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Political violence is not an incidental risk which they are merely negligent about managing and policing. It is their Schmittian central premise. Political violence against their enemies is the ideology itself. That's what illiberal populism is. There's no such thing as a peaceful form of it.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Man, if only they’d tried this several times and we could see how it actually panned out

submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

Credit where it’s due: Scott Galloway cooked here

submitted 12 days ago • 288 comments

Once again I am calling for Democrats to introduce legislation requiring standardized uniforms, visible badge numbers with names, as well as a requirement for ICE and DHS agents to present proof that there is enough danger present to be masked to a judge when they get their warrant.

submitted 13 days ago • 58 comments

The world's richest 1% have captured two-thirds of all new wealth created since 2020 and emit two-thirds of all greenhouse gases. Implementing a global wealth tax would give governments the revenue they need to build carbon free infrastructure while easing emissions and safeguarding democracy.

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

People who claim to be concerned about the issue of a president in cognitive decline whose focus today stays on the former rather than the current president are lying.

submitted 28 days ago • 33 comments

Republicans in Congress are backing a bill that gives away an insane amount of congressional power to their Lord and Savior Donald Trump. Remember that the next time you hear a MAGA representative call someone else a "weak beta soy cuck" or whatever the current junior high insult is.

submitted 29 days ago • 23 comments

The GOP’s big bill—under consideration this week—would be an accelerator of inequality: It would reduce after-tax income for the poorest 20% of households by 10%, increase incomes for the wealthiest, and impose senseless work requirements for Medicaid, all while increasing the debt by $3 trillion.

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

threatening one of the most beloved living american musicians is an interesting strategy, let’s see how it plays out!

submitted 32 days ago • 67 comments

Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.

submitted 33 days ago • 85 comments

A new report finds the bottom 60% of U.S. households—or two-thirds of the population—can't afford a “minimal quality of life": housing, health care, and other necessities. "Indicators like GDP and unemployment tell us the economy is thriving. But they don’t reflect the reality of most Americans."

submitted 34 days ago • 53 comments

correct, and it’s because trump is a neo-nazi, sees common cause with international neo-nazi parties, and by extension every single person working in his administration, including rubio, is a neo-nazi. imo you could go so far as to say that every single federal elected republican is a neo-nazi too

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

submitted 55 days ago • 84 comments

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

submitted 55 days ago • 659 comments

🚨NEWS: New documents show Cigna just paid a departing executive $10 million in severance - as the company denied 1 in 5 in-network medical claims on ACA plans and now faces a lawsuit alleging that it systemically denied patients coverage.

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that you are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back? The answer is due process.

submitted 62 days ago • 268 comments

Yup. They'll send a legitimately awful US citizen to CECOT, and anyone who criticizes it will be accused of supporting the awful person... and then they'll send someone slightly less awful. Eventually, they'll have established that they can send anyone.

submitted 63 days ago • 59 comments

If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?

submitted 69 days ago • 624 comments

This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one

submitted 71 days ago • 107 comments

Must read from @jvl.bsky.social . www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

submitted 74 days ago • 99 comments

This is just called being a Truman democrat. A strong, integrated military. Robust support for the Atlantic Alliance. Bloodless, flannel suit wearing killers in the IC. Aggressive civil rights reforms and national health insurance at home, the Marshall Plan abroad. And a 91% marginal tax rate.

submitted 79 days ago • 22 comments

Congrats to the White House correspondents who failed to stand in solidarity with the AP and now get to stand by their new peer, a dipshit podcaster and Putin stooge. Dont complain, you earned this.

submitted 81 days ago • 206 comments

Goldman's Q1 estimates in recent weeks have gone from 1.8% .. .. to 1.6% .. to 1.3% .. to 1.0% .. to 0.6%.

submitted 81 days ago • 88 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 83 days ago • 1901 comments

Stats on today’s 15-year anniversary of Dems marginalizing single payer in favor of passing the ACA: “Health insurers raked in $371 billion in profits since the ACA’s passage…The average families’ premiums have risen to nearly $26,000 a year.” www.levernews.com/health-insur...

submitted 86 days ago • 4 comments

The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

submitted 87 days ago • 328 comments

The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.

submitted 88 days ago • 1279 comments

Reminder - Social Security is your money. You pay into it so you can collect it later. If the government shuts it down on a whim, without paying you back, that is theft.

submitted 87 days ago • 75 comments

This was always where it was going to go: when the President claims it can detain and remove anyone without judicial review or due process, they will try to deport and remove people without judicial review and due process. Straight up authoritarian dictator stuff.

submitted 88 days ago • 71 comments

AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

submitted 88 days ago • 1108 comments

if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders

submitted 88 days ago • 630 comments

Here's an expert saying that "constitutional crisis" isn't the right term because it doesn't go far enough. "The president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

submitted 89 days ago • 76 comments

I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism. From Around the Horn:

submitted 89 days ago • 768 comments

As usual, almost all actual Dems saying actual words in the actual world already follow this advice. The "Dems" constantly being scolded like this are the Dems of RW media, a largely fictional caricature defined by the nuttiest online randos. And because they don't exist, they can't change.

submitted 91 days ago • 15 comments

I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released

submitted 93 days ago • 117 comments

If we can ever succeed in making government cool again, one idea that would be wonderful is a 21st-century version of the Works Progress Administration. One specific project I’d love to see is a giant oral history project of care workers. Curious what other projects/topics people would like.

submitted 93 days ago • 59 comments

I take this personally. My dad volunteered while imprisoned at Heart Mountain. He believed in a united front against facism. He was the only one of his squad to survive the war. The 100th was feted in deep red Texas by survivors of the Lost Battalion rescue, a heroic story now buried as “woke DEI”

submitted 93 days ago • 58 comments

How many times did we hear "we need 60 votes to do anything" from Senate Democratic leadership in the last 15 years? And now when Republicans need 60 votes, the ONE situation in 2025 when Democrats in the minority actually have any leverage at all, Schumer chooses to just give it away. For nothing.

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

I cannot possibly construct a good argument for giving money to the DSCC after watching this. And part of my job is working to help elect Democrats. Is that a good thing, @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social? Asking for a friend.

submitted 95 days ago • 69 comments