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A progressive, reformist approach to renewing American democracy. Opinions are my own, memes are stolen.
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RELEVANT TODAY Support for political violence is much higher among Republicans, followed by White Evangelicals (PRRI 2023) MORE 👉 prri.org/research/thr...

🧵 Yet another data point that theology is often downstream of whatever we personally happen to think about a topic. Extending previous studies, the authors show when you manipulate someone's views on an issue, it influences what they say God & Satan think about that issue. 1/ doi.org/10.1111/bjso...

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

100% police instigated.

A few Boomers at free concert in the park enjoying their weekend while the rest of the country goes to cooler parties.

Just a reminder that the money being spent on Trump’s ego parade could feed every single homeless veteran in America for more than four months.

Need a Michael Caine tweet asap

Is this what passes for analysis now? Did we not think to consider the feasibility of actually saving 10% of income now vs. the 1970-85 range? The reality is much worse. Do better @nytimes.com.

The "I'll lower costs and get us out of endless wars" candidate is now presiding over surging costs and brand new wars.

Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."

Remarkable that Israel/Iran war is going to be in the C block on the news tonight.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - S3E06 "The Academy"

I’ll tell you what. If you voted for Trump, and now it’s coming back to bite you, I don’t want to hear about how sad you are. I want to know what you’re gonna do about it. Start there.

We are about to see Trump take a flamethrower to the Constitution and separation of powers.

Yet another masterpiece of intellectual rigor from Bondi DOJ. /s

The “shall not be infringed” crowd sure seems to struggle with the rest of the constitution.

I threw away your favorite shirt and that mix tape you made me. The pics of us at prom? Burned. My anniversary pooka shell necklace? Flushed it. We are never ever getting back together.

New conspiracy theory: Elon is actually a deep-cover lib getting ready to rip the Republican Party in half, creating Democratic supermajorities across the country. Of course the more likely scenario is that he's just a conservative idiot who doesn't understand how politics work.

Something tells me that when the Deputy Chief of Staff at DHS tweets to his 1.3M followers that Abrego Garcia is a criminal terrorist monster who will serve a long prison sentence, that might taint the jury pool. @aclu.org

This is not journalism @apnews.com. The correct words are "intentionally and illegally".

It’s almost like Elon Musk only helped Donald Trump get elected so he could ensure he kept government contracts and subsidies, and is now throwing a tantrum because Trump’s threatening to cancel them. Like everyone who was paying attention was saying would happen.

6 years

I'm so sorry Telsa owners. MAGA doesn't like you either now.

Not nearly enough people put John Roberts at the top of the list of the people responsible for the existential crisis our democracy is in rn

Did Trump and Vance say thank you to Musk for winning the election for them?

We cannot build bananas in America 🗣️

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Congratulations Mr. Musk on saving the US government dozens of dollars.