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So what I’m given to understand is Zohran Mamdani.

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If you need a clear symbol of the current state of the Democratic Party, it's serial sexual harasser Bill Clinton emerging from his crypt to try to push serial sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo over the finish line, all to defeat a young, popular progressive candidate. End this party.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The only thing Trump had keeping him from being a worse president than George W Bush was that he hadn’t as yet started a cataclysmic war. Guess he couldn’t have that!

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The fact that ruling-class actions in this country no longer even make a pretense of caring about popular will is catastrophically bad in ways we're not even close to fully reckoning with.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

One of the worst things the Democratic Party has done in the last 100 years is not drum every single scumbag who voted for the Iraq War out of it. This is something that absolutely should be done with any D politician who supports war with Iran. (It won't be, because the party is awful.)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

In this tumultuous and frightening era, at least we can always count on the New York Times to suck ass.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Mamdani is a great candidate with very good policy ideas, and a nice side benefit of him winning is that it would enrage the worst people alive.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is why the liberal bet-wetting that there was some durable right-wing groundswell was so pathetic. THESE ARE THE DUMBEST ASSHOLES ALIVE. Of course this is going to happen. Unfortunately, capitalizing on it would mean a base level of competence that liberal pols don't have.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

We are in the middle of the funniest thing that's ever happened. What a time to be alive.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This HIV breakthrough grew out of mRNA technology, the same technology the Trump administration is attacking and defunding because it was integral in development of COVID vaccines.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Peak Democrat brand that they had an open Senate seat last year in Michigan -- a state that's been ravaged by neoliberal economics -- and they decided to fill it with a CIA ghoul who just spoke at a Third Way union-busting jamboree.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

It’s wild how “politicians should do things for their constituents” is a completely alien concept to a segment of bourgeois liberals.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I expected this to be the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. It's not that exactly -- don't get me wrong, quite a few ghouls, though not exclusively. However, it is definitely among the weirdest things I've ever seen. Just, like, what the fuck is this?

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Ms.Rachel is showing more humanity than our politicians

submitted 32 days ago • 45 comments

So one major party is aggressively stupid and corrupt, and the other major party is merely aggressively corrupt. Very cool situation, and one that holds true across much of the global north.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

University administrators (and the Trump administration) really thought they were going to brutalize and inimidate their way to getting students to shut up about academia's complicity in genocide. I don't think it's working.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

LOL at making Cornel West right-wing and Stacey Abrams far-left

submitted 38 days ago • 12 comments

Between Harris eating shit in every swing state and Sir Keir on track to hand the UK over to the fucking Reform Party, I think "we hate immigrants, too, but we'll do fascism SMART and for real" is not, in fact, a winning message for center-left parties. No one tell the Vox boys.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I went to a workshop on AI once, and one of the presenters admitted — out loud, in public — to having ChatGPT write their greeting card sentiments. As in, AI writing “congrats on your retirement.” It was then that I knew we were fully cooked as a species.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Took the boy to the White Sox game today. Not only did the Sox win — a great rarity — but he got to see his first manager ejected. ❤️❤️❤️

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

University administrators would literally rather destroy their own institutions than stop funding a genocide.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Across the global north, the ruling class has engineered duopolies that largely shield their interests from popular pressure. To be sure, there are substantive disagreements within the ruling class, usually on civil rights issues presented as divorced from their material structures. But 1/4

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

The complete severing of ruling-class actions from even the pretense of investment in popular opinion or consensus-building is probably the defining feature of 21st-century politics.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Happy May Day, comrades.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Sir Keir really is the most useless dipshit in all of the global north. He's attained a level of useless dipshit even US Democratic politicians can only look on with envy.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Van Hollen's trip to El Salvador was absolutely the morally correct thing to do, and he's really throwing into stark relief the vast majority of Dem senators who are doing nothing. It's also a strategic warning shot to Trump's fascist international allies -- his regime won't last forever.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

99 Senators voted to confirm fascist monster Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. Fuck every single one of them.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of fair criticism of social media, but consider this — before we had unfettered access to their thoughts, people were under the mistaken impression that billionaires are smart.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

’m sorry, in addition to so many more importantly stupid things, “Panican” is absolutely cooked. The lowest energy I’ve ever seen from Trump by a long shot.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

These incessant "betting market" headlines. One of the wildest changes in US political discourse -- and this is driven entirely by Twitter -- is media figures deciding over the last decade that "well what do compulsive gamblers think about this?" is an important and revelatory question to ask!

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

This whole tariffs saga is such classic Trump bullshit. Blunder into a crisis of your own making, get scared and surrender, but do so in a way that leaves you with a shittier situation than you started with. The way he "managed" his "businesses" is the way he's running the government. As ever.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

I think it's pretty clear that Trump’s putative “Zoomer support” merely reflected the then-ruling party (Dems) sucking shit — including backing a genocide — and not any kind of actual, durable base outside of groyper internet trolls.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

The End of History and the Dumbest Man

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

IDK, I think "some tariffs, deployed strategically alongside smart and progressive industrial policy, can help protect workers" and "Trump's blanket tariffs with no actual policy are insane, idiotic, and will cause a depression" is a pretty easy needle to thread.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

It really is government by, of, and for the drunk at the end of the bar.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Also, let’s pour one out for nihilist ghoul Gavin Newsom, who torched his whole brand because the Matt Yglesiases of the world told him “wokeness” and not inflation + Joe Biden’s brain melting was why Trump won.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Elon eating shit in Wisconsin. You love to see it.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

The main thing that’s so annoying about the Vox boys is that they’re entirely committed to a 2009-assed version of bourgeois liberalism that the last 15 years have proven to be completely ineffectual.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Love schizophrenic Chicago spring.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

JD Vance just the latest in a long line of settler colonialists being taken in by Erik the Red's marketing campaign.

submitted 86 days ago • 8 comments

We need to stop calling upper university management "cowards." I mean, they are, but that's not why they're complying with Trump. They're complying because they love this opportunity to impose austerity, discipline labor, and brutalize dissidents.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Once again, shout out to absolute dumbshit Sean O’Brien for boosting this. Teamsters rank and file need an actual labor leader.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

NYU-AAUP is proud to join @aaup.bsky.social et al in this suit fighting back against the detention/deportation of noncitizen students/colleagues who've protested for Gaza. It centers our colleagues' censored voices while also protecting them from retaliation. It makes a powerful + urgent case.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, the dumbasses in the Trump White House accidentally including a reporter on their group chat about doing war crimes is shockingly stupid. However, I don't love that the focus is on the "infosec" bullshit and not the war crimes.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

is there a reason why arizona is incapable of electing even half decent democrats

submitted 92 days ago • 72 comments