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I'm a plucky lump of plankton and my name is Planky Smith! Origin of my display name: https://youtu.be/qv6OOuPI5c0
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*ignoring how far the right/far right/techno shit libertarian rightists have superficially pulled the discourse that pundits and consultants and corporate media pay attention to* Democrats: duuuhhhh...... We *must* move to the 'center'! That's the ticket!

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Democrats: Moving further to the right didn't work so we have to move further to the right!

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seems to me the basic error these centrists are making is that they are playing on enemy turf, rather than trying to raise the salience of issues that favor them

submitted 3 hours ago • 139 comments

I just met the Dog Mayor of NYC and I’ve honestly never been more starstruck

submitted 3 hours ago • 22 comments

Some of them think the age of consent should be 14 and the others disagree with having an age of consent

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

Wow no one could have predicted this. I’m sure AI will fix all this up. futurism.com/computer-sci...

submitted 3 hours ago • 13 comments

Bitch you're the only person talking about this shit! This is letting the other side dictate the debate! We've been beaten over the head with Alexander Hamilton quotes for a decade and yet party leadership still hasn't internalized the easiest thing: "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."

submitted 3 hours ago • 154 comments

It is so cool that, at the same moment that reactionary elites are making a massive frontal assault on the basic concept of education, there's a new fake university funded by those same elites that exists to teach briefcase-to-school kids how to say "that is so INTERESTING" to their future bosses.

submitted 3 hours ago • 16 comments

It’s so funny how the same centrists arguing Democrats should pivot away from identity issues are also incredibly weak on economic issues. Rahm is like, let’s stop talking about bathrooms and start talking about means tested tax credits.

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

i think it is interesting that the author of this piece wrote "judging people by race instead of merit has to end" in the context of "DEI and affirmative action are bad"

submitted 3 hours ago • 58 comments

*ignoring how far the right/far right/techno shit libertarian rightists have superficially pulled the discourse that pundits and consultants and corporate media pay attention to* Democrats: duuuhhhh...... We *must* move to the 'center'! That's the ticket!

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

it’s incredibly obvious how much of the “we have to move right on social issues to win elections” stuff is based not on any empirical evidence but on the personal views of the people pushing it

submitted 2 hours ago • 26 comments

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

submitted 2 hours ago • 162 comments

I can’t compete with this

submitted 4 hours ago • 105 comments

i would've done the same thing lmao

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

okay after so long online it's rare i encounter a totally new type of person flaming out in my mentions but "lady insulting me for being blonde when i am trying to find a job" is a new one on me

submitted 3 hours ago • 147 comments

California, btw, is a donor state - it pays almost 90 billion dollars more in federal taxes than it gets back

submitted 23 hours ago • 56 comments

If I hear one of you motherfuckers say that Mark Cuban is a good billionaire or Mark Cuban should run for President,

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

I finally figured it out: the new Fantastic Four looks like an Old Navy commercial

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

The New York Times on … :

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Tyranny. Ruling blue states like we're conquered territory that lost a war not equal citizens in a democracy.

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

Hey girl, you in a cult?

submitted 22 hours ago • 28 comments

Evil

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

A quick thought on “smuggling” vs. “trafficking,” two terms which Bondi used somewhat interchangeably. Generally, people pay to be smuggled; it’s a service. Trafficking, by contrast, is involuntary; no one wants to be trafficked. That distinction is key in thinking through the allegations.

submitted 22 hours ago • 64 comments

Men are working class; women are bourgeois. Everyone knows this

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

I think that if you assume that behind the the dregs of far-right social media there is a fascinating human story worth telling you are bound to fuck up

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

both pro/antinatalism are extreme right wing ideas and I fundamentally reject that the left has to accept that framework as legitimate at all

submitted 22 hours ago • 17 comments

The blockbuster horror film "Sinners" features the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in a short, impactful scene. For some Choctaw, it is the first time they've heard their language and seen their culture accurately portrayed on screen.

submitted 22 hours ago • 14 comments

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 22 hours ago • 330 comments

Kind of wild that the New York Times has more sympathy for an influencer who posted child porn than it does for trans children who want to be left alone.

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

from the profile Mike links. REALLY @nytimes.com? 293 days in a Russian jail counts as "briefly"???? what the ACTUAL fuck?

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

I wrote about the contrived, retconned allegations against Abrego Garcia in April. There is absolutely no reason to think that the government is charging him based on anything other than the administration trying to save face. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 22 hours ago • 63 comments

We pay into social security our entire working lives. I've been paying in since I was 16. That's our damn money. We earned it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 16 comments

I will personally talk as many people out of voting Dem as possible if the party decides to lean into this.

submitted 22 hours ago • 15 comments

So the KAG case is going to be 30 of the best defense attorneys in the country working pro bono vs. “guy at an understaffed office whose boss quit rather than take the case”, is that right?

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

I’ve spent decades writing about right-wing figures and if one of *them* had been involved in spreading child sexual abuse material, I wouldn’t have buried it at the end of the piece and I would surely have quoted one of the unnamed “critics” of that action

submitted 22 hours ago • 17 comments

Do you know how absolutely baseless and terrible a case had to be for a US district attorney to resign rather than prosecute it?

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

What I did not anticipate in the Trump-Musk breakup was that the general public was going to feel the need to pick sides instead of wanting them both to lose which is the only proper and correct response.

submitted 22 hours ago • 17 comments

what if horseshoe theory but for gender politics?

submitted 22 hours ago • 20 comments