, sure, but think about what happens when he does.
Indeed. Did you see the pic of him this morning as he was departing for “golfing”?
Remember when Trump pushed (successfully) for the fast development of a Covid vaccine? Good times.
Excellent point.
Maybe this is where Trump has gone? It’s the group he’s been trying to join.
I feel the same way. Significantly, it seems unlikely that the congressional GOP, although they won’t suddenly not be fascists, would fear, much less revere him as they do Trump. After all, he was so recently their very junior colleague.
Sure, if by “at this point” you mean starting in 2016 and continuously since.
My fear is that Vance will be a more competent and ruthless dictator.
Done!
Precisely!
Speaking of NYT failures: The other day NYT (led by right wing propagandist Devlin Barrett) went thru hoops to normalize the investigation of John Bolton. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/28/k...
y’all know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right? y’all know why they did it y’all know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else y’all see what’s right in front of you, right?
So maybe like … in three days?
Not only that, but they are convinced we are lying, feigning our outrage, that we secretly think as they do. 30 years of Fox has fomented and reinforced this belief through constant repetition.
If you want to understand what’s going on with Trump, read this whole thread posted here by @gtconway.bsky.social:
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JFC
Remember, in 2020 Trump threatened to use use law enforcement to interfere with the election Roger Stone wanted Trump to use active duty military, the FBI, and US Marshals to interfere with the election & stop state officials from counting votes This time around he is putting everything in place
The same way he can get them to redistrict? Or the same way he thinks he can dictate state voting laws?
Or maybe in the kind of acid he’s better known for? Just asking questions.
"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." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
Oh look, it's the thing every fascist government says about the opposition party before they dissolve them and turn the country into a one party state.
Seriously. Seems perfect for suckers and losers, amirite?
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
That’s a rhetorical question, right?
Also, his answer was a big fat lie.
every day
“What we are seeing is not merely a “slide toward authoritarianism.” It’s a march toward despotism. And it’s a march whose pace is accelerating.” www.thebulwark.com/p/despotism-...
Every accusation is a confession, etc.
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Right?!?
It doesn’t matter. Not withstanding his current ailment, he won’t believe us.
Let him “speak”!
And that’s just the beginning!
Hope is what we do when the odds are long and the options limited. It is the stubborn act of trying when despair feels easier. Rather than a passive optimism, hope is the commitment of those who believe they can make a difference, however small. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
Fascism at “work”.
#NPD
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Not so sure Noem is playacting her ignorance though …
Emboldened by the alliance with our government that serves them so well?
Well, I now love her.
Fascism is sucking the life out of *our* nation’s beautiful capital city: open.substack.com/pub/fallows/...
They shame US all. So wildly un-American.
One of the best things about moving to Orlando was getting to live in his district. Finally truly proud of my U.S. Rep.
If I lived in NYC, I would totally do this. Make politics fun again!
By David Brooks
You may feel powerless right now, but even a simple act, like signing this petition, sends a clear message to Congress and state legislators: We will not accept this. We demand transparency. We demand accountability. www.thepetitionsite.com/342/682/739/...
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." . ~Alice Walker
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And they’ve been doing it for over a quarter of a century, ever since Gingrich taught them that was how to win elections.
Me too
Kudos to him though, before the FBI raids his house.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
I know about his armies, but him personally? I’ve missed that …
Do we know any stories about Putin as a rapist?
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💯
A lot of us didn’t laugh—ever. It was evil from inception, but free.
Good, but shouldn’t all the medals be gold?
In the bookshop this morning: PARENTS: “Okay, we’re leaving now.” CHILD: *pulls another book from the shelf and sits down * CHILD: “Then I guess this is goodbye.”
In the dead of night, Ron DeSantis ordered the rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse memorial painted over — defacing a sacred space in the heart of Orlando that honors the 49 lives stolen in one of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history.
No, yours was www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/s...
Wow. Talk about extreme narcissism on display.
Truth. Ugly truth.
The people who spend all their time warning that the gays and the trans are coming for your kids are, in point of fact, coming for your kids.
#NPD
😂
#NPD
They can’t give up something they never started.
Extreme #NPD, now de compensating on screens and in the streets of our once great country.
Not a (known) drag queen?!? And AGAIN. JFC.
Did Microsoft have any input into this?
Correct. As a Floridian then in Miami and around his age, I have followed his career from the beginning and never bought the illusion. I thought then and think now that permanent Florida student council president would have been his highest and best use.
I'm less enamored of narratives of US superiority than I once was, but it has always been Republicans' whole shit. The fact they are not only willing to sacrifice it, but actually celebrate doing so, in order to entrench white supremacist authoritarianism shows what they've always truly been about.
Repost if you think it's time to ban members of Congress from trading stocks.
I accept the point as made but would argue that the underlying reason for how dearly we are paying is the consistent weakness and timidity of Democratic “leadership”. They largely never had his back.
Well, I do. However, as my beagle bff likes to say, I’m like a million in dog years.
Right?!?
This seems unkind to gelatin and yet … apt.
I graduated from this law school in 1988 along with several black women classmates. I think maybe you misunderstood the post that I was commenting on and thus also my disgust with the action of my law school?
He was never a normal person with principles.
He. Had. No. Principles. He only had stated views that seemed safe enough to him at the time.
So the deep state are sandwich throwers?
“Why yes, Mr. Lincoln, the South did rise again.”
These puns are so cheesy.
open.substack.com/pub/oliverwi...
And as to #7, this phenomenon will not be at all limited to the United States.
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I’m told he’s already filed to run again for Senate in 2030. My guess is that’s about raising money. But the point is that pointing to his age does not in fact “speak for itself”.
JFC