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The real scandal in 1930s German politics was Kaiser Wilhelm’s cognitive decline

submitted 28 days ago • 65 comments

“She’s not yours to pity. She’s mine to marvel at.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

submitted 47 days ago • 74 comments

submitted 50 days ago • 69 comments

Broken Record: You *cannot sustain* a functioning constitutional order if the general population is blasé about open violation of the Constitution. If voters don't care, your job is to make them care. This is not optional. If you don't, you lose even if you pick up seats in the next election.

submitted 51 days ago • 120 comments

totally unsurprising stuff, but drives home how much of the Andressen-style worldview is just “oppression is when people are allowed to disagree with me and tyranny is when more people disagree with me than agree with me and can say it out loud”

submitted 59 days ago • 4 comments

Republicans passed and defended a law making it illegal to provide water to people waiting in line to vote.

submitted 90 days ago • 62 comments

What is @schatz.bsky.social doing?

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s What should we make of this? www.ft.com/content/a801...

submitted 104 days ago • 300 comments

Republicans: [hands giant piece of their constitutional authority and dignity to Trump] Trump: [cackling, starts to walk off] A DOOR SLAMS OPEN. The DEMOCRATS are standing tall in the door, their shadows cast long and defiant. Chuck Schumer: STOP! Trump: ? Schumer: you forgot this piece

submitted 105 days ago • 63 comments

If you're wondering why you haven't seen more organized disruptive action from Democrats at the speech tonight, I've heard from multiple people on Capitol Hill that House Dem leadership actively organized against any strong actions tonight. They are leading, but in the wrong direction.

submitted 114 days ago • 455 comments

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

submitted 118 days ago • 159 comments

My country is doing a fascism and my football team can’t score goals. Please send help.

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

I’m in London for my first Arsenal game and now I’m plotting on how to live here forever. London is magnificent.

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Not that anyone cares but a bunch of senior doj officials resigning over a corrupt instruction to drop a case was what triggered the Nixon impeachment, and in the Trump era it's just the 2pm scandal of a random Thursday and every day now has ~3 such scandals that would have ended any prior admin

submitted 133 days ago • 147 comments

People are already dying because of what Musk and Trump have done in the last two weeks.

submitted 138 days ago • 16 comments

"The whole country is at the mercy of conceited twenty-something computer science dipshits as they get a remedial crash course in government, learning the kinds of things that college freshman in political science 101 are expected already to know." www.thebulwark.com/p/why-elon-w...

submitted 141 days ago • 23 comments

That's because he believes he is the law now. That's how coups work

submitted 142 days ago • 45 comments

Republicans want to turn this country into a fascist theocracy. As Democrats, we must put aside our differences and work with them to help achieve this reality.

submitted 145 days ago • 62 comments

What we have instead of an opposition party is a copy of Robert's Rules of Order that has learned how to do GoFundMes and insider trading

submitted 149 days ago • 51 comments

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

submitted 157 days ago • 504 comments

I think you can boil the last decade down to this: Liberals: “we should be more kind to vulnerable people. Excessively kind. And when people aren’t, we should call that out.” Conservatives: “That orange guy gives me a hall pass from feeling bad. I’m going to do a fascism.”

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

Millions of Americans voluntarily bent their knee to one of the worst men on Earth. This will be studied by future generations with both shock and horror. Sadly, we have to live it...or try to survive it.

submitted 157 days ago • 425 comments

realizing i never posted it here….but too long have we been limited by the 2-dimensional political alignment chart. i think by using my new tool we can truly map another person's politics. here it is: The Ideology Cube

submitted 181 days ago • 72 comments