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Why we should have finished Reconstruction:

I can't stress enough how wrong and disingenuous the most recent wave of COVID revisionism is. The *only period* when Democratic counties had higher death rates was April-May 2020. From June 2020 onwards, Republican laxity and denialism were the most powerful force driving deaths.

oh my good lord

I guess I understand the sentiment here, but let’s not forget the last two World Cups were in Russia and Qatar—I don’t think Gianni Infantino and FIFA leadership will bat an eye. The IOC has awarded China two Olympics within the last 15 years.

When someone tells me they “stagger their posts”

We're in a recession: vibes Kamala Harris is uniquely unpopular: vibes Democrats did not focus enough on Kitchen Table Issues in 2024: vibes Harvard is violating the law: vibes Again, these are the rocks upon which every Take™️ about What Democrats Must Do crash & fail: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

You sure it wasn’t that hairstyle

Another point against the centrist dem belief that “trump is an aberration; the GOP fever will break without him,” and another point FOR the argument that trumpism is just the logical next step in the GOP’s evolution—that trump ripped off the mask & distilled the GOP down to its reactionary essence.

I've been wondering this for months now tbh

Genuinely, what is the point of budget negotiations if the executive branch just breaks the law and refuses to carry out congressional appropriations?

“The idea of justice eludes even the people who are following the letter of the law and want nothing more than to live peacefully in this country, while the people who have everything continue to skirt the system in search of more.”

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

There are HUNDREDS of people lined up for a Switch 2 in front of the Beaverton Best Buy I mean, whatever floats your boat and shit but as far as I’m concerned good lord and hell no

'Gaslighting' comes from the title of a 1938 play and the movies based on that play. The plots of which involve a man attempting to make his wife believe that she is going insane.

Lacey is 5 miles from the state capitol

there is video of Donald Trump dancing alongside the most notorious pedophile in history and it didn't run me in a single ad this election season

It was such a waste of time to spend years and years pretending these people had legitimate grievances that could be addressed and compromised with, instead of a series of rationalizations of their profound fear of any change whatsoever

Good management skills can 100% be learned. Good leadership and communication skills—the ability to inspire, cut through the noise, and change minds—though they can also be improved, are things some people just innately *have*

Good for Tim Walz. Especially powerful because he's probably the only governor in the country who has spent a substantial part of his career actually coaching high school sports. He knows how disgusting it is to separate and punish kids because of an adult moral panic

Censoring government data and reports because they contradict the alternate reality constructed by Dear Leader is a standard, predictable step taken by all authoritarian regimes. Never thought I’d see it in America.

the purpose of the tariffs is to impoverish America and until America is impoverished they will never be removed

This has not broken through to mainstream discussions, but the House budget bill seeks to save money by penalizing civil servants for not giving up their civil service protections during the most politicized administration in 140 years. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-politi...

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

the net result of this is incalculable cost for fed government for 10+ years without even taking the budget bill into account the loss of soft power and trust across the world will not be recovered in Trump's lifetime

This reminded me of how funny the censorship on Deep Seek is:

I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time